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Ancestral Studies for Living Souls
Passages is a lineage-rooted Earth School devoted to cultivating nature literacy—the ability to read, remember, and participate in living systems of life.
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 becoming nature-literate—remembering where they come from and who they are becoming—while cultivating 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. At the heart of our work is nature literacy—a way of learning that unfolds through lived experience, ritual practice, and embodied attention.
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
A Relationship Reclimation to Death: 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.
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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.
Featured Studies & Offerings
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ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Mariana Bandera
Mariana Bandera is an Anthropologist and Archaeologist, 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"
