Join us in celebrating Lindsay Fauntleroy's new book IN OUR ELEMENT, a healing resource that integrates plant medicine, acupuncture theory, yoga, and spiritual principles from the African Diaspora- all through the lens of a Black girl in Brooklyn.

When you are in your element, you feel an amazing flow. You shine. You feel energized and vibrant. Your gifts and talents create abundance. You feel confident and authentic. Your relationships are loving and nourishing. You have a deep sense that you are fulfilling the deeper meaning and purpose of your life.

There are also times when you feel stuck. You may spend nights staring at the ceiling, filled with worry and anxiety. A weight of depression keeps you from enjoying the things that matter. You feel afraid, doubtful of your dreams, and unsure of the decisions that led you here.

The point is, there are times when you're in your flow, and times when you’re not. This book teaches you how to use Soul Medicine to regain your footing, tap into your latent potential, and find your flow.

Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a community that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available nationally and internationally.

About Our Partner:  MINKA Brooklyn
MINKA means ‘home of the people’ in Japanese; and it was created as a way to offer radical sense of belonging.  Belonging to each other, to the Earth, to the Universe, and more than anything else to ourselves.  It is a home for healing, not only as a way to feel good, but as a means to create change in the world -at MINKA, individual healing is considered to be one of the most crucial ingredients for social change.  MINKA brooklyn opened its door in 2016 in Flatbush area of Brooklyn.  During the pandemic, they pivoted from being in a single location to working with mission aligned partners to create constellation of healing and wellness.

About Our Conversation Partner:
Aki Hirata Baker is an initiated Medicine Woman, Moondancer, teacher, speaker, space holder, multi-modality healing practitioner, and community organizer whose work is based on the decolonizing spiritual liberation principle.

She draws from her trainings on various energetic healing modalities, flower essence therapy, Ayurvedic medicine, Yogic principles lineage practices of Medicine Way and Toltec tradition to facilitate healing, which she considers to be the basic ingredient of social change and collective liberation.

She is a founder of MINKA brooklyn, a collectively-run healing space that centers the work to heal from all forms of social oppressions to restore humanities, and un-capitalisitc approach to the 'business of being well’.

She took tutorage under Dr. Naina Marballi, Karen Rose, Lindsay Fauntleroy, Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman, Abuela Ana Itzpapalot, Sergio Magana Ocelocoyotl, Rita Navarrete Perez, Tonia Gonzalez, Manu DelPrete, Susy Meszoly, and Integral Yoga Institute.

Immigrant from Japan and currently based in Brooklyn NY, Aki has devoted her life to studies of mysticism, philosophy, healing modalities and liberation principles

In Our Element | Lindsay Fauntleroy in conversation with Aki Hirata Baker