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Selenite & Sage Healing Homestead Co.

Selenite & Sage Healing Homestead

Healing needs places.

The Healing Homestead brings land-based care, liberation education, somatic healing, sacred ceremony, and community together in Southwest Atlanta — a place to rest, learn, nourish one another, and practice The Liberation Method™ in everyday life.

Many practices. One living community.

Four ways to explore our seven interconnected program areas.

Land & nourishment

Food sovereignty, gardens, and care rooted in relationship with the land.

  • Land-Based Healing & Food Sovereignty

Body & spirit

Somatic education and sacred ceremony, with spiritual practice led by LadySpeech.

  • Somatic Healing & Nervous System Education
  • Sacred Ceremony & Spiritual Practice

Learning & expression

Youth and family liberation education, arts, culture, and creative expression.

  • Youth & Family Liberation Education
  • Arts, Culture & Creative Expression

Community & shared resources

Collective care, mutual aid, and economic justice that honor dignity.

  • Community Building & Collective Care
  • Economic Justice & Resource Redistribution
Explore all seven program areas in detail

Somatic Healing & Nervous System Education

Somatic workshops · regulation practices · trauma-informed education · shadow work integration · restorative embodiment · movement & stillness rooted in The Liberation Method.

You can't think your way into safety. Healing happens through the body. We teach you to regulate your nervous system so you can show up differently in your relationships, your communities, and your life.

Weekly somatic circles, monthly shadow work integration, breathwork and movement practices.

Sacred Ceremony & Spiritual Practice

Led by LadySpeech. Hoodoo ritual · full moon and new moon ceremonies · seasonal celebrations · grief rituals · community blessing and repair · spiritual counsel and guidance.

Ritual is how we mark transformation. It's how we acknowledge what's been lost and what's possible. Sacred ceremony is a container for collective healing that words alone cannot hold.

Monthly full moon and new moon community ceremonies, seasonal rituals aligned with the earth's cycles, grief and celebration ceremonies, spiritual consultation and guidance.

Land-Based Healing & Food Sovereignty

Community gardens · seasonal growing cycles · food education · herbalism · soil wisdom · composting & sustainability · outdoor somatic practices.

The land isn't a backdrop, it's a teacher. When you reconnect to cycles, to growing food, to seasonal rhythms, you experience something your body remembers. This is regulation. This is power. This is sovereignty.

Tend gardens across two properties, lead monthly herb circles, teach composting and food preservation, hold seasonal planting ceremonies.

Youth & Family Liberation Education

ERIN's Place (neuroaffirming microschool) · creative regulation through art · kids' garden programs · Parenting for Liberation · seasonal camps · life skills · cultural affirmation.

We interrupt cycles at the root. Not just repairing harm, but preventing it, offering young people and families a different way of being, rooted in creativity, safety, cultural rooting, and community.

ERIN's Place serves neurodiverse youth · creative regulation workshops · seasonal kids' garden days · parenting circles and workshops · family healing gatherings.

Community Building & Collective Care

Liberation Nights ATL · community dinners · Sunday gatherings · peer-led circles · accountability spaces · mutual aid without shame · community agreements practice.

Healing alone is not freedom. This is the shift from individual healing to collective transformation. You don't just practice regulation, you practice it together.

Monthly Liberation Nights ATL, regular community dinners, Sunday gatherings, peer-led circles and accountability spaces.

Economic Justice & Resource Redistribution

Sliding scale & scholarship models · paid memberships · community-supported programming · stipends for facilitators and organizers · workforce development · cooperative economics.

We are modeling an alternative to extraction. Resources circulate. Community members can afford to participate. This is healing justice.

Sliding scale access across all programs, scholarship fund for youth, community-supported membership, monthly giving options.

Arts, Culture & Creative Expression

Open mics & storytelling · somatic painting · writing workshops · music, performance, ritual · creative workshops · poetry and spoken word.

Healing isn't only processed in circles, it's expressed. Culture is how you celebrate what's possible. Art is how you make the invisible visible. Creative practice is a form of resistance and reclamation.

Monthly open mics and storytelling, somatic painting circles, writing workshops, creative expression woven through gatherings.

Our founding year

2025, at a glance.

People served
180
Known community support
$12,694.87
Mobilized for Feed the Family
$5,204
Unique Zeffy supporters
83

Known support and campaign totals describe funds raised, not an expenditure ledger.

Read the full 2025 Founding Impact Report

How this place is held

Selenite & Sage Healing Homestead Co. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 33-4417542, guided by a community-rooted Board of Directors. It is distinct from Make Shi(f)t Happen: the two entities share a philosophy, not finances. Selenite & Sage also serves as fiscal sponsor to Warrior Artists.

The Liberation Method™

Created by Desireé B. Stephens

Education • Somatics • Community

Reclaim Memory.

Develop Consciousness.

Build Liberated Culture.

Liberation is a Lifestyle™

Intellectual Property

All frameworks, methodologies, and intellectual property, including Liberation is a Lifestyle™, The Liberation Method™, Reclaim Memory™, Develop Consciousness™, Build Liberated Culture™, The Seasonal Practice Cycle™, The Three Houses of Liberation™, The Bridge of Transmutation, The Liberation Order™, The Liberation Diagnostic™, The Wound-to-Embodiment Framework™, The LIBERATE Framework™, and The LIBERATE Pathway™, are the proprietary work of Desireé B. Stephens and may not be reproduced, taught, or distributed without written permission.

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