Hello, my name is Maria Christina, aka Christina, aka Mamita, I’m a Mama of 3 little wildlings who are my greatest teachers, followed by the plantitas of course. As an avid Homesteader, Folk Herbalist, and trained Psychotherapist, I am blessed to be able to blend my love for the plant spirits and the magic of the natural world around us into the healing work that I do with both Mamita’s Herbita’s and Healing from Within.  Woven with both Mexica and Eurocentric lineages, I hold the balance and beauty of many beautiful worlds. I am  a council member and mentor of the Ancestral Womb and Postpartum Care Program, where women are tended to and cared for in the traditional Indigenous Mesoamerican ways of the ceremonial Cerradas (closing of the bones).   When I’m not barefoot in the garden, tending to my children, or cooking up a frenzy in the kitchen, you can find me dancing, or exploring the mysteries of the cosmos with my circle of sisters from the school of Oxlaju Ochoch Tz’ikin – House of 13 Eagles.  Being able to share the natural ways of healing with my community is such a gift and honor, and truly my calling.  I am humbled every time I have the privilege of witnessing and holding someone through their healing journey.  

Growing up I moved back and forth between the United States of Mexico and the United States of America, though challenging for a youth, I am internally grateful for this experience as it has played a huge part in shaping who I am today.  From a young age I became clear of the injustices surrounding me, and knew my path would lead me to helping others.

I began teaching Yoga in college and found myself fascinated by concepts like mindfulness and how the body is an extension of our mind and protects us.  Amazed by the healing potential of Yoga and Meditation, I wanted to find more ways to assist my students, so I went on to receive my Reiki Certification. The energy work of Reiki allowed new depths of healing to occur, but it wasn’t enough.  I found my way through the master’s program for Mindfulness based Transpersonal Psychotherapy at Naropa University.  While in Grad school, I went through two miscarriages before giving birth to my first child. I experienced first hand the short comings of our western ways of medicine and the extreme lack of care for new mothers.  These experiences catapulted me into the depths of herbal medicine.  The seed of tending to mothers and women had been planted, and I made it my mission to make sure I told everyone I knew, who was expecting a baby, about the healing powers of herbal medicine.

Finding my way into the garden with my hands and feet in the soil, communing with the plantitas, has been my greatest form of healing, a remembering if you will.  It was the way of our grandmothers, this connection with our mother earth, mama Tonantzin.  She has helped me embrace and take pride in reclaiming my indigenous roots, as a steward of the earth, my family, and community.  I bow in gratitude for her remembering, holding, and teachings, once again I have found that sense of coming home, in her rivers and soils, and I will forever be her student.