I am always amazed to have people in our class that have the same flow of thoughts running in their mind and the class that they are taking with us serve as an affirmation to the calling that they have and long to manifest in their life.

Hilot Academy was established on April 5, 2016, which is now celebrating our 9th Year Anniversary, which start to aim just to provide skills training that is aligned to the Standards and Regulation of Technical Skills and Development Authority (TESDA). But as time goes by, the need of preserving the knowledge of our Indigenous Traditional Medicine Practices prevails that we cut our self from any Governing and Accrediting Body that forbids some of our Healing practices which only limits the practitioner in providing Massage such as the Hilot Wellness Massage NC2 provided by Tesda accredited Training Center.

On 2020 at the time of Pandemic, the former Tourism Secretary have searched for us and ask us to help her establish Hilot School under the International School of Sustainable Tourism that is located in Silang, Cavite, Philippines. And through the effort that we exert in creating Hilot Philippines Development Center, Hilot Academy, Philippine Institute of Traditional Alternative Health Care (PITAHC), and Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA) were able to have a dialogue about the scope of practices and certification of Hilot Practitioner which unfortunately, the agreed Memorandum Circular promised by former Pitahc Director General was not made due to the shuffling or change of person in authority that manage TESDA and the retirement of PITAHC Director General.

We were ambitious at the start of the new decade hoping that the work of Hilot will be recognized and be preserved by our Government Authority but to my regret, they have a blind eye and deaf hears and are convinced that Hilot is just a massage and Tawas should be excluded. Though many of their invited expert to convey the importance of Hilot in delivering health care do believe in Tawas being part of Hilot Modality, they are still bound to bow down to what the Roman Catholic Church would say specially from the Archdiocese of Manila Office of Exorcism that they gave reminder of not to teach tawas to the public as it invokes the devil in accordance to their teaching.

The Goal of lifting up the Practice of Hilot by professionalizing it has been hindered not only by modern science but also by the modern religion. The hope of calling our Manghihilot as Indigenous Traditional Filipino Medicine Doctor has been halted due to their not willingness to spend time in studying Hilot and find science on our healing modality.

As founder of Hilot Academy of Binabaylan, professionalizing our practice requires an Indepth study. This is why we do our effort to upgrade our curriculum. Our 9 days and 13 days course are just a familiarization course as many people whether Filipino or Foreigner do not know yet what is Hilot all about. But soon as we move forward to the future we can make it into a Bachelor’s degree course that is 4 years with Masteral and Doctorate Degree just like other Traditional Medicine Practices.