https://reclaimingindigeneity.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-12-18 https://reclaimingindigeneity.com/mentor-jennileen daily 0.75 2026-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/ebfaea32-a3a1-471c-b909-c75d44bc3198/jennileen.jpeg Her Mentor Jennileen - I am blessed to count Jennileen Joseph, founder and Ayurvedic practitioner at Sastimos Holistic Health, as one of my good friends. She has mentored me through my process to uncover the deepest parts of my heart and my mind as I find my journey home to my native peoples, lands, and languages. It was her idea that I start teaching these classes in the first place, so it is only right that she has her permanent spot here on my website as an action of loyalty and reciprocity to her in return. But also so more people in the world can benefit from her wisdom, healing, and joy as an Ayurvedic practitioner and herbalist with Sastimos Holistic Health. https://reclaimingindigeneity.com/about-us daily 1.0 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/6d4f8a4c-8fe3-4553-83bd-4756a9b75341/Image-1.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/fac36eb2-bf3f-401d-9a34-a57668194e38/Michele.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/41bdf4ff-a267-4378-ad6f-8b3cffcc478e/fabric.jpg About Us - We Belong. It is our hearts that push us to reclaim our Indigenous roots because we are humans who want to belong. We are searchers, looking deeper than the labels like Latin, Mestiza, or Hispanic left behind by colonization. We are the stolen children and their descendants who long to reconnect to our Indigenous roots. Native elders teach us that all of our children are all of our children. Meaning that if we have even one drop of Native blood in us, we are Native. No one can take that away from us, ever. Reclaiming Indigeneity was created to spread the teachings of how to reclaim our Indigeneity, even when it feels impossible. Join our intro class online to learn about the coming home framework that guides you as you reconnect to your Indigenous roots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1662477913810-UGMETZARNU2GU77PWS6B/unsplash-image-SIU1Glk6v5k.jpg About Us - Becoming Accountable Community Members Our work is to cultivate our ability to be silent, to listen, and be humble. To be aware of our own emotions and behaviors so that if they need correcting, we do it right away, and see it as a kindness not a criticism. To shift our attention towards our connection to the beauty of the world. To be grateful for all of creation. Greed, fear, isolation, competition, ego, rugged individualism, and arrogance were acceptable behaviors in the capitalist system most of us were raised in instead of our Native tribes and Indigenous nations. It is only from a place of rigorous honesty and heartfelt communal safety that we can do the work to unlearn these behaviors so that we can reconnect to our Indigenous roots. Join our intro class online to learn about the coming home framework that guides you as you reconnect to your Indigenous roots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1661434339877-1PJJ2VOAXNB41Y9O2VQD/unsplash-image-Jz9OS0uDn0w.jpg About Us - Coming Home Work: A Clarifying Framework Each of us has to do the work of traveling a unique and different journey home with joy, humility, and an open heart. One of the biggest lessons that we all need to unlearn is the capitalist belief that because something is in our blood that we are entitled to just take it. This is one of many behavior patterns that we must change in order to honor the precious gift of belonging when it is being offered to us. Coming home work guides us through this process. Coming home work is the framework that allows us to reclaim our Indigenous roots. Each of us is on our own journey, but we need a map to get where the universe wants us to be: home. Together we can do the work to become resilient, generous, and responsible community members who can add strength in belonging, or allyship in supporting our Native nations of origin. We get to decide who we are, and be hopeful about the future. Want to know more about where you fit? Take our online intro class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1618447829561-E6YIDJJJJ23QL6817YFK/Lens.png About Us - Perspective Many of us who were raised in Hispanic, Chicano/a/x or Latino/a/e/x culture have always known that we have Native/Indigenous heritage. But we don’t necessarily know what to do about it, if anything. We provide perspective about how our quest for belonging and identity are impacted by sexism, white supremacy, capitalism, and attempted genocide. All within the larger context of hope that reconnecting to our roots is possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1618427860971-XKPFF4FCT3UJ4MC7OS99/Coming+Home+Map.png About Us - Directions Reconnecting to our roots will be different for each of us. We are all starting off from a different