Mãe Adriana is a spiritual healer and medium. She began her spiritual path in childhood, raised in a Catholic family and drawn early to the writings of Allan Kardec and related works on Spiritism and mediumship. Her own mediumistic gifts became clearly active around the age of 32, when she was invited to join a Kardecist Spiritist centre in Rio de Janeiro, where she received structured training in psychic and healing work.
In 2019, after initiation into the West African Ifá tradition and a clear spiritual calling towards Umbanda, Adriana took on the role of Mãe Pequena at Centro Espírita Casa de Cura, and she now serves as its spiritual director. At Casa de Cura she works closely with her principal spirit guide, the spiritual doctor Dr Samir, in a dedicated healing room focused on spiritual therapy and psychic surgery, understood as an entirely non‑invasive, energetic form of treatment. She also leads Umbanda giras with the different spirit lines that serve the house, including doctors, caboclos, pretos‑velhos and Exus, facilitating both individual and collective healing.
Since 2022, Mãe Adriana has been developing and guiding Ayahuasca ceremonies within the consecrated space of Casa de Cura, where she weaves together traditional Umbanda, neo‑shamanic practices, modern witchcraft and work with stellar/spirit allies into a coherent, carefully held healing framework. Her ceremonies are designed to honour the Orixás and the Umbanda current while integrating visionary plant work in a grounded, ethically responsible way.
Casa de Cura, the centre she leads in Rio de Janeiro, is an Umbandista spiritual house dedicated to spiritual development and to physical, emotional and spiritual healing, rooted in the principles of charity, service and the practical application of spiritual care. As a visiting healer and medium at the College, Mãe Adriana brings this unique synthesis of traditional Umbanda, Ifá wisdom and contemporary healing arts to support deep, yet safely held, transformational work.