I'm Ilana, and I'm a land-based spiritual practitioner and land steward in Southern California. My home and space is called Engkanto Garden Farm: soil and soul healing. It is a 1/3 acre healing space and regenerative urban farm. My dream for a long time has been to turn this space into a place for community to gather, exchange, collaborate, and co-create.

For a long time, I worked full-time as a brand strategist, which was used to fund most of this project, but it took away from my own practice. I've been called to step to the altar, to tend to others and the land more regularly. While I plan on working freelance as much as possible, I truly need an injection of cash to build out this space in order to receive people for events, ceremonies, rituals, and things of the sort.

My practice includes bodywork, energy work, ritual, ceremony, and herbal medicine. My specialty is Spiritual Self Care ceremonies where I use hilot (Filipino traditional medicine) to help breathe new life and love into people. I love to host meeting-of-the-minds dinners where I bring my talents together to channel and strategize and doula people's ideas and visions into reality.

Funds would be used for: