Bixku Huni Kuin
Huni Kuin - Brazil

Bixku will share the timeless narrative of Nixipae (Ayahuasca), a tale that transcends generations and embodies the ancestral lineage of the Huni Kuin people. Learn about the essence of Huni Kuin spirituality as Bixku shares the profound significance of the Dua Buse story, intricately woven into the Huni Kuin culture.

Chenoa Egawa
Coast Salish - United States

We know well that all beings are completely interconnected and interdependent. We are all related. We are all part of Nature. Our words, actions, and even our inner most private thoughts and intentions, ripple out like endless waves contributing to the whole of Creation in a positive or negative way. How can we bring greater positivity, awareness, hope and service to our shared world - locally, regionally, nationally and globally?

Chenoa will share songs, stories and teachings to address these subjects.

Chenoa Egawa
Coast Salish - United States

Water holds the power and memory of all Creation from the beginning of time. Water is one of our number one healers, and essential for all life to thrive in health and vitality. When we learn more about the pathways of water we can begin to understand where we, as human beings, have gone wrong and what we can do to begin to come back into harmony with the Natural world. How can we better understand, honor, respect and care for the miraculous spirit of Water? How do we heal our relationship to Water?

Through songs, stories and prayer, Chenoa will share teachings of the spirit of Water, highlighting its brilliance, beauty, wisdom, grace and generosity.

Chenoa Egawa
Coast Salish - United States

Experience the revitalizing power of Qi Gong, an ancient Chinese practice blending gentle movements, focused breathing, and mindfulness. Enhance your well-being as you harmonize your body's energy flow, fostering balance, strength, and inner peace.

Chenoa Egawa is a certified Teacher of the Ling Gui International Healing Qigong School. She brings passion and postivity to her work, and shares life changing wisdom through the 5000+ year old practice of Qigong. As a coast Salish woman of the Lummi and S’Klallam Nations, she also shares important ancestral teachings from her family.

Chiffon Lark
Apache - United States

Opening Ceremony.

Introduction, History, prayer and performance with traditional song.

Chiffon Lark
Apache - United States

The Resilience and Rise of the Sacred Feminine. Chiffon will share who Changing Woman/White Shell Woman is to the Apache people with a traditional story and how it correlates with our contemporary setting in the modern age. At the end of the oral presentation, Chiffon will ask all the women people to create a circle and all the men people to stand in a circle behind them and extend hands towards the women in the center to reframe the sacred masculine’s role in support and protection of the feminine.

Chiffon Lark
Apache - United States

Chiffon will share an oral presentation of how traditional teachings can serve as relevant instructions for humanity and how important this time is for the trajectory of our people. *our people is a term used to identify all living beings, including Earth. Includes Q&A.

Chiffon Lark
Apache - United States

Chiffon is able to share the Apache lore about how Fire came to be. Can share teachings about Trees and teach a traditional song that can be sung to trees by holding hands or standing in a circle around the trees after learning this simple song. Adults and children are welcome. Includes Q&A.

Grandmother Clara Soaring Hawk
Ramapough Lenape - United States

Understand the properties and learn how to respectfully use three of the most important sacred plants for the Native Americans.

Grandmother Clara Soaring Hawk
Ramapough Lenape - United States

More info coming soon.

Grandmother Clara Soaring Hawk
Ramapough Lenape

More info coming soon.

Chief Edina & Mukany Shanenawa
Shanenawa - Brazil

Teachings about womanhood and Sitz baths for womb healing. Please wear long skirt / sarong towel to cover yourself while sitting on a bowl for yoni steaming.

Chief Edina & Mukany Shanenawa
Shanenawa - Brazil

Calling in spirits using sacred movement, chants, and maracá, Chief Edina and Mukany will open a space for healing for all participants.

Chief Edina & Mukany Shanenawa
Shanenawa - Brazil

Chief Edina and Mukany will invoke the spirits of the forest and of the sacred waters through their ancestral chants and share healing energy with the participants through the blessed waters.

