Technical Education and Skills Development Authority or TESDA is an attached Agency of Philippine Department of Labor and Employment which certifies an Individual who have acquired Skills, Knowledge and Abilities on the Qualification and Competencies of being a Hilot (Wellness Massage) Provider. Whereas Philippine Institute of Traditional Alternative Health Care or Pitahc is an attached agency of Philippine Department of Health which register accredited and certified Hilot Practitioner. But these 2 attached agencies of our government advocates the practice of hilot for hospitality service rather than health care. And we here at Hilot Academy of Binabaylan advocates Hilot as a Holistic Health Care Modality that includes Care for the Soul which is inseparable to the Human Body who is alive.
This is why, our Graduation Ceremony invokes the Authority of Luntiang Aghama Natural Divine Arts of Healing Inc. not only in terms of certifying our students but also Ordaining them to the Ministerial Work of Healing. Anointing them with our Lana Healing Oil, is likened to fueling the lamp which radiates light in darkness as our Hilot Binabaylan role in their community is to emit their light on which can help people make their life lighter by removing all the darkness and obstacles that might hinder people to enjoy their optimum health and wellness.
This is our First Graduation and Ordination for 2024, and our next schedule of class will be on February 5-14, 2024. And by February 13, within this cycle we will open to the public to enroll to our 1 day Remedial Hilot Class which only cost Php 3,500.00. Grab this opportunity to learn our Remedial Hilot Technique as you will learn it together with our International Students. Comment in this post for details or email us at apuadman@hilotacademy.com
Out of curiosity, I look up on the internet and ask for Top Search Engine and I found HotSpot Blog that has a list of Top Engine Sites. And these are on their list.
Then I start opening the search engine and ask for Hilot School. And out of 11 search engine sites, Hilot Academy of Binabaylan can be found on 7 search engine. And not only that, Hilot Academy of Binabaylan was on Top Search. First search engine I browse is Google Search.
HilotAcademy.Com was on the top, followed by our Facebook Page, then our Hilot Online Class Page which is also at HilotAcademy.com, then at http://www.landasnglahi.com/hilot-academy-of-binabaylan which is Luntiang Aghama web site; then on top 5 is the website of Center for Health Care Professions Cebu that also provides Hilot (Wellness Massage) NC2 of Tesda, and they are located at Brgy. Alang Alang, Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines.
Then we look up at Bing.com and also search for Hilot School and like at Google Search we are also on top.
Then the top 3 Hilot School search at Bing.Com is Tesda Courses Website. Then we move searching at Yahoo.com and we are still on Top.
At Yahoo Search we took the first 3 top position then on top 4 we can find the school of our Brother Virgilio Mayor Apostol which is the Kailukuhan School of Indigenous Science which is based at Walnut, California, USA. Kailukuhan offers Ablon Hilot Therapy Certification which is a Healing Art and Sciences; as well as the Kailukuhan Combat Certification. Then on top 5 at Yahoo Search is another friend of ours from London which is the Hilot Hand School of Kapwa on ThinkTreeHub. Then, our next Search Engine where Hilot Academy is on Top is DuckDuckGo.Com which is an American Software company. Next to us at duckduckgo.com is the Kailukuhan School of Indigenous Science which followed by our facebook page and after that is the Hilot Hand School of Kapwa and on the 5th place is the Tesda Training Courses.
Then after duckduckgo.com we also explore the search engine called Ecosia.com which is based in Berlin Germany. Ecosia uses the ad revenue from your searches to plant trees where they are needed the most. And in this search engine, we are on 4 places, being on top is HilotAcademy.com then 2nd is our facebook page, on 3rd place is our Hilot Online Training, then on 4th place is our Hilot Academy Page at Landas ng Lahi website. Then lastly where we are on Top is the aol.com search Engine.
We made Hilot Academy of Binabaylan listed on Google Business that it help us be found by People such as the one that have made an Inquiry this day and the Question was in Tagalog.
