by Pallah Baker, Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange Director of Operations Enrique, the elder “Onanya” (shaman in Shipibo), helps clear the area for building a perimeter fence around the medicine garden at
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Kurin Metsa School Interview With Senior Apprentice, Edith Maribel Murayari Flores
by Mary Olivar, Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange Board Member This is the third part in a series of articles featuring the students of the Kurin Metsa School of Shamanism in
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The Purifying Power of Siete Montes
by Christopher Casillas, CSEE Board Member Last year, you learned how The Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange, CSEE is Supporting Traditional Maya Medicine and Spirituality through a partnership with New Mexico-based, nonprofit,
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A Kurin Metsa Student Interview With Juan Enrique
by Mary Olivar, Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange Board Member This is the second part of a series featuring the students of the Kurin Metsa School of Shamanism in Peru near
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The Tradition of Making Uweni and Itsi
Text, photographs, and illustrations by Totupica Candelario English translation and plant species identification by Humberto Fernández, Conservación Humana AC Introduction by Patricia Liles, CSEE Board Member “The Center for
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A Kurin Metsa Student Interview With Joel Romario
by Mary Olivar, Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange Board Member Welcome to the first part of a series featuring the students of the Kurin Metsa School of Shamanism in Peru near
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Supporting Traditional Maya Medicine and Spirituality
by Christopher Casillas, CSEE Board Member Recently, CSEE partnered with New Mexico based nonprofit, Saq’ Be’ to support Mayans in Chichicastenango, Guatemala. For over 20 years, Saq’ Be’ has worked to advance Mayan
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Maya Spring Equinox Message
by, Denise Barrios, Maya Spiritual Guide In the Maya tradition rites and ceremonies are inextricably linked to the forces of the Universe and Mother Earth, to sacred numbers and energies, to the solar
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Creation of the Harianaka Xiriki of Las Latas
Texts and photos by Totupica Candelario (translated by Daniela Guraieb, notes by Humberto Fernández – CHAC) Harianaka. In the language of the ancestors, it means “Moon”. [Whereas its common name in Wixárika (Huichol)
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The Cochiti Drum
Interview with Eagle Herrera born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised on the Cochiti Pueblo reservation, Gilbert “Eagle” Herrera has 35 years of drum making experience. The fourth-generation drum maker learned the art process
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