Nichole Elana

Join me in tending the love story between humanity and nature. Let us walk in beauty, rhythm, and right relationship with ourselves, one another, and all our relations. I’m Nichole Elana, a first-generation Colombian-American born by the Pacific, where ocean meets memory. My roots stretch from the Afro-Colombian rhythms of the Pacific coast to the Andes, the Cherokee lands of the Southeast, and the folk-heart traditions of Swedish-German lineage. I was raised by hands that understood healing as ceremony. Their medicine lived in flower baths and simmering pots, in remedies whispered in kitchens, and in songs carried to the water. This is the ancestral language I remember, and the one I am still learning to speak. Through food, herbs, ritual, story, and community care, I follow the threads that weave body, land, lineage, and all our relations together. My work is devoted to tending what has been inherited while participating consciously in what comes next.