You know food matters. You feel it when you eat something real, made con amor, something your abuela would recognize.
And you have also felt the opposite — the brain fog, the fatigue, the inflammation, that comes from food that was not.
Raíces Mágicas exists for the moment you are called to do something about it. Not through a diet. Not through restriction.
Through remembering. Through expansion. Through reflection.
Welcome to Raíces Mágicas.
Here you will find a community, a practice, and a guide who has walked this path — and healed her own body in the process.
Three Pillars
Conscious Eating
Learn what real food is, how to choose it, and how to build a practice that sustains — not restricts.
Ancestral Roots
Reconnect to the foods, remedios, and rituals your abuela carried long before colonization disrupted the table.
Magical Community
Find your circle — mujeres who are doing this work with you, to uplift and inspire each other.
Your Guide
Berenis Vargas Luna, Plant-based Chef, Conscious Eating Guide,
Co-Founder of El Hongo Mágico. First Gen and proud Chicana from Chicago
I reversed my own diabetes moving from an A1C of 9.3 to 4.3 in one year. My partner healed symptoms from diverticulitis that removed the need for surgery. We did it with plants, intention, and connecting to the ancestral wisdom that had been in our family all along — with real food that our abuelas knew.
That experience helped me awaken to the relationship I had with food. Not just what I eat, but how I understand my body, my cultura, and my responsibility to my care of self.
I am co-founder of El Hongo Mágico, where that same love of plants and healing lives in every dish. Raíces Mágicas is the place where I can guide mujeres through the same transformation and connection to food as medicine.
How we work together
Virtual and in-person
Learn to cook ancestral and whole food recipes with intention — one plate at a time.
Free Guide
A guide to conscious eating rooted in ancestral wisdom and food as medicine.
6-Month Cohort
A guided journey for mujeres ready to change their relationship with food — for life. Next cohort forming now.
“For the first time, I feel at peace with what I eat. I'm not following rules — I'm listening to my own body. That’s something I’m learning to do.
— Current ClientStart here with a free guide.
Embracing Conscious Eating is the guide I wish I had when I started this journey.
Inside: what conscious eating actually means, food as medicine in plain language, and whole-food recipes to begin with.