A collective of Black and Queer spiritualists, artists, cultural organizers, and activists, The Wind & The Warrior apply indigenous healing modalities, and place-based cultural arts practices, within movements for transformative justice and spaces of mutual aid.

Our intention is to contribute to the sustainable transformation of our relationship to the Earth through economic and ecological shifts to which we are called to respond with great imagination. Grounded in our Black Feminist and eco-womanist values, we facilitate the healing of intergenerational wounds and relationships.

We do this by centering the most marginalized in communities and at the frontlines, i.e. Indigenous, Black, Brown, LGBTQ+, disabled, and poor peoples. We offer ancestral knowledge and practices; we support movement spaces, activists, and leaders to embrace and embody healing practices and regard them as critical to “the work”; we grow community and movement healers through education and training experiences.

Faculty of Wind & Warrior Institute for Liberatory Healing

We are:

Karma Mayet, MFA • Artist. Educator. Mystic. Rootwoman.

ERYT/YACEP Yoga Teacher Trainer. MBSR Qualified Teacher.

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Karma Mayet is based in Brooklyn, New York and originally from Chicago, of Mississippi heritage.  Her gift as a channel of ancestral spirits has informed her life since childhood. Sharing messages from family ancestors and elemental beings, she offers healing modalities grounded in Sacred Rootwork.  Her work with youth in community settings, arts education, and grassroots organizations for the last three decades facilitates the cultivation of peace through justice within relationships. As creator of the Rootsong* practice, she shares the process of somatic improvisation as a tool for personal and communal transformation. As poet, composer/performer, educator, and yogi, she brings the same reverence for the Mystery to each modality. 

Nana A. Korantemah Pierce Williams, MS • Okomfo Panyin

Mind Body Medicine, CMT-Certified Massage Therapist

Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Instructor, Teacher Trainer

ConjureWorksFoundation.org

For over 30 years, Nana Korantemah has been an Akan Priestess (origin Ghana, West Africa), spearheading sacred healing rites for individuals and organizations. As an advocate for community growth, development, and healing, her body of work includes: developing and conducting individual and collective self-care and mindfulness practices; leading traditional empowerment and awareness programs for Rites of Passage entities; facilitation of small group trainings for survivors of trauma in its various forms; disrupting stagnant actions and thoughts through positive activities within grass roots and community environments; and therapeutic bodywork, exploring the intersections of touch, guided imagery, meditation, and breath work as vehicles of release for various conditions in the body.  Nana Korantemah is a wife, sister, daughter, godmother, healer, educator, and life-long learner, who remains humbled by the healing power of compassion, forgiveness, and love.

Ife Afriye Fagbulu Kilimanjaro, Ph.D. • Spirit-Healer-Warrior. Climate Activist. Writer.

Ife Afriye Kilimanjaro’s experiences as a grandmother, author, and activist are informed by a deep commitment to justice and a better world. As an Okomfo (spiritual healer in the Akom tradition of West Africa), Afriye seeks understanding of our inner worlds (mind, body, and spirit) and offers strategies and insights to encourage healthy, whole relationships. After several years serving as Co-Executive Director of Soul Fire Farm, an Afro-Indigenous farm community dedicated to uprooting racism in the food system, Afriye has recently transitioned to the US Climate Action Network in the role of Executive Director. In this role, Afriye will continue to evolve her sacred relationship with the earth and honor her commitment to justice and creating a better world for generations.

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