Yaou Yaou Wellness

About Us

Our Values Are

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CULTURAL RESILIENCE

CULTURAL RESILIENCE

We aim to preserve the healing traditions of our African, Amazonian, and Caribbean ancestors through education, community-led programs, tribal partnerships, and safe spaces for transformation.

SELF-MASTERY

SELF-MASTERY

The philosophy of the Bwiti tradition is simple, it is to study life and master the self. Our elders have taught us that the purpose of life is to enjoy it. Having a healthy relationship with ourselves, our community, and our environment is essential to this mission.

SAFETY

SAFETY

“All of our healing modalities have been vetted and approved by a team of medical and traditional doctors, as well as, experts in family medicine, emergency medicine, and psychology.

We are a team of Taino and Missoko Bwiti
mental health professionals committed to
providing safe and effective Afro-Indigenous
healing services with natural medicines.

About the Founder

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Pamela began her medicine path at age 7 in the Caribbean under the guidance of her grandmothers and aunts. Her heritage features a long line of teachers, healers, and natural medicine doctors who traveled throughout the Dominican Republic bringing their herbal medicines and Afro-Indigenous healing modalities to those in need. Unfortunately, in the 1930s a dictator by the name of General Rafael Trujillo came into power and would go onto holding absolute control over the Dominican Republic for thirty years. His formula for staying in office was simple.
More than 30,000 people were executed during his regime, including many healers and natural medicine doctors, forcing members of her family into hiding. Luckily, the grandmothers held onto the teachings and passed on their wisdom to various members of the family, including Pamela, so that their healing modalities may outlive another attempted genocide and be spread to the world.

HEALING JOURNEY

Knowing she wanted to follow in the healing footsteps of her grandmothers, Pamela graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience hoping to become a physician-scientist focused on mental health. However, after the death of her grandmother, the family matriarch, she was forced to pivot and put her dream on hold. She shifted into working in technology to financially provide for her family, but all that would soon change.
She was not planning to pursue a traditional medicine path, but after finding herself with colon cancer during the global COVID-19 pandemic, her life would be transformed forever. After healing her cancer with kambô, iboga, and other natural medicines she decided to leave the corporate world, returning to natural medicine and thus continuing on the path of her grandparents and great-grandparents.

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