Bio
Karo Carolina Salinas is an ancestral healing practitioner, educator and interpreter devoted to collective recovery of the Sacred Self. Traditional apprenticeships, academic education, and self directed study, inform Karo’s understanding of the relationships between various cultural traditions and ways of knowing. Their lifelong practice began in childhood and adolescence; seeking to alleviate the root cause of emotional and physical ailments, she listened to the direct guidance of plants to heal herself. This led them to study Herbalism, Ayurveda, Pre-med Physiology and Health, Astrology and collaborative medicine.
As a Healing Justice Facilitator they connect groups to Indigenous led ceremonies in Peru. They prepare individuals of all backgrounds for relational work with plant spirit medicine. Through traditional healing and earth-based ritual, Karo guides people towards deeper integration, remembrance, and healing across generations.
Currently they are in ongoing apprenticeship with their Maya K’iche Maestra and Shipibo Conibo Maestro. They have facilitated hundreds of ancestral healing ceremonies and completed many traditional Shipibo dietas, or spiritual fasts; the longest for a consecutive year under the guidance of their teacher, a Shipibo Onanya with 47+ years experience.
Karo is from the diaspora of the Nic’Anahuac Nation; a descendant of the original people of Nicaragua whose origins are traced to the greater Maya society. In service to the prophecy of the Great Remembrance, Karo’s work is an offering to enliven animistic wisdom, integrate the subconscious, and restore sensual connections with the Earth and to each other.