About ZULMA REYO
“I often dream of a better world. Such a world is not possible without personal transformation”
- Zulma Reyo
Zulma is an educator, writer and speaker who has developed and taught her life’s work globally. After traditional university study, she explored various psychotherapies, world religions, mystical traditions, and energetic practices, culminating in what has become her teaching, ‘Inner Alchemy’.
Zulma was born to Puerto Rican parents in 1943 in New York. Her roots bequeathed her a Latin heritage and character, while her exposure to North American and European cultures helped to shape her intellect. She studied Humanities at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, completed a BA in Romance Languages, and an MA in Education at New York University, and went on to post-graduate studies in psychology and counselling at San Fernando Valley State College in California.
In the California environment of the ‘60s and ‘70s, she embraced emerging New Age practices and psychological developments such as training under Arthur Janov at the LA Primal Institute. Zulma’s inner drive to explore the roots of the human being on all levels led her from the Americas to Europe, to India, South America, and finally back to Europe to cross paths with different teachers and to be initiated in various traditions. She was surrounded by Eastern and Western ancient wisdom and engaged in multiple psychotherapies: Gestalt, psychosynthesis, bioenergetics, energy balancing, polarity, regression, and psychic arts, among others. On the inner front, she immersed herself in world religions, meditation, and healing methods: Esoteric Christianity, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Zen, Buddhism, Sufism, Taoism, Tantra, and Western philosophies, esoteric science, occultism, and parapsychology.
With the goal of not just reaching but teaching people about themselves and how to manage the human instrument, she founded the Inner Alchemy School of Consciousness in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and finally, in its fullness, most recently in Spain.
Zulma has spent almost four decades of her life dedicated to teaching, writing, training, workshops, and conferences.
The purpose of her life has been to advocate for personal transformation as a way of securing social and world change, while training people to master the path of Inner Alchemy that leads to fullness, success and realisation in daily life.
Zulma Reyo’s concern now is to help people understand themselves and the world we live in, personally, intimately, humanely. This is the purpose of this current website.
Professional History
1994 – Beginning of the expansion of the School of Consciousness to the European continent with the publication of the Inner Alchemy books in Europe. Workshops, seminars, trainings, international congresses.
2000 – The emergence of the Inner Alchemy Centre in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
2005 – 2014 – Spiritual coaching, tutorials, intensive individual and group training programmes with multi-lingual groups. Conferences and retreats. Mallorca.
2011 – Publication of “The Inner Woman” / “La Mujer Interior” (Spain)/ “La Inteligencia Femenina” (Mexico) with focus on Inner Alchemy training for women.
2014-2020 – Expansion of Inner Alchemy in South America: Argentina, Paraguay, and continuing work in Brazil.
2020-2023 – Expansion into the Zulma Reyo School of Consciousness in Mallorca.
2026- Closure of the school in Mallorca and transfer of headquarters to South America (Asunción) in connection with an emerging team of multilingual English-Spanish-Portuguese teachers of Inner Alchemy in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.
1967-1970 – The Primal Institute of Los Angeles. Trainee under Dr. Arthur Janov.
1970-1973 – Private Primal Therapy practice in London, U.K.
1973-1982 –India. Lecturer, Group leader, Teacher for ISABS and Tata Management Training Centre. Meditation and oriental philosophy researcher.
1982-1987 – Private Practice, California and New York. Co-hostess of “Dimensions in Parapsychology” for New York City’s Manhattan Cable TV, a New York cable television programme consisting of dialogues with world-known researchers, writers, parapsychologists and artists in all fields of human endeavour. Onset of the Inner Alchemy School in New York.
1987-1994 – Lectures, seminars, conferences, workshops and training programs in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Paraguay. The founding and expansion of the Centre for Inner Alchemy in São Paulo, Brazil.
1989-2000 – Founding of The Inner Alchemy University of Consciousness (U.N.I.C.A.) in São Paulo, Brazil, with training in five disciplines: philosophy, the psychology of consciousness, human energetic systems, meditation, and human relations.