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An inner pilgrimage to Oaxaca
The dance between life & death
Un peregrinaje interior a Oaxaca
La danza entre la vida y la muerte
October 29th to November 4th, 2020
Oaxaca, Mexico
Join others to witness and participate in this ancestral celebration, while holding and attending internally and in our work together to the process that arises as a result of this encounter with a unique way to celebrate and honor those who came before...
The honoring and celebration of our ancestors
and death as a portal to LIFE !
Who is this trip directed to? :
Those of you who have lost a dear one and feel at a stage of your grief ready to enter a place of ritual to connect from perhaps a new place
Those feeling the grief of our world, the grief of transition of
one stage into another, etc.
Those intrigued to get to know another way of honoring those who have passed and find a way to digest and navigate this inwardly
Those open to meeting a different cultural expression of death and honoring of our ancestors that invites a celebration of life.
What are you ready to let go of ?
Dia de Muertos in Oaxaca today, presents an encounter and rich synchretism of the indigenous and the modern worlds. The festivities and offer us a rich tapestry expressed through ritual, color, music, song, humor, flowers, food, honoring of ancestors, etc. Day of the Dead often also sparks reflection on life, death and our relationship to these two forces in the human psyche.
During this time, the veils between life and death are thinned and open up the possibility for a deeper connection with self, those who have left and those that are here. This will be an invitation to make this a pilgrimage for your life in which ever way
needs to be during this time
You will be invited to immerse your self in the power and beauty of this tradition, be touched by it, and allow the celebration of life and ancestors that this time is to nourish the places of grief that still live inside of your heart and soul. As well as to receive the colorful, joyous, filled with beauty, love and honoring celebration that this is.
Some of our supportive toold : Altar creation process, movement, writing , etc. temazcal (sweat lodge), one breathwork, witnessing this ancestral celebration in a small community, etc.
will be part of our time together.
Some of these tools will be used to support participants to integrate, process, digest as well as concretize the experiences of the week.
If you can I recommend staying a few days in
Oaxaca is so worth it !
Registration information :
The group will be limited to 9 participants
Non refundable deposit of $500 by July 1st
Financial investment
$2020.00
Includes: Lodging, food (except extra alcoholic beverages),
transport inside of Oaxaca after our first meeting and before last), teaching, guidance and translation, all our activities, one preparation conference call before and one after group
(does not include airline ticket or
transport from and to airport)
A deposit of $500 reserves your space by June 1st and full payment by September 15th
One discounted space is open for someone with Spanish/
english fluency to help with translation & one student rate discounted position for some logistical help during the trip.
After having received at least 4 deposits I will confirm that retreat is happening, I recommend purchasing plane tickets when I send the confirmation.
Please contact me if you have further questions and interested in attending , or wish to explore if this workshop
is what you are looking for !
Flight information:
For those flying from the bay area, we recommend flying to Oaxaca via Mexico city. There some local airlines that fly to Oaxaca from Mexico city at good rates. There is also a bus from Mexico city to Oaxaca, buses are good quality and safe but it requires movement from the airport to bus terminal (which is more complicated). From other cities in the United States there are some direct flights to Oaxaca, such as from Houston. We recommend purchasing travel insurance if you flying internationally, in the case the workshop would need to cancel (due to lack of attendance) or any other travel inconveniences.
An inner pilgrimage to Oaxaca
The dance between life & death
Un peregrinaje interior a Oaxaca
La danza entre la vida y la muerte
October 29th to November 4th, 2020
Oaxaca, Mexico
Join others to witness and participate in this ancestral celebration, while holding and attending internally and in our work together to the process that arises as a result of this encounter with a unique way to celebrate and honor those who came before...
The honoring and celebration of our ancestors
and death as a portal to LIFE !
Who is this trip directed to? :
Those of you who have lost a dear one and feel at a stage of your grief ready to enter a place of ritual to connect from perhaps a new place
Those feeling the grief of our world, the grief of transition of
one stage into another, etc.
