Perhaps we are longing to free the old gods of soil and grain and leopard skins from the institutions our need for a sanitised and tidy spirituality has trapped them in, or all-together buried them under.
— from SUBSTACK SERIES: ON RITUAL
"Gabriela is a mistress of transformation."
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Liz Granfort · Life Coach · Boston, USA
"I cannot recommend Gabriela’s classes highly enough. To me there is no doubt she is amongst the great teachers on this Earth."
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Noora Al Qassimi · United Nations Lawyer · Abu Dhabi, UAE
"Gabriela is an incredible teacher. She masterfully creates learning environments in which students learn profound wisdom while also training us in powerful experiential techniques that help in the cultivation of spiritual sovereignty. To top it off, she achieves all of this with a healthy dose of sacred levity, compassion, and feminine fierceness mixed with gentle humility."
Gabriela de Golia · Tarot Reader · Connecticut, USA
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About Gabriela Gutierrez
Gabriela is a writer, poet, ritualist, mythologist, and scholar of ancient religion. Her work centres on recovering animistic worldviews that once shaped human life before the rise of institutional religion.
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Born in Spain to a Welsh mother and Spanish father, Gabriela had an unusual childhood raised in movement. She speaks English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, and reads Arabic and Farsi.​​ From 2009 to 2012 she worked as a human-rights defender in Ghana, Palestine, Bolivia, and with Tibetan ex-political prisoners in the Himalayas. In 2012 she lived and studied with renunciant Jain nuns in the Rajasthani desert, and later trained extensively with shamans in Peru.
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She holds a BA in Middle Eastern Studies (SOAS), an MA in the Poetics of Imagination (Dartington), and an Advanced Training Certificate in Applied Mythology (Pacifica Graduate Institute), with further studies in Ritual & Religion in Prehistory (Oxford University). ​Through her fieldwork at ancient sites and study of living traditions, Gabriela bridges scholarship and direct experience to explore how myth and spirituality can be reintroduced into modern life as living, embodied sources of meaning.
View full list of credentials here.
Her first non-fiction book is forthcoming with Shambhala Publications, and her poetry has appeared in Clarion Poetry Magazine.​
You can follow Gabriela's work on Instagram: @honeyedways
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