Catching up with our people

Its been more than a month that I left my community in Phase A, Brgy. Francisco Homes Narra. I came back to the Shrine last Monday and had dinner with my siblings as a Home Coming.

Then yesterday, I had an online meeting with a company that invite us for a retreat on February 2025. And today, i thought was just an ordinary day but to my surprise as the sun setting down this had happened.

These people really missed me and have said that they always check on me if I will open up the Shrine as they need healing hands of Hilot.

Mission accomplished: Heal the World with Hilot Outreach

July 26 2024 when I went to California, USA to reach out our Kapwa and conducted Hilot Daloy Program which enable our Hilot Online Graduates of Non Contact Hilot Mind and Spirit Work to complete their competency on becoming a Hilot Binabaylan. And we are happy to announce that Olivia Zapanta Mir, Dayang Liwayway Innocentes and Lorenzo Pau have successfully completed the Hilot Daloy Program that Ordained them to become a Hilot Binabaylan. Though our Non Contact Hilot Mind and Spirit Work enables them to practice Tawas, Kilubansa Name Analysis and Pulse Reading as they learn it online during the time of Pandamic of Covid 19 that started from 2020 to 2022. But we terminate the online training as soon as the Pandemic have faded away and open again the world to the in person and face-to-face Training Session. The Continuing Education Program Hilot Daloy takes place at Danville Yoga and Wellness Center on August 2-7,2024.

Then by August 8, 2024, Lorenzo Pau have joined by Liza Bustillo to level up their education by taking the Hilot Tanglaw Continuing Education Program on becoming a Mentor.

Both Lorenzo and Liza have become helpful in conducting our First Hilot Binabaylan Training in United States also with the Guidance of our Bae Akuma Aghama who supervises them in their work and providing them inspirations and advice in watching over the learners in doing our Learning Activities.

Hilot Binabaylan Training in United States was held in 2 venues in California, the first one in Danville the other one is in San Ramon. There are 21 students who attend the Training, and they are Dan Walker, Celine Barrica, Christine Mclean, Elizabeth Perpetua, Susanna Cajiuat, Pae Hawkins, Roel Mangiliman, Marlena Stevenson, Leana Anselmo, Jeremy Agcaoili, Maria Clara Adamos, Joal Bioc, Alyssa Choate, Don Mirales, Janine Penafort, Jennifer Aguilar, Bianca Yanez, Sabina Lundgren, sitting beside them are our Hilot Tanglaw Mentors Liza Bustillo and Lorenzo Pau, then Betsy Lundgren, Earl Paus and Zanny Morales.

Then as soon as I came back home to the Philippines on September 7, 2024 Lakay picked me up at the Airport at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 and have brought me to Kabayan Hotel in Pasay City just to rest for a while then by September 9, 2024 we travel immediately at Nawa Wellness in Brgy. Bagong Silang, Calatagan, Batangas to conduct the Sikat ng Araw Training Program to align the Services of Nawa Wellness to the Philippine Traditional and Indigenous Health Care System. The said program has attended and participated by its Operations Manager Ms. Tanya Deldar, Wellness Manager Levy Romanes, Front Office Jechris Macalalad, Fitness & Wellness Instructor Hans Christian Anderson, Nurse Micah Segunial, Spa Therapists Analyn, Marilou, Rachel, Jobelle, Daniela, Butlers Jaspher, Jefferson, Robelyn, Food and Beverage Staff Danilo Delos Reyes, Lorenzo Hilis and May Ann Maesa.

With these, I will just rest for a while, but we will open now Enrollment for the In person, Face to Face Training of Hilot Binabaylan for the Year 2025. And by January 6, 2025 we will start Special 2 days Class on Dagdagay Filipino Indigenous Bamboo Stick Foot Massage.

To join this program, kindly register through this link. Dagdagay Training 2025

Welcome September and Thank You August 2024

Actually, it was July 26, 2024, when I left the Philippines to go in California for a mission. And as of writing it is already the 1st of September and I am still here in the US to complete my mission. I am just counting days to go back home. But on the 5th of September by 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, I will complete my mission and will go back home to our Mother Land.

It was a Dream come true that my prayers have brought me to the United States of America specifically in the States of California courtesy of our Soul Sister from Spreadkindness.org and Danville Yoga and Wellness Center.

