We move to heal so we may heal to move towards liberation.
Kumbé Healing & Wellness provides opportunities to expand our self healing and wellness approach for personal and professional transformation towards liberation. Kumbé offers consultation, embodiment experiences and education, while acknowledging ancestral teachings and neuroscience.
Our commitment
We are committed to the healing and wellness of historically oppressed communities and the people who service them. We facilitate the cultivation of self-healing and community healing practices by implementing various methods informed by our collective ancestral wisdom. These practices can be used to strengthen resilience in an oppressive system.
KUMBÉ PRACTITIONERS
Aiyana Sol Machado, CEO (Co-founder)
Aiyana Sol Machado is a healing-centered strategist, educator, and cultural practitioner with over 20 years of experience supporting communities and organizations working toward liberation, equity, and collective wellbeing. Her work integrates arts-based practice, somatic and ancestral healing traditions, and equity-centered leadership development to help people and institutions move through conflict, burnout, and systemic change with integrity and care.
She is the CEO and co-founder of Kumbé Healing & Wellness, a consulting and facilitation practice that partners with nonprofits, grassroots organizations, and cultural institutions across the country. Through Kumbé, Aiyana designs and leads workshops, retreats, and strategic processes that integrate embodiment, cultural wisdom, and evidence-informed approaches to leadership, governance, and organizational transformation.
Aiyana also serves as President and Board Chair of Philadelphia Community Farm, where she supports regenerative agriculture, conservation, and land-based education rooted in community stewardship. With over seven years of experience in regenerative land practice, she helps bridge ecological learning, cultural traditions, and organizational leadership.
A Boricua of Caribbean diaspora heritage and a trained dancer and choreographer, Aiyana’s work explores the historical convergence of Indigenous Taíno, African, and Spanish lineages of Borikén (Puerto Rico). She is also a birthworker and cultural practitioner whose approach centers embodiment, movement, and ancestral knowledge as pathways for healing and collective transformation.
April Be (Bryant), Apprentice Practitioner
April Be (Bryant) is a proud product of North Minneapolis, a North High School graduate, committed to systems change rooted in Black Liberation. She has served as a board member on several community non-profits, holds a Bachelors of Social Work from Augsburg University and has engaged in various forms of social work for over 25 years. She is committed to seeing people as they are and partnering with them to get them to where they want to be.
While serving as the Parent Education and Leadership Director in North Minneapolis, she was able to build a network of supports that are still in place for families, including and not limited to early learning scholarships still in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education. A graduate of the Neighborhood Leadership Program of Nexus Community Partners and a leadership Twin Cities Fellow of 2019-2020. She co-designed and facilitated the first and only of its kind, Sexual Education Residency, funded by the Ford Foundation.This residency provided training for formal educators to integrate Sexual Education within all subject areas.
She is a creative stylist, certified mediator and Intrinsic coach with over 15 years of health and wellness coaching & life coaching. A circle keeper, facilitator, and a rule 114 practitioner committed to restorative justice and conflict resolution. As a mother, a proud aunt, a doula, a writer, a creative, an intentional community member and a lover of words and music, she continues to be committed to community, youth, education, learning and teaching.
Vanessa Cintron, MA., Associate Practitioner (co-founder):
A trained psychotherapist who believes in the body-mind connection with extensive training in EMDR, Autism and Trauma informed practices. This understanding provides her with a holistic perspective and helps her create a unique and individualized support plan with her clients. She is fluent in Spanish, Italian, and English and can provide services in any of those languages.
Vanessa has more than 20 years of experience working with children and families. Creating a safe and culturally sensitive space where families can develop, strengthen, and thrive is part of her practice. She is committed to educating communities and providers about the impact of trauma on mental health, the body and cultural awareness.
Who do we work with?
We work with grassroots groups and organizations to large cooperate companies.
We look forwarding to partnering with you.
Below are several current and past partners of Kumbé
