Category: Hilot Advocacy

Drying Angat Dam

drying angat damSince June 10, 2019 we noticed that the water supply interruption and everyday from that day it becomes worst. At first it only has 12 hours or no water. Then later on we are given water supply by 6 PM to 9AM. Then it was announce that water ration will only be given by 1am to 9am. But by June 23 up to now, there is no Total Drop of water in the faucet.  The reason for this water shortage is because our Water reserviour is drying up and now on its critical level.

64580475_839469639746933_7324563997406003200_oLast June 20 by 5pm rain has fall down. It was so strong. It came with lightning, thunder, wind and some ice. Trees bend down and some houses been affected. Many people have prayed for that rain to come and we ask that rain to be redirected to Angat Dam, Ipo Dam and La Mesa Dam which is the Water reserviour of Central and National Capital Region. Since it was not only us here in Bulacan are affected but also mostly of Metro Manila.

From June 20 up to this day, we continue to pray for the rain to come. And last night before going to bed there is rain. And as open up my phone i see post of floods that brought by these rain on different places. I wonder why these are happening? There is rain but it does not fall on the right place? I learned that our government is doing cloud seedings but still the mind of Nature is way far advance than the human mind. And in my prayer and meditation, an inner voice is guiding me to find answer to the Binabaylan of Bulan La Mogoaw. So i send private message to Lakan Lago and he told me about the Dumagat and the intention of the Philippine Government to create the Kaliwa Dam.  The Water crisis we are experiencing are exploitation of our Government and Blaming Mother Nature to be the cause of this crisis.

The water crisis within our land will bring some health problem with the people. Since all of us are reliant to water for many things as Luntiang Aghama teaches us that water has traditional function of cleansing, transforming, transporting, binding, and reflecting. To read more on Luntiang Aghama teaching about water you may click here for more details.

But as Manghihilot what can we do now? We teach that as Manghihilot we are not only concern on the Physical Ailments of the people but we also prevent illness by healing also the environment. We have called the Divine Guidance and this is what it shows us.

120514_angat-dam03Gutugutumakan the Supreme Deity of the Dumagat, the Agta people who walk (lumakad) and populated the land and protect the sacred waters of the mountains (thus their name dumagat that might means “of the sea/ or likeness of the sea”) do now pray not only for the rain but also for their land. We are also praying with you for the rain to come and also to secure your home land for the future generation of the Dumagat People. May everyone Co Exist in perfect harmony and not in Greed.

May Gutugutumakan continue to Bless Us. May Tigbalog continue to provide us life. May Luwebe allow us to grow. May Ama unite us in love and continue to promote peace in our land. May Binangewan heal us from all our disease.

Gutugutumakan Hear us as we Pray! Save us and give us water to purify our soiled body and soul. Do not allow corruption govern the heart and the mind of our people. Purge out the Evil that hunts everyone in the land.

 

The story of Dayang Alab ng Liwanag

There was a girl that wrote us an application letter that she intend to learn the ways of Healing of the Ancestors and she wrote:

I am at the very beginning of my journey in traditional and alternative medicine. I have been chronically ill since 2010 due to a condition called Topical Steroid Withdrawal, which was caused by the overextended use of topical and oral steroids creams used to “cure” my eczema. In fact, I no longer had eczema, but rashes formed by the damage of the long term use of steroids and antibiotics. I have been a patient of traditional Chinese medicine for many years now and have learned a little in understanding how to read my skin or how effects manifest in my body.

I received a spirit clearing from a mumbaki in 2015 and he said that I am my paternal great great grandfather’s reincarnation, and something that did not finish in his lifetime is coming through me.

While being chronically ill, I have relied on plant medicine for pain and healing and developed a relationship to plants and their energies. It is my intention to learn more about plant medicine to help my family, friends, and community come back into their well being and health through natural ways.

