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About Lilia Ollin Roman

I dedicate this site to my father who passed away in August, 2014. Thank you, father, for your courage, strength, your spirit that still guides me. May you soul rest in profound peace and light.

Dedicó esta pagina a mi padre quien hizo la transición en 2014.  Gracias, Padre, por tu valor, tu fuerza y espíritu que todavía me guían.  Descansa en profunda paz y luz. 

LILIA OLLIN is from Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, from what has been known as “the city of eternal Spring”, or from its indigenous (Nahuatl) name: Cuauhnahuac, ‘surrounded by or being close to trees’. She received a B.A. in Public Communications in Albany, NY.  Lilia has travelled throughout Asia and Europe and now shares her time between the Bay Area and Mexico. Since she became a Yoga teacher in 2011, Lilia has brought her healing practices to different populations in the Bay Area, Mexico, and beyond.

BACKGROUND 

IN 2000, Lilia left her job as a tech writer at the software company she was co-founder of.  Insomnia, migraines, and other imbalances showed her the way to self-care. She went into long healing journeys in nature where she acquired a meditation practice. These disciplines, which she committed to for years, completely changed her life and led her to a full inner journey, re-connecting her to the sacred Earth elements.

LILIA’S GRANDMOTHER was a Curandera, a Mexican traditional healer. Her mother cultivated these practices and healed her children using traditional healing methods. Lilia learned about the magic of nature and the importance of spiritual practices to balance the Fire and Water within, which in ancient Mexican practices are the two most important elements that, if out of balance, can create dis-ease. Coming from a lineage of powerful women healers, Lilia has deep respect for her traditions and ancient healing practices. She believes it is the re-connection to the divine Mother that has the great potential to help humanity awaken and find its path towards liberation.

IN 2003, not by accident, she took a yoga class that inspired her to explore a mind-body discipline. Conscious movement and the study of somatic practices changed her life in profound ways for they allowed her to connect to the Self, integrating body, mind, and the divine within.  Lilia also went back to Curanderismo, the practices of her grandmother, mother, sister, and other women in her life. These disciplines helped her ‘connect the dots’ as she realized it was her profound love for Mother Earth that needed to be expressed. This was when she began to see her body as a tool for growth and transformation.

LILIA has brought her Holistic Wellness practices – Practicas Holisticas de Bienestar, to homeless people, at-risk youth, LGBTQ communities, seniors, rehab centers, and Spanish-speaking populations. Through Healing Clinic Collectives, she volunteered to assist people affected by the wildfires in Northern California. Lilia has also worked with women and children in Mexico. Through donations, she funded a Yoga and Art Programs for orphan girls affected by the September, 2017, earthquake, which left hundreds of people unemployed and hundreds of children out of schools. .

YOGA STUDIES:  Lilia is ERYT-500, iRest Yoga Nidra, Urban Zen Integrative Yoga Therapy, Chair Yoga, Prenatal Lev. 1, Yoga Therapy 200hrs, and Yoga for People with Cancer 100 hrs certified. She continuous to educate herself on the subjects of trauma and stress and their impact on the physical, emotional, and physiological bodies.

CURRENT PROJECTS:  On December 10th, 2022, Lilia, along with other artists and activist, launched the First Traditional Medicine Event in Temixco, Morelos. The second event was on March 18th, 2023.  These were the first of several TM events now being scheduled thorough out the year. Please subscribe to Lilia’s Newsletter for further information.

Lilia has also joined a group of students and farmers to create an agricultural project in Malinalco, Mexico, with the intention to help farmers become self-sufficient and the land sustainable.  Please stay tuned!

LILIA continues to bring her holistic wellness practices to underserved communities in Mexico and leads online public classes. She supports her business (and other women’s) through her online Store: Ollin Products, which is an ALL WOMEN owned business.  All products are organic, plant-based.  Lilia makes her own pomadas/balms and helps promote other women’s products.  She also supports Mexican artisans who are now threatened to become extinct in this globalization process.

OLLIN PRODUCTS always consider its environmental impact and the health of the next seven generations and beyond.

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THE PURPOSE: To Awaken, Activate, and Balance.

Lilia uses her practice as a tool to ‘unlayer’ the body of traumas and get rid of obstacles that hinder human beauty and growth. Her belief is that conscious movement and somatic practices can help people find freedom within, bringing them back to a place of deep surrender so, through soft breathing and releasing, people can balance their energies, the water and fire within.  This is one way in which people may flourish and live happier, healthier lives.

Lilia is aware every person has a unique, special body, background and skills. She encourages people to recognize and embrace their uniqueness and experience unconditional self-love.

Lilia’s disciplines are the forces that keep her grounded. Her mind-body disciplines help her nourish faith and clarity in an increasing challenging life. Leading retreats and workshops and helping people cultivate hope and a sense or wellbeing is what motivates Lilia’s journey. She has experienced this healing first hand and now shares what brings her peace and profound love.  

