Santa Fe, New Mexico

Instagram: @vuelodelcondor dfranco@caminantescommunityservices.org

Dr. Diana Franco, pronouns she/her/ella, is Colombian, born in NYC and is a resident of New Mexico. She has been a clinical social worker for over 25 years which has granted her the opportunity to focus on adolescent mental health, trauma across all age groups, and issues that uniquely impact immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. She has a huge passion for community service, advocacy, and activism and believes that as a community we can achieve our own liberation from the systems that act as barriers to health.

Dr. Diana has been a practitioner of curanderismo for nearly 30 years. Her practice is informed by the Andean-Amazonian cosmology, which is the location of her ancestral roots, the Mexica tradition, and the Lucumi tradition. Her teachers in these traditions are located in Peru, Mexico, Chicago and New Mexico.  She walks this path with humility and gratitude and honoring the re-connection to her own roots and the wisdom of her teachers. In practice, she focuses on pláticas, limpias, intuitive readings, and education. This encourages the two of you, as a team, to identify what needs to be addressed and then teach you how to support yourself. Dr. Diana is only here to get the process started … you have the power to heal yourself!

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Rosagallegos-samora@bluebirdhealing.org (505) 738-3233

Rosa Gallegos-Samora is a third generation curanderismo practitioner from Villanueva, NM currently living in Albuquerque. Rosa carries the medicine of her grandparents and ancestors and shares it with community in her offerings of platicas (heart to heart talks), limpiezas (spiritual cleanse of self and home), ventosas (fire cupping), and remedios (herbal remedies). In Rosa’s professional life, she works as a mental health therapist in private practice at Blue Bird Healing where she blends both her traditional medicine knowledge and her clinical education and training. Rosa shares her family's history of traditional healing in professional and community settings. She appears in The Genízaro Experience documentary, discussing various aspects of her family's curanderismo knowledge among New Mexico's Indigenous Genízaro community. Rosa’s practice is informed by the Mexica tradition and the Andean-Amazonian cosmology.

Southern California

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Instagram: @starofxolotl
text only - 818-573-4439

Ryanne, also known by Ri, is a storyteller, activist, and practitioner of traditional Curanderismo and ancestral plant and amphibian medicines, including Kambo and Bufo. She follows the traditional Mexica and Andean-Amazonian teachings. Coming from a lineage of healers and raised by her great-grandparents, she carries forward practices that were nearly lost in her family, approaching this work with humility, respect, and responsibility to her community. Her path centers on collective healing, decolonization, and the remembrance of ancestral traditions, creating spaces where growth, sovereignty, and transformation can take hold.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Instagram: @enchantedcoyote jleshaye1@gmail.com

Justine Saavedra founded Enchanted Coyote Community Services after she reclaimed her traditional ancestral healing ways of curanderismo. She was brought back to the medicine through her own sobriety journey. She offers limpias, pláticas, and remedios for community members looking for healing, especially those in recovery. She is also available for community events. All services are donation based as she hopes to make these healing practices available to everyone. 

Santa Fe, New Mexico

jmlujan@icloud.com

Jolene Lujan is a curanderismo apprentice and native New Mexican of Mexican, Indigenous, and European descent who follows the traditional Indigenous Andean and Mexica teachings, and honoring their wisdown as a guiding path.  She believes in learning and reclaiming the traditions of her ancestors, and continuing to practice their centuries-old traditions to transmit knowledge to treat the body, mind and spirit. Jolene offers intuitive healings including limpias and pláticas, as well as tarot reading. 

