FRANCISCA SANTIBANEZ | Plant MEDICINE TEACHER

Francisca Santibanez is a mama, Plant lover & devotee. An herbalist, ritualist, wellness guide, medicine maker, educator, and artist. She also offers Wellness Consultations, Plant Spirit Initiations, and Whole Soul guidance through her private practice, currently out of Pomo and Miwok territory also known as Sebastopol, California.

Raised in South America, she was born in Brasil and spent her childhood there and in Chile, before moving to the United States as a pre-teen. Later in life she returned to study traditional Amazonian plant medicine in the jungles of Peru, with teachers of Mestizo, Quechua and Shipibo Conibo lineage.

Her interest for being in intimate connection with Plants began before she could speak as an infant. In fact these are her earliest childhood memories; Intrigued and fascinated by the vibrancy of the flowers, their textures and smells, she would spend most of her play time in the garden looking at and collecting blooms.

As she grew, so did her love for all the Plants. However it wasn’t until later in her thirties that she formalized her studies of Herbal Medicine through the Western Clinical Herbalism program at the Berkeley Herbal Center, and through her studies under Maestra Amelia Panduro de Sinuiri of Pucallpa, Peru.