For generations, communities have understood that healing, culture, land, spirituality, and economic life are deeply interconnected. Modern systems have often separated these relationships, turning care into a commodity and disconnecting people from the practices that sustain collective wellbeing.
Sh8peshift Society Healing Commons is part of a larger remembering—reclaiming models of reciprocity, stewardship, and shared responsibility while adapting them for the realities of our time.
THE HEALING COMMONS MODEL
What if a new way of being was never meant to be something we did alone — but something we built together?
This is not transactional.
This is relational.
Here, culture keepers, artists, educators, practitioners, and community members come together to shapeshift the old — forming new worlds of possibility through cooperation, stewardship, and collective imagination.
COMMONS CIRCLES
because were never meant to do this work alone.
KEEPER CIRCLE
Keeper Circle is for the healers, artists, culture keepers, educators, coaches, and visionaries weaving new possibilities through their gifts, wisdom, and practice.
This Circle brings together keepers across disciplines and geographies to move beyond silos and weave together their existing work into a larger tapestry of collective imagination, contributing to the building of new futures.
ANCHOR CIRCLE
Anchor Circle members support place-based stewardship through shared governance, collective decision-making, and a long-term commitment to the vision.
This Circle helps steward our cultural home in Mexico while weaving relationships with aligned land-based spaces across the United States. Members participate in shaping the direction of these spaces, and tending the relationships that sustain them.
PORTAL CIRCLE
Portal Circle is for those who feel called to reimagine how we live, heal, and sustain each other.
This Circle opens the door to virtual workshops, masterclasses, wellness offerings, and the online apothecary — a living marketplace of sustainable products, and creative exchange. Members engage with tools that support deeper practice while connecting to community-rooted economies across borders.
WEAVER CIRCLE
Weaver Circle is for those seeking connection, learning, and community with others who are reimagining how we live, heal, and be in community with one another.
This Circle brings together people ready to practice new ways of being together through shared learning, and relationship. Members engage through retreats, intergenerational gatherings, masterclasses, sabbaticals, and community experiences while weaving new possibilities for cooperation.
THE RIGHT TO ROOT
The right to root is central to our North Star — creating spaces to repair the forced disconnection of our ancestors from land. We reject borders that separate us from our inherent ways of being. Instead, we move as intentional global citizens, building bridges across lands and communities to address the wounds created by systemic inequality.
Our anchor location in Central Mexico is a direct response to the rising costs and inaccessibility of culturally rooted healthcare, offering change makers a place to step away from the pace of the old and return to practices of restoration.
Through accessible integrated medicine and a global community of practitioners and specialists, we bring together indigenous healing modalities, ancestral practices, detox protocols, Chinese medicine, physician-supported fertility care, longevity interventions, and biohacking to create a holistic approach to healing that honors both ancient wisdom and emerging science.
VALUES
SUSTAINABILITY
Regenerative farming, permaculture, and sustainable building for a resilient ecosystem.
STEWARDSHIP
Distributed, collective ownership of resources, land, and decision-making.
RESTORATION
Acknowledge and address harm inflicted on BIPOC communities through colonization and environmental exploitation.
HEALING
Trauma-informed wellness through afro-indigenous nature-based practices.
COLLECTIVE IMPACT
5K
Together, our collective has served over 5,000 individuals through healing sessions, activations, workshops, retreats, and community offerings.
15+
Our practitioners have facilitated transformative work across 15+ countries, spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe.
50+
Sh8peshift Society is built on over 50 years of combined experience in holistic health, ancestral healing, entrepreneurship, midwifery, spiritual coaching, and herbal medicine.
10+
From PhDs and Master’s degrees to certifications in acupuncture, trauma-informed coaching, doula care, and traditional medicine—our team brings deep interdisciplinary knowledge.
10K
Across one-on-one sessions, community rituals, plant medicine ceremonies, and educational offerings, our practitioners have collectively devoted over 10,000 hours to the work of spirit-led healing.
FOUNDERS CIRCLE
Zakiya Harris
is a futurist, educator, and creative entrepreneur with over 2 decades of experience bridging culture, cosmology, and community. She’s the founder of Sh8peshift Society, co-founder of multiple non profits and Lead Vision & Strategy Steward at BlacSpace Cooperative. An author, podcast host, artist, mother and IFA priest, Zakiya has called Mexico home for the past 4 ½ years. sh8peshiftyourlife.com
Vision & Strategy Steward
Mahasin Munir
is a holistic wellness practitioner and conscious community builder who guides others toward balance, alignment, and inner peace. With a grounding presence and deep reverence for spirit, she weaves ancestral wisdom with modern practices to create intentional spaces that nourish mind, body, and soul.
Operations Steward
Namonyah Soipan
is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine and shamanistic transpersonal psychologist with 30+ years of global healing experience. Founder of The Center of Sacred Dialogue in St. Thomas, she blends ancestral wisdom and Eastern medicine to guide deep truth-telling and embodied liberation. She currently splits her time between St. Thomas and Mexico. namonyah.com
Integrated Medicine Steward
WHY MEXICO
Mexico is not simply a destination for us; it is a living crossroads of Afro-Indigenous history and belonging. The oldest civilization in Mexico, the Olmecs, were Black. Mexico ended chattel slavery before the United States and became a historic sanctuary for enslaved Africans. Today, Mexico is home to over 2.5 million Afro-Mexicans and a thriving Black diaspora from the US, Canada, UK, Nigeria, Haiti, Cuba, and across Latin America. Our proposed site is located hours from Mexico City Airport with affordable flights, a simple six-month visa for US citizens, and a lower cost of living. Mexico allows us to show up not as tourists or colonizers, but as global citizens—rooted in reverence for its rich culture, food, music, and history, and committed to collective stewardship, not extraction.
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