Maria José Sanchez Valenzuela is a multidimensional creative and holistic health practitioner weaving ancestral wisdom, botanical beauty, and regenerative living into everyday life. Born in Mexico, rooted in the rhythms of the Earth, she has lived, worked and studied across North America, Europe, and Asia, offering experiences that center nourishment, healing, and connection.

Maria José is certified as a Holistic Health and Integrative Nutrition Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City and trained in botanical skincare and herbal entrepreneurship through the Herbal Academy. Her culinary background includes a two-year diploma in Food & Beverage Management and Culinary Arts from George Brown College in Toronto, as well as immersive food and organic regenerative farming/ landscaping work in Canada, Hawai‘i, and Northern California.

Her professional journey includes stewarding wellness centers, creating herbal skincare and cooking workshops, being in biodynamic farms, and supporting addiction and depression recovery through personalized coaching and plant medicine. She is also a gifted photographer, creative director, and visual storyteller, using imagery to honor the intimate connection between body and Earth.

Through her platform and emerging brand, Tulsi, María José inspires individuals and families—especially women and mothers—to return to natural rhythms, embrace ancestral care, and live in beauty with the Earth.

She is currently based between Mexico and Northern California, collaborating on earth based projects and tending to the wild garden of her offerings as she slowly becomes a clinical Ayurvedic practitioner.