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Ancestral Studies for Living Souls
Passages is a lineage-rooted education platform devoted to remembering who we are and why we are here. Through ancestral studies, embodied inquiry, and earth-based cosmology, we explore the mythic, ritual, and psychological threads that shape the human experience.
Our offerings weave anthropology, oral tradition, plant wisdom, and initiatory practices to help living souls reconnect with their origins, their purpose, and their place in the great ecology of being.
The Earth is Alive.
You are a part of it.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to support living souls in remembering where they come from and who they are becoming — to cultivate clarity, reverence, and embodied leadership rooted in reciprocity with the earth.
OUR VISION
Our vision is a world where people become biocultural leaders who carry lineage with integrity, walk their path with truth + authenticity, and participate in the ecology of transformation with courage and devotion.
OUR FRAMEWORK
Passages exists to regenerate cultural memory, rebuild relational bridges, and help the modern heart return to the rhythm of the Earth.
WHAT WE STUDY
Ancestral Story & Mythic Memory
We explore the myths, symbols, and archetypal stories that shape human consciousness across cultures — and how these narratives guide our inner and outer lives.
Plantcestors & Earth Wisdom
We learn from cacao, corn, tabacco, and other plant- and the Great Elemental beings as teachers of relational ethics, memory, reciprocity, and ecological consciousness.
Womb Consciousness & Embodied Cosmology
We examine the womb as a spiritual, biological, and energetic portal — a place of memory, descent, creation, and initiation. This includes menstrual cosmology, the underworld, fertility of earth and body, and the cosmological relationship between womb and grave.
Biocultural Belonging & Leadership
We explore how lineage, land, culture, memory, and identity weave into an integrated sense of belonging - supporting leadership rooted in reciprocity, integrity, and the living world.
Indigenous Cosmologies & Ritual Technologies
We study earth-based cosmologies, ceremonial frameworks, calendrical systems, and the ancestral technologies that orient human beings within cosmic time, space, and the living world.
Death Awareness, Grief & Initiation
We study death not as an end, but as a guide. Grief as a sacred passage. Underworld journeys as psychological and cosmological thresholds. Ancestor veneration as continuity.
Depth Psychology & the Mythic Psyche
We engage the psyche through the lens of Jungian, archetypal, and somatic psychology — understanding descent, shadow, transformation, and the imaginal as processes of soul-making.
OUR PATHWAYS
COMMUNITY STUDIES
Deep immersion programs bridging anthropology, story, embodiment, and ritual.
Yearly Cohorts include: Reimagining Death, Skin of Corn & Heart of Cacao, The Womb & The Grave.
Personal Studies
(1:1 Guidance)
Nahual readings, legacy work, and ancestral mentorship for individuals seeking clarity, direction, or lineage integration.
Year-Long Path
A full cycle of remembrance and initiation for those seeking deeper study, devotion, and transformation.
Camino Viviente:
The Living Path (Pilgrimage)
A ceremonial journey across sacred landscapes and ancestral sites, guided by story, cosmology, and embodied earth-practice.
Featured Studies
Online Cohort
REIMAGINING
DEATH
REIMAGINING DEATH
An 8-week journey into the sacred mirror between life and death.
December 7th- Janurary 20th
Bi-weekly Community Meetings
Death is not an end, but a mirror — a portal that reflects how we have lived.
Reimagining Death is an eight-week journey into the sacred relationship between life and impermanence. Rooted in anthropology, spiritual ecology, and breathwork, this living curriculum invites you to reframe death as teacher, guide, and companion. Together, we will explore ancient rites, consciousness studies, and embodied ritual to deepen our understanding of what it means to live — and die — in right relationship.
Through reflection, ceremony, and shared inquiry, we will remember that death is not something to fear or fix, but a sacred force that gives meaning to existence.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Mariana Bandera
Mariana Bandera is an anthropologist, educator, and lineage-rooted guide whose work weaves Mesoamerican cosmology, ancestral studies, depth psychology, and embodied ritual.
Walking alongside Mayan and Mexica teachers for nearly a decade, she bridges academic research with earth-based spirituality, mythic storytelling, and somatic inquiry. Her teachings center on death awareness, womb consciousness, plantcestors, and the ancient technologies that orient human beings within time, lineage, and the living world.
Through Passages, she offers spaces of remembrance where people can reconnect with their origins, reclaim their purpose, and walk with greater clarity, reciprocity, and devotion.
"Our Mission is to become leaders in our community in our own way, with our own unique gifts. And that makes us good Ancestors in the web of life"
