09/29/2025
To the new company that has come to join this space; nice to meet you:
I am a mestiza. My lineage is threaded with Andean ways of knowing, mixed with European lines. For a long time, that mix felt like a fracture.
When I began my apprenticeship with plant medicine, with beloved elders or in front of grandfather fire, or up in the mountain fasting for days, I was following a feeling more than a plan — an intuition to make sense of the worlds that lived inside me.
Then Ayurveda entered and in a way it surprised me. Here was a science from another ancient culture, far across the ocean. But its principles — the play of elements, the understanding that body, mind, and spirit are one ecology — felt instantly familiar.
Ayurveda gave me a structure, a language to explain what I had felt but couldn’t yet articulate.
Ayurveda teaches that every body is an expression of the five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and ether. Health is the ongoing dance of keeping those elements in balance.
When I look at the way time I hold ayahuasca, San Pedro or psilocybin retreats, I see the same truth. The visions, the purges, the songs, the preparation and integration— all were ways of restoring harmony to a body and spirit that had drifted from its center.
This is how the two paths began to interweave: the sacred plants offer a direct encounter with the mystery; Ayurveda gave me the steady ground of a medicinal science, a framework I could stand on as I moved deeper into women’s health and ritual tending.
Together, they shaped me into the practitioner and ritualist I am now — one who honors intuition and structure, my Apus, the mountains and the clinic, both the sacred mystery and the method.
I didn’t set out to design this. It designed me.
By listening to what came through my body, my lineage, and the gift of Ayurveda, I’ve found a way to serve.
Bienvenidos 🤍
