Tag: Hilot Binabaylan

Preventing Unnatural Death: A Hilot Binabaylan Perspective

In the sacred teachings of Hilot Binabaylan, we recognize two distinct types of death: Natural Death and Unnatural Death.

  • Natural Death occurs due to aging or illness. It is part of the life cycle and often comes with signs and spiritual preparation.
  • Unnatural Death, on the other hand, happens suddenly—through accidents, murder, warfare, or hate crimes. It disrupts the natural rhythm of life and the soul’s journey.

While natural death can be delayed or prevented through healing and spiritual alignment, the question arises:
Can we prevent unnatural death?

From the lens of Hilot Binabaylan, the answer is yes—but it requires conscious spiritual practice, community awareness, and elemental harmony.

1. Maintain Elemental Balance

The human body is composed of the elements—Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Imbalance among these can lead to confusion, weakness, and vulnerability to accidents. Through Hilot healing, Bato Omo assessment, and rituals invoking Diwatang Kilubansa, we restore harmony and strengthen the body’s resilience.

2. Strengthen the Soul’s Shield

Spiritual protection is essential. Binabaylan practitioners use:

  • Blessed oils (lana) and herbal poultices (tapal)
  • Prayers and offerings to Anito and Diwata
  • Consecrated amulets or agimat that serve as spiritual guardians

These tools help shield the soul from harmful energies and sudden spiritual disconnection.

3. Avoid Spiritually Dangerous Places and Activities

Some locations are known to harbor malevolent spirits or chaotic energies. Binabaylan are trained to sense these places and perform ritual cleansing or protective markings. Awareness and respect for these spaces can prevent misfortune.

4. Strengthen Community Bonds

Unnatural death caused by violence or war often stems from social disconnection and unresolved anger. Hilot Binabaylan teachings promote peace, unity, and mutual respect. By fostering harmony within the community, we reduce the risk of conflict and harm.

5. Recognize and Prevent Hate Crimes

Sometimes, unnatural death arises from hate crimes—acts of violence driven by prejudice, discrimination, or intolerance. These are especially tragic because they target individuals based on identity, belief, or background.

Examples of Hate Crimes That May Lead to Death:

  • Racial or ethnic violence
  • Religious persecution
  • Gender-based violence
  • Attacks on LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Political or ideological assassinations
  • Cultural erasure and indigenous targeting

How Can We Prevent and Lessen Hate Crimes?

  • Education and Awareness: Teach respect for diversity and the sacredness of all life.
  • Community Dialogue: Create safe spaces for interfaith and intercultural conversations.
  • Spiritual Advocacy: Use rituals and teachings to promote compassion and understanding.
  • Protection of Vulnerable Groups: Offer spiritual and emotional support to those at risk.
  • Empowerment through Identity: Encourage people to embrace their heritage and spirituality without fear.

In Hilot Binabaylan, we believe that every soul carries divine essence. Hate crimes are not just physical attacks—they are spiritual wounds that affect the collective soul of humanity. Healing these wounds requires both ritual and action.

6. Listen to Nature and the Diwata

The Diwata often send warnings through dreams, visions, or intuitive feelings. Being attuned to these signs allows us to avoid danger before it manifests. Binabaylan are trained to interpret these messages and guide others accordingly.

7. Care for the Body and Mind

Physical weakness and mental confusion can lead to accidents. Hilot Binabaylan emphasizes proper nutrition, movement, and mental clarity. A strong body and focused mind are less likely to fall victim to sudden harm.

A Call to Ritual and Reflection

As spiritual healers and leaders, we are called not only to heal but to protect life. Perhaps it is time to create a Ritual of Protection Against Unnatural Death, invoking the blessings of Diwatang Balantay, Kilubansa, and other guardian spirits. This can be integrated into the ceremonies of Templong Anituhan and offered to the community as a sacred shield.

Would you like to collaborate on crafting this ritual and its invocation? Together, we can empower our people to walk safely and consciously in both the physical and spiritual realms.

Advocating for the Recognition of Hilot and Manghihilot

As we celebrate Philippine Traditional and Alternative Medicine Month, I invite you to reflect on a vital question: How well do Filipinos—both here and abroad—truly understand Hilot? For many of us, Hilot is a memory passed down from our lolo, lola, nanay, tatay, tito, and tita. It is a healing tradition rooted in our homes and communities. Yet today, Hilot is often mistaken for mere massage therapy offered in luxury spas, stripped of its deeper wisdom and purpose.