All I thought it was summer season in the US but when I arrived at San Francisco International Airport it was Freezing Cold and has been picked up by the Haswell Family headed by Mark, Maria and their sonAs Ryan.

Arrival at San Francisco International Airport

As I arrived at the Haswell home, my sponsor in coming the United States, I was welcomed with Warm Arozcaldo specially prepared by my Soul Sister Maria Haswell. On my first day time in California, I acclimatize myself to the environment and spend most of the time at the Garden Altar with Ganesh and Gautama Siddartha “Buddha” and speak my thoughts with them as I connect to the Spirits of the Land. Indeed, the place is beautiful though the land where I stand are the same soil which is part of Mother Earth. The only difference I notice is the temperature of the atmosphere which is quite colder than I used to feel in our motherland which is a Tropical country. I also have experience warm weather temperature just like in the Philippines. But not that too often and most of the time, it’s cold for me. And the other thing that I notice, since its summertime is that the sun still up until 8:00 PM and after that darkness will cover the sky. Whereas, in the Philippines, 5:30 PM will start to get dark in the Sky and by 6:00 PM it will be officially nighttime. Though during my stay here, I always catch up with the Sunrise which is by 6:00 AM, which its light already spread out throughout the land. So, if we are going to follow the movement of the Sun from Sunrise to Sunset, the Sun works providing his light in California for almost 15 hours a day. Not that bad as per natural law or law of Nature, we have 16 hours to be awake and do our work. But time will change when season turns. At least I have experienced Summer Season in California.

Then Sister Maria have shown me our workplace which is at Danville Yoga and Wellness Center that can be found at Town and Country Drive which is just 10 minutes away from San Ramon where I stay and have rest. She also toured me around in San Damiano Retreat Center which is also located at Danville, California then also showed me to her or rather I say our new Location at San Ramon, California for the Kapwa Wellness. Sister Maria have joked me that I am the bringer of Change, because the location of Danville Yoga and Wellness Center is about to close. But amazingly, she has found a new place nearby her house and much better one which can be found in Crow Canyon Court.

Then my first class came by August 2-7, which consisted of 3 students, and they are Olivia Zapanta Mir, Lawrence Pau and Dayang Liwayway Inocentes of Hilot Daloy Class which is a continuing education as they already have completed the Mind and Spirit Working Class that consist of Hilot Diagnostic. The class went well in 6 days, and I feel so much comfortable as all of them speaks fluently in Tagalog that I forget that Lawrence from Hawaii does not understand that much Tagalog and speak only little of Ilonggo or Hiligaynon. Nevertheless, It was a great class with them that they have successfully completed the required skills, knowledge, attitudes and abilities of being a Hilot Binabaylan.

On their training, we conduct brief review on Tawas Diagnostic then a comprehensive training on Pulse Reading Analysis, Physical Assessment & Evaluation, Hilot Cleansing Rituals and Hilot Treatment Methodologies such as Pagsasala, Dagdagay, Bentusa and Hilot Pahid or the massage aspect of Hilot. We also have shared to them Fertility Hilot so as our Bae Akuma which is our Sister Maria Haswell have provided them individual healing sessions started with Olivia Zapanta Mir then Lawrence Pau and lastly Dayang Liwayway. Even though they are just a small group of people, it seems that the work we provide are great, that their response to us is also Amazing! Through their training with us, it is affirmed that they are now official Hilot Binabaylan and have received their rank of Dayang and Lakan and as Member of Luntiang Aghama Natural Divine Arts Shrine of Healing Inc.

Then right after their Graduation, we start the orientation for the Hilot Tanglaw Mentors certification with Lawrence Pau and Liza Bustillo, which have assisted me in conducting training for 21 individuals who are fresh learner on the ways of Hilot Binabaylan which started on the 9th of August and ended up by 17th of August 2024.

