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FELICIA COCOTZIN RUIZ is an award-winning author and renowned curandera living in Phoenix, Arizona. Her business name came to be after friends lovingly called her "the kitchen curandera", as she was often found cooking and making remedies in her tiny kitchen.
Felicia has been featured on numerous platforms, including Food & Wine, Spirituality & Health, and on Padma Lakshmi's Taste The Nation streaming on Hulu. Felicia is also a lead instructor for the Herbal Academy, sharing herbal folk wisdom with a community of over 100K people. To learn more on how you can work with Felicia, or to schedule a healing session with her, visit the offerings tab HERE.
WHAT IS A CURANDERA? Curanderas are traditional healers, who carry knowledge of foods, herbs, and other cultural remedies working with the body, mind, and spirit. In curanderismo, it is believed that disease can be caused by psychological, physical, and spiritual factors, creating disharmony of the body, mind, or soul. Curanderas help bring people out of that diseased state and back into harmony with various remedies and little rituals.
Curanderismo has been practiced throughout the Americas for over five hundred years, with each healer offering a unique skillset applying her natural gifts and training. Felicia’s own maternal great-grandmother was a curandera in northern New Mexico, where she caught babies, provided hands-on healing, and created herbal remedies for her community and family.