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
"Gabriela is a flowing fountain of poetry, quotes, anecdotes and thought provoking personal philosophies."
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Britt Seel · Costume Designer · South Africa
Gabriela Gutierrez is a Spanish–Welsh writer, poet, ritualist, beekeeper, and scholar of mythology and religion. Her work focuses on reviving ancient knowledge and recovering the animistic, once-universal worldview that predated institutional religion.
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Gabriela travels to ancient sites and among traditional cultures, sharing her findings on her Substack, Under a Fig Tree, and teaching a distinctive blend of intellectual and experiential courses. Her work bridges scholarship and direct experience, weaving myth, history, and embodied practice to guide others into deeper relationship with living knowledge systems and the more-than-human world.
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She holds an MA in the Poetics of Imagination, with specialised continuing education in Ritual & Religion in Prehistory (Oxford University) and Applied Mythology (Pacifica Graduate Institute). Her practice sits at the intersection of somatic inquiry, animism, imagination, myth, and ecology. She specialises in prehistoric ritual and religion, comparative mythology, and sacred ecology. Her book on the priestess tradition is forthcoming with Shambhala Publications, and her poetry has been published by Clarion Poetry Magazine.
You can follow Gabriela's work on Instagram: @honeyedways​​​