Naan Marina Cruz Ajcac

Ajq'iij Maya Tz'utujil, a counter of time of the Mayan calendar.

Daughter, student and companion on the path of the spiritual guide, walker for life and peace in the world Tata Pedro Cruz, k'u'x Ya'.

Guardian of the sacred fire from the Maya cosmovision

Perform sacred fire ceremonies for the energetic balance of the human being before the energies of birth.

Tooj ceremonies, sacred offerings.

Ceremonies according to the different needs and petitions of each person before the fire.

Guide to Circles & Sacred Cacao/Fire ceremonies.

Healing ceremonies & physical, and emotional energy readings using one of the most sacred medicines of Maya spirituality, the sacred tobacco.

Reading of the sacred Tz'ite', special and particular wrapping of the spiritual guides, for readings and specific consultations.

Guide and mentor in feminine circles of self-love and connection with our feminine & masculine being.

Temazcalera (Maya sweat lodge guide) from the Maya Tz'utujil tradition, a space for connection with the female womb, a space for body, mind, and spirit concentration, and as an ancestral medicine for physical healing.

Walker through the continents of the world, where she has exchanged spiritual knowledge with different native cultures and in different spaces.

Accompanying and coordinating meetings for the exchange of ancestral knowledge of  

healers, Maya tz'utujiles healers, and midwives, for the strengthening of the legitimate knowledge of the Maya people.

Legal Representative of the Walkers for Peace Jun Imox Association, integrated by spiritual guides and healers by birth, whose main objective is the vindication, recognition, and protection of the sacred knowledge of the Maya Tz'utujil people.

Member of the Board of Directors of TRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION, an organization that has worked within the UN system since its founding in 1993, in the construction of roads for indigenous peoples to expand their ability to protect their ways of life since the year 2023

Member of the National Coordinating Board of the DEFENDERS FOR INDIGENOUS WOMEN OF GUATEMALA. DEMI period from 2011 to 2014

Representative of the women's organizations of the Tz'utujil linguistic community, in the national advisory council of the Defenders of indigenous women, from 2011 to 2014.

Academic training 

Sociolinguistic. Whose Thesis work was the Valorization of the sacred and medicinal uses of Cacao among the tz'utujiles through oral tradition.

Professor of Applied Linguistics for middle school 

Elementary School Bilingual Tz’utujil-Spanish Teacher

Positions held as a professional

President of the Tz'utujil Linguistic Community, at the Academy of Mayan Languages ​​of Guatemala from 2016 to 2017.

Researcher in linguistic and cultural issues, in the Tz'utujil linguistic community, at the Academy of Mayan Languages ​​of Guatemala from 2013 to 2015.

Facilitator of workshops and training on the topics: Citizen Participation, women's human rights, gender equality, and other laws that support women's participation, 2007 to 2012.

Workshops on national and international legal instruments on the rights of indigenous peoples. (Peace agreements, conventions, and national legislation) 2001 to 2004.

Research Assistant of the Indigenous Rights Project; in the Executive Secretariat of the Instance Coordinator of the Modernization of the Justice Sector. CAJ, compiling information on ancestral practices of indigenous rights and accompaniment to auxiliary mayors in conflict resolution and other community activities, year 2007.

Researcher of the Comparative Vocabulary Project of the 21 Mayan languages ​​of Guatemala at OKMA. Oxlajuj Keej Maya’ Ajtz’ib’ (Work published by OKMA) year 2000.

Member of the National Elections Commission, of the Academy of Mayan Languages ​​of Guatemala, ALMG, year 2000.

Technician in Writing the Tz'utujil Language of the CUSTOMARY LAW AND LOCAL POWER Project and coordinator of Mayan towns of Guatemala, year 1999.