Akua Gutierrez is a breathwork and shamanic healing practitioner, wilderness solo guide, and midwife of earth-based, self-generated ceremony. Her work is rooted in presence, ritual, and a deep trust in the healing intelligence of nature and the human spirit.
For more than a decade, Akua has walked a path of reconnection - to self, community, and the land - guided by ceremony as a portal into healing, celebration, and transformation. She supports clients to release blocked energy, shift old patterns, and return to a more embodied, vital way of being.
She guides women’s rites of passage that honour life’s thresholds with reverence and care. She loves leading the Maidens Camp at the Wise Women Gathering, tending the sacred transition to maidenhood and witnessing the power of community-held ritual.
As a wilderness solo guide, Akua draws from the Four Shields, mirroring, and sacred council, to hold space for deep listening—to the wild world and to the wilderness within. Akua is the co-founder of Ancient Ground, a home for earth-based connection, ritual and belonging. She lives with her family in the Blue Mountains on Dharug and Gundungurra land.