“Magandang Hapon po… Training Center po ba ito for Massage Course? “
Good Afternoon! Is this a training center for Massage Course? -John
I choose not to reveal the face of the person who ask the Question but just like this person, many people still think of Hilot as Philippine Massage and the reason for this is what people can search through Search Engine as the information they have shared about Hilot is Massage. Such as we ask Google about what is Hilot? and this is what we can see:
It is very tough challenge for us in Hilot Academy of Binabaylan to change the thoughts and mindset of people about Hilot and only few of us really understand what Hilot Means. So, in response to the Question that been asked to us.
Hi John! We teach Hilot and not Massage. There is a big difference between Hilot and Massage. in massage they help relieve body illnesses, while in Hilot we do not only provide relief on the Physical Illnesses but also in mental, emotional and soul illness as what we specialize that is why our school is called Hilot Academy of Binabaylan.
response of Apu Adman Aghama
The reason why he ask us because he want to set up a Spa as his business. Though I refer him to look for TESDA school that offers Massage Training so as inform him about the Policy of Philippine Department of Health towards the Practice of Massage in the Philippines. I also encourage him to set up a Hilot Center instead of a Spa. Just like in the practice of Hilot and Massage, there is a big difference between the two modalities of healing. But, in fact, massage is just one modality that is performed in Hilot. And for a wider view, Hilot is about caring and its practitioners are move to heal with compassion and not through compensation.
In order to provide a Hilot Treatment, a person must undergo a thorough Hilot Diagnostic Procedures. It means people who will have Hilot Treatment will not just come to have a Hilot and be relaxed just like in Spa, the Therapist will just provide what their customer want according to their menu. But in Hilot, we the provider will determine what is the right treatment the patient will receive upon determination of the Hilot Diagnostic Results.
This is why at Hilot Academy of Binabaylan, we are upgrading our curriculum so that we can move forward in professionalizing our Practice as Philippine Traditional Indigenous Medicine Practitioner. We are envisioning our Manghihilot in the future, just like the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner are called as a Doctor, so as the Ayurveda, Naturopath, Homeopath, Chiropractor and many others are called as Doctor, we too as Manghihilot will achieve the Recognition as Doctor of Philippine Traditional Indigenous Medicine.
But why Philippine Traditional Indigenous Medicine and not just Philippine Traditional Medicine?
We need to be precise on what we want to call our selves because as of this moment 2024 the Philippine Government has an Agency known as Philippine Institute of Traditional Alternative Medicine or most popularly known as PITAHC. And we could understand it that the Agency under Philippine Department of Health should promote Philippine Traditional Medicine (as we know before as Hilot), but what they are promoting instead of Hilot are other foreign Traditional Medicine that is present in the Philippines such as Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Homeopathy and Naturopathy. You can see it clearly in their social media account on which Traditional Medicine Practices they are promoting. Such as what they have posted in their facebook page on December 11, 2023:
CALABARZON or Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon Provinces Center for Health Development conducted Advance Acupuncture Training on selected Local Government Unit and Rural Health Unit personnel. And there is another one in Davao.
What we see in their actions is that they promote what they know well and work well with the one that could serve them well. But what is really happening now, Philippine Traditional Medicine which is Hilot has been set aside but instead focuses on foreign Traditional Medicine which they can market and give them earn a lot. So, we deemed Hilot to be our Philippine Traditional Indigenous Medicine which according to their Intro as:
Firework Display at the Roof Top of Bahay SiAdTala in Taguig
February 2023, I made a call for fund raising in helping us construct our Training Center in Taguig. And fortunately by April, we started our first Hilot Binabaylan Training which produced 6 graduates that can competently provide Hilot Treatment to the countries they came from. And as 2023 ends, we have decided to welcome the New Year at Bahay SiAdTala.
Together with Lakay’s Family, I invited my siblings over Bahay SiAdTala to welcome 2024 and celebrated whole night long. And on daytime, we went Galivanting at Bonifacio Global City and experience little Italy through the Gondola Boat at Venice Grand Canal Mall. As a saying that what you do on the first day of the year, it will be the same thing that will happen throughout the year. I’m glad that I have celebrate it with my siblings and for the whole year we are going to have more galivanting moments.