place, and we will end up in a different one too. We each have different layers of identity to think about, psychological and physical places that we need to visit and re-visit, and roads to walk that are ours alone. We give people the tools to make our own maps to reconnect to our roots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1618428160130-NNEOSJDN9WKWSXBYZEHA/Guide_Compass.png About Us - Guidance ‘Coming home’ work is an umbrella term that describes a series of steps that provide some guidance for those who wish to reclaim our Native/Indigenous identity with respect, integrity, and care. We guide people through lies, hidden truths, and forgotten memories taken from us by oppression, assimilation, and isolation so that we can get the help we all need to find ourselves and reconnect to our roots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1618428227528-1QOA8VXW8UND2M6CWD8T/Mentorship.png About Us - Coaching Reconnecting means doing the work so that we can learn how to behave according to principles, values, and traditions that were taken away from us through forced assimilation and policies of genocide. Whatever was lost can be reclaimed as long as we are willing to be responsible and accountable community members. We coach people as we do coming home work to help us figure out how to put this all into practice along our reconnection journey, wherever it may lead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1661432565848-9JN74WONYA5D7FT0X22P/unsplash-image-P8bsrm8KbM0.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1661432234361-5N66RBUYPPRL4AHLD5CX/unsplash-image-0aMMMUjiiEQ.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1661432395531-10VF7XX8JMUOWE0LNDHV/unsplash-image-oXjvbhXxm4w.jpg About Us https://reclaimingindigeneity.com/about-rosa daily 0.75 2026-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1618433980496-8JPGRZKK4KJFN68H65E1/IMG_0470.jpg Our Founder Rosa - Reconnecting Journey Rosa Blumenfeld-Romero is a Native/Indigenous woman from the Muisca people who was raised outside of her traditions and lands in Vancouver, BC, Canada. As a child she had recurring dreams of getting on a bus, train, or plane going the wrong way. At first she thought she was losing her mind, but really this was her ancestors telling her what she already knew: that the Colombian and Jewish cultures that she was being raised in weren’t the whole story of who she was. That she was going on the wrong direction and needed to follow the path to reconnect to her roots. She met her Indigenous mentor, Jennileen Joseph from the Rroma people, in 2014 and has been doing coming home work ever since. This has led her from back home to the ancestral lands of her people in Colombia where she now lives full time with her dog Penelope. (Rosa is pictured right as a 5 year old in Colombia in 1991) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1618430115970-NSL4GBYI1OGYKJ8VRICI/training%2Bteam%2Bafl%2Bcio.jpg Our Founder Rosa - Popular Education Rosa started teaching popular education workshops when she worked for the labor movement in Massachusetts from 2006-2014 with mentorship from the Labor Extension Program at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, the Labor Education Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC, the United Association for Labor Education, and the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development. She has taught workshops to union members all over the United States about leadership development, power mapping, strategic planning, organizational development, campaign strategy, economic policy, dismantling racism, ending sexism, workplace solidarity, working class history, one to one meetings, target development, and more. Her training in the political, inclusive, and radical nature of popular education is the spirit from which she teaches her reconnecting classes today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1618432236822-HMZL82AQT1RFDQKNLYKO/lake+jpeg.jpg Our Founder Rosa - Sacred Lakes, Sacred Water Connection Her whole life hough she felt a soul deep connection to the element of water. On a trip to Lake Guatavita in 2016, she learned about her people’s creation story and our connection to seven sacred lakes in the Cundinamarca, Boyaca, and Santander regions of Colombia. It made all of her delightful memories of playing in pools, swimming in the ocean, or floating in a pond, make sense. Although her focus is on reconnecting, Rosa also maintains a connection to her Jewishness through water. She is a certified Mikveh Guide at Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters in Boston, MA, a frequent collaborator with the Queer Mikveh Project, and the author of water immersion ceremonies like For Palestinian Life and In Generation Gratitude for Jewish Women of Color. https://reclaimingindigeneity.com/coaching daily 0.75 2026-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1697659386505-TFFSUGRIQ21FLWXULNLQ/image-asset.jpeg