About Us
Your healing journey draws on the Indigenous view of time as a spiral, guiding you inward to uncover your potential and identify the knots and obstacles that disrupt your life. Guided to recognize your gifts and potentialities, this introspection empowers deliberate action, not through magic, but through mindful choices informed by newfound awareness.
It is paramount you have a sincere commitment to a profound inner journey, contrasting with the fleeting solutions often offered by a consumer-driven Western lifestyle.
For decades, we have served people from four continents, walking the path of healing laid by our elders.
These sacred tools support the Indigenous vision of “good living”, rooted in reverence, balancing individual and collective well-being. This path becomes aids us to navigate challenges and realize our potential while fostering more harmonious relationships with ourselves, family, society, etc..
Tata Alejandro de Santiago
Curandero, Ajq’ij, Traditional Medicine Medic (Médico Tradicional)
Alejandro is a curandero of Zapotec and Mayan blood and lineages and Ajq’ij, or Mayan priest or day-keeper. For over 24 years, he has traveled the path of indigenous medicine and spirituality, working alongside his Elder teachers and supporting communities in Mexico with traditional healing. His understanding of the need for ancestral indigenous approaches in today’s world, drives his passion to share elements of his experience with the world.
Part of his expertise lies in the delicate art of soul retrieval and trauma healing, particularly in matters tied to the reproductive system. Through these deeply restorative ceremonies, he addresses wounds that shape both body and spirit. In addition to his individual work, he leads group sacred healing ceremonies and speaks to audiences ranging from indigenous communities, to NGOs and multinational corporations.
Regularly, he contributes his expertise to respected traditional medicine clinics such as Hoja Santa Casa de los Remedios and Prosa Oaxaca, which ensure access to traditional healing for both urban and rural communities at affordable costs.
For decades, he has worked to spread awareness on indigenous wisdom, medicine and culture through diverse projects with institutions such as: Fundación Dondé, Festival Cumbre Tajín / PUIC UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Fundación Justicia y Género.
Tata Julio Reyes Aguilar, Utiw Juyub’
Ajq’ij (Mayan Spiritual Guide)
Tata Julio or Utiw Juyub’ (Mountan Wolf), has been a Mayan Ajq’ij, a spiritual guide or day-keeper, for more than 30 years. His heart started beating as an ajq’ij, from the moment he saw, as a small child, how the elders practiced spirituality, through their service to humanity and Mother Earth… He is a sought after healer and spiritual guide. He has been a student of renowned Mayan spiritual leaders in Guatemala: Tata Fermín Gómez, representative of the Mayan people to the UN; Tata Adrián Inés Chávez, internationally renowned Mayan spiritual guide and author of the book Pop Wuj; Tata Cirilo Pérez, who has appeared in numerous documentaries on Mayan spirituality and the Mayan calendar; and his mother, Nana Tzununha, María Eugenia Aguilar Castro.
His service also encopasess work as an architect, on projects that help build healthy societies based on the timeless wisdom of the Indigenous Elders, and the modern science of architecture and sustainable construction. He is also co-founder of Instituto RAIS, where he workd as Territorial Development Director, working for and along communities in Central America, to preserve their ancestral roots through sustainable ecological and cultural projects that also help in providing stable sources of income for the community, all while deepening their relationship with their sacred land. He earned his masters degree in architecture and urbanism from respected COLMEX (Colegio de México).
Nana Tzununjá – María Eugenia Aguilar Castro
Mayan Priestess or Ajq’ij
Maria Eugenia is a Mayan Ajq’ij or priestess and day-keeper. She has been a spiritual guide for over 45 years and was a candidate for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.
She is also an Ashoka Fellow, which supports young Salvadorans to apply Native knowledge and skills to economically support their families, while instilling pride in indigenous culture and preserving community ties. As a child of a Salvadorian exiled in Guatemala, María Eugenia learned about the ancestral world through the Quiché community that embraced her as a child.
Later, encounters with Native Americans in the United States fully identified her with indigenous Wisdom. In 1992, she founded the Centro de Formación Cultural y Desarrollo Humano, Escuela de Tejedores Kal Tunal or Casa del Sol, and, in 1994, the Instituto Salvadoreño de Rescate Ancestral Indígena (RAIS), a center dedicated to the research and visibility of indigenous customs and values. She is also the author of the book Empoderar a las Mujeres a Través de sus Conocimientos Ancestrales (Empowering Women Through Their Ancestral Knowledge).
To learn more about her work, visit: https://www.ashoka.org/es/fellow/maria-eugenia-aguilar-castro
Eusebia (Ebi) Díaz Hernández
Curandera, Traditional Sobadora (physical-spiritual therapist) and Womb Healer
Born within a Mayan community in the highlands of Chiapas, she grew up in a purely indigenous environment, learning respect toward nature and life.
She comes from a strong family lineage of curanderos, midwives and bonesetters (or hueseros). Her grandparents, parents, uncles, and some of her siblings were and are Mayan healers.
Ebi has been dedicated for more than 35 years to healing, she is a teacher of traditional medicine and physical therapeutic massage constantly giving workshops all over the country; she also has a high specialization in women’s health, helping them with issues of fertility, to adjust and heal wombs, ovaries and in many occasions, help them to avoid painful, costly and often unnecessary surgeries.
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