Mental Health Directory
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Aki Hirata Baker is an initiated Medicine Woman, Moondancer, teacher, speaker, space holder, multi-modality healing practitioner, and community organizer whose work is based on the anti-racial spiritual liberation principle.
She uses various energetic healing modalities, flower essence therapy, Ayurvedic medicine, Yogic principles lineage practices of Medicine Way and Toltec tradition to facilitate healing, which she considers to be the basic ingredient of social change and collective liberation. She is a founder of MINKA brooklyn, a collectively-run healing space that centers the work to heal from all forms of social oppressions to restore humanities, and un-capitalisitc approach to the ‘business of being well’. She took tutorage under Dr. Naina Marballi, Karen Rose, Lindsay Fauntleroy, Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman, Sergio Magana Ocelocoyotl, Rita Navarrete Perez, Tonia Gonzalez, Manu DelPrete, Susy Meszoly, and Integral Yoga Institute.
Immigrant from Japan and currently based in Brooklyn NY, Aki has devoted her life to studies of mysticism, philosophy, healing modalities and liberation principles