Gilbert Martina

Gilbert Martina is an author, ancestral health educator and former healthcare executive from

Curaçao. For almost eight years he helped build and lead Curaçao Medical Center, guiding it

through its opening in 2019 and through the COVID pandemic. Educated in the Netherlands, he

holds a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Amsterdam and an MBA

from Webster University in Leiden.

After a personal crisis and the loss of his parents, he trained in energy medicine with Dr. Alberto

Villoldo and Marcela Lobos at the Four Winds Society and learned from Indigenous healers in the

Amazon. Today he helps people and organizations turn their wounds into sources of wisdom,

combining science, meditation, shamanism and Caribbean ancestral knowledge.

His book, Healthy Minds, Healthy Nation, became a #1 Amazon bestseller in Shamanism and won

first place in the Visionary and Metaphysical category of the 2026 Four Seasons Book Awards. He

writes about generational trauma and healing on Substack and is the founder of the upcoming

Blenchi Sanctuary in Curaçao.