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5 week Online Cohort

Reimagining Death

Rediscovering the Essence of Life and Death

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November 3rd- December 1st

Enrollment is now Open!

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Payment Plans Available

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Welcome

Join our 5-week community.

Welcome to a transformative journey into the profound intricacies of life's greatest enigma: Death. This is your personal invitation to embark on a journey that transcends cultural boundaries, inviting you to reimagine and rekindle your relationship with the concept of death. Are you ready to explore the depths of your own existence and enrich your connection to Death and Life? 
 
This Cohort is an opportunity to explore and reshape your relationship with death, unveiling its sacred nature and its impact on how we live.

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What is Included

Community Calls 

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Community Group Chat

Self Reflective questions
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Somatic Practices 

Guided Meditations

Class Portal with Guidebook and Class recorded Access

Ancestral Lineage Healing Practices

Guide book

transcription and slideshow materials included for your review

Further Research References:

over 50 publications, symposiums, videos etc..

Our Weekly Gatherings

2 Live Calls per Week:
Tuesdays 5 pm CT & Sundays 10 am CT

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Our Bi-Weekly calls are organized into: 

1. Tuesdays

 Informative and material overview​

2. Sundays

Integration & meditation and opening up space to share our process with the week's topic. One meeting will have a cacao ceremony. 

Unveiling the mysteries of life and death with our Ancestors...
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Concepts of our Container:

What you will learn:

Week 1

The Essence of Spirit

Spirit and Human Consciousness in Earth Based Cultures

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  • Recognizing + honoring Indigenous Knowledge in the Right Relationships

  • ​Anthropology foundations

  • Life and Death as the Fundamentals of Human Consciousness: Our Neanderthal Ancestors

  • What is Spirit from a cultural viewpoint?

  • The Anahuak Introduction to the LIFE| DEATH | LIFE CYCLE

Week 3

The Emotional planes 

We cannot ease grief, but we can ease suffering​

  • The different Types of death and their energetic ripples cross-culturally

  • Mourning and grieving through altar practices: Ancient Japan, Egypt, Peru

  • Creating our own Ancestral Portals of Prayer

  • The technology of prayer

Week 2

Earth and our Ancestors

Our Sacred relationship informed by the creation stories of Corn and Cacao.

 

  • Ancestral Reverence and "Lifting the Veil": Halloween and the origins with a deep dive into Celtic Culture

  • Practices for ancestral connection + Intro to Ancestral lineage healing with Nana Lucy Culum

  • Earth-Based ties to ancestry and Earth Matter

  • Ancestral Invokations: Yoruba Cosmovision

Week 4

The body as a living Vessle

  • Deep dive into Egyptian Cosmology: Mummification, sacred landscape, the working of the heart. 

  • Somatic breathwork practices: the Ank breath | The breath of life

Week 5

Spirit as Legacy

Lineage mapping, ancestral mathematics- seeing our inheritance. â€‹

  • Mapping our gifts through connection and sacred observation

  • The legacy of the Mayans 

Subjects and order are due to variation depending on cohort interest. 

Cultural Insights:

  • Unearthing Neolithic Burial Practices

  • Celtic Wisdom from Ireland's Past

  • Mysteries of Ancient Egypt

  • Mayan Traditions of Guatemaya and Yucatan

  • Mexica-Azteca Insights from Anahuac

  • Inca Wisdom from Peruvian Lands

  • Yoruba's Spiritual Heritage from Nigeria

  • Kuna Traditions in Panama

  • Kumeyaay Wisdom of Southern California

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Join us in Unlocking the Mysteries of Life and Beyond

"Death is the only friend who has been by my side the whole time- a true witness to my life."
Together, we will delve into profound insights, guided meditations, and cross-cultural explorations that will redefine your understanding of life's most enigmatic transition.

BONUS

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​Document your Legacy Course  ($47 Value)

Learn how to pass wisdom through our interview methodology. This is a relational approach to legacy work, blending ethnographic methods and deep writing reflections meant for you or to assist a loved one in writing their life story. 

Guest Speaker

Nana Lucy Culum

Traditional Comadrona + Curandera from Guatemaya

LINEAGE HEALING ​

Doctora Lucy Culum- a comadrona and curandera whom I studied with in Guatemaya- facilitates lineage healings in Lake Atitlan and will speak on the weavings of her work and what we can do as spirits here healing our ancestors.

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Watch the Introduction

What you will feel during this months Journey: 

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Ancestral Wisdom

Dive into global traditions that celebrate life's natural transitions.

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Harmonize with Nature

Immerse yourself in Mother Earth's cycle of life and death.

Intentional Existence

Cultivate a profound and intentional relationship with life and its inevitable counterpart.

Testimonials

“The Reimagining Death Cohort not only helped me through my grief process after the loss of my mother, but it helped me to understand the dynamics of life on the other side. This was better than grief therapy for me. Learning how other cultures revere death was an enlightening component of the culture, as well. Understanding that we only transform energy when we leave this realm gave me a sense of peace that I didn't have before taking this course! Communing with Mariana and other beautiful souls let me know that we're never alone and we're all just walking each other home.”

Chante | Cohort 1

Meet your Guide

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Mariana Bandera

Anthropologist

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Mariana Bandera is an anthropologist, ceremonialist and educator with a deep reverence for ancestral knowledge and healing modalities. 

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This Journey is for you...

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If you feel the call to feel connected to death again in your own way, your own cosmovision.

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If you feel the call to connect to the portal of the unseen- the "afterlife" to be connected to your guides.

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If you have been curious about the traditions of ceremonies around the world to celebrate life's natural death practices and beliefs. 

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if you are trying to cultivate a more spiritual and intentional connection to your life and death.​

All beings welcome, 

Come as you are.

Payment Plan Availible

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