Artist Bio

Maj is a multidisciplinary artist, interior designer, architect, and visionary storyteller devoted to crafting soul-aligned spaces, brand identities, and healing experiences that awaken beauty, truth, and purpose.

As the heart behind Sitio Arya, she weaves art, ecology, and spirit into a living creative practice rooted in ancestral wisdom, deep healing, and soul remembrance. Her work moves across interior design, creative direction, fashion styling, aromatherapy, healing crafts, and visual storytelling—each expression guided by reverence for nature, culture, and the unseen threads that connect all life. A trained architect and Fine Arts graduate majoring in Interior Design, with further studies in fashion at SoFA, she has shaped her creative path independently from a young age.

Beyond her design practice, Maj is a certified ecosomatic sylvotherapy wellness practitioner, trauma-informed transformational coach, herbalist, chromotherapy practitioner, divine healer, and an initiated Babaylan. Her healing work bridges somatic and ecosomatic approaches, honoring the body as a living archive of experience, memory, and ancestral intelligence—inseparable from the land and the natural world. Through the integration of chromotherapy as a therapeutic tool for emotional and energetic healing, her work is grounded in gentle, embodied practices that respect the intelligence of the body, the wisdom of nature, and the importance of slow, compassionate restoration. 

She facilitates retreats and healing ceremonies in the Philippines that honor earth-based medicine traditions, Indigenous healing lineages, and ancestral practices from various cultures. Her immersion in traditional healing communities—including time spent living in a maloca, a ceremonial and communal sacred space—has profoundly shaped her path, grounding her work in humility, reverence, and lived wisdom.

Maj is also an advocate of the rematriation movement, dedicating her work to the restoration of sacred feminine wisdom, ancestral memory, and right relationship with the Earth. She believes healing is both personal and collective, and that true transformation arises when communities are supported with integrity, compassion, and care. Her belief in alternative and integrative healing deepened after the loss of her father to cancer—a life-altering experience that awakened her commitment to holistic practices that honor the body, soul, and spirit. This moment became a turning point, inspiring her life’s work of bridging ancient wisdom with contemporary healing modalities that nurture wholeness and support life.

Through Sitio Arya, Maj is building a heart-led creative production studio—a sanctuary for meaningful storytelling in collaboration with photo and video journalists, artists, and visionaries. Together, they create soul-stirring documentaries, visual narratives, and experiences that reflect collective healing, cultural remembrance, and planetary care.

Maj’s creations are more than visuals. They are offerings.
Every detail is intentional. Every project, a devotional prayer.
She believes that when design and storytelling are led from the heart, they become acts of service—shaping not only what we see, but how we feel, remember, and connect, leaving a quiet, enduring legacy that future generations can return to and build upon.