Your Guide & Curandera
As a Curandera (Shaman), I bridge ancestral wisdom and contemporary practices to guide sacred mushroom ceremonies that offer profound transformation and growth.
Born to Mexican parents in the Bay Area, I grew up straddling two worlds-rooted in the ancestral wisdom of my lineage while navigating modern life. Summers and fifth grade in Mexico immersed me in the traditions of my ancestors, while my home was a sanctuary of Spanish, herbal remedies, and sacred rituals passed down through generations. My mother sought guidance from curanderos, my abuelita and grandmother infused healing into everything they touched-from their remedies to their caldo de pollo. This isn’t just my heritage. It’s my path. As a curandera I carry forward this sacred knowledge, merging it with deep transformational work to guide others beyond limitations and into true liberation.
My Mexican heritage isn’t just a part of me-it’s the foundation of everything I do. From a young age, my grandfather and mother instilled in me the values of hard work, family, community, unity, compassion, and integrity. And the songs, the wisdom, and the healing ways of my ancestors they were never truly lost, but they were stripped from us, buried under the weight of assimilation, colonization and modern life. But I am the one in my lineage who has remembered and reclaimed my connection to my ancestors, to the land, to all living beings and to the sacred wisdom that was meant to guide us.
This is the way back to balance. This is a movement. When we transform, we create ripples of love that extend to our families, our communities, and beyond. Change starts within but its impact is limitless.
My path to becoming a Curandera was not linear. I started my career as a Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist, holding a BA in Communicative Disorders and an MS in Speech-Language Pathology. But the deeper I worked with children, the more I saw the truth-many speech delays and behaviors weren’t just developmental issues. They were symptoms of something much deeper. Unspoken trauma. Generational wounds. The invisible weight of family dynamics and societal pressures.
I realized that no matter how much I “helped” these children, the real healing needed to happen within their parents. Instead of fixing children, I knew I wanted to help adults break free- from their conditioning, their pain, their lack of self love, and the cycles they unknowingly passed down.
In 2018, despite outward success as a Speech Therapist Consultant in China, I felt that there had to be more to life than just existing within the system. That call led me to plant medicine. In Ayahuasca and Huachuma ceremonies in Ecuador, I experienced a deep remembering.
Since then, I have devoted myself to this path-a sacred responsibility. This is a life long journey, a way of being. Life itself is the ceremony. Because healing isn’t about sitting in ceremony once. It’ s about the transformation that ripples through every part of your life.
Today I lead my own heart-centered Niños Santos (Mushroom) ceremonies- deep, transformative experiences that blend ancestral wisdom with modern with contemporary care. This work isn’t just about individual healing-it’s about restoring balance to families, communities, and generations to come.
As a mother of two, I understand the weight of responsibility, the way we, as women, are constantly giving-pouring into others, holding everything together. But true healing also happens when we give to ourselves. When we take time to reconnect, to release, to remember who are beneath the roles we play. Because when we heal, we don’t just heal for ourselves-we create ripples that touch everyone around us.
This work wouldn’t be possible without the support of my family, and it’s their presence that reminds me why I do this. To honor our ancestors. To rewrite the patterns we inherited. To create a new way forward.
If you’re ready for a journey that reconnects you to yourself, your lineage, and the life you are meant to live, I am here to guide you.
“Words can’t describe my first mushroom ceremony. I had no expectations, and I was blown away by the experience. Alexis' knowledge and guidance, combined with her intention of healing, were potent and powerful. This kind of transformational healing goes straight to your heart and soul. It opened something up in me.
After this experience, I began my microdosing journey to further deepen my healing process. The way she cares for the mushrooms, respects them, and sets her intentions is palpable. She has truly proven herself as a medicine woman, a healer, a shaman. I am very grateful to have experienced her magic and potent healing energy”
— Rose Ann