I’m a Certified Clinical Herbalist, artist, ceremonialist, and founder of Teyolía. This is a creation born from decades of devotion to the sacred bond between plants, people, and spirit. Though Teyolía is a newer offering, it carries the weight and wisdom of a life shaped by ceremony, connection, ritual, and ancestral remembering.

That early experience of sacred gathering lit a lifelong fire in me, an embodied sense of homecoming to Earth, Spirit, and community. As I grew older, this path widened into studies and initiations with curanderas, ayahuasqueros, wachumeros, and ceremonialists throughout the U.S., Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Europe, and beyond. I learned through sitting at altars, making offerings, apprenticing to medicine carriers, working in kitchens and gardens, and listening to the plants, the prayers, and the people who carry them.

I returned to the traditions of my Mexican lineage, studying curanderismo with family and community elders. These teachings tethered me to something ancient, reminding me that healing is not simply personal, but collective and cultural.

Eventually, I sought training as a clinical herbalist in the Western tradition at the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism to further bridge ancestral plant wisdom into dialogue with modern herbal frameworks. This synthesis became the foundation of Teyolía, a project rooted in ritual, healing, and the sacred intelligence of the Earth.

Teyolía is more than a brand to me.  I created it with the hope of honoring tradition and bringing people closer to one another and to the rituals that nourish us. Herbs and cacao, felt like a beautiful place to begin.

May every sip of Teyolía offer a moment of connection, presence, and joy.

With gratitude,

Sofia