Welcome! I am Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, I am from Bolivian and Brazilian descent currently living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Throughout my life, I have been guided by practices rooted in imagination, play, and storytelling—practices that move across parallel realities and invite us to engage with both the visible and invisible worlds. These paths have taken shape through the arts and through the art of healing. Often existing at the margins of society, they have become the foundation of my lifelong exploration into the ecological, emotional, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of human experience.

Experience

My healing journey began in the Andes, where divination and oracular traditions opened the path to my initiation into Andean Priestesshood. I am an apprentice in the Amawta/Yatiri tradition of the Aymara wisdom keepers, under the guidance of elder in Bolivia. I have been initiated in the Illapa (lightning) elemental lineage and at the womxn sacred moon temple Iñak Uyu on Lake Titicaca. Through these initiations, Phaxsi Uma was born as an Amawta/Yatiri medicine womxn and as the seed of this sanctuary.

My path has led me to many parts of the world in search of meaning, grounding and connection. In China, I studied martial arts and Kung Fu with Taoist and Buddhist monks at Wudang Shan and the Shaolin Temple. In Mozambique, I apprenticed with women curandeiras. In Brazil, I come from a family lineage of curandeirxs from both Umbanda and espiritistxs practitioners. For the last 30 years I have been working with Ayahuasca plant medicine, for 8 years I have been apprentice and ceremonial support to various Taitas (Shamans), a.o. Fredy Velásquez from the Pacific Amazonian Yagé tradition of Colombia and Santos Victorino from the Southern Brazilian lineage.

In the Netherlands, I have apprenticed with shamanic practitioners including Daan van Kampenhout and Linda Wormhoudt, and I am a certified Shamanic Practitioner through Definest Academy. I have apprenticed for the Grief Fire temple teachings led by Dawn Roh (US), I have followed an array of teachings including Plant Medicine with Adriana Ayales, Andean Shamanism with Puma Fredy Quispe Singona, The Path of the Rose with Goddess Rising Mystery School. Since 2020,I have been the founder and facilitator of the Moon Gatherings in Amsterdam—a women-led temple and New Moon circle dedicated to radical listening, sisterhood, and community building.

Ethics

The ethics of my work are rooted in the protection of ancestral knowledge that has been systematically erased through colonialism and empire. My practice is intertwined with social justice, collective healing, and community care. My discernment and anti-colonial awareness has been shaped and inspired by workshops with several teachers and contemporary critical voices such as Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (BO), Elvira Espejo Ayca (BO), Bayo Akomolafe (NI), and Nega Duda (BRA).

I believe there is no healing without acknowledging the histories of oppression that continue to shape our lives. The wisdom I keep on receiving is kept alive through the resilience, resistance, and nonconformity of my ancestors and indigenous peoples. My service and my never ending learning is an offering is bonded with the intention of contending against the extinction of these cosmologies.

30% of all income goes directly to our Amawta/Yatiri healers syndicate in Bolivia. I am here to serve Earth, Apus, Awichas and Achachilas (ancestral spirits and territories), and the Runas (human beings). Thank you for being here, for connecting, and for considering this journey with me.

With love,
Phaxsi Uma

Phaxsi Uma offers spiritual, ceremonial, and holistic wellbeing services. These offerings are not intended to replace medical, psychological, or psychiatric care, diagnosis, or treatment.

Photos: Maaike Ronhaar, Jochem van Tol, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti