Native Healing Drum Circle w/ Special Guest River Webb (Weds March 8)

5000 MacArthur Boulevard,Oakland CA 94613

08 March, 2023

Description

Native Healing Drum Circle, with special guest River Webb Weds March 8:  6pm Healing Circle This is an in-person indoor circle  |  All Are Welcome Never a charge for medicine Drum. Donations accepted Rsvp for Location at Mills College, Oakland Our Protocol: All are welcome to join our drum to learn together this traditional healing and wellness way. This week's circle we will also have a special guest via Zoom, River Webb*, who will share a bit about our beloved "Bear Song," from their tribal teachings. Please note: because our guest will Zoom, we may MOVE our location for this circle. We will message you all prior to the date with our Mills College campus location and directions. You are invited to put tobacco down on the drum with your intentions, your gratitude, your prayers and hopes for the coming months. As winter closes to the opening of Spring, we see our dreaming and visioning begin to seed in the light of spring. Join community in planting good seeds, as we are ready to grow. 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 the 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. While payment is never required for our healing drum circles, exchanges/donations are always given as part of ceremonial circles, in gratitude and reciprocity. We ask you to make a donation (e.g. $5-20 donation each time, or a quarterly donation, etc.), as part of our registration process, or in person. This is part of a protocol of exchange, where you learn the place and the value of medicina in your life, and account for this as you are able. It helps our Casa Tia Luna and 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. *River Webb is Nez Perce, and of Sac and Fox, and Potawatomi descent as well. I identify as Two Spirit and a trans woman. I am a PhD student in Geochemistry. Ealier this year I was named a traditional scientist and knowledge keeper by members of my tribe for my language preservation efforts. I am a competitive dancer in women's categories. Right now my work focuses on residential school documentation in the Great Lakes in partnership with my descended tribes, Tribal Soverignty in Yellowstone National Park with Nez Perce Tribe, and language preservation on the plateau. *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. Our Casa Tia Luna Spring 2023 Offerings from our CTL community of maestras, including Michele Elizabeth Lee (Author of Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing), Awon Ohun Omnira (Voices of Freedom, from the Omnira Institute), Maestra Veronica Iglesias (The Jade Oracle), Mama Davina D. Estrella Ramey (Founder, Water and Honey Community Well ), and the Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum with drumkeeper Zamora are all listed at https://CasaTiaLuna.eventbrite.com. Follow Casa Tia Luna on Facebook, Instagram, and Eventbrite to receive notices of all our upcoming circles and workshops.