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.
Xochi 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 —
Xochiketzalli or Xochi for short, is an initiated Aj’Qij’ (Mayan Daykeeper/Spiritual Guide). She is an Artist, Healer, and Teacher.
She offers classes and healings based in Curanderismo, Mexica & Maya Cosmology, & indigenous Birth wisdom.
She met her teachers Nana Tomasa & her daughter Nana Sebastiana in 2012 and was initiated to the same path in 2015.
She honors her ancestors of Native California Indian, Mexican, & European decent in all the work she does.
Her lifelong commitments to her dances, Sundance and Moondance for the past decade have shaped her at a young age and brought her to this path.
She has worked in ceremony with many nations all over Turtle Island, is a pipe carrier, walks the Good Red Road, & abuela to 4 grandchildren.
She is the founder of Spirit Medicines Centro de Sanacion and offers ceremony, classes, and healings.
— Sandra Castro Alvarez —
Sandra Alvarez, devoted wife and mother of 3 is rooted in Northern California on Weoyt 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 ——
Araceli Salvatierra 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, banos, & these ancestral practices on her people.
She now steps into her dones as a gifted healer, working as her ancestors once did.
-— Nana Sebastiana —-
Sebastiana is a profound healer, medicine woman, & reverent server of Creator God.
She is an
Aj’Q’ij
(Mayan Daykeeper).
She worked along side her grandmother growing up, learning the ways of an indigenous midwife and healer
and now works alongside her mother.
She has a true gift in her hands. She is a curandera, but too humble to ever say so. She
is extremely intuitive and uses this gift in healing.
She offers intuitive healings, massage, & readings. She is also trained in reiki and many forms of massage; including Mayan Womb/Abdominal 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 twice and when at home works in their families healing center in Chichicastengo, Guatemala.
— Nana Tomasa Suye —
Grandmother and matriarch of her family, Tomasa has lived a long life. She is an initiated Aj’Q’ij, as most her children are as well. She has many children and even more grandchildren. Many of them all reside together on the same parcel in their home town Chichicastengo.
At home they too have a healing center. It is named, Healing and Holistic Recuperation Center - Ixpiyakok Ixmukane.
There they offer mayan fire ceremony, healings, limpias, tzi’te bean consultations, massage and reiki, and much more. They have clients coming in from all over the country daily. They are in the works of building and constructing a larger healing facility.
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.