Online Curanderismo Mentorship Program – Level 1
Table of Contents
- General
- Curanderismo Monthly Course Topics
- Enrollment Dates/Times for Courses
- Private One-on-One Mentoring Sessions (In-Person, Tujunga, CA, or Remote)
This curanderismo mentorship program is intended for people that are interested in:
- Exploring the diversity and breadth of Curanderismo practices
- Integrating Curanderismo practices in their healing practices, life, or practicing as a Curanderx
- Moving beyond the fear of putting their healing gifts (aka “don”) into practice
- Decolonizing healing practices, the business of healing practices, and identities as a “healer”
- Exploring what Curanderismo practices they are drawn to and ideal settings to put these gifts into practice
- Practicing spiritual hygiene, and discernment in what can and cannot be expected from healing services
- Understanding their clientele, growing their healing practice, considerations for physical and online spaces, promoting and collaborating with others
- Exploring the necessity of boundaries in their healing practices and business policies, and creating honoring and accessible healing spaces
Scope of Participation
Level I will be an annual program with 12 total online monthly courses ($50/course) and a private community chat board. It is encouraged to attend all 12 monthly courses, but it will not be necessary to attend every course to participate in Level I. It is also unnecessary to take the classes from Level One in any particular order. But, to be eligible to sign up for the Curanderismo Mentorship Program, Level II, you must have taken all 12 classes from this Curanderismo Mentorship Program, Level I.
The mentorship programs will be open to all people, and please be aware that we will be discussing decolonizing BIPOC healing practices and identities with a focus on curanderismo Indigenous traditions. If these areas are something that do not interest you, or you feel are irrelevant to you, please do not sign up for any of these courses.
This program is for people that want to be a part of a safe and loving learning and healing environment. Participants will be expected to participate in a respectful manner, and will be removed from the class and lose access to the chat board, without a refund, if they are hostile in anyway. Thank you for your understanding, and only signing up, if you can honor this.
Minimum Requirements for Participation
This curanderismo mentorship will go beyond the how-to’s of curanderismo practices—limpias, divination work, facilitating, and preparation work.
While the how-to’s, will definitely be covered, it will be expected that you have: 1. either taken the Online Limpia Classes or have read my first book, Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo, and 2. have read my third book, Sacred Energies of the Sun and Moon. Ideally, reread the how-to sections of my first and third book, before taking the courses.
Overview of What the Mentorship Program Entails
There will be 12 online two-hour courses for the mentorship program and a private community chat board. These annual courses start every April and end on March (the following year). The entire Curanderismo Mentorship annual program will only be $600, or $50/course. You can purchase as many or as little of the 12 total courses at a time.
Enrollment dates for April 2025 to March 2026
- January 5th 2025. Enrollment for the year 2025 for the months of April, May, June, and July begins January 5th 2025 at 9am PST.
- April 6th 2025. Enrollment for the year 2025 for the months of August, September, October, and November begins April 6th, 2025 at 9am PDT.
- August 3rd 2025. Enrollment for December 2025, January 2026, February 2026 and March 2026 begins August 3rd, 2025 at 9am PDT.
Enrollment date for April 2026 to March 2027
All participants will be visible on the screen share and will have an opportunity to interact as a community.
You will have access to watch/rewatch any of the courses for 28 days, after the course you registered for has gone live. After the 28-days, the classes get deleted. Failure to watch the class within the 28-day period, will not warrant credit for a future course. If you are unable to join us live, please and thank you for participating and interacting more that month with the community on the chat board.
Basic outline for the 2-hour course (please read below for specific monthly topics):
- Begin with a community opening prayer
- Erika Buenaflor poses comments and questions from our community chat board relevant to that month’s topic and questions
- Erika Buenaflor guides us into a discussion, and provides guidance, recommendations, as well as answers questions in a safe loving mentoring environment
- Close circle with a community prayer
Chat board: For every course, there will be a designated chat board with relevant course topics and questions. If you signed up for that course, you will have access to this chat board for 28 days, after the course has gone live.