Gaston Jean-Baptiste (Bonga)
Haiti

Bonga will lead a traditional Vodun ceremony, a profound spiritual encountered deeply entrenched in Afro-Caribbean traditions. This sacred ceremony aims at fostering connections with spirits, ancestors, and deities for purposes of healing, protection, and guidance. Bonga will demystify the term "voodoo," revealing its true essence as "Vodun," a nuanced divination system intertwined with a traditional way of life.

Gaston Jean-Baptiste (Bonga)
Haiti

Percussion technique, hand and stick drumming, Afro-Haitian rhythms, melodies, and dances are presented in a dynamic workshop setting with Bonga, a skilled educator and master of the Haitian drum. Through demonstration, hands-on participation, and practice students learn rhythms, songs, and dances from Haiti.

Students are taught Afro-Haitian drum patterns and traditional drumming techniques that encourage proper placement of hands on drum.

Gaston Jean-Baptiste (Bonga)
Haiti

Bonga, a master of the Afro-Haitian drum, will delve into the spiritual significance and intricate craftsmanship of this traditional instrument. He is one of the rare drum experts and craftsmen outside of Haiti who still builds drums using ancient techniques, sharing about the types of trees, skins, and other materials essential to this timeless art. Exploring how the drum is crafted, baptized, and utilized as a sacred instrument, he will also discuss the profound connection between the drum and the elements of the Earth, the spirits resonating within it, and various spiritual aspects associated with its tradition.

Rev. Hiroko Matsuda
Japan

Hiroko will share teachings about the water and offer a Shinto water purification prayer.

Rev. Hiroko Matsuda
Japan

Hiroko will share powerful and much needed teachings on how we can create peace within and manifest that out into the world.

J. Salvador Valdez Armenta (Chava)
Mayo Yoreme - Mexico

Traditional Yaqui (Yoeme) sacred deer dance, the deer is a symbol of goodness–he comes to the people and offers himself to them for their well-being.

Jerry Nelson
Diné - United States

The tipi represents our lives since the moment of birth. Each pole is a different phase of life. Jerry Nelson will explain this powerful teaching.

Sessions hosted by:

• Jerry Nelson (Diné)

• Parick Scott (Diné)

• Rupert Encinas (Tohono O'Odham)

Prayers with traditional Native American Church elements: water drum songs, cedar and tobacco medicine.

Sweat lodges, the first hospitals on Earth, offer a purification ceremony symbolizing rebirth as participants enter the womb of Mother Earth. Volcanic rocks, heated in a sacred fire, are brought in, and water is poured over them, generating pure healing oxygen. Guided by sacred songs, a portal of prayer is opened, inviting participants to connect with the elements and release all that no longer serves them.

Dress code: women please wear a mid-length or long dress or sarong (no swimwear please) & men please wear shorts.

Joe David Osage
Cheyenne - United States

Joe David will use his porcupine quill to mark the ear and give the ceremonial blessing for a piercing*. Traditionally this is done when the children are small so they can listen to their parents and keep the knowledge that is taught to them. This activity will also be done for adults.

* The piercing can be done by a professional after the Gathering

Joe David Osage
Cheyenne - United States

Cheyenne priest Joe David will call in spirits to bless participants and share with them their spiritual name through which they will be recognized in the spiritual world.

Juan De Dios Kucho
Quechu / Aymara - Peru

Traditional teachings about the plant of the coca that is considered as one of the main sacred plants for many of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Juan De Dios Kucho
Quechu / Aymara - Peru

Teachings about Machu Picchu, one of the world's most important sacred sites, and its spiritual portals.

Juan De Dios Kucho
Quechu / Aymara - Peru

Teachings about the spirits of Mother Earth and her unseen realms.

Khurelbaatar
Mongolian - Mongolia

Khurelbaatar will explain the difference between Mongolian shamanism and their powers. Originating from the indigenous peoples of Mongolia and Siberia, who first coined the term 'shaman,' practitioners enter altered states of consciousness, or trances, to communicate with spirits for healing, guidance, and protection.

Khurelbaatar
Mongolian - Mongolia

Khurelbaatar will call in the fire god in a traditional Mongolian ritual with incorporating his ancestor spirit.

