Lucia Echeri, Indigenous Purépecha Mexicana, focuses on guiding others through traditional Indigenous medicine as a birth worker and teacher. She has seen an increase in Latinxs seeking out her educational courses and healing methods. "They are realizing that they want something more than the things that today's society offers them. They are looking for that connection, medicine or light that will take them to their true essence. Little by little they begin to return to nature, to indigeneity and spirituality, as things that are alive and present in daily life," Echeri tells POPSUGAR Latina.
Echeri hopes that Latinxs can work past the feeling of not knowing enough of their ancestry in order to begin honoring their Indigenous roots spiritually. "Once people recognize themselves as Indigenous, Indigenous descendants, Afro-Indigenas Latinas, etc. they can begin to look into the past, from the deepest memories of their family, and remember where they come from and what they were. What they did. How they lived. Knowing this, you feel proud, love your lineage and skin color," she says.
Personally, Echeri believes that spirituality is beyond limitations and interconnected in all human aspects. "For me spirituality is not only in the rituals I do on the equinoxes, the full moons, or on the Purhepécha New Year," she adds. "For me, spirituality is in the communion with the earth and the community, in the actions I do for them through my work. It makes me love what I do and I enjoy everything to the fullest, like the connections I have with the people I love."
Where to Find Her: @luciaecheri
