She learned her healing skills from her father and other relatives. Amy also has incorporated the practices of the Tagalog community, as well as what she has heard from mass media in the use of some medicinal plants. Her experience as a healer and as a person has also been enhanced by her experience in the Bicol region where she made ?layas? for 16 years. Her knowledge and practices on healing may have been influenced by many factors, but her foundational beliefs and skills may be traced to her ancestors where she learned by watching from her relative healers.