Camila Valenzuela-Panza

Camila is not only a gentle and grounded Reiki practitioner, she is also a mother of two beautiful children, who she breastfed for three years each. Outside of Odigo, Camila is an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), in the Lactation field since 2018 and an Indigenous Birth Doula since 2019. She cares for her families/clients with a holistic lens and often makes referrals for Chiropractic care, Acupuncture, CranioSacral Therapy, Reiki, as well as referrals to elders in the Indigenous community. 

Through Camila’s experience with families, she has become deeply passionate about advocating for informed consent and supporting families where they are, in achieving their lactation goals while helping reduce barriers. Breastfeeding/chest-feeding is important to her for many reasons; one of them is that it is our ancestral right to provide milk for our babies. It is an extension of our bodies, nourishing a small human in the womb, and outside of the womb. The connection created while breastfeeding/chest-feeding will last a lifetime and she wants to help more people create that bond.

Her doula work and lactation work co-exist and a lot of the doula work is currently more of a mentoring role, advocacy and birth justice. She is currently very passionate about learning new modalities of healing that can be integrated into her current practice. After taking Reiki classes at Odigo Wellness, in her native Spanish, she was able to start offering Community Reiki alongside a bilingual team, and now honored to co-coordinate the team alongside Guadalupe González.  

Her love for Reiki first began after a friend gifted her a session after a particularly difficult and traumatic journey with loss and death. This first Reiki practitioner was able to help heal wounds that she didn't know had run so deeply. Since then she has seen the gentle way Reiki energy heals folks from a variety of experiences with trauma and chronic harmful stress. Besides providing reiki in Odigo’s shared community setting, she also hopes to put her skills as an educator and indigenous/Latine activist to use in providing reiki training to those who want to learn about Reiki and help heal themselves and their communities.