Let me ask: Do we still remember what “Pilay” is? Do we still recognize the Manghihilot as the community’s first line of defense in health care?

Sadly, our Traditional Healing Arts and Sciences are being commercialized and standardized in ways that leave ordinary Filipinos disconnected from their own healing heritage. Once, the Manghihilot was a trusted health care provider in the barangay. Now, even prescribing herbal remedies requires a medical license.

I have been monitoring the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC) from 2020 to 2023, and I ask: Where is the support for Hilot? As of this year, only 27 Manghihilot practitioners are listed in PITAHC’s registry. Compare this to other modalities:

  • Certified Acupuncture Practitioners: 1,099
  • Certified Chiropractic Practitioners: 87
  • Certified Naturopath Practitioners: 249
  • Certified Hilot Practitioners: 27

This disparity is alarming. PITAHC’s mandate clearly states its goal to promote safe, effective, and culturally consistent health care modalities. But where is the Indigenous Traditional Medicine of the Filipino people in this promotion?

Our elder Manghihilot are aging. If we do not act now, their wisdom will be lost forever.

I respectfully call on PITAHC to:

  1. Recognize Manghihilot in the barrios without charging registration fees.
  2. Make Hilot Congress attendance free, especially for grassroots healers.
  3. Allocate government funds toward Filipino traditional medicine—not just foreign modalities.
  4. Extend PITAHC’s reach to regional, provincial, city, and municipal health centers to identify and support Manghihilot in every barangay.
  5. Issue a memorandum circular to protect Hilot practices, just as one was issued to regulate Hilot Paanak.
  6. Include accredited Hilot Healing Centers in PhilHealth coverage, just like birthing centers.

To all Manghihilot—whether certified by TESDA, PITAHC, or trained through ancestral lineage—you have the right to be recognized.

Join me on November 8, 2025, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM for a Free Online Webinar via Google Meet. Let us come together to reclaim our healing traditions and advocate for their rightful place in our national health care system.

Register here: https://forms.gle/9dScvdYnDB8gCPcc8

Maraming salamat po, at nawa’y pagpalain tayo ng ating mga ninuno at ng mga Diwata ng Kagalingan!

HABI: Weaving the Soul of Filipino Healing into the World

In 2016, the Hilot Academy of Binabaylan was born with a vision to preserve and elevate the ancient healing arts and spirituality of the Filipino people. Though originally envisioned as Hilot Academy of Binabaylan International, the name was refined to HABI—a powerful acronym that not only stands for Hilot, Academy, and Binabaylan, but also evokes the Filipino word habi, meaning “to weave.”

This weaving is not merely symbolic. It reflects the Academy’s mission to interlace the physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual fabrics of life into a holistic tapestry of wellness. Through its teachings, HABI has become a loom where ancient wisdom and modern practice converge, creating a healing tradition that transcends borders.

From Local Roots to Global Reach

Despite initial limitations in naming, HABI has organically grown into an international movement. Since its founding, over 80 ordained and certified Hilot Binabaylan Practitioners have emerged across the globe—from the United States, Canada, Chile, Italy, France, London, Austria, Vietnam, Japan, and Australia, to its sacred homeland, the Philippines.

These practitioners began their journey seeking knowledge of Filipino healing arts. Yet, through their studies, they unearthed a deeper connection to precolonial Filipino spirituality—a sacred path that predates the Abrahamic religions of Islam and Christianity. In doing so, they became not just healers, but weavers of ancestral memory, restoring threads of indigenous wisdom long buried under colonial narratives.

Healing Beyond the Physical

At the heart of HABI’s philosophy is the understanding that true healing begins with the soul. The Academy teaches that health, illness, and wellness are not isolated phenomena within the body—they are reflections of our relationships, our environment, and our connection to the divine.

Through the lens of Kapwa, the Filipino concept of shared identity and interconnectedness, HABI practitioners recognize that healing must extend beyond the individual. It must encompass the community, the land, and the unseen energies that flow through all things.

