Sacred Sites - Teotihuacan

Written By Cristy

The place where people become gods. When I came to visit Teotihuacan for the second time, I couldn't help but be struck by its mythological power. It was constructed with temples to honor the thirteen full moon cycles, with two pyramids of worship, one for the sun and the other for the moon with adjacent the housing for the shamans. Generations layered constructions upon previous constructions. While the paintings that covered the stone works have eroded, the imagistic legacies stir theory and imagination on these pre-conquest pre-Aztec peoples that were advanced enough to have irrigation and plumbing systems long before other societies. The profile of the mountains were mirrored in the constructions. So considered to relate to the above, around and below, were they. Yet when the Spanish came, they assume this place was a citadel or fortress against enemies instead of a sacred site. The mystery was what led these ancient people to the awareness that they had to abandon it. So often we visit these places as tourists but to visit this place with reverence, a chance to commune with the sacredness, with the imagination of these people, starts to become a little more tangible.

Cristy

Hola, Piyali, Hello! I am a queer Latina Chicana mestiza ((detribalized Caxcan/ Iberian colonial) mother, storyteller and decolonial somatic psychotherapist licensed in California with fourteen years of clinical experience in the field of depth psychology. My private practice, Imaginal Therapy + Sacred Arts, centers soul care and offers ketamine journeys. I am a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Hakomi Institute of California. I specialize in intergenerational trauma, healing the family soul for personal and cultural transformation, and psychedelic/entheogen integration. I work with clients in a holistic approach to connect to collective wisdom through imagination, intuition, mindfulness, embodiment, dreamwork and creative expression. My treatment focus is on relationship, cultural wounds, trauma resolution, ancestral lineage repair, animist parenting, kinship ethics, and reconnecting to the sacred.

I am a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing practitioner and also an initiated serpent medicine keeper and priestess in sacred arts with 8 years of training. As a ritualist and coach, I offer virtual mentoring and circles globally. I am steeped in my traditions, mythology, cultura and roots, originally from the villages of Juchipila, Zac, Mexico, born and raised in Tongva lands, Los Angeles, residing on Nisenan land, Sacramento. My lineage gifts are in storytelling, dignity, sweetness, relating to the spirit magic of bee, deer, maize, and cacao. I have been given the medicine name, Cloud Serpent. I am honored to reclaim reverence for my mother mountain, Tlachialoyantepec, a sacred site. I hold a vow with my people to live the repair, in service of the anima, mundi, the world soul.

https://imaginaltherapy@gmail.com
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