Tuwe will be sharing two sacred medicines from the Amazon, called Sananga and Rapé.
Sananga is utilized as a healing eye drop, it is the juice extracted from the roots of an Amazonic plant, "Mata Heins" from the Huni Kuin dialect. From inside of the roots, a juice in decoction is extracted, which is utilized to cure the "Panemas" spiritual diseases. The warrior Indians, before going hunting, will take a drop in each eye, making their perception sharpened, so they can perceive subtle movements in the dense forest Sananga works in the main energetic healing ways: Physical and Spiritual.
Hape (pronounced “ha-peh”), a powerful, cleansing snuff used as part of important medicinal rituals. This medicinal tobacco helps focus and sharpen the mind, also clears a person of distracting, bad energies in preparation for intention setting. It clears sinuses of mucus and bacteria, thereby helping to combat colds and respiratory ailments. It provides a calming, grounding effect on the emotions that last much longer than the initial sensation.
After consecrating the medicines we will integrate and celebrate together with a sacred song circle led by Tuwe with traditional Huni Kuin Cantoria that has been passed down for thousands of years. Tuwe loves cultural interchange and invites everyone who feels called to share the medicine of their voice with the circle. Bring your instruments and your open hearts!
*COVID PROTOCOLS
Due to the intimate nature of this work, ALL ATTENDEES are asked to get a COVID TEST within 48 HOURS of our event. EVEN IF YOU ARE VACCINATED, YOU MUST PROVIDE A TEST.
Please be prepared to share an image of your test when you arrive! We look forward to gathering together in a safe way.
Suggested donation: $40; no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
About Tuwe
Tuwe is a spiritual leader and Chief of his tribe, the Huni Kuin people of the Brazilian Amazon. Tuwe is from a long tradition of medicine people. He shares this ceremony with the support of all his ancestors and community. 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 (Kaxinawá) 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 Land of the Humaitá River.
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.