Incorporated in 2022, Black Indigenous Medicine Apprenticeship (BIMA) is a Black, trans-led community organization based in Southern Arizona. Our mission is to preserve Black Indigenous wisdom and leadership through arts and culture. Our work is in fellowship with national Afro-Indigenous movements such as Freedom School’s National Health and Healing Justice Fellowship, Black Sustainably Inc, a global organization focused on African sustainability practitioners, and Spirit Grove Collective, a New Orleans based collective committed to healing and ancestral work. BIMA’s projects have a spiral ecosystem whose leaders are physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually prepared for an infusion of resources and a flourishing multi-dimensional expansion. We support locally scalable and digitally networked grassroots projects toward Black-Indigenous sustainable sovereignty. 

Our primary program is Dream Reclamation Energy and Ancestral Healing and Matriarchal Praxis (DREAM) School. As an online intensive program, we teach dreamwork as divination, rest, and activism, rooted in African spiritual technology. Over 16 weeks, a focused cohort of up to 25 students learn systems to remember and interpret their dreams, interact with ancestral technologies through their dreams, and blossom their individual artistic practices. These culture-bearing movements and rituals are collective artistic practices that combine art, craft, and tradition. Since 2019, we have engaged 3,820 students and the communities they serve directly and cultivated an online international audience of 50,000 dreamers. DREAM students have created diverse projects including Afrofuturist novels, research into Black lullaby tradition, a comic book, a short film, and an initiative to reconnect BIPOC people to the land.