Feeling the call to adventure, at age 21 I left my home country chile and a budding career as a journalist.
When I arrived in hippie California I found a tremendous contrast with the repressive and conservative atmosphere I grew up in— a life of terrorism and dictatorship. Wheat grass juice, hang-loose surfing, and women’s hairy armpits, offered me a freedom I did not know was possible. Studies of yoga and massage opened my eyes to a holistic life.
Despite all these awakenings, a marriage and prompt motherhood revived my unhealed childhood traumas and generational wounding.
At age thirty, while miserably drowning in the dark pool of my fears, I was washed exhausted in the shores of the shamanic path. With the force and the speed of lightning, my life took a sharp turn towards my own healing and understanding of the hero’s journey. After a decade I had completed the core work of alchemizing my pain and sorrows into sources of wisdom and compassion. I was first initiated into the mystery teachings within the framework of the Four Winds Society, and then directly by the wisdom keepers of the Peruvian Andes and Amazon jungle.
Meanwhile, I returned to Chile, studied with the medicine women of the south, and created a retreat center in the mountains – together with my second husband, Alberto Villoldo, shaman, author, and founder of the mystery school I attended.
During all these years, my eagerness to feel and connect with the deepest truth of reality kept expanding in my heart. In my forties,I cultivated tantric and Buddhist practices which I weave with love and joy with the rest of my rituals.
Today is my passion to teach
About maps that point us towards self-realization. I am doing a studies in depth psychology and I weave this wisdom in my teachings.
Being a lead teacher at the Four Winds Society and spearheading its Spanish programs, in the last decade I have led hundreds of students through the Medicine Wheel and Munay-Ki programs.
I am the author of the books Awakening Your Inner Shaman; The Sacred Andean Codes and the co-author of the Mystical Shaman Oracle cards. When I am not writing I love landscaping at our retreat center in the mountains of Chile and creating medicine with plants.
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