When I was at The Alternative Medicine School at St. Francis Divine College, it was the desire of my late Professor and Mentor Dr. Rueben M. Galang Jr. to have a Healer in Every Filipino Homes. And now we have Hilot Academy of Binabaylan, we envisioned that Wherever a Filipino is around the world, there is a Hilot Binabaylan to touch you. But what is the importance of having a Hilot Binabaylan in every Filipino Home? or even in the community of Filipino in Diaspora? Aside from patronizing our own culture and Tradition, we as Hilot Binabaylan teaches people to be responsible in their own Health and not relying it to other people outside their Family. By having a Hilot Binabaylan in every home, preventive and promotive Health Care will be implemented. The cost of buying synthetic medicine will be lessened, and every Filipino Homes will be empowered to live a Happy life, out of illness and even sudden death. This is the thoughts that came to me when I design the Hilot Family Care Training Program.

At first I only thought of Training unemployed single mother’s, but in my mind when the mother get sick who will care for her? So, I decided that I will provide a training program for the whole family to learn basic Hilot treatment techniques that in times of need everyone could give Hilot Treatment to one another. Like what I always teach in the Academy that every individual should be responsible with their own health such as an individual breathe, eat and drink for themselves so, much more they must be responsible in caring for their own health.

In the Word Hilot, the last letter on it’s word does not mean Tolerate but instead it means to Teach. As Manghihilot, we teach people by reminding them the Law of Nature in every treatment that we provide to them. We do not teach them to be Reliant but instead we teach them to be Responsible. The pain a person experience during a Hilot Treatment does not mean to hurt them, but it is a reminder for an individual to Remember the Laws. Hilot is not a gateway to escape your individual problem by having a relief but instead Hilot will push you to confront the problem and deal it right away that you may be birthed into a new life.

People might think that the Treatment that Hilot Provide is Barbaric and Ancient for as it does not consider the pain that a person would suffer, but in the first place- the person that comes to us is already in pain and what we do is fix the thing that have been broken in their lives. This is why people shout, cry and even lamenting during our treatment as if each individual who receives hilot experience labor pain like a mother who is delivering birth. Through the pain they experience they will be reminded of the mistakes and wrong doings they have done either in this recent past or even extend it to their past life. Relieving pain does make it to be cured, like in tooth ache which is very painful, if we just take pain reliever it will just relieve us temporarily, we need to see a Dentist on how deep the infection affected us and if it already destroyed our tooth. When it does, it needed to extract so that we will be fully healed. And when we are done, we will be very careful now so that illness will not come back and make us suffer.

As Hilot Binabaylan, we never claim to be the one who heals, as many Traditional Filipino Healers would say that we are only instrument of God in providing Healing. In Alternative Medicine School, when I was in College, My Professor Dr. Rueben M. Galang Jr. have taught us that every human being has the ability to heal themselves, and this teaching is what I am carrying up to this day, and passing it forward to all my students or rather should I call as fellow Hilot Binabaylan.

So in our Hilot Binabaylan Training, I introduce to our learning fellow their Healing Companion and their Co Worker which is the herbs. Through this, it grinds our self Pride and boost Humility within us acknowledging to our self that we are not the Healer but being firm to our belief that we are only the Instrument. Because now-a-days, there are many prideful Healers that would say that you owe your life to them, which in turn becomes very ungodly.

In the teachings of Luntiang Aghama through Hilot Academy, we see Plant Medicine Spirits as our Elder Siblings. They were placed by the Creator among and around us to take care for us. But unfortunately with the progress of time and Greed of Humanity, these elder siblings of ours are being pulled out from the ground and cover the soil with concrete cement to become our road.

But we can see that the power of Nature still persist that she allow life to flourish even on a tiny Space. It seems that our Elder siblings are struggling to Co Exist among us that in this world, only Humans are allowed to exist, and no plants and animals should unless Human beings allows it. But in reality, It was the Plants and animals were the first in the order of creation, next to the mountain, valley, plains, river and seas. It was them that was referred to by the God of the Bible when He said: Let US Make Man according to OUR Image. It was the Elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water and all that was created before us that allow us to live and exist.

We know this at first but as Time progresses, we already forgot this reality and our mind was poisoned with Greed and illness struck our body that we become weak.

Before we see this as Garbage and usually weed it out like a pest. But now, people have learned its value that it has been sold in market place as medicine. If people only know how to talk to plants, they will know their value and how they can help us in times of need. Having knowledge on Plant Medicine Spirits will humble us as we will learn their role not only as food but as well as in repairing us when we are sick and broken.

With these, I want to invite you to study with us in our Journey in Becoming a Hilot Binabaylan. We already have open classes on May 2023 which will start on May 10-18, 2023 and we also welcome enrollee’s for June 2023. To register, kindly click on the Button below and fill up our Registration Form.

