How much is the cost of Hilot?

Researchers of Philippine Traditional Medicine goes to places around the archepelago to experience the amazing healing touch of manghihilot. Mostly authentic hilot can be found in rural areas that is far away from the civilized society.

The Manghihilot (hilot provider) are the primary healthcare specialist where the common people consult with not only because of its effectivity but also for its affordability.

Now-a-days, authentic hilot are rare to find even the government provide training of Hilot Wellness Massage through TESDA and DoH. The hilot they teach is a commercialized massage that people confuse it with swedish massage. And sad to say still many people have a stigma of Hilot as Folk Medicine and quackery.

Indeed Hilot is a Folk Medicine that is nearly come to its extinction. The knowledge of Hilot as Traditional Medicine of the Filipino People is almost forgotten in exchange for higher income profession.

When you ask a child now-a-days of what the child will become when they grow old, no one will say that they want to become a Hilot.

But why?

Because people think that hilot is not a good income opportunity profession. Manghihilot only charge minimun amout or either accept donations only. The donation ranges from a pack of cigarette, bunch of banana, tray of eggs, etc.

But in doing Hilot, the provider spend a lot of energies from the time, knowledge of determining the cause of illness, planning the appropriate treatment modality to apply, use of herbs and other things that hilot will use before and after treatment.

The Hilot spend a lot rather than what s/he recieves. This shows that Hilot has a great value of Pakikipag Kapwa and pakikisama.

Kapwa is a Filipino Term that originates from the word kaputol ng kaluluwa ( a piece of the soul). Thus pakikipagkapwa is an art of unification of the individual soul to the Universal Soul or the word (us).

This pakikipagkapwa thing that the hilot has make hilot to reject payment from their client/patient. But what the client/patient did not realise is the value of the Hilot a manghihilot provide is much more greater that the amount of money could be spent.

What manghihilot work with is that we are restoring wellness to improve life.

Now if we talk about life, how much is the cost of life now-a-days?

Medicine of the Common People

masahilot1 In this modern time getting ill is too expensive but not all people can afford modern health care treatment from the professionals that is why most common people turn to self medication or just enduring the pain they have.

One characteristics of Hilot as the traditional medicine of the common people is affordability, that is why in Hilot Academy of Binabaylan we are going to launch Masa Hilot or Hilot for the common people that everyone may receive it economically without compromising the quality of health care.

HABI promotes Hilot as the Traditional Medicine of the Philippines as it has its unique delivery of health care that is similar to the modern allopathic and conventional medicine. Hilot has preventive, promotive, therapeutic and rehabilitative delivery system that common people can afford.

The Philippine Traditional Hilot Medicine has its own way of determining the cause of illness or diagnostic method through tawas or Traditional Alternative Wellness Analytic System.

The Hilot methods of scanning cause of illness is not limited to tawas but it also employs pulse reading analysis, kapkap salat, pagsasala and bentusa. In Hilot we are not limited in employing massage as treatment modality, but we also use herbs, heat, light, water and therapeutic communication (orasyon) for counseling, regression and progression therapy.

Apu Adman demonstrating Hilot Masahe during community outreach training

Pulse Reading demonstration

Tawas demonstration

For inquiries and scheduling of appointment, you may call or text Apu Adman Aghama at +639952467040 or email at hilot.binabaylan@gmail.com.

Hilot is not Swedish Massage

haplos effluerage Last night, i had a conversation with a Massage Enthusiast over Facebook Messenger. In our conversation she have mentioned that at last she have found the Filipino Version of Swedish Massage through Hilot. She have said that because she saw in one of our video posted at Hilot Academy FB Page that we mention Hilot Haplos as equivalent to Effluerage of Swedish Massage.

Indeed we have mention it to our video that Hilot Haplos is equivalent to Effluerage of Swedish Massage, but it does not mean that Hilot is only limited to Massage. I have told our friend the difference of learning through online videos to live discussion. Because Learning through Videos are limited only to the task performed than on live in person learning we explain thoroughly the principles behind the techniques that been demonstrated. It is also important to learn the whole concept first before jumping into conclusion that Hilot is the Filipino version of Swedish Massage which i will insist that it is not.

If we are going to talk about Massage in Filipino, Massage is not called Hilot but it was called as Masahe; and Masahe is only one of the many Healing Modality of Hilot.

To justify the thinking of Hilot as a form of Massage, the practitioner must recognise the difference of the Hilot Masahe strokes to the 5 manipulative strokes of Swedish Massage.

Swedish Massage has 5 Manipulative strokes so as Hilot Masahe.

SWEDISH MASSAGE STROKES	HILOT MASAHE STROKES	COMPARISON
EFFLUERAGE	HAPLOS	EFFLUERAGE
PETRISAGE	HAGOD	EFFLUERAGE/ FRICTION
FRICTION	PINDOT	FRICTION
TAPOTEMENT	PISIL	PETRISAGE
VIBRATION	PIGA	PETRISAGE

HABI ELEMENTAL HEALING TOUCH

So in this case, Hilot Masahe is only using 3 Manipulative Strokes from Swedish Massage which are the Effluerage, Petrissage and Friction.

