Limpias

What is a Limpia?

A Limpia (from the Spanish word for “cleansing”) is a traditional healing practice rooted in Mesoamerican and curanderismo traditions. Curanderismo is a holistic healing system that addresses the physical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic dimensions of a person’s wellbeing.

In these traditions, illness, heaviness, and stagnation are often understood as the accumulation of dense or discordant energy in the body and aura — energy that can come from stress, grief, trauma, envy, spiritual attack, or simply the weight of daily life. A Limpia works to identify and release this energy, restoring the person to a state of balance and protection.

What Happens in a Session?

Each Limpia is personalized. Using sacred tools — including herbs (such as rue, basil, and rosemary), copal smoke, eggs, flowers, and prayer — the practitioner sweeps, draws out, and transmutes the stagnant or heavy energy in and around your body.

You will remain fully clothed throughout. The process is gentle and deeply grounding, often accompanied by prayer, song, or spoken intention in both English and Spanish.

• Release of heavy, stuck, or foreign energies
• Aura cleansing and protection
• Relief from susto (soul fright or shock)
• Clearing of envidia (envy) or mal de ojo (evil eye)
• Renewed sense of lightness and clarity
• Spiritual protection and grounding