PRINCESS MANUEL, LCSW
Founder & Healing Arts Practitioner
Princess Manuel, LCSW (she/they) is a Holistic Healing and Martial Arts Practitioner - blending life coaching, mental health wellness, herbalism, somatic womb alchemy, bodywork and Ablon Hilot manual therapy.
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She supports folks in reclaiming their lives and finding joy amidst present-day and generational traumas. She utilizes ancestral technology, herbal healing traditions, meditative visioning, shamanic journeying, applied manual therapy and psychosomatic practices to support her clients and customers in thriving and transformations.
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She completed Soul Fire Farm's BIPOC Farmers Immersion Program in 2017 where she found a passion in stewarding the land and protecting nature. Thereafter, other farmers connected her to apprentice under Master Herbalist Karen Rose of Sacred Vibes Apothecary in 2018. Princess completed the Sacred Vibes' Spiritual Herbalism Apprenticeship program in 2021 where she gained 500+ hours of herbalism academic study, client work, formulary and hands-on-experience. During that time, Princess was initiated as a shaman as communicated by her ancestral lineage during her herbalism graduation ceremony. Princess simultaneously studied the martial arts with Chrysalis Kali Collective beginning in 2018, further developing her healing arts practice into deeper knowledge of the physical body, its intuitive power and tending to bodily imbalances through restorative practices. After that, she apprenticed with Naomi Love of Wise Womb Medicine and completed the Wise Womb Temple Apprenticeship in 2022 and soonafter became a Somatic Womb Alchemist in 2023 to support women in engaging in womb nurturance, care and healing. In 2025, she studied Ablon Hilot Manual Therapy and practiced Didya Mudgara Club Calisthenics and Escrima under Ka Virgil Mayor Apostol's guidance where she learned to weave the healing and martial arts through applied manual therapy that addresses physical/spiritual/mental imbalances. Princess continues to study martial arts at Mission Muay Thai and Kali Kollective in Long Beach, CA.
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Princess's healing framework also considers the socio-economic and political context in order to have an expansive view of the challenges and resources available for each of her clients, students or customers. She received a Masters of Science, Social Work with a focus on policy from Columbia University in 2017 serving as a social worker and mental health therapist for 10+ years, taking a feminist and decolonization approach to wellness. Prior to that, she received a Dual Bachelor's Degree of Ethnic Studies and also in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011 and has served as a community organizer for 10+ years studying political education, feminism and engaging in civic duty through political praxis with AF3IRM.
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Princess is originally from Carson, CA where she learned first-hand about the intersections of race, class and gender disparities. She is the descendant of traditional healers, farmers, nurses, community organizers and leaders from the Philippines. Through her life and professional experience, she takes on a spiritual love ethic, feminist and decolonial approach to all her offerings.
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She enjoys practicing a blend of martial arts such as kali/escrima/arnis, silat, boxing, muay thai, volunteering at the nearby community garden, loves birdwatching and is a caretaker of a lovebird, cats and many plants.