Black Indigenous Ancestral Healing

Meet Reign

Community Seer

Through collective memory, I practice ancient and indigenous traditions to restore the body through movement, dance, breath, and song.

I work with folks whose people have been displaced and/or experienced culturicide due to colonial occupation, with indigenous folks, with those outside of the western gender binary, and folks committed to decolonize.

Welcome!

I am Reign. I am passionate about the reclamation and remembering of culture by the "Black/ African-American/ Afro-Latinx/ Afro-Caribbean" and other indigenous folks in the americas displaced from colonial occupation.I connect with the ancestors through closed spiritual practices as well as through dance, song, food, movement, and storytelling.I survive modern colonial occupation as the living continuation of my Black and Indigenous (Mvskoke and Aniyvwiya) ancestors.My practice includes de-assimilating, and remembering rituals, ceremonies, knowledge, stories, and trades. I feel it is important to preserve and return these practices.

Tracing My Return

• 2008-2015 Western Education, Religious Deconstruction, and Organizational Development Studies• 2015-2017 Remembering, prayer, song, drumming, chant• 2017-2019 Vedic Philosophy in India; Reclamation ancestor veneration, deep grief, Mother Wound Healing• 2020-2023 Rest, Reclamation of Birth, Return to homeland, studying with elders, return to art, partera and midwife studies, plant medicine, decolonizing rest, and studying with indigenous communities in Louisiana, Colombia, and Peru• 2024-Present Non-extractive labor, Surrender, Communing with Ancestors, Art as labor, Liberation as Ceremony

My Guiding Questions

•What is worth remembering?
• How do we preserve what can't be written down?
• Can rest be reclamation?
• How to reclaim our language and remain in community with our tribe?
• How to begin, again?
• What happens when birth and death are communal, not medical events?
• How can labor remain remain sacred?

Want to learn more about my art and creative journey?

Who is this for?

  • Folks whose communities have been impacted by colonization through displacement, cultural erasure and suppression, forced assimilation, and/or enslavement

  • All indigenous folks

  • Those outside of the western gender binary

  • Queer Folks

  • Folks who actively oppose colonialism and want to use ancestral techniques to decolonize

What will we do?

Using memory, storytelling, art, movement, and breath, you will deepen your connection with your body, your ancestors, and Mother Earth.You will learn what to observe, let go of, and tend to.

When to come to this work?

  • You are navigating a block, uncertainty, or fear

  • Redefining career or beginning a meaningful project

  • You are moving through transition and loss

  • Working to decolonize your mind, art, movement, or another part of your life

  • You want to deepen your ancestral connection

  • You are seeking to replace productivity with a more neutral, present energy

  • You want to be witnessed in your transformation instead of analyzed or fixed

  • You want to deepen your creativity

This process may also help you:

  • Connect with the child within you that has been quieted

  • Feel a certainty that leads to security, self love, community, and confidence

  • Develop a deeper relationship with your ancestors, divine guidance, nature, and your body

  • Connect to Mother Earth's natural abundance

  • Locate community, relationships, and connections that allow you to feel whole and supported

How Will We Work Together?We will meet together in containers of 4-6 weeks.Our meetings will be weekly for tailored session up to 90 minutes, then we will integrate with rituals throughout the week.

Cost6 Weekly Sessions - $1,250
(Advised for deep work)4 Weekly Sessions - $850

Submit here to learn more!

If you cannot afford to engage this work, click on the "Community Healing" page. This space is supported through redistribution: those who can pay full price make it possible for community members to receive support.

Seeking Creative and Ritual Support?

This is an circle for collective healing, storytelling, and ceremony.We have closed communities for black folks, indigenous folks, and queer folks (some communities will have folks who belong in multiple communities).As a collective we will share creativity, vision, and ancestral practice.You can sign up whenever you’re ready! But you will be added to the collective at the beginning of the next solstice/equinox. And you will remain until the end of the season.
Participation is offered through a sliding scale contribution of $25–$300, based on your capacity.
Your contribution helps sustain the collective and ensures the work remains accessible to all.

If you'd like to be a part of this exchange, please donate to participate with sliding scale contributions of $25-$300 depending on your capacity.

You will send your donation via Venmo or CashApp with the message:
Liberation + youremail@domain.com + Your Name
Once you have submitted you will be added to the community list, and we will share in creating art, remembering, breath-work, chant, dance, song, and joy.Each season begins with the next solstice or equinox, and concludes at the onset of the following. So if you submit now, you will be joining the winter season.Email below with any questions.

Please keep in mind: LIBERATION IS FREE! and it always will be. You have access to liberation, and do not need to pay money to be mentally free (to me or anyone else).My work is for those who desire to support a community practitioner, and have a tether to community to ground their creative return. For faith-based healing, email the link above.

My Art and 'Tings

My artistic mediums include time, memory, breath, movement, sound, touch, and sustenance. Because my medium is not bound to objects, my art can be felt as much as seen.Above, you can experience some images from my "remembering" journey.Because my labor is communally exchanged, You are welcome to support my work. Your support makes space for this work to continue.