This Hilot Binabaylan Training was the first training that I conduct in Hilot Academy of Binabaylan that gain massive participation coming from different states in America such as in Georgia, Maryland, Washington, Hawaii, New York and California. Many of them are second to third Generation of Filipino American. Through this group, I encounter different challenges that I adjust my teaching styles just to meet their expectations. One of the admirable challenges that I share with them on becoming a Manghihilot in the United States of America is regarding the law of the Land in terms of practicing Hilot. I am grateful to the Assistance of Celine Barrica who is a licensed Acupuncturist in California, USA for sharing her insights on the legalities on the practice of Fire Cupping. Indeed, that this class is not just an ordinary training session but a passionate sharing of experiences from one another. It is not only them that learn from me, but all of them shares their knowledges that comes from their collective memories not because they have read it somewhere but they firsthand experience it from their families and loved ones.

I love to see each one of them as they receive their first jar of lana oil. I see in their eyes their joy and purity of their heart in receiving the gifts coming from our ancestor’s wisdom on healing arts.

Seeing them happy to what I am sharing to them is very rewarding that makes my heart happy.

Our official students for our Hilot Training Program at Danville, California

Days move so fast that the days of departing our Home land is coming. It is a mixed emotion of excitement and worries as I just came back to the Shrine after 10 days stay at Bahay Siadtala for my last Hilot Training in the Philippines before coming to the US. Well, from August-18, 2024 we are going to conduct 3 Hilot Training program which are the Hilot Daloy which is a continuing education program for those who completed the Hilot Online Training (HOT) during the time of Pandemic; Hilot Tanglaw Mentorship Certification which is another continuing education program for our Hilot Binabaylan Graduates and practitioner who wish to be our Official Mentors; and lastly our entry level course on being a Hilot Binabaylan Practitioner. The list below are our official enrollee/students whom we expect to be full pledged Hilot Binabaylan Practitioners:

Hilot Daloy Students

Training Date: August 2-7, 202

Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM

  1. Nani Inocentes
  2. Olivia Mir
  3. Lawrence Pau

Hilot Tanglaw Mentor Certification

Training Date: August 8-18, 2024 Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM

  1. Lawrence Pau
  2. Liza Bustillo

Hilot Binabaylan Training

Training Date: August 9-17, 2024 Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM

  1. Betsy Lungren
  2. Sabina Lungren
  3. Roel Mangiliman
  4. Sussana Cajiuat
  5. Earl Paus
  6. Marlena Stevenson
  7. Celine Barica
  8. Alyssa Choate
  9.  Don Mirales
  10. Leah Ignacio
  11. Leana Anselmo
  12. Joal Bioc
  13. Dan Walker
  14. Maria Adamos
  15. Paetin Hawkins
  16. Christine McLean
  17.  Zanny boy Morales
  18. Jeremy Sean Agcaoli
  19. Elizabeth Perpetua
  20. Janine Penafort
  21. Bianca Yanez

And my travel details are as follows:

My flight was booked at Eva Air and I will depart Manila on July 26, 2024 by 6:45 PM. Then there will be a stop over at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and will arrive there by 9:25 PM. The stop over will last for only an hour and by 11:30 PM need to board the airplane again and will arrive San Francisco Airport on the same day July 26, 2024 by 8:25 PM. This flight is a race against the international time line which I depart and arrive on the same date. This will be a day to remember for me. I hope everyone will welcome me well. From Land to the Sky and back again but this time ill be stepping in to the land in San Francisco and will be picked up by our Sister and Brother Mark and Maria Haswell and will stay with them at San Ramon, California.

It is almost time.

My journey to United States this year is almost about to begin. It will be 22 days to go before I fly from the Philippines going to California and we only have 29 days before our Class start at Danville Yoga and Wellness Center. As of writing this, we are packing all up my Pasalubong to everyone and send it off to Bahay Siadtala in Taguig City so that it will be easy for me to carry it to the airport. Our patients here in the Shrine will miss me a lot as i conduct my final donation based healing yesterday July 2nd.

But I assured them that I will come back and resume our donation based healing when I return home by September. Tomorrow, we will pick up our last student for this year in the airport that will come from Canada. She will train with us for 9 days from July 5-13, 2024.

And by July 18, 2024- I will conduct my predeparture webinar which i will talk about Hilot Binabaylan (Shamanic Healer) as a bridge to the Spiritual realms. This will happen through zoom 6:30pm on Pacific Standard Time. And if you are interested to participate or attend, kindly email mariahaswell@comcast.net

By the way, if you haven’t make payment of the 50% reservation fee you still have until July 15, 2024. 