Khurelbaatar
Mongolian - Mongolia

Khurelbaatar will invoke and receive his ancestor spirit, which will cleanse participants.

Mongolian - Mongolia

Khurelbaatar will invoke and receive his ancestor spirit, which will heal and bless participants.

Kumu Ramsay - Ramsay Taum
Hawaiian - United States

Engage in an interactive Q&A with Kumu Ramsay, a renowned kūpuna. From Hawaiian traditions to insightful stories, ask anything and delve into a world of wisdom and captivating narratives.

Kumu Ramsay - Ramsay Taum
Hawaiian - United States

Ho‘oponopono is a traditional process of reconciliation, forgiveness, and peacemaking that helps release, cleanse, and transmute barriers and obstacles to peace, love, and prosperity rooted in ancestral memory. Each of us has our own ‘blueprint’; our own truth. Disease, discomfort, distress, and disorder are symptoms we experience when we are no longer living according to that truth by trying to live someone else’s truth. Ho‘oponopono is the Hawaiian healing process of re-establishing balance and truth.

Kumu Ramsay - Ramsay Taum
Hawaiian - United States

LUA: The Way of the Hawaiian Warrior to Peace, Balance and Harmony

Violence is the lowest form of communication. As the Po'o (head) and Kia'i (guardian/protector) of a respected family tradition, Kumy Ramsay will reveal the guiding principles, spirit, and values of the Hawaiian Warrior that are rooted in the spirit of aloha, and the warriors way to protection, peace and mental, physical and spiritual alignment

Kumu Ramsay - Ramsay Taum
Hawaiian - United States

The 'Way of Aloha': It's an Inside Job. The spirit of ALOHA is the underlying currency of relationships in Hawaii and the Pacific. It is more than a greeting or salutation, but is a way of being that speaks to and addresses wholeness, giving and receiving. Prior to her transition, Hawaiian elder Aunty Pilahi Paki predicted that there would come at time in our life time that the island Earth would be in turmoil, dis-ease and distress, and would turn to Hawaii for healing and the cure and medicine for that would be the Spirit of ALOHA. Kumu Ramsay's work spreading, advocating and teaching AlOHA is acknowledged and recognized locally, nationally and internationally. Join us as he shares how each of us can access, share and be ALOHA.

Kumu Ramsay - Ramsay Taum
Hawaiian - United States

Ho’oponopono ancient Hawaiian forgiveness technique and self-healing practice - practical session, experience the process first hand. Ho'oponopono is one of the most effective and powerful spiritual healing techniques.

Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker
Yoeme/Apache - United States

Learn to honor death as much as we honor new life. Don't allow challenges of life to steal our heart, body, and soul but instead to embrace our journey between life and death and the preciousness of every single moment we have.

Agenda Clearing exercise. It is foundational, a way of living and dying as an Authentic Being. It is a warrior's path of being at peace and in cooperation with all.

Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker
Yoeme/Apache - United States

The prayer stick is a sacred spiritual tool created using natural elements harvested in a sacred way. These elements become allies and guides to the beholder of the stick. This will help participants deepen their spiritual practice on a daily basis.

Mamo Atilio, Mamo Cencio, Mamo Rodrigo & Zaga Josefina
Arhuaco, Kogi, Wiwa - Sierra Nevada, Colombia

The Teyuna people measure the health of a natural environment by checking the Vital Signs of the environment. When in Nature, a particular environment is healthy when the 4 Vital Signs of the Earth, in that environment, are balanced and healthy. They are the indicators in nature. They are the biological indicators of a healthy environment.

The Mamos & Zaga will do Pagamentos or ceremonies in Nature to nourish and honor these spirits. We acknowledge the work these vital elements and spirits do by doing Pagamentos for them.

Mamo Atilio, Mamo Cencio, Mamo Rodrigo & Zaga Josefina
Arhuaco, Kogi, Wiwa - Sierra Nevada, Colombia

The Teyuna people have the music and songs of our Ancestors that they play and sing. The music they play is intentional and the songs they sing have a purpose. They will be playing their ancestral music and will explain why they sing and to whom they are singing. Playing music is not only an important activity in their daily life, but is essential for the work they do, which is to sustain and care for the planet.

