Adriana Gonzalez Villa is an ordained Minister of Walking Prayer, acupuncturist, musician and yogini. She facilitates medicine ceremonies and sound healings, as well as offers acupuncture and healing sessions.  Her ministry is inclusive, with a focus on indigenous wisdom traditions. Adriana is a mother and wife and lives in Troncones with her husband and baby. She was raised in the US as a dual citizen of Mexico and the USA.

 

Adriana's parents immigrated to the US and she grew up in a neighborhood of immigrants, refugees, and African American families in Houston, Texas.  As a child growing up in a community struggling to accept a new wave of migrants, Adriana experienced rampant personal and institutionalized racism.  At 18 she enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin, where she finally began to dissolve this false reality so prevalent in America and heal from years of internalized racism.  She received degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, and was politically conscious, working in the field of social justice. 

 

Adriana worked with some of the most marginalized people in America- undocumented citizens, homeless populations, and incarcerated youth with disabilities.   A career in social justice law was redirected by an acute episode of spiritual awakening-  an initiation of Spirit.​