About Chio & Katharina

Chio Robalino-Rivas

Sanctioned Teacher

Chio’s passion for healing started in 1992 when she became a Physical Therapist specializing in neurological and vestibular rehabilitation. Her devotion to healing guided her to look into other modalities, eventually leading her to European Shamanism in 2014, opening her up to Spirit in a profound way.

In 2019, Chio was introduced to the significance of rituals and ceremonies through the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, a gateway to a heart centered connection with the Lineages of South America.

Having a great grandmother who was sought out for her midwifery and herbal healing skills, Chio’s family lineage is one of community healing. She is immensely honored to be of service to Pachamama and to all life on Pachamama. She embodies compassion and guides students through this multi-layered tradition while providing a supportive space for personal healing and transformation.

Chio was born in the mountain city of Riobamba, Ecuador, and has maintained a deep connection with Chimborazo and Altar Apukuna (Mountains) of her birth – the lineage of the Andean traditions is embedded within her DNA.

She now resides in Sacramento, California and offers remote healing services.

Katharina Koch

Host / Auxilio

Katharina always sensed that this world was magical—that something vast and ancient existed beyond what the eyes could see. She truly began her search for it in her early twenties. Backpacking through much of Eastern Europe, she rekindled her connection with Pachamama. Floating with the fish and singing with the birds, something within her shifted. The separation between her human form and nature began to dissolve.

Her heart longed for a path devoted to life on this planet. Katharina kept looking and finally found an answer in 2023, in a Mongolian yurt in Ontario, Canada. There, her teacher, Naty Howard, introduced her to the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, and Katharina felt that a significant part of her had come home.

Peru had been calling her for years, and she felt deeply grateful to receive the teachings of the Great Mystery and our beloved Pachamama through the Andean cosmovision. After completing her foundational apprenticeship in Canada, spirit guided her during her paqowachu to return to the European continent.

Now, she aspires to be one thread of light—helping weave the teachings of the ancient ones of Peru with the wisdom that lies partly dormant here in Europe.

Katharina currently lives in the Westerwald region of Germany.