María Angélica Canio
Mapuche - Chile

María Angélica Llanquinao Canio will introduce herself, sharing her origins and identity as an ancestral Mapuche Machi. She will recount her beginnings, how she started her journey, and what she has become today. She will provide a brief overview of what it means to be an indigenous Mapuche Machi and the significance of this role in the spiritual world.

Following this, she will perform a rogativa (prayer) for all those present, aiming to help them spiritually, filling their souls with peace and joy, and alleviating any distress or discomfort they may be experiencing.

María Angélica Canio
Mapuche - Chile

María Angélica will perform the Pillantum, a song accompanied by traditional Mapuche musical instruments such as the cultrun, pifilca, and trutruca. The song narrates an ancient Mapuche story about a girl named Selinda who was in love. Following this, a gellipun (water ceremony) will be conducted, during which prayers will be offered, asking for each person present to achieve their goals, enjoy a good life and health, and fill their souls with positive energy.

María Angélica Canio
Mapuche - Chile

María Angélica will lead the Choique (Rhea Bird) Dance. She will accompany the dance singing and playing the cultrun and trutruca to attract good energies. Through her song, she will pray for everyone present to have a good life, for the world to have a good harvest year, and for there to be no catastrophes or environmental damage. The aim is to bring peace to the world and ensure good health and life for all.

Chief Marvin
Lakota - United States

Stories, mythologies, and wisdom from the Lakota tradition relating to the sacred directions, elements, plants, and ceremonies of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe woman and beyond.

Chief Marvin
Lakota - United States

A dive into the close relationship between the Lakota people and the Horse and Buffalo Nations of the traditional plains Native American culture.

Grandmother Mona Polacca Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa - United States

Opening ceremony.

Grandmother Mona Polacca Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa - United States

A water blessing for women and children who want to conceive.

Nana Amalia Tum Xinico
Maya Kaqchiquel - Guatemala

For women only. Teachings about the womb and its incredible physical and spiritual power in women's lives. Healing plants for womb health.

Ninawa Pai Da Mata
Huni Kuin - Brazil

Chili pepper ceremony to open the voice for singing and self expression.

Ninawa Pai Da Mata, Biruany, Bixku, and Nawá Siã Huni Kuin
Huni Kuin - Brazil

Sacred tobacco snuff from the Amazon, for healing and spiritual guidance

Hapeh is a traditional Amazonian snuff that is used to heal ailments physically, emotionally and spiritually. It is used to ground but also connect to the immaterial world.

Patrick Scott
Diné - United States

The ways prayers and songs are integrated into NAC (Native American Church) and peyote ways and the distinction of traditional Diné (Navajo) ways.

Patrick Scott
Diné - United States

More info coming soon.

Raul Milton Gonzales Barrera
Quechua - Bolivia

The ceremonies performed in the Andean world are based on the feeling of gratitude and reciprocity with nature, which is made up of

• THE ALAX PACHA intersideral world

• EL ALAJ PACHA the space that our father Sun travels

• THE AQA PACHA the surface of the Earth

• THE MANQA PACHA the underground world

Raul Milton Gonzales Barrera
Quechua - Bolivia

“Wisdom About Seeds” delves into the profound significance of seeds in our lives. Seeds, embodying feminine energy, hold the miraculous capacity to generate life, much like the nurturing role of mothers. They are fundamental to achieving food sovereignty, ensuring communities can sustain themselves independently. This activity emphasizes the importance of honoring seeds with the same reverence we show our mothers, recognizing their vital role in our survival and the preservation of our natural world.

Chief Raoni Metuktire
Kayapó - Brazil

Chief Raoni Metuktire
Kayapó - Brazil

Mama Qoya Qori Qespe Wayta
Inka - Peru

For women only. This workshop focuses on awakening the ancestral feminine essence. In this area, Mama Qori will share teachings and conduct a ceremony for women to find and discover their original seed and sacred feminine essence, enabling them to activate and awaken the inherent power within each feminine essence. Women participants will receive teachings and a ceremony dedicated to the feminine essence and seed, fostering sacred connection, aligning with the feminine order of Pachamama, and harmonizing their internal and external forces for the natural balance of their feminine being.

