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Sunrise on Nature

INDIGI GOLDEN HERBALS

 REVERENTIAL FOLK LORE
COMMUNITY LED
HERBAL EDUCATION
HERBAL MEDICINES

HERBAL STEWARDSHIP
IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

mission satement
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As Brown, Black, Indigenous, all People of Color, and People of this Earth the message is being heard loud and clear. We must support businesses, companies, healing facilities, farmers, medicine makers, activists, movers & shakers owned by people who can relate to our depth, share similar sentiments, and weave familiar stories. In this colonized world, it is important to re-align our values and ensure that our actions help in liberating all Indigenous peoples. Marginalized communities are often forced to support larger corporations that are illiterate in terms of our unique health and wellness necessities & we POC are paying for this. Decolonizing our wellness practices first starts with our relationship to this Earth, the prayers of our pre-colonial ancestors, ultimately anchored in the roots to retrieve medicine for the next several generations. We must strengthen our connections with all of our allies, utilizing a well rounded and wholistic approach to becoming the songs our ancestors sang over us. Healing with nature and learning the human vessel is as old as Buddha, Osayin, and Imhotep. Our ancient ancestors had a prayer, that we would pass along the Indigenous healing traditions that they guarded as sacred for thousands of years.
In the old days, every person had a role to fulfill in society and everyone contributed to the collective healing of the community. We can all reawaken the magic of our ancestral prayers by simply remembering or recreating their songs. It is our responsibility to awaken the seeds our ancestors planted by watering them with intention, and this task requires our full attention. 

Medicine holder, herbalist, educator, birth worker, yogini, farmer, and Indigenous reclaiming activist, Jen Elyse in collaboration with wise Indigenous medicine folk, farmers, front line defenders, culture keepers, naturopaths, and traditionalists steward a non profit platform for Brown, Black, and Indigenous POC folks to support one another in ancestral reclamation. Our mission is to preserve the rites and passages of becoming and maintaining our ancestral connections that ultimately serve our earth and heal our communities. Being a B(B)IPOC herbalist comes with the responsibility of self-actualization. 

The Indigi Golden Herbal Folk Academy is a safe space for POC to reclaim their ancestral medicine rites. With a focus on land based relations, nature wisdom, and plant lore our academy seeks to weave together the foundation for ancestral healing in marginalized communities. Beginning with the individual this program encourages the safe, ethical, and sustainable rekindling of natural medicine traditions.
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SUPPORTING AND UPLIFTING OUR B(B)IPOC COMMUNITIES THROUGH NATURAL AND ETHICALLY SOURCED MEDICINE, HOME GOODS, BUSINESS INSPIRATIONS , AND FOOD GUIDANCE.

ABOUT JENELYSE
THE FOLK:  WHO MAKE THIS PLATFORM WORK

Lead Herbalist//Founder Jenni Elyse invests in community by providing plant therapy sessions, facilitates an online herbal school for B(B)IPOC folks and makes medicine for those in need. Ifarike Ajoke Okunsalewa is truly making her stance,  and voting for what is obviously most important for B(B)IPOC communities. Supporting and creating our own natural and ethically sourced medicine, homes, economy, businesses, and growing our own food is most important. Ifarike was born Jennifer Elyse Woolery named after her Great Grandmother Jenni Woolery the daughter of a sharecropper born into slavery in Mississippi. Ifarike Ajoke Okunsalewa is her Ifa name given to her by her Nigerian God Mother The Olori Abiye Osunbunmi after receiving the ancestral reclamation of initiation as a Yoruba devotee and Olokun Priestess. Jenni Elyse is an avid farmer with over 10 years of hands on lived experience, an ethical medicine maker, a group facilitator, meditation and yoga practitioner, and an activist for Indigenous causes. Jenni Elyse the great granddaughter of sharecroppers, herbalists, and farmers established this communal space and first opened enrollment to teach others in the autumn of 2018 into the summer of 2019 with the permission of Buffalo Woman an Apache First Nations herbalist, mother, spirit runner, journalist, activist, and traditionalist. Buffalo Woman advises that seeking permission on another persons land to conduct ceremony, partake in the plant medicines, and to invoke sacred spirits for divination and healing energy is an essential solidarity agreement. 

