Healing + Liberation
Herb and Temple is a community organization that seeks the liberation and restoration of BIPOC by bridging spirituality and holistic wellness with political efficacy through education. We do this work through community service, and the curation of spiritual healing spaces.
We believe that only through our collective healing and coming (back) into our true spiritual power can we liberate ourselves from oppressive systems and identities. We work from the understanding that spirituality without real social and political implication falls short. We also find that liberation movements that are not guided by spiritual principles and a connection to Source also fail to manifest at their highest potential.
Put simply; liberation work is spiritual, and our spiritual healing is deeply political. We recognize this, and serve toward the healing and elevation of our communities accordingly.
Al-Ruh: The SPirit
A Movement Centering Spiritual Wellness
Al-Ruh is an Islamic term that refers to one’s higher self. Al-Ruh is the home of Herb and Temple’s spiritual wellness work. As a people and a community, we have been subject to generations of trauma, oppression, violence, anti-Blackness, racialized capitalism, rape and sexual violence, vibration-lowering media, the demonization of our spiritual practices, and the destruction of our spiritual relationship to the land. Al-Ruh, as a branch of our organization, sees to our collective spiritual healing and the proper harnessing of our energetic power. Al-Ruh makes space for us to return to our natural relationships to ourselves, each other, nature, and to Source.
