Spiritual-Social Medicinal
Apothecary
‘Calling forth the medicines of our times’
Deepening, reclaiming & restoring our relations
SSoMA brings together artists, healers and knowledge-keepers of relationship to face heartbreak and breakdown with love, grief, wonder, and commitment. We study how to hospice the modern ways of knowing, being and relating that are harming life as we know, and how we heal our relation with our life-force to deepen our capacities for healthy and just-relating.
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Spiritual-Social
The Spiritual-Social Medicinal Apothecary (SSoMA) is a home for spiritual-social inquiry into the wisdoms of thriving life.
At SSoMA, we know that our only chance of surviving or becoming good nutrients for future generations is through uplifting, supporting and protecting both the human and non-human knowledges and practices for living in balance and reciprocity - and the lives of those who tend them.
Medicinal
SSoMA’s apothecary takes a medicinal approach to our current climate, nature and relational emergency.
We view medicine expansively as the sacred arts of healing, and medicinal as that which brings physical, spiritual and social balance in the living world. We draw from ancient and contemporary definitions of holistic medicine that center the unchanging principles of relationship and living and dying well together, to be able to tend to the deepest and most complex violences created by the modern/colonial project. We work and play especially with earth and ecological knowledges, spiritual-social wisdom traditions, embodied social philosophy, and queerness and other relational ways of knowing.
Apothecary
SSoMA adopts the word apothecary’s ancient meaning of both the healing practitioner and a place where medicines are made, protected and shared.
Traditional apothecaries work with plants, herbs, minerals and other medicinal elements. SSoMA collaborates with those who alchemize these ingredients, and focuses on making connections that help us see patterns, diagnose and respond to the complex imbalances and injuries of modern/colonial life.
SSoMA Rooms
Center of Sacred Inquiry
Spiritual Heart of SSoMA
A home for ancient knowledges and knowledge-tenders and wisdom-keepers, SSoMA’s guiding Wisdom Circle, and researchers carrying out sacred spiritual-social inquiries. Current medicinal inquiries include vital grief practices for our time and deepening yin-based approaches to organizing.
Youth Collective
Youth-led inquiry
Centers young people’s experiences, priorities and needs in spiritual-social activism. It supports youth-oriented inquiries into spiritual-social approaches to collective well-being in a time of social and environmental disruption.
SSoMA Flow Fund Lab
Flowing Waters
Receives and redirects financial and other material sources to knowledge-holders, artists and healers working with spiritual-social practices. It specifically funds arts and artistic-research residencies and projects, and advocates to valorize the importance of gifting healers and wisdom-tenders at the intersection of spiritual and social practice.
Ecological Knowledge
Ecological Wisdoms, Sciences, and Philosophies
Dedicated to developing knowledges and resources to support land-based and land-back movements. It explores themes such as soil protection and guardianship, valorizing and securing sustainable funding for medicinal farming, and engaging with plant medicines in organizing for liberation.
Q U I L L
Queer Imagination & Liberation Lab
Queer Imagination & Liberation Lab (QUILL) studies the medicinal qualities of expansive queerness from spiritual-social-ecological perspectives. It organizes educational and research-based activities that support the development of creative practice in the spiritual-poetic arts.
Sacred Benefactor Circle
Liberation funding
A shared space for those who are providing financial and other support who want to deepen their learning about the apothecary’s work with SSoMA’s wisdom-tenders. It also offers reflective and educational space for those who are interested in exploring the role of sacred philanthropy both personally and in their public lives.
Nursing for Planetary Health
Liberating the Spirit of Nursing
Unite, mobilize, and support the global nursing communities toward a shared understanding of our unique responsibility to co-create a world where all life can flourish.
Partnering with SSoMA
Are you a spiritual-social thinker, artist, healer, wisdom-tender, activist and/or benefactor?