An Intimate Audience with Hopi Elder
Ruben Saufkie
Ceremony with The White Buffalo Dancers


Saturday, January 16, 2010 beginning at 3:00pm in Santa Barbara, CA


















A Day of Chumash Wisdom


Arroyo Hondo Preserve, Santa Barbara, CA
10:00 AM to 4:00PM, October 10, 2009 Bring your lunch

Experience a day of Chumash Wisdom: Cecilia Garcia and James D. Adams, Jr. lead a journey to the medicine of plants, share in songs, ceremony and storytelling with Art Cisneros, Tautahcho Muhuawit and Ted Garcia.

Cecilia and James, Authors of "Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West" will offer an in depth teaching of specific plant uses and a short discovery hike through Arroyo Hondo Preserve just North of Santa Barbara, California. Cecilia A. Garcia is one of, if not the last of the Chumash Medicine Women in the world. She comes from a pure ancestry of the Chumash lineage. She was trained by her grandparents in secret who were both Chumash Medicine People.

Cecilia has also offered to do up to 4 private healing sessions during her stay. These will last from 2 and 1/2 hours to 3 hours. She offers a sliding scale but desires $250 for these sessions. She also offers group sessions for small numbers 2 to 6 people and it must be an even number. Contact pati@sacredearthfound.org to schedule an appointment for the October 9th or 11th.

Cecilia Garcia and Dr. James Adams, a Professor of Pharmaceutical Drugs at USC. have collaborated on their book in order to preserve the knowledge of healing with indigenous plants. Cecilia is one of the few who are stepping forth to share knowledge of their culture & of the native healing plants that grow in the Santa Barbara area.






The day will begin with ceremony, song and storytelling. Art Cisneros, Chumash firekeeper will lead us in ceremony along with Tautahcho Muhuawit and Ted Garcia.






Ted Garcia is a premier artist of Soap stone sculpture and a Storyteller.








Melting the Ice in the Heart of Man

Santa Barbara March 13-15, 2009. This was a journey to the Immensity Within with Angaangaq. Angaangaq is an Eskimo-Kalaallit Elder whose family belongs to the traditional healers of the Far North from Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenland. His name means “the man who looks like his uncle”.

Tierra Sagrada, The Sacred Earth Foundation has hosted Angaangaq in Santa Barbara on 3 different occasions. In March of 2007,October 2008 and March of 2009. In every instance we have been overwhelmed with the magnitude of transformation we witnessed in participants of his powerful workshops. We were witness to a growing community of open hearts as he lead us on a journey to a renewed space of hope, joy and wonder.


The time has come to unite our voices and our hearts, to walk our spiritual paths with practical feet, to restore the balance that’s been missing on the earth.

Journey Through Thwaasa

2 times per year we host Sangoma, Alyson LeBlanc "Freddie"in the Santa Barbara area. Through the ancient tradition from South Africa, known as Throwing the Bones,she offers intense 'downloads' of information from the ancestors and guides. Through this form of divination on the basis of the bone reading's, you gain insight towards solutions for your life issues and tools to find opportunities to look deeply into directing your own lives towards positive growth and experiences.











We also hosted the Sayaka Inka in Malibu, Ojai and Santa Barbara September, 2009

Click here to see a beautiful film of them on Youtube

This was an opportunity to explore the beauty of their open hearts and sacred music.

Tierra Sagrada, The Sacred Earth Foundation was honored to host the beautiful family of the Sayaka Inka Cultural Group to our communities. We continued our journey to remembering: the powers of our prayers, our intentions,to remembering all our relations and the need to hold them sacredly. This was an opportunity to renew your sense of wonder.


The Sayaka Inka Cultural Group are descendants from the Sayaka Inka Village in Puno Peru, near the sacred Lake Titicaca. They came to the United States to fulfill a 500 year old prophecy of their people; the Condor would reunite with the Eagle.





Fire and Ice photosFire and Ice

Tierra Sagrada, The Sacred Earth Foundation helped to support the manifestation of "The Sacred Fire Ceremony in Greenland" this ceremony united indigenous people, leading scientists and innovative leaders from around the world, bringing together Spirit and Science as we addressed the Melting of the Big Ice in an event of global magnitude.