Thus, the practice of Hilot Binabaylan includes:

– Rituals and offerings (atang) to harmonize spiritual energies 
– Prayer in motion, where movement becomes medicine 
– Sacred foods and drinks that nourish both body and spirit 
– Environmental energy weaving, ensuring balance and clarity in the spaces we inhabit 

These methodologies are not mere supplements—they are central to the healing process. They restore the flow of life force (hininga), clear disruptions, and prevent illness from taking root.

The Loom of the Future

As HABI continues to grow, it stands as a testament to the resilience and relevance of Filipino indigenous knowledge. It is a loom of transformation, where healers become leaders, and tradition becomes a living force for global wellness.

Through its graduates and teachings, HABI is not just reviving a practice—it is weaving a new world, one where healing is sacred, interconnected, and deeply rooted in the soul of the Filipino people.

Preserving the Sacred: Why Hilot Must Remain Rooted in Its Indigenous Form

Hilot, the ancient healing art of the Filipino people, is more than just a massage technique—it is a sacred embodiment of our Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices (IKSP). Rooted in the wisdom of our ancestors, Hilot is a holistic approach to healing that integrates the body, mind, and spirit, guided by the rhythms of nature, the presence of the Diwata and Anito, and the elemental balance of Apoy, Tubig, Hangin, and Lupa.

The Essence of Hilot as Indigenous Knowledge

In its original form, Hilot is a spiritual and cosmological practice. It is performed by Binabaylan, spiritual healers who walk between realms, invoking divine guidance and ancestral wisdom. Hilot is not merely about physical relief—it is about restoring harmony within the person and their environment. It includes:

  • Energetic diagnostics through pulse, heat, and intuition
  • Rituals and prayers to the Diwata and Anito
  • Herbal medicine and elemental therapy
  • Soul healing and spiritual alignment

This depth of practice reflects the Indigenous Filipino worldview, where health is not just physical wellness but a state of spiritual balance and ancestral connection.

The Role of TESDA and PITAHC

In recent years, TESDA and PITAHC have taken steps to promote Hilot as part of the national healthcare system. Their efforts have helped:

  • Provide training and certification for practitioners
  • Ensure safety and professionalism
  • Introduce Hilot to a wider audience seeking alternative wellness

These contributions are valuable and necessary. However, the institutional framing of Hilot has narrowed its scope, often reducing it to massage and relaxation therapy, detached from its Indigenous roots.

The Risk of Cultural Dilution

When Hilot is stripped of its spiritual and ancestral dimensions, it loses its identity as Indigenous Knowledge. It becomes a commodified service, disconnected from the cosmology that gives it meaning. This not only misrepresents the practice but also disempowers Indigenous communities who have preserved it for generations.

A Call for Dual Recognition

We advocate for a dual-pathway approach to Hilot:

  1. Institutional Hilot – promoted by TESDA and PITAHC for therapeutic and wellness purposes.
  2. Indigenous Hilot Binabaylan – preserved in its original form by spiritual communities like Templong Anituhan, emphasizing holistic healing of the body, mind, and spirit.

This approach allows Hilot to evolve and reach modern audiences without losing its soul. It respects the sovereignty of Indigenous communities and honors the sacredness of Hilot as a spiritual ministry.

Protecting Hilot as Indigenous Knowledge

We call upon:

  • NCIP to uphold Hilot as IKSP under R.A. 8371
  • IPOPHL to protect its Indigenous Intellectual Property
  • Educational institutions to include Hilot Binabaylan in cultural and spiritual curricula
  • Healthcare systems to recognize the value of spiritual healing in holistic wellness

Call to Action: Join Us in Reclaiming Hilot

To deepen this conversation and celebrate the wisdom of our ancestors, we invite you to join our free online event:

🕓 Date & Time: November 8, 2025, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
📍 Platform: Google Meet
🎉 Event Title: Panibagong Sigla: Indigenous Healing Wisdom for Modern Wellness

This gathering will feature Hilot practitioners, Binabaylan leaders, and cultural advocates sharing insights on how Hilot can be preserved, practiced, and promoted in its full Indigenous form.

Register here to join

Let us walk together in healing, remembering, and reclaiming the sacred path of Hilot.

