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Estella Romo
March 3, 2025
I was so blessed to meet you in person. Your book A Woman Who Glows In The Dark spoke to my spirit. I think of you often and know you are with us in spirit.
Thank you for the healing and love you brought to humanity.
Warm hugs,
Estella Romo
Teresa Cruz Foley
January 16, 2025
I am reading your book, comadre, and coming upon my 52nd birthday, thought to search for you and schedule a limpia ceremony with you to celebrate the completion of my 52 year cycle. I find you here. I find you in the ethers. No longer encumbered by time and space. I invite you still.
Tonya Freeman
August 26, 2021
Thank you for the time spent with me in conversation. I appreciate and honor the wisdom shared.
Erika Martinez-Gonzales
November 2, 2019
I received the most beautiful gift today and being, Dios De Los Muertos, I know it came from beyond from you and Jerry. I will take care of it. I will cherish it. I will remember with it.....my husband walked into a used book store today. He saw your book, opened it and there it was. Your signed copy to Jerry! I don't know how or why, but it's now on my altar with a candle lit and a prayer said. As I wrote in my journal tonight I realized the first time I saw/met you, was a soul retrieval in itself. I remembered who I was. I remembered where I come from. I remembered it all. Gracias mi Maestra.
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Dr. Ana Malinalli X Gutierrez Sisneros
March 16, 2019
Intlanextla IN Tonatiuh, Xochitl huescapahtli - yancuic xihuitl chicome acatl. Eight years missing you, deer one.
Robyn Atencio
June 26, 2018
I have been searching for you just my luck that you have passed away. I will still send my message to you through prayer for healing and blessings for my family
Michele Marlene York
March 16, 2018
I am still learning from you.
Thank you.
~ Michele
Diane Martinez
January 27, 2018
I am so sorry that I too was unable to meet you in person. I was finishing your book and have been so inspired by your words. My Grandmother took me on the road of healing and taught me the ways of the Curandera when I was very young. As she has aged (now 103 years) we speak of those ways often. I pray that I too may find a great teacher some day like my wise Grandmother to learn many more ways. Thank you for your wind of life and your heart. May I meet you when I sleep.
Odette Timmons
January 19, 2018
We are blessed for your presence here upon Great Mother and throughout Creation may you Always be surrounded by Love as you journey my Heart is grateful for your wirds and life. God Bless Odette x
Katherine Hunter
March 16, 2017
Praying for you Elana. Offering Mass intentions. God bless you. May Mary wrap you in her holy mantle.
Liz Mitchell
May 19, 2016
Vaya con Diosa!
Michele Marlene York
May 11, 2016
Oh, Dear Ms. Elena Avila,
I have had your book Woman Who Glows in the Dark for sometime now; and it is this morning that I choose to pick it up again reminding me of the gifts I carry.
I found myself wanting to seek you out perhaps even journey to New Mexico to work with you. So I did what everyone does I googled you here and in finding that you had passed I burst into deep deep tears for the loss of an opportunity to meet you in the physical body.
I'm beside myself having a sense of aloneness flooding my being.
Perhaps I will find you in my sleep time are you will find me there we will meet and work together. I don't now.
With that shared, I am grateful that you have ealked this earth, taught many, loved many, & healed many. You are missed. Deeply,deeply missed.
With love for those that you left behind,
Michele Marlene York
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