TULIX INDIGENOUS ARTS
Masewal Maya abdominal Massage therapies
embark on a deeply personal journey into the heart of your own ancestral healing traditions through the Masewal Maya healing Lineage of Yucatec Maya Elder Don Elijio Panti.
WHAT is Mayan abdominal massage?
Tul’ix Indigenous Arts is an evolution of what was formerly known as the Arvigo® Institute. This bodywork and spiritual healing tradition has been passed down to Dr. Rosita Arvigo by Yucatec Maya Elder, Don Elijio Panti.
Tul’ix Therapies, previously known as The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy®, combines bodywork, traditional remedies, herbal knowledge, and spiritual healing. There is an emphasis on self-care and bringing these universal traditional remedies into our hands and homes.
These potent practices support many sexual, reproductive, and digestive imbalances - including infertility, menstrual conditions, fibroids, endometriosis, GERD, IBS, Crohn’s disease, adhesions, scarring, constipation, chronic fatigue, migraines, and many forms of physical trauma. The spiritual aspects of this healing tradition support deep embodiment and the integration of trauma, both lived and ancestral.
"Most people think too much. Get them to laugh and half their troubles and sickness will go away and the blessed herbs will do the rest." - Don Elijio Panti
It wasn’t until years later that I formally began practicing Mayan Indigenous Healing Arts. Over time, I came to understand the profound parallels between this lineage and many other folk traditions around the world—including those of my own ancestral roots. Tulix became not only a modality I practice, but a spiritual bridge—a way home.
Through this work, I’ve witnessed firsthand the power of ancestral healing. In my practice, particularly with cis-women navigating infertility and sexual health challenges, Tulix has often been the missing link. Many of my clients arrived after countless medical interventions that failed to acknowledge the deep connections between unprocessed trauma and physical symptoms.
Tulix therapies offer more than physical support—they provide sacred tools for tending the womb, the heart, and the unseen threads of ancestral memory. In this lineage, I’ve seen how healing becomes multidimensional: it reaches across time, bloodlines, and soul layers.
We urgently need to reclaim the wisdom of our Grandmothers and Grandfathers—the Earth-based traditions we were severed from. This is why I continue to accept the gift and responsibility of walking this path. Today, I offer monthly trainings and mentorship opportunities for those who feel called to embody and share these potent teachings in their own lives and communities.
I am forever grateful to the seen and unseen forces, elders, and guardians who have walked with me and entrusted me with the honor of holding this lineage in reverence.
My story
I first encountered the healing wisdom of the Maya in 2012, though the call to these lands had stirred in me long before.
Years earlier, during my freshman year of college, I followed a series of synchronicities that led me to the jungles of Guatemala. I visited Tikal, near Petén—the birthplace of Don Elijio Panti—and was invited to participate in a Mayan fire ceremony. The vibrant beauty of the ritual, the sacred dance of flame and offering, and the textured richness of Mayan cosmology touched something ancient within me.
At the time, I couldn’t have known that this encounter would ignite a deeper remembering. I was born in Ukraine during the Soviet era, and although my family immigrated to the U.S. when I was three, many ancestral traditions—particularly our Slavic healing ways—were lost or silenced. Being immersed in Maya culture, something clicked: the threads of prayer, earth wisdom, and folk healing felt both new and strangely familiar.
TuL’ix self care Training
Learn the legacy and lineage of this potent work, the essential anatomy and physiology of the pelvic and abdominal organs, and what happens when they become unbalanced. In this training, you will learn abdominal self-massage, anatomy, physiology, pelvis steams/soaks, castor oil therapy, herbal support, plant spirit medicine, and techniques for nervous system regulation.
Participants are qualified to perform the abdominal massage on themselves and are prepared for Level 2 of the Tul’ix Indigenous Arts Practitioner Training Program which certifies the practitioner in The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy®.
This is an online training with many opportunities to get off-screen and engage in hands-on learning.
Provides 16 CEU’s for Massage Therapy.
Tul’ix Therapies & The Gender Binary
The multi-billion dollar health and wellness industry reflects and upholds norms rooted in capitalism, white-supremacy, and systemic oppression. People of color, trans, non-binary folks, and poor communities have not had the same access to health care in the medical and holistic fields. In contribution to collective work toward change I am committed to examining my biases and creating inclusive spaces. As a somatic professional and educator, I strive to use inclusive language that makes this work accessible to people of all genders, body sizes, races, sexual orientations, expressions & identities. I include what has been left out of anatomy textbooks. My classes and trainings are designed to be safe spaces for all.
"Before I found Zhenya, I was struggling with severe endometriosis, fertility issues, and IBS. My physical and emotional pain was to the point where I would try anything and everything! We saw multiple fertility doctors who said I should have come to them sooner because of my age, I had a low egg count and their suggestion was jumping right to IVF. It felt like our hope of having a family was just a business to them, and left us feeling defeated and angry.
I reached out to Zhenya and at my first appointment, she told me to give her three months. I learned so many new techniques about helping with circulation in the body and the benefits of self-massage, & steaming. After my three months was up, I found out I was pregnant! Now, I tell everyone about the woman who helped my body prepare to have a baby.“ -Shelby
Accessibility & Equity
My work is rooted in the anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist practices of reciprocity and collective liberation. In acknowledging systemic oppression and the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege based on race, gender, class, and ability, I will always keep offerings financially accessible with affordable pricing and payment plans. Investing in our sexual health, and emotional and spiritual wellbeing in late-stage capitalism is an act of resistance. We have been taught to value productivity at the expense of our minds and bodies. These important practices have been suppressed, undervalued, and even criminalized. Those of us who work in the field of somatic sexology continue to face discrimination and censorship. It is tender to hold these truths, while also honoring the tremendous value, personal investment, and wholehearted dedication it takes to continue making this important work available to all.
Tul’ix Indigenous Arts donated 10% of all profits to Indigenous organizations such as Taos Pueblo, Don Elijio’s direct descendants, who protect The Elijio Panti National Park, and other groups.