Testimonial

Rosaria Cabrera  RN, BSN, RCST

Words will never be enough to express the depth of gratitude I feel for Marilu Shinn. It has truly been a privilege to work with someone who walks the medicine path with such integrity, reverence, and humility.

I have worked in the field of mental health and wellness for over 20 years as a clinical social worker, providing trauma-informed practices to BIPOC communities. I am trained in various techniques and healing modalities — including EMDR and Somatic Experiencing — and I am also a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher and Reiki Master practitioner. Yet, even with all these tools, I felt that something essential was missing: the connection to my own ancestral healing.

Working with Marilu has been a profound journey of coming home to myself and my lineage. The healing is immediate and tangible. I have witnessed, firsthand, the intergenerational patterns and cycles beginning to heal and close — not only within me, but within my family as well.

Marilu sees right through you, guiding you with compassion and clarity toward your ancestors — if you are ready to do the deep work. I highly recommend working with her if you are prepared to confront intergenerational trauma, close old cycles, and step fully onto your medicine path. Marilu is the real deal.

Testimonial

It is my deep honor to share the ways that Marilu has impacted my life. I share these words in deep love and respect for my beloved sister and maestra with the acknowledgement that these words are not enough to express my deep gratitude. Marilu found me a few years ago and I am so glad that she did. My life has not been the same since then. Our connection has been beyond the earthly realm and current timeline. It is because of my work with her that I felt complete and grounded in my Indigenous roots and medicine.

When I met Marilu, I was still experiencing physical pain from trauma I endured in academia and in my life. And while I was returning to my gifts and sacred ways, I still felt hesitant in claiming my medicine and my roots. With Marilu’s guidance and potent healings, I recovered parts of my soul. I REMEMBERED. In working with her I claimed my destiny as a medicine woman in the Q’ero Inca lineage, and since that happened, I have felt something lock in place in my heart – pieces of me that I have been searching for my whole life were finally found, and I felt completely embodied. The powerful Shamanic energy healings helped me to clear energetic imprints and recover my soul essence. I am ever grateful for Marilu’s gentle support and healing medicine, for it set me where I needed to be in this lifetime. She helped my spirit remember.

As a medicine woman who practices shamanic Earth medicine, Marilu also helped me to see beyond this earthly reality. She helped me to see beyond this timeline and beyond this agreed upon reality to be able to tap into the highest visions. She helped me to trust the visions that have been given to me and to honor them and bring them forth. She helped me to honor my unique blueprint and to honor the medicine I carry. It was her faith in me as a medicine woman that helped me completely unspell from academia and honor my destiny and path. There is so much more I can say about the teachings she offered to initiate me as a medicine woman, but those are not meant to be shared. I trust that they are seen and felt by those with whom I work. She also helped me to understand that we can only help those who do their own work, that we are not responsible for everyone, and that we need to honor our rest and pace so that our medicine can remain potent.

As a medicine woman who works deeply with the divine feminine, Marilu also helped me feel confident in the ways that I naturally show up. Spending so much time in academia, I felt shame for showing up in intuitive, organic, fluid, non-linear ways. And, in receiving her teachings, wisdom, and medicine, I felt more confident in my divine feminine, which allowed my gifts to expand.

I have also had the honor of collaborating with her in offering teachings to the greater collective. The potency of our medicine is amplified when we gather and work together. It has been a true honor to work with another medicine woman who honors and actually moves through the medicine, energy, and visions that are presented in real time. This is rare and it is one of the reasons why I have so enjoyed working with her. I do not do academic and linear teachings, for they stifle the medicine and downloads that are made available for the people who show up to work with us.

Marilu’s teachings and guidance connected me more deeply with the spirits, the elements, the web of life, and my womb and power as a woman. I am forever transformed and am eternally grateful, for her medicine has helped me, my family, and all those with whom I work.

For those who feel called to work with Marilu, I encourage you to do so, if you are ready to do your own work. If you are ready to receive for the right reasons, by merely being in her presence you will receive an activation. If you feel called to work with her, I encourage you to do so if you are ready to show up humbly, in integrity and right relationship, if you are ready to EMBODY the work, if you are ready to trust the process not just the outcome, and if you are ready to call forth the ancient future through your own vessel and your own work. I know that the work I used to do before, as a psychologist, as a professor, and as a phd, pales in comparison to the medicine I offer now. I humbly carry the teachings from the Apaza lineage and the Q’ero Inca lineage as an initiated medicine woman, to offer healing to the world that restores the balance and harmony it needs. 

Marilu, thank you for your sisterhood that you offer so authentically, thank you for your devotion to the medicine path, thank you for your courage to embody the divine feminine so that we too can remember, thank you for all the ways that you show up, seen and unseen, that are helping us to birth the new earth. Thank you for being a person of integrity, for being trustworthy, for being truly devoted to the ways we are called to show up in these prophetic times. My deep gratitude to our guides for bringing us together again in this lifetime. 

Deep bow to you sister, with so much love,

Dra. Rocio Rosales Meza

Daisy Villasenor

I am deeply, deeply grateful for the healing I have received from Marilu- -such strong, patient and kind healer and teacher-When I decided to join the 16-weeks Embodied Leadership container, I was going through a very difficult time in my life. As life goes, it’s has its ups and downs, and I was definetely on a donward spiral. Having gotten sober 10 years ago and having completed 3 years of therapy, I was able to recognize that I needed help. There was something in me that knew western therapy was not what I needed this time. My spirit was longing to reconnect to something much deeper.

