The Mondido Lineage | Indigenous Faith Healers, Philippines
🌿 The Mondido Babaylan Healers: A Living Legacy of Love
By ARMHouse | 2025
✨ A Lineage of Faith Healers and Babaylan Spirit
Before modern titles or labels, there were those who listened to the land and prayed through their hands. The Mondido Lineage carried the ancient Filipino tradition of the babaylan — spiritual leaders, healers, land stewards, and protectors of balance.
Through prayer, song, and their connection to the Divine, the Mondidos healed bodies, minds, and hearts. They were known for their faith healing by bringing peace to the mind, love to the heart, and Truth to the human.
As farmers and fishers, their relationship with Nature was both livelihood and ritual. The harvest was a ceremony, the sea a teacher. Their music carried prayers to the ancestors.
🎶 The Songs That Carried the Spirit
Brittany remembers her Lolo (grandfather) would sing to her as a child — melodies that weren’t just lullabies — they were living memories of ancestral devotion. His voice carried the same current that once moved through the babaylan, echoing through generations.
Both of Brittany’s grandparents’ first names translate to “Welcome, Sister” — an ancestral greeting, an open-ARMed invitation to return home to the heart.
In the heart of Miagao, Iloilo — where the land meets the sea and songs rise with the wind — the Mondido family cultivated more than just farms, seamen and merchants. They nurtured a way of life deeply rooted in faith, healing, and service. Known throughout the generations as faith healers and merchants of light, the Mondidos woven Spirit into soil, song, and sustenance — ultimately leading Brittany to her sovereign and Spiritual path.
🕊 A Legacy of the Heart: ARM
Today, Brittany Mondido, a known fifth-generation descendant of the Mondido Lineage, continues that legacy through her company, ARMHouse Inc. — named after her father’s initials: A.R.M.
Her father embodied the quiet, steadfast love of the healer although wouldn’t label or see himself as one— Brittany did. He raised Brittany, cared for all of the women in the family, and supported both the matriarchal and paternal lines — without ever naming himself a healer. Yet, his life mirrored the very essence of one: service, compassion, and protection of the love and land.
Through him, Brittany carries forward the ARM legacy — a lineage of healing, heart, and humanity — bridging the old ways with new expressions of consciousness, creativity, and community establishing new (yet ancient) ways of life, love and leading.
🌸 Honoring the Healer Within
Although Brittany does not place herself as a healer, she honors her linage of indigenous healers and connects with them as standing guides on her path. She is a devotee to Truth, to Love, to the hearts of humanity. She studies the mind (suffering, ego) and the heart (Love, Truth) and, by lived experience, has stories and teachings that have become catalysts for others paths.
This is more than heritage.
It’s a return home— to where the heart is-
