Please support this special event offered by our friends a La Ofrenda Fest!
Cacao: NANA MARINA CRUZ from Guatemala.
Art Activity: MAU GARCIA from Mexico
Flute: Gera Clark
Eventbrite Tickets: Donation $55: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/292855908907, limited capacity
Refreshments by PA QUE YOBA @paqueyoba
For more than 5,000 years, the Mayan and Aztec indigenous communities have known Cacao as a sacred medicine. Today, the Cacao Circles are rituals dedicated to personal renewal and expansion. Cacao is considered "the drink and seed of the offerings" for its components and benefits, giving you the tools to find your inner healing and clarity. the Ofrenda Fest’s special guest Nana Marina Cruz will guide us in an exploration from the Mayan Cosmo- vision and ancestral medicine.
Nana Marina Cruz
is a healer from the Tz ́utujil Tribe, and is a spiritual guide of the old traditions. She is the daughter of Tata Pedro & works not just as a healer and therapist with natural folk methods, but as a ceremonial leader of fire, tobacco, cacao and sweat lodge, and teaches native Mayan languages. She is a ceremonial leader and conducts fire and cacao ceremonies and is a teacher of the Mayan calendar and the Mayan cosmic vision. She emphasizes the importance of being truly connected in body and spirit. She believes that everything has a meaning, everything has an origin, every emotion, every disease has an origin. By finding the origin, you can truly heal the spirit and body. Focusing on the wisdom of our ancestors, a balance can be found. Traditional medicine is to listen, to speak, not to simply “take”. An example of traditional medicine is the use of tobacco. Using tobacco connects us to the cosmos, to the creator, the great Ahau. We are offering for our health, or emotions, our lives and everything, but we are also healing like our ancestors did. When we drink cacao, it is not only the drink but the seeds have a different function to heal.
Mau García
Mauricio García Pineda is a cacao ceremonialist , natural healer specialist in Herbalism, shamanism and traditional Indigenous medicine. He has been trained under the tutelage of Shamans in ancient techniques in Mexico, Peru, Brasil, India, Nepal, Japan and Guatemala . He has led to formative experiences with different native communities such as Mayan elders, Amazonian Shipibo, Wixaricas ,Zapotecas Elders among others, from whom he learned their traditions, cosmovision and natural medicine. His constant study of personal development and evolution have led him to deepen techniques with guides , the last 10 years he has developed as an instructor in Meditation , Shamanism, Phytomedicine, Oracle and Tarot readings , Gemmotherapy, Energetic Cleansing, Tameana , Reiki, and Deeksha Giver . In a simple and harmonious way, it allows each participant, student or consultant to achieve their healing or learning process, balancing the desire and soul mission from daily doing, expanding in resonance with their own and planetary vibration frequency. Through the care over time of numerous consultants and traveling with them ailments . He has been working with alchemy and plants circles and teachings also for cacao ceremonialist and lunar Alchemy certifications lately .Founder of Cacao Ábrete Corazon , and cacao and traditional medicine guardian .
@mauriciogpineda @cacaoabretecorazon
Gera Clark
Gera is a Spiritual Coach and RN who is invoking the knowledge gained from her shamanic journey, yoga, herbalism, stone medicine, and essential oils. She will guide you while transforming your energy, creating sound pictures that will send healing power deep into your body. A healer, RN, & energy worker, she uses her breath and the beautiful music of her Native American flutes. Her experience has brought her journey to you today and she invites you to "breathe & let go." https://www.geraclark.com/
Production and Director of programming: America Maldonado
Production and Art Curator: Alexandra Alvarez
Sponsors and Assistant Curator: Reinaldo Castro
Consultant Assistant: Rebecca Hansen