"allisonjoy is a fierce, gentle spirit - the way fire can manifest as a glowing ember to radiate a calm warmth, or a flickering flame that inspires and sheds light, or a snapping blaze that ignites and incites. she is a true, intuitive healer. she works with me, not on me."
~ Sarwat Rumi
allisonjoy is an internationally certified Reiki Master Practitioner, and has been committed to healing through Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki since 2004. She comes from a family of medical doctors and nurses, and has found her calling in a different form of healing. She firmly believes in the benefits that holistic healthcare can provide on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels, and sees both western and holistic modalities as truly complementary forms. allisonjoy understands the necessity of creating sustainable and accessible ways to offer and integrate holistic health into people's daily practice, and focuses on serving women of color, social justice workers, and the LGBT community. In addition, she administers treatments to beloved pets- our cherished companions, and is working in partnership with The Paw Pad Training Center & Daycare (Union, NJ). A frequent visitor to Chicago, allisonjoy has worked with Rape Victim Advocates, The LGBT Center on Halsted, and has administered free Reiki treatments to survivors during Sexual Assualt Awareness Month sponsored by DePaul University's Women's & Gender Studies Department. Based in the New York/New Jersey area, she has collaborated with the New York LGBT Center's Lesbian Cancer Initiative, Casa Atabex Ache, and the Audre Lorde Project. She has offered her care all across the United States, and as far away as the Philippines.
Place "fierce" + "kind" in the same sentence & you'll probably find allisonjoy. Her continuous work is a demonstration of her passionate commitment to social justice, whether it was as National Recruiter for ACORN, Co-Founder of NYC-based media justice coalition R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop, organizer for Gabriela Network NY/NJ, or National Organizer & touring member of We Got Issues! She has organized, created events, facilitated leadership & empowerment trainings and anti-oppression workshops with youth, women, & people of color all about North America. allisonjoy is currently Road Manager and touring member of Mango Tribe, the country's first & only APIA women & genderqueer interdisciplinary social justice performance ensemble. Sista sings hard from the heart, knits&crochets when she's on the train, & offers healing as a Reiki Master Practicioner to her communities. This queer pinay-american believes in the strength of her sisters, community building, art as activism, grassroots organizing, thinking critically, loving honestly, linking arms with all oppressed peoples, and manifesting visions of liberation!
