Services to Support Your Healing & Spiritual Journey

Herbs can heal! But how do you know which herbs that you need?

Sometimes it is helpful to receive the guidance of a professional herbalist to help you navigate your healing path.

​My herbal consultations are designed to match you with the right herbal allies that will support your healing goals.  My intention is to help you to understand the ways that plants heal and to understand how plant based healing works differently than western allopathic medicine.   

​The initial consultation is an extensive two-hour session in which I obtain a detailed description of your health concerns and your medical history. We also will talk about all of the aspects of your life that may be contributing to your current state of health.

​In each session, I create an herbal formula uniquely designed for your physical and emotional needs.  No two formulas are alike. My formulas are usually a blend of herbal tinctures and flower essences. The tinctures address the needs of your physical body while flower essences support your emotional and spiritual healing intentions.

​As part of a session, you may receive herbs in the form of tinctures, teas or powders; or I may recommend that you plant certain herbs in your gardens or that you spend more time in nature with the plants of your eco-system.

​Education is also a part of these sessions.  I will help you understand the many factors that may be contributing to your illness and guide and support you to make the lifestyle changes to improve your health.    These could include changes in diet, exercise, work, relationships or emotional patterns.

Curious about how curanderismo can support your healing journey?  Want to incorporate more ancestral medicine into your daily life?

 In your curanderismo consulta, we will start with a platica, a conversation where you share your story, your challenges and your intention for our time together.

​I will listen with an open heart and offer guidance and tools to support your healing journey.  These practices may include:

• Self-limpias

• Baños

• Mexica meditation practices

• Inner Curanderx meditations

• Tonantzin grounding practices

• Practices to connect to Nauhcampa, the forces of the Universe

• Creating an ancestral altar

• Incubating and planting dreams

• Ancestral honoring & connection practices

​Want to learn more?  Book an introductory session with Atava today!

Are you interested in obtaining a deeper understanding of your dreams? Would you like to learn practices to improve your dream recall and to develop yourself as a lucid dreamer?  

These sessions are dedicated to creating space for you to explore your dream landscape, to learn how to work with them as a source of healing and guidance, and to develop your skills as a dreamer.

 In each session, you will bring dreams to share.  We will unpack the imagery of your dreams using guided dream re-entry, somatic awareness, ritual, art, tarot and movement.  We may also explore techniques to enhance dreaming, like dream incubation, and practices to support dream recall and lucid dreaming.   I may give your herbs or flower essence formulas to support your dreaming intentions.

 For those interested, these sessions can also be used to receive instruction on the Mexica style of dreamwork, as taught by maestro Sergio Magana.  In this tradition, it is said that our dreams (the world of the nahual) are the seed for our waking life (the world of the tonal)  In other words, our dreams come first, then our dreams are the energetic blueprint for our reality in the waking state.

 Mexica dreamwork practices include meditations, breathing exercises, work with masks and other techniques to develop yourself as a dreamer, including being able to reach temixoch, or a lucid dreaming state.

​Dreamwork sessions are available by phone, in person, or online.

Are your ancestors calling you?   Do you wish to connect more deeply with your ancestors but don't know where to start?  What does the path to ancestral remembrance healing look like? How do you navigate the process? What tools are useful for the journey?

​This work is for people of all ancestral backgrounds who wish to connect more deeply with their ancestors. 

​Some of my clients are called to help remember and honor their ancestors. Others wish to connect with their ancestral traditions, medicine and gifts.  Some are working on healing their family lineage of trauma, addiction or abuse. 

​​Each Deep Genealogy session is unique, depending on your intention.  We start each session by calling in your well and wise ancestors to guide the process.  Deep Genealogy sessions may include dream work, prayer, ritual, guided imagery, meditations, obsidian mirror practices, as well as general guidance and support. Between sessions, you will be given assignments to support your process, such as genealogical research, family interviews, personal rituals and also researching the cosmology, mythology, art, music and stories of your ancestors.

​Curious to learn more?  Schedule an intro session with Atava today!