Coaching - We All Need Help On Our Journey As people who have been raised outside of our Native nations, it can be hard and scary to figure out how to reconnect authentically and responsibly. After taking our coming home work courses, we hope that you now have some tools and direction to help move this work forward for you. But there is the theory of coming home work, and then there is the practice. As you take more and more steps along your personal coming home journey, questions will come up. Is this the right thing? Why do I feel a certain way about what I am doing? Is it ok if I …….? That is what these sessions are designed for. To have a safe space to get some answers. One of the key decisions I have made in my coming home journey is to be a home to all of us who are on this path. It can be really lonely and confusing to figure out what the next step is and where to go. We could all use someone to hold our hand when we are nervous to take the next step, or to reassure us that a happiness beyond our wildest dreams is waiting for us on the other side of the obstacle that we are facing now. It takes courage to choose to come home, and it is always easier to be brave when you have your people with you. The universe and the ancestors are always there to guide us, but sometimes we need to hear their wisdom through human interaction. This is where one on one mentorship or coaching can be really useful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1697659632746-UO228JW9QSSRJFE3Q7DX/image-asset.jpeg Coaching - Who Is Coaching For? There are so many ways to do coming home work. Some do it through tracing the food of their peoples and learning the old recipes and preparation methods. Some do it through herbalism, curanderismo, or farming. Still more learn the old songs in their Native languages, and learn the ceremonies from our ancestral healers. Others write, paint, knit, sew, and draw. But if you are searching, and not sure where to start, or what the next step is, then these coaching sessions are for you. All of us begin our coming home journeys from different places. Some of us were separated from our Native nations because of adoption, war, assimilation, residential schools, rape, poverty, forced migration and the list goes on. These are all acts of genocide, designed to push us out of our Indigeneity. Kill the Indian, Save the Man. These are hard truths that are easier to face together. I have been doing coming home work with Native Raised Native elders and Indigenous mentors since 2014. I have been given many gifts that I want to pass on and share with all of you. Our group classes are great places to build community, but if you want more specific guidance and regular check ins, one on one time is available. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8d2d4daa49bc4109f91dfe/1697659758323-RN8NEJPGJT30B4H9UBRB/image-asset.jpeg Coaching - How Do I Coach? With Love. Loving people is something that I have always known how to do with great abandon. It didn’t much matter to my young heart if the person loved me back, I just knew that I loved them. I am still like that. This is what coaching means to me. To be a good friend, whether for just a project or a lifetime. To help someone dig deep and find the courage to be who they really are, go after their true purpose, and hold their hand as they walk through the fear to make it happen in their lives. Society convinces us that our circumstances or the real world make it impossible to get what we want and sometimes that is true. Oppression and hardship are real. But I believe that hope, purpose, and love are much bigger forces than oppression in the universe. I want to help others remember that when they are down and out, so they don’t have to give up because they are afraid and feel like shit. We get to keep trying, and if something fails, we learn from it and try something else. Giving up isn’t part of the conversation. Some of my mentors have been my bosses, so checking in was a regular thing. Whether every day, once a week, or once a month. Some of my mentors are people I just call up whenever I want, whether that’s every few weeks, months, or years. Some mentors I visit with once a year and download all my troubles and all their knowledge all at once. Some check-ins involve written exercises, which can sometimes help clarify my thinking in ways that talking does not. There are so many different options, which I will leave up to you who are reading this page. I also know that some people have the means to pay for this kind of time, and others do not. I value my time very much and know that it is worth a lot. But I also believe in being generous with it because so many people in my life have been so generous with me. It is strange to introduce money into any relationship, but I also live in a world where I have bills to pay. 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