Mama Qoya Qori Qespe Wayta
Inka - Peru

Uyway consists of a series of ancestral teachings on how to create, nurture, educate, and care for the essence of life and everything existing in this physical world, based on different essences, worlds, forces, and realities of Being. It includes learning how to nurture one's own being and existence, as well as energies, forces, and consciousness from this sacred body, and nurturing others who need this presence and support in their lives. There are ancestral Uyway techniques and procedures for each being, each form of life, and for all, which include the ceremony of nurturing, supporting, and guiding internal and external forces and energies, as well as the sacred Being in their own world or universe.

Mama Qori & Inka T’ito
Inka - Peru

Mama Qori and Inka T’ito will teach and perform the sacred ceremony of cooperative reciprocal duality. This involves studying and practicing the origins, operations, and functions of dual forces, discovering and sustaining invisible forces in Beings and dual dimensions, and understanding the connection and strengthening of dimensional and spiritual forces in couples to create the essence and sense of unity, integration, and support in the dual path of Being. In the YANAPANAKUY ceremony, we will connect, weave, and synchronize the subtle and spiritual forces that operate, function, and interact within and between couples. This will generate and create the energy of cooperation and mutual support, true reciprocal maintenance in the dual path of Being, and the sacred and mutual interaction and interconnection that awakens, animates, revives, and gives meaning to the dual existence of couples.

Inka T’ito & Mama Qori
Inka - Peru

Inka T’ito and Mama Qori will teach, demonstrate, and conduct the ancestral ceremony of SACRED DUALITY. This ceremony aims to awaken and activate dual love and willpower in each person, integrating, uniting, channeling, and ordering the forces, spirit, and essences of the Dual Being on the Yanantin path. They will also teach a basic ritual for couples on the sacred duality path, healing wounds, cleansing harmful contaminants, and attracting and uniting sacred bonds of Munay forces, manifesting in dual sacred love.

Inka T’ito Q’osñipa Kuntur
Inka - Peru

The grand offering ceremony to spiritual, natural, cosmic, and solar deities of the four worlds and universes, and the four and seven paths. This includes the Apus (mountain spirits), Ñust’a Pachamama (female earth spirits), MachuPayaalakuna (ancestral spirits), and other sacred beings, powers, and dimensions, guiding, accompanying, healing, and protecting you on your life path. This sacred ceremony aims to create, attract, and channel well-being, your life path, health, work, family, and more. You can express your feelings and desires and honor and offer to natural, cosmic, and solar deities through the sacred altar called Willka Pacha.

Willkapicchu Ttito Kuntur & Ricardo Apaza Cruz
Inka - Peru

The sacred Inka weaving is a book of the source of life, connected to divinity and nature.

The symbols and information weaved are received through dreams, coming from the divine source and nature.

Human beings have many energetic layers, the sacred weavings have codes that open our energetic bodies and unite our bodies with the divine source of nature.

The elders say one shouldn’t wear everyday clothes we wear on the street to make offerings or be in ceremony, as the sacred weavings connect us with the law of nature so the Apus (guardian spirits) can recognize us and open energetic portals.

Willkapicchu Ttito Kuntur & Ricardo Apaza CruzInka - Peru

Ayni (reciprocity) for walking on the Earth’s sacred space.

The day we transcend our bodies returns to the heart of the Earth, she it’s our eternal home.

Everything we need in order to live comes from Mother Earth.

This is an offering to be in synch and harmony with nature and Pachamama, for all energies both positive and negative to align and respect us.

The energy of the cosmic Mother is everywhere and is the source of life, through this offering this sacred energy connects with us, it’s a reciprocity to pay for all we have in our lives. To honor and respect the sacred Apus and guardians of nature, so they can support us in everything and always open our paths.

Willkapicchu Ttito Kuntur & Ricardo Apaza CruzInka - Peru

How Hucha (negative energy) moves inside and all around us, what actions we take invite hucha into our lives.

Learn rituals to purify yourself from Hucha at home.

