Marcela Sabin, M.A.

Biography

Marcela Sabin is a cultural practitioner and promotor of curanderismo and ancestral knowledge deeply committed to healing work based on indigenous traditions.

She was born in Argentina, her ancestors are Celt from Galicia, Basque from Pyrenees, Saxon and native people of South America, she migrated to Central America, feeling a deep call to help in the preservation of traditional healing practices. She lived in a Mayan community in Yucatan learning from women, midwives and elders, an experience which changed her life.  Working with the National Indigenous Institute in Mexico, she developed local cultural projects to connect children with elders using art and storytelling.  Since that time, she has dedicated her work to empowering the cultural identity of indigenous people of Mexico and other countries in Latin America, and sharing their wisdom with appreciative audiences in the U.S.  

Her experience as an immigrant in the U.S. guided her to work with diverse ethnic populations of low-income and immigrant families as a family and community advocate for their educational and mental health needs. Her work with the Maya communities in Mexico planted a seed of curiosity in her to search for her own ancestral indigenous roots and traditions. While in California she completed the Masters program in Indigenous Mind. Looking to pass on this healing experience to others outside the academic settings, she co-founded the nonprofit organization Circle of Ancestors, where she is now President, and has been part of the growing international movement of reclaiming ancestral traditions and healing for several years.  

Her calling in the U.S. has been focused on remembering and connecting seekers in community back to their ancestral knowledge, traditions and ancestral practices as a path to personal and collective healing.

Marcela has a BA degree in Psychology from University of Cordoba, Argentina, a BA in Expressive Movement, from Buenos Aires, and in U.S. she earned a Master’s degree in creation spirituality, with a concentration in Indigenous Mind. 

She has received training as Reiki practitioner level II, Emotional Freedom Technique, and learned with traditional healers the use of plants and natural elements for cleansings of aires (emotions). 

She considers herself a bridge, as her personal journey has been that of connecting the cultures and peoples of North, Central and South. Her own studies, travels, and experiences have led her trust in indigenous wisdom as a path to understanding the historical wounds of identity, connecting to ancestors through ceremony, and entering into the rituals of sacred fire as a healing power.