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.

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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.

Since 2020 we are working with these in Uplifting the status of Manghihilot in our Country. Hilot Academy of Binabaylan through Apu Adman have work out with former Department of Tourism Secretary Dr. Mina T. Gabor, together with Former Department of Social Work and Development Secreatry Dr. Corazon Alma De Leon, Former Department of Health Secretary Dr. Jaime Galvez Tan, Former Philippine Institute of Traditional Alternative Health Care Director General Dr. Isidro Sia which is now Pitahc Academe & Research Institute Sectoral Representative and with the Current PITAHC Director General Dr. Anabelle Pabiona De Guzman.

In this meeting, I present the Curriculum for Hilot Philippines Development Center as a continuing Education Program for our local Manghihilot to improve their skills services and prepare them for a more sustainable income opportunity in working as a Professional Traditional Health Care Provider.

It is such a Great Honor for us at Hilot Academy of Binabaylan to become a Cultural Doula in rebirthing other countries Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Spiritual Beliefs and Practices such as for our new Hilot Binabaylan in Training Quynh Vy who is from Vietnam. For us in Luntiang Aghama, it was the Correllian Nativist Tradition of Wicca had help us to dig deeper on our History, Culture and Tradition which allow us to resurface back again our Indigenous Spirituality. And it is through Hilot where it becomes our Doorway to found again the medicine of our ancestors which is strongly connected to the Spiritual realms.

Indeed, that as we always say that Hilot is our Traditional Indigenous Medicine, which is part of the applied science, whereas, in Hilot Academy of Binabaylan, we do not only focus our study on how to treat Human Illness but we go beyond the Physical Body to understand more the wholeness of the individual who seeks healing from us. As we believe that the Physical Body is just a vessel of life force to dwell in, and when it left the physical body, it will become lifeless. The lifeless body will not be able to feel, move, speak nor think because the life force is already absent in the body. And this life force within us is what we recognize as our soul. If the soul is complete within our body, Life is present, and the individual may achieve Wellness or Illness. all of this are being taught in our Hilot Binabaylan Training.

If we better understand how our ancestors value life, how our parents care for us prior to the coming of modern Phamaceuticals and the conventional medicine, we will know our Traditional Indigenous Medicine, and aligned to our Traditional Indigenous Medicine is the Indigenous Spirituality of our Ancestors. As we believe that we could not separate the Body and the Spirits. But even in Death, how our ancestors deal with it, we will find their spiritual beliefs and practices.