Growing with San Miguel: Indigenous Traditions and Culture By Ana Verónica Ramírez Rodríguez
San Miguel de Allende is known around the world for its beauty, its art, and the richness of its cultural life. But beneath the colonial architecture and the festival calendars lives something older — a tradition that predates the town itself, still carried by the people whose ancestors built it.
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Ana Verónica Ramírez Rodríguez
Ana Verónica Ramírez Rodríguez was born and raised in San Miguel de Allende—not the San Miguel of boutique hotels and food festivals, but the smaller, quieter town where dirt roads stretched along Loreto Street, donkeys grazed near the market, and children walked to school on their own from the age of six.
From an early age, she was both a witness to and a recipient of the healing practices of her grandmother and mother. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Pharmacobiology, because she has always believed that science and ancestral wisdom are not opposites—they are companions.
She is the founder of Diyapentu Healing Space in San Miguel de Allende and the creator of the Goddessa-Tierra Line.
Wednesday, August 19 | 3:00 pm
Sala Quetzal in Biblioteca Pública
Donation $220 pesos
“Growing with San Miguel” is an interactive conference that invites the audience on a journey into the living roots of this town: the Otomí people, their healing practices, their relationship with the land, medicinal plants, food, ceremony, and the worldview that shaped this region long before it became the San Miguel we know today.
Led by Ana Verónica Ramírez Rodríguez — a daughter of San Miguel, granddaughter of an Otomí healer, and founder of Diyapentu Healing Space — this is not a museum presentation. It is a personal, direct and honest conversation about what indigenous tradition looks like when it is still alive, still practiced, and still healing people today.
What the audience will explore:
- The Otomí roots of San Miguel de Allende — the people behind the town’s origins.
- The word Diyapentu and what it means: the alignment of physical, emotional and mental energies with the Great Spirit.
- Ancestral healing practices: medicinal plants, rituals, ceremonies, and traditional food as medicine.
- The story of Abuelita Carmen — a trusted Otomí healer whose practices are still alive through her granddaughter.
- How indigenous wisdom and modern science can work together for health and wellbeing.
- How to engage respectfully and gratefully with the original traditions of the land we all share.