It is important that our project is guided by the principles of these tribes, and we actively bring in Elders for wisdom exchange around stewardship practices.
This creates a mutually beneficial symbiosis where we support Indigenous communities through spreading their message, returning plants to them and providing platforms for financial growth.
Bringing them to our center helps us to stay aligned to the traditions living within the plants. It allows us to bring our stewardship to a more whole level that's not limited to just botanical preservation but also wisdom integration.
This creates a mutually beneficial symbiosis where we support Indigenous communities through spreading their message, returning plants to them and providing platforms for financial growth.
Bringing them to our center helps us to stay aligned to the traditions living within the plants. It allows us to bring our stewardship to a more whole level that's not limited to just botanical preservation but also wisdom integration.
Kalpulli Ome Tlanezi
The Kalpulli is a community, a family, and an ancestral institution that brings together indigenous men and women to assist people and carry forth the ancestral traditions passed down from their Abuelos.
Here we follow their teachings on traditional Mexica's Temazcal and their ceremonies.
It is very important for us to keep this relationship and always find a way to bring the Elders here on site, to share this great wisdom with our community.
In March we participate together at Envision Festival, hosting the Sacred Fire through the week.
The Living Library has collaborated with the Kalpully Ometlanezi in various occasion and keep supporting their community throughout time.
In July, every year, we will fly to Mexico and support their Sun Dance, an indigenous Ceremony, where we will help building and the 4 days of the Dance.
(Contact us if you like to know more about the Sun Dance and would like to make a petition for being part of our team.)
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Abuelo Noé Campos YohualtochtliAbuelo de Tradición - Ome TlaneziAbuelo Conejo is not only a powerful Healer and Indigenous Elder but also holds a PHD in Anthropology with focus on Indigenous studies. He is the tip of the arrow for the Ome Tlanezi community serving the Danza del Sol, as well as a Traditional Medic and Temazcaltiani (Temaazcal Master) with more than 26 years of offering as Sun Dancer.
He has been an adviser in the Commission of Indigenous Affairs of the Senate of the Republic. He collaborated in the realization of the State Law of Traditional Indigenous Medicine in Hidalgo. He made the first temazcal open to the public, in addition to creating the 24-hour temazcal. He conducted research on the training of the traditional doctor and the scientific nature of ancestral therapeutic practices. He is a man of great wisdom, that for many years now has collaborated with the Living Library and especially with its founder Christopher Norris, giving him the right to serve Temazcal with the name of Temazcalero. |
Boruca
Boruca is an indigenous community, also called Brunka o Brun̈cájc, belonging to the Boruca village in Costa Rica, in the Buenos Aires Canton (Puntarena region).
They are attempting to preserve their ancestral traditions via art, ceremonies, tales, and all wisdom passed down from the elders.
The most well-known customs are Boruca's Masks and "la Fiesta de los Diablitos."
They link to the mystique of Nature through the Mask, and during this Festival, they celebrate their victory against the conqueror. The Boruca were, in fact, the only indigenous tribe to defeat the Spanish colonizer.
Boruca Costa Rica | Cultura y Tradiciones Indígenas (ranchobrugra.com)
Boruca is an indigenous community, also called Brunka o Brun̈cájc, belonging to the Boruca village in Costa Rica, in the Buenos Aires Canton (Puntarena region).
They are attempting to preserve their ancestral traditions via art, ceremonies, tales, and all wisdom passed down from the elders.
The most well-known customs are Boruca's Masks and "la Fiesta de los Diablitos."
They link to the mystique of Nature through the Mask, and during this Festival, they celebrate their victory against the conqueror. The Boruca were, in fact, the only indigenous tribe to defeat the Spanish colonizer.
Boruca Costa Rica | Cultura y Tradiciones Indígenas (ranchobrugra.com)
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Don Ulises Lazaro MoralesBoruca ElderDon Ulises was born in the Boruca indigenous territory where he has been an artisan for more than 4 decades. As well as 7 years working tourism on his farm located in the Boruca indigenous territory, with cultural and ecological activities in sacred places.
Realizing that his community was losing spiritual depth and contact with nature, he decided to build and turn the Cosmic Ranch into a sacred place where people can gather to raise awareness about the spiritual practices of the ancestors. Don Ulises is a man of great heart and wisdom, and we are honored to share with him, his wife Lourdes and the Boruca community, the Sacred Fire at Envision Festival, here in Costa Rica. |