Maria Teresa Valenzuela
is an indigenous traditional healer and spiritual teacher.
She
comes from a lineage of shamanic healers and curanderas of the Sierra Madre, Chihuahua,
Mexico. She is of mixed heritage from three Meso-American cultures: Mexican,
Raramuri (Tarahumara) Indian and Peruvian.
Ms. Valenzuela
grew up in the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, where she was trained in the
shamanic traditions of her grandmother and her father.
