Altadena Healing Village

Healing Sundays with the Altadena Healing Village at the Akwaaba Food Forest

####We are a volunteer-run, free integrative healthcare clinic for fire survivors and directly impacted community members*

We are located in a residential home, please be mindful of our neighbors and aware that parking is limited ( if you have disabilities, please arrange to be dropped off at the driveway)

If fully booked for a service, please join the waitlist for cancellation notifications

For the best experience, we recommend booking multiple services in one day—but please book only once per service.

Example of a wonderful Healing Sunday: Acupuncture, Massage, Energy Healing, and a class!

Service duplicates will be removed to give others a chance to experience our village. ex., 2 massage bookings will have one deleted

Each appointment must be under the person receiving service, please use the family member option under your profile when booking for others

Tipping providers to show gratitude and reciprocity is appreciated, but not required

Second Sunday of the Month!!

Spring 2026 Dates: 03/08, 04/12, MAY TBD

“Schedule opens for booking the week before each event!”

Questions? Contact thealtadenahealingvillage@gmail.com

MARCH 8th RESCHEDIULED DUE TO WIND!!

Community Acupuncture

Community acupuncture is a form of acupuncture done in a shared space, where multiple people receive treatment at the same time in comfortable reclining chairs. This collaborative approach helps create a peaceful, supportive environment, where you can relax and restore balance, all while fostering a sense of connection with others in your community.


Mindful Art Based Therapy- Tao Calligraphy

Experience an ancient healing art that blends meditation, movement, mindfulness, and creativity into an engaging, interactive practice. Tao Calligraphy offers a unique meditative art to calm the mind and regulate the nervous system through simple, accessible techniques. Drawing from millennia-old Chinese calligraphy traditions which is recognized by the WHO for its emotional and cognitiv... Read More

Experience an ancient healing art that blends meditation, movement, mindfulness, and creativity into an engaging, interactive practice.

Tao Calligraphy offers a unique meditative art to calm the mind and regulate the nervous system through simple, accessible techniques.

Drawing from millennia-old Chinese calligraphy traditions which is recognized by the WHO for its emotional and cognitive benefits, Chinese Calligraphy Therapy invites participants into a calming, interactive healing art that nurtures the mind, body, and spirit.

In this class, you’ll trace the calligraphy with your hands, explore gentle movement inspired by Tai Chi, and learn how to write characters in a meditative state that unites the mind and body for self-healing.


Massage and Integrative Body Work

Each massage session is a gentle, one-on-one experience created to support your body, heart, and nervous system—especially during times of stress or after fire exposure.** Your provider will listen and work with you to address areas of tension, discomfort, and overwhelm, using a thoughtful blend of hands-on techniques such as soothing massage, stretching, neuromuscular support, and calming emot... Read More

Each massage session is a gentle, one-on-one experience created to support your body, heart, and nervous system—especially during times of stress or after fire exposure.** Your provider will listen and work with you to address areas of tension, discomfort, and overwhelm, using a thoughtful blend of hands-on techniques such as soothing massage, stretching, neuromuscular support, and calming emotional release work. Guided by the body’s natural wisdom, this integrative approach helps ease pain, improve circulation, settle an overworked nervous system, and restore a sense of balance and ease—offering deep, meaningful relief during a challenging time.


Energy Medicine- Reiki

A Reiki session is a calming, one-on-one experience where your provider uses gentle touch or hands-off techniques to channel healing energy. During the session, the provider will focus on clearing blockages, balancing your energy, and promoting relaxation. Reiki helps reduce stress, support emotional healing, and restore a sense of balance.


Energy Medicine- Mind Body Balancing

Experience a Mind-Body Balancing Session customized to address your specific concerns (digestion, breathing, allergies, mental and emotional wellness, etc.). Elizabeth Weiner, a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, will use gentle, mind-body tools to help restore your health. These sessions may help reduce stress, improve mental clarity, reduce the impact of emotional trauma, or neutralize physic... Read More

Experience a Mind-Body Balancing Session customized to address your specific concerns (digestion, breathing, allergies, mental and emotional wellness, etc.). Elizabeth Weiner, a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, will use gentle, mind-body tools to help restore your health. These sessions may help reduce stress, improve mental clarity, reduce the impact of emotional trauma, or neutralize physical pain. A Mind-Body Practitioner for 15 years, Elizabeth uses BodyTalk, BodyIntuitive and Pain Neutralization Technique to help people improve their current and long-term health.


