PRAYER FOR THE SPIRITS OF THE LAND
Agyaman ak unay kadagiti apo ti daga. Ng papasalamat at ng papaalam po ako. I offer my song of respect to the original spirits of this land. I know I am a guest here, I do not take that for granted and I will continue to speak truth to history and speak truth to the current struggles of the native people of this land, the land of my mother’s mother’s mother and all land I step foot on.
I give thanks to the original caretakers of this land. I give thanks to the anitos of this land. May I walk always in reverence with the land. May I speak the true names of the Ohlone, the Pomo, the Miwok, to all the original caretakers of Turtle Island. May the salmon return and roam free. May the rain come back and the fire come into balance. May the redwoods be respected and protected. May my work align to the rematriation of the land. May I align to the current struggles of the original peoples of this land and my work continue to dismantle the systems that have erased the original history of this land.
I KNOW EARTH ANCHORS, MAY I RESPECT.
I KNOW AIR SHIFTS, MAY I RESPECT.
I KNOW FIRE TRANSMUTES, MAY I BE IN BALANCE.
I KNOW WATER HEALS, MAY I BE IN BALANCE.
May Great Spirit Always Guide Me To Be In Right Relationship To All Beings.
May the commons be returned to the commons. May the sacred always be revered as the sacred
MISSION and VISION
In short, it is also Spirit.
Angela Basbas Angel is a traditional and holistic healing practitioner, medium/channeler, ceremonialist, multi-disciplinary artist, poet and permaculture gardener. She has continued her indigenous lineage as a traditional healer (Bontoc and Ibaloi tribes- Igorot, Philippines). Angela received a vision directing her to explore how ritual and our innate psychic abilities can translate in the “modern world” as a step to bridge our ancestral knowledge and to begin healing historical trauma. She has since worked to integrate this directly with her social justice work. In 2013 she helped to form and began coordinating free holistic and traditional healing clinics with the Bay Area’s Healing Clinic Collective. Angela was the school coordinator and taught at Ancestral Apothecary, School of herbal, folk and indigenous medicine for nearly seven years in Oakland, CA. She loves tending to her garden and facilitating the connection of plants with people. She is a certified Clinical Herbalist and integrates indigenous ancestral medicine in her practice. Angela runs regular classes in healing and plants including “Ninunong Gamot”, Philippine Folk and Ancestral Medicine and “Decolonizing Wellness”. Angela is a spiritual strategist and proponent of healing justice and decolonization. She has been an organizer and facilitator for various grass-roots organizations for over twenty five years. She consults for social justice non-profit organizations and movement workers to lean into a Spirit-Guided framework and integrate health, wellness and our relationships to the land for long-term, sustainable movement resiliency.
Angela began leading meditations intertwined with art and sound healing techniques at the age of 18. She is trained and inherited ancestral medicine in several modalities including in herbal medicine, energy healing, somatics and embodiment practices, art and color therapy and crystal/gemstone therapy. In 2007 she began studying plant and traditional medicine in the Curanderismo tradition and has walked the “red road” path in guidance with her elders across Turtle Island and Abya Yala. Angela also practices in the path of Engaged Buddhism which grounds her path with less suffering, non-dualism and with more compassion and tenderness. She considers her most potent healing work as being a psychic medium. Angela channels and communicates with ancestors and other beings. She is a seer and energy reader and travels dimensions in which she interprets visions, messages and dreams for the planet. She is humbled to be a vessel in this lifetime.
ORIGINS
Angela is a child of rice terraces and salt dunes from the curves of both ends of the great motherocean of the Pasifik. She grew up between redwood groves and the high country mountain region as her family skipped between Turtle Island and their motherland, colonially now known as The Philippines. Her people are mountain people from the cordillera region of Benguet and Bontoc in Luzon and people of the salt between La Union and Pangasinan. As an Igorota (Ibaloi and Bontoc), she is the carrier of the medicine of her specific patrilineal line in which she was initiated close to birth to be a mambunong/mangalag, a bridge/translator between life and death and the Spirit realms, with the anitos and ka-apuan. Her mother is a master baylan/baglan and earthkeeper, of which Angela received much of her training to be versed in what is super in nature.
Stop seeking
Start becoming
Stop seeking
Start realizing
Stop seeking
Start remembering
Stop seeking
Start being
Stop seeking
Start breathing
When you breathe in with mindfulness
Everything is always there
No where to go, no where to seek
When you breathe out with mindfulness
Everything is no where
No where to go, no where to seek
Every breath you let go of who you’re not
Every breath you let go of who you think you are
Every breath you let go of who you’ve been told you are
Every breath you let go of who you think you’re supposed to be
LINEAGE and EDUCATION
Angela was initiated by the Owl clan via a vision with Grandmother Willow in which she received her name as “Owl’s Heart”.
In herbal school, Angela was anointed with the passionflower (pasiflora, maracuya, maypop, lilikoi) essence which synchronistically was one of the first plants Angela began to work with in her apprenticeship with her mother as a means to expand consciousness and as a receptor to connect to her star ancestors. This closeness to nature spirits was also around the same time when her mission/purpose to help “create heaven on earth” became clear. It is not about “ascending” anywhere, it is about anchoring the grander consciousness into this world.
Nature is her most consistent and trusted teacher. She is most guided by the fungi queerdom, the stone people, her ancestral plants, most especially by malunggay (moringa), ampalaya/parya (bittermelon), pandan, champaka, the sequoias redwoods in which she resides on, the trilliums, the tobacco and the family of Proteaceae flowers.
Angela is a clinical herbalist and graduated from Ancestral Apothecary School, Cecemmana Herbal Clinical Program. She has continued studies in Phytology at Pacific Rim College, Evolutionary Herbalism and the the Herbal Academy.
She is an initiated traditional medicine keeper which slightly varies from the “clinical western herbalist” path which at times can replicate an “allopathic” method because of influences from modernity and Capitalism. Thus she focuses on relationship, always.
She honors her elders and teachers and the mystery schools from the traditions she has been blessed to be a part of: The Maya, The Mexica, The Toltec, The Dagara, The Lakota, The Kogi, The Arhuaco, The Q’uero/Q’iru/Quechua, The Ashaninka, The Yoruba, The Hawaiian/The Mu.
Angela holds degrees from UC Berkeley in Rhetoric and Peace and Conflict Studies and Post-Graduate work with the International Honors Program through Boston University.