Willkapicchu Ttito Kuntur & Ricardo Apaza CruzInka - Peru

When someone gets scared, or lose a loved one, a part of their spirit can detach and get lost, and a negative energy can stick to it, this is where disease comes from.

This ceremony is to call the full spirit of participants back.

Rupert Encinas
Tohono O'Odham - United States

Traditional water drum and gourd sacred song circle. Rupert will teach Native American songs.

Sisiwá & Chief Ajareaty Waiãpi
Waiãpi - Brazil

The Waiãpi will perform the Tamakó Dance. This is a traditional dance where the Waiãpi are able to fool and eliminate evil spirits.

Sisiwá & Ajareaty Waiãpi
Waiãpi - Brazil

It is the main dance through which the shaman communicates with the spirits for healing.

Sisiwá & Chief Ajareaty Waiãpi
Waiãpi - Brazil

Traditional shamanic ceremonies using the spirit of the flute. The flute of love is played to fill the space and its participants with love.

Sisiwá & Chief Ajareaty Waiãpi
Waiãpi - Brazil

Traditional shamanic ceremonies using the spirit of the flute. These flutes imitate birds that are to the guardians of happiness for the Waiãpi. By using these three flutes, they will fill the space and its participants with unity, joy, and happiness.

Tata Mario Simon Ovalle Chavez & Nana Amalia Tum Xinico
Maya K’iche, Maya Kaqchiquel - Guatemala

June 15th. Maya ceremony to call in a partner or blessing existing relationships.

The elders will invoke the 20 Nahuales (every energy of the Maya calendar). Each of these Nahuales open a portal for a different aspect of healing.

Tata Mario Simon Ovalle Chavez
& Nana Amalia Tum Xinico
Maya K’iche, Maya Kaqchiquel - Guatemala

Following the Love Ceremony. A dance for couples to celebrate their love blessed by traditional Maya music to complete the Love Ceremony.

The elders will invoke the 20 Nahuales (every energy of the Maya calendar). Each of these Nahuales open a portal for a different aspect of healing.

Tata Mario Simon Ovalle Chavez
& Nana Amalia Tum Xinico
Maya K’iche, Maya Kaqchiquel - Guatemala

June 14th. Self love is sometimes one of the hardest lessons in life. Join this Maya ceremony to receive a spiritual blessing to recognize your worth, accept your weaknesses, and ignite your inner light to live in a place of peace and fulfillment.

Energy 11 Aj: The elders will invoke the 20 Nahuales (every energy of the Maya calendar). Each of these Nahuales open a powerful portal for a different aspect of healing.

Tata Mario Simon Ovalle Chavez
& Nana Amalia Tum Xinico
Maya K’iche, Maya Kaqchiquel - Guatemala

June 13th. The elders will work with healing plants, sacred smoke, and a traditional Maya fire to provide healing to participants.

Energy 10 E: They will invoke the 20 Nahuales (every energy of the Maya calendar). Each of these Nahuales open a powerful portal for a different aspect of healing.

Tata Mario Simon Ovalle Chavez
& Nana Amalia Tum Xinico
Maya K’iche, Maya Kaqchiquel - Guatemala

June 16th. Gratitude for everything that was received and blessing for every participant to continue to blossom on their journeys home.

Energy 13 Tzikin: The elders will invoke the 20 Nahuales (every energy of the Maya calendar). Each of these Nahuales open a powerful portal for a different aspect of healing.

Warren Roberts
Thunghutti / Bundjalung - Australia

Tradition aboriginal storytelling. Warren will facilitate a yarning circle with attendees of the Gathering. In doing so he will connect these many people, and their different backgrounds, by bringing them into a shared moment to inspire their capacity to listen to their inner voice and to share their true story.

Warren Roberts
Thunghutti / Bundjalung - Australia

Tradition aboriginal storytelling. Warren will facilitate a yarning circle with Elders from all over the world. He will connect these many people and cultures together by bringing them into a shared moment of cultural conversation to reflect on the shared stories of Indigenous people.