🌿 Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) and the Role of Hilot Binabaylan in Community Immunity

As the rainy season and colder months arrive, communities across the Philippines experience a rise in Influenza-like Illness (ILI)—a condition marked by fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, and fatigue. Though not always caused by the influenza virus, ILI can be triggered by various respiratory infections, including COVID-19, RSV, and adenoviruses.

While modern medicine offers vaccines and antiviral treatments, Filipino Indigenous Healing—particularly Hilot Binabaylan—offers a holistic and culturally rooted approach to preventing illness and strengthening immunity.

🦠 What is Influenza-Like Illness?

ILI is a clinical diagnosis based on symptoms that resemble the flu. It spreads through:

  • Airborne droplets from coughing or sneezing
  • Touching contaminated surfaces
  • Close contact with infected individuals

ILI is not a single disease but a syndrome, and its prevention requires both physical and energetic care.

🌺 How Hilot Binabaylan Helps

Hilot Binabaylan is more than just massage—it is a sacred healing art that integrates:

  • Energetic balancing
  • Herbal medicine
  • Spiritual rituals
  • Community wellness education

Here’s how it supports immunity and prevents ILI:

1. Energetic Realignment

Hilot techniques like Panghihilot and Pagpapainit release stagnant energies and restore elemental harmony (Lupa, Hangin, Apoy, Tubig), which strengthens the body’s natural defenses.

2. Herbal and Natural Remedies

Binabaylan practitioners use indigenous herbs such as:

  • Lagundi for cough and fever
  • Tanglad and Luya for respiratory relief
  • Sambong for detoxification

These are prepared as teas, oils, or poultices to support healing and immunity.

3. Spiritual Protection and Cleansing

Rituals invoking Diwata and Anito help cleanse spiritual imbalances that may manifest as physical illness. Seasonal rites during Full Moon, Ghost Month, and Undas align the community with nature’s healing cycles.

4. Community Education and Advocacy

Hilot Binabaylan promotes preventive care through teachings on hygiene, nutrition, emotional wellness, and ancestral wisdom. The creation of Dambana ng Ginhawa serves as a communal healing space for rest and renewal.

5. Touch Therapy and Soul Activation

Through sacred touch, Hilot awakens the UliRat (life force) and Malay (recognition soul), activating the body’s inner healing intelligence and reducing stress—a key factor in immune suppression.

🌞 A Call to Action

As caretakers of both body and spirit, Binabaylan healers are called to lead the community in resilience and renewal. By integrating ancestral knowledge with modern awareness, Hilot Binabaylan becomes a powerful ally in the fight against seasonal illness.

Let us walk the path of healing together guided by the spirits, grounded in the earth, and united in the rhythm of life.

🌺 The Sacred Flow of Emotions and Feelings: A Path to Holistic Wellness and Spiritual Harmony

In the journey of healing and spiritual awakening, understanding the nature of emotions and feelings is essential. These inner experiences are not just psychological—they are energetic, spiritual, and deeply connected to our soul’s health.

🌿 What Are Emotions and Feelings?

  • Emotions are instinctive, automatic responses to stimuli. They arise from the limbic system and include reactions like fear, joy, anger, and sadness.
  • Feelings are the conscious interpretation of emotions. They are processed in the thinking brain (neocortex) and include states like peace, resentment, or gratitude.

In Hilot Binabaylan practice, emotions are seen as energetic movements of the soul, while feelings are the reflections of the soul’s condition.

🔥 Can Pain Be an Emotion and a Feeling?

Yes. Pain exists in both realms:

  • As a feeling, it is the conscious awareness of discomfort—physical or emotional.
  • As an emotion, it is a complex response involving sorrow, grief, or trauma.

In spiritual healing, pain is a signal—a call to restore balance in the soul, body, and spirit.

⚡ Is It Normal to Have Mood Swings?

Mood swings are natural when they reflect life’s changes, hormonal shifts, or spiritual transitions. However, extreme or frequent swings may indicate:

  • Emotional imbalance
  • Soul fragmentation
  • Elemental disharmony

Hilot Binabaylan offers rituals and healing touch to ground emotions and restore inner harmony.

🎶 How Sensory Stimulations Affect Emotions

  • Food nourishes both body and soul, influencing mood and elemental balance.
  • Music opens portals to memory, emotion, and divine connection.
  • Visuals (art, nature, colors) evoke peace, awe, or healing.
  • Touch, smell, and movement activate emotional release and spiritual flow.

