ABOUT KI
Through a lifetime of intuitive sight, spiritual sensitivity, and deep initiations through life's tough lessons and sacred medicines, Ki was shaped into a healer devoted to integrity and truth. She now serves as a ceremonial leader and co-founder of All Love United Church of Healing Arts, helping others navigate their shadows, reclaim their sovereignty, and return to the wisdom of their soul.
EARLY LIFE
Ki is Puerto Rican, born in the Bronx and raised in New Jersey. Her ancestral lineage spans Central America, South America, West Africa, the Middle East, and Spain. She grew up practicing Yoruban-influenced Santeria with her father’s side of the family. On her mother’s side, there was a heavy practice of Voodoo that she wasn’t directly exposed to but felt the influences of. However, in terms of formal religion, she was brought up Roman Catholic.
Due to experiences with family members who engaged in their spiritual practices with ill intent; very early on, Ki's mother made sure to teach her concepts about magic, intentions, karma, prayer, foresight, spiritual realms and altars.
Around age five, she would get sick multiple times a month with high fevers, strep throat, and tonsillitis. At age seven, Ki had her first awakening where she realized this wasn't her first lifetime on this planet. She began seeing into past lives and seeing spirits. For many years, her high fevers were coupled with nightmares, delirium and hallucinations. Whenever she became ill, past-life traumas would resurface, plunging her into existential depression. To help her, Ki’s parents sought out assistance from priests and Babalawos (high priests and diviners in the Yoruba Ifá spiritual tradition). Eventually, she was cleared; and this granted her the ability to speak to spirits without fear, to lucid dream and astral travel in her sleep.
At age ten, Ki’s family moved to Florida in hopes of giving their children access to better social and educational opportunities. It took Ki many years to adjust to life in the Sunshine State.
GROWING UP
In high school, she excelled in sports and powerlifting but had little to no interest in the rest of the curriculum. She was put in captain positions by her coaches, and this quite literally forced her to become serious and determined - her team's success depended on it. She sustained a serious shoulder dislocation and tear on the field but continued playing mere days later in order to keep supporting her teammates.
At around fourteen, as Ki balanced the mundane life with her deep interest in the spiritual and occult, she was exposed to her first psychedelic - cannabis. She learned that psychedelics had the ability to raise a person's vibration as well as alter their perception. She felt a deep calling to explore her subconscious through these heightened states, seeking a closer connection with the Creator and her inner world.
Before she even knew what holding space meant, Ki began using different psychedelics to hold space for others. People were drawn to her, they felt held and safe in her presence as they used mind-altering medicines and opened to the spiritual world. They could go within and come out the other side with more wisdom and clarity. It was in these states that they could finally understand some of what Ki was telling them all along. She learned what "shadow work" was and enjoyed observing and facilitating the process.
It was also during this time that she began her personal study and practice of meditation, Hermetic principles, Gnosticism, Stoicism, Jungian psychology, and other forms of mysticism.
TURBULANCE
Ki was exposed to alcohol at a very young age due to cultural and familial norms, which eventually led to a bout of alcoholism that began at seventeen and ended when she turned twenty-one. During this period, she would often drink with friends after work, sometimes to the point of not remembering how she got home. However, as her interest in psychedelics, healing, and spirituality deepened, her consumption of alcohol gradually declined.
On Christmas 2016, Ki had a near-death experience when she was T-boned by a large pickup truck while driving a small hatchback. Remarkably, she walked away with only a few cuts and minor dislocations, even though the entire side of her vehicle had been completely crushed. This led her to further question her life and direction, because as reckless as she was living, somehow she felt an undeniable presence of angelic protection.
Despite her work and exploration with psychedelics, she still felt a deep depression lingering in her consciousness. After the car accident, she visited a Babalawo who confirmed the angelic presence that surrounded her. After her reading, she began connecting with the guides and protectors that surround her. They each had the opportunity to introduce themselves and offer insight into the direction they were guiding her—an exploration that ultimately led her to Ayahuasca.
LEARNING
Soon thereafter, Ki discovered an Ayahuasca church that was just ten minutes from her house. After many synchronicities surrounding that discovery, she ended up at their doorstep five days before her twenty second birthday. This was the final ceremony facilitated by a Shipibo maestro named Gaspar before his return to Peru, and it unfolded into a profound shamanic initiation.
During her breakthrough experience, the medicine and all her guides welcomed her, affirming that this was the path she was being called to. Her first assignment was to assist at the church. She didn’t have to force anything for it to come to fruition, soon after her first ceremony she was invited to volunteer as a facilitator.
Ki quickly became one of the three head facilitators of the church. She found herself trying to balance her work as a personal trainer with her role as an ayahuasca facilitator, but she could feel the medicine calling for her full commitment. Soon after, she was let go from her personal training job—and from that point on, she has worked solely in service to the medicine.
She learned a great deal about what not to do while working there, encountering numerous cases of psychosis almost every weekend, each of which she handled personally. At the same time, she was learning the ways of the medicine and receiving frequent reminders of her purpose. Many guests who came to sit at the church reported a deep sense of peace in her presence, trusting the care and attention Ki provided during their experiences. She and the other facilitators worked three weekends a month and took one weekend a month for their own personal sits. During this period, Ki was also drinking medicine every weekend, sometimes for four nights in a row, particularly during extended private sits.
After the unexpected blessing of being let go from that church, Ki received a four-month break from the medicine. During this period of integration, she was called to work with Kambo in the jungle. Soon after, the Shipibo maestro who had led her first ceremony returned to the United States, and she was invited to serve as the head facilitator for his ceremonies. She traveled throughout Florida with him and another teacher, learning deeper levels of holding space and the significance of dieta. The maestro/curandero often worked directly with her, serving as an open book through which she could study and absorb the wisdom of the plants.
In 2018, Ki undertook a month-long Kambo dieta in the jungle, receiving numerous messages urging her to stop resisting her path of serving the medicine. One of these messages came directly from her Shipibo teacher. As with all previous messages she received, she never forced her role in holding space; she was always invited to do so. Today, she continues her study with the plants, doing dietas regularly to learn, release karma, and to carry out her spiritual maintenance. Ki has also completed her Vision Quests and is a Sundancer now.
EMBODIMENT
One thing naturally led to the next: meeting her wife, Anita, and beginning their ministry together. They have been through so much growth in the years they have been together, always learning, evolving and serving.
Through their ministry, they have traveled globally, welcoming all who resonate with their mission. In a world of spiritual showmen, Ki and Anita strive to live their prayers through self-mastery - bridging a new template on Earth. Their job is to embody the change they wish to see and to guide others in the subtle inner shifts that lead to tangible strides toward a harmonious reality.
