A Message From the Founder
The Journey Back To Soul is committed to giving you the most supportive, compassionate and personalized guidance in expanding your love and awareness. We honor ancestral wisdom, and our beloved Mother Earth through our carefully crafted products and ceremony kits for your sacred home rituals. We are honored to source the highest quality products made with love and prayer, and are committed to forging long-lasting relationships of reciprocal support with our indigenous families and wisdom keepers. By purchasing our products you are helping us continue to support more than 15 different indigenous artisans, medicine men and women, as well as their families.
The Journey Back to Soul not only brings you these sacred medicines but also integration through group activities, experiences and community. Our mission is to help you create a loving, safe and sacred place for you to learn about and apply your own strengths, courage, and power to heal. It is our honor to be of service, supporting you on your path of healing to reconnect with love for self and others.
We believe that for real healing to take place we must consider wholeness: mind, body & spirit. Our healing begins by remembering and returning to the lost parts of our soul — This is the Journey Back to Soul
With Love, Maria Camila Betancur
Meet The Team
Maria Camila Betancur
FOUNDER/ ENTHEOGENIC GUIDE/ FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS FACILITATOR
Maria Camila Betancur is the founder of The Journey Back to Soul, a devotional space dedicated to remembering our connection to the sacred through ritual, prayer, and everyday living. Born and raised in Colombia, her relationship with nature, ancestry, and community shaped her early understanding that the sacred is not separate from daily life, but woven into how we walk, gather, and give.
Her path has taken her into years of study and apprenticeship within ancestral traditions of the Americas, including time in the Amazon with Shipibo-Konibo elders and mentorship connected to the Comcaac tradition of the Sonoran Desert. These experiences deepened her reverence for sacred plants, ceremonial tools, and the responsibility of carrying tradition with humility and care.
Through The Journey Back to Soul, Maria curates and offers sacred objects, altar pieces, and ritual supports created in prayer and in reciprocity with the lineages and lands from which they come. The store is an extension of her devotion — a place where people can find meaningful tools to support their own relationship with Spirit, remembrance, and intentional living.
Maria’s work is rooted in the belief that the journey home is not somewhere far away, but a return to what has always been within us. Her offerings are an invitation to walk with more reverence, to listen more deeply, and to remember the sacred woven into the fabric of our lives.
Joseph Martinez
FIRE KEEPER / TEMAZCALERO/ MEN'S WORK LEAD GUIDE
Joseph Martinez is a ceremonial practitioner, fire keeper, and devoted student of the sacred whose path is rooted in prayer, humility, and the remembrance of the heart. Walking the red road, his life has been shaped by years of spiritual discipline, ceremony, and study across traditions, including Indigenous teachings, Hindu philosophy, and Gnostic wisdom.
As a fourth-year Sun Dancer and ceremonial space holder, Joseph approaches his work as an offering of presence and devotion. He carries a deep commitment to fostering connection—between people and their hearts, between individuals and the natural world, and between community and Spirit.
Joseph continues to walk in relationship with traditional teachers, including guidance connected to the Shipibo lineage, and honors these teachings through the way he lives, prays, and serves. His presence within The Journey Back to Soul reflects a shared devotion to creating spaces and offerings that support remembrance, reverence, and intentional living.Through this work, Joseph invites others to soften into their own truth, reconnect with the simplicity of love, and walk life with greater openness, integrity, and care for all beings.
Mily Andrade
ENTHEOGENIC GUIDE
Mily Andrade is a multidimensional traveling soul, that through the ancient knowledge of the Comcacac tribe, the integration of entheogens and other tools, guide and inspire you to remember your divine spark, your power of Creation and undertake your self-discovery so that you can enjoy fullness of this great Ceremony called LIFE.
She was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Since she was a child she had a great thirst for spiritual connection, to find herself. Throughout her childhood she visited and listened to different religious doctrines, listening to the word of GOD, looking for something beyond, her connection with everything. She was like a salmon against the current, searching for her divine essence, which attempted to manifest itself every day through her roles within her daily life; work, school, social commitments, etc. Through these roles, her spirit revealed itself to the impositions of the system; that dictates to us what to believe, what to do, how to think, how to act… something inside her screamed, telling her that we came to this existence to do something majestic, that our life is not summarized in fulfilling routines, that live aside of our essence; which lead us to repress our feelings, turning off our magic, making us forget that we are beings of love, creators, divine beings.
Listening to the call of her heart, without any defined reason or purpose, she arrived at the COMCAAC tribe over a decade ago, to meet the guardians of the OTAC and she hasn’t left since that day. She had a special interest in meeting grandfather Francisco Barnett, better known as Chapito. Upon arriving at the tribe a feeling of warmth enveloped her, feeling that she had arrived home. Hours later she met Grandpa Chapito Barnett, who always has a big smile. She greeted him and asked him: “Grandpa, when are you going to do a ceremony for me?” to which he responded “We are already in the ceremony.” She couldn’t understand what he was saying because we were not performing any ritual, (or what her mind conceptualized as one.) They were in the middle of the living room of a house, while he had a cup of coffee and watched a program on TV. He looked at her eyes and continued, “and you will be in ceremony until the last day you are here”, from that moment on the magic began to happen, which she still did not understand.
For 5 continuous days she had a telepathic communication with Tata Chapito, where he transmitted images, words, that her mind could not yet conceptualize. Granfather Chapito recognized her before she did, he saw what her path was, which she accepted in her heart. At 90 years of life, Grandfather Chapito granted her a rebirth, her gift of life and reunion with her BEING. Since that moment she has been a disciple of grandparents Chapito Barnett and Francisco Barnett, better known as Pancho Largo. Guardian of the ancestral legacy of the Comcaac tribe, in which the wisdom of the OTAC (Bufo Alvarius toad) is found.
Daniela Sanabria
MARKETING
Daniela is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in visual arts, digital communication, and marketing. A graduate of the Castilla-La Mancha University of Fine Arts, she has turned her lifelong passion for creation into a focus on new media. Daniela’s work is driven by a desire to craft aesthetic, memorable, and one-of-a-kind digital experiences. For Daniela, inspiration is drawn from the simplest moments—whether it’s the rustling of leaves or the overlooked details of everyday life. Every design she creates serves as a reflection of her vision for a project or brand, infused with the emotional impact needed to resonate with its audience. She believes design must be multifaceted to be meaningful. For Daniela, graphic design is a dynamic space for visual exploration and experimentation, where aesthetics and emotion converge.As a freelancer, Daniela works with The Journey Back To Soul, approaching each project with a conceptual, minimalistic, and content-focused mindset. She believes in the power of storytelling and aims to deliver designs that communicate a brand’s message in a clear, compelling way.