Cristina Gutierrez, is a mother of two, a Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor, herbalist, and educator born and raised on the south and northwest sides of Chicago. She is the founder of Ayurvedic Elements Apothecary (est. 2014), a Latinx womxn owned and operated holistic wellness brand rooted in sustainability, accessibility, and collective care. She makes small batch, user friendly, organic herbal formulas centering sustainably and locally sourced herbal allies for people of all ages, and at all stages of centering and remembering.

Cristina specializes in helping folks ”Learn the Language of the Body” in consultations and courses both in person and online by connecting them with the food, herbs, and rituals that have special medicine for their individual needs. Her wish as a practitioner of holistic medicine and a person who has deep respect and love for the earth and its people, is to provide tools and empowerment for the collective to unravel the roots of imbalance and bring all of us closer to our passions, pleasures, and purpose for our collective liberation. Cristina has an arsenal of tools to facilitate deep transformation through commitment to radical acts of self care and self love.