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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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.
What is Included
Community Calls
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Community Group Chat
Self Reflective questions
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Somatic Practices
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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..
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Payment Plans Available
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
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​Anthropology foundations
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Life and Death as the Fundamentals of Human Consciousness: Our Neanderthal Ancestors
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What is Spirit from a cultural viewpoint?
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The Anahuak Introduction to the LIFE| DEATH | LIFE CYCLE
Week 3
The Emotional planes
We cannot ease grief, but we can ease suffering​
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The different Types of death and their energetic ripples cross-culturally
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Mourning and grieving through altar practices: Ancient Japan, Egypt, Peru
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Creating our own Ancestral Portals of Prayer
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The technology of prayer
Week 2
Earth and our Ancestors
Our Sacred relationship informed by the creation stories of Corn and Cacao.
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Ancestral Reverence and "Lifting the Veil": Halloween and the origins with a deep dive into Celtic Culture
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Practices for ancestral connection + Intro to Ancestral lineage healing with Nana Lucy Culum
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Earth-Based ties to ancestry and Earth Matter
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Ancestral Invokations: Yoruba Cosmovision
Week 4
The body as a living Vessle
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Deep dive into Egyptian Cosmology: Mummification, sacred landscape, the working of the heart.
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Somatic breathwork practices: the Ank breath | The breath of life
Week 5
Spirit as Legacy
Lineage mapping, ancestral mathematics- seeing our inheritance. ​
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Mapping our gifts through connection and sacred observation
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The legacy of the Mayans
Subjects and order are due to variation depending on cohort interest.
Cultural Insights:
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Unearthing Neolithic Burial Practices
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Celtic Wisdom from Ireland's Past
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Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
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Mayan Traditions of Guatemaya and Yucatan
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Mexica-Azteca Insights from Anahuac
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Inca Wisdom from Peruvian Lands
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Yoruba's Spiritual Heritage from Nigeria
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Kuna Traditions in Panama
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Kumeyaay Wisdom of Southern California
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
​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.
Watch the Introduction
What you will feel during this months Journey:
Ancestral Wisdom
Dive into global traditions that celebrate life's natural transitions.
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.
Meet your Guide
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.