2023 Tobacco Prayers & Intentions with Our Wakan Wiya Drum (Weds Jan 11)

5000 MacArthur Boulevard,Oakland CA 94613

11 January, 2023

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Tobacco Prayers & Intentions for 2023 with Our Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum Circle Weds Jan 11th * Song Practice @ 5:30 * Healing Circle @ 6:30pm Location: Mills College, Oakland (register for details & directions) This is an in-person indoor circle | All Are Welcome Our queridx Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum looks forward to more strong medicine as we build our prayer community with each song, each heartbeat joining the rest. Join us for our first drum circle of the new year at Mills College. Our protocol: Join our crew of drummers and learn together about this traditional healing and wellness way. We invite everyone to put tobacco down on the drum: our intentions, our gratitude, our prayers, and our hopes for the coming months. This is the time we make for ourselves to dream and vision our wellness as communities, as families, all under these skies here in Huichin, land of the Lisjan Ohlone people. Healing Drum Circles with the Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum and drumkeeper Zamora are a chance to tap into collective healing/prayer/ meditation work through song and heartbeat. Our drum is held by Two Spirit community and is open to all. Sit with us at the drum, or circle up and let the heartbeat medicine help you lay down tobacco prayers/intentions for the future. This is the manda for our drum, to bring drum medicine to the people. Help us continue our work with our growing Wakan Wiya community. We will take turns sitting at the drum and learning more about how the drum helps us Hold the Form for each other. We will share palabra and share songs, all these forms of heartspeak (cuicatl, as our Mexica maestras remind us!). In these ways we practice Indigena cultura, and give expession to our prayers, give thanks for the ways in which our full selves, especially our Two Spirit selves, can and do make our way in this world. There is never a fee for drum medicina. We encourage folks to make a small donation as you are able to help our drum continue this spirit work. Please always bring a gift of tobacco or a medicine offering from your tradition for the drumkeeper. We also ask you to bring your waterbottle and snacks/food to share afterward, as is our tradition. *Wakan Wiya (Sacred Woman) Two Spirit Drum is our Native American drum founded and led by Indigenous Two Spirit women in the Bay Area. Our drum was gifted to us to support access to drum medicine for our Two Spirit communities, our friends and familia, so that Two Spirit people might return to our Native drum traditions where healing medicine is for all. Our circles will always center Indigenous Two Spirit & Indigequeer TG/GNC LGBQIA+ peoples, and we ask everyone who attends to respectful of this focus. If you have questions or would like to invite the drum to your community or organization, please contact us at [email protected]. *Drumkeeper M. Zamora is a Chicana, Yoeme (Yaqui) and Tongva Two Spirit feminist educator and community organizer. Their ancestors come from the Los Angeles Basin and northern Mexico’s Sonora and Chihuahua regions. They have served as ceremonial singer/drumkeeper in their Two Spirit community for over 16 years. Zamora has led drum circles with Turtle Women Rising and Bay Area American Indian Two Spirit (BAAITS) and brought the Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum to Casa Tia Luna in 2020 where it is now the drum in residence. Zamora has taught Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o Latina/o Studies, and Gender Studies and Feminist Theory at California State University East Bay, University of San Francisco and Stanford University. They are currently the department administrator for Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Mills College. Follow Casa Tia Luna on Facebook, Instagram, and Eventbrite to receive notices of all our upcoming circles and workshops in Winter 2023, featuring circles with Vero Iglesias, a series of circles on Traditional African and African American Healing and Medicine with Michele Elizabeth Lee, and of course, our Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum with Drumkeeper M. Zamora.