In the winter of 1963 two young Eskimo-Kalaallit men went hunting and came to the big ice to do their ceremony. They discovered water trickling from the great wall. They returned to their village and told their elders what they had seen. The Elders sent a runner, Angaangaq, to tell the world the ice was melting.

This gathering fulfilled the prophesy of the people on top of the world. Centuries ago, the big ice swallowed the trees and only animal fat remained as fuel for the fire. As the ice melts, trees are once again reappearing in Greenland. The prophesy said "when the people need it the most, the sacred fire will return to Greenland... We have witnessed the completion of this prophesy with hearts filled with love and a deeper understanding of our shifting Mother Earth.

click this photo for a beautiful album of this event created by Sven Nieder

In harmony with the Greenland event, fires were held at private locations around the globe where ceremony and prayer coincided with those taking place in Greenland.

Sacred Mayan wisdom for the Shift of the ages 2012



JOB NOJ CHOMIHA
The Coyote Woman Rosa Maria Cabrera Mayan Spiritual Guide Healer and Daykeeper

She was initiated into Mayan Sacred Rites over 11 years under the Direct guidance of Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj (The Wandering Wolf) And is featured in the upcoming film The Shift of the Ages

Share in this great opportunity February 22-24, 2008
9 A.M. - 5 P.M.
Based on the 20 day cycle of the Mayan Calendar, the spiritual elders create the fire ceremony offering gratitude and prayer appropriate for the energy of each day.

Learn the true traditions of this native time keeping wisdom that guides and controls the destiny of all life in the physical and spiritual dimensions. JOB NOJ CHOMIHA comes to teach us the 20 energies of the Sacred T’ZOLKIN. Learn to respectfully and actively participate in the fire ceremony. Understand the powers of your Nawales and greater spiritual awareness of your Divine inner being.
Astral Mayan Charts (reading of the soul) are also offered




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Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez, Oxlaj, (Wandering Wolf)
Eliabeth Araulo and Rosa Maria Cabrera
(Don Alejandro is President of the Guatemala Council of Mayan Elders whose life story and teachings are featured in "The Shift of the Ages" a P-Qubd Production scheduled for release later this year.)


Also view select Scenes from The Shift of the Ages
Seating is limited, Reserve your space


More details are in the flyer.
This event happened at both Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara California and at the Ojai Retreat Center in Ojai California.

"Positive Purpose Night" Base Ball Game

Lake Elsinore - Storm vs Inland Empire
Select scenes from The Shift of the Ages will be presented

Ecumenial Worship Experience

A warm Embrace of All World Faiths
Hear the voice, Feel the heart, Ponder the Mayan Message



What is Elderwise?



Since ancient times, human kind has gathered around a fire for celebration, illumination, joy and community. Within those communities there were rich contributions derived from our elders. Their knowledge and wisdom was revered. In our rapidly moving universe, have we forgotten to honor those who have come before us, those who have seen the dynamics of change over decades?

Elderwise is a three hour retreat offering a safe harbor to invite out elders to come to the fire; to share their rich experiences, their joy and their sorrows. It is an opportunity for those whose lives have been touched softly by another to express gratitude.

Bring someone you love or just come and hear the songs of wisdom. If you are an Elder and feeling forgotten. We are here to tell you that we see you and we see the wisdom and the light in you.

Come to Elderwise

Let us honor you for the journey you have made and for the journeys still to come.

Meet others who may fill the void in your heart left by friends no longer around. Share in the knowledge of the contributions you know you can offer to your families, friends and community.

If you are feeling empowered, bring us your power to help those who have lost touch with their own. Let us bring you back home to the source of love, honoring, to the source of the dreams you still dream ...

Experience guided visualizations, the warmth of a fire, the community of counsel circle and the laughter that comes with living in a moment of magic.

We have only begun operations this year and already we have provided support to a rural Mayan community living in the forests of Quintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The Mayans living outside of the cities have been impacted by the tourism and shops within the city. By purchasing the incredible art and hand-made clothing from individual families, we have, in some cases, provided them with their only income for the entire month.

Our vision is to provide a means for creating safe water supplies to villages in need, provide livestock to pastoralist communities, food in times of drought and where crops have failed, education to those communities who desire that opportunity.

It’s time to ask not “what can we teach the people of ancient wisdoms?” but “what can they teach us?”