Our Future Is Ancient

Practitioners:
Pia Sewelies
Founder & Lead Facilitator

Pia a visionary dedicated to creating a more connected future through ceremonial and embodied awakening experiences. As a modern medicine woman, she facilitates safe spaces, drawing from her embodied experiences and her expertise as yoga and somatic movement teacher, her extensive study of non-dual philosophy and ancient shamanic healing rituals. Pia transforms ancient practices and traditions into contemporary language, bridging the gap to provide deeply transformative and nurturing transcultural experiences.

She is the founder of Our Future Is Ancient and an advocate for the mindful use of enthogenic medicines and reciprocal living with our Mother Earth. As a Vision Quester under the guidance of her teachers in Ecuador she received the sacred Chanupa (pipe) and is deeply devoted to carrying her prayer and the altars passed on to her with utmost reverence.

After a decade of intensive learning and studying with Indigenous teachers, training in Compassionate Inquiry by Dr. Gabor Maté, over 500 hrs Yoga Teacher training, becoming Usui Ryoho Reiki Master, and a Certified Transformational Life-Coach, she mentors individuals on their unique healing path, reconnecting them with their unique essence and purpose.

One of her core missions is to normalize spirituality and contribute to a more human, more authentic way of living in community on this planet.

Alberto Herrera
Lead Facilitator & Kambo Practioner

Alberto's journey from deep personal loss to transformative healing began with the early deaths of his mother and grandmother, and later, his father. By his early twenties, his life was overshadowed by substance abuse and violence. Facing a critical crossroads and on his last bit of hope, Alberto left for South America in search of healing.

Immersed in the ancient wisdom of the Andean mountains, Alberto connected deeply with the powerful traditions of ritual and ceremonial healing. Under the guidance of indigenous teachers in Ecuador and Peru, he embraced his new path as a carrier of the sacred Chanupa and the Temazcal (Sweat Lodge) with The Fuego Sagrado De Itzachilatlan.

Today, Alberto is a transformational life coach, Kambo Practitioner, Usui Ryoho Reiki Master, and certified Tantra Yoga instructor. He is a mentor and guide, dedicated to fostering self-growth and expansion. Alberto's core mission is to serve as a man of prayer for the greater good, helping individuals reconnect with their inner strength and clarity.

Through a blend of ritual, song, and prayer, Alberto creates a potent space for healing and self realization. His journey reflects a profound commitment to transforming lives, emphasizing that our healing journeys intertwine with those of others. Together, we can transcend our challenges and embrace our collective potential. Let's uplift each other, for we are not separate, we are one.

Nura Anqa
Facilitator

Nura is a ceremonialist, astrologer, embodiment teacher, herbalist, writer, artist, mentor, and passionate steward of the Earth.

For over a decade, she has dedicated herself to guiding others on their healing paths, exploring intentional and indigenous communities all over the world as a student of communication, sound and movement, the spiritual realms, and the plant and fungi kingdoms.

Nura is committed to creating safe, nurturing spaces where her clients embark on profound inner journeys and find the courage to integrate spiritual experiences into their daily lives. Her clients often celebrate newfound balance and nourishment, aligning their lives with soulful authenticity. She is known for her calm, grounded nature and visionary guidance."

Giulia Madau
Giulia Huitzilin is a herbalist and conscious nutrition explorer, apprentice and practitioner of traditional Mexican medicine, aquatic bodywork, midwifery and menstrual therapy.

Her pursuit of a more meaningful direction in life opened the doors to a healing journey that began with yoga practices at a very young age and evolved into a path of self-discovery, influenced by different spiritual philosophies. Ultimately, she felt called to travel to North America, where she encountered the ancient native traditions and was initiated into the medicine of the plants and ancestral ceremonial rituals like the Vision Quest and the Sun Dance. As the sacred ways that reconnect her with profound wisdom and love, she honors the Red and White Paths as her deepest spiritual life schools.

Today Giulia is fully dedicated to her passion for holistic health and the relation between earth, body, mind and spirit, believing that our vital force depends on how we nourish ourselves.

She finds her devotion in the kitchen, the realm where the alchemy unfolds. Honoring ancient herbalism practices and her mother culinary inheritance, she creates recipes to support people well-being, with the mission to encourage individuals to become sovereign over their own health.