FACILITATED BY: Aki Hirata Quetzalyolotzin Jewel Moon Medicine Woman + Madre Jaguar
EXCHANGE: $125-$225 Sliding Scale
Join us for a day retreat in August of reverence, healing, reclamation, and regeneration, honoring the land and rebuilding of vibrant communities in Los Angeles, Tongva territory. We will gather together and participate in a community alter building ceremony, learn how to transmute grief into creation to reach our highest potentials, reclaim and learn the significance of native plant medicines, create flower essences for daily use, and close with community Reiki & prayer.
This retreat will be:
A celebration of Tzolk’in Day via Mayan Calendar (Jaguar Day / Divine Feminine /Priest/Priestesshood) Mayan Calendar + Yoltzin or Yōllōtl (Beloved Heart both masculine/feminine)
A reclaim and honor the usage of native/cultural plant medicines for healing: education on the misuse of mezcal, exploitation and colonization of the plant medicine, and its misuse in the states. We will practice how to reclaim, honor, and transform mezcal’s usage in traditional Mexica ceremonies for healing / heart opening
An awakening and activation of the hearts of the Los Angeles local community. Tending to and opening our hearts so we can re-imagine and re-build together sustainably.
We will gather and begin with setting our altar and share significant items participants are invited to bring and add to the altar. Then we will perform a grief release ceremony, recalaim plant medicine and mezcal, and do a grief release.
Tentative Schedule:
12:00-1:00 Earth Alter Building (Participants are invited to bring anything of significance to them as an offering to the community and land for alter.)
1:00-3:00 Grief Release Ceremony: Recapitulation w/ Mezcal
3:00-4:00 Creative Workshop
3:00-4:00 Flower Essence Workshop (LA Native Plants)
4:00-6:00 Closing Meditation + Community Reiki + Prayer
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Aki Hirata Quetzalyolotzin Jewel Moon Medicine Woman is attuned to various energetic healing frequencies including Usui Reiki, Earth Evolution Reiki, IET, and 13th Octave LaHoChi. She is also a master teacher of Usui Reiki, co-channeller of Earth Evolution Reiki symbols, and the founder of MINKA Brooklyn. She is a moondancer, and trained under numerous teachers of ancient traditions, including Hatha yoga, pranayama and meditation (Integral Yoga Institute), Ayurvedic Nutrition (Naina Marballi), Art of Energy Healing (Suzy Mezoly), MedicineWay (Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman), Toltec Healing Practice (Sergio Magaña Ocelocoyotl), Curanderismo (Rita Navarete Prez and Tonia Gonzalez) and more.
Madre Jaguar (she/they) is an Intuitive Artist, Birth Doula, Clairvoyant Oracle, Mayan Time Keeper and Traditional Healer of Mayan, Pipil, Nahual and Garifuna descent. Born in Los Angeles, CA to Salvadoran immigrants and raised in Mexico, Madre Jaguar has always walked between the worlds. Their practice is rooted in Nature and takes inspiration from their ancestral heritage and indigenous traditions of the Americas.
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Paying it Forward
We provide most of our community offerings and private sessions by sliding scale. This is based on the idea of ‘paying it forward’ which enables more people to access healing and wellness. This works when people pay as much as they can for our offerings to help others who may be less fortunate be able to gain access, too. We believe everyone is entitled to heal and thrive, and that practitioners deserve to earn a living wage. We are all in this together and choose to do our best to take care of one another.
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