April came with a hectic schedule for me, as we conduct our 2nd and 3rd batch of Hilot Binabaylan Face-to-Face in person Training that our sister Lani Brown have kicked started last 16 of January which went successful as we have passed our knowledge to her. This has been followed by 3 days Masidhi Hilot Class which attended by Nawa and Argo on February 28- March 1; then on April 6-13 for Kai, Maria and Grace then lastly for Carolina on April 15-23.

I am very grateful for Red Doorz CPG Estate Goldbergs Hotel for becoming a temporary Home of our Students that is located at 11A General Espino St., Zone 6, Brgy. South Signal Village, Taguig City.

Since the construction of our Building for our Training Venue is not yet complete but have finished first our Learning Activity Area which still need improvement. I am sure that all students who came here notice that as they endure the summer heat in the Philippines but have successfully completed the required 8 days training in becoming a Hilot Binabaylan. But thanks to Red Doorz, the student has a comfortable place to rest at night that they may able to charge up and to face new challenges set every day.

During our Training, we have snack breaks and lunch. And every after lunch, we have Siesta, which is an after-lunch nap which comes beneficial for our students to gather strength as they beat up the noon time heat. I notice this has become a trend since our day 1 with Lani Brown then during the Training of Argo and Nawa, and this time with kai, maria, grace and carolina.

These batch of learners were able to formulate new terminology for Hilot based on their learning experience. For batch 2 of 2023 which consist of Kai, Maria Malunggay and Grace, and they call their Hilot as Confrontational Healing which makes our Hilot Touch like a Key that open up the doors of the Past that made them deal with the trauma they have whether in their childhood day even of their past lives. Our Training method allow them first to experience Hilot Binabaylan Ritual Healing that starts from suob and the application of all Hilot Treatment techniques that invokes the help of the Elements of Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit.

When I see myself doing it, I was like a Midwife who assist new mother to deliver a live child. The experience that i was able to give them is like a Birthing ritual which every one of them experiences labor pain that is not only physical in nature but as well as emotional, mental, social and Spiritual. I was able to deliver a new life to each one of them through our Hilot Binabaylan Healing Ritual.

The next terminology that been created by carolina which is from batch 3-2023 is what she calls as Karmic Hilot. According to her, she have been practicing as Holistic Healer for 20 years, and when she came to us, it was her first-time experience to receive healing to her own by another person. She has already witnessed how her client experience the pain as she gives healing, but this time she is the one who receives healing through Hilot. The treatment that she experiences is somewhat she calls as repairing pain, as it fixes part of her body that has been damage due to long time usage. The literal Wear and Tear effect in our life. In our life, we experience aging and that is inevitable fact that all of us will experience. But it is nice that we have Hilot healing that allow us to reset our body and feel become new person.

On my part as Hilot Binabaylan Teacher and Healer, It teach me not only in giving happiness and hope. But Hilot encourage me to be Humbler in Helping them face their own realities in life and in becoming more honest to what i assess that is going through in their life not only in their current physical health aspect but also in their emotional, intellectual, social and Spiritual Health.

With these, we are opening up again our doors for our Journey in becoming a Hilot Binabaylan Training that will happen this May 2023. So if you want to take this course, kindly fill up our enrollment form by clicking the button below.

Like i am telling you all the time that Hilot is not just massage but there are other modalities that an Authentic Manghihilot could provide as cure for an illness.

So How Malong could treat an illness? Well, I could share more ways how malong can be employed in Healing if you enroll on our training program in becoming a Hilot Binabaylan.

But basically, Malong is a form of clothing that mostly worn by thalassocrat people who lives in nearby sea. Which is common in southern Philippines and nearby neighboring countries. It is one of the earliest clothing of our ancestors aside from bahag and saplot at tapis. Though it was my long dream to meet and befriend a Fashion Designer that could revive or reinvent Saplot and Tapis to be worn in this modern times rather than Baro’t Saya for female and Barong for men which has its Spanish Influence and now been celebrated as our National Clothing. I have seen Malong being indigenous to Maranao and Maguindanaon People as they use it even in their daily modern lives and been inspired by them.

The first time I see malong that been worn by men was when I am in Saudi Arabia. I noticed that Saudian people always wear their national dress for men which is called thobe. And even muslims here in the Philippines do sometime wear thobe as Islam was a National Religion for Saudi Arabia. But aside from Saudians, I see Indians, Bangladeshi, Indonesians wear Malong as their skirt or lower garments that is why when I came back to the Philippines and establish Hilot Academy of Binabaylan, I started to wear Malong as my lower garments at home. Since Philippines is one of the Thalossocratic country, which is surrounded by sea, it is comfortable to wear Malong specially on hot and sunny days. Malong can be one of the cultural pride of our country aside from the Habi and Abel coming from different regions of our country. Besides from that I see Malong can be useful in doing Hilot as Malong is known to be cloth from Cradle to Grave. It has been known to use by our Maguindanaon Brothers and Sister to wrap their new born child in malong so as their dead before sending them to the Grave. I see its worth in giving warmth during Rainy and cold days, so as Shelter in Sunny days. For me instead of using umbrella under the sun, I use malong as a Shade even during rainy days.