Grief Work

Grief Counseling is a compassionate, supportive space where individuals can explore loss, honor their emotions, and find their way through the ever-shifting landscape of grief. It offers guidance, grounding, and tools to help people process pain, navigate change, and reconnect with meaning at their own pace. Rather than “fixing” anything, grief counseling holds room for the full human experienc... Read More

Grief Counseling is a compassionate, supportive space where individuals can explore loss, honor their emotions, and find their way through the ever-shifting landscape of grief. It offers guidance, grounding, and tools to help people process pain, navigate change, and reconnect with meaning at their own pace. Rather than “fixing” anything, grief counseling holds room for the full human experience—allowing sadness, love, confusion, and hope to coexist—while supporting each person in discovering their own path toward healing and integration.


Trauma Informed Yoga and Breathwork

Trauma-Informed Yoga is a gentle, choice-based approach to movement and breath that honors each person’s lived experience. It blends mindful awareness, grounding practices, and invitational language to create a space where the nervous system can soften, settle, and feel safe again. Rather than pushing or performing, trauma-informed yoga encourages participants to reconnect with their bodies at ... Read More

Trauma-Informed Yoga is a gentle, choice-based approach to movement and breath that honors each person’s lived experience. It blends mindful awareness, grounding practices, and invitational language to create a space where the nervous system can soften, settle, and feel safe again. Rather than pushing or performing, trauma-informed yoga encourages participants to reconnect with their bodies at their own pace, offering options, support, and a sense of empowerment. It’s less about perfect poses and more about cultivating presence, safety, and healing from the inside out.

Hector Aguilar is a graduate of Cal. State Long Beach with an Engineering Degree in Engineering and Computer Science

Unable to fully heal from old injuries and properly address health issues via modern medicine, he started his holistic journey 2010 first finding knowledge through an Applied Kinesiology course in Touch for Heatlh which covered subjects as practical as anatomy and nutrition with coursework in emotional balancing and energetic work.

Besides his coursework in Touch for Health (Applied Kinesiology), Hector also has certifications and experience Neuromuscular Re-education, PNF Stretching, tissue manipulation and the Yuen Method.

The acquired skillset through his education and practice has enabled him to help individuals with lower back pain, old and current injuries, frozen shoulder, Sciatica, and Emotional Imbalances to name a few ailments.

Hector’s knowledge continues to expand and bases his work on postural analysis, structural imbalances, root emotional clearing and energy balancing from a logical approach.

Hector Aguilar is a graduate of Cal. State Long Beach with an Engineering Degree in Engineering a... Read More

Dãmasa “Dãma” Germaine is a ritualist, shamanic medicine woman, Priestess,

Certified Yoga Instructor, Reiki practitioner, and Thai Massage and Energy worker — and the founder of DamaSoul Sacred.

Her work spans energetic clearing, ancestral connection, grief ritual, somatic bodywork, breathwork, sound, and ceremonial facilitation. Working with the body as altar, she supports individuals and communities in releasing what has accumulated energetically, emotionally, and ancestrally.

Her work creates space to return to clarity, grounding, and flow.

Dãma is initiated in the Dagara, Dagbon, Bwiti and Ndjembe traditions of West and Central Africa, and brings that lineage-rooted foundation into everything she offers — from private shamanic ritual and community grief ceremony to energetic clearing of body, home, and land.

Her practice is dedicated to honoring indigenous ancestral wisdom and supporting the decolonization of how we understand healing, the body, and our place in the living world.

Dãmasa “Dãma” Germaine is a ritualist, shamanic medicine woman, Priestess, Certified Yoga Instru... Read More

Emi Hoshino is a certified Jikiden Reiki practitioner and Neurodynamic Breathwork facilitator. She received her Reiki training at the Jikiden Reiki Institute in Kyoto, Japan, practicing Reiki that is free from Western influences.

Reiki promotes the body’s natural healing ability by restoring balance and harmony on a physical, mental and emotional level. When the energy flow on any of these levels is out of alignment, the Reiki energy awakens the body’s innate healing ability to restore it to its natural state of wholeness.

Emi Hoshino is a certified Jikiden Reiki practitioner and Neurodynamic Breathwork facilitator. Sh... Read More

TeeJ Wellness utilizes a variety of modalities, including Swedish, Sports, Manual Cupping, and Prenatal massage and also provides other services like Cupping IASTM (Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization).

Her goal is to provide holistic therapies that focus on the whole person for body awareness and restorative health through massage therapy and movement. With the aim of creating an stress-free environment for relaxation and overall wellness.

She received her massage training at the School of Holistic Touch and have been a member in good standing with Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP) since 2017. She utilizes various modalities to help clients relax and relieve stress.

She also holds certificates in Swedish/American Massage, Sports Massage, Prenatal/Infant Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, and Manual Cupping. Additionally, she is AFAA Certified Group Exercise Instructor and teach Pound and POP Pilates classes, among other formats.

