The Medicine is Inside You
I am a Maestra (teacher) and a Native Holistic Lifestyle, Wellness and Embodiment Coach. I am a decendent of of the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo people on Tewa land what most know as New Mexico and the ancient Mēxihcah people of Mexico.
I put together a coaching container that now combines my ancestors holistic practices with my experience in health and wellness. I am the founder of The Native Shift which is an online community where I teach ancestral wellness combined with modern day times for a holistic approach to shifting and creating a happier and healthier life. I am the former owner of the award winning outdoor fitness boot camp, in the East Bay Area of California where I coached women for over 15 years as an Outdoor Fitness & Nutrition Coach. I started my sabatical in 2019 from coaching by sitting with my elders and Maestrxs learning more about the practices of my native ancestors and the human potentials of the sacred calendar that some refer to as the Aztec calendar. How they are connected to nature and our own sacred being. It teaches us how we can use these practices and teachings of the sacred directions to help us navigate our daily lives.
I am a practitioner of Curanderismo and Maestra as part of the Kalpulli Teocalli Ollin (Community Sacred House of Energy) under the direct legacy of Maestra CC & Casimira Rocha y Sanchez and her ancestors from the Tezkatlipoka Tradition of the Red Path and Eagle Clan of New Mexico. We are a group of practicing Curanderismo, Native Traditional Healing, Earth-Based Rituals/Ceremonies, and offering personalized wellness services through traditional methods within our communities and across our ancestral lands.
Our intention as members is to share sacred ancestral wellness practices that are designed to deepen our individual self-work, growth, transformation, and heart with the guidance of Luz (Light), Paz (Peace), Amor (Love), Conciencia (Awareness), y Armonia (Harmony).
I am a Ceremonialist, as an Ordained Minister through the First Nations Church. I believe that living our lives as a Sacred Ceremony in all we do brings joy and peace to our lives. I am a forever student of life and our medicina and offer my community guidance and support through the seasons of life using our Mēxihcah medicine wheel Los Rumbos as a guide. Community Circles, Limpia (cleansing) days and opening and closing ceremonies for events, fundriasers, workshops and coporate wellness are all examples of ways we give back to our communities. All are served regardless of financial status or ability to pay. It is our life work to teach and help our communities if these offerings as much as we can.
Through my life experiences, training, education and the teachings of the oral tradition from my elders and teachers I have evolved my practice. I have been a entrepreneur all my adult life and started my practice as a "Sobadora" (Acupressure & Shiatsu Practitioner) in the early 90s. Then I started training women in 2005 in health, fitness and nutrition through my award winning outdoor fitness bootcamp for women. I have practiced healthy living, empowerment, self-development, indigenous living, fitness, goal setting, dream planting, manifesting, sacred meditation, and the ancient practices from my lineages for most of my life.
RE-member You are SACRED, You are ENOUGH, You are LOVED
Maestra Devora
I put together a coaching container that now combines my ancestors holistic practices with my experience in health and wellness. I am the founder of The Native Shift which is an online community where I teach ancestral wellness combined with modern day times for a holistic approach to shifting and creating a happier and healthier life. I am the former owner of the award winning outdoor fitness boot camp, in the East Bay Area of California where I coached women for over 15 years as an Outdoor Fitness & Nutrition Coach. I started my sabatical in 2019 from coaching by sitting with my elders and Maestrxs learning more about the practices of my native ancestors and the human potentials of the sacred calendar that some refer to as the Aztec calendar. How they are connected to nature and our own sacred being. It teaches us how we can use these practices and teachings of the sacred directions to help us navigate our daily lives.
I am a practitioner of Curanderismo and Maestra as part of the Kalpulli Teocalli Ollin (Community Sacred House of Energy) under the direct legacy of Maestra CC & Casimira Rocha y Sanchez and her ancestors from the Tezkatlipoka Tradition of the Red Path and Eagle Clan of New Mexico. We are a group of practicing Curanderismo, Native Traditional Healing, Earth-Based Rituals/Ceremonies, and offering personalized wellness services through traditional methods within our communities and across our ancestral lands.
