Meet Anita Martinez Scott | Maestra de Ayahuasca & Shaman & teacher

We had the good fortune of connecting with Anita Martinez Scott and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Anita, how has your work-life balance changed over time?
I was a workaholic until I had a stroke. My world turned outside in and I took a year and half off work and lived with my sister. I was left with the inability to use the right side of my body, and it affected my speech and my emotions. I got very intentional to heal myself. I healed myself in a couple of months by learning how to be compassionate with myself. I asked myself “who am I if I cannot do what I have always done for work?” The answer came to me in deep silence. Remove your title you have worked so hard to earn and see what is beneath the surface. I took a long loving look at myself and saw Love. I began to go through the crevasses of my mind and weed out all anger, stress and all notions of sufferings. With deep forgiveness I liberated my mind and was set free to start all over but with ease and grace. Now I start my days with the mantra “I am free”. When I finally went back to work, I was able to do the supernatural. What usually takes 4-8 hours to do, I can now accomplish in 30 mins to 1 hour. I attribute this to my connection with the supernatural. I am no longer a slave of time, now I manipulate time to work for me. I have a very disciplined self care routine every day and I am very mindful about my thoughts. I work less because I have done the internal work to succeed. I have traveled, lived in other countries, because I choose to say “yes” to JOY. In the context of work/life balance, this means greater discernment about HOW I am doing my work, because joy brings not only better living, but also increased productivity in shorter time. Focusing on my own state before any work, keeps my mind clear and allows me to accomplish more. Now it is less about forcing balance, but choosing what matters most, first.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I am a Maestra of Ayahuasca, I work with Grandmother Medicine. This title used to be a glorious achievement for me, as it is a big deal in the shamanic world, but now I find the title less valuable, and the evolution of my work better suited to the modern world. My journey was not easy at first. I was born with the ability to see and hear things, I had a natural ability to heal others, but this was more of a challenge than a gift when I was young. I was raised in a very unsupportive abusive home, so I became determined to understand the mind and spirit. Because I felt very alone in life, I developed a strong relationship with God. It was the one thing I knew I could trust. This internal voice would become the driving force in my decisions. I started doing healing masses at the age of 15 after I had a profound awakening where I accepted unconditional love.
However, my life after that was still challenging because I didn’t understand why people would lie or hurt others. I felt confused and depressed often. I saw a lot of suffering and I just wanted to end it all, so I even tried to kill myself. I was sent to an institution and I remember telling the head psychologist “I know when things are off, I can feel the wiring in my brain”. It was then that I started to choose to see my experiences as a gift rather than a curse, and started honing my mind towards a better life. When I refocused myself, my capacity as a healer expanded, and my life became enriched with helping others, as a product of helping myself first.
One of my next challenges was actually when Ayahuasca found me. It was an obvious call to learn and grow with this Medicine and commit my whole life, which I completely did, but I also had to go through deep healing too. Because I was already a great healer, and an expert in a few traditions, I had this idea that I wouldn’t have a lot to work through, but Ayahuasca had other plans for me, and I went through the ringer many times!
What sets me apart as a healer now isn’t just the capacities and skills and so much experience over my whole life, but also my mindset about healing in general. I see now, that in perfect union with Source, there is nothing that needs to be healed. Now it is all about acknowledging what is already perfect, removing the ideas of blocks or damage, and inspiring someone’s higher self. From that perspective, anything becomes possible, and someone can begin to identify with the version of themselves they desire. This can relate to every aspect of life, from learning to play with the non-nature of time, to removing limits on personal achievement, to dramatically accelerating personal and life growth, reducing the impact of traumatic experiences, and accessing our natural capacity for supernatural experiences! I can’t even explain to you how magical it is for me every time one of my clients experiences this liberation, and this even happens through phone consultations, not even with Medicines! I bring the same perspective to the Sacred Medicine Ceremony now, which has caused a little pushback from the part of the community which is strictly traditionalist. Shamanic practices from around the world are deeply dependent upon suffering, and we all know what it’s like to look back and realize we made things harder or more complicated than they had to be! I love that my clients also love this evolution in healing without so much suffering, and this concept i bring into every aspect of my own life, and it excites me very much to see my clients also live their lives more greater ease and joy! This is part of the reason I do more speaking and teaching now, I see the tremendous impact this perspective has had on others’ lives and I love that! What sets me apart the most is that even though my clients all experience deep shifts in their lives, my goal is no longer to heal them; my goal is to bring up their own inner teacher, so they discover they don’t need someone else for healing and guidance, that they have everything they need within themselves.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Well I live sort of a monk-ish life so don’t really go out a whole lot, but I do have a favorite sushi restaurant! And I love the parks and natural springs that Central Florida is also famous for, besides theme parks! The beaches here are also wonderful, I like the ones a little less crowded so I can meditate and focus inward.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
My sister Susy Maier for always supporting, encouraging me and being my best friend. My partner Medicine Woman Cat Rambo for being a love of my life, my teacher, and our international business leader (she keeps the business organized)
Charlie Osburn who showed me what is unconditional love. He had a school called “Catholic Lay Evangelist School”. I started to do healing masses there when I was 15 yrs old.
Lady is a woman I ran a Botanica with. She was my friend, teacher and business partner. She taught me about myself and about different spiritual modalities.
Kali is a woman that ran an esoterica store “Goddess Productions”, she helped me excel and really encouraged me and always had a space for me to shine.
Every person I have sat in Ceremony with have all taught me something.
Robbie Warren Fire Chief for helping actualize my dream of going to South Africa and got me into fire dance
To the authors Ramtha, Jane Roberts, Ester Hicks, I really learned a lot from your books
The book Disappearance of the Universe, A Course in Miracles, Heart Sutra, these books helped me with mind training
To all the wonderful Shamans, Spiritual leaders, Elders, and teachers I have met, you all have helped me grow.
Thank you to all my guides, ancestors, Mother Earth for loving me and supporting me.

Website: https://www.eternallovinginnocence.com/

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Image Credits
Peterson J Guerrier I have the rights for all the pictures. All the pictures I shared are my own personal pictures.