At LPHS we provide a healing sanctuary for historically oppressed and marginalized individuals (BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, at-risk youth, persons with disabilities, and those struggling with addiction), while inviting the participation of historically privileged and/or well-resourced communities into allyship for furthering this vision for collective healing. We create affinity spaces of belonging, safety, trust via marriage of ancestral and innovative approaches.

Most People of the Global Majority (PGM)  folx carry collectivist views and values versus individualistic, Eurocentric paradigms. Healing in community is not only powerful, but culturally appropriate for many of us. Beyond this, most of our diseases are rooted in paradigms that have fostered disconnection (attachment ruptures) from the Earth, from Tribe/Village, from family, from Spiritual sources, and from each other.

Many “alternative” modalities and some newly “discovered” evidence-based practices have been extracted from indigenous ways of healing and have been made inaccessible to the historically marginalized through the lens of capitalism and colonization. 

Many “alternative” and/or cutting edge modalities for healing are not accessible within the mainstream, community healthcare system to the uninsured, or those with minimal healthcare access.

In looking at a healthy forest as an example of true community, we understand that each and every being contributes to the health and balance of an entire ecosystem and that all is interconnected by both the visible and the invisible. As we nurture and bring healing to individuals and groups who enter our healing space, we send ripples of healing into the entire world. 

At LPHS we understand that many of the diseases that afflict us individually and collectively are rooted in patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist structures that perpetuate disconnection.

LPHS is located on farm/forest land utilizing the Indigenous science now known as permaculture. This sustainable approach honors the natural intelligence of nature and the land while implementing restorative farming practices. This landscape provides not only the space for most of our events and programming, but the ability to  interweave these land-healing, land-tending, practices into our programs. Folx are able to reap the healing reciprocity of being in deep, respectful, communion with the land and its inhabitants while at healing space and beyond.