But, now its the 3rd day of January and this means work and classes have resumed. So, with these I want to inform everyone that our 1st day of class this 2024 will start on January 18 up to January 27, 2024. This will be a 9 days class of Hilot Binabaylan, Remedial Hilot and Sibulan Adlaw Tala Baybayin Mystic Oracle Training. Then our next class will open on the following dates:
February 5-14, 2024 which will be a 9 days class; then followed on
March 19-27, 2024 which is an 8 days class; then on
April 12-21, 2024 which will be a 9 days class that consist of Hilot Binabaylan, Remedial Hilot and SiAdTala Baybayin Mystic Oracle Attunement.
May 2024 is still vacant, but we plan to attend the Fertility Festival in Obando, Bulacan and that will happen on May 17,18 & 19, 2024.
So if you plan to join us on that 3 days Fertility Street Dancing Activity on the narrow street of Obando, Bulacan let us know so that we can include you in our Hotel Booking nearby which is either in Valenzuela City, Malabon or in Munumento. And as a side trip, we can visit the famous Tugatog Cementery.
The month of May is a special month to me as it is my Birth Month and this year, I will turn 46 years old. Though I am in my middle age and have suffered early from stroke. But the last year of 2023 is a real blessings as i have overcome the limitations it bring as the world breaks free from Pandemic. And I believe that 2024 will bring more blessings, so I hope that you could join us as we journey to this life Adventure.
And talking about adventure, we plan to deliver an Interfaith Prayer in continues Healing of the Philippines on June 12, 2024 in celebration of 126 years of Declaration of Philippine Independence that we usually observe by performing the Freedom Redemption: Blessings all the nations of the world. And we will also attempt to manifest our long time dream to deliver an Interfaith Prayer during the Philippine President State of the Nation Address that usually happen on the 4th Monday of July and this year it will happen on July 22, 2024. And as we complete this mission, we will fly to Danville Calfornia from July 24- up to September 10, 2024 to conduct Hilot Training there.
And to all our graduates, we will also offer continuing education program while we are there and we will provide the 12 days Hilot Diagnostics and Treatment Continuing Study Program that will give mastery on your basic Hilot Binabaylan Skills that will allow you determine and perform treatment program as you make diagnostic either with the use of Tawas, Kilubansa and/or Pulse Reading.
Year 2023 has been a door opener for all of us as it allows us all to break out from the sting of Pandemic and release us all from the limitations of Lock Down. Within this year we as pandemic end up, we also end our Online Class to allow Face 2 Face and In Person Classes to happen.
And our Buena Mano for this year is Lani Brown from Corona, California. Lani Brown took the Non-Contact Hilot: Mind and Spirit work in mastering our Philippine Traditional Diagnostic & Divination System. In our online class she was initiated to perform Tawas sa Papel and Tawas sa Itlog so as the Healing Art of Kilubansa that includes conducting Ritual of Pagpag Taboy and Pauli Dampi. She was also introduced to the Art of Pulse Reading Analysis during the Online Class. And when she came in the Philippines to learn Hilot Binabaylan. We have gladly share to her all the techniques that will equip her in providing Hilot Treatment such as the Hilot Cleansing Rituals, other Hilot Diagnostic Method, Hilot Treatments and Basic Hilot Herbal Supplementation.
By February, 2 Australian Besties came to us and took the Masidhing Kamagaral Class. One came from Queensland, Australia which is Argo Theoharis and the other is Nawa Sybico from Tazmania, Australia. Masidhi Hilot Training is a 3 days orientation class that trains them to perform tawas, suob, bentusa and basic hilot touch manipulation techniques. We conducted their Training at International Insitute of Rural Reconstruction in Brgy. Biga 2, Silang, Cavite, Philippines.
Then on March, Hilot Hands from London came to visit us in the Shrine as she reach out to us and ask for our Blessings to establish school in London on which School of Kapwa was established. Jutheanne Cruz was lone Filipino providing Hilot in London and dream of training people that will provide Hilot Treatment. In her one-day visit, we provide her quick lesson review on our Traditional Hilot Binabaylan method, it’s just like a refresher course to her so that she could Identify what is authentic Hilot into modernized and westernized form. We are Praying for the Success of School of Kapwa as Hilot in London is already accredited as a Diploma Course.
