Andrés González
Andrés González (he/they) relates to himself firstly as a spiritual being embodying, Earth-side, the multiplicity of gender, sexuality, race, and culture as a Two-Spirit mestizo with primarily Yoeme (Yaqui), Mexican, Spanish, and Scottish ancestries. He is also a transracial adoptee, connected to a lineage of Indigenous adoptees separated from family, land, and culture through the U.S. child welfare system. Andrés' lived experience integrating these many worlds has informed his path as a practitioner of curanderismo, Dharma teacher, mental health clinician, writer, and song-carrier. Trained in harm reduction, healing justice, and liberation psychology, he holds a master's degree in social work. He is also a graduate of East Bay Meditation Center's two-year Spiritual Teacher & Leadership Training and the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics' 2023–2024 certification program in psychedelic facilitation. Andrés is the author of
Blood, Bone, & Breath, a Substack publication exploring transmissions from the ecotone: the fertile threshold where the in-between whispers of home, portal, and worlds yet to come.