Connection is everything.
Who is Tiawi?
Larissa Lambrou
Tiawi, a dream born and developed in Baja California by Larissa Lambrou, a gringa from San Diego who fell in love with her neighboring country, Mexico. While Larissa feels blessed to have grown up in a safe, beautiful place, she always craved something different, something raw, exciting, soulful, and rooted in meaningful traditions. She followed her passions surfing and later fishing and spearfishing to many places around the world, but nowhere, including where she grew up, felt quite like home the way Mexico does to her.
What started as a trial moving to Rosarito for emptier beaches, waves and affordable coastal living transformed into almost a decade long journey of self-development and following divine guidance towards spiritual and holistic healing. Through the incredible woven web of community, Larissa explored yoga retreats, breathwork, cold plunges, micro-dosing psilocybin, sound healing, temazcales (traditional Native American sweat lodges), sacred prayer dances, like the Danza de Luna, and various plant medicines, such as, rapé, hikuri, ayahuasca, and yagé ceremonies.
All a part of this transition, Larissa completed yoga teacher training and became a certified EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) practitioner.
Coming from a background of bartending for many years in San Diego, crossing the border whilst living in Mexico, she assumed the role of a woman balancing between two very different worlds in more than one sense. The bar industry no long felt in alignment with her unshakable will to continue deeper down this medicine path, but it also allowed her to bridge the gap between those “connected” to that world and those not, with hopes of making this healing route more approachable and accessible for all.
Larissa is embracing her true pleasures in hospitality by hosting intentional gatherings, sharing delicious and nourishing food together, making connections and helping encourage and inspire others on their healing path through openness, vulnerability, community, and music.
She wholeheartedly believes that while there are many ways to go about it, doing this self work is what we came here to do. Each soul’s work is unique, but simply put, it is our purpose to do it so that we may step into our best versions and highest power. Larissa feels that support and community is the magic key to success.
Tiawi, or properly spelled “tiahui”, comes from the Nahuatl language signifying, “moving forward”. It is used as a term of encouragement amongst groups to keep going with enthusiasm and strength.