Who we are
We are Healers, Mujeres con Medicina, & Aj’Qijab.
Spirit Medicines is a Folk Healing Center/Centro de Sanacion based in Curanderismo.
It is ancestral medicine for healing the spirit.
We offer ceremony, classes, and healings all based in Mexica y Maya Cosmology.
Xochiketzalli runs the center with help of her apprentices and now comadres, Sandra and Araceli + her K'iche Mayan Gransdmothers/Maestras are visitor healers.
—- Nana Xochi Quetzalli -—
Nana Xochiketzalli is a Curanderismo Practitioner & Aj’Qij’ /Spiritual Guide. She is an abuela to 4 beautiful grandchildren and abuela to Ilhuicatl Metzli Danza / Where the Sky meets the Water Moondance.
As an Artist, Healer, & Teacher, she offers sliding scale classes, donation based healings, & free community ceremonies based in Curanderismo, Mexica & Maya Cosmology and Ancestral Medicine out of her healing Center Spirit Medicines.
She honors her ancestors of Native California Indian, Mexican, & European decent in all the work she does.
She met her teachers Nana Tomasa & her daughter Nana Sebastiana in 2012 and was initiated to the same path in 2015. As well h
er commitments to her dances, Sundance and Moondance over the past decade shaped her at a young.
She has worked in ceremony with many nations all over Turtle Island, is a pipe carrier, & walks the Good Red Road.
— Sandra Castro Alvarez —
Abuela Sandra is a devoted wife and mother of 3 who is rooted in Northern California on Wiyot Lands. At a young age, the Holy Spirit taught her of her gifts of Intuition, Energy, and Empathy, communicating thru her in the Dreamtime. She now turns towards her dones/gifts that have been inherited thru her from her Sonoran and Zacateca Ancestors. Here on these Redwood lands, she embraces her gift to curar, as a healer working on the emotional, spiritual, & physical planes. Sandra was Xochiketzalli's apprentice and you will often see the two of them together offering classes, healings, and ceremony.
—-- Araceli Salvatierra ——
Abuela Araceli is a mother of 4 children & grandmother of 2 girls. She was born in Mexico, but raised as a child in the Bay area.
She resides on Wiyot land for over 20 years and met Nana Xochiketzalli in 2020 and shortly after started learning as her apprentice.
She has always been called to her ancestral medicines and at a young age remembers her Abuela practicing limpias, baños, & these ancestral practices on her people.
She now steps into her dones as a gifted healer, working as her ancestors once did.
-— Nana Sebastiana Pol Suy—-
Nana Sebastiana is a profound healer, medicine woman, & Mayan Curandera.
She is an
Aj’Q’ij /
Mayan Daykeeper and worked along side her grandmother growing up, learning the ways of an indigenous midwife and healer.
She specializes in massage and physical healings.
She has a true gift in her hands and is extremely intuitive, continuously using her gifts for healing.
She offers intuitive healings, specialized massage, & readings. She is also trained in reiki and Maya Womb Massage.
She loves to travel and explore, teaches internationally and dedicates her life to this path of healing the people. She has visited Humboldt County 3 times to offer her services, but when at home, works from their families healing center in Chichicastengo, Guatemala.
—— Nana Tomasa Suye --—
Nana Tomasa is a mother, grandmother, and matriarch of her family. She is a Maya medicine woman in Chichicastengo. M
any of her children and grandchildren reside with her on their parcel of land in their hometown.
She is an Aj’Q’ij, a K’iche Maya Spiritual Guide and specializes in spiritual healings.
Her families healing center name in Chichi is Healing and Holistic Recuperation Center - Ixpiyakok Ixmukane.
There they offer mayan fire ceremonies, limpias, tzi’te bean consultations, massage and reiki, and much more.
Xochiketzalli Precious Flower, born of the hairs of mother earth.
At Spirit Medicines we believe all healing begins outdoors and with ones re-connection to nature, our mother earth. All ceremonies are held outside. In winter less offerings are available as Xochiketzalli takes this time to do her artwork and heal herself.
Oral tradition does not live on the web. It is first hand knowledge that is passed on in ceremony.
All offerings of money are made in donation for the exchange of service and time. This is the original teachings of las abuelas.
Classes are Sliding Scale
Community Ceremonies are Free
Mayan Divinations are Donation Based
Healings are by Donation or Sliding Scale
- Donate -
If you would like To donate to Nana Tomasa and the building of their new Healing Center, please click the donate button below to link up with international money service and follow the instructions on the last page of the pamphlet.