The Ancestral Maya territories spread from Tabasco down to Nicaragua and started 4000 years ago. The Mayas come from the Olmecs who were the first Civilisation in Mexico. 6000 years ago. They are mysterious people that disappeared, and leave us with the question - what happened to them? Paola’s gifts are a window into their knowledge of being. 

Her Paternal and Maternal background are Maya. From a lineage of healers, she carries within her a gift that spans thirteen generations which is as far back as they can trace. She tells us that we as people are already seeds in our grandmother's wombs before we are born. 

“Since a little child I was surrounded by all the rituals and ceremonies. I would watch my Grandmother. They would be praying and I would be like ‘oh no not the prayers again, all they do is pray all day’. Then I started to notice lots of things. I wondered, are the flowers, are they talking to me?  Are the trees, are they talking to me? Always when I walk somewhere I see things happening. 

Then one day I looked at the sky and there was a beautiful rainbow around the sun and in that moment an eclipse (I didn’t know it then). I was breathless. And I remember my Grandmother brought out a special ritual container and we saw the reflection through the water and we watched the sky. This is an example of the daily practices we use to cultivate what has been happening to the natural world.”

Unlike Paola’s Grandmother, Paola chose to carry forward her gift, and found herself wanting to work with Women and Womb Healing.

“I am a mother and my own (first) birth was traumatic. It was in a hospital in Spain. In Spain they throw the Placenta out. After this experience, I thought to myself: I have this gift, I am living now in these lands, what can I do ? How can I support others? Then, slowly and slowly, women started to come in my way and I said okay, this is my mission here. This is how I started working with Women and Women’s fertility.”

Paola’s story is a beautiful example of how in life, the things that break our hearts can break us open to our gifts and share why we are here and what to shine our light on. 

Living in the Netherlands Paola bears witness to the problems women have with their health and their womb. 

“For me how is it possible there is no education, there is no connection to the womb. Common problems, for example painful periods, are normalised here. These painful periods have a meaning, have a reason. We have both the physical and emotional sides to them. This led me to see a path where I share that something like painful periods or infertility or Endometriosis are not okay - are not normal. Trauma is a black seed that is growing, that is not blooming but saps energy out of you. Instead we can live by activating the sensual nature of living.”

Paola saw that through her own ability to be connected to her womb, that there lies disconnection between women and their wombs and now spends her time guiding women to connection, their womb, their voice and their source of creation. She says it is a big journey to move down: starting to listen to the womb and begin the process of healing trauma and intergenerational trauma within ourselves. 

“Most of the time women can’t put their hands in their womb and feel what is going on here. In my experience it is often the  first time they feel the tension there. But sometimes it is the mind, so I ask them ‘do you feel or do you think?’ and often they are thinking. Then they start to feel and surrender to the emotions that are coming. My way of supporting is by sharing the small things you can do to hold this space for yourself and your womb.”