An on April, we started to utilize Bahay SiAdTala in Taguig which was newly constructed, and it was very convenient as it is near the airport that we could easily pick up our traveling students from the airport and book them their room accommodations at CPG Estate Goldbergs Hotel in Brgy. South Signal Village Taguig. From April to December, Red Doorz Hotel or CPG Estate Goldbergs Hotel have become a home of our students. So that after training, they could have a comfortable bed to rest. Their room is fully airconditioned and has Wi-Fi access; and their bathroom has hot and cold shower. And every morning we pick them up in their hotel through an Ebike and bring them to our training center for their breakfast and send them back after Dinner.
April was the Busiest Class as we accommodate Maria Bustamante, Grace Mabulay and Kai Pfiefer; then after them we also welcome Carolina Nimmer. In their class, we have found a different effect of Hilot as they experience it as Hilot Touch could resurface the emotional pain from their past traumas and even in their past life. Indeed, that the Healing Art of Hilot always amaze me as we continue to embrace and promote it for the future generations.
Then on May 10- the day of my Birthday, we have picked up Kira Tejada at the Airport from Canada. Kira is a Tattoo Artist and has an ancestry from Aklan. It is amazing that in this present age, all the healing modalities of Hilot that has been broken down in the past due to persecution and conversion to Catholicism are now being brought back together and be known as Hilot Binabaylan as we reintroduce it back to the World.
Quynh Vy Cao
I though Kira will be the last student for the year, but Christine came by July 11-20 and took the 9 days Hilot Binabaylan, Remedial Hilot & SiAdTala Baybayin Mystic Oracle Training. And what I did not realize, Christine’s full name is Quynh Vy Cao as she mentioned that she was born in the US and currently work in Vietnam, but in reality, she was a Vietnamese- American. Since many who comes to us are Filipino with foreign blood, but Quynh Vy is a Vietnamese- American that has a big Heart for the Filipino. Her Hilot Training with us re affirms our Hilot Principle that in Healing, we do not discriminate, we provide our service to everyone whether they are male/female or any gender identity/orientation/expression, nationality, religion, political affiliation, age, etc. Through Quynh Vy, i have learned also some vietnamese culture and see the similarity that we have from each other. It is trully a Blessings for us to know diffirent cultures and tradition as we also share to the world the Healing power of Hilot. It is truly #TouchtheworldwithHilot and #HealTheWorldWithHilot. And on the Day of her graduation, I was very glad, because our first initiate and Graduate of Hilot that was named as Dayang Simoy Amihan or Verma Zapanta, visited us to pay respect and introduced to us his Boyfriend now his Husband named Harvey Lozada.
And lastly by September, Rio Heradura who is graduate of our Non Contact Hilot Mind and Spirit Class from London came to take the Maaram Hilot Training which is a 2 day orientation workshop on the practice of Hilot. I am so blessed that the ones that I meet online during the pandemic, now I have meet in person. It is my perpetual gratitude to everyone for continuously supporting our efforts in preserving and promoting our very own Ancestral Healing Tradition. As I promise that I will stand firm and continue this work and bring it along as we enter the new Year of 2024.
And with that being said, let me just announce as well that our 8 days and 9 days Hilot Binabaylan Training will only be available by January to June 2024 because me and Lakay will go to Danville, California, USA by July to September with our Sister Maria Haswell as she will host us in conducting Hilot Binabaylan Training in the US. So, by January 2024, me and Lakay will process out our Visa Application that we can surely come to the US by July. As of this moment, me and Lakay are very excited to see you in person, so grab this opportunity to learn from us while we are in the US. Now, if we are in the US, what do you want to learn from us?
To all who apply for 9 Days which consist of Hilot Binabaylan, Remedial Hilot and Sibulan Adlaw Tala Baybayin Mystic Oracle you can pay now your Reservation Fee for January 18-27, 2024 Class Below.
Siquijor is an Island Province in the Philippines that is located in the Central Visayas Region. It is found on the northern Part Siquijor can be found the Island of Cebu, West can be found the Island of Negros, in the North East is Bohol while in the south across the Bohol Sea is Mindanao. The Mystical Island of Siquijor was known as Isla del Fuego or Island of Fire that according to legend, there was a great storm engulfed the Visayan region, and a strong earthquake shook the earth and sea. Amidst the lightning and thunder arose an island from the depths of the ocean’s womb which came to be known as the island of Siquijor, hence the name Isla del Fuego, or “Island of Fire.” Oddly enough, in modern times, highland farmers have found giant shells underneath their farm plots, supporting the theory that Siquijor rose from the sea. Well, this Island was also known before as an Island of Witches but in 2010 through the hard work of Governor Orlando Fua Jr. the scary image of Siquijor as a Witch Island has been changed into a Healers Island due to the Healing Festival that they create every Holy Week.
