GABRIELA GUTIERREZ
Writer, poet, ritualist, beekeeper and scholar of mythology and the history of religion.
Gabriela’s work is focused on the revival of ancient knowledge, and her research excavates the animistic, once-universal worldview before religion became institutionalised.
Born in Spain to a Welsh mother and Spanish father, Gabriela had an unusual childhood, raised in movement. She is a polyglot speaking English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, basic Arabic, Farsi and Serbian.
Gabriela studied the Middle East with a focus on Anthropology, Islamic Mysticism and Sufi poetry at SOAS University, London. From 2009-2012 she worked as a human right's defender in Ghana, Palestine, Bolivia and with Tibetan ex-political prisoners in the Himalayas. In 2012 she lived and studied with renunciant Jain nuns in the Rajasthani desert. She then trained extensively with shamans in Bolivia, Peru and the UK before completing a master’s degree with a first-class thesis in the Poetics of Imagination with mythologist Dr. Martin Shaw, poet Alice Oswald and historical fiction writer Tracey Warr (2022). Her poetry has been published by Clarion Poetry Magazine.
Gabriela holds online courses including “The Bee Priestesses” “When Woman Were Shamans” & has a top rated Substack called “Under A Fig Tree”.
She is currently writing her first book about the Melissae, ancient bee priestesses.
https://www.gabrielamairgutierrez.com