Alina
Alina Hiloha is an educator focused on the racial, environmental, and economic factors influencing fertility outcomes. As a certified doula and traditional birth worker, Alina is dedicated to empowering individuals through the education of personal and communal health practices.
We believe in a world where Mother Earth becomes as rich and rejuvenated as possible through our healthy lifestyles and where mothers and gestating parents are replenished for the labor of reproduction. For a society to allow birthing bodies to truly rest, there must be safety planning and less stress.
It is important to center bodies that are pregnant or that have recently given birth within the past two years. It will require healing in our society to honor these boundaries around who needs the most support and communal investment.
Alina emphasizes the importance of inclusive community definitions that encompass all sentient beings. Alina’s scholarship in sustainability solidified a long-standing mission to connect traditional knowledge with the cutting edges of modern science, aiming to simultaneously improve maternal health outcomes and ecosystem resilience, understanding that bodies are healthy to the degree that their environments nourish them. Through Sovereign Birth, Alina has advocated for regenerative practices and mindfulness techniques that generate respect for natural cycles, believing that gestating parents deserve the opportunity to recharge in safe environments.
Safety is here defined as base needs being met through the effort of an aware community that is sensitive, kind, and attentive to the details that preserve rather than deteriorate health status.
Sovereign Birth is a startup that explores the intersection of technology, water quality, and fertility. It articulates and demonstrates novel forms of sexual and cultural vitality, advocating for equitable access to the tools needed for sustainable living by climate and distinct needs. Alina believes and has long demonstrated that powerful narratives of resilience, survivance, and ingenuity can be widely broadcast through the vehicles of art, performance, and film.
強力妊娠
powerful pregnancy
Treasuring Mindfulness
In the Digital Age of Silicon, we often turn to our phones for connection, and that connection's quality has become vastly more important than the quantity.
Many find themselves more isolated than ever as they struggle to plant roots in their homelands, or perhaps by contrast, their locations of birth where their placenta is buried. Some may be repotted, to speak metaphorically, and expected to adapt to environments that are safer for a time or perhaps more aligned with a trajectory of long-term survivance.
We find ourselves surrounded both physically and digitally by the voices of those who attempt to tell us who to be and what to become from all directions. Our subscription to ways of thinking has been more sought after than our subscription to ways of living, and all causes seem urgent while competing for our investment and attention. In a world of optics and those who are competing in both mundane and cryptic marketplaces, we have become ever aware that what we trust and who we trust matters more than ever as we are wading through times of misinformation and digital duplicity that affects our ability to build healthy and safe connections with responsible people.
Many do not yet seem interested in doing the labor of nourishing and defending the young humans, let alone the fauna and flora that we need to survive as a species. Lack of willpower to survive is expressed through our relationship with our planet and our current failures to maintain its balances. It will require a cultural shift for mindful intelligence to be centered and rewarded as we collectively distance ourselves from outdated scripts.
Many of us delight more than ever in our digital sanctuaries and digital privacy because there is peace and serenity to be experienced in being hard to find that we must remember to honor and savor. When a location is hard to reach Mother Earth is teaching us that some experiences are earned with discernment, and in bypassing this critical labor of traveling and greeting each other respectfully we run the risk of forgetting what is traditionally worth protecting with our lives. We protect what we treasure with investments.
Accomplishing Situational Awareness
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There could be an incredible significance to your spiritual life and dreaming life in determining when it is time to gather the resources to build a family.
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Sometimes we need responsible elders who model to us a template of who we can become and that motivates us to build our own foundations from scratch. When building something to last, the structure needs to serve us and grow with us.
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If you are willing to become aware of what you receive while creating the space to discern if it serves you, eventually you will move closer to those who nourish you without fear of poison.
Replenishing Investments
We learn to fear receiving under the influence of worldviews that have devalued and destroyed Mother cultures globally. When too much toxicity has been received and so little reciprocity has been demonstrated toward the stewards of TEK, the human community often loses touch with how to protect and ground themselves because they are no longer living in a way that protects their roots to the Earth.
How do we discern when to turn toward connection and invest in ourselves with the assistance of guidance that is truly helpful? In the process of becoming a parent, we negotiate entitlements, as in all processes of creation. Those who are allowed to be near us as we create the foundations for our lives, our homes, and our businesses could not be more important than ever, as the eyes are the site where consumption begins, and many humans in the age of digital information believe that they own what they first consumed with their eyes alone. But what is hidden grows in value.
Those who teach us to center our hearts give us the toolkit to protect all other energy centers that are open and receptive to the information that comes from being connected and aware. There are alternative senses that we can become more aware of and honor in trauma-informed, embodied frameworks of well-being that are curative by nature.
Bringing balance to our physical senses to truly embody our ethics is the principal, or first remedy in colonized cultures that over-indulge in consumption through the eyes, mouth, and ears. It is the mission of Sovereign Birth to advocate for sovereign practices of healing (adj.) that complement sovereignty (n.), which is legally delineated by First Nations.
For bodies to heal optimally, they need to experience less stress, and they also need high-quality water as the body flushes toxins through its internal circulation of fluids. Water is life, and the quality of the water we have access to shapes our capacity to heal, to restore, and to fight diseases. The health of the land and its resources shapes the health of the fauna and flora. When the human community cannot mobilize around their base needs and articulate them clearly, we run the risk of centering false leadership that brings about harm to bodies.
Humans are known in the animal kingdom for outcompeting and driving other megafauna to extinction, but it could not be a wiser time to ground ourselves in ecology to remember that humans are a part of nature and totally dependent on not only the food systems that we control but the megafauna that we can’t control, who enrich and influence food systems globally. Megafauna have much to teach about self-control. Some wildlife can teach us a true definition of strength.
el agua nos une
Many of us aspire to embody compassion. While this ethic is virtuous, compassio means to “suffer with,” and we are cautious about suffering on behalf of others who do not feel comfortable with their own pain. Some displace pain onto other bodies, seeing the bodies, names, and lives of others as a canvas for their own suffering.
Emotional tools for self-regulation where never instructed to them as children by an elder, and they never took the time to acquire these skills as an adult who takes full responsibility for their suffering and lack of satisfaction with reality.
There is urgency in the effort to remember and practice languages that reflect the nourishing ethics that we need to survive and root where we are planted or to better reflect where we are because not all value systems teach us to articulate our base needs and negotiate for them. An obvious base need is knowing where you are and where the water is where you are.
“Need” is at times determined by habit rather than something more grounded and lasting like traditional culture. Traditional culture is a curative tonic to colonized mentalities that are insatiable, with suffering stemming from overconsumption and hunger for power without a principled reason to amass power responsibly.
Original language reflects the personality of each distinct land and the ethics of that personality, and no site is exchangeable for another.
Humans need fresh water and contact with nature because it is remembered that human bodies are a part of nature. Nature grounds the human body and encourages practices of community that unify us around shared needs such as sunlight, water, fresh air, and food.
Nature was not designed to be contained and visited when it’s convenient for leisure. And yet large parks do well to remind us of how valuable it is to leave nature alone: how lifegiving it is to recharge among fauna and flora that we rarely see anymore in America’s major cities.
What is the value of land that heals people? Land that was delicately curated by masters of traditional ecological knowledge, land managed with astute observation over the course of millennia?
— Alina Hiloha
Ancestral Spoke
Ancestral Spoke
Guided visualization is one way to reclaim the power of your authentic voice and ancestral guidance — wisdom that is truly unique to you and your lineage.
