Alina
Alina 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. It is important to center bodies that are pregnant or that have recently given birth within the past two years in our communities to ensure that the creation of children is not a traumatic experience. It will require healing in our society to honor these boundaries around who needs the most support and communal investment to raise youth who have been equipped with the bonding experiences they need to show up ready to participate in community as leaders.
Leadership is a rehearsed mentality that comes from having the nervine tolerance to embrace conflict and generate elegant solutions under pressure. Alina believes 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. There cannot be stress coming from within the family web, the community, or medical staff due to abuse or neglect in the postpartum period, and professional advocates have been trained to identify how to utilize the voice to narrativize signatures of toxic stress that can lead to morbidity and fatality for neonates and mothers during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
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 and infant health outcomes and ecosystem resilience, understanding that bodies are healthy to the degree that their environments nourish them.
強力妊娠
powerful pregnancy
Treasuring Applications of 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 own homelands, or perhaps by contrast, their locations of birth, where their placenta is buried. Some may be expected to adapt to environments that are safer for a time or perhaps more aligned with a trajectory of long-term survivance. Long-term survivance for Aboriginal peoples means being included in landscapes that do more than merely accept your culture or mirror your culture as a form of virtue signalling. Aboriginal safety means that space has been made for you and your descendants to prosper rather than be merely tolerated in your own home. It tends to be those with the authority to host us and orient us to a location who are best fit to unify us into new cultural formations that make common sense.
As we struggle with the consequences of racial thoughts and theories that have disorganized and divided our species while leaving millions of Aboriginal peoples entirely invisible in such language, we observe Aboriginal peoples left unrewarded for the capacity to host and heal descendants from around the entire planet. In the 21st century, with the novelty of remote connection, 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. They expect to participate in narratives of romantic love fed to them from a young age, while lacking any skill or preparation to experience a non-maladaptive pregnancy or pregnancy that doesn’t result in injuries. They are more interested in being adopted and chosen by America than in teaching America where it got its name. They do not yet hold that the majority of the continent had no connection to the original 13 American colonies.
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, which 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.
Grasping the Tug Line
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 with listening ears and eyes on at all times. What did you just see? What were you just shown? What did you just hear? What were you just told? Do you have any adult skills to integrate this information into action?
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. The frequency of fires and floods in the West is an urgent concern from New Orleans to Honolulu, and brave designers who think outside of every box not designed with our “frontiers” in mind are needed to rise to the occasion, looking at the problem without being overwhelmed by it.
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. There is not yet a movement educating humanity about how the internet came to be and how it works. We observe the fruit of the digital revolution being widely consumed, critiquing as consumption occurs, reaching for more while discarding what has been consumed without gratitude, and shaming what is entirely depended upon. The toxicity of mentality is the problem.
The story of raw minerals and their applications in digital STEM is a story to be told by the communities that are the original and traditional stewards of the mines and port towns that have made this global expedition possible. Sovereign Birth is the fruit of an education in Silicon Valley, a location that continues to educate in simple terms what it and other tech capitals around the planet are up to amid a global digital revolution much greater in significance than previous industrial revolutions as its impact has changed the way we think and dream.
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 into mature company.
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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.
青い食べ物
blue food
Replenishing Investments into Mother Cultures
How do we discern when to turn toward connection and invest in ourselves with the assistance of guidance that is truly helpful?
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.
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, Mní Wičóni, 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 its base needs and articulate them clearly, we run the risk of centering misguidance that brings about harm to bodies. Many colonized humans have experienced and perpetuate miseducation, placing no value on who they’ve been since antiquity in the digital wars for likes and views.
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 cannot and should not control, who enrich and influence food systems globally. Megafauna have much to teach us about self-control by allowing them to lead. Some wildlife can teach us a true definition of strength: composed, gentle restraint of power.
Ancestral Spoke
Ancestral Spoke
Guided visualization is one way to reclaim the power of your authentic voice and ancestral guidance — dormant wisdom waiting to be remembered that is truly unique to you and your lineage.
Remembering Who We Are
There is urgency in the effort to remember and practice languages that reflect the nourishing ethics that we need to survive and root, because not all value systems teach us to articulate our base needs and negotiate for them.
“Need” is at times determined by habit rather than something more grounded and lasting like traditional culture. Traditional culture is a curative tonic to toxic mentalities that are insatiable, with suffering stemming from overconsumption and hunger for power without a principled reason to amass power responsibly. An obvious base need is being familiar with the land where you were born, and to locate the water where you find yourself now.
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. They are learning how to process their own trauma by monitoring us, which is why we discipline discernment to know: who is allowed near me? An education that values competency in human biology and psychology could not be of a higher value.
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. Original language reflects the personality of each distinct land and the ethics of that personality, and no site is exchangeable for another. Arctic land where the permafrost remains constant throughout the seasons inspired Native languages that encapsulate the most subtle changes of water. Yet the majority, nearly 90% of Canadians, live within 100 miles of the USA border because they fear the snow and desire warmer weather, concentrating themselves at the border. In fact, 60% of Canada's population lives South of Seattle, the American city in Washington State, a fact that demonstrates the continued value of a geospatial education.
Aboriginal language learning is a priority in communities that are safe for those indigenous to Turtle Island to participate in. We ought to remember that indigenous is a site-specific term that is also reflective of specific land-based values that pertain to the production of food and design of communities. There is more commonality between Indigenous Africans who maintain healthy bonds with megafauna that demand open commons and Aboriginal Americans who likewise fight to preserve the health of water, land, and all other trophic layers of ecosystems. Many in today’s world are desperate to fit in or obtain clout in digital landscapes rather than guard cultures battling invisibility in our physical landscapes.
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 unless you’re from Los Angeles, one of the only American cities that shares a habitat with big cats, apex predators much like African lions.
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?
And what of the knowledge keepers themselves? How would we show respect for their value?
Alina Hiloha
