Ixtoii Paloma Cervantes is a Curandera and an abuela de tradicion (elder that teaches Curanderismo). She was born and raised in northern Mexico around Curanderismo and has worked as a Curandera since the 1980s. She spent most of her early life in the Yucatan Peninsula, then left in the 1990s and lived in Europe and the United States. She currently lives near Fresno, California and has her own business, the Ixtoii Institute of Shamanism and Curanderismo.