Maria Valenzuela is a certified nutrition and therapeutic holistic health coach, photographer, and creative rooted in ancestral wisdom, botanical beauty, and regenerative living. Born in Mexico with Indigenous North American and Mediterranean-Moorish ancestry…she is truly grounded in the landscapes of North America, while her life and studies have also taken her across Europe and Asia. Her work centers on nourishment, healing, and connection.

Her path has been guided by teachers such as Nadine Artemis, who awakened in her the artistry of plant beauty and radiant self-care, and Martín Prechtel, whose teachings on myth, grief, and ancestral memory have illuminated her understanding of how soul, language, and ritual root us back into the living world.

With a background in integrative nutrition, culinary arts, herbal skincare , regenerative agriculture, and plant medicine with a love for mythopoetry, history, anthropology, and the cosmos.

Maria José brings a unique blend of practices that honor the intimate relationship between body, earth, and spirit.

She is currently based in Northern California and Mexico, collaborating on earth-based projects while continuing her studies toward becoming a clinical Ayurvedic practitioner.