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Join us for a transformative event hosted by Heart & Mind Festival, Golden Drum, and MAISC Inc., in partnership with Solar One. This special prayer ceremony, led by Nana Marina Cruz, aims to unite us as we honor and pray for the protection of the vision, voices, actions, and sacred practices of indigenous leaders and nations worldwide. She will be joined by special guests Nathan Phillips of the Omaha Nation (USA), Gloria Ushigua of the Sapara Nation (Ecuador), and Zezinho Yube of the Huni Kuin Nation (Brazil).
We are thrilled to hold this outdoor gathering at the newly renovated Stuyvesant Cove Park. The evening will feature live acoustic music with guitar, drums, and flutes, alongside powerful prayer offerings of sacred herbs, candles, and incense. Come and share your voice and intentions and be a part of this special prayer.
Directions to Stuyvesant Cove Park: Enter at the 20th St and Ave C entrance. You can drop this pin, and walk towards the water. Note: if you put in "Stuyvesant Cove Park" to GPS you'll get to a construction site.
*Note: this is an outdoor evening event. Please bring warm clothing! Event by donation!
Nana Marina Cruz is an Ajq'ij (spiritual guide) of the Tz ́utujil People of Guatemaya. 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 temazcal. She is a teacher of the Mayan calendar and the Mayan cosmovision. She works closely with the midwives of her community to coordinate prenatal, birth, and postpartum care. She emphasizes the importance of being truly connected in body and spirit. She believes that all things have a meaning, every emotion, every disease, and that these energies all have their origin. It is by finding the origin, that we can truly heal the spirit and body.
Nathan Phillips of the Omaha Nation (USA)
Gloria Ushigua of the Sapara Nation (Ecuador)
Zezinho Yube of the Huni Kuin nation (Brazil)