I am very excited now to meet everyone. See you soon!

28 days before i step in again to the American Soil

How is everyone doing? I already have 38 days before i can step back to American Soil. It is not my first time to come to the US as last year 2023, i have been to Chicago Illinois as I attend the Parliament of World Religion that was held at McCormixk Place along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois. Though it was only a short 9 days of convention representing our Indigenous Filipino Spirituality and I am very glad that our Sister Maria Haswell was able to accompany me in conducting a Ritual on which I speak in Tagalog and she translate it to English. You can watch how i do with sister maria through this link.

Name of Bathala was spoken aloud in Chicago Illinois, USA

And through that, the thought of coming back to the United States was born and now becoming a Reality as we manifest it. Last year it was all american and other nationality that i mingled with and I only see one Filipino who sings that i approached. And i was so relieved to find a Kababayan sharing our Culture and Tradition in the foreign land. But this year as I come to Danville, I know i will be more comfortable because the one that I will meet has a Filipino Spirit inside each one of you. Whether you are First Gen, 2nd Gen or 3rd Generation Filipino, I will be glad to reconnect you back to our mother land by sharing our Ancestral Healing Arts and Science and that is through Hilot. 

I pray that everyone is settle now in your accommodation where you will stay. By the way we have a whats app group so that you can connect with each other and talk about cost sharing on rooms. 

Here i found how to share the group link which is Hilot Training at Danville

See you very very soon!

Registration to Hilot Binabaylan Training at Danville, California Extended!

If you are a Filipino living in the United States, whether you are a first, second or third Generation Filipino and want to reconnect with Filipino Culture and Tradition, this is your chance to reconnect by learning our very own Ancestral Healing Arts and Science through Hilot Binabaylan Training that we are going to conduct at Danville Yoga and Wellness Center that is located at 125A/B Town and Country Drive, Danville, California, 94526, USA.

You may register until June 30, 2024 and make the 50% down payment/ reservation on or before July 15, 2024. You can register by filling up the form in the link below.

Register Here

Tolerating Emotional Pain

Pain is usually indicates the presence of an illness to a person. But be reminded that it is just only one of the many signs of illnesses that we need to verify. Usually, Heartache is also a sign of illness whether it comes from Physical illness or emotional illness. But most of Filipino do endure Physical and Emotional pain.

I remember my teacher at School of Alternative Medicine have taught us, Dr. Reuben M. Galang Jr., that anything that give us limitation is a sign of an illness. But that statement is very wide to understand. But in terms of the capacity of an individual to exercise life such as movement and actions of the Physical body, that is where we are directed to look out for limitations. That is why we are taught to assess Physical Body Range of Motion. But in my personal practice of Filipino Indigenous Traditional Medicine, the limitation in exercising and enjoying life does not only be seen in Physical Body but also in their mental and emotional body. Though, we observed that many Filipino have High Tolerance in Pain that they can endure the situations they have just to obtain what they want to achieve in their life. And that is enduring Physical Pain. They wont stop unless they will fall down and not able to stand up again.

Sometimes, in their life they will just ignore emotional and mental pain or illness. What matter’s to them is to have a means how to earn money to buy for their food and support their family. But what they did not realize is, this kind of tolerance of having emotional pain due to betrayal of ones partner affects how they interact with other people and how they work. Keeping the past painful memories like betrayal makes it a negative energies or as old pinoy would say as evil spirits that make them suffer by having usog, bati or even kulam. Even though, this person have claimed that he was healed before by a magtatawas, there is still residue of negative energies that make him bounded in a chain of past memories that inflict him that also affects the lives of his children.

Mental and Emotional Illness is hard to deal if the person is not willing to be freed from the chain of negative memories. This person needs to be cleansed not only in its physical aspect but also in his mental and emotional state that may improve his social aspects in life.

60 days more before our Hilot Training Begin at Danville, California

It was April when our Last Hilot Binabaylan Training was conducted at Bahay SiAdTala in Taguig City and it was Ale Sison from Columbus, Ohio who is our latest initiate in the practice of Hilot Binabaylan. And this coming August 2024, we will initiate and ordain 12 individual coming from different states in America that will come to Danville Yoga and Wellness Center.

