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
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.
