this blog and my work is dedicated to the flower songs that teach me how to live, love, and organize like the flowers do.
Visit my website: Agua Dulce Healing
Agua Dulce (Guadalupe) Chavez, (they/them, she/her), MFT, has been studying flower and plant spirit medicine since 2009 as an apprentice to their teacher Queen Hollins and to the earth herself in Tongva, Choctaw, and Taino lands. Agua Dulce believes that our healing and organizing is directly connected to our relationship with the earth. Agua Dulce is a fierce believer in healing justice and transformative justice as strategies towards building a world without borders and cages. They have spent the past eleven years organizing healers into abolitionist movement work. Currently Agua Dulce is focused on co-creating an abolitionist healing and wellness hub in Puerto Rico centering Ifa spiritual discipline and ceremonial agroecology. She spends her time dreaming, strategizing, and working towards a world where more people can live free to be themselves and reconnect to our first mother, the Earth. a decolonized healing justice framework
Having served as Healing Justice Director and Deputy Director for the Anti Police Terror Project (APTP), where she build out a California statewide Healers Network that is now leading the development of a one of its kind abolitionist clinic in Oakland, California; Guadalupe is now writing, experimenting, and developing earth based programming for intergenerational communities in her own organization, Somos Espejos.
Guadalupe has been invited to train communities across the Unites States in Healing Justice principles, practice, and strategies. Two decades into movement work, Guadalupe is now most excited about sharing sacred medicine making and earth based rituals as an essential part of Abolitionist movements and most importantly with communities who are re-entering society after jail or prison sentences. Agua Dulce weaves together earth-based spiritual rituals and tools, plant medicine, and talk therapy in her work with individuals, groups, collectives, and community based organizations. Lastly, since 2018 Agua Dulce has been collectively building with their beloveds a movement retreat center anchored in Abolitionist principles, serving as a healing justice hub, and a place to practice and heal with traditional medicines. We are focused on weaving new legacies through ceremonial agroecology based in Borikén (Puerto Rico), causing ripple effects across the Caribbean and beyond. To learn more read about her work here: Somos Espejos.
Who am I
Parent to two fire-y beings; flower spirit whisperer, earth steward, plant & medicine maker; Marriage and Family Therapist; my politics and work- healing and transformative justice as strategies to reach abolition. My spiritual grounding- traditional Ifa.
What is this space?
A public space to share reflections/lessons on plant life, earth medicine, and Abolition.
Why did I create flower songs?
After many years of intentionally building with the earth, i.e. growing food & medicine + apprenticing my Elder and 20+ years of engaging political and social movements, I feel an urgency to call us back to the earth for lessons on how we can organize sustainable and thriving communities.
Adaption: a change in a plant or animal that makes it better able to live in a particular situation; the process of changing to fit some purpose or situation; the process of adapting.
-Emergent strategy,
adrienne maree brown
Get In Touch: aguadulcehealing@ gmail.com
Private or Small Group Sessions
I offer in person water based healing rituals and Ifa Divination when guided by Spirit Guides to do so. I specialize in womb healing and re-mothering healing work.
Healing Justice support and facilitation
For organizations and individuals who are interested in incorporating HJ as part of their organizational strategy.
Dulce’s Medicine Cabinet
Herbal and Flower medicine to support your emotional and spiritual bodies.
Email: aguadulcehealing@gmail.com
Find me on Instagram @aguadulcehealing or Facebook @aguadulce