Warren Roberts
Thunghutti / Bundjalung - Australia

Tradition aboriginal storytelling. Warren will facilitate a yarning circle with male attendees of the Gathering. In doing so he will connect these men, and their different backgrounds, by bringing them into a shared moment to inspire their capacity to listen to their inner voice and to share their true story.

Zaga Josefina
Wiwa -Sierra Nevada, Colombia

The Teyuna people honor the Feminine Principle, they acknowledge that it is essential to maintain the health of our Mother, the Earth. They also acknowledge that the spiritual health of the Earth is deeply connected to the spiritual, emotional and physical health of women. Women move and behave in alignment with the rhythms of Nature. Women are natural healers and hold the keys for the Water, Earth and Air elements. The health of a woman's womb plays an important role to sustain the Planet. And for that to happen we need to heal the womb of women from trauma imprints.

Maestra Ynes Sanchez Gonzalez, Maestra Laura Lopez de Fernandes, Maestra Lila Lopez Sanchez
Shipibo - Peru

The maestras will sing Icaros and blow their sacred plant parfum to reweave participants energies into order and harmony, to extract blockages and negative energy and to facilitate deep spiritual and emotional healing.

Icaros are sacred songs used by the Shipibo people, in their traditional healing practices and ceremonies.

These songs are endowed with spiritual power. Icaros are sung by curanderos during healing sessions to call upon their plant spirit allies, to guide the journey of the participants, protect them from negative energies. Each maestro will have their own icaros, distinct and unique to the individual, received through their master plant diets - long periods spent in isolation and fasting working with specific plants. The songs are considered gifts from the plant spirits themselves.

The renowned geometric designs woven and embroidered into Shipibo artwork, are representations of the icaros as seen by the curanderos with their spirit vision in ceremony.

Maestra Ynes Sanchez Gonzalez, Maestra Laura Lopez de Fernandes, Maestra Lila Lopez Sanchez
Shipibo - Peru

The maestras will share about Mapacho, sacred Amazonian tobacco used by curanderos during ceremonies to cleanse energies, protect against negative energies and spirits, and facilitate communication with the spiritual world. Mapacho, called “romë” in Shipibo, is often smoked to carry prayers and intentions to the spirit realm, to keep the ceremony space clear of negative energies and to feed the good spirits. It serves as a powerful tool for grounding and focus, and to open up spiritual vision. The use of mapacho is deeply embedded in Shipibo cosmology, symbolizing a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds and playing a crucial role in maintaining spiritual balance and health.

The maestras will also share a tobacco blessing with participants.

Maestra Ynes Sanchez Gonzalez, Maestra Laura Lopez de Fernandes, Maestra Lila Lopez Sanchez
Shipibo - Peru

Participants will have the unique opportunity to engage with Maestra Ynez, one of the last Onayas (Shipibo healer) with her level of mastery, a living library of wisdom, alongside her daughters Laura and Lila.

We will delve into their rich traditions and spiritual practices. This session invites questions on a variety of topics, including master plant dietas, the ceremonial use and profound impact of Ayahuasca, and the vibrant symbology that permeates Shipibo art and spirituality.

Through this dialogue, participants gain invaluable insights into the cosmology of the Shipibo and the world of the teacher plants.

Sensei Zen Takai
Japan

Samurais don’t only learn sword techniques, they learn various arts, one of them is calligraphy. There are many styles, Zen Takai’s style is to express energy on paper. Understanding how energy is used and how it flows. This style of calligraphy also teaches how to make use of the blurring that appears accidentally. In order to be a master with the sword, learning calligraphy helps improve skills and the mind of a samurai.

Sensei Zen Takai
Japan

A Ninja is a spy so they need to control their mind, that’s why they use Ninja Hand Sign Technics. Our fingers have a deep relationship with our organs, when you control the finger positions, you can control the organ positions. Our organs have a deep relationship with our emotions, our minds and bodies are one, they are not separate. Learn to control your mind using your hand signs.

Sensei Zen Takai
Japan

For the samurai a sword is not just a weapon, it embodies the samurai philosophy. It is a symbol of balance, also a symbol of peace. By training with the sword, you balance yourself. Make use of it in modern times as a moving meditation .