This girl is from Washington DC, a Pinay American who was called by her ancestor to walk back on to the path of our race (Landas ng Lahi) and for 8 days we have helped her to remember what she already know for a long time. And now she speaks of what she have remembered through this words:

4 years ago, nati and mamerto did a spirit clearing on me and said that I am the reincarnation of my great great lolo; that something not finished is coming through me. my family does not have access to that generation, but this past Christmas, I found out that great lolo fermin was a manghihilot. reiki has been so helpful in my healing, but I felt it was necessary to honor and learn my own people’s energy and healing modalities, especially knowing healers were in my family.

for months I have been setting the intention to learn hilot, and today, I was initiated as hilot binabaylan. i laugh because universe has a way of synchronicity. I found out only recently that the training would be an 8-day live in study, and decided to change my plans so that I can squeeze in training before the busyness of HK and expo. today was my last day of study and of course it ends up being on the strawberry moon, a portal of expansion and initiation/full moon in sagittarius, my moon at that. lol, universe.

apu adman let me know that a diwata visited my room last night and told him my spirit name; that I will find out later during closing ritual. during my ceremony, apu and lakay called on the diwata that guides me to serve as witness. they wrote 14 names of the diwata and rolled them up for me to choose one. who else but the white bright moon, Diwata Bulan La Mogoaw, the moon goddess. apu and lakay just laughed and smiled because I kept taking pictures of the rising full moon the night prior and kept singing the small lyrics I know of “buwan.” I truly am a daughter of the moon. she calls me and I am listening. this diwata will continue to guide me on my path as a healer and she has blessed me with the name, “Dayang Alab ng Liwanag” – blaze of light, keeper of sacred fire of life. they already printed out the certificate before I chose my diwata guide….

most of my family think that hilot is only massage, but hilot is such deep connection to spirit 😭, and specifically how to heal with body with H (halaman, herbs), I (init, heat), L (linawag, light), O (horas, orasyon, time; prayer), T (tubig, water). my tawas (form of divination through paper, egg, or candle wax) sent a clear message that my ancestors were communicating with me and asking me to answer my call of healer, babaylan, manghihilot. there was no other way but to get so sick, face near death with tsw and pneumonia, for me to understand this path of shadow, light, and spirit. through this path, I have come to build a relationship to plants and prayer in forms of meditation, movement, intention. i am honored to be a hilot binabaylan, reviving the duties and responsibilities of the babaylan in my lineage.

I have no other words than my people are magic. I am only at the beginning of my journey. I have a lot to learn and unlearn, and am readying myself to walk the path of both spirit and earth. I asked ancestors where to even begin and I am reminded to just trust; I will continue to be present on this path to see where it leads me. today, I am happy to be hilot binabaylan. I feel blessed to have had this sacred opportunity to learn from and live with apu and lakay for the past 8 days. I am missing the busy sounds of San Jose del monte, bulacan. I am missing the constant exchange of learning between us. I am missing our shared meals together and laughter. thank you deeply, apu Rolando Gomez Comon and Lakay ALsent Magbaya Aghama, and for those who sent affirmations during my study.

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Hilot is Not a Business

As Manghihilot we do not seek for people get sick so that we could heal them, but rather we open our homes to people who need our help. We do not make business of our skills to earn a living but we offer people to extend their life through our craft.

We do not take pleasure if people are suffering from pain. Our heart are being crushed as we see our patient suffer from extreme pain due to their illness.

As Manghihilot we are not business man but rather we are teachers. Not a professional one but we teach our patient how to take care of them selves. We do not hold our patient for long to earn money from them, but instead we expect our patient to become a Manghihilot too as they beem healed by Hilot.

Learning Hilot is not through theory but rather by experience. Hilot does not claim that we have scientific explanation for everything but we explain things as how we experience it. Hilot does not have written records or books to study the art of healing, but we learn Hilot from experts who have a long year of experience in providing it to the community.

Expertise and reputation of Manghihilot is not based on Certificate and Diploma but through the number of people and cases s/he provide hilot.

