Hilot through times even from the moment of the first human being existed in our country, Hilot has been connecting lives on an individual to the source of life. And in this modern days where healthcare are expensive and sometimes discriminating, Hilot has become a refuge for our fellow Filipino who does not afford to avail the professional services of Medical personnel. This is why Hilot Academy of Binabaylan reaches out to all Filipino in Diaspora to become a Hilot Binabaylan in their area.
This coming August 2024, we will go to Danville Yoga and Wellness Center as we hold classes on Philippine Indigenous Ancestral Healing Arts and Science there on which we highlight our entry level class which is the Hilot Binabaylan Training.
As early as today, we already have 23 registrant that is willing to be initiated as Hilot Binabaylan that comes from different part of the United States of America.
Though what I am expecting is to reach out with our graduates to provide for them an opportunity to level up their practice and become a Mentor. I also see that there are some inquiry who wish to become a mentor, but i encourage them to become a Hilot Binabaylan Practitioner first for about a year and two so that they may be deeply grounded on the healing principle of Hilot before they can lead others on becoming a Hilot Binabaylan. Though as I see the graph in our registration form, i am surprised to see that we have doctors who are enrolling the class and many Masters degree holder who are willing to be initiated by us.
Just like the practice of Hilot Healing, our training will accept you whether you have no educational attainment or you had a wonderful degree out of the education you have. But what is important in our Training is your willingness to unlearn, relearn and be immersed on the Hilot Healing Principles which we will share on August as we come to the US.
I amazed to what I have become today. All I know is that I used to apply my knowledge only to my closest Family Members. Then later on, neighbors ask for Hilot. Then, in 2008 I am sharing my knowledge at Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and everything now becomes different.
I also remember that there is a person who ask me to pass over to them my knowledge of Hilot as they will use it that they could teach in colleges or University. I said to them introduce me so that I could teach. But that person said, I am not qualified to teach because I have no Bachelor’s and Masteral Degree to teach College Students. So, then I said, enroll to my Class and become a practitioner but you are not allowed to teach as you are not an accredited Hilot Master.
This is the same thing that I feel 3 years ago when working with former High Ranking Government official, they just extract what I know and develop for them Curriculum and Training Program and at the end of it, they will see my credentials as having no bachelor’s degree and master’s degree.
By the way, if we go back in time during the 11th century does our ancestors have formal schooling way back then? Do the Manghihilot at that time has bachelor’s or masteral degree as they practice healing? Hilot has been taught through apprenticeship. Students of Hilot observe the Hilot Master on how they perform and treat their patient. Sometimes the Hilot Master will send out the apprentice to the woods in order to get Medicinal Herbs even without detailed instructions. You will just ask the herbs if they are the right plant for the illness being treated at the moment. and also the apprentice learn because they will be asked to hold tight the client so that they will not move as the Master apply Hilot to the patient.
There is no classroom, no whiteboard nor blackboard, no overhead projector for PowerPoint presentation, special laboratory room and equipment’s, nor clinic and treatment room to accept patient. These all happen within the abode of the Manghihilot.
I am writing this here to cast away all my worries in mind and to reassure myself that I should keep walking to the path of our race and not be bothered by the worries I have in mind. I should be thankful that we have Bahay SiAdTala that is hosting our students who come from different parts of the world as they heed the call of our Ancestors in becoming a Hilot Binabaylan.
We should remember that the ways of the Ancestors are different from the ways of the modern world. The modern world is living now in an instant way, but our Ancestors they are the one who manually lay the foundation. But you now, as Hilot Binabaylan who walks the path of our ancestors, even you live in the world in modern times, I encourage you to be the foundation setter because what has been founded by our ancestors will be consumed by the people in this modern time and in the future, we will make sure that these foundation will remain.
Unlike spa, the client choose what kind of treatment they want to have. But in Hilot, we as specialist are the one who decide which treatment our client should have. But how do we determine which Hilot Treatment we should provide for our client? And that is through our Hilot Diagnostic Procedures.
As Manghihilot, we know that there are only 2 types of illness and that is the spiritual illness and the physical illness. So, how do we determine if the client has physical illness or a spiritual illness?