These are sacred tools in Binabaylan rituals, used to awaken the soul and invite the Diwata.

🌈 Emotions That Support Optimum Health and Spiritual Wellness

To live in holistic wellness, one must cultivate:

  • Joy – for vitality and soul expression
  • Peace – for grounding and clarity
  • Love and Compassion – for healing and connection
  • Gratitude – for humility and abundance
  • Hope and Faith – for resilience and divine trust

Even emotions like sadness or anger are sacred when processed with awareness and transformed through ritual and reflection.

🌀 Conclusion: Emotions as Sacred Messengers

Emotions and feelings are not weaknesses—they are sacred messengers of the soul. They guide us toward healing, connection, and spiritual growth. In the path of the Binabaylan, we do not suppress emotions—we honor them, listen to them, and transform them into light.

🙌 Call to Action

If you feel emotionally imbalanced, spiritually disconnected, or simply curious about your soul’s journey:

🌟 Join the Hilot Binabaylan Alignment Training Program
🕊️ Learn how to heal through touch, ritual, and soul wisdom
🌿 Reconnect with your seven souls and elemental energies
📍 Held every Sunday at Templong Anituhan ng Luntiang Aghama, San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan

Let your emotions become your guide. Let your feelings become your prayers. Let your soul awaken to its sacred purpose.

Join our Hilot Binabaylan Alignment Program

A Sacred Message to Our Community: On the Value of Healers and Sacred Exchange

In our tradition, healing is a sacred act — a gift from the Divine, the Ancestors, and the Spirits. It is a calling that we, as healers, answer with devotion, compassion, and deep spiritual responsibility.

Yet while our work is rooted in the spiritual realm, we live in the mundane world. We are not exempt from the realities of life — we have families to feed, homes to maintain, children to educate, and responsibilities to fulfill. The materials we use in healing — oils, herbs, candles, tools — are not freely given by the market. Water, electricity, and even the space where healing takes place all come with costs.

We understand that some may feel uncomfortable when healers ask for payment or offerings. But let us remember: healing is labor, and labor deserves fair exchange. Just as a farmer is compensated for the food they grow, or a teacher for the wisdom they share, a healer too must be supported in order to continue serving the community.

We do not sell healing. We offer our time, energy, and sacred presence — and in return, we ask for support that sustains our ability to serve. This is not commerce; it is reciprocity. It is the ancient practice of pasasalamat — a heartfelt offering in gratitude for the healing received.

To those who give generously: you are not just supporting a healer — you are nurturing the spirit of healing in our community. You are helping keep the sacred flame alive.

Let us walk together in understanding, compassion, and mutual respect. May our healing work continue to bless all who seek it, and may our community grow in wisdom, wellness, and abundance.

With love and light,
Rev. Rolando Gomez Comon
Chief Priest, Templong Anituhan ng Luntiang Aghama
Founder, Hilot Academy of Binabaylan

Hilot Binabaylan Practice: Protected by Faith, Guided by Ancestral Wisdom

n the evolving landscape of traditional Filipino healing arts, Hilot Binabaylan Practice stands as a sacred spiritual ministry—distinct from institutionalized wellness modalities. While agencies like PITAHC and TESDA have developed frameworks to regulate Hilot as a health and wellness service, Hilot Binabaylan remains autonomous, rooted in indigenous spirituality and protected under the 1987 Philippine Constitution.

 Constitutional Protection of Spiritual Healing

The Philippine Constitution guarantees the freedom of religion and spiritual expression:

Article III, Section 5
“No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed.”

This means that spiritual healing practices, such as Hilot Binabaylan, cannot be regulated or restricted by the State—unless they pose a threat to public safety or order.

When Can the State Intervene?

While Hilot Binabaylan is protected as a religious and ministerial practice, it must be exercised responsibly. The State may intervene only if the practice:

  • Endangers health or life (e.g., use of toxic substances, denial of medical care)
  • Violates consent or privacy (e.g., performing rituals without permission)
  • Disrupts public order (e.g., unauthorized public gatherings causing disturbance)
  • Engages in fraud or exploitation (e.g., false healing claims for financial gain)

These boundaries are not meant to suppress spiritual traditions, but to ensure ethical and safe practice for both practitioners and the community.

