Regenerate People, Land, and Culture
We believe in the sacred circle of life and the interconnectedness of all things.
The 3 Pillars of Esphera are Essential Food & Medicine (EFAM) / Solestial Church / Earth Amplified
We restore ecosystems, regenerate communities, and remember new stories to build a harmonious world and New Earth.
Our movements are a spiritual practice we call Elemental Activism: Relational Rituals for Collective Embodied Liberation
We un-cancel humanity through mainstreaming the mystical.
True Community Healing is Self-Realization.

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Donate to Esphera Highlight: Essential Food & Medicine (EFAM), organized by Essential Food and Medicine

Essential Food and Medicine (EFAM) distributes food surplus a… Essential Food and Medicine needs your support for Esphera Highlight: Essential Food & Medicine (EFAM)

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Solestial Church Music EP, by Earth Amplified

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Donate to Ancestral Medicine: Healing the Streets Film, organized by Bernadette Moreno

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Three Pillars
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Essential Food and Medicine
Healing Centered Ecosystem
EFAM transforms food waste into nourishment, trauma into leadership, and disconnection into healing through our HDRSS Program: Wellness, Direct Services, Recovery, Ecology, and Self-Determination.
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Solestial Church
Elemental Activism
We are building spaces where artist, activist, healers, changemakers, entrepreneurs, and movements come to heal, reconnect, and re-imagine. Our work weaves together ceremony, trauma-informed healing practices, interfaith ritual, cultural exchange, and leadership development to support long-term social and ecological regeneration.
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Earth Amplified
Media Rooted in Justice, Spirit & Ecology
Storytelling to Amplify Voices, Wisdom, and Songs of Ancestral Ways and the New Earth. This work shifts narratives, elevates Indigenous and ecological wisdom, and reconnects communities to the sacred
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Esphera creates liberation through restoring ecosystems, regenerating communities, storytelling and remembering our divinity through our 3 Pillars : EFAM / Solestial Church / Earth Amplified . Complete this form to get connected & plugged in.

The Challenge: Interlocking Crises, Structural Roots

In Oakland and across the U.S., systemic issues like incarceration, addiction, trauma, and food insecurity are driving disconnection and suffering. These problems are deeply rooted in structural racism, lack of access to healing care, environmental harm, and extractive food systems. Incarceration & Addiction In Alameda County, unhoused people are significantly overrepresented in jail bookings. Over 75% of incarcerated individuals with severe mental illness also experience substance abuse. Chronic Disease & Food Insecurity The U.S. spends the most on healthcare among wealthy nations, yet has the lowest life expectancy—due in part to poor nutrition and lack of preventive care in low-income communities. Food Waste & Environmental Harm Nearly 40% of U.S. food is wasted, while millions go hungry. This waste also releases greenhouse gases that worsen climate change. Healthy soil, healthy life. The Solution: Holistic Detox & Recovery Support System (HDRSS) Holistic Detox & Recovery Support System (HDRSS) is a peer-led culturally rooted community-based healing collective based in Oakland, California and connected globally. It supports people navigating recovery from addiction, incarceration, and homelessness though holistic care --combining ancestral medicine, detox, and wraparound support. Grounded in lived experience, HDRSS centers systems of care that honor dignity, autonomy, and the healing power of culture. Peer to Peer Community Support Wellness Education & Holistic Care Green Entrepreneurship & Workforce Development “When I made the decision to get clean and sober from substance abuse, EFAM was there for me, never judging me but always offering love and compassion. Their unwavering support has been pivotal in my journey to recovery. I trust them so much, especially when there are so many others who don’t even see you as a human being.” — Leajay Harper, HDRSS Addiction Doula “I’ve had many traumas in my life; including childhood sexual assault, mental, and emotional abuse, and physical abuse from domestic violence. Attending HDRSS has provided me with the opportunity to gain assistance with services crucial to my healing path, and personal well-being. - Angel Heart, Homefulness

What's Your Medicine? Wood St.
WYM at Wood Street brought together over 30 different practitioners from all stripes to bring healing to the unhoused residents of Wood Street, one of the largest encampments of unhoused people on the West Coast.
This initiative demonstrates our commitment to bringing holistic healing practices directly to communities in need, recognizing that medicine comes in many forms and should be accessible to all.
Solestial Church
The Problem: Disconnection from Land, Lineage, and Each Other
Centuries of colonization have fractured our relationships — with the Earth, with ancestral wisdom, and with one another. The impacts ripple through every layer of society: families strained by intergenerational trauma, communities fragmented by systemic injustice, and movements exhausted by cycles of burnout and disillusionment.
We are living through a collective crisis of disconnection—spiritual, relational, and ecological.
This is not just a moment of collapse. It is a moment of return: to ritual, to right relationship, to the sacred web of life that holds us all. As Bayo Akomolafe reminds us, “The times are urgent. Let us slow down.”
The Offering: Elemental Activism
Relational Rituals for embodied collective liberation helping change makers and activists build capacity and effectiveness for social transformation.
The four tracks below are workshop and training focuses