We can determine this through finger alignment method. If the finger is not aligned we know that there is a spiritual cause of an illness from there we will investigate which elemental spirits that affects the client then we perform tawas diagnosis.
After we perform the tawas ritual we will give our personal remarks or observation on the tawas then we will ask the client to give feedback so that we can make analysis. After we analyze we will give our recommendation and ask the client for consent for the treatment procedures we plan to perform for them.
If the illness is caused physically after finger alignment we will do pulse reading analysis and we will give our remarks and recommendation and ask consent if we could perform to the client the treatment plan we have to help them restore their well being.
Over the years, Hilot Academy of Binabaylan is working out to preserve and promote Philippine Indigenous Traditional Medicine which is known as Hilot by inviting those who have been called by our Ancestors to relearn this sacred knowledge of our Ancestral Healing Arts and Science.
And this coming August 2024, Apu Adman and Lakay Magbaya is coming to the US as we are invited by Danvile Yoga and Wellness to share this Ancestral Healing Arts among Filipino that was born in the US or even non Filipino that has a calling to take the duties and responsibilities as Hilot Binabaylan.
As we come there, we will come with a 3 program in serving everyone so that you may reach this goal.
First is the 8 days Hilot Binabaylan Training which is an entry level that will initiate you in ministering the people by delivering Indigenous Traditional Filipino Health Care.
The other 2 program are the Continuing Education Program which will serve our graduates. First to those who have taken the Non Contact Hilot Mind and Spirit Work which was ordained as Magaanito, Magtatawas, Pangatauhan and Pangutanahan to level up their status as full pledged Hilot Binabaylan.
Then the other one is for those who have been ordained as Hilot Binabaylan Practitioner from 2016 to 2023 which we provide you a one step ladder to upgrade your status from being a practitioner to a Mentor.
Join us in this limited offer at 125 TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVE, DANVILLE, CALIFORNIA, USA
For a limited time, we will be offering 3 Hilot Training Program on August 2024 at Danville Yoga and Wellness Center at Danville, California, USA.
The trainings will be the following:
1. Hilot Daloy: This is a continuing Education Training Program for our Graduates who took the Non Contact Hilot Mind and Spirit Work during the Time of Pandemic on 2020-2022. This offering will provide opportunity to our Magaanito/Pangutanahan/Pangatauhan to earn their Full Hilot Binabaylan Status by enrolling in this 5 days Training Program at Danville Yoga and Wellness Center.
2. Hilot Tanglaw: Your growth as practicing Hilot Binabaylan is important that we create this continuing education program for all of our Practitioners who completed our Hilot Binabaylan Training Program. This program will certify you to be an accredited Mentor on selected Hilot Binabaylan Knowledge, Skills and Abilities or the Full Hilot Binabaylan Competencies. This will be a 10 days training.
3. Hilot Binabaylan: This is an entry level program that will ordain an Individual to administer Philippine Indigenous Traditional Health Care, either privately to your Family or Publicly to your community. This is an 8 days Training Program.
Our Graduate show this picture in his timeline and he explains that he is showing what he have learned from us to his Family members, but when it comes to TAWAS they were afraid and he explained to them that it was our ancestral Filipino Diagnostic tool.
And I say, that was Fine because it is hard to unlearned what we have been taught about TAWAS 500 years ago. Only those who have open mind can understand and benefit from our Ancestral Healing Arts and Sciences.
Hilot is the Medicine for the Common People. It is not a luxurious treatment that been offered in a Hospitality based industries promoted by Wellness Tourism.
Indeed, our Treatment modality can be world class, but Authentic Hilot Choose it to be affordable for the Common People who earns below minimum that spends their earning just for their Family to have food in their table and excluding Health Care on their Budget.
So please, give outmost respect to our Manghihilot and not sexualize them. They relearn the our Ancestral Healing Arts and Science in order to serve Humanity in preserving your Health and not your Sexual Fantasies.
