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.

Since the Time we started Hilot Academy on April 5, 2016- we are Moving! I register first at DTI Makati office and they refuse to Accept the name of Hilot Academy so from Makati I move to DTI Malolos Office and Register our name there and Gratefully we have been Recognized. Though we register our name in Malolos, Bulacan we made our operations in Brgy. Pio del Pilar, Makati City and from there we start teaching Hilot.

On regular days when there is no student, we entertain some Japanese Business men and their wives to experience Hilot (Since by that time I am with my Japanese Wife who have big connections with the Japanese Community residing in Makati at that time). From the experience they had, curiosity arouse in them that they wanted to learn and become a student. With that, it gives me hope that Hilot will become popular and accepted in Japan which it happened by establishing the Yamahata School of Traditional Hilot in Hakodate, Hokaido, Japan which now extends in Ebisu 2-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan and been administered by Kayoko Yamahata (which becomes my ex wife now).

After we establish Hilot School in Japan, My relationship with my wife have shaken and become not in good terms that we parted ways. And as I go back to the Philippines I focus more on Sharing Hilot to the rest of the world especially to those who have Filipino Blood in themselves but lives in Diaspora.

Jose Miguel, Verma Zapanta and John Nagas were one of the non Japanese pioneers who studied with Hilot with me in Brgy. Pio Del Pilar, Makati City, Philippines. Jose Miguel being a Pure Spanish Blood of Barcelona, Spain who fell in love with our Country that pushed him to learn Cebuano as well as our Traditional Healing Arts which he incorporate to his diving school in Carcar, Cebu; Verma Zapanta which is a Filipino American that is based in San Francisco, California, USA who seeks to reconnect with her Filipino Lineage through Hilot; and John Nagas who is a Pure Filipino Descent and native of Quezon City which learn Hilot to reconnect and strengthen his Spiritual Calling and Vocation.

But prior to them, we have teach Hilot through TESDA Train for Work Scholarship program that we conduct in almost all places in Quezon City. The above images that you see are my graduates from Brgy. Pasong Putik in Quezon City. And we conduct our training at an old Chapel Office which the people set tent in front of the Chapel so that we could perform Hilot. And this happened on 2011 even before we have our Hilot Academy.

Then on 2013 we went for a Teaching Mission at Coayan, Ilocos sur followed by another teaching mission in Cervantes and San Esteban with Lakay Magbaya Aghama which is all in Ilocus Sur.

As we teach them we make sure that they can use the techniques in their community as I also talk to their community government leaders to provide them space where they could perform Hilot and earn a living as well. The Knowledge, Skills and Abilities that we impart to them will be useless if these wont help them financially as well.

We were also able to teach Hilot to Koreans Students of Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the University of Makati on 2013. Then we move again to Kingspoint Subdivision at Brgy. Bagbag, Quezon City and have opened up Free Hilot Training for 30 students for 8 days which took all the Saturdays and Sundays of the Month. And those who lives far away stays and live with us for free which includes their food from breakfat, merienda, lunch, merienda and dinner with overflowing supply of coffee and hot water and these had happened on 2018.

After warming up with our Free Kaduwa Hilot, Ryah Paz which is a Pinay Austrian came to learn Hilot from us. Which followed by Verma again to take her Mastery Course on Hilot from us.

Then we have Jan Denise of Canada/ France. Ita Montero which is non English and only Spanish speaking from Santiago, Chile and Bonn Monzon, a pure Blood Filipino of Metro Manila which is our last students who took classes from us at Kingspoint Subdivision in Brgy. Bagbag, Quezon City.

After that we move back to Bulacan because my mother is very sick. And while I am caring for my mother we were able to accommodate Dr. Catherine Sy Luib who is an Acupuncturist and Chiropractor and came to learn Hilot from us.

I am grateful that Doc Catherine became my last student who were able to pay respect to my mother when she is still alive. I know that my mother also remembers her even now (my mother) is already on the after life. After Doc cathy, we were able to conduct event within our Shrine that been attended with many people. Though we have very small place, we were able to accommodate for a day training of more than 5 people.

Then we also have accommodate to train Hilot to our good friend from Antipolo which is Lera Padua, after her comes Kai Maskarenas of Washington, DC, USA; then Agar-Agar a Pure Italian who explores our Philippine Traditional Medicine and lastly with Jeremy Pascal, a Pure French National and his Filipina French Wife Gerone Pascal.

After these we start to move again as our Friend in Fairview, Quezon City have lend her house to be our venue on Hilot Binabaylan Training and in there we had Jaimee of Baltimore, Maryland, USA and Julz which is a Tattoo Artist following the Mambabatok Tradition from Hawaii, USA; then followed by our Soul sister Maria Haswell of San Ramon, California and Dina Snaith of United Kingdom; then with 2 pure Spanish couple of Catalan, Spain and they are Noel Zamora and Laura Castillo.

Then the last venue that we have before pandemic is the training that we held for Kai Bautista, together with the House Owner Kara Barientos and Ice Infante in Tagaytay which happened right after the eruption of Taal Volcano then the lockdown of Pandemic.

During the Pandemic we stopped doing training instead we shift in doing Online Classes which focuses on Non Contact Hilot which only limited in doing Hilot Diagnosis of tawas, and from 2020 to 2022 which we were able to train 46 individuals to become a Certified Magaanito and Magtatawas that comes from different places around the world. And we thank Google Workspace on becoming our partner to make this online training possible through the Google ClassRoom and Google Meet app which provides us affordable subscription package that we maintain on monthly basis.

And when the world opened up again this 2023, we were graced to have this January by Lani Brown, our Magaanito from Corona, California to continue her studies from us and became officially Hilot Binabaylan and we held her initiation and ordination at International Institute of Rural Reconstruction in Silang, Cavite and followed by 2 learning buddies who took the Masidhing Kamagaral Training Program which are Argo and Nawa who are both from Australia.

And this constant moving from one place to another proves that our movement is alive. But the consequence of it is that we do not have an exact location where people could see us except on our Virtual or online presence. We are like nomads that jumps from one place to another, and in times that people will need us, we are on the road to some places and this makes our body weak (me and Lakay). This made Lakay to offer his place in Taguig which is just 15- 30 minutes away from Manila International Airport. But his house in Taguig is still in the process of Reconstruction.

And the construction for this building is still on going. and the ground floor on which our Hilot Activity will be held is almost complete. I made a floor plan for a 2 story building on which I include student dormitory so that we wont rent rooms from Hotel anymore.

We plan that as you enter our venue you will see herbal garden on both sides of the Path Way before you enter the main Building. The path way can be an activity area where we could conduct traditional Filipino Games such as Piko, Luksong Tinik or Luksong Baka and other games that will warm up our body as part of our Hilot sa Apoy Training Program. Then as you enter you will find our Hilot Activity Area that will conduct training as well as treatment when there are no Students on Training. Besides the training area will be the Admin Office and fronting it will be our Common Toilet and Lavatory. Then besides the Toilet will be the stairs going to the second floor where the Students and Teachers dormitory will be found. On each room for student and teachers dormitory will have their own toilet and bath on each room. And there will still be wide multi purpose hall to held our Hilot Indak and Munimuni session as part of Hilot sa Apoy and Hangin Program.

With these being said, we will be needing your assistance in completing the remaining funds that we need to finish the construction. We already have spent Php 500,900.00 pesos in constructing the First Floor and we still need Php 774,400.00 to complete the construction of the 2nd floor.

We pray that this will move you by sending us Financial Help in completing the construction of our permanent training venue in Taguig City. You may send your donations through our Paypal account by clicking on the Button below.