Yes! There are 12 official candidates who made their reservation for our Hilot Binabaylan Training though there are total of 31 registrants. But I believe that there are more people that will be added to our 12 candidates that will undergo our Hilot Binabaylan Initiation. So, I am waiting for you until June 12, 2024 to make your downpayment so that I may include you to our list of candidates.

I have prepared many training activities for August 9-17, 2024 and that includes the following subjects:

Day 1 Saturday August 10, 2024 

9:00 AM- 10:00 AM Definition and History of Hilot 

10:00 AM- 11:00 AM Generations of Healers 

11:00 AM- 12:00 NN Hilot Philosophies and Principles 

12:00 NN- 1:00 PM Lunch 

1:00 PM- 2:00 PM Concept of Life, Health, Illness and Wellness 

2:00 PM- 3:00 PM Faculties and Concept of Man 

3:00 PM- 4:00 PM Traditional Health Care Delivery System 

4:00 PM- 5:00 PM Hilot Code of Ethics/ Laws/Policies concerning the practice of Hilot  

Day 2 Sunday August 11, 2024 

9:00 AM- 10:00 am Hilot Diagnostics 

10:00 AM- 11:00 AM Dimensions of Reality & Plane of Existence 

11:00 AM- 12:00 NN The Seven Souls according to our Indigenous Filipino Ancestors 

12:00 NN- 1:00 PM Lunch 

1:00 PM –2:00 PM Traditional Alternative Wellness Analytic System (TAWAS) 

2:00 PM- 3:00 PM Spiritual Diagnosis 

3:00 PM- 4:00 PM Finger Alignment  

4:00 PM- 5:00 PM Finger Poking  

Day 3 Monday August 12, 2024  

9:00 AM- 10:00 AM Hilot Profiling 

10:00 AM- 12:00 NN Physical Assessment and Evaluation using Senses 

12:00 NN- 1:00 PM Lunch 

1:00 PM- 2:00 PM Pulse Reading Analysis 

2:00 PM- 3:00 PM Locating Pulse Site 

3:00 PM-4:00 PM Collecting Information from Pulse 

4:00 PM- 5:00 PM Analyzing Pulse and giving remarks 

Day 4 Tuesday August 13, 2024 

9:00 AM- 10:00 AM Hilot Cleansing Ritual 

10:00 AM- 11:00 AM Internal and External Cleansing 

11:00 AM- 12:00 NN Demonstration & Practice 

12:00 NN- 1:00 PM Lunch 

1:00 PM-3:30 PM  Demonstration of DagDagay/ Kulis Filipino Traditional Foot Stick Massage 

3:30 PM- 5:00 PM Returned Demonstration/ Supervised Practice 

Day 5 Wednesday August 14, 2024 

9:00 AM- 10:30 AM Demonstration Banana Leaf Scanning  

10:30-12:00 NN Return Demonstration /Supervised Pratice 

12:00 NN- 1:00 PM Lunch 

1:00 PM- 3:30 PM Demonstration Tawak/ Bentusa Tandok 

3:30 PM- 5:00 PM Return Demonstration /Supervised Practice 

Day 6 Thursday August 15, 2024  

9:00 AM- 10 AM Hilot Elemental Touch Manipulations 

10:00 AM 11:00 AM Dry Touch Hilot Manipulation 

11:00 AM –12:00 NN Wet Touch Hilot Manipulation 

12:00 NN- 1:00 PM   Lunch 

1:00 PM- 2:00 PM Hilot Manipulation on hands, arms & shoulders 

2:00 PM- 3:00 PM Hilot Manipulation on Head, Face & Chest 

3:00 PM- 4:00 PM Hilot Manipulation on Feet, Legs and Thigh 

4:00 Pm- 5:00 PM Hilot Manipulation on Abdomen & side Lying Position 

Day 7 Friday August 16, 2024  

9:00 AM- 10:00 AM Hilot Fertility Rituals 

10:00 AM- 12:00 NN Hilot Fertility Ritual for Male 

12:00 NN- 1:00 PM Lunch 

1:00- 5:00 PM Hilot Fertility Ritual for Female 

Day 8 Saturday August 17, 2024 

9:00 AM- 10:00 AM Review/ Q & A 

10:00 AM- 12:00 NN Assessment & Evaluation of Learning 

12:00 NN- 1:00 PM Lunch 

1:00 PM- 3:00 PM Graduation Ceremony 

Aside from these, I have a lot of side stories to tell specially on the status of the Indigenous Healers in Siargao Islands, in Mactan Islands in Cebu, and in Banaue, Ifugao , so as in Obando, Bulacan.

