Cassia Collective
Our Vision
​At Cassia Collective, we believe all women are worthy and deserving of the time, space, and opportunity to prioritize their own healing while building resiliency through community.​
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Our Mission​
A collective of women dedicated to creating intentional spaces to receive, reclaim and remember our most full selves. We do this through offering reliable and sacred community circles and events. We are committed to providing equitable access to alternative and preventative healthcare, sustainable compensation for healers, and resourcing opportunities to allow women to thrive.
Emily & Mia
Why We Do This Work?
At Cassia Collective, we cherish the belief that every woman is worthy and deserves the time, space, and opportunity to focus on her own healing. We're here to support and uplift women on their personal healing journeys, fostering resilience through community. Many women find it challenging to recognize and prioritize their own worth, especially in a society that has long equated a woman’s value with her reproductive role while undervaluing the immense labor of childbearing, childrearing, and homemaking. This societal imbalance can make it difficult for women to believe in their inherent worth. When governments, employers, and communities provide little support for families, it sends a message that they don't truly value these roles. How then, can women feel valuable themselves? In addition to undermining self-worth, our patriarchal society often isolates women, depriving them of the support, resources, and time needed to prioritize their health. Over the last fifty years, women’s participation in the workforce has increased significantly. However, there has been a lack of policies to support the unpaid, undervalued care work that continues in most households. Instead of transitioning from unpaid to paid work, many women now juggle both, leading to what we call "time poverty." Time poverty means having too many responsibilities and not enough time to fulfill them. Like income, time is essential for well-being. When women spend all their time balancing paid employment and unpaid caregiving, their health and happiness often come last. This issue affects all women, not just mothers. Overburdened women often lack the time and emotional energy to seek supportive communities, keeping them stuck in survival mode. This can lead to chronic stress and social isolation, which are linked to numerous health issues such as depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, sleep problems, high blood pressure, weight gain, digestive issues, headaches, and overall mortality. At Cassia Collective, we aim to break the patriarchal grip on women by providing the time, support, and resources necessary for them to rediscover their worth and prioritize their healing. We cater to women who know that their current situation isn’t working and are ready to move beyond survival mode but lack the social and financial support needed to break the cycle of time poverty. Our community is diverse – some are moms, some work full-time outside the home, some are single. At Cassia Collective, we believe ALL women are worthy.
The Birth of Cassia Collective
Cassia Collective began as a gentle whisper—a remembered sense of self and connection—during a women's retreat near Crestone, Colorado. Fueled by a deep desire to connect, nourish themselves within a community, and rediscover their true selves, Mia and Emily put out a call to gather in a circle. Mia, a licensed therapist and shamanism student, dedicates her professional life to exploring care and empowerment for others. Emily, a mind-body transformation coach, birth doula, and yoga instructor, strives to remind others of their own power and passion. What started as a small group of women gathering monthly in June 2023 has blossomed into the vibrant community that is Cassia Collective today. As the community grew and thrived, Mia and Emily witnessed profound healing, growth, and connection among the women in their circles. They dreamt of extending this transformative experience to more women, believing that everyone deserves access to such empowering support. Emily and Mia, mothers of young children, healers, and advocates for the powerful potential of healing, have worked together to transform their vision into reality. Alongside other dedicated women in Cassia Collective and the Collective's Vision Council, they have created a space where women can come together, heal, and flourish. Join us at Cassia Collective and become a part of this beautiful journey towards connection, empowerment, and self-discovery
Cassia Priorities
Cassia is committed to growth and serving more women as we grow. In the next five years Cassia has identified the following priority populations to guide their focus and efforts. We will center women who are supporting family members in recovery and treatment or who are seeking support as they manage addiction themselves. We will uphold women who in the postpartum period who are dealing with isolation, mental health concerns, and a lack of societal support for paid leave and physical recovery. Finally we will work to support women in pivotal moments of transition; those caring for aging generations and children at the same time, experiencing perimenopause, and entering retirement or other major life transitions.
Equity Statement
All women are welcome in our circles and space. We envision our work bringing together disparate communities through the natural evolution of community and broadening through our members’ unique social networks over time. Circle is a sacredly held space where we can find commonalities and build connection across social divides. We seek to build this space organically, broadening from our own communities. Cassia’s founders are white women and we recognize the harm that toxic white femininity has caused and continues to cause in communities of color and society more broadly. We see our role as helping to heal that rift within ourselves so we can generate ripple effects of healing throughout our communities. We need to heal our relationship with femininity so we can step securely into our power in a way that is empowering to all women, rather than only women who look or talk or shop like us. We believe all women are worthy and deserving of the time, space, and opportunity to prioritize their own healing. As such, we offer subsidized alternative and preventative care opportunities on the basis of income, regardless of race. Through subsidization we simultaneously support healers who want to work with women from a wider swath of the income distribution, but need to make a living wage, and women working to heal themselves, but lacking the resources or emotional space to prioritize healing, across a variety of communities.