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Embracing Reclamation, Joy, and Freedom as an act of Active Resistance!

Many teams have visionary missions but operate inside structures built on colonial, capitalist, and white-centered norms — competition, perfectionism, hierarchy, and performative “correctness.”This work supports organizations ready to decenter those frameworks and build a structure grounded in relationship, reciprocity, and liberation.Through a three-phase process — Clearing, Grounding, and Ritualizing — your team learns how to make decisions, share power, motivate, and relate in ways that reflect your true mission rather than default systems of control.This is the practice of transforming how your organization lives its values.

Core Offering: Leadership, Organizational Alignment, & Culture Development ProgramA deep, customized engagement for organizations ready to build or realign the foundation of their leadership and culture.This process transforms your organization’s inner architecture minimizing performative allyship and overt centering of capitalism and colonialism.
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3 Phase Core Program:

1. Clearing:Identify how colonial and capitalist ideals shape your operations.

  • Identify and name the colonial and capitalist patterns shaping your current operations

  • Examine how performative “allyship” or “neutral” language reinforces avoidance, microaggressions, and disembodiment

  • Release perfectionism and the performative pursuit of “being right” to reorient toward presence, accountability, and relationship repair

  • Establish clear, non-punitive pathways for addressing harm, feedback, and misalignment

2. Grounding:Once we’ve witnessed and cleared what doesn’t serve, we will refine your mission, vision, purpose and values.

  • Revisit or rewrite your mission, vision, and values through a relational lens

  • Identify where current structures and workflows contradict your stated values and realign them with your living purpose

  • Shape decision-making, power distribution, and communication based in reciprocity and community

  • Identify gaps between stated values and lived practice

  • Develop principles that guide leadership, compensation, and collaboration

3. Ritualizing:Create living practices that keep these values alive.

  • Design rituals and recurring practices that make your values visible and felt in daily operations

  • Shape leadership rhythms that support mission alignment, from how meetings open, to how success is defined, to how repair is made

  • Leave with a living, iterative framework to carry forward across hiring, onboarding, and team culture

Who is this for?
This process is for organizations, collectives, and leadership teams that:

  • Have outgrown DEI training and want systemic realignment

  • Feel tension between mission or public values, and internal practices

  • Want to challenge settler colonial leadership philosophy

  • Notice staff or leadership are expressing burnout, disconnection, or misalignment

  • Are entering a new phase — expansion, leadership transition, or strategic planning — and want to ground it in non-western philosophies

When to Engage in This Program?

  • When you’ve reached the limits of traditional DEI and leadership training

  • When internal conflict, fatigue, or turnover suggest deeper cultural misalignment

  • When you’re refining your mission, preparing for a major transition, or restructuring leadership

  • When you’re ready to slow down, reflect, and reorient toward natural relationships

Each engagement begins with a discovery call to understand your organization’s readiness and desired rhythm of transformation.From there, we co-design a container that fits your structure, capacity, and goals.

Submit here to learn more about organizational services!

Additional Offerings

Leadership and Development

Custom Engagements and Consultations :

Speaking Engagements:
Talks, panels, and ceremonial keynotes

Want to learn more about how indigenous-centered principles can change the way you approach organizational leadership?

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Work Beyond Ceremony

In addition to consulting and ceremony, I work with artistic and mission-driven, community-based organizations and leaders.

Affiliated Roles

  • Operations Alchemist – Bushwick Queer Community Collective

  • Creative Director & Producer – NextLevel Creative Productions

  • Community Care Companion & Birthworker

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Offerings

Body-Based Healing Centered in Ancestral Remembering and Liberation

Indigenous-Centered Organizational and Leadership Development

Communal Healing, Traditional Skill-Building, and Creativity Network

Testimonials

Macs Strickland, CEO of Macs Entertainment

"I contacted [Ricki] for a business consultation and for guidance... Not only was she prompt and professional in her responses, she completely exceeded my expectations giving me all the right information and guidance ... If you need something done, she is the Jill of trades. Highly recommended!"

Tarris Batiste, Author and Founder of "Don't Let it Smoke You"

  • Listening Ceremony: Experience presence without fixing, analyzing, or responding

  • Intuitive Sharing: Write dreams, visions, memories, or spiritual impressions. Share what feels good or keep it for yourself.

  • Shared Rituals: Share a ritual you enjoy, or sit with me in ritual. We can bring in natural elements, our folks, instruments, etc.

  • Make or Share Art: Painting, drawing, collage, altar building, crafting, sewing, etc

  • Sitting in Silence: Self explanatory

  • Offer Your Gifts: Card reading, singing, music, storytelling, poems, movement, etc.

  • Breath + Co-regulation

  • Sit with Nature: Bring in stones, water, leaves, plants, feathers, bones, etc

  • Story Telling

  • Grief or Life Celebration: We can cry together, laugh, sing, and celebrate

  • Sacred Reading or Spoken Word

  • Call and Response: We can share song and chant

  • Make a Suggestion: What do you need? Maybe we can do that too!