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What will we do, if family members refuse treatment for their patient?

It was our usual day on May 18, 2024 when a Young Man ask me to a Hilot Treatment for his Father. And I said yes and apply our policy to let the patient come here as we provide donation based hilot treatment. And to my surprise, the young man brought his father on a wheel chair that could not walk on his own because he had stroke last November 2023. I assess the situation of the man whose name…

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Is wearing colorful attire necessary in attending or performing a Ritual?

When we say ritual, many people will think of Magickal or Indigenous people. Though they are one in mind that these group belongs to folk religion who practice spirituality that does not belong to the Major Dominant Abrahamic Religion. Many of these people are cultural bearer which people expect that all the time they should present themselves in ancient attire. But the problem with this is that…

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Birthing a New Healing Modality from a Different People

From 2018 I keep hearing of a word that they call as Hilot Lagatok which they claim to be part of Hilot Modality that cracks and pop bones where they derive the word lagatok as it has sound of popping. In massage therapy or Swedish Massage there is a manipulative stroke that is called tapotement which is a rapid and repeated striking of the side of the palms or cupped palm on the fleshy and…

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Days are counting fast

My first travel to United States was in Chicago, Illinois and this year I’ll be heading at Danville Yoga and Wellness Center which I only have 80 days left before I travel. My round Trip Plane Ticket has been paid and I will leave Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila on July 26, 2024 by 6: 45 PM and will arrive in San Francisco International Airport in California on the same date July…

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Changing our Signage

We are about to change our signage in front of our door as time tears it off. It is important that we make our presence known in our community for their recognition. Our present tarpulin signage made people come to us for healing which we happily have serve them. Though we only have a small space and accommodated 1 to 2 persons at a time. Those who come also recommend our healing services aside…

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The Practices of Hilot Binabaylan

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Reconnecting Filipino in Diaspora to our Indigenous Spirituality and practices

It was through the practice of Hilot that makes my faith stronger in our Indigenous Spiritual Beliefs and practices. All I thought before that Hilot is just a mere Folk Medicine Practices of our Ancestors, but when I dig deeper into it, it opened wide the Spiritual Realms of the Ancient Filipino. Why Hilot becomes a Spiritual Practice instead of Indigenous Traditional Health Care? Hilot is a…

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The existence of Filipino Indigenous Traditional Healing

The existence of Indigenous Traditional Healing dates back from 1400 BC or beyond in the Archipelago that we know now as the Philippines. This is in accordance to Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research on which they focus on Cebuano Traditional Healing Arts and Science. It is said that the Healing Practices of Cebuano are known as Panambal and its practitioners are called Mananambal.…

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Meeting with Filipino Bone Setters Inc.

Yesterday April 24,2024-me and Lakay went to Rotary Club District 3780 at Quezon City to meet with the Filipino Bone Setters Inc. 2 of its Board of Directors which is Mr. Gary O. Trinidad and Ms. Ailyn Mea P. Bactol asking me if our Training Program is accredited by PITAHC or Philippine Institute of Traditional Alternative Health Care which is an attach agency of the Philippine Department of…

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Lana Making Workshop in Victoria Australia

Great News for the people living in Australia! Our Masidhing Manghihilot in Australia will host an Event workshop on May 11, 2024 by 2:00 PM AEST and it’s about Hilot Lana Healing Oil. The said workshop will be hosted by our amazing Masidhing Manghihilot and they are Nawa Sybico with their Indigenous Filipino name as Gat Neya Kilaw and Argo Theoharis or Gat Tisedel sa Yuta. Know more about their…

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Hilot as shared culture among our International Neighbors

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Our first responder during the Time of Pandemic now becomes an Ordained Binabaylan through Hilot Daloy Course!

When the Pandemic of Covid 19 started and the world was in a lockdown, i thought that our activities in Hilot Academy of Binabaylan would end as in person interaction was prohibited in order to prevent the spread of Covid 19. Even accepting patient for Hilot was restricted at that time which made us to have no means of generating income that will pay our bills in maintaining our Shrine so as our…

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It's our 8th year anniversary!

Though in the west it is still the Season of Spring, but here in the Far East the Heat of Summer has just begun. Most in person classes on all levels from elementary to high school do suspend classes due to the extreme heat brought by the summer season, and some conducted online class instead of in person, face-to-face class. And it just happened that we have enrolled student in our training…

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Hilot Healing Principles

Hilot Binabaylan practices revolves around the Healing principles of Diagnostic, Cleansing, Repair, Strengthening and Maintaining optimum health and wellness. The techniques that we share on our studies may not be the ultimate rule as we recognize individual differences so as the treatment we provide to individual are always unique to different person. The process of healing we provide does not…

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The Message of Bakuna on Total Solar Eclipse

Bakunawa the Filipino Dragon Apparently the eclipse that will happen on April 8, 2024 will only be visible to US, Mexico and Canada and during eclipses the message of Bakunawa will apply on which the Eclipse appear. For you mga Kalahi, what do immune to one another mean to you? Does it means to love one another as well? to be tolerant to one another? to Co exist in this plane of…

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Changes brought by the New Normal of Pandemic Covid 19

Daily writing promptHow have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?View all responses When the lockdown happened due to the Pandemic of Covid 19, all I thought that it was the end for Hilot Academy since we are a Training Institution that depends on face-to-face in person training of Hilot which is an in person healing modality that requires physical touch to a person…

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Connecting the Gap towards optimum Health and Wellness

Hilot through times even from the moment of the first human being existed in our country, Hilot has been connecting lives on an individual to the source of life. And in this modern days where healthcare are expensive and sometimes discriminating, Hilot has become a refuge for our fellow Filipino who does not afford to avail the professional services of Medical personnel. This is why Hilot Academy…