Olinda Vasquez Amaringo

Olinda was born in the community of Dos Unidos de Pachetea and is the birth mother of 3 boys and 2 girls, the adoptive mother of two orphans, and grandmother of two. Her eldest son is currently in college and is intent on combining western study with the study of the medicine tradition of his people.

Olinda comes from a respected lineage of healers and artists, her father being renowned healer, Victor Amaringo. She was immersed in the world of plants from a young age, and it was when she met and married her husband at the age of 24, that she had the call to learn how to heal.

She was motivated by the desire to be able to help her family; she didn’t have the money, nor the courage to ask others in the community for financial help with medical assistance. Her first patient was her own daughter, suffering from susto, or a big fright, and from there she gained a reputation for her healing prowess, working with her community and later in other parts of Peru, healing a wide range of ailments, both physical and psychological.

She worked with Westerners for the first time in 2020, and is very happy to share her medicine with us! She loves working with the plants to support deep healing for all who are in need.