Athena Naia

A little about Athena.

Athena has been studying forms of traditional healing and shamanism for over 16 years. Her journey into alternative Healing opened during a major crisis in her life, which led her to working with her family down south and a Traditional Venezuelan healer who recognized her gift of sight and began to give her a language to explain life as an empath and seer. Upon arriving back to Canada she was adopted by a beautiful medicine woman who grounded her into ceremonial teachings, sweat lodges, pipe ceremony and women's mystery work. She began working with Ayahuasca in 2010, and soon after began a formal apprenticeship with the Shipibo Mahua Lineage in the Amazon of Peru studying a traditional form of healthcare. She has spent months at a time in retreat in the practice of dieta fasting from foods and water for periods of time, and learning directly from the spirits of the plants. She travels internationally, holding ceremonies and retreats, runs plant dietas and Integration and healing work. She has been recognized by the Grandmother Shipibo Maestras she works with and was given the cup to serve medicine after 8 years of apprenticing. Her main Teachers Include Maestra Amelia Ronen, Maestra Manuela Mahua. She has spent countless time learning from Elders, wisdom keepers and guardians of the traditions in North and south America. She has been blessed to sit with and share friendship with traditional grandmothers who have helped keep her humble and in reverence for all life. She is a mother of two young boys is an artist, musician, a Doula, herbalist and tries not to take herself too seriously. She holds all who sit with her in circle in the love and prayers of the Great mothers heart. She currently lives in the mountains of British Columbia. Read More