Welcome
My name is Rachel Lee. I was born in San Antonio,Texas in the southwestern United States. I am a health, wellness, and spirituality guide and practitioner creating transformative spaces for individual and collective liberation and change. My journey as a healer began as a birth worker supporting women, birthing people, and families seeking empowered birth experiences. Soon thereafter, I began studying herbal medicine in Northern Appalachia while completing a degree in Women’s Studies.
Upon graduating, I started practicing Ashtanga yoga as a path towards physical and emotional well-being and spiritual development. I earned my teaching certification and started teaching mindfulness to youth in foster care and homeless shelters as a holistic means of trauma recovery. My path continued to blossom when I moved to Northern California and I started practicing Vipassana meditation at East Bay Meditation Center; one of the most diverse dharma centers in the U.S as well as Spirit Rock Meditation Center founded by renowned Buddhist teacher and author Jack Kornfield. Here I met and studied under various teachers like Spring Washam, Mushim Ikeda, Tara Brach, and Bonnie Duran.
As my personal meditation practice deepened, a close friend invited me to support her during her vision quest. Thus was the beginning of my path on the Red Road.
To compliment my own healing journey, I started working with plant medicines from central and South America as well studying curandismo practices of Mexico, including traditional sweat lodge (temazcal) ceremonies. Coinciding with this time of deep spiritual devotion, I found a spiritual community based in Traditional African Spirituality; Ifa. As I wove together the threads of these many traditions, I created a tapestry of healing wisdom that I was invited to share in classes, workshops, and ceremonial spaces.
Like many, I did not plan to make Tulum my home when I arrived here. I was invited to apprentice with a traditional curandero and temazcalero (sweat lodge facilitator) and eventually given permission to guide traditional sweat lodge ceremonies myself. I continue to walk the Red Road as a moon dancer with the Moon dance circle Chalchiuhtekpatl in Bacalar, Mexico.
These varied wisdom traditions all seem to point to the same universal truths rooted in reverence for the sacredness of all life. It is inside the temazcal, the womb of Mother Earth, that we are guided to remember this sacred knowing, the truth of oneself and our connection to all life, the wisdom of the elements and our ancestors.
Since moving to Tulum, I’ve focused on organizing women’s temazcals as safe and supportive spaces for women to come together and heal in community. Additionally, I facilitate ceremonial containers for Black folks of the African diaspora to heal from the impact of racism, colonialism, and the trauma of oppression.
Through group and one on one work, I aim to channel the wisdom and medicine needed in the world today at this time; acknowledging the personal and collective responsibility we each carry to birth a new world into being. One in which all lives are valued inherently and equally, where all have access to resources that support thriving, belonging, and well-being.
I invite you to journey with me on a path of healing, transformation, and liberation rooted in integrity, purpose, and deep reverence for the sacredness of life.