To know more about the difference of Hilot Masahe and Swedish Massage, it is advice that take a short course on this subject. For inquiry and schedule of class, kindly call or text Apu Adman Aghama at +639952467040

My Passion for Hilot

One important role of hilot in the society is not limited in restoring the life force within the human body but also to maintain it in harmony and balance to all creations.

As hilot, sharing our knowledge and expertise to the world through teaching is a means of preserving the ancient healing arts and science of the Philippines.

By transfering our knowledge to a dedicated student, we can maintain the tradition alive in our home land.

MasaHilot of Kaduwa

It’s our second day of Livelihood Training of Hilot Wellness for Kaduwa Movement Equality through Compassion Inc.

We have talked about the importance of taking client information and its relavance to his/her health condition.

The first technique that been shared is also a form of diagnostic method whereas the practitioner analyze the elements within the name of the patient and determine its energetic balance. Then pulse diagnosis was also shared as one of the important diagnostic tool in determining the cause of illness. After wards we have perform and demonstrated dry hilot sequence or chair back massage.

Kaduwa Habi Hilot Training

Today is the first day of our Free Training of Kaduwa Habi Hilot.

And i am so grateful to have Bro. Oscar Sangalang, a well respected traditional healer in the metro to be one of our student/participant in this batch.

We also have participants from Bulacan, Valenzuela, Quezon City and Cavite. Though just a small group, we look forward to complete the 8 days of training in flying colors

Hilot is Love

All saints and all souls day is just a few days from now. On these days we remember our loved one who passed beyond the veil. But how about our beloved love ones who are still with us living but are weak, how can we celebrate life with them?
Hilot could help you show how you care for them because Hilot is love.

Energy Exchange

How much is the cost in having hilot? Or let me ask this in reverse, how much is the cost in giving hilot?

First of all, our Hilot is human also that has needs. In order to give hilot, they need to set aside their personal lives so that they can provide quality treatment to each patient. It is their job to make each client/patient to make them feel better not only in Physical condition but also emotional, mental, social amd spiritual aspect of their being. Since it is a Job performed, it must also be a job that should be paid.

Hilot is not just a massage, but it is a holistic treatment system that heals not only the Physical condition but also the emotion,mental, social and spiritual condition. It uses techniques that been spent with a long hours of study before employing it into treatment.

Hilot uses tools that they also pay for it too.

When they study hilot modality, they dont study it for free. They spend thousands of pesos too in order to master their craft. Hilot doesnt give treatment that they do not know how to employ.

Hilot is not just performance of strokes but each movement, procedure and strokes conducted by hilot are well studied movement.

Hilot treatement are not the same treatment for everyone because people are not the same. Each client will recieved different approach in hilot treatment depending on the result of hilot diagnosis to the client.

Know more about hilot by learning with us. The Wisdom of Hilot is not the same as the knowledge being taught by massage schools.

Hilot is our Traditional and Natural Healing Arts. It is our national pride and heritage for having Hilot survive in the midst of collonial wave that have come in our country.

There are only few who practice Hilot now a days, so in Hilot Academy we uphold it with the highest value to help it preserved and apply it in our daily lives.

Hilot is not just a Massage

Many people misunderstood hilot as a relaxing massage. Even TESDA is guilty about introducing Hilot as a wellness Massage.For everyones information, Hilot is not just Massage but it is a Holistic Indigeneous Learnable Operational Treatment modality. It aims to Heal by harmonizing enhancing and alleviating life of the people.
Hilot uses Halaman, Init, Liwanag, Orasyon and Tubig in their healing modality.
It has a process of thorough client profiling and investigative procedure to determine the client/patients illness (hilot diagnostic/ scanning) ; cleansing procedure (banyos, suob, hilod and paligo); treatment and rehabilitative process.
The medicine used by hilot can be taken as food, drink, applied to the skin or can be worn to the body as ornament.
Hilot is the Traditional and Natural Medicine in the Philippines. Traditional Birth Attendants are also Hilot so as the bone setters.
Hilot is not only limited in treating the physical disEase of the person but also extends its healing power in giving solution to the problem of emotion as well as of the mind.
Hilot can be also given to place such as hilot for the home/ house, community, country and even for the Earth and Universe.

Hilot our Pride

This page started as Philippine Traditional Hilot Wellness Massage and promoting it as Alternative Medicine. As we start we walk together with PHILIPPINE CERTIFIED WELLNESS THERAPIST ASSOCIATION as our main organization for our Tesda Graduate in Hilot Wellness NC2 and Massage Therapy NC2 until the group was disolve to give way for DoH organization of Licensed Massage Therapist that is PALMT or Philippine Association of Licensed Massage Therapist.

But by 2018, Hilot Academy of Binabaylan will open its door not only for teaching or training but also as membership organization to all Hilot provider in promoting our Modality as Philippine Traditional and Natural Medicine.

Like in other country, we believe Hilot is not just an Alternative Medicine but it is our very own Traditional Medicine.
In this modern age of the Millenials, we almost have lost our own identity as who we are and have neglected the works of our ancestors in co creating this world.
Habi or Hilot Academy of Binabaylan commits in preserving our own culture by Sharing Hilot to the world that will bring us back our own identity as the Children from the Pearl of the Orient as Magiting or Great People.