MEET THE FAMILY!
The Akituwa Family is not a normal family. We are also a team of passionate healers, guides, and educators dedicated to supporting people on their journey toward greater health, balance, and self-discovery.
Drawing inspiration from our ancestry, traditional healing practices, nature, and personal experience, we offer ceremonies, retreats, workshops, cleansings, and holistic guidance in a grounded and respectful way.
Our mission is to create a safe and supportive space where people can reconnect with themselves, deepen their understanding of healing, and explore their own path of growth and transformation.
We believe that true healing happens when knowledge, experience,
community, and nature come together.
Jao Silvan
Medicine Man
''True healing always begins in the heart''
An authentic teacher of presence, medicine, and universal wisdom, Jao is dedicated to guiding others back home to themselves through one-on-one healing ceremonies, retreats, dieta´s, limpiesas and group classes.
Jao has been teaching over 10 years sharing amazonian traditional knowledge and plantmedicine science. And with a more than 1,800+ hours of training in plant medicine ceremony, he is forever a student of the spiritual realm and what it means to be a human being.
His healing abilities and teachings were given to him through strict spiritual practices known as Master Plant Dieta´s -processes that can take years- and different teachers throughout his life.
Jao considers it a great honor to be of service to others and to create experiences that facilitate connection, growth, and healing.
However, never satisfied, he continues to do his dieta's to strengthen his relationship with the plants and become of greater service.
FunFact: Jao his favourite Master Plants are
Aya-huasca, Ayahuma and Lupuna
''In a world with much pain, love is the medicine.''
Carrying the ancient wisdom of healing traditions inside, she is a symbol of gentleness, kindness and warmth to all who meet her. A master at creating a safe haven for people to come and find tranquility, connection and vulnerability.
With a 40 year teaching, coaching and healing experience, she is a master at creating a safe haven for people to find tranquility, connection, and vulnerability.
She has the gift of opening even the most rigid of minds, hurted hearts and troubled souls. To many,she becomes a second mother. Which is why, she is called
''Mamanilca''.
With many people in the world suffering from health issues, trauma or emotional imbalances that western medicine cannot solve, she is eager to share her way of healing, to those in need.
FunFact: Mamanilca her favourite Master Plants are
Jergon sacha, Remo Caspi and Waira Caspi
Mamanilca
''If you look long enough, you'll always find something beautiful in nature.''
Althea is Jao his partner and she plays a crucial part in management and helping out where-ever needed.
She is the Akituwa Healers their right hand. Together with other family members she helps setting up space for the ceremonies, assists during therapies and gives intuitive massages herself as well.
Some say... her hands have magic...
She is a big part of the workforce that happens behind the curtains. She cooks fresh meals during our retreats, keeps guest areas nice and tidy and helps to make herbal concoctions for clients of all sorts.
Not to mention that she is in constant dieta to learn more about traditional curanderismo and work with stronger masterplants in the future.
She has just started guiding people through their dieta processes with beginner friendly master plants.
FunFact: Althea her favourite Master Plants are
Una de Gato, Capirona and Renaquilla.
Bram the Handy-man
The partner of Mamanilca and our technical Assistant who supports the smooth operation of an organization by handling the practical, digital, and administrative tasks that keep projects running efficiently.
Just like Althea he helps us a lot behind the scenes with around the house tasks. During retreats he likes to check up with clients to see how they're doing and see if they need anything.
Occasionally Bram joins us in ceremony to help provide proper setup, tools for during the ceremony and support the healers if they need anything during the process.
Bram spends a lot of time maintaining the health of our spaces as well, constantly working with sacred smokes, clearing out unwanted energies while the healers and their clients / patients are in process of a program.
FunFact: Bram his favourite Master Plants are Mapacho,
Chuchuhuasi and Renaco
We are located in Bandabou - Curacao, close to Hofi Mango.
Surrounded by mountains and tranquility.
This is the heart of our ceremonies.
This is the Akituwa Home