We were able to participate at the Healing Festival in Siquijor as a Healer on 2017 and its a great experience for us to be able to touch local or foreigners that attended that event. And I just recently learn that only local healers which means healers from Siquijor are only allowed to participate the Healing Festival. So tourist either local from other provinces or foreigners outside the Philippines may only be an spectators or client. And that is Great News for implementing that policy as it will help the local Siquijor Healers to earn a living. But Kuya Tata our resident Siquijor Tourist Guide has an alternative venue in Siquijor who are interested to participate in the Healing Festival and that is at Siquijor Sunset Glamping Village in San Juan, Siquijor instead at Mt. Bandilaan.
For those who plan to visit Siquijor to attend the Healing Festival on March 2024, you need to make reservation now for your Hotel Accommodation as early as January so that you may still have a room as tourist will come in a large number by that time comes. So if you are interested to visit siquijor anytime, you may contact kuya tata through their FB Page which is the Siquijor Tourist Guide.
You may contact Kuya Tata through Whats App at this number +639694217190.
A neighbor drop by bringing his Cousins family asking for Hilot to their 1 year old Child. Being a Hilot Center along the road inside Francisco Homes 1 Subdivision, we are accessible to all people that may pass by our small home specially we offer our services on donation base. The young child always had fever every night and they do not have money for a medical doctor check up. Though I recommend them visiting the Barangay Health Center for more professional care but they have choose to have Hilot with us.
Baby Hilot
New born babies that is usually on their first year of life existence are more reliant on their mother specially when they are still on breast feeding. Aside from palpating the baby, we also need to investigate the breast feeding mom, as the nutrient intake that the mother’s eat will be passed along to the Babies nourishment. I usually allow the mother to hold their baby to avoid them crying so loud as crying might add up malady to the child such as the wind syndrome or Pilay Hangin. In this child case as I hold them, I felt coldness all throughout his body. The child is sweating cold just like a cold water that been poured out from a water bottle that came out from a freezer. I ask the mother if the baby do poop and pee, and the mother said the baby has problem on defecation so as peeing so little. With that we stimulate the kidney point at the lumbar area of the baby. So as we rub the chest and stomach of the baby to bring relief. We also give instruction to the mother to watch also her diet so as their behavior as Husband and Wife, as the Baby is sensitive to the emotions that they are feeling. And this emotions are becoming blockage to the child that might give them an emotional trauma that blocks the kidney and bladder.
After Treating the Baby, the Father also ask for Hilot as he always experience stomach cramps. And his condition was confirmed when I do Pulse Reading Analysis as his right pulse was very weak. The Father usually works in a Bakery and he woke up by 3:00 AM everyday, and usually he skips meal because of his work and financial constraint. Being a bakery assistant does not pay well but he works hard so that he could give supply to his mother and child as a new Family. He also have acid reflux and advice him to burn coconut shell and powder its charcoal to tame the acid. Lakay also gave them 1.5 Liter of probiotic Drink that his family could take to care for their Gut Health.
Knowing to care for the Health of the Family is very essential now-a-days as Medical Services are not affordable for the people like our client today. So, if you are not able to pay for your medical care, try our ancestral healthcare method on a donation base system. Or if you want to help these kind of People, you may want to pay for them by making donation to as through our Paypal Account.
At the start of Pandemic on 2020, the former Philippine Department of Tourism have search for us ( Nora T. Columna, Rev. Alvin L Sentin and yours Truly, Rev. Rolando G. Comon) to work with her in creating a Legacy Project which is the Hilot Philippines Development Center. In her mind as former Tourism Official Chief, she recognize the need to develop a brand of Wellness that could be presented to the world that will recognize our country for having it.
She also recognize the fact that other countries have their brands that is now competing in the Medical and Wellness Tourism Industry, but our own brand of Hilot was neglected for so long.