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“I have been a traveler and a student all my life. I was always an active child, climbing trees, running, always in awe of nature. My love for animals was a deep, humbling experience. I was always trying to find out what this body was all about, nurturing compassion for all beings. As a child, I always had a deep connection to God, or to something greater than myself. In secret, I would go and pray and talk to that energy I was only able to perceive. When I was nineteen, I left home; it was something I felt compelled to do in order to survive and discover further truths about myself.

A more conscious discovery of my body and my spiritual path began in my late twenties. I began to explore my inner and outer energies and realized how these energies have the power to greatly impact my life. As a Mexican woman, living in a society of expectations, repressions, racism, and other traumas we encounter every day, I found myself deviated from a life of peace and light, not knowing how to see and perceive my own female body. I found myself lost and fragmented, which caused further suffering. Depression issues led me to solitude and meditation. A couple of year later, I found yoga. I realized that yoga, or Kinn (Nahutl word for yoga), was a powerful tool I could use to help myself heal. That was the beginning of a long journey which brought me to a place of constant discoveries, immense joy, and also tears. I re-connected to my own body, found my voice and began to heal from the inside out.

Through a disciplined practice, this path became the unfolding of my own being. I now see those challenging years as great teachers that came from beyond to show me the way. I am deeply grateful for I was blessed to understand what is of value to my life. I devote my time to studying and practicing ancient healing arts, finding my body, listening to what it has to say and remember. These practices have helped me immensely as I now take care of my ailing mother and learn about true surrender, letting go, compassion and eternal connection and gratitude.  As I work with communities, my intention is to help others heal and transform as I believe I have healed and transformed, a practice that has not ended. I have learned that it is the ancient healing practices that can help us connect to Spirit, heal our wounds and awaken our consciousness. Through the awakening and balancing of the energies within, we awaken our body and profound love.

Growing up in a small town in Mexico, I was surrounded by ancient archeological sites and beautiful hills and mountains. My neighbors were the indigenous people who spoke Nahuatl, the native tongue of Central Mexico. They taught me about hard work and humility, but I also saw their poverty and suffering due to discrimination and isolation. This also woke me up to another reality of our world.

I helped my mother feed the chickens, pigs, and turkeys that we raised. In my community we also grew corn, zucchini and other vegetables. What I remember with much love is the beautiful corn feast that we had every year. During the harvest season in the fall, my father and mother would make a big fire in the corn fields; they would roast corn for everybody who came to visit. That fire warmed up my body and lit up my soul.

I also remember the rivers and beautiful flowing waters where I used to go with my older brother and sisters. The cooling, fertile earth, the strong majestic trees and the smoothness of the stones are the memories that marked me. That is the nature I came from, the nature that lives within me, and the energies that guide my yoga practice and my  life today”.

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PAST Projects

SOME of Lilia’s causes for the past ten years have been helping abandoned cats in her home town. Her hope is to eventually build an animal shelter for rescued cats and dogs.  To support this project, please email: LIRIOroman@gmail.com

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ALGUNOS de las causas que Lilia ha apoyado en los últimos diez años han sido esterilizar gatos abandonados.  Lilia y su comunidad en Morelos han esterilizado más de cien gatos y uno de sus planes es eventualmente conseguir un hogar para gatos y perros abandonados.  

ON THE WORKS!

Lilia, along with other activists and artists, are creating a project in Malinalco, Mexico, to offer the youth the opportunity to learn gardening, permaculture, arts and crafts, and skills they can use in their every-day life. Without support and guidance, the youth finds little incentives for growth.  Globalization has caused unemployment and other issues, making farming obsolete and underpaid.  A large percentage of Mexico’s youth find themselves marginalized and deprived of ways to care for the environment and of opportunities to became the next leaders of society.

Also, as a result of globalization and climate change, farmers are losing the battle to compete with big industries.  Mexico is now importing the food it used to export to other countries, mainly to the U.S., and has become more dependent on the U.S. for basic products such as corn, Mexico’s staple food.  Each year we see more campesinos and young people migrating to the United States, risking their lives crossing the borders to find better opportunities.

Our project has the intention to form leaders with consciousness.  We are working towards the preservation of the environment and community integration.  In addition, our farmers can keep working the land, achieve better productivity and become self-sustainable.

This project would be a dream come true! Stay tuned!

Please contact us for more info, or if you wish to support financially, become a partner or a volunteer! We hope to hear from you.

IN GRATITUDE

LILIA is deeply grateful for everything given and everything received. She bows to the mystery and to everything that keeps unraveling. Some of her first and greatest teachers have been her parents and siblings, and her beloved cats and dogs who came to teach her about strength, gentleness, and unconditional love. She is deeply grateful to her ancestors who paved the way for her to become resilient and always aspire for the truth. She also thanks her teachers for their honesty, support, graciousness, humor, and for being the eye openers she needed to continue on her path as a student and teacher of ancient practices.  She aspires to be, first of all, a human being and continues to learn and be inspired by wonderful teachers who come to her in many forms.

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