This work is anchored in the The First Breath Methodology (FBM):
a transformative, emergent framework for repair, integration, and cultural renewal. It weaves together somatics, ancestral wisdom, storytelling, and systems change to guide individuals and communities through processes of personal and collective liberation.
At the heart of this work are the Seven Portals and Seven Foundations of Liberation. The Portals open pathways to expanded awareness, care, and creative visioning, while the Foundations offer grounded, embodied practices for cultural transformation. Together, they form a living framework for reclaiming worth, restoring connection, and imagining new ways of being.
👉🏼 We use these FSSL Community Guidelines—inspired by the work of Resmaa Menakem, Open Table MT, and Penénlope Baquero.
Seven Portals of Liberation
The Seven Portals of Liberation are energetic gateways that guide us into deeper connection with self, others, the Earth, and the cosmos. Each portal offers a unique dimension of transformation and is a doorway into how we dream, connect, and create.
🌍 Land & Cosmos
Reconnecting with the Earth, ancestors, and the vast intelligence of the universe. Restoring belonging through grounded presence and celestial wonder.
💃 Embodiment
Listening to the body as teacher and guide. Honoring sensation, breath, emotion, voice, and movement as essential wisdom for liberation.
🌀 Quantum Reality & Multidimensionality
Exploring nonlinear time, inner child healing, and ancestral integration. Engaging the psyche, dreams, and subtle realms as sites of transformation.
🎭 Art & Storytelling
Claiming the power of narrative, ritual, improvisation, and performance. Transmuting pain into creative expression.
🤖 Ethical Science & Technology
Reimagining our relationship to tech as a tool for connection, creativity, and care. Integrating innovation with ethics and ecological awareness.
💗⚖️ Love & Justice
Practicing radical compassion and courageous accountability. True love includes equity, repair, fairness, and liberatory action.
🌈 Personal & Collective Imagination
Co-dreaming new worlds into being through vision, play, and shared possibility. Imagination is a liberatory force that dissolves limits and expands what’s possible—for self and society.
Seven Foundations of Liberation Labs
🌱 Home to Self
Authenticity, Worthiness & Embodied Equity
Claiming deep truth in the body. Honoring innate value. Allowing for diverse, authentic expression. Releasing whiteness, shame & supremacy patterns.
🌊Trusting Psychobiological Processes
Psychobiology, Regulation & Somatic Integration
Restoring the nervous system as a foundation for transformation–personal, cultural, and planetary. Confronting & releasing racialized trauma.
🔥Lineage Threads
Benevolent Ancestors, Blessings & Intergenerational Threads
Reweaving the broken lines. Making space for grief and gratitude. Inner child work. Quantum work. Future Ancestor Connection.
🌿Cultural Ecosystems
Biocultural Regeneration & Collective Memory Reviving culture through land, ritual, art, and shared renewal. Reclaiming what was taken and seeding what is next. What does a post-white society look & feel like?
⚰️Shadow
Thresholds & Sacred Compost
Cultural denial of death and obsession with light. Grief work. Ego death. Life-death-life cycles. Welcoming home the parts of us that were exiled.
🌈Gender, Sexuality & Relationships
Emergent Identity, Love & Connection Beyond Control
Understanding gender oppression. Gender fluidity. Relating without ownership. Understanding sexual oppression. Relationship anarchy. Loving as a creative, sacred act.
🌞 Abundance Beyond Survival
Shared Wealth, Mutual Care & Joyful Reciprocity
Moving from scarcity to surplus. Practicing collective care. Designing new economies of trust, interdependence, and joy. Repatterning money, time, and worth.
About Heidi J Cardoza
I am a genderqueer artist, producer, liberation facilitator, and scientist with over 25 years of experience in personal and collective transformation. I’m a disability advocate and a lover of cosmology, deeply rooted in psychobiological integration—releasing supremacy, shame, fear, and scarcity through the body—and committed to creative liberation work.
My artistic path weaves together comedy, drag, music, dance, theater, storytelling, and singing. I live with my tiny fox-dog, Peanut, on the homelands of the Salish, Kootenai, and Blackfeet peoples—currently called Missoula, Montana—where I share the land with many non-human relatives.
I’m the founder of Free System – Sistema Libre, a liberation-centered business blending embodiment, psychology, land connection, and creative expression, to disrupt oppression, inspire connection, and create new systems.
Through coaching, curriculum, workshops, and partnerships with aligned organizations like Rooted Global Village, I help cultivate caring, conscious, and creative cultures for a liberated future.