We want to document your abuela’s knowledge before it disappears

Is there an herb, ritual, prayer, or sabeduria your abuela use to share? We want to archive abuela knowledge for future generations, before it disappears. Use the form below to contact us!

Abuela Traditions

We are collecting and documenting knowledge passed down from our abuelas. While our Latin cultures are rich with numerous practices, at its core, all are focused on healing the body, mind, spirit, and community. This knowledge is slowly fading into history, and its critical that we save it for future generations.

”El amor todo lo puede.”
”Love can do it all”

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Oración a San Luis Beltrán
santiguadora
Oración a San Luis Beltrán
santiguadora

The Oracion of San Luis de Beltran is a prayer used to remove negative energy, break a curse, or provide a general blessing. Widely used in Cuba household, it is one of the core prayers of Santiguadoras.

santiguadora
Key Differences in Latina Healing Traditions
Key Differences in Latina Healing Traditions

The three Latina traditions of hechizera, santiguadora and curandera share many practices, beliefs and approaches, and also key differences.

What is a Curandera
curandera
What is a Curandera
curandera

A Curandera is a holistic healer who addresses physical, emotional, and spiritual ailments through herbs, nature, and community care.

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What Is a Hechizera?
Hechizera
What Is a Hechizera?
Hechizera

The hechizera is a living embodiment of ancestral knowledge. Fierce intellectuals who hold our history.

Hechizera
What is a Santiguadora
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What is a Santiguadora
santiguadora

Santiguadoras are spiritual healers who focus on rituals involving specific prayers, blessings, herbs, and water, while invoking angels, saints and the Virgin Mary.

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