Batul True Heart (they/them/aapo) is a 2Spirit Yaqui-Chicane-Panamanian traditional medicine practioner, community & clinical herbalist, and death companion living on Lisjan Ohlone Land in Huchiun, also known as Oakland, CA. With the guidance of elders and mentors, as well as learning directly from their ancestors and all the elements, Batul has spent nearly 20 years facing, feeling, healing and integrating their own (personal and inherited), traumas and shadows. Through years of dedicated practice, Batul has gained skills in working with people and pain, particularly from a nature-based point of view. For 5 years Batul was lead facilitator of the Curanderx Toolkit class at Ancestral Apothecary School in Oakland. Within their community, Batul holds ceremonial space working with various (Mexican) traditional healing modalities as well as offers their line of mostly homegrown herbal remedies… Maaso Medicina: Flower Medicine for Ancestral, Generational, and Personal Pain. They are also one half of the Floripondio End of Life Planning & Services team...a community project providing culturally conscuous death companionship for QTBIPOC and all dying allies: https://floripondioendoflife.com/
You can learn more about Batul and their community offerings on Instagram @maasomedicina.