Lizae Cervantes Reyes was born in the beautiful island of Cebu, Philippines and grew up in Metro Manila.  She has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over forty five years.  She is a certified sound and music healing practitioner from California Institute of Integral Studies.  She studied with practitioners in the field of Integrative Medicine at the Institute for Health and Healing in Marin,  with focus on Healing Harp.  She plays Harp to offer comfort, inspiration and calm at the bedside of patients and meditation circles.   She draws Inspiration from Ancestral memories and Ancient ways of story-telling. As a multi-modality artist and ritualist,  she uses dance, myth, storytelling and poetry  as a way to create sacred space for healing. As a student of Indigenous Wisdom, she continuously travels to the Philippines to gain deep insights about her Indigenous roots.  She appreciates learning from Filipino Elders and Healers. Her work is rooted in what she calls the Journey to Wholeness, where she recognizes everyone as co-journeyers and offers a quiet announcement to help open the inner doors, and to go even further...creating a swirling mass with no separations.

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“Lizae Cervantes Reyes is a very special woman.  She came to me to learn to play harp. But right away I could see that the harp was not just an instrument to learn to play by itself - it was a sacred vehicle to use to express her love, thoughts, and wisdom. Over the years we worked together to make arrangements for harp and voice of many beautiful indigenous filipino pieces. Many pieces came from her ancestral land of Cebu. Lizae’s ardent devotion to healing the planet with her harp, poetry and song-especially through the traditional and indigenous music of the Philippines is a beautiful offering for our times.”

~ Diana Stork, Harp Mentor/Teacher, Berkeley, California)

Ate Lizae is a beautiful soul, a mirror of the ways my own inner spirit dances with ancestors. I had the honour of working alongside her through the Centre for Babaylan Studies, where she has been an elder and mentor. Together, we served as ritualists and ceremonialists, moving in attunement with Spirit, the rhythms of the Diwata, and the living wisdom of nature.

Her guidance is rooted in deep listening to the unseen, to the ancestors, and to the Earth. Ate Lizae holds ceremony with such reverence and grace that one cannot help but feel more connected to purpose, community, and the sacred. I carry immense gratitude for the ways she has witnessed me, supported my unfolding path, and reminded me of the power of ancestral presence in our everyday lives.

~ Jen Maramba, Ancestral Healing Practitioner, Canada