Meet Sequoya Hayes

Red Linen Moon Consulting provides integrative wellness services to nonprofit organizations so that they can incorporate self-care, reflection, and healing into the employee experience

As a licensed social worker, yoga instructor, and community organizer, I’ve experienced first hand how the nonprofit industrial complex places employees at risk for exhaustion and mental health decline. Moreover, I’ve observed that when organizations don’t prioritize employee wellness, they risk harming the very same communities they were designed to serve.

I believe that when employees feel safe and seen at work, their energy for creating social impact expands. To assist organizations and employees in achieving that kind of impact, Red Linen Moon Consulting focuses on three core areas:

Interrupting barriers to care

At RLM, I contract with organizations to offer individual and group counseling at no cost to the employees. I also offer technical and administrative support so that employees can spend more time enhancing the lives of their clients. 

Providing access to integrative/holistic wellness support

Healing occurs along various channels. Through trauma-informed therapy, art, yoga, and ancestrally supported practices I attempt to address the whole individual. 

Acknowledging intersectionality

Building community in the workplace starts by recognizing and honoring the people within it. I work with organizations to identify and actively dismantle workplace practices that ignore the role of identity in the employee experience. I specialize in developing supportive spaces for individuals who identify as QTBIPoC, and PoC, as well as youth, non-profit employees, and wellness practitioners. 

About the Founder, Sequoya D. Hayes, LSW, RYT

Growing up, I watched my mother and grandmother continuously care for the people in our community. They never hesitated to share whatever knowledge, resources, or skills they had to empower others. Through them, I came to see sharing as a way of sustaining community. If we were to thrive, we had to take care of each other. 

I use that same philosophy, along with theory, to guide my work as a practitioner. I view my work through a Black queer abolitionist feminist lens, which centers intersectionality, demands social justice, and interrupts systems.  

My body of work includes publications on social justice and organizing, graduate-level work with survivors of domestic violence in Cape Town, South Africa, and Certified Yoga Training through SATYA Yoga Co-op in Denver, the first POC owned yoga cooperative in the country. I am a licensed social worker in Indiana and Colorado. 

Co-Host of the Reclaiming Soul Work Podcast

RSW is a heart centered podcast, co-hosted by two Black queer femme Social Workers, that centers spirituality, social work, mental health and everything in between.