Temazcal Tonantzin

10/05/2025

El café de olla .

es una forma típica de preparar el café en México, que consiste en aromatizarlo con canela y piloncillo (panela); a veces también clavo de olor, chocolate amargo, anís estrellado, pimienta de Tabasco o piel de naranja o de limón. Tradicionalmente se cuece en olla de barro, de ahí su nombre.

Supuestamente, la bebida se creó durante la Revolución Mexicana a principios del siglo XX para los soldados del país. Al mezclar especias y café en una olla de arcilla, podían preparar y disfrutar de una bebida caliente durante las noches largas y frías en los campos de guerra.

Aunque se haya inventado durante la Revolución Mexicana o no, el café de olla es actualmente reconocido como una bebida tradicional mexicana y una parte histórica de la cultura cafetera del país.

10/04/2025

10/02/2025

RAICES: Community Education of Traditional Medicine
Beautiful wisdom
Curanderas de sabiduría!

10/17/2024

I am so honored for all the birthday wishes. I worked on sending out this message on my birthday, but anxiety overwhelmed me. However I hope this update is a gift for you too

Today is my Birthday.
I do not exactly feel as if it is a celebration, but instead a day of honoring all of my experiences since March of 2018. This may be odd to many of you about honoring challenges. However, as my oncologist said last week, “your faith and strong ancestors have consistently embraced you.”
March 11, 2018, I was calmly told by 3 doctors in the Emergency Room that I have Kidney Cancer. Wow, I never could of imagined that my life would change in so many different ways. Joy and misery, crying and laughing, but oddly mostly silence. I think I just do not have enough words, or the right words to explain what is happening. Everything changes so rapidly. How I feel, I can not expect people to understand, the changes that are mostly out of my control. I had to change the way I live, in relationships, financially, in my home and hospital. This year I have spent almost 5 months in the hospital in Albuquerque and Houston. I have to manage what my body can continue to endure. I could not speak nor listen to others about how my cancer was impacting their life. Cancer was not a choice for me. My entire life changed, for example my home changed from a community healing center to a home needing to accommodate my wheelchairs, walkers, a hospital bed, and sometimes puke bags. My home was becoming a healing a healing center for one. I honestly felt numb, and my coping mechanism is to be silent. It can be so overwhelming.

Living with cancer, changes you, it changed me and my voice. Cancer has even changed the love in my life. I loved others so much I opened my home so my community could heal, and a place traditional healers could call home. Then, I felt a new type of love, compassion. This was love from family, friends, community, entire hospital staff, community and even strangers The compassion that radiated throughout my body, home, and everyone around me. It felt like a deep plunge into an ocean of different emotions. In addition I had immense clarity once I stopped, watched and listened.

I have changed. Some of most joyous adventures in my life included teaching and Holy Listening. I was passionate about sharing my experiences and advocating for others. I believe this was a part of my life’s purpose.

Now It changed, Cancer changed my journey, it is a whirlwind and now I had to focus on me. Learning to receive and ask for help has been challenging. Love and learning is continuous.

I originally was told my cancer would spread, and I was given an estimated two years. Hearing this changes how I feel and think about everything.

Instead, my cancer has been growing slowly. Treating and healing different parts of my body. In 2022 cancer spread to my right leg. The cancer destroyed my right femur. Surgically I had metal inserted into my right femur. In 2024 Cancer spread 2 rounds of Radiation. In February, stem cell treatment. I was in hospital for two months in Houston, then New Medication, not working.

Now, on June 24, MD Andersons amazing medical team did an internal amputation. I only have metal from half the lower leg, knee, and entire femur. In hospital 5 weeks. Return home to NM. I now have a new FDA approved medication

Then last week……….
In Houston for another follow up. The Doctors literally say for the first time, great news, miracles have happened. Many small tumors have disappeared throughout my body, and one large tumor on my chest is half its size.”

So the journey continues. Today is not just a birthday celebration but a larger celebration of Honoring my life, and journey.
I have so much gratitude for YOU, your prayers, your support. Even though I have had to be Silent, and most likely will need to be silent during my continued healing.
I can feel your loving compassion, it wraps around and heals me.

Prayers are our strongest medicine.

02/18/2024

Update
Good Afternoon from Houston!!
It is hard to believe but in March, it will be 6 years living with cancer. Amazingly blessed since I was told that less then 5% will live more than 2 years. So everyday is incredible, even a hard day of challenges

The last few months have been challenging for me. Often, I find myself for no words. There is no simple way to say that my cancer has grown.

Today, I find myself again for treatment. I am currently getting my second dose of Chemo. Then, on Monday, (tomorrow) I will be getting a Stem Cell Treatment in a trial at MDAnderson. I am blessed to be chosen to participate. I know so many of you have been keeping me in prayer and ceremonies. I want to ask that on Monday you hold me and my family in special prayers since this will be a new aggressive treatment.
What I know for sure is the collective prayer has been my strongest medication. Sometimes I live, not with weakness of faith, but instead my physical body gets tired. I am still adjusting to my lack of mobility, and what does life look like now with these different challenges. This is when I have to use the most courage and confidence to learn a new ways of being.
I know communicating has been my biggest struggle, especially asking for help, but I am learning.
I think that throughout our lives we go through so much changes. These experiences are about learning. We often teach others that we are like a butterfly coming out of a cocoon, but no one explains that we will have so many new cocoons that grow around us.
We struggle, transform, and are free, then it happens again. Throughout all this process we learn grace, and patience. However we never stop learning, once we stop learning then we stop living. Healing truly is the never ending story.

So my family, friends, and community, please prayer for me as this next phase of my life.

Please read this update from our beautiful friend Tonita for an update on her healing journey: I wanted t… Nory Angel needs your support for Help Toñita Heal

07/21/2023

02/25/2023

*** “La recuperación de esta pieza dio inicio a uno de los proyectos más emblemáticos de la arqueo