Hilot Binabaylan: A Sacred Vocation

Unlike vocational Hilot courses regulated by TESDA or PITAHC, Hilot Binabaylan is a spiritual calling. It involves:

  • Rituals, orasyon, anito communication, and diwata invocation
  • Ordination as Dayang, Lakan, Hilot Tanglaw, or Doctor of Ministry in Hilot Binabaylan Practice (D.Min.HBp)
  • Training under spiritual authorities, such as the Hilot Academy of Binabaylan, Bahay Siadtala Binabaylan Inc., and Templong Anituhan Inc.

This ministerial path is not subject to government certification, but is governed by ancestral wisdom, cosmology, and spiritual ethics.

Why This Distinction Matters

Understanding the difference between regulated Hilot and Hilot Binabaylan is essential for:

  • Practitioners: To align with their true calling—whether vocational or spiritual.
  • Clients: To understand the nature of the healing they receive.
  • Institutions: To respect the autonomy of Indigenous Spiritual Practices and avoid overreach.

Preserving the Sacred

As we continue to honor and practice Hilot Binabaylan, let us remain vigilant in upholding its sacredness, ethical standards, and constitutional protection. This is not just a healing technique—it is a ministerial act of devotion, a living tradition of our ancestors, and a spiritual gift to the Filipino people.

A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE ENROLLMENT PROCEDURE FOR THE MASTER’S IN MINISTRY DEGREE PROGRAM ON HILOT BINABAYLAN PRACTICE AND INTRODUCING THE HILOT TANGLAW MENTORSHIP PROGRAM UNDER BAHAY SIADTALA BINABAYLAN INC.

BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 08-1, SERIES OF 2025

WHEREAS, the Hilot Binabaylan Training Program has been elevated to a Master’s in Ministry Degree Program on Hilot Binabaylan Practice, reflecting its comprehensive curriculum on Indigenous Filipino Health Care Practices;

WHEREAS, Bahay Siadtala Binabaylan Inc., a Ministerial Center of Templong Anituhan Inc., has assumed full jurisdiction over the said training program;

WHEREAS, the Hilot Academy of Binabaylan recognizes the need for continuing professional development and mentorship to sustain and elevate the practice of Hilot Binabaylan;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Board of Bahay Siadtala Binabaylan Inc. adopts the following amendments and additions:

I. Master’s in Ministry Degree Program on Hilot Binabaylan Practice

  1. Program Title and Jurisdiction
    The training shall be officially known as the Master’s in Ministry Degree Program on Hilot Binabaylan Practice, administered by Bahay Siadtala Binabaylan Inc., located at No. 88 Pres. Quirino St., Brgy. South Signal Village, Zone 6, Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
  2. Eligibility for Enrollment
    • Open to individuals of any nationality with the capacity for independent decision-making.
    • Must possess basic healthcare knowledge, including Human Anatomy and Physiology and Vital Signs Taking.
  3. Mode of Delivery
    • Conducted in-person and face-to-face, requiring physical attendance.
  4. Enrollment Fee and Inclusions
    • Standard fee: USD 1,250.00 or local equivalent.
    • Includes:
      • Hotel accommodation
      • Five meals per training day
      • Learning materials
      • Certificates of completion and ordination
  5. Curriculum Requirements
    Completion of the following modules is required:
    • Hilot Diagnostics: Finger Alignment, Tudluan, Himulsuhan, Pasubay, Hilot Profiling
    • Hilot Cleansing Rituals: Internal and External
    • Hilot Repair Treatments
    • Hilot Strengthening Methods
    • Hilot Maintenance
  6. Credentialing and Recognition
    Graduates shall receive:
    • Certificate of Completion
    • Ordination Credentials
    • Title designation of Lakan or Dayang, signifying membership in Templong Anituhan Inc.