On the first call, I had so  much releasing and felt held. I could feel this was a sacred space immediately. this container/ Marilu opened a whole new world to me (a world that has always lived in me, in my spirit) I can honestly say that I have healed so much more in 16 weeks than I did in 3 years of conventional therapy (not to minimized the help I received in therapy)

Marilu taught us so much. I learned that the systems we live in promote fragmentation and cause us to live outside of our bodies -totally disconnected and lost with anxiety- I learn to embrace my womanhood – my womb, my period- I learned to connect with my ancestors and to embrace and use my intuition above all things. I learned to be in right relationship with mother Earth by reconnecting to her and always embracing that we are and everything is deeply connected to each other. I learned to look inside at my darkest places and to open my eyes even when I want to close them. I learned to feel those shadows and to work those energies out of me. -to alchemize them so that I can feel safe in this world and help others. I learned that we all carry a unique medicine. Like Marilu says: “We all have a unique blueprint.”

Marilu shared so much ancient medicine and wisdom with us. I learned that the systems in place have desecrated our connectionto our indigenous roots and to our sacredness.

This is only the beginning of this journey for me and for all others. This is not a certification program. I now have tools to go back to when I forget how connected I am to mother Earth, to the sun, to the moon, to my ancestors. The goal is to use ritual to remember and to be more and more grounded and connected to my roots and ancestral medicine day by day. If your soul feels called to it and you feel ready, I highly recommend working with Marilu. You must be fluid, open and flexible during this work. This is not a linear program with an end date. It is medicine that can literally change your life if you let it. With so much love, thank you Marilu.

Miroslaba “Lili” Velo

If you have been on a healing journey and sought out different healing modalities but still feel like you are stuck, Marilu’s offerings will change that. I know because I was that person. I have done therapy, accupuncture, yoga, somatic practices, 1:1 coaching, and while they have offered me healing, none have been as transformational as what I have experienced with Marilu. Her medicine is potent. She comes from a lineage of medicine women and truly respects her elders and works from a place of integrity, honoring and being in right relationship with mother Earth. She is humble and wise and knows how to navigate the unseen. I’m forever grateful that I have crossed paths with her and will continue to learn from her.

Alyse Romano

The Embodied Leadership container gave me a sense of community and confidence that I didn’t I was seeking. It gave me confidence as I practiced trusting my intuition and listening to the ways I’m being called to show up- not how the expired colonial, capitalistic systems asked me to show up- but how the body of the Earth and my own body are asking me to show up. I feel more cleared and settled in my non-negotiable need to live slowly in order to maintain my connection, something I used to feel more insecure and unsure about. The community that showed up week after week within this dynamic container was a comfort, a learning and a practice space, a reminder that many of us are seeking the same right now and we are here to support each other from a place of enough rather than scarcity.

It was a privilege to be in this container with so many humans devoted to unsubscribing from the old extractive ways of thinking that we need to “get ahead” even to the cost of our bodies and well-being. In that getting ahead, somebody is always left behind including our Earth mother. Each group session left me with huge inspiration that we are truly co-weaving a new reality. I give my love and gratitude to Marilu and the Q’ero Lineage with whom she works for preserving the ancient ways that serve as rooted guidance for traversing through this moment in time. “

Mary Choi 

Dear Marilu,

These are the words I had written to you on Feb. 13th after our meeting in the North. I don’t know why it didn’t get sent but I opened up one of my email tabs that I had left open from that day, and there this was. Perfectly encapsulating so much of what I would want to say to you…as our time in this particular container comes to a close.

Liberation. Breath. Sweetness. And Gratitude. What 4 words could better express what I have received here in this container?

My gratitude for what you have provided us all with, connected us back to, and helped us to REMEMBER over and over and over again runs deeper than I could ever describe. It has been a returning. To home. To myself.

This group with you at the helm has been the grounding, organizing, and clearing force in my life, as the chaos of the external world and the storms of the internal world raged on these past many months.

This container, the chakana, your wisdom, your leadership, and the wisdom and leadership of the Q’ero people held us tightly through it all. Contextualizing all of what we were and still are experiencing. Guiding us and taking us through the 4 directions of our souls. Mirrored back to us, shown to us, and grounded for us through the wisdom of the chakana and our greater container. Mother Earth.

My soul is in alignment.

Thank you for being our trusted guide, Marilu. Thank you for being our teacher. Thank you for being a carrier of the wisdom and medicine of the Q’ero people and carrying it with such integrity, and thank you for entrusting us to hold the sacred wisdom of the Q’ero lineage with that same level of integrity. This sisterhood that you have brought together. A righting of something that has long since been lost for so many of us.

Sacred sisterhood. How healing it has been.

And so, I bow to you in honor, Marilu, and I bow to your sacred mission and purpose. I bow to the Q’ero people. And I thank you and I thank them.

For honoring us and our sacred paths. For bringing us the medicine we needed to heal. Heal ourselves and the ailing world around us.

Thank you. For all of it.