Last February 14, 2024, while we are preparing to go back to the Shrine in Bulacan, I received a call from some one whom I will not name at this moment asking for a Partnership with us. Though this person is the Head of HR coming from a prominent Hospitality Company that owns different Spa Resort in Batanggas, Palawan and Boracay. It seems this person looks like a Pot of Gold as their CEO is also the CEO of a famous Rural Bank and Microsavings Bank in the Philippines.

I confirm my Identity to the caller and listen to her request. The HR Head ask us to have partnership with them to train their people in providing Philippine Traditional Hilot as they found out that our Principles resonates and aligns to their mission. But while the HR Head talks about their company, I cut her out by pushing her to different entity such as going to TESDA or PITAHC instead. And even recommend the School of former Tourism Secretary Mina Gabor instead of us.

I told her my Principles and Philosophy that the Practice of Hilot should not be under Hospitality Industry but it should be under Health Care. But the problem within the Healthcare Industry, they are separating the Spiritual Care provided by Hilot but instead limit it to Physical care.

So in terms of Licensing and Accrediting a practitioner of Hilot, it will be unconstitutional as our Constitution guaranteed to us the Free Practice of our Religious Belief and Practices which includes the Spiritual Aspect of Hilot.

But now as the Practice of Hilot invokes Spirituality, there are some group of Manghihilot tries to Colonize the practice of Hilot by introducing Vegetarianism and Veganism and not only that but it mandated their practitioners to live a Vegan Lifestyle which is not customary to the Hilot Healing Tradition.

So where Hilot should be?

Technically, Hilot should be under the Health Care Industry instead of Hospitality Industry. Though, Hilot is our Indigenous Traditional Medicine which unfortunately despite of the recognition of World Health Organization, our Philippine Department of Health through Philippine Institute of Traditional Alternative Health Care (PITAHC) are not working to promote our own Indigenous Traditional Health Care practices but instead they are more leaning on Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Chiropractic, Homeopathy, Naturopathy and others which is not indigenous and are Foreign to our Country.

The Knowledge of Hilot are already instilled into our Blood. It only needs to reactivate and re-cultivate by reminding them of this innate knowledge of healing arts and science that we have from our Ancestors. Therefore, Hilot Academy does not teach, train nor instruct people in performing Hilot, but instead Hilot Academy facilitates the remembering process of each individual to resurface and reawaken their own knowledge and skills on healing themselves and caring for others.

But the Demand for Traditional Health Care provider are rising, and most of these demand comes from the Hospitality Industry on which we are invited to provide. Since the demand is High and the supply is low, we might give a counter demand in order to protect and preserve our knowledge on Indigenous and Traditional Health Care.

So what we will do are the following:

Facilitate the remembering process of Philippine Indigenous and Traditional Health Care (Healing Arts and Science) to Individual or Group of Individuals on a condition that:

1. An individual or group of Individual who successfully reawakened their knowledge, skills and abilities on becoming a Hilot Binabaylan should be employed and receive compensation in accordance to the service they provide whether it be Hourly, Daily, Weekly or on a Monthly Basis.
2. Upon satisfaction of the Service, we demand regular employment of our Hilot Binabaylan in a company that will receive a minimum monthly compensation with benefits such as SSS, Pagibig and Pagibig contribution in accordance to the law of the land.
3. The practice of Hilot Binabaylan seeks integration with National Health Care Delivery System and hoping that a regular employee who had a sick leave could be allowed to have a Hilot Treatment Certification just like if an employee present medical certificate to their employer.
4. The Practice of Hilot Binabaylan should be provided an insurance grant in protecting the practitioners so as the patient who receive treatment from us.

From this point of time, we will work hard to uplift the status of Manghihilot and we seek help to appropriate individuals who come across to our webpage and use it in their presentation and research. I believe that Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University of La Union have come across to our website and have used our content in their presentation in explaining Hilot at Philippine Institute of Traditional Alternative Health Care. And I believe there are other more who uses our site as Reference. I pray one day, we could meet and discuss the Future of Hilot while we have strength to do so. Let us not wait for that time to come that the Art and Science of Hilot will be forgotten.