Albuquerque, New Mexico

nmhamalex@gmail.com 505-795-0425 (preferably via Signal) Instagram: @ashenedphoenix

Ash is an apprentice of Curanderismo and community organizer working in Albuquerque with diverse communities, especially veterans, queer, transgender, and neurodivergent folk. Ash follows the traditional Indigenous Andean and Mexica teachings. With ancestral ties to both Indigenous and European linages rooted in New Mexico, Ash carries forward practices of healing grounded in ancestry and lived experience with a decolonial focus. Their practice centers on pláticas, limpias, and light body work. Ash also works with psychedelic integration, plurality, and establishing routines of self-care, offering support for those navigating complex identities and experiences. Beyond individual healing, their work extends into mutual aid, collective storytelling, conflict coaching, and facilitating meditation and yoga practices. Her constant goal is to create spaces where community can remember, recover, and transform together.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Instagram: @ale_3hc hiphopuniversitynm@gmail.com

Alejandra Avila is a Santa Fe native, born and raised in the heart of the city. She is a member of the Dance Faculty at the New Mexico School for the Arts and co-leads a youth breaking program alongside her husband, Tyrone Clemons.  Currently, Ale is in the second year of a two-year apprenticeship under the guidance of Maestra Diana Franco.  In addition to her work in dance and youth mentorship, Ale offers limpias and herbal remedios and can be found working with her medicine family, Caminantes Community Curanderismo, where we offer community limpias in the spirit of healing and connection.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

deannanava76er@yahoo.com Instagram: @navadeanna

Deanna was born and raised in the beautiful city of Santa Fe.  After graduating high school, Deanna continued her education obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology.  Deanna is continuing her education today, and is now learning traditional medicine.  This medicine was first introduced to her by her brother, Maestro D’Santi Nava.  Deanna is now in the second year of a two-year apprenticeship with Caminantes Community Curanderismo, taught by Maestra Diana Franco.  Deanna is also learning these traditions from Maestra Rosa Gallegos and Maestra Ryanne Nieto.  Having grown up in a music loving family, Deanna has always had a love for music and drumming.  Deanna has the honor of being the Drum Keeper for Caminantes Community Curanderismo.  As a retired law enforcement officer, Deanna has a strong desire to work with current and retired first responders.  Deanna is available for , limpias and community events including drumming circles. 

Chicago, Illinois

Instagram: @sab0r_a_mi Text only - 312.330.4419

Jasmin is a daughter of immigrants with roots in Guanajuato, Mexico. She is an activist, visionary and a caring relative. Jasmin holds a deep belief in the power of self and collective healing through truth, acceptance and reconciliation with the cycles of nature, life and death. As a detribalized person walking with traditional medicine, respect and remembrance are essential. The work of evolving and elevating is work that connects us to the past, present and future. It is our birthright to dream and to heal. Our home on this planet is testament of the cycles we must all undergo to blossom. With the help of the elements, divinity, pláticas and limpias.  She offers support with surfacing root ailments and reframing perspectives to understand the bigger cycles at play and illuminate your role in your liberation. FREE PALESTINE

Tongva territory, Los Angeles, California.

Instagram: @tlilitzcuintli_ pcgarcia2803@gmail.com

she/they/elle

Hija de Mario Garcia y Carolina Renderos I am Indigenous to the lands of the Tecuexes Chichimecas, the Pipil Nahuatl hablantes, and the Yucatán. I walk as a sobadora, carrying the medicina of my ancestors, the land, the animals, and the spirits. While plantitas were my first teachers, it is through sobadas that I found the deepest way to move energy and support healing in the body. My work weaves together limpias, pláticas, soul retrievals, the honoring and movement of los aires, and the medicina of the rebozo in cerradas—gentle practices that reconnect the body, close cycles, and honor the energetic field. I bring ceremony into each session, guided by a collective council of ancestors and spirit helpers (yours and mine), ensuring the medicina is carried in the way it is meant to be. I honor my elders and teachers in the following words: I carry my sobadora teachings under the guidance of my maestras Estela Román and Meztli; from Tata Freddy and Xoxicoyotl the tradition danza Chichimeca; from elder Xico, Tata Atekpatzin, and Tío Terry Lawrence and Tía Jackie the medicina of being 2S; from Myranda Prettyowl in the medicine of reclaiming and remembering; and from my apprenticeship with Maestra Diana the teachings of the Mexicayotl and Andean traditions. I honor my two-spirit medicina, walking with the prayer of bringing balance into our bodies and into the world—by moving through the darkness and the places we often resist acknowledging. My heart is devoted to healing and to holding ceremony, because it is in ceremony that true transformation takes root.