Afrodynamic Healing MAP | BWholeistic Healing

Original Research Framework

Navigating the
Afrodynamic Healing MAP

Rooted in ongoing research through The Black MAP Project, the Afrodynamic Healing MAP presents a framework shaped by a wholeistic understanding of lived experience. It outlines the domains of care that are central to BWholeistic Healing's practice.

The MAP is a living, breathing framework — one that honors the complexity of Black life, the power of ancestral knowledge, and the interconnection of all aspects of self. It is not a checklist or a diagnosis, but an invitation to explore wholeness.

The framework encompasses seven interconnected domains, each offering distinct — yet deeply connected — pathways toward freedom, healing, and surthrivance.

A note on surthrivance: Building on Gerald Vizenor's (2008) articulation of survivance, surthrivance is used here as a blend of surviving, thriving, and resistance — speaking to Black existence as a form of survival against anti-Blackness and Black sourcing and resistance as tools for thriving.

The Seven Domains

Healing Domains & Ingredients

Each domain represents a dimension of the self that holds potential for healing, growth, and liberation.

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Spirit

The spirit domain speaks to the wellness of the soul and includes spiritual and religious beliefs and practices.

Prayer Meditation Sound Healing Singing Creative Writing Journaling Dance / Movement Nature Kemetic Yoga

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Body

The Black body has survived enduring brutality. This domain holds space for rest, pleasure, and the experience of freedom in the body — honoring calls for rest as resistance and pleasure as activism.

Rest / Stillness Kemetic Yoga Storytelling Music / Sound Healing Movement / Dance Touch Cultural Cuisine

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Mind

The mind domain encompasses that which we think about and where/how we learn. It encourages a re/turning to ancestral ways of knowing and engaging practices that awaken and sustain cultural memory.

Ancestral Knowledge Stillness / Reflection Music Making Prayer Communing with Nature Meditation Kemetic Yoga Cultural Cuisine

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Heart

This domain speaks to our emotional worlds and encompasses our relationship(s) with self and others. It connects to the potency of Black love and the importance of Black relational and communal encounter and connection.

Spiritual Practices Relationships Creative Practices Ancestral Connection Cultural Cuisine Culturally Centered Healing Spaces

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Community

Community encompasses those whom you consider your "tribe" — the folx you can call on or go to. From an Afrodynamic perspective, we are as well as our community. This domain underscores the enduring power of mutual aid and the healing energy of communal engagement.

Connect Gather Source Collaborate Create Community Art & Performance Culturally Centered Healing Spaces Cultural Cuisine

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(Re)sourcing

Black people have long been able to source our needs through accessing internal and community means. Sourcing speaks to acknowledging and mindfully engaging our individual and collective well for surthrivance.

Mutual Aid Internal Sourcing Community Resources Community Activism

The Outer Bounds

Soular Systems

Soular systems encompass the center and outer bounds of the Healing MAP and constitute a web of systems that are essential to the soul. This includes ancestral connections, nature, the cosmos, and spiritual practices.

Soular systems are not a separate domain — they are the container that holds all other domains, the invisible web that connects everything. They are the systems in which we exist, and to which we always return.

Spiritual Practices Communing with Ancestors Communing with Nature

Reference

Healing MAP at a Glance

Domain	Description	Potential Healing Ingredients
Spirit	Wellness of the soul; spiritual and religious beliefs and practices.	Prayer · Meditation · Sound healing · Singing · Writing · Dance/Movement · Nature · Kemetic yoga
Body	The Black body's capacity for rest, freedom, pleasure, and movement — even in and through captivity and pain.	Rest/Stillness · Kemetic yoga · Storytelling · Music/Sound healing · Movement/Dance · Touch · Cultural cuisine
Mind	Where and how we learn; re/turning to ancestral knowing and cultural memory.	Ancestral knowledge · Stillness/Reflection · Music making · Prayer · Nature · Meditation · Kemetic yoga · Cultural cuisine
Heart	Our emotional worlds; relationships with self and others; Black love and communal connection.	Spiritual practices · Relationships · Creative practices · Ancestral connection · Cultural cuisine · Culturally centered healing spaces
Community	Your "tribe" — those you call on. Mutual aid, communal engagement, and collective healing.	Connect · Gather · Source · Collaborate · Create · Community art and performance · Culturally centered healing spaces · Cultural cuisine
(Re)sourcing	Acknowledging and mindfully engaging individual and collective well for surthrivance.	Mutual aid · Internal sourcing · Community resources · Community activism
Soular Systems	The center and outer bounds of the MAP — a web of systems essential to the soul, including ancestral connections, nature, the cosmos, and spiritual practices.	Spiritual practices · Communing with ancestors · Communing with/in nature

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Afrodynamic
Soul Tonics

Drawing on the wisdom of the Healing MAP, the Soul Tonics collection offers accessible healing resources for individual and collective use:

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Free and Paid Meditations

Guided meditations rooted in Afrodynamic practice

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Journal Prompts

Free and paid prompts to support reflection and growth

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Stories for Growth

Free and paid narratives to open new pathways

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Navigating theAfrodynamic Healing MAP