WE USE EARTH MEDICINE TO HEAL OUR TRAUMA AND RECONNECT TO MOTHER EARTH - TOGETHER!
Greetings from the Earthlodge Founder

My name is Queen Hollins and I am the Founder of the Earthlodge Center for Transformation. 
The Earthlodge was stablished in 2004 in my home in Long Beach, CA based on Black Southern Indigenous Healing Practices I learned from my grandmother as a child.  The Earthlodge has become a beacon of inspiration and self-healing for womyn, LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer), children, gender non conforming communities and cis men who support the rise of the feminine energy on the planet. Through the Earthlodge, these communities have not only healed and transformed individually but the healing has shifted lineages of dysfunction, pain and trauma.  The Earthlodge Center for Transformation is a spiritual sanctuary and oasis located in the urban area of Long Beach that provides a safe space for LGBTQI and women of all ages int women, queer and our allies of all races/social/spiritual/economical and cultural backgrounds to identify and heal their trauma, meet and build community with one another, fellowship, have ceremony, tend the earth and herbs, learn about nature based spiritual principles, to have sacred weddings, to have spiritual baby welcoming ceremonies (babyshowers), death rites of passage ceremonies, conduct nature based workshops and more.   
No one is turned away due to economic circumstances.  Thus many of those we serve are people of color, low income and suffering from mental and emotional distress.

My Life Major Accomplishments Include:
30 Years of Earth Stewardship, 20 Years of Black Gnostics Studies, Priestess of Ifa, Minister of the Universal Life Church, Science of Mind Practitioner, Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, Practitioner of Native American Spirituality, 10 Years in Afrikan Dance Troupe Dembrebrah, 1998-2008, 10 Years as Nu Traditional Afrikan Dance Instructor, 20 Years of Sacred Space Design, 20 Years of Opening Ceremony Design and Coordination at the Black Lesbian United/ULOAH Annual Retreat, 13 Years of Nu Traditional Afrikan Dance Teaching at the Michigan Womens Music Festival, 10 Years of Nu Traditional Afrikan Dance Teaching at the Ontario Women's Drum and Dance Camp

Programs I Have Implemented Include:
Founding of The Earthlodge Center for Transformation, Queer Full Moon Monthly Ceremony, Blood Rites, Ancestors Daughters, Children's Ritual Circle, Sacred Space and Sister Circle

My Line of Earth Based Spiritual Kits / Products for Sale to Meet Your Spiritual and Dancing Needs Include:
Spiritual Grounding Spritzers, Spiritual Herbal Baths and Shea Butter Balms

​Sage Bundles and many many more products to meet your spiritual needs.   

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Meet our Board of Directors

Our Board Chair, Yardenna "Denna Dean" Aaron has volunteered at the Earthlodge for 9 years.  They are a gender non-conforming Black LA native social justice activist who has been actively carrying on the tradition of social justice activisim across communities of color since 1999.  Since 2011, they have worked to establish infrastructure for the healing justice work of the Earthlodge and the underserved and/or socially oppressed and often traumatized communities it serves.  Politicized by the passing of Prop 209 while on scholarship at Occidental College, they've dedicated much of their life to righting the injustices and imbalances in their communities.  They've brought research activism to SCOPE, the Security Officers Union SEIU 1877, co-founded the Here to Stay Visibility Coalition (Black Gay and Here to Stay) and they currently serve as Executive Director of the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund fighting for the rights of Latinx non union janitors throughout California.  They graduated from Occidental College in 2000 and now not only fights for social and economic justice, but now also fights for healing justice to ensure the sustainability of our social justice work through the Earthlodge.  They offer sacred drumming in addition to organizational development and fundraising at the Earthlodge.​

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Guadalupe Chavez (Agua Dulce, she/her/they/them), MFT, is an Abolitionist parent, flower alchemist and herbal medicine maker and farmer. She has been studying flower and plant spirit medicine since 2009 as an apprentice to their teacher Queen Hollins and to the earth herself in occupied Tongva land, Los Angeles. Agua Dulce is a fierce believer in healing justice and transformative justice as strategies towards building a world without borders and cages. They spend much of their time as an organizational consultant organizing healers into movement work focused on liberation and justice for LGBTQI+, BIPOC, and economically impoverished communities. Agua Dulce is the Healing Justice Organizer for Justice Teams Network, where she is building out a California statewide Healers Network. Agua Dulce has been invited to train and coach communities across California and the U.S. in implementing Healing Justice principles, practices into their organizational operations and HR systems.

​Agua Dulce is most excited about sharing sacred medicine making and earth based rituals as an essential part of Abolitionist movements. Agua Dulce has a private practice where she weaves together earth-based spiritual rituals and tools, plant medicine, and talk therapy. Visit her at Agua Dulce Healing.

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Iyatunde Oshunade Folayan is an AfroQueer Healer, Writer,  Community Builder and Performance Artist. Iyatunde directed the first pilot program for housing Detroit’s homeless women veterans and through a unique collaboration with the award-winning SASHA Center, conducted the first healing and recovery sessions to foreground sexual trauma of women of color in the military. Reaching over 150 women in Los Angeles, Iyatunde set up some of the first county-wide workshops on Black women and mental health entitled “Are You Ok, Sis?” sponsored by Black Women for Wellness and funded by the LA County Department of Mental Health. Iyatunde programmed FAMILY PORTRAIT : the first look at Black LGBTQI family structures and traditions in Southern California for Black Lesbians United. Iyatunde committed herself to the practice of Earth Medicine and healing while training under Queen Hollins at the Earthlodge Center for Transformation where she supports it's growth by writing grants and creating ceremony as a Gatekeeper. Iyatunde has helped to provide Healing Justice and support for formerly incarcerated, women, and LGBTQI+ communities of color.


Dr. Haydée Cuza has been connected to the Earthlodge Transformational Healing Center when she attended queer womyn's healing ceremonies hosted by Queen and supported by volunteers and individual donations many years ago. She shared, "the healing within the space was magnified through the intergenerational heart-centered spiritual journey of connecting to land and emotion and wholeness and is still present today." She brings  years of experience as an executive director, founder of programs and organizations, managing multi-million dollar full-cost, equitable budgets and practices, and a deep love and commitment for community-centered missions. She will support the next level of reach and impact that has been cultivated through years of sweat equity, imagination, creation, and blessings from the land, many stewards, Queen, and the board.

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Meet Our Earth Medicine Anchor Leaders / Healers Network
Our Community of Earth Medicine Healers Continues to Grow.

Axel, Earth Steward, Gatekeeper, Construction, Newsletter, Graphic Design, Artist, Volunteer Coordinator

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Danielle, Earth Steward, Landscaper, Construction, Crystal Medicine

Marie, Sacred Circle Keeper and Professor

Cheyenne Cheyblues, Project Bloom and Earthlodge Teens

Maylei, Energy Healer and Professor

Delia, Earth Pit Construction, Earth Steward, Massage, Somatics

Millo, Earth Steward and Construction Specialist

Scott, Sacred tobacco and herb mixtures, Earth Steward, and MAC Group

Luz Elena, Earth Steward/Compost Toilet, Water Specialist, and Drum Medicine Circle Coordinator

Aleah, Tarot Reading and Earthlodge Kids

Ayofemi, Womb Healer and Chinese Medicine Herbalist

Kim, Yoga, Tech, and Strategic Planning

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