Cynthia J Olivera

Cynthia J Olivera, is a Master Aromatherapist, Teacher, and the Educational Director for Wisdom of the Earth. She has dedicated two decades to working with the essences, the plant kingdom, and WOTE, and has loved every minute. She really doesn’t know how people can live without the help of these beautiful oils.Cynthia taught children music, movement, story, and theatre early in her career. This work transitioned into working with adults and children with movement for brain integration and meditation. She then created a process called Inner Landscape Work, a movement/meditation process for self-empowerment through the body with the help of the plant devas. The next journey found her writing The Book of Anointing: A Divine Rebellious Act of Love, where she remembered her path as a sacred anointer and developed processes of anointing with the oils for people to go within and find the divine light that lives there. She had the privilege to co-author a book, Voices of Light, Voices of Love, Messages from the Plants and Trees, with Audre Gutierrez and Barry Kapp.Her lineage is built upon a generation of mother curanderos from the Caribbean and backward in time to the high kingdoms of Africa and the Mediterranean. This lineage brought her deeper into remembering the plant kingdom and her connection to it, allowing their consciousness to speak. Cynthia has humbly learned to listen to the voice of light and the voice of love that exists in all things.Cynthia teachers Wisdom of the Earth Level I and II certification courses and gives workshops and retreats worldwide. Her passion to connect heart to heart with her friends creating sacredretreats here in the US and Japan. Cynthia loves love, laughter, and joy.

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“The experience I’ve had as a volunteer here at Menla has been a unique one. I had recently experienced the loss of a number of friends, and of my father, before coming up for a retreat, and then coming back as a volunteer. Not only was the work I did up in these gorgeous mountains an amazingly cathartic experience, but the support I received from the community that exists here was unlike anything I had previously experienced.”

Reina de Beer

“Great place overall. Beautiful grounds, excellent service and friendly staff and well-maintained rooms/property. Also the food was awesome, creative and unique. Great experience, very relaxing and tranquil overall, if your looking for a retreat from the city!”

Dan B.

“Always a great stay at Menla. Staff very helpful. Programs excellent. I greatly enjoyed seeing Robert Thurman, Sharon Salzberg and Krishna Das together. A truly auspicious place. Visit and find out for yourself.”

Gary Goldberg

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