Specialties
Koa Mikaelah (she/her) is a third generation Latinx Medicine Woman of Indigenous Arawak Venezuelan and Taino Cuban ancestry currently living on occupied Cherokee and Catawba land outside of Asheville, NC. Her teachings come from elders in the lineage of Curanderismo, Shamanism and Breathwork. She focuses her offerings on what she calls "Spirit Medicine" and believes that self healing is an act of radical activism. She combines her Arawak earth medicine roots with her studies of healing modalities from around the world to curate deep + beautiful healing ceremonies around the US. Koa's spiritual practice has been featured within Vogue, Well + Good, MindBodyGreen, Spirit Weavers Gathering, i-D Magazine, and Nylon Magazine to name a few.
History
Established in 2016.
Birthed into a long lineage of Arawak Medicine Womxn from South America + the Caribbean, and being raised in a Spiritist community, the healing arts has been a walk of life for Koa since the day she was born. This work is not learned it is remembered and passed down through the generations of womxn in her family. This work is rooted in Indigenous resistance, resilience, and sacred ancestral medicine.
Koa's grandmother Maria Lourdes Morillo, known spiritually as "La Montes" lived her life traveling the world as a chamana. She began her medicine path at the age of seven and became famous throughout her life in Latin America, Europe and the US during her career, having a book written about her work as a vessel for spirit. During her life she mothered nine children, six of them women. Among the youngest of the nine was Koa's mother Rosie. Rosie, a folk herbalist + land steward raised Koa in the traditional way, teaching her the ways of Spirit + the plants.
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Koa Mikaelah (she/her) is a third generation Latinx Medicine Woman of Indigenous Arawak Venezuelan and Taino Cuban ancestry currently living on occupied Cherokee and Catawba land outside of Asheville, NC. Her teachings come from elders in the lineage of Curanderismo, Shamanism and Breathwork. She focuses her offerings on what she calls "Spirit Medicine" and believes that self healing is an act of radical activism.