Elemental Education

Educational workshops, activations, and retreats for movement sustainability and coalition-building Intercultural, interfaith, intergenerational, and interracial leadership convenings Generative conflict frameworks and capacity-building for organizers Access to holistic, trauma-informed healing for low-income changemakers Creative rituals, ceremony, and gatherings to restore collective rhythm and relational repair Thought leadership at the intersection of spirituality, justice, and planetary healing

Our Method: Ceremonial Organizing

"Ceremonial Organizing is a response to movement building where spirituality and ancestral wisdom can no longer be considered an 'add-on' part of the work." … Our community includes plants and black panthers and our tools are poems and potions. We believe that these times of socio-political unrest, environmental degradation, and other pivotal shifts in human culture, provide a critical opportunity and imperative to build somatic and spiritual capacity. An enlarged cosmovision of a multidimensional humanity that includes relationships with the "unseen and the elemental worlds" are integral to the forward progress and evolutionary processes of humanity.

Earth Amplified
The Problem: A Media System That Dulls, Divides, and Distracts
Media shapes the consciousness of entire societies—but today’s media landscape has been hijacked. It manipulates attention, prioritizes profit, and programs conformity, flooding us with noise while starving us of wisdom.
Indigenous voices, ancestral knowledge, and Earth-based traditions are pushed to the margins – left out of the dominant cultural narrative. The stories we consume condition us to accept systems of extraction, domination, and disconnection.
We must ask: Where are the voices of the sacred plants, soil microbes, elders, and youth holding ancestral memory?
Recent Currents & Transmissions

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Ancestral Medicine: Healing the Streets

Ancestral Medicine – Healing the Streets is a vérité-style documentary that follows the intertwined journeys of Leajay and Ray—two formerly unhoused, formerly addicted community leaders in Oakland, California, navigating recovery through ancestral medicine and now helping others do the same. Leajay, a Black woman, and Ray, a Latino man, emerge as powerful healers whose lived experiences fuel a grassroots movement that defies conventional models of treatment and reclaims ancient pathways of tran

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Oneness vs. 1 percent

Provided to YouTube by DistroKid Oneness vs. 1 percent · Ashel Seasunz Oneness vs. 1 percent ℗ 1157791 Records DK Released on: 2025-01-26 Auto-generated by YouTube.

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Solestial Church Music EP, by Earth Amplified

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Entheogenic Roots: Indigenous Origins of Psychedelic Culture Sizzle Reel

In the midst of the “psychedelic renaissance”, black, indigenous, and other people of color search to heal traumas from the impacts of colonialism. Entheogenic Roots chronicles the stories of the medicines themselves told through the cultures that cultivated these traditions and follows the healing journeys of communities at the crossroads of traditional healing and modern lifestyle.

When Roots Speak: Symphony of Language, Culture, and Nature
Multimedia storytelling and music production to preserve indigenous and endangered language and tradition through the global culture of hip-hop and modern music. This also includes amplifying the song of plants and animals to revive ecosystems.
Past Projects Involved in…

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EARTH AMPLIFIED, by Earth Amplified

14 track album

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PLASTIC STATE OF MIND (Empire State of Mind Parody)

We helped get a bag ban in California, pushing now for Bali... Made by passionate volunteers on a super tiny budget, on the behalf of Green Sangha! Thanks folks! www.GreenSangha.org/​plastics-campaign/​ and www.NewMessageMedia.com/​contact/​ Share this comedy musical w/ the family from Green Sangha: http://bit.ly/greensanghaplastics NEWS FLASH: Congrats to ITALY going Single-Use-Bag Free On New Year's Day! Ben Zolno - Writer/Lyricist/Director/Bag Boy/Editor Glenn Sauber - Shopper AshEl Eldr

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FOOD FIGHT: Bullies Poisoning The 'Hood Get Splattered! -- Earth Amplified, feat. Stic of Dead Prez

A boy must escape a world where the processed food is killing his neighborhood -- literally. SHARE to teach kids who is behind it, and how to escape. Visit http://SOSjuice.com/foodfight for School Curriculum + Song Download We want to get the word out -- we broke our goal of 5,000 views, 10,000, 25,000 and 35,000 views in the first two days...100,000 in the first four. Can you help us reach 150K? Buy Earth Amplified album: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/earth-amplified/id378828717 Song P