They are not just certified Practitioners but instead they are Ordained Minister that will not only care for your Body but also to your Soul and Spirit,
Good News to Everyone! Hilot Academy of Binabaylan which is an Educational Ministry of Luntiang Aghama Natural Divine Arts Shrine of Healing Inc. (which is a Center for Philippine Traditional Spiritual Beliefs and Practices) is opening up it’s doors (specially to it’s graduates) for a Continuing Education Program. This program is ideal for those who have taken up the Non Contact Hilot Mind and Spirit work which usually specialize on Hilot Diagnostics Method. This mean that those who have taken the class may now can complete the remaining classes in order to become a full Hilot Binabaylan Practitioner. As we have designed that a Hilot Binabaylan should be able to perform the following competencies:
Hilot Diagnostics which compose of Tawas Spiritual Diagnostics, Kilubansa Elemental Name Energetic Balance Analysis, Pulse Reading Analysis. In our new Curriculum design, we added in this competency the Hilot Profiling method, Physical Assessment and Evaluation and Vital Sign Taking & monitoring, and Sibulan Adlaw Tala Baybayin Mystic Oracle.
Hilot Cleansing Methods which consist of Punas, Babad, Langgas, Mumog, Buhos, Hilod, Suob.
Hilot Treatment Methods which consist of Hilot Tapal or Herbal Poultice Application, Dagdagay/ Kulis Stick Foot Massage, Tawak/Tandok/ Bentusa Fire Cupping, Kayod or Scraping Therapy and Hilot Touch Manipulation Techniques.
Hilot Home Care Supplementation which consist of Herbal home remedies, Bio Energetics Techniques of Unat, KiGa and Indak Movements.
We also encourage all of our graduates from 2016 up to 2023 to have self-evaluation and retake the course or have an update to a class which they have not taken in the past. As all of the above-mentioned competencies are required so that you may upgrade your status on being a Hilot Binabaylan Practitioner to Hilot Binabaylan Mentor.
Mentorship Certification Program
When you take our class in the past, what you have received from us is just a Certificate as Hilot Binabaylan Practitioner. And your duties and responsibilities are only limited in providing Philippine Traditional and Indigenous Health Care into your Community. But through our Mentorship Certification Program, this will enable you to share your knowledge and expertise on the practice of Hilot Binabaylan that may initiate an Individual or group and be ordained as Hilot Binabaylan.
Requirements
Hilot Mentorship Certification is an upgrade opportunity for all of our Hilot Binabaylan Practitioners to earn extra income by becoming a Mentor & Assessor/ Evaluator. So, it is important requirement before you become a Certified Hilot Binabaylan Mentor & Assessor/ Evaluator is that you are a Hilot Binabaylan Practitioner for about 3 years. That means if you have taken the course on 2019, you are qualified to take this course. And it is important that you practice all the skills competencies prescribed in order to become a Hilot Binabaylan Practitioner or you can be a mentor of a specific skills. Such as in skills in the above-mentioned skills competencies.
How will it work?
Mentors candidate must fill up a self-evaluation form before application. It is necessary for mentors to be expert on the field that you are going to mentor or share. It is ideal for us that you should be expert in all field as Hilot Binabaylan so that you could also work as an Evaluator. In order for you to be a Certified Trainer, you have to share your knowledge of the skills you are to mentor during the regular class of Hilot Binabaylan Training and the Trainer (which is me, lakay and Mam Nora) will supervise you in co-training or mentoring. So, that means you have to attend the regular 9 days class and master each subject we teach from Hilot Diagnostics to Hilot Suplementation. Upon completion of training of the regular class of 9 days, additional days will be allotted to you for the trainer’s feedback as mentor and then the awarding of Certificate as Mentor. Upon awarding of Certificate, you are only allowed to mentor a skill which you are being certified depending on your performance if you qualify to become a trainer. If you are qualified on all skills level, you will become a certified trainer or if you only have few skills, you will just be a mentor.
If you want to be evaluated as mentor or trainer, you may bring a student to enroll on our 9 days and we will give you chance to share your knowledge and experience as Hilot Binabaylan by becoming a mentor, co trainer with supervision.
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
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:
Hilot Academy of Binabaylan 
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