Our intention as members is to share sacred ancestral wellness practices that are designed to deepen our individual self-work, growth, transformation, and heart with the guidance of Luz (Light), Paz (Peace), Amor (Love), Conciencia (Awareness), y Armonia (Harmony).
I am a Ceremonialist, as an Ordained Minister through the First Nations Church. I believe that living our lives as a Sacred Ceremony in all we do brings joy and peace to our lives. I am a forever student of life and our medicina and offer my community guidance and support through the seasons of life using our Mēxihcah medicine wheel Los Rumbos as a guide. Community Circles, Limpia (cleansing) days and opening and closing ceremonies for events, fundriasers, workshops and coporate wellness are all examples of ways we give back to our communities. All are served regardless of financial status or ability to pay. It is our life work to teach and help our communities if these offerings as much as we can.
Through my life experiences, training, education and the teachings of the oral tradition from my elders and teachers I have evolved my practice. I have been a entrepreneur all my adult life and started my practice as a "Sobadora" (Acupressure & Shiatsu Practitioner) in the early 90s. Then I started training women in 2005 in health, fitness and nutrition through my award winning outdoor fitness bootcamp for women. I have practiced healthy living, empowerment, self-development, indigenous living, fitness, goal setting, dream planting, manifesting, sacred meditation, and the ancient practices from my lineages for most of my life.
RE-member You are SACRED, You are ENOUGH, You are LOVED
Maestra Devora
My Experience & Education
I have over 25 years experience as coach and ceremonialist. I started my practice in the late 90's providing first Sobadas with Platicas (therapeutic body therapy & cleansings) to the community. What matters most to me though is if I inspire you and if you are you ready to SHIFT and if there is a connection between us :)
I have over 25 years experience as coach and ceremonialist. I started my practice in the late 90's providing first Sobadas with Platicas (therapeutic body therapy & cleansings) to the community. What matters most to me though is if I inspire you and if you are you ready to SHIFT and if there is a connection between us :)
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Devora/Deborah Sandoval and The Native Shift, recommend that you do not rely on the information presented on this website as diagnosis for treatment to any health or mental health issue. The content and information on this site is for reference and educational purposes only and is not intended to substitute for the advice provided by your health care professional, physician, pharmacist, or other licensed health-care or mental health-care professional. You should not use this information for any self-diagnosis or for treating a medical and/or mental health issue or disease. Contact your health-care and/or mental health-care provider immediately if you suspect that you may have a medical or mental health-care issue that needs attention. The information and statements on this website or within the online community of The Native Shift, or in person services from Devora/Deborah Sandoval are for educational purposes only and none of the native practices taught are intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or mental health condition. Devora/Deborah Sandoval and The Native Shift and it's associates assume no liability for inaccuracies or misstatements. Results vary and Devora/Deborah Sandoval and The Native Shift make no promises or guarantees that you will get results by taking a course, implementing a practice or following the fitness and nutritional programs provided. Please contact your medical and/or mental health care providers before starting an exercise program or making any changes to your medications, exercise program, nutrition program or mental health and spiritual programs.
Devora/Deborah Sandoval and The Native Shift, recommend that you do not rely on the information presented on this website as diagnosis for treatment to any health or mental health issue. The content and information on this site is for reference and educational purposes only and is not intended to substitute for the advice provided by your health care professional, physician, pharmacist, or other licensed health-care or mental health-care professional. You should not use this information for any self-diagnosis or for treating a medical and/or mental health issue or disease. Contact your health-care and/or mental health-care provider immediately if you suspect that you may have a medical or mental health-care issue that needs attention. The information and statements on this website or within the online community of The Native Shift, or in person services from Devora/Deborah Sandoval are for educational purposes only and none of the native practices taught are intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or mental health condition. Devora/Deborah Sandoval and The Native Shift and it's associates assume no liability for inaccuracies or misstatements. Results vary and Devora/Deborah Sandoval and The Native Shift make no promises or guarantees that you will get results by taking a course, implementing a practice or following the fitness and nutritional programs provided. Please contact your medical and/or mental health care providers before starting an exercise program or making any changes to your medications, exercise program, nutrition program or mental health and spiritual programs.