QiKi Club Year in Review : ⚫️🪵🐍 Yin Wood Snake Year
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It feels almost impossible to think back to the beginning of Yin Wood Snake Year after all that has unfurled.
Amid collective grief and rage over the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the persistent reality of state-sanctioned violence against Black and Indigenous people, immigrant communities, queer and trans people, and communities of color——and the ongoing challenge of surviving systems designed to harm, oppress, and fail us——we have turned to ancestral Asian medicine as a source of clarity, balance, and collective healing.
If this last year taught us anything, it taught us that healing can only happen in community. Yin Wood Snake Year invited us to explore gentle transformation, introspection, and strategic, patient growth. While the energetics of Snake Year may not have fully aligned with the pace in which we moved (because we did a LOT), every QiKi pop-up we hosted reminded us of the intention we set when we began this work: to not just reimagine what an anti-capitalist model of care rooted in community can look like, but to actively build it.
It’s true that our nervous systems have been on overdrive, but we’ve also been leaning into what it takes to do this work together and celebrating what we’ve been building along the way. When QiKi’s very own Nuffy asked an elder organizer if they had any advice for our generation, they pondered for a bit, and then shared: “Y’all don’t party enough!”
Using those wise words as a launchpad, here’s what we got up to in Yin Wood Snake year (2025), and what has felt particularly party-worthy:
1. We provided care to ~400 individuals over the course of 10 pop-ups!
Since QiKi Club was formed, our mission has stayed the same: to make ancestral Asian medicine more accessible to Asian elders, communities of color, low-income communities, queer and trans folks, disabled folks, and community organizers.
2. We partnered with New Breath Foundation to create our first organizational retreat offering—
where we got to treat AAPNHI organizers and leaders working to support communities directly impacted by incarceration, detention, deportation, and criminalization. We’d love to do more offerings like this for values-aligned organizations in Fire Horse Year!
3. We collaborated with incredible partners—
like Alemany Farm, Sticky Rice Club, CERI, good hot sauna, QTViệt Cafe, Palapa Island, Umami Mart, and more—to create QiKi Care Days, pop-up events, and learning opportunities.
If you’re interested in partnering with us, we’d love to hear from you and dream up something together!
4. We expanded our offerings
from community-style acupuncture and tea service to bodywork, cupping, ear seeds, sound healing, and even education around East Asian Medicine. <3
5. We went on our first-ever QiKi Club Retreat
to move qi, reflect on the year, root into our visions for the future, nourish each other, play (!), and get real about the infrastructure and relationships that will hold us as we grow. Retreating reminded us that tending both vision and tension is a big part of the work, and that building this future together is sacred, strategic, very sweet, and a bit sexy.
Yin Wood Snake year was all about building and deepening our relationships with each other, with this medicine, and being in the practice of community care, collaboration, and collective abundance.
Through relationships, we learned what it takes to slowly build strong roots that can expand into our wider networks—and we’re still learning.
In the Yang Fire Horse year, we hope to continue this growth with greater clarity, courage, and conviction that a better world—rooted in revolutionary, community-led care—is possible.
We have so much gratitude for our QiKis, collaborators, and beautiful community who have supported us since day one. Thank you for showing up to pop-ups, dreaming up possibilities together, receiving care, and investing in our vision.
Looking forward to creating more magic together in Yang Fire Horse Year! ⚪️🔥🐎