This is a collaboration between local healers and the People's Garden at the People's Institutional AME church. Schedule (all modalities require an appointment)
Tuesdays: Land-based trauma work (please email openairclinic@gmail.com for more info)
Wednesday: Acupuncture 9-6
Thursday: Acupuncture 10-1, Reiki, Ayurvedic Herbal Consultations: 2-6
Please check back regularly, our schedule will expand. The Open Air Clinic is a healing space that has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic and Black led international uprisings. This outdoor clinic space in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn is in collaboration with the People’s Institutional AME Church on their property and in the People’s Garden, and a loose collective of local healers. Open Air Clinic is open to everyone, but this treatment space prioritizes offering care to Black and Brown residents of Bed Stuy Brooklyn. The Open Air Clinic includes offerings from a group of multi-racial acupuncturists, herbalists, reiki and other practitioners who believe that:
We are all inherently valuable. No one is discardable. Supporting the health of individuals also means supporting the health of communities. Black people are risking their lives to uproot injustice in this country, this work will benefit our entire world and we seek to use the training, skills and resources we have access to to support the lives and work of Black people. Centering the lives of Black queer and trans people is integral to offering supportive care for those most impacted by systemic oppression. In the covid19 pandemic, Black people are getting ill and dying at much higher rates than the rest of the population. Currently and historically, Indigenous people, people of color, undocumented people, homeless people, trans and GNC people, and currently and formerly incarcerated people are and have been suffering disproportionally without adequate care. As one of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in the country, long time community members of Bed Stuy face the violence of displacement, increased costs of living, policing and the emotional and spiritual violence of gentrification. We seek to prioritize offering care to those who have built this community. The Open Air Clinic will open October 10th and stay open, weather permitting. We believe:
That it is a radical act of love and liberation for oppressed people to care for themselves and their community. We know that all of us have struggled in recent months, some of us more deeply than others. We know that Black people and many others have suffered from the violence of white supremacy in their own lives, their parents’ lives, and their ancestors’ lives. We know that on a large scale we are facing our losses and trauma, the fear and the unknown.
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May all people be healthy. May all people be free.