TeeJ Wellness utilizes a variety of modalities, including Swedish, Sports, Manual Cupping, and Pr... Read More

Rachel Kelly, RYT As a trauma-informed healer, my path has been shaped by a deep devotion to the ancient practices of yoga, meditation, breathwork + other sacred forms of healing. I offer these practices as a pathway back to your true self. The intention is to create a space where safety + transformation coexist.

Rachel Kelly, RYT As a trauma-informed healer, my path has been shaped by a deep devotion to the... Read More

Christi Mendoza, L.Ac., founder of The Altadena Healing Village is a California Licensed Herbalist, Acupuncturist, and National Board Certified Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), practicing at South Bay Total Health in Torrance, CA. Recognized for her unique approach to Integrative Medicine, Ms. Mendoza blends Traditional Chinese Medicine with a variety of traditional and modern complementary modalities to create comprehensive, targeted treatment plans.

Her compassionate, personalized care is highly sought by healthcare professionals and individuals living with complex chronic illness, who value her ability to tailor treatments to individual needs and address multisystemic issues such as gastrointestinal disorders, chronic fatigue, immune dysfunction, and latent infections.

As a passionate educator and speaker, Ms. Mendoza is committed to empowering individuals to navigate their health challenges, providing tools to maximize physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual potential for a more fulfilling life.

Christi Mendoza, L.Ac., founder of The Altadena Healing Village is a California Licensed Herbalis... Read More

Dean Militello is a California Licensed Acupuncturist with over 25 years of experience, specializing in pain and injury healing, gay men’s health, and chronic complex conditions, utilizing traditional Chinese medical massage, acupuncture, and custom formulated herbal medicine. Dean is an avid hiker and outdoor enthusiast, as well as a dedicated practitioner of Qi Gong, and Tai Qi Quan. After two decades running a busy, private practice in San Francisco, and a wonderful hiatus on the Big Island of Hawaii, Dean is currently seeing patients in a lovely studio at his home in Glassell Park, a peaceful and intimate setting that supports deep relaxation and transformation.

Dean Militello is a California Licensed Acupuncturist with over 25 years of experience, specializ... Read More

I am a manual therapist specializing in Visceral Manipulation, Craniosacral Therapy, and integrative therapeutic massage. I use gentle, targeted, osteopathic techniques to relieve restriction within and around the internal organs, brain, nervous system, and vasculature, restoring healthy movement and function. By assisting the body in working through its internalized responses to physical and emotional trauma, I prioritize the often neglected root causes of chronic injury, illness, structural imbalance, and dysfunction. Sessions incorporate a balance of visceral, cranial, and musculoskeletal work, with the goal of restoring your body’s ability to adapt and heal on its own.

I studied massage at the Northwest Academy of Healing Arts. I have studied Visceral Manipulation, Cranial Osteopathy, and related disciplines extensively with the Barral Institute, and serve as a teaching assistant in their VM curriculum. I spend my free time underneath a pile of books, or out exploring the urban environment, camera in hand. I also play saxophones, ride bikes, and start more projects than I’ll ever finish. I live and work in Pasadena.

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I am a manual therapist specializing in Visceral Manipulation, Craniosacral Therapy, and integrat... Read More

Mary Rose has practiced Reiki as a self-balancing art for over a decade, sharing energetic attunement to help regulate and gently sooth pain, dis-ease and emotional disharmony. As a local ceramic artist she explores clay and permaculture as an earth-healing practice with her studio mate Sarah at Earthfield Studio in Pasadena, CA.

Mary Rose has practiced Reiki as a self-balancing art for over a decade, sharing energetic attune... Read More

Elizabeth Weiner is passionate about improving health with mind-body healing. A BodyTalk Practitioner for 15 years, Liz uses BodyTalk, BodyIntuitive and Pain Neutralization Technique to address the root causes of health issues.

Elizabeth Weiner is passionate about improving health with mind-body healing. A BodyTalk Practiti... Read More

Paul Wirth has been a bodywork practitioner since 2003, combining structural integration, craniosacral work, visceral manipulation, and postural and movement cues help people feel taller, stronger, and more aligned and alive. He’s also an avid practitioner of Tai Chi.

Craniosacral work involves subtle, fluid and energetic fluctuations related to body tissues and the central nervous system. Structural Integration is a comprehensive practice that brings a new level of myofascial and neuromuscular organization and alignment to the body.

Paul Wirth has been a bodywork practitioner since 2003, combining structural integration, cranios... Read More

Michelle is a licensed therapist offering Acupoint Aromatherapy, expertly placing essential oils to calm the nervous system and enhance the body’s innate abilities.

Michelle is a licensed therapist offering Acupoint Aromatherapy, expertly placing essential oils... Read More

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Located at: 482 W Washington Blvd, Pasadena
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