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LAND BACK

Streaming on all platforms: https://ffm.to/landback All see accompanying In-Depth documentary: https://youtu.be/c13QmtOgp54 & BTS video: https://youtu.be/iC8THvNshSc Listen to REBELWISE Music: https://linktr.ee/rebelwise Weaving ancient wisdom with modern music, this music video is meant to inspire all people to reindiginize and envision a better world for future generations. Land Back features a vital message from Lakota wisdom keeper, Cheryl Angel (Sicangu / Oohenumpa), to heal our Mother Ear

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Global WarNing - Earth Amplified feat. stic.man from Dead Prez

Starring Seasunz and J. Bless from Earth Amplified, feat. Stic.Man from Dead Prez - After world leaders met in Rio to talk about sustainable development and the global green economy, we want to make sure there is continued pressure to discuss what a real green economy looks like. "Global WarNing" exposes greenwashing by corporate polluters—and calls for an end to handouts for the fossil fuel industry. Want to help? Join the world's largest twitter storm: Tweet #endfossilfuelsubsidies and go to h

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Earth Amplified Mixtape Vol.1 mixed by DJ Sol Rising, by Earth Amplified

13 track album

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Earth Amplified - Free the Brothers & Sisters

Lyrics by Seneca Lionsmoke, Ambessa Fiyapower, & AshEL Seasunz// Song Produced by Travis Porter de Leon// Cinematography by Abraham Heisler & Spencer Wilkinson// Editing - Spencer Wilkinson// Mumia and Leonard Mural @ United Roots Oakland: Painted by Desi Mundo of Community Rejuvenation Project// Graphic Design for Study Guide - Emily Lubhan// Special Thanks to: United Roots Oakland Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony Life is Living Festival Prison Radio Street Legal Cinema Freedom Archives Jahahara Al

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Lady Justice - Earth Amplified

AshEL SeaSunZ from Earth Amplified finds an funkdafied way to educate young men about the plights and power of women in recent history with the help of LADY JUSTICE. Performed by AshEL SeaSunZ, J.Bless, and Gordon Rubin from Earth Amplified. Choreography: Rebecca Rufer Lady Justice ensemble: Gretchen Garnett, Leah Curran, Raissa Simpson, Victoria Fuller, Allison Lee, C-oNe Tang, Carolé Acuña, Gingi Allen. Cast & Crew: Jenn Coronado, Max Coronado, Jia Tan, Thang Le, Jeff Whisendhand, Brice Co

  • 15+ yrs Hosting / Producing for KPFA 94.1FM’s La Onda Bajita
  • Masked Generation – ICE-impacted family short film
  • The Outsider News - Bay area online and print independent media company
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Our Founders
AshEL Seasunz Eldridge
AshEL SeaSunZ Eldridge, Chicago born, living in Oakland by way of NY.  He has  West African/Blackfoot ancestry. He has been working internationally as a multi-instrumentalist, multi-genre musician, and healer with various shamanic practices since 2005.  His ceremonial leadership includes Dagara divinitory and ancestral healing, Japanese spiritual purification via Sukyo Mahikari, and Galactic Language Activation/Soul Cleansing via Tian Gong.  He is Co-founder/Co-Director of Esphera, : umbrella for Essential Food and Medicine (EFAM), Solestial Church, and Earth Amplified. The work spans from recovery support with addiction with formerly unhoused and incarcerated to indigenous international hip-hop to Elemental Activism: Rites of Repair (Tantra, Transformative Justice, Quantum Physics, and Divination)
Xochitl Bernadette Moreno
Xochitl Bernadette Moreno is a filmmaker, journalist, community storyteller, clinical herbalist, and healer dedicated to uplifting grassroots healing movements and amplifying marginalized voices. As a co-founder of Earth Amplified Media, she has documented unhoused communities, addiction recovery efforts, ancestral medicine practices, and Indigenous healing practices using storytelling as a tool for advocacy and policy change. With a background in journalism and social justice media, Xochitl blends raw documentary footage, immersive soundscapes, and personal narratives to challenge stigma and inspire action. She is a long time producer and host for KPFA 94.1FM’s La Onda Bajita, the nation’s longest running Chicanx radio show in the country. She is also the creative director for both Entheogenic Roots, The Indigenous Origins of Psychedelic Culture and Ancestral Medicine, Healing the Streets, two sister documentaries currently in production. She is also the co-founder of EFAM, Essential Food and Medicine, an Oakland-based mutual aid organization bridging healing justice, soil regeneration and addiction recovery, regenerating people, land, and culture through direct service, sacred activism, and storytelling. 
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