My First Patient

From the very start i earned my Degree as an Alternative Medicine Practitioner, my parents have become my First Patient. They become my treatment model specially my mother.

Through nanay, i earned many referals and recommendation from her friends that made me to commit full time in this profession. I started healing patients with simple cases such as headache, stiff neck, frozen shoulders, sprained ankle and body pain. From doing body massage to relieve condition i employ to use herbs as a take home treatment after massage.

Through the years of dedicated practice and study, i gain expertise on Philippine Traditional and Indigenous Medicine that i started to treat serious conditions of patients.

I handled couples who want to have a child through fertility hilot, patients with anxiety and depression, patients that have fatty liver and enlargement of the heart, ureter kidney and bladder problem, and stroke patient. But with all the patients that i had, my first priority always goes to my family. When they are sick, i always make it to attend to them specially to my mom.

This year my mother had a multiple stroke and hip replacement surgery. She was also diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease. I become very reluctant that i forgot to take watch over them that i focus on other people condition.

So since January, i focused my self on attending to nanay condition. She was hospitalized early this year and doctor recommend that she will undergo Physical Rehabilitation Therapy for 3 to 6 months.

But through my intervention and integration of western treatment and Hilot, nanay is now doing well amd can walk again. For now, i am training her with a walker and my goal is that she could walk again without assistance and be independent.

Indeed Hilot is a Family Traditional Medicine that our focus is for the General Health and Wellness of our Family.

Hilot is our own Healing Modality

Hilot is not just a massage so the Licensed Massage Therapists shoulf not be threatened to loose their jobs because of the rise of modern Hilot.

But in fact, Hilot is the earliest form of Healing in the Philippines and many Manghihilot loose their Jobs and Profession with the rise of Modern Medicine.

The Traditional Manghihilot does not complain when the Philippine Government give importance to the Licensed Massage Therapist by creating the Sanitation Act Law.

The Traditional Manghihilot also hoping to be recognized through the Philippine Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act but instead of recognition, still Hilot are being ignored and accused of being unscientific. What this act recognized are Western Modalities and give them highest respect and call them Doctors such as those who Practice Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Acupuncture, Ayurveda and Chiropractic.

But the Manghihilot and Albularyo still branded as Quack Doctors.

University of the Philippines through Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Healthcare had a convention on Herbal Medicine, but when i inquire about the event i was not accepted to attend because the convention is an event with a payment.

So those who will benefit from modern studies on Herbs are those who have money who can control the market and not the common people.

The Common People will remain as consumer and patient and never will learn to control their life.

Tesda has given hope the common people to take charge of their health by teaching Hilot Wellness Massage, but DoH Licensed Massage Therapist are discrediting Tesda for giving scholarship to the common people in learning Hilot.

The accuse Hilot Wellness Massage NC2 are stealing jobs for the LMT’s but in reality the LMT have long time stole the livelihood and profession of the Manghihilot in the Philippines.

Hilot is for everyone and it is not for only one person. It is not mine to claim that i am Hilot. You are not required to be Certified or Licensed to become a Hilot.

Our Academy only help our graduates to remember the kind of Medicine that their Ancestors have taught them from generation to generation. So there is no standard procedures in doing Hilot.

As Each Patient is has individual differences, so as the type of Hilot Applied to each patient is different and unique.

Unlike in Massage Therapy, their sequences only circulate on Efflurage, Petrissage, Friction, Tapotement and Vibration; but Hilot goes beyond the Physical Manipulation and pass through the mental, emotional, social and spiritual aspect of each individual.

Aside from treating the body, we need to secure also the patients behaviour, its lifestyle and its environment. Healing will not come if these aspect is ignored.

So Licensed Massage Therapist dont be envious with Hilot, because our Craft is far more different from your scope of Practices.

Dance with my Nanay

After a month of recovery from Multiple Stroke and Hip Replacement Surgery, this valentine of 2019 nanay could stand and walk again with minimum assistance.

We recognize the help of modern medicine integrated with Traditional Hilot to achieve full potential of Holistic Healing.

