An Amazonian Celebration of Life with Huni Kuin Chief Tuwe

3204 Northwest 2nd Avenue,Miami FL 33127

13 May, 2022

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You are invited to experience a journey into discovery and transformation for an Amazonian Ceremony Evening! Call to Action: Fundraising for Flood Relief EMERGENCY RELIEF FUNDRAISING efforts continue for families from the Kaxinawa Indigenous land of the Humaitá River in São Vicente Village, Acre, Brazil. The Huni Kuin tribe of Brazil needs our help familia! They are experiencing devastation due to floods. YOU CAN STILL HELP! All forms of support are welcome, including your prayers. Center for the Higher Self Presents: Cacao ~ Yoga ~ Ecstatic Dance ~ Documentary Screening with Q&A ~ Huni Kuin Crafts ~ Sacred Songs Circle An amazonian celebration of life Call to Action: Fundraising For Flood Relief 5p - Opening Ceremony with Ceremonial Cacao 6p - Yoga led by Luis Jimenez 7p - Documentary Screening: “Us & Them” 7:30p - Q&A with Tuwe 8:30p - Song Circle led by Tuwe with Traditional Huni Kuin Songs 10p - Ecstatic Dance led by Gaby Dias We will open our ceremony by opening our hearts with cacao medicine. Yoga led by Luis Jimenez Connect with our bodies Short film screening followed by talk, Q&A: Us & Them Share the medicine of our voices with traditional Huni Kuin songs Embodiment though Ecstatic Dance - As a group we will be doing the jiboia dance of the Huni Kuin people, done in honor of the spirit of the great boa constrictor. This event will be co-hosted and led by Nilson Tuwe Huni Kuin. Tuwe is a spiritual leader and Chief of his tribe, the Huni Kuin people of the Brazilian Amazon. Tuwe has a clear connection with the spiritual world and strives to build harmony for all people. Join us in sharing Tuwe’s cultural and religious rituals on this day of healing and co-existence. Tuwe lives in the Huni Kuin Indigenous Territory of Rio Humaitá, São Vicente village, in the city of Tarauacá in Acre, Brazil. This is a 5 day boat ride from the nearest town. He is a filmmaker and has already produced a documentary about the indigenous peoples who still live voluntarily isolated in the Western Amazon, located on the border strip between Brazil and Peru. As an Agroforestry agent, he also works in the Environmental Territorial Management of his homeland and surroundings. He is also a leader, thinker and messenger for his people, both domestically and internationally. He has been researching his culture, cultivating his native spirituality and following the path of sacred medicines from a very young age with his father. Tuwe is the youngest son of the Tribal leader, Vicente Saboia Nawa Iba Nai Bai Huni Kuin, who worked for the protection of the Rio Humaitá Indigenous Land and for the rights and empowerment of his people. Although his father is no longer on this physical plane, he lives on as a warrior and a patriarch of the Huni Kuin. Gabi Dias will be joining us as Tuwe’s translator. She is originally from Brazil and now works in New York City as an educator of consciousness integrated with the physical body. She is a Reiki Master and a forever student. She is also initiated in Shamanic wisdom, Tantra, Sacred Death and Birthing Doula, and an Energy Intuitive healer. Face painting with urucum will be offered throughout the night. Huni Kuin Craft: We will be exposing Huni Kuin Craft with exclusive jewelry made by village artisans and amazonian medicine. If there is a talisman, an item or medicine that calls to your heart, bring cash. Paypal is accepted by Tuwe. A wonderful short documentary by Nilson Tuwe Huni Kuin, about a tribe living in voluntary isolation (locally called "Brabos") who have been forced to flee from the Amazon Rainforest of P​​eru due to 30 years of commercial and industrial development. This film shows the efforts of the Huni Kuin people, together with FUNAI, to mediate potential conflicts with locals of the region (where the Brabos have arrived to) and speak for the right of these people to remain in isolation.