Llapanchik Hampinakuy offers community connection and collective uplifting of Indigenous, Native, and First Nation voices by providing an interactive platform and member support to healers from these communities.
Amplifying Voices
Our mission is to center and amplify Indigenous, Native, and First Nation communities and voices. Indigenous people experience some of the highest rates of mental health conditions and overall health disparities and are met with inaccessibility to resources. To help close this gap, we aim to create a network of healers within mental health and other holistic related fields (community healing elders, shamans, doctors, mental health providers, etc.).
Connecting Communities
With and through the space we are creating, we are intentional about connecting communities, bringing awareness, providing a platform, sharing resources, providing support and amplifying Indigenous voices across lands.
Centering Wellbeing
Our intention in having this directory is for accessibility and centering the wellbeing of our people and communities. We are opening this platform globally.
Llapanchik Hampinakuy
Means
We Heal Each Other Mutually
In Quechua Wanka
Llapa
Gives a sense of trust of doing the action to the meaning. It doubles down on making sure to include every being with certainty and trust.
Nchick
Every single thing, inclusive suffix to mean ‘us’ (not just humans but animals, beings, nature, the universe, pachamama, etc.) without exception.
Hampi
Noun or verb – medicine* or to cure, heal, relieve. *Hampi is medicine in an indigenous manner. Hampi is all that can heal your mind, flesh, heart, physicality, relationship with others, you and vice versa.
Nakuy
Between, mutually, amongst.
of community members expressed the need of non-western healing approaches over those of western, conventional medicine.
of members mentioned that most prominent barriers to Indigenous holistic care identified were cost.
of members mentioned that lack of authentic non-western healers was a significant barrier to to Indigenous holistic care.
Our Data
In 2023-2024, we conducted virtual interviews and collected testimonies via surveys from community members (healers and non-healers) to identify the need for a holistic healing directory that includes access to non-western providers such as brujes, shamans, chiropractors, and more.
Hear From Our Community
“I think a lot of my trauma is generational and also due to the current state of the colonial world. Having access to an indigenous directory would honestly give me hope that there is a better world.”
From 2024 Community Survey