Those intrigued to get to know another way of honoring those who have passed and find a way to digest and navigate this inwardly
Those open to meeting a different cultural expression of death and honoring of our ancestors that invites a celebration of life.
What are you ready to let go of ?
Dia de Muertos in Oaxaca today, presents an encounter and rich synchretism of the indigenous and the modern worlds. The festivities and offer us a rich tapestry expressed through ritual, color, music, song, humor, flowers, food, honoring of ancestors, etc. Day of the Dead often also sparks reflection on life, death and our relationship to these two forces in the human psyche.
During this time, the veils between life and death are thinned and open up the possibility for a deeper connection with self, those who have left and those that are here. This will be an invitation to make this a pilgrimage for your life in which ever way
needs to be during this time
You will be invited to immerse your self in the power and beauty of this tradition, be touched by it, and allow the celebration of life and ancestors that this time is to nourish the places of grief that still live inside of your heart and soul. As well as to receive the colorful, joyous, filled with beauty, love and honoring celebration that this is.
Some of our supportive toold : Altar creation process, movement, writing , etc. temazcal (sweat lodge), one breathwork, witnessing this ancestral celebration in a small community, etc.
will be part of our time together.
Some of these tools will be used to support participants to integrate, process, digest as well as concretize the experiences of the week.
If you can I recommend staying a few days in
Oaxaca is so worth it !
Registration information :
The group will be limited to 9 participants
Non refundable deposit of $500 by July 1st
Financial investment
$2020.00
Includes: Lodging, food (except extra alcoholic beverages),
transport inside of Oaxaca after our first meeting and before last), teaching, guidance and translation, all our activities, one preparation conference call before and one after group
(does not include airline ticket or
transport from and to airport)
A deposit of $500 reserves your space by June 1st and full payment by September 15th
One discounted space is open for someone with Spanish/
english fluency to help with translation & one student rate discounted position for some logistical help during the trip.
After having received at least 4 deposits I will confirm that retreat is happening, I recommend purchasing plane tickets when I send the confirmation.
Please contact me if you have further questions and interested in attending , or wish to explore if this workshop
is what you are looking for !
Flight information:
For those flying from the bay area, we recommend flying to Oaxaca via Mexico city. There some local airlines that fly to Oaxaca from Mexico city at good rates. There is also a bus from Mexico city to Oaxaca, buses are good quality and safe but it requires movement from the airport to bus terminal (which is more complicated). From other cities in the United States there are some direct flights to Oaxaca, such as from Houston. We recommend purchasing travel insurance if you flying internationally, in the case the workshop would need to cancel (due to lack of attendance) or any other travel inconveniences.
Some videos on the Day of the Dead in Mexico...
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About Dia de Muertos ...
In the "Prensa de San Diego" by Mariana Martinez: "The origin of the now called Day of the Dead is uncertain, according to some scholars dating back to the year 800 BC in the 'Festival of the Dead, celebrated among the Aztecs during the months of July and August, as a party to celebrate the end of the harvest corn, beans, peas and squash, which were part of the offering to the goddess Mictecacihuatl. This Goddess, Queen of Chinahmictlan was the guardian of the ninth level of hell, called Mictlan.
Some say the tradition of the festival is mixed with the pre-Hispanic custom of burying the dead with food and offerings for their journey to the afterlife. The tradition stems from the belief that at death people pass into the realm of Mictlan, where they have to spend some time and then go to heaven or Tlalocan. For the trip, our loved ones need food and water for the journey for lighting candles, coins, to pay the ferryman that crosses the river, before reaching Mictlan and a thorny stick to drive away the devil.
All this was placed in his tomb and altar of the dead, for his annual visit to the living, which is placed incense and marigold flowers to mark the way.
