Empower Black Women in Medicine: Tossie and Honeybee

Dear friends, family and community,

This is a time sensitive call for your support!! We only have a few weeks till January 2025.

At the start of the new year, January 2025 a special group of folks are making our way down to Ucayali region of Peru to make a traditional plant dieta with a Master Curendero (Healing Artist), Don José Campos. During a dieta an individual courts a Master Plant Teacher and becomes a student to the wisdom of the Plants. It takes courageous discipline and heartfelt devotion to learn in this way.

This particular journey is extra-ordinary. This group is majority BIPOC and female bodied - very rare down in the jungle! To experience the camaraderie that diversity offers while endeavoring the warriorship that a dieta requires is a true gift. Our hope and expectation is that this group create a ripple of benefit to touch places of relationality in the web of life that are in deep need now - and are not situated close to intersections held by the predominantly white male population in a typical jungle dieta experience.

Let's spread the Love!

Honeybee Courtney and Tossie Long met several years ago in a medicine circle, and in that short time, their connection has blossomed into a powerful bond. From the very beginning, they shared a vision of traveling to the jungle together - a vision rooted in their shared commitment to personal growth, healing, and mastery of their medicine work. Now, that opportunity has finally arrived. Both dedicated medicine workers, Honeybee Courtney and Tossie are embarking on a journey to work alongside master teachers in the heart of the jungle, where they will refine their skills and expand their knowledge. This collaboration marks a significant step in their paths, but they cannot do it alone—they need your help.

Tossie and Honeybee Courtney, both dedicated medicine workers, are collaborating to deepen their practice by studying with master teachers in the heart of the jungle. Their work transcends the physical, weaving together the healing of the heart, mind, and spirit. With a blend of ancient wisdom and modern insight, they create nurturing spaces where transformation unfolds. They hold a profound belief in the power of interconnectedness—when one person heals, the collective rises. Through the guidance of jungle community, ancient rituals, and the sacred wisdom of plant medicine, Honeybee and Tossie invite others to explore a deeper understanding

Generational San Franciscan Tossie Long (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate, multi-lingual Grammy nominated vocalist, international performing artist, producer, director, composer and ritualist who speaks to the intersections of sound, culture and sociopolitical edges spanning from rock and roll vocals to Afrofuturistic psycho-spiritual immersive experiences. Nicknamed "Bone Rattler '' Tossie is a practitioner of ceremonial music from around the world with a focus on diasporic cosmology. An ethnomusicologist; Tossie has voyaged to Ayiti, Cuba, Benin, Nigeria, Brazil and New Orleans tracing the migration of Vodou for an embodied devotion to music in its cultural contexts. Tossie is currently working on Red Clay Sound Haus (RCSH) an immersive sound-centric project with 4 thematic directives, Land Love Labor Legacy which explores Black sound; body, architecture and desire. As well as Sound Haus Excursions; exclusive experiences for ritualistic living. Tossie does not perform for the sake of performing, but rather to challenge and to experiment with how far she can push her perceived limits.

To find out more about Tossie Long click here: LinkTree

Honeybee Courtney's journey toward healing began with her family in the kitchen where she discovered that food is far more than sustenance—it’s a vehicle for connection, love, and joy. Her parents instilled in her a deep appreciation for healing from a young age because she witnessed their transformational work firsthand. Honeybee saw how these practices could transform lives, and she was drawn to follow in their footsteps. Honeybee currently works as a ceremony retreat chef as well as a healing soundscape artist, tarot card divinator, and last but not least an integration and manifestation consultant. She recognizes the powerful synergy between nourishing the body, mind, and spirit. Today, Honeybee weaves together these holistic practices to help individuals heal not only through food but also through spiritual modalities. Her mission is to create a beautiful world where hearts and spirits are free and full of life.

To find out more about Honeybee Courtney click here: Courtney Peal

The Breakdown:

The total ask is $7,500 donation. $2,750 each for Tossie and Honeybee to cover the cost of the journey in the jungle and $1,000 each for the roundtrip plane tickets.

We’ve been called to the jungle and what better way than to do it together. Black women in medicine work traveling to jungle and it’s rarity. We will be joining a BIPOC femme journey to deepen - we asking for your support to make this this dream come to fruition.

We share here to encourage your participation in this little movement to bring healing, justice, reclamation of power, remembrance of wellbeing, beauty, goodness and a dream for a better world to the hearts of more of our human family. If your heart is moved, please consider making a contribution to Honeybee Courtney and Tossie's GoFundMe. Our admiration and gratitude for their bold expressions of Love-in-action overflows.

We look forward to witnessing how the blessings of dieta support them to keep bringing more of their gifts into the world for the benefit of all.