Cora Center is Closing on January 31, 2026.
Like the mushrooms, this healing center emerged, proliferated, and is now nearing its conclusion so the next chapter can come forth.
A Message From The Founders
December 19, 2025
Dear Cora Community,
We are writing with heavy and tender hearts to share an important update about the future of Cora Center.
After many months of listening, discernment, and care, we have made the deeply difficult decision to close Cora Center on January 31, 2026. This decision was not made lightly. The current climate in the field, along with increasing regulatory and operational demands, has made it no longer possible to sustain this space in a way that is aligned, resourced, and whole.
Cora will remain open through January as we begin the work of closing with intention. Our hope is to honor this chapter with the same integrity, care, and reverence that has shaped everything held here. Before we close this chapter, it feels essential to name the magnitude of what has been held, witnessed, and made possible within these walls.
Where We’ve Been
Over the course of our time as a community, Cora Center has had the honor of supporting more than 350 participants in deeply intentional, healing-centered journeys. We have trained and mentored over 100 practicum students, many of whom now carry this work forward with integrity, care, and reverence in their own communities.
We have held offerings rooted in collective liberation and ancestral remembrance, including the Black Liberation Medicine Retreat, quarterly ceremonies centering BIPOC communities, and seasonal solstice and equinox ceremonies honoring cycles of death, rebirth, grief, and renewal. These gatherings were spaces of collective tending – where culture, spirit, body, and community met in shared intention.
We have also been grateful to partner with organizations and collectives devoted to the healing of communities often overlooked or underserved—veterans, spouses of veterans, cancer survivors, stage four cancer patients, fibromyalgia patients, environmental and climate justice activists, spiritual and religious leaders, and others carrying profound responsibility and grief. Together, we created spaces for restoration, meaning-making, and reconnection during times of personal and collective uncertainty.
This work has never been about numbers alone. It has been about presence, trust, and the sacred responsibility of tending to human lives at their most vulnerable and most hopeful. We are deeply humbled by what has unfolded here, and by the community who made it possible.
Cora has never been only a physical space. It has been a living practice—of community, remembrance, healing, and liberation. In a relatively short time, hundreds of participants passed through these doors, bringing their courage, their grief, their joy, and their longing for something truer. What was cultivated here cannot be undone by closure. It lives on in our spirits, our relationships, and the work that continues beyond these walls.
We recognize that this news may bring sadness or reflection for those who have supported, partnered with, and believed in Cora. We hold this transition with gratitude for all that was made possible through shared trust, care, and vision.
What’s Next
The Center
Cora Center will remain open and operating through January 31st. We invite you to schedule an individual journey during this time if you have been feeling called to this work. Please note, the last day to schedule a consultation for a journey will be January 9th. The last consultations will take place January 16th.
Schedule a Consultation
Space Rental
From February 1- March 31, the center will no longer be a licensed service center, but may be available for for intentional events and gatherings on a daily, weekly, or monthly fee basis. Please contact info@coracenter.org if you are interested in using part or all of the building, to discuss possibilities.
Final Community Group Journey
We will have a special closing group journey on January 24th, led by Julian Jaramillo and the Cora facilitation team. This group is open to all community members and limited to 8 participants. Sliding scale seats available, $800-$1200. You can sign up below.
Our Team
Our team of facilitators will continue their impactful journey work together and individually at other licensed service centers. We are also dreaming into creative ways to continue the shared healing practices that were developed at Cora Center as the new year unfolds. Please stay tuned for updates.
Support
If you feel called to support our small team with the immense closing costs we will be facing over the coming months, please consider making a tax-deductible donation below, via our fiscal sponsorship with Access to Doorways. All support is deeply appreciated.
In Closing
Thank you for walking alongside us, for witnessing this work, and for being part of the wider circle that made Cora possible. Cora Center will live forever in the liminal space. It will remain as a guiding reference within the community, culture, and wider movement on how to be in good relationship with the original designs of the work and in right relationship with one another.
We give deep reverence to the mushroom kingdom and the invisible worlds for the support, guidance and deep learning we have received during these times.
With dignity, reverence and deep gratitude,
Syre Saniyah, Rebecca Martinez, and Claudia Cuentas