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Herbs and Plants

THE INDIGI GOLDEN
HERBAL FOLK ACADEMY

INDIGENOUS AND INDIGENOUS RECLAIMING B(B)IPOC FOLKS ARE INVITED TO JOIN OUR ONLINE 13 Lunar MONTH COMMUNITY HERBAL FELLOWSHIP

PLANT ALLIES & THE ANCESTORS
A REVERENTIAL JOURNEY OF RECLAMATION
THE COURSE
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This program is designed to inspire, introduce, and provide you with information about how to connect deeper with the earth, thus deepening your own relations with your ancestors. The prospective student will obtain the necessary knowledge to help heal themselves, assist their families, and aid their communities so to walk the path of Indigenous reclamation all the while decolonizing their homes, medical choices, food choices, and earthly habits.

The course material can take you three to six months to complete but the integration of the herbal practices will take you a year! This is a one year fellowship.


There are quizzes and a thorough exam based on an alternative medical criteria from an academia perspective. Giving each one the sacred opportunity to study scientific and clinical herbal theories alongside Indigenous folk lore.


This program amplifies the voices of Indigenous POC influencers, leaders, and healers from various parts of the world.

Created in 2018 this herbal apprenticeship has been in operation for 7 years, certifying dozens of unique herbalists, and serves as a communal healing hub for hundreds of B(B)IPOC folk herbalists. 

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INDIGI GOLDEN HERBALS FOLK MEDICINE

 A VARITEY OF HERBAL REMEDIES THAT PROMOTE HEALING FROM WITHIN AND SUPPORT THE ENTIRE BODY.  ALL OF OUR PRODUCTS ARE ETHICALLY SOURCED, 100% NATURAL, & MOSTLY GROWN ON OUR FARMSTEAD.

ONLINE SHOP
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PHYTOTHERAPY CONSULTATIONS | HERBAL REMEDIES | SACRED MEDICINE

PROJECTS // COLLABORATIONS // DONATIONS

PROJECTS + DONATIONS
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The IGHA has joined hands with farmer Ras Richard in Portland Jamaica for a 3 week Farming immersion~
Email: Spiralingroots@gmail.com to apply

Our community has run solely on individual donations and it is a goal of ours as a newly recognized 501c3 to raise resources that can make an impact on Indigenous communities. We are beyond thankful, honored, humbled, and ecstatic to continue receiving enlightening nature and spirit inspired teachings that can be carried on within our own lineages. We are healing ancestral traumas, reclaiming what belongs to us, reclaiming the commons, and taking a stance for what is obviously most important on the Earth. The protection, preservation, and stewardship of Indigenous wisdom teachings, Indigenous peoples, and Indigenous lands is vital to our future here on Earth. It isn't so much that Earth is deteriorating more so that colonial, imperial, and genocidal regimes have committed devastating environmental dangers to otherwise Indigenous lands and it's rightful stewards, across the entire globe. To honor the hard working Indigenous women who steward and protect the land in a good way ensuring Earth is habitable for us all. We work with Indigenous communities in India, Africa, and throughout Turtle Island! We invite you to make a donation to our collective today.

The Three Aunties Fundraiser is meant to assist three Indigenous Women who upkeep and maintain their culture. These three Women have contributed greatly to our course curriculum.

The Indigi Golden Herbal Folk Collective Community Supported Apothecary Project is in its second year of operation. So far members have donated plant starts and seeds. Support our CSA by purchasing herbal medicines in our online apothecary site. 

The Darwish Family in Gaza is in immediate need of money to buy flour in the middle of this period of the genocide when food prices are up the highest and no aid has entered Gaza.

Our goal as an Academy is to teach workshops and steward land together as a community in the Mother land! We plan to pair up with the local Ghanaians to support the local village, preserving traditional rites of passage, and to return to our ancestors land as Diasporan Africans.

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