It is important to know in our Journey in becoming a Hilot Binabaylan the kind of medicine we apply in treating our people who are sick. It was not us who practice Hilot does heal. And since time immemorial we never claim we could heal but it is the person themselves through God’s Grace. In our training, we share all the methods that we could use to facilitate activating the healing abilities of an individual. And many people have ignored or neglected to value of our Plant Medicine Allies.

As modern people of this time have been trapped to their knowledge that medicine should be prescribed only by a medical professional and need to buy at the pharmacy and have forgotten that our Great Healer have given us Caregiver through the plants that grow in our surroundings. People just take what they have been told and known but have built a wall of separation to other plants they do not know and consider them as poison.

Our ignorance towards Plant Medicine allies have limit us and enslaved us to patronize medicines that could be bought at pharmaceuticals. Our busy life made us choose fast relief that it is easy to buy rather than to cultivate our own medicine. This modern culture that we have now in this generation makes life easy that it easily comes and easily go. There are so much fear that been instilled and inculcated into our minds by this modern society where we belong now. But if we set aside those fear, and trust that everything God had made has a purpose and integrate our self to the ways of Nature, then like trees in the forest, we will grow and stay alive longer and enjoy the blessings that the world may give.

When I woke up this morning as I am having my cup of Coffee, I just wondered Who I became today. I still remember those day before I started working in this profession that I am Jobless who relies on my daily living to my parents who lovingly provides everything for me.

I remember that night when my heart feels heavy and reach out to the sky and lie down on the cold ground in a grassy hill where moon and starlight shine while my tears flooding my face. I remember that time when I asked God to reveal to me who should I be, and in the silence of the night, it seems the moon have whispered into my ears and asked me: “what can you do to live?”

And I said: “I can do Hilot and Divination!” And from that time forward, I start doing Hilot as a Living.

First, as a Body Care Technician at Fitness First Spa ABS-CBN in Quezon City then as Spa Treatment Developer on which I was able to use my knowledge as Manghihilot in formulating Herbal Treatments on Hilod and Pagbabalot (Exfoliating Body Scrub and Wrap) which people have loved much. After rendering my services as employee, I become an Accredited Trainer and Assesor on Hilot Wellness Massage NC2. And from then on, my journey in this advocacy have lead me in establishing Hilot Academy of Binabaylan which is an Educational Ministry of Luntiang Aghama Natural Divine Arts Shrine of Healing Inc.

Hilot Hands Ltd. of London will host us an Event that is called Pangalap which means Gathering and this will happen on April 7, 2023 by 9:00 AM GMT (London Time) or in the Philippines it will be 5:00 PM. This event is created in observance of the Roman Catholic Holiday which is known as Good Friday.

During the post colonial Tradition in the Philippines, Good Friday was known to be the best day in making Lana or Healing Oil. Usually the making of Lana starts during the Ash Wednesday, when devout catholic brings their Palaspas in the Church to be ritually burnt and the ashes will be used to Mark Cross on the forehead of the faithful reminding them of their origins that:

“From Ashes you Came, To Ashes we shall return.”

Gensis 3:19

On this day Filipino Mystics and healers starts collecting herbs that they will use as ingredients in making Lana or Healing Oil. In our Family, this tradition has been passed to me from my Father who consistently make Lana every Good Friday by Noon Time. Since the stove is busy in making the healing oil, so our Lunch has been delayed till 3:00 PM, and my Father being a Catholic himself says that delaying our Lunch will be our observance of the lent by doing the penitent of Fasting.

But why make a Healing Oil on Good Friday when all Catholics believe that Jesus Christ was dead by that time? Hard core Catholics may say that this practice is an abomination and blasphemy to the Catholic Faith, others would say that during this days Dark Power is on Height but for Authentic Healers and Mystics would say that this practice proves that God is not Dead. It is a celebration that even religion would consider God to be dead at that time, for Us even in death there is power to give life through the oil that we make on this day.

Is making Lana or Healing Oil is Limited only during Good Friday? No! Anytime is a Good Day to make Lana or Healing Oil as All Days are God given days for us. But of course, when we are sick we can not make the healing oil as we are weak, specially when we are dead. And during those time of sickness, we ask someone to anoint us with Healing oil so that we can recover.

The reason why we make our Lana or Healing Oil during Good Friday, so that we can align our intention to the intentions of all the mystics and healers who gathered on this moment of Time in making Healing Oil. These people came from either the Holy Mountain of Banahaw in Doleres, Quezon and the Holy Mouuntain of Bandilaan in Siquijor which are known for their Healing Powers.

So this April 7, 2023- we invite you to come to our Shrine at Luntiang Aghama Natural Divine Arts Shrine of Healing Inc. by 12:00 Noon Philippine Time as we make together our Healing Oil. And to those who will come there will be an Energy Exchange of Php 500.00 that will be used in buying the ingredients we will use during the Ritual. For those who are interested to join, kindly fill up the form below for RSVP.