Modern Diagnostic and surgical procedures in repairing or replacing the damage part of the patients body and the power of Natural Medicine in replenishing the life force of the Patient.

Indeed the Body is not complete without the Soul which is the Life Force of every individual.

Integration of the old to new; of traditional to conventional medicine.

Usog: The power of Movement

On January 20, 2019 and that will be sunday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM we will be conducting workhop on Philippine Folkloric Illnesses and its cure.

The title for this workshop is Usog, Bati and Gaba. On this workshop we will talk about the power of an individual to move other people towards having illness or wellness.

On the video above taken on the last day of 2018, we have visited a friends house and been welcomed by these children. As we open up our selves to these children, we have talked about their ability to move things using their power of the mind. Here shows that with focused intention and team work they can lift heavy objects or person with minimum strength using only their fingers.

On our workshop, we will talk about the characteristics of physical pain, emotional, mental, social and spiritual illness and its cure. The lifting/ levitation demonstration is just one natural ability that everyone has when they have a focused intention. Though this skills has an early workshop to conduct which is the Psychic Awareness and Skills Development that will happen on January 6, 2019 from 1:00PM to 6:00 PM at Lot 79 Phase A, Francisco Homes Narra, City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan.

Registration fee for our Usog, Bati and Gaba workshop is Php 2,500.00 with 30% discount to all who will confirm through our event page.

To confirm your participation, just click going on the link here Usog, Bati at Gaba Workshop.

Lana ng Binabaylan

Now available Lana ng Binabaylan Haplos Lunas sa mga karamdaman.

Made from 100% organic and fresh leaves, barks and roots of healing herbs that grow naturally at Shrine Yard in the Green City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan.

60 ml for Php 100.00 only.

Indicated for Muscle and Joint pain, artritis and rhuematism, skin infections, dundruff, cracked and scally skin, animal and insect bites, colic, cough and respiratory problems, headache, dizziness. Ideal for hilot massage, gua sha and bentusa treatment.

For other problems and indication, consult your hilot provider to obtain best result.

Visit us for Free Pulse Reading Analysis at Lot 79 Phase A, Francisco Homes Narra, City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan.

We make sure that our product is Earth Friendly by using glass bottle to contain our Healing Oil. Plastic bottles can damage our Planet so we advocate to be Earth Friedly as we provide healing to the person we also Heal the Earth.

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Doctor of Hilot

There is no Law yet to officially recognize Hilot as a Doctor here in the Philippines, but an International Law recognize Chiropractor as a Doctor so as the Acupuncturist.

Doctor Catherine Sy Luib, who is a Chiropractor and Acupuncturist whose Family roots are from Cebu and Dinagat Islands, Surigao Del Norte migrated to the United States and earn her Doctorate Degree in Chiropractic.

Doc Cath as she prefered to be called is a FYLPRO Champion of San Diego, California, USA.

She learned Hilot Academy through Facebook, and as delegate for the Filipino Young Leaders Program that is based in the United States, she wanted to have a Legacy project of reintroducing Hilot to the Filipino Communities in the US.

Doc Cath arrived in the Philippines on November 8 and immediately she immersed her self into a medical mission in Sta. Rosa, Laguna providing the people there with Alternative Health Care Services through Acupuncture and Chiropractic Adjustment.

And on the 10th of November, Doc Cath arrived to our place and started her transformative Journey in learning Hilot as the Philippine indigenous healing arts and science.

We had fun during the learning sessions. We started off with Tawas then an actual work of Herbal Identification to Mt. Balagbag. We have shared also the Knowledge of Baybayin. Cook some Hilot Recipe for health and wellness; and the actual demonstration and giving of Hilot.

Indeed, learning Hilot with Doc Cathy is fun as we have opened up new path ways to learn Hilot to our future Students and fellow advocate in Hilot Academy.

With these, we congratulate Doctor Catherine Sy Luib for completing her course as Hilot Binabaylan.