Brenda Salgado is the founder of Nepantla Healing and Consulting. Brenda has received training in traditional medicine and healing in Purepecha, Xochimilco, Toltec and other lineages. She draws on the healing powers of the natural world to guide her work, and shares teachings from her elders regarding alignment with prophecies and practices connected to the great transitions humanity is currently facing. She is grateful to her Ancestors and her relatives in the Beloved Unseen for partnership and support, and she is committed to co-creating a society filled with wholeness and beauty.

Brenda is a spiritual and mindfulness author, indigenous wisdom keeper, curandera, trainer and organizational consultant. She has over 25 years of experience in transformative leadership development, nonprofit management, traditional healing and ceremony, mindfulness, movement building, women’s health, and social justice. Brenda is in the process of establishing the Nepantla Land Trust and the Nepantla Center for Healing and Renewal. In the past, she has served as the Director of the East Bay Meditation Center, as Director of Racial Healing Initiative, as Associate Director at Wisdom & Money, and as a Senior Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center. She has also served on the Healers Council for Decolonizing Wealth Project, as a BIPOC Spiritual Innovator Advisor for Fetzer Institute Shared Spiritual Heritage Project, and on the boards of Movement Strategy Center and Lion’s Roar Foundation. She has taught, facilitated and led ceremony at numerous gatherings, including Rites of Passage 20/20 Vision, Bioneers, Mindful Life Conference, The Future of Religion and Interspirituality, Science and Nonduality Conference, We Will Dance with Mountains, WisdomWomen, Wild Woman Fest, the Global Matriarch’s Gathering, and more. She has brought her teachings and ceremony to organizations such as Naropa University, California Institute of Integral Studies, SF Department of Public Health, The Ford Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Latino Community Foundation and others.

She holds degrees in Biology, Developmental Psychology, and Animal Behavior. She serves on the Advisory Board for The Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & InterSpirituality. Brenda is author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time.