What will we do, if family members refuse treatment for their patient?

It was our usual day on May 18, 2024 when a Young Man ask me to a Hilot Treatment for his Father. And I said yes and apply our policy to let the patient come here as we provide donation based hilot treatment. And to my surprise, the young man brought his father on a wheel chair that could not walk on his own because he had stroke last November 2023.

I assess the situation of the man whose name is Kuya Eddie and found hope that he could be recovered soon. The first thing i do is test kuya Eddie’s sensitivity. next is mobility which i find that his joint were stocked or seems locked up. I also checked on his strength and found it limited and lastly endurance which if i will give percentage, he only have 20-30 %. He complains that he lacks balance and pray that he could stand and walk and do the normal things he does. Unlike other stroke patients, his speech does not have any defects. He could speak well and even have tell me elaborately to what had happened. His memory is clear, though emotionally he is suffering from depression and anxiety. I also learned that he is just my neighbor who lives on the next door. So in his case, I disregard our policy that I my self have come to their house.

I also made it clear to them that they should not worry much in terms of making payment or donation. So, when I do treatment Kuya Eddie’s son is watching and assisting me in doing Hilot. The first day was successful but at the end of the treatment session I sense problem which is called Utang na Loob. The son is shy because he is worried that he could not pay my treatment services for his father. To be honest, I do not make my patient to sign waiver, specially if they are living around the community because they are just our neighbor and we apply the term pakikisama and pakikiapagkapwa. I feel that they are just an extended family to me which I already know their background in terms of finances and life style. So, I gave them my assurance that no single cent will come out of their pocket in the service that I provide to Kuya Eddie.

But on the next day which is our 3rd session, the son was not around and only Kuya Eddie is lying on his bed. At least one of his relative was there that my presence was known in the compound where kuya Eddie lives and know that I will give treatment to Kuya Eddie. So, I finish my 3rd treatment session with him and went back home to the Shrine. Then after a while as I am drinking coffee and having a Chat with Lakay, there was a woman calling for us and looking for the Manghihilot who treats kuya eddie. And I answer her that I am. and I ask back who she was, and she said that she is the Ex Wife of Kuya Eddie. And I ask her what happened and what she wants. She told me that her son would like the treatment to stop as they do not have money to pay me. But I looked at her and saw her that her head was wrapped and has towel on her shoulder, I also asked her what happened to her and she said that she is having a hair treatment on a Salon. In my mind, she have money to spent for her beautification, but she does not have money to sent her ex husband to a proper medical care and she is even the one to ask me to stop treatment to her ex husband.

I really feel so bad though she claim that she is already separated to her husband but as I know there is no Divorce here and only annulment, but in their condition or economic situation, I know that they are not annulled so technically by papers and legality, they are still husband and wife. So, what i feel here is that when you are sick and incapacitated such as stroke and were not able to stand and move by your self, you loose your rights to choose and to have a proper health care. I even hear the son say to me that her mother decides to send her ex husband for a medical check up whenever kuya Eddie is already able to walk again. This breaks my heart and explode my eyes in tears. This situation adds up to my heart break that I had many male patients that had stroke that been left by their wives and family. What happen to love when they first met and also the cause for them to have children? Is it okay to neglect the Father and only honor the mother? This hurts me so much. And I do not have words to describe how hurt I am with the situation that I am encountering with. I feel that I am powerless, that I can only heal the sick person but healing the brokenness of the family is difficult to reset.

I think that this post is just a rant but I hope this can be an eye opener to everyone. We still do not know what lies ahead of us. But through our current action, I believe we can predict what will happen tomorrow and on the following days. If I stop helping Kuya Eddie, he might loose his life. But If I continue to help him, I know by the end of this year he could walk again and restore back what he loose in the past, Kuya Eddie still has the power of choice, unless he is the one who refuse my treatment then I have no power against his own will.