Who we are
Somos Sanadoras, Mujeres con Medicina, & Aj’Qijab.
The House of Flowers is a Healing Center / Centro de Sanacion based in Curanderismo.
It is ancestral medicine for healing the spirit.
They offer ceremony, classes, and healings all based in Mexica y Maya Cosmology.
Nana Xochiketzalli runs the center with help of her apprentices/comadres Sandra and Araceli + her K'iche Mayan Gransdmothers/Maestras are visitor healers.
Nana Xochiketzalli
Nana Xochiketzalli is a Curanderismo Practitioner & Aj’Qij’ /Spiritual Guide. She is an abuela to 4 beautiful grandchildren and Abuela to Ilhuicatl Metzli Danza / Where the Sky meets the Water Moondance.
As an Artist, Healer, & Teacher, she offers sliding scale classes, donation based healings, & free community ceremonies based in Curanderismo, Mexica & Maya Cosmology and Ancestral Medicine out of Folk Healing Center : The House of Flowers / Xochikalli.
She honors her ancestors of Native California Indian, Mexican, & European decent in all the work she does.
She holds commitments since 2010 to two ceremonial paths, Sundance and Moondance. When she met her teacher Nanantzin Sylvia Mayahuel she began her studies in la danza de luna tradition.
She met her teachers Nana Tomasa & her daughter Nana Sebastiana in 2012 and was initiated to the same path as an AjQ’ij in 2015.
She pours community sweatlodges for over the past decade and has worked in ceremony with many nations all over Turtle Island, is a pipe carrier, & walks the Good Red Road.
Abuela Sandra
Abuela Sandra is a devoted wife and mother of 3 who is rooted in Northern California on Wiyot Lands.
At a young age, the Holy Spirit taught her of her gifts of Intuition, Energy, and Empathy, communicating thru her in the Dreamtime. She now turns towards her dones/gifts that have been inherited thru her from her Sonoran and Zacateca Ancestors.
Here on these Redwood lands, she embraces her gift to curar, as a healer working on the emotional, spiritual, & physical planes.
Sandra was Xochiketzalli's apprentice back in 2021 & 2022 and now you will often see the two of them together offering classes, healings, and ceremony.
Abuela Araceli
Abuela Araceli is a mother of 4 children & grandmother of 2 girls. She was born in Mexico, but raised as a child in the Bay area.
She resides on Wiyot land for over 20 years and met Nana Xochiketzalli in 2020 and shortly after started learning as her apprentice.
She has always been called to her ancestral medicines and at a young age remembers her Abuela practicing limpias, baños, & these ancestral practices on her people.
She now steps into her dones as a gifted healer, working as her ancestors once did.
Nana Sebastiana
Nana Sebastiana is a profound healer, medicine woman, & Mayan Curandera.
She is an Aj’Q’ij / Mayan Daykeeper and worked along side her grandmother growing up, learning the ways of an indigenous midwife and healer.
She specializes in massage and healings physical conditions western medicine can’t. She has a true gift in her hands and is extremely intuitive, continuously using her gifts for healing.
She offers intuitive healings, specialized massage, & readings. She is also trained in reiki and Maya Womb Massage.
She loves to travel and explore, teaches internationally and dedicates her life to this path of healing the people. She has visited Humboldt County 3 times to offer her services, but when at home, works from their families healing center in Chichicastengo, Guatemala.
Nana Tomasa
Nana Tomasa is a mother, grandmother, and matriarch of her family. She is a Maya medicine woman in Chichicastengo.
She is an Aj’Q’ij, a K’iche Maya Spiritual Guide and specializes in spiritual healings.
Her families healing center name in Chichi is Healing and Holistic Recuperation Center - Ixpiyakok Ixmukane.
There they offer mayan fire ceremonies, limpias, tzi’te bean consultations, massage and reiki, and much more.
At the House of Flowers they believe all healing begins outdoors and with one’s re-connection to nature, mother earth. All ceremonies are held outside. In winter less offerings are available as Xochiketzalli takes this time to rest, do their artwork and heal.
Oral tradition does not live on the web. It is firsthand knowledge that is passed on in ceremony, yet as time moves forward, many progress forward. As a collective they aim at upholding some of the foundations of their maestras and in doing so, they pay respect to their abuelas and traditions.
This traditional path of ancestral medicine is not easy in the USA, with this rat race of a society and the big wide web of the internet, yet nevertheless, accessibility to all is their goal. Offerings of money are made in reciprocity for the exchange of service and time, an important teaching by las nanas. As well in this community it is strictly forbidden to photograph during ceremonies or during healings.
- Community Ceremonies are Free -
(Donations are excepted to help cover the cost of materials)
- Healings are by Donation or Sliding Scale -
(with a seasonal free/donation based Limpia clinics)
- Mayan Divinations are by Sliding Scale Donation -
(Please consider the time and cost of materials from Guatemala)
- Classes are Sliding Scale -
(Keep in mind the 100’s of hours to create each series)