Yanawana Herbolarios is a 501(c)3 organization operating primarily in the San Antonio metrocom, with a mission to share, preserve, and honor cultural knowledge of the land and make it universally accessible as a means to empower and revive Indigenous living practices including medical botanical usage, water and land stewardship, and coming together as a community in times of need. We are an Indige
nous and woman founded and led organization and established in January 2016 to meet unaddressed needs in the areas of healthcare and preparedness amongst vulnerable communities of San Antonio TX, with a special focus on BIPOC and LGBTQ communities. Our current programming includes Sowing la Futura – our hands on interactive ancestral skills education program; Project Home – our sustainable transitional housing and advocacy project that focuses on meeting our houseless relatives where their needs are at; and Yanawana Medic Collective, our healthcare initiative that includes: The People’s Clinic - an accessible holistic botanically integrative clinic, The Street Medicine Team - our street clinicians that take the medicine directly to our relatives on the street, the Action Medic Team - our medics that support People’s Movements, and YMC Medic Training Program - a free hands-on interactive medic training program designed to address community need.