II. Hilot Tanglaw Mentorship Program

  1. Program Overview
    The Hilot Tanglaw Program is a continuing professional development initiative of the Hilot Academy of Binabaylan, designed to elevate qualified Hilot Binabaylan Practitioners into Hilot Binabaylan Mentors.
  2. Mentor Responsibilities
    As Hilot Tanglaw, mentors shall:
    • Provide Guidance and Advice
    • Offer Support and Encouragement
    • Facilitate Skill Development
    • Assist in Goal Setting and Accountability
    • Enable Networking and Opportunities
    • Serve as Role Models of integrity and professionalism
  3. Enrollment and Application
    • Applicants must fill out a Mentorship Application Form, declaring:
      • Subjects they wish to mentor (may select all)
      • Number of students to be mentored
      • Scheduled training dates
  4. Fee Structure and Remittance
    • Each student pays USD 1,250.00 for a 9-day mentorship program
    • Mentor receives USD 875.00 as stipend
    • USD 375.00 (30%) is remitted to the Hilot Academy of Binabaylan
  5. Validation and Graduation
    • Upon completion, mentors shall schedule their protégés for online validation
    • Validation fee: USD 100.00, paid to the Hilot Binabaylan Council
    • The Council shall:
      • Conduct validation
      • Schedule graduation and ordination
      • Issue signed certificates and official seals

RESOLVED FURTHER, that this resolution shall take effect immediately and be disseminated to all concerned parties for implementation and compliance.

APPROVED this 16 day of August, 2025 at Bahay Siadtala Binabaylan Inc., Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Certified True and Correct:

Rev. Alvin L. Sentin D.D.Min. IFS IFM Co-Founder/Director on Local Community Affairs Relations/ Hilot Binabaylan Council
Rev. Rolando G. Comon D.D.Min. IFS IFM Co-Founder/ Program Director/ Hilot Binabaylan Council
Rev. Maria M. Haswell D.D.Min. IFS IFM Co-Founder/Director on International Affairs Relations/ Hilot Binabaylan Council

Understanding PITAHC Accreditation and Competency Assessment for Hilot Practitioners

The Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC) plays a vital role in regulating and promoting traditional Filipino healing practices, including Hilot. For organizations and practitioners involved in Hilot, understanding the accreditation and certification process is essential for legal recognition, professional credibility, and ethical practice.

✅ Benefits of PITAHC Accreditation

1. Legal Authority to Operate

Accredited Hilot organizations are officially recognized by the Department of Health through PITAHC, granting them the legal right to conduct training and healing services.

2. Certification of Practitioners

Organizations can issue:

  • Certificates of Registration to formally trained Hilot practitioners.
  • Certificates of Recognition to community-recognized Manghihilot with at least 10 years of practice.

3. Accredited Training and Healing Centers

Accredited institutions may operate:

  • Hilot Training Centers for formal education.
  • Hilot Healing Centers in homes, clinics, spas, resorts, and hospitals.

4. Participation in National Health System

Accredited organizations help integrate Hilot into the national healthcare delivery system.

5. Representation and Advocacy

Organizations may nominate representatives to the National Certification Committee for Hilot (NCCH), influencing policy and ethical standards.

6. Protection Against Unregulated Practices

Only PITAHC-accredited entities are authorized to train and certify Hilot practitioners, ensuring safety and credibility.

🧪 Competency Assessment by NCCH

For Formally Trained Practitioners

  • Completion of training from a PITAHC-accredited center.
  • Submission of a portfolio with at least 100 patient cases.
  • Passing a competency assessment that includes practical demonstrations and ethical evaluations.

For Community-Recognized Manghihilot

  • Minimum of 10 years of practice.
  • Endorsement by community leaders.
  • Sponsorship by a PITAHC-recognized organization.
  • Submission of a portfolio and testimonials.

Committee Composition

The NCCH includes:

  • Manghihilot and Hilot practitioners.
  • Medical doctors practicing Hilot.
  • Trainers from accredited centers.
  • PITAHC officials.

💰 Fee Guidelines

The official fee for the competency assessment is ₱500.00. This is a one-time application fee mandated by PITAHC Circular No. 01, Series of 2016.

⚠️ Reporting Overcharging Violations

If an organization charges more than ₱500 for the assessment alone:

  1. Request a Fee Breakdown to verify additional charges.
  2. Report to PITAHC with documentation (receipts, advisories).
  3. Contact NCCH for clarification and investigation.

Overcharging may lead to administrative sanctions and, if fraudulent, could result in criminal liability.

📞 Contact Information

To reach the National Certification Committee for Hilot:

For more updates and resources, visit hilotacademy.com or contact us for assistance with certification, training, and compliance.