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I will offer acupuncture and herbalism at Yo San University’s community clinic starting in January 2025.

In the Afro-Indigenous community healing spaces Sovern and Brasil Brasil Cultural Center, I offer bodywork and energy medicine along with mindfulness and gentle movement.

In collaboration with Sovern, we offered trauma-informed embodiment and mindfulness for communities impacted by multiple systems of social harm.

This sliding-scale herbal intensive is designed specifically for communities impacted by structural oppression. Covering the 83 essential formulas in the California Acupuncture Licensure Exam, this course mends a tapestry of ancestral wisdom that colonialism severs and racial capitalism commodifies.

In this free workshop, Camellia will share the real history of Chinese medicine in the diaspora, both its radical roots and subsequent commodification.

In community, we draw upon the healing energies of the Earth, the Heavens, our ancestors, and our hearts' inner knowing that there is another, better way for us all. By plugging into these radical power sources, we are better able to meet this moment with intentional solidarity.

Addressing the root causes of hate crimes, Camellia Lee and Dandelion Healer Ezekiel Goodwin created an open dialogue towards understanding and combating misinformation. Participants learned tools and exercises they can use to co-regulate the nervous system in the face of ancestral trauma and current trauma and violence.

🥕Food made by my mom, a culinary professional 👩‍🍳
☯️Qigong + meditation with me, taijiquan with my dad (who's trained in yang-style tai chi for 30+ years)
🪘Music jam/sound healing with my musician sound healer sister isabelle
🪁Park fun - harvard confirms that green space is healing
💖No charge

Gatherings at my home to co-regulate our nervous systems the way our ancestors have always known: in community, through embodiment, with wind kissing our skin.

The Cohort cohort is 60% Black, 60% LGBTQIA+, and all people of color. In public parks, we train in evidence-based Asian meditation and movement modalities such as qigong. 100% of the healers are on a scholarship or payment plan, and 100% plan to serve communities impacted by structural inequity. The social support of the cohort empowers the healers as they help others.

Created a bilingual resource to address food insecurity in West Los Angeles

In this ancestral healing container, 100% of participants were on a full scholarship or reduced-rate payment plan. We leveraged best practices from Africana critical theory and embodied energetics to transform ancestral trauma for collective liberation.

This gentle embodiment practice was a donation-based hybrid offering on Tongva land in Chinatown, with funds directed to CCED-LA.

I facilitate standards-based arts enrichment experiences that create portals of ancestral joy. Image by 6 de oro.

Alchemystic Studio and Epigenetic Alchemy presented Ancestral Elemental Healing.

Facilitator Camellia Lee guided Five-Element movement and Taoist meditation to plug back into supportive cosmic energies.

Free food and resources (mobile health clinic, art and wellness, social services), a raffle, and more! Interpretation available in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Spanish. Children welcome. Camellia led an all-levels, all-ages dance workshop.

In this workshop, participants learned accessible ways to feel more peace in their bodies and connection to the cosmos. They embodied the connections between Daoism and Afro-Brazilian healing practices with an open roda to follow.

Offered two community workshops where diverse participants experienced gentle movement and breathwork from ancestral healing practices

Meditation and gentle movement at Brasil Brasil Cultural Center.

Training teachers, schools and districts in culturally responsive teaching

Contributed research and analysis to a report to the State of Massachusetts.

Creating intersectional curriculum for educators and youth on social justice.

Co-facilitated a statewide quarterly session on equitable pedagogy for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Collaborated with group of lived-experience leaders to organize focus groups and interviews with stakeholders

Created curriculum that moves the needle towards ending homelessness.

A webinar commemorating Black History Month through Healing Justice and astrology.

During the pandemic, I offered donation-based qi cultivation practice with ASL translation in an intersectional, trauma-informed framework.

Identifying national and international evidence-based practices of Black and Indigenous-led homelessness, mental health, and violence intervention models.

Offering free dance healing at community listening session in collaboration with the California Endowment

Donation-based energy medicine for the holiday season.

At Art for a New Future: Justice Arts Coalition's 2021 National Convening,Camellia offered a workshop of somatic liberation.

The ancestral movement modalities of qigong, taiqi, and Afro-diasporic dance are medicine for resilient relationships. In this workshop, participants will tap into deep wells of vitality in their own bodies - resources of wisdom and lifeforce energy to shape new futures. The movement vocabularies and practices shared are tools that each participant can use to creatively embody freedom.

Augusto Boál and Foucault taught us that the carceral state tries to colonize the stardust of our atoms with "cop[s] in the head," yet the matter of us comes from the Heart of Time. Prisons are a recent nightmare, and ancient power in our cells is waiting to awaken us.

The planetary threats of climate change, mass extinction and ecosystem destruction are inseparable from the roots of racial capitalism in settler colonialism and anti-Blackness. This is a sacred space for BIPOC to heal our embodied relationship to land + climate violence.

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Co-led monthly astrology gatherings that fundraised and redistributed over $15,000 USD in mutual aid

Offered production, graphic design, and marketing in addition to facilitation of monthly gatherings at no charge

Secured funding to travel to Paraguaçu land and conduct oral histories with Ebomi (wise elder) Nancy de Souza, compensating her for her time

Transcribed hundreds of pages of audio, translated to English, and compiled two manuscripts

Published the Portuguese manuscript for free to minimize access barriers, and published the English version under the name of the elder itself, donating all royalties to her

Produced virtual book launch (2020) and in-person launch event in Los Angeles (2022) with live drumming, dance and translation

Providing personal and ritual assistance to elders as needed

Recording and transcribing spiritual notes for the community

Transcribed Introduction to Ifa, Yorùba Religion from audio to manuscript form for publication

Copy-edited 101 Questions About Ifá by Baba Falokun Fasegun

Led collaborative writing of syllabus for student-designed Brown University class “Yoruba Religion and Africana Freedom Struggles” approved by the College Curriculum Council for spring 2017

Crowd-funded $3300 to bring initiated Ifá priest Awo Fasegun to lecture at Brown about Yoruba religion and install Orunmila statue in the Chaplain’s office

Oversaw logistics and exercised executive decision-making skills in planning and delegating responsibilities for guest lecture, ensuring accessibility and documentation of content

Raised $4350 for Afro-diasporic dance conference with less than two weeks to reach funding goal

Managed communications with 125 potential donors, followed up to ensure transfer of funds, and sent hand-written thank you notes

Negotiated partnership with Brown University Bookstore so that local nonprofit could sell handmade products to benefit West African immigrants in Rhode Island

Organized community gathering connecting elderly immigrants with local children for intergenerational exchange

Relevant awards: Citizen Citation Issued by Mayor of Providence, RI (Sep 2016), Citation in recognition of Outstanding Volunteerism Award Issued by State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Office of the Lieutenant Governor (Sep 2016), Certificate of Accomplishment Issued by United States Senator Jack Reed (Sep 2016)

Advertised, collected payment, and delivered dolls and compensation to customers and master artisan Iya Bezita d’Oxum. Iya Bezita trained with the legendary artist Mãe Detinha de Xangô. In this project, I secured over 2,500 Brazilian reais to the artist.

I provide strategic support in operations, human relations, sales and marketing for this successful community cultural center.

Followed the lead of community stakeholders to resist environmentally racist policy in the historically-Black Rogers Road neighborhood. Attending community meetings, supporting with childcare, and doing outreach.

Relevant award: Pauli Murray Human Relations Youth Award (Mar 2008)

Engaged in principled civil disobedience with Rev. Wiliam Barber and other NAACP members.

Made hot chocolate and pastries for marchers in the annual Chapel Hill NAACP celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.