Curanderismo Monthly Course Topics and Related Questions
April: Decolonizing Healing Practitioner Titles, Labels, Identities, & the Processes of Reclaiming Them
- Delving into Curanderismo-based practices & the fundamentals of Curanderismo
- Reclaiming our agency to define & decolonize healing practitioner titles, labels, & identities
- Exploring the development of Curanderismo from Indigenous traditions
- Respect, integrity, & agency in reclaiming-claiming Curanderismo traditions & practices
May: Putting Our Healing Gifts (aka “Don”) into Practice
- Exploring the development of Curanderismo, nineteenth century to the present
- Contextualizing the most well-known curandere/x and an overview of the last 200 years
- What it looked like for some of the most well-known curandere/x to put their Don into practice
- Exploring putting our Don into practice with respect & integrity, including knowing our history & traditions
June: Multi-Purpose Limpias & Moving Beyond the Fears of Offering them to Others
- Understanding the different kinds of limpias
- An overview of daily-practical to more in-depth limpias
- An overview of limpias & telltale signs when they are needed
- Feeling more comfortable putting our practice into practice
July: The Importance of Platicas (Heart-Straightening Talks) & Homework
- What platicas help facilitate
- The fundamentals of platicas
- Integrating active & empathic listening & emotional intelligence in the platica to agree on additional limpias & homework
- The purposes of giving the client “homework” after the platica
August: Sacred Limpia Tools, Barridas (Sweeps)
- The essentials of barridas
- The understandings & methodologies (steps) of barridas
- Ways to prepare & care for our sacred barrida tools
- Considerations for deciding your sacred barrida tools
September: Sacred Limpia Tools—Fire and Water, and Space Limpias
- Type of fire limpias you can provide for a client in-person or online & recommend as homework
- Type of solar or lunar limpias you can facilitate for a client in-person or online & recommend as homework
- Type of water limpias you can facilitate for a client in-person or online & recommend as homework
- Facilitating or guiding clients to perform different kinds of space limpias
October: Sacred Limpia Tools, Yerberismo (working with plants in our healing practices)
- Different kinds of ways to work with plants in your sessions
- Preparing different kinds of plant medicines to use in your sessions
- Working with the same plant holistically—understanding its physical, emotional, mental, & spiritual benefits
- Guiding an integration of plant medicines
November: Spiritual Hygiene & Discernment
- Ensuring different spaces foster ideal limpia environments
- Considerations for facilitating limpias in different spaces
- Making sure we don’t pick up our client’s “stuff”
- Recognizing limitations in our practices & what we will not work with
December: Determining Which Curanderismo Practices Are a Good Fit
- Essential considerations for offering limpias in-person, online, & remotely
- Different limpias that can be facilitated online & remotely
- Facilitating barridas remotely & online, integrating tradition with practical necessity & accessibility
- Facilitating fire limpias remotely & online, integrating tradition with practical necessity & accessibility
January: In-Person & Online Classes, Group Ceremonies, Dynamics, & Facilitating
- Ensuring safe & conducive spaces for healing & learning at in-person, online, & hybrid classes
- Encouraging presence, interaction, & grounding at in-person, online, & hybrid classes
- Ensuring safe & conducive spaces for healing & reflection at in-person, online, & hybrid ceremonies
- Encouraging presence, interaction, & grounding at in-person, online, & hybrid ceremonies
February: Understanding Your Clientele, Promoting, & Collaborating
- Considerations for determining who you want to work with & offer Curanderismo-based services to
- Ideal spaces to promote your practice
- Shaping your practice, being fluid & dynamic to your current life realities
- Collaborating with others, considerations, & creating win-win situations
March: Pricing, Policies, and Boundaries
- Shaping our exchanges or pricing for our Curanderismo-based services
- Ways to make our Curanderismo-based practices accessible to different groups of people
- Making clientele preparation requests for the sessions
- Cancellation policies & boundaries, what they inspire & what is needed for you
Enrollment Dates/Times for Courses
Please mark your calendar for the three dates and times that enrollment begins for the stated 4-month quarter, especially if you prefer a specific day and time. Again, it is unnecessary to take the classes from Level One in any particular order. Sign up for the courses are first come, first serve, no exceptions.
Each date/time is one course per month.
Sign up for the Mentorship Program (Level 1)
- Scroll down to the section below that shows the various Months and their corresponding Timeslots
- Notice that under these sections, there are dates/times that are colored in blue. Click any of the dates/times that you would like to sign up for colored in blue. If the date/time is not blue, it means all spots for that timeslot have been filled.
- Once you’ve clicked a blue date/time, you will be taken to the product page. If the date/time you selected is still available, click the Add to Cart button
- Repeat steps 1-3 until you have all the courses you would like to take.
After purchase, you will receive (within the hour) a Order Confirmation Email with links to download class files. There are (3) files to download per class.
Enrollment for Courses:
August 3rd, 2025 at 9am PDT. Enrollment for the months of December 2025, January 2026, February 2026 & March 2026 begins August 3rd, 2025 at 9am PDT. Please only sign up for one course—date/time per month. If you are unable to sign up for a specific date/time, it is because all spots have filled up for that time/day, or enrollment for that period has not yet begun.
December 2025 Course Dates/Times:
- 12/10: 12:15-2:15pm PST
- 12/14: 5:15-7:15pm PST
- 12/17: 5-7pm PST
January 2026 Course Dates/Times
February 2026 Course Dates/Times:
March 2026 Course Dates/Times
No Refunds
Please note that once you sign up for a class or set of classes, refunds will not be provided, nor can you switch class dates/times that month.
You will have an opportunity to watch/rewatch any missed course(s) for 28-days after we have gone live. After the 28-days, the classes get deleted. Failure to watch the class within the 28-day period, will not warrant credit for a future course.
If you are unable to join us live, please and thank you for participating and interacting more that month with the community on the chat board. You will have access to this chat board for 28 days, after the course has gone live.
If $50 – $200 is going to break you financially, should an emergency come up, please do not sign up. Work with the limpia rites (online limpia classes are only $15/series) to get yourself to a place where the investment for this program is not going to break you, before signing up please and thank you.
Private One-on-One Mentoring (In-Person, Tujunga, CA, or Remote)
To book a Mentoring Sessions with Erika, book a Hybrid Session (https://www.realizeyourbliss.com/product/curanderismo-hybrid-session/)
During the Checkout process, there will be a notes section, write the topics you want to discuss and mention it is for Mentorship. For a list of possible topics: https://www.realizeyourbliss.com/curanderismo-mentorship/#topics
After the session is purchased on the website, Erika will email you to schedule the session.