About Agua y Sangre —
About Agua y Sangre
We are a community minded wellness practice that offers stewardship for the portal-like experiences of the postpartum, grief + loss, and other great life transformations. We support individuals and communities with creating nurturing nest-like containers to honor and integrate where they’re coming from - as well as the support to intentionally imagine (and live) the next chapter of their lives.
Our work centers BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ healing + resilience, compassion, ancestral magic, healing justice, and heart.
Our Offerings Include:
healing circles + wellness workshop facilitation,
plant ally readings,
herbal consultations,
portal pláticas,
more portal & postpartum doula services *coming soon*
We Specialize In:
Grief & Life Transition Support
Fertility, Prenatal & Postpartum Support for all bleeding/birthing individuals and their families
Mind + Spirit Support: nervous system care, trauma sensitive, resilience of spirit
Read more about our work, including common questions + what to expect:
Agua y Sangre Healing crafts elemental healing sessions that help you reclaim your entire existence – mind, body, and spirit – and promotes empowerment and joy through the art and practice of self care and ancestral medicine.
What’s a Portal Doula?
Portal = a gateway, an entrance, a threshold. To paraphrase Arundhati Roy, portals force us “to break with the past and imagine [our] world anew.”
Doula = a companion for before, during, and/or after significant events who provides support, guidance, information, and resources. Most often for events like birth and death.
Portal Doula = a steward who provides support, guidance, space, and resources for - and along with the expertise and wisdom of - individuals and communities navigating portal-like experiences.
Change - of all kinds - acts as a sort of portal in our lives. Change can be personal, collective, “positive,” “negative,” desired, or unexpected.
Our Portal Doula offers you a nurturing, braver, and steady space to navigate these portal experiences. Helping you with understanding, honoring, and integrating the emotions, love, grief (and more) that carried you here. And supporting you as you imagine and live the life that exists beyond the threshold.
About Michelle
Agua y Sangre Healing is femme, latinx, BIPOC, and queer owned! Founded by owner, Michelle Castor (she/they).
Pictured: Michelle, smiling in a denim top and red lip, against a backdrop of green foliage
Agua y Sangre Healing is owned and operated by Michelle Castor. Michelle is a Portal Doula, Wellness Promotora, Postpartum Doula, Community Herbalist & Herbal Educator, and Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT),
They are equal parts intuition, smarts, and humor; mixed with a whole lot of heart. Central to her work is compassion and nurturing liberated futures through healing justice, ancestral magic, and heart.
She is passionate about trauma sensitive care, grief support, and being a student and steward of transformation. She aims to create safer and accountable containers for individuals and communities to wonder, lean in, and heal through facilitation, trainings, intuitive guidance, herbal remedios, and somatic support.
Their background is rooted in psychology, trauma sensitive somatic practices, herbal medicine, anti-oppressive values, and the wisdom of her ancestors.
Prior to dreaming up Agua y Sangre Healing, Michelle embodied many roles supporting individuals and communities in being grounded in their own power, wisdom, and self-advocacy.
This queer mixed latinx femme of color was raised by the Midwest, and currently resides in Denver with their loving fr-amily, plantitas, and wild fur-babes.
Michelle is abundantly grateful to all the teachers in her life and all those that helped propel her on this path – ancestors, family, and friends. Most especially to their grandmothers.
Se habla español: Michelle offers services in both English and Spanish.