As Wind & Warrior celebrates its 10th anniversary, we reflect on the growth of the Institute for Liberatory Healing and the communal rituals that weave belonging and accountability together at its core. Drawing on ancestral practice alongside emerging research in narrative medicine and arts-based healing, this piece explores story, ritual, and imagination as pathways toward collective freedom and well-being.

In this reflection, human rights attorney and W&W Certification Cohort member Alexis Yeboah-Kodie traces how she found Wind & Warrior during law school, at a moment when she needed support no institution could offer. She shares how integrating spirit into her work as a movement lawyer has shaped the way she stands with Black and Indigenous communities navigating corporate and legal systems — and how that same integration has carried her through both personal and professional storms.