When the Spanish arrived, these beliefs were adapted to the Christian calendar and is celebrated on 1 and 2 November. The first is celebrated on All Saints' Day, dedicated to children and 2 to other loved ones, which are the only days on which the souls are allowed to return to visit their loved ones. So it is actually a welcome party for those who are surprised.
In some regions it is believed that the fall on October 28 fatalities and 30 those limbo because they were not baptized, but these beliefs are widespread.
Today, the Day of the Dead is celebrated mainly by placing altars in homes for loved ones of the family, relatives, friends, public figures, but also have other traditions that eventually were incorporated into the festival. Some families visit the cemetery and eat on the grave, accompanied by the soul of her dead, bring them flowers and clean the grave, which may accompany the meal with a northern or mariachi group. Also popular is the use of "skulls", verses dedicated to public figures or characters from the popular imagination, in a tone of satire or ridicule. Emerged in the late nineteenth century, the "skulls" are a sign of genius is to pretend that someone is already dead, and according to their characteristics and way of life, making fun of how he died: If someone is so cute you could say that the Death took her to kiss her, or is a liar, that death was discovered.
The skulls do for loved ones or small sugar skulls give them your name is part of the tradition lives on.
The emergence of all kinds of candy and flowers for the altar of the dead in the shops and stalls in the city, is in early October, when the owners of the bakery shop or are responsible themselves to Guadalajara, Puebla , Guanajuato and Mexico City, where the majority of artisans dedicated to make skulls and other gifts for the dead".
In the "Prensa de San Diego" by Mariana Martinez: "The origin of the now called Day of the Dead is uncertain, according to some scholars dating back to the year 800 BC in the 'Festival of the Dead, celebrated among the Aztecs during the months of July and August, as a party to celebrate the end of the harvest corn, beans, peas and squash, which were part of the offering to the goddess Mictecacihuatl. This Goddess, Queen of Chinahmictlan was the guardian of the ninth level of hell, called Mictlan.
Some say the tradition of the festival is mixed with the pre-Hispanic custom of burying the dead with food and offerings for their journey to the afterlife. The tradition stems from the belief that at death people pass into the realm of Mictlan, where they have to spend some time and then go to heaven or Tlalocan. For the trip, our loved ones need food and water for the journey for lighting candles, coins, to pay the ferryman that crosses the river, before reaching Mictlan and a thorny stick to drive away the devil.
All this was placed in his tomb and altar of the dead, for his annual visit to the living, which is placed incense and marigold flowers to mark the way.
When the Spanish arrived, these beliefs were adapted to the Christian calendar and is celebrated on 1 and 2 November. The first is celebrated on All Saints' Day, dedicated to children and 2 to other loved ones, which are the only days on which the souls are allowed to return to visit their loved ones. So it is actually a welcome party for those who are surprised.
In some regions it is believed that the fall on October 28 fatalities and 30 those limbo because they were not baptized, but these beliefs are widespread.
Today, the Day of the Dead is celebrated mainly by placing altars in homes for loved ones of the family, relatives, friends, public figures, but also have other traditions that eventually were incorporated into the festival. Some families visit the cemetery and eat on the grave, accompanied by the soul of her dead, bring them flowers and clean the grave, which may accompany the meal with a northern or mariachi group. Also popular is the use of "skulls", verses dedicated to public figures or characters from the popular imagination, in a tone of satire or ridicule. Emerged in the late nineteenth century, the "skulls" are a sign of genius is to pretend that someone is already dead, and according to their characteristics and way of life, making fun of how he died: If someone is so cute you could say that the Death took her to kiss her, or is a liar, that death was discovered.
The skulls do for loved ones or small sugar skulls give them your name is part of the tradition lives on.
The emergence of all kinds of candy and flowers for the altar of the dead in the shops and stalls in the city, is in early October, when the owners of the bakery shop or are responsible themselves to Guadalajara, Puebla , Guanajuato and Mexico City, where the majority of artisans dedicated to make skulls and other gifts for the dead".
