At the Balanzu Way School of Shamanic Arts, we believe in the old method of relational apprenticeship work, while managing it in a modern way similar to models of graduate school in healthcare fields, which Western people are more familiar with. We strive to blend these Western and indigenous ways into something that makes sense in a modern world, while still being in integrity with the old ways.

As a community, we tend to draw a variety of queer, trans, and BIPOC folks, as well as folks of other backgrounds who are concerned with social justice and thoughtful about the harms of cultural appropriation, who want to engage with shamanic work in an authentic and respectful way.

The Balanzu Way tradition is grounded in our founder’s Mexican indigenous heritage and shamanic practice, and is guided by the spirits they work with. These beings offer permission to everyone in our tradition to learn from and work with them as a shared Way, while each person also learns to deepen into their own ancestral ways of healing/magic/shamanic practice as well, standing with one foot in each world—one communal, and one individual. The Balanzu Way is also expanding under the shared leadership of Thornaia Letson, who is holding a Northern Shamanic path grounded in European heritage, particularly Norse and Celtic.

Find out more about our founder and primary teacher, Jai Medina, at their website, Two-Spirit Shamanic Healing.

We are an international organization bridging between Portland, OR USA and Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico.

Our community recently acquired our sacred land, Pixan Balam, and are in process of creating a retreat center and intentional community. We’d love to see you there one day!

If you want to know more about some of the Mesoamerican gods or sacred beings we work with, you can find out about them here.

Thanks for your interest in us, we hope to weave with you in right relationship. 🙏🏾