Methodology and Lineages
My framework was developed throughout decades of service as a clinician, academic, healing justice advocate and executive steeped in research that demonstrates the massive limitations of modern wellness, executive coaching, and the healing arts:
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Traditional hypnotherapists and mainline therapists often ignore the body and the socio-economical and political context, as well as environmental conditions, that contribute to the dis-ease or burnout.
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Traditional energy workers often ignore the psychological architecture and tend to lack the extensive trauma-training and experience to hold clients in a holistic manner.
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Traditional executive coaches often ignore the spiritual and psychological dimensions of carrying entire families and communities on our backs as women and LGBTQI+ leaders and changemakers.
Summary of Framework:
[ REWIRE ] --> Neuroplastic Catalysts (Clinical Hypnotherapy + Plant Dieta, as appropriate)
│ *Quiets ego defenses to access deep subconscious blueprints*
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[ REGULATE ] --> Nervous System Overhaul (Energy Therapy, Folk Herbalism & Biofield Work)
│ *Discharges physical stress; integrates insights and medicine somatically*
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[ RELEASE ] --> Conscious Integration Process (Lasting Behavioral and Emotional Freedom)
*Locks in new habits and neural pathways, opening space to reclaim your energy/spirit back home*
Unique Framework and Transformation Journey:
Because of my holistic neuro-somatic-spiritual approach to your transformation, we are able to more quickly bypass unconscious resistance and map out old trauma and vicarious trauma responses stored in the brain and body.
What exactly happens?
Overall, once the initial intake, assessment and rapport are in place (usually 3-4 sessions), we set up clear intentions for the 3 sessions ahead and work to upgrade your physical brain and body with the appropriate herbal formulas that stabilize and nourish your nerve pathways and limbic system. Once stabilization is achieved or validated, we apply biofield energy therapy to physically clear that stress out of the body, ensuring deep, lasting mental and physical integration. We do also engage in culturally relevant ceremonial practices throughout our journey together as a necessary dimension to holistic healing -> Your Higher Self (spirit, intuition, ancestors, inner knowing) go through this passage with you and inform our container.
How Long to the Finish Line?
Each journey is its own unique experience. Your coaching and healing pathway is planned in collaboration with you and full transparency of care. *** Please be aware I do not offer or work with entheogenic plant medicines. I do offer herbal supports and Executive/Strategic and Organizational coaching (if requested) as part of our long-term container.
I was born and raised in Brasil in a matriarchal inter-lineage, mixed race Xucuru Kariri (indigenous) family, yet was named Renata (a.k.a. Re-birth) by my Portuguese uncle (a Catholic priest) after surviving death as a stillborn baby.
Survival was my first "act of rebellion" as I entered the colonial medical system that plagues our world and persecuted the ancestral medicine carried by my grandmothers and great ones. Throughout the past 4 decades I've also been invited to the liberation path by 7 near death experiences (NDEs) and multiple metaphorical ones after the dealth of siblings, partners, and loved ones. Those violent experiences and losses not only shaped my body and mind, but my capacity to move between worlds, realities, disciplines, languages and lineages - all with untranslatable joy, lightness and presence.
I have earned an Masters of Divinity on social transformation and spirituality, and have been initiated as an inter-mystic moving with the living traditions that guide my path — Andean Cosmovision, Engaged Buddhism, Amazonian Plant Intelligence, and Mystical Christianism. Endless Amor y Munay to beloved Maestras Annie Blackstone, Atava Garcia, Brenda Salgado, Mushim Ikeda, Margarita Loinaz, MaryAnn Aeli Ronin Yaka and my own tias Estela and Lulude Lima for every single lesson that carried me across initiation portals and lit the way to new seasons in this (r)evolutionary path.
Living Lineages
The Plant Spirit and Elemental Dietas Lineage
This particular practice comes to you through a living lineage. In the tradition of South American curanderismo and vegetalismo, plants and the elements are not just physical substances with chemical or alchemical healing properties. They are sentient beings- ancient, wise, sacred and extraordinarily precise in what they offer each person who enters into sincere relationship with them. A plant spirit or elemental initiation is the formal beginning of that relationship. It is the moment you stop reading about a plant or an element (Water, Fire, Air, Earth, Ether) and start communing with them.
Its original wisdom keeper is Shipibo Onanya Maestra Amelia Panduro de Sinuiri of Pucallpa, Peru, who carried the teachings of the dieta and the medicine of plant and elemental spirits through a lifetime of devotion, passed them to one of my beloved maestras, Francisca Santibanez — who, in turn, has entrusted and passed these ways on to her apprentices over the past decade. Francisca's mentoring and guidance deepened my relationship with self, my ancestors, and a dozen plant teachers (Plantcestors) who now work closely with me as part of my own body and spirit.
It is an honor to be initiated into this path - an honor that I receive with deep humility and devotion to our plantcestors, plant and elemental teachers, all of the original teachings, and our wisdom carriers who have shared this ancestral knowledge and continue to mentor me in sacred reciprocity.
May I weave the lineages and trainings that have shaped me with great care, discipline and discernment — the medicina of the Andes, of our Amazon, the Agreste and the Cerrado, two decades of mindfulness and somatic practice, relentless ancestral reclamation work — along with a deep devotion to guiding women leaders and my LGBTQ+ kin home to their bodies, ancestors, and the Earth as our first mother.