Batul True Heart

Batul True Heart (they/them/aapo) is 2Spirit-Yaqui, Chicane, & Panamanian identified with Native American, African, Spanish, & English ancestors. They are a traditional medicine practitioner, community 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 the plants, Batul has spent nearly 20 years facing, feeling, and integrating their personal and inherited traumas. After decades of ancestral self-healing 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 and 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 duo...a community project providing culturally-conscious death companionship for QTBIPOC and comrades: https://floripondioendoflife.com/ You can learn more about Batul and their community offerings on Instagram @maasomedicina and @floripondio_endoflife.