In her vision, she was reminded of her past that even as a child, whenever they are sick, their mother would bring them to a Manghihilot to bring about wellness again in their health. The procedures of what the manghihilot did unto them as a child were very clear compared to what the Commercialized Hilot is doing now-a-days that being offered at the Spa.
She was also reminded of her experience when she was a Tourism Chief, that sometimes before, she was in Cagayan De Ora, and saw a group of Sea farers that will take a medical examination, queuing up in the house of manghihilot to fix whatever that was wrong im their body hoping that they could pass the medical exam for them to board in the ship where they are applying. What they hope from a Manghihilot is to lower their cholesterol, blood sugar, uric acid and others impurities that may be present in their blood.
Dr. Mina Gabor also recognize Hilot employing herbs and rituals in their treatment as she recalls a nurse who secretly recommend a banana leaf and placed it under the bed sheet to treat bedsore to the patient that was hospitalized. And amazingly after 6 hours the bed sore was cured as the banana leaf dried up.
These are only some of her amazing experience with Hilot that she wants to recreate that people in the future may still experience it through Hilot Philippines Development Center. And we are blessed enough that Hilot Academy of Binabaylan through us have given a chance to Nurse its growth and development. This is the reason for the last 3 years during the time of Pandemic we are at the work of Re Creation which we focus in developing Training program that could produce the same amazing results that may benefit in maintaining optimum health and wellness as well as in the prevention of illness.
Our role as Manghihilot is to help an Individual to live a Quality of Life by maintaining their Soul attached to their Physical Body as we recognize that it’s separation may lead to an illness and worst in to death. As Traditional Filipino Healer, we also recognize the powers of the unseen such as the souls of the Dead, Nature and Elemental Spirits and Deities may also have an influence to affect us in living our lives. We also believe that when a person die, the souls of the individual will leave the body and become an Anito which can be either an Abyan ( Spirit Guide) or Busaw ( a malevolent Spirit) depending on the kind of Death they have experienced.
Death may come in many form such as in illness or old age, and when it comes at least healthy and living family members could prepare for it and may send off the soul peacefully. But when a person faces an unexpected Death such as Accident, Crime of Murder, Suicide and Battle or Warfare, we could expect that their souls will also become a bothersome and has a tendency to become a Busaw. Specially, those people who die at warfare. And with that our Grand Parents and ancestors have a ritual in preventing it to happen. Each Tribes in the Philippines have different methods of doing it, but the modern people of Today, it is common to place live Chicks on the Coffin of the deceased in order to prevent the soul in transforming into a malevolent spirits that may also cause illnesses to the living. In this recent event of Terrorism in the Middle East, many people have died and all of them are in terror, so what will happen to their soul? This video explains what will happen to them.
Grieving is a form of Cure to an individual who died a peaceful death, as it open up portal to the other world that the souls of the departed may cross over into it. Because Grief contains emotions that will become a vehicle to the departed soul to travel and help them crossover to the other world. But the Grief Ceremony conducted by people as a form of protest to those who died in a warfare will not help them to cross over to the other life, but only transform them to become a bound spirit that may haunt people between time and space.
Is it Good for the Souls to become a Bound Spirits?
Becoming a bound spirit seems to be nice as you may be able to stay on the Physical Plane of Existence for ever. But as you stay, all the pain and suffering you experience will also remain. As those pain of the griever will also heighten the pain you have while dying and may transform you into a malevolent Spirt. As a Malevolent Spirit, you also have this ability to harm the living by giving them illness and bad luck. As a Spirit you will be indestructible, but your form will be always corrupted and may be seen scary for people who are gifted with 3rd eye. But the Good News for us who are living, these bound malevolent spirits could be transformed through our prayers and ritual offerings.
As Hilot Binabaylan, we have responsibility to help in rehabilitating these souls that become a Malevolent Spirit by conducting Healing Rituals as a Spirit, just like an energy that can not be destroyed, but we can change form. So our caring as manghihilot does not limit only to the person when they are alive, but it extends even up to their death.
If you like to know how a Hilot Binabaylan care for the soul after death, let me know by voting on the poll below so that we could set up a webinar through Google Meet about it.
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