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Wisdom Keepers Panel and Breakout Sessions
Sunday 1:30 - 2:30 (panel)
Sunday 3:00-6:00 (breakout)
scroll down for full list
plus video of Sweet Mam's Sol Food
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| Grandmother Flordemayo |
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| Grandmaster Ken Lo |
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| Producer/Director Carole Hart |
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| Evan Pritchard |
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Grandmother Flordemayo is a "Curandera Espiritu" (healer by divine spirit). Born in a small town in the big highlands of Central America. She grew up in a family of traditional healers, learning the art of “Curanderismo” in the traditional way: taught from mother to daughter, generation to generation. She worked from age four as her mother’s apprentice. She works with the sacred breath, laying on of hands, and application of herbs. She works directly with clients or just as effectively with absent or distant healing Flordemayo has had the gift of being able to see Work with the effects of physical, emotional and spiritual imbalance in the energy system.
Flordemayo has worked with alternative western healers, Native American and Mayan healers. She recieved her mayan priest training from Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj a respected spiritual leader, and head of the Quiche Maya Council of Elders. Flordemayo is now recognized as a “priestess” by the Maya. She is a founding member and President of the Institute of Natural and Traditional Knowledge.
Flordemayo has been a featured speaker on Curanderismo at many conferences on traditional medicine; both within the United States and internationally in addition to alternative healing practitioners, medical doctors, nurses and medical institutions have recognize her knowledge and natural healing skills. Flordemayo is a frequent presenter at international conferences such, as the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Bioneers and recipient of the Martin de la Cruz Award for Alternative Healing, a prestigious honor given by the International Congress of Traditional Medicine.
Since 1999 Flordemayo has been a part of the Wisdom of the Grandmother’s Foundation. Currently Flordemayo is a member of the Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Flordemayo and the grandmothers have traveled around the world uniting people in a circle of prayer.
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Carole Hart is an award-winning television and film producer/writer. She is the Producer/ Director for the award-winning film For the Next 7 Generations.
She began her career in television working with her partner and husband, Bruce Hart, as one of the original writers of Sesame Street, for which she won her first Emmy. She also produced, with Marlo Thomas, Free to Be...You and Me, the now classic children's album, best-selling book and Peabody Award-winning television special.
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Grandmaster 'Sifu' Ken Lo is the founding Director of the Wu Mei Kung Fu Association and is the highest authority of Wu Mei Kung Fu worldwide. Sifu Lo is recognized by the Chinese government as an authentic traditional Chinese Martial arts master. He is also the founding Director of the China Arts Council, whose mission is to preserve and promote traditional Chinese cultural arts in the West.
Through the China Arts Council, Sifu Lo has worked with: the Guggenheim Museum, the Prospect Park Alliance, the Chinese Scholar's Garden, the Hammond Museum, the Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, Families with Children from China, the Eldridge Street Project, and many other cultural institutions.
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Evan Pritchard, a descendant of the Micmac people (part of the Algonquin nations) is the founder of The Center for Algonquin Culture, and is currently Professor of Native American history at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he also teaches ethics and philosophy.
He is the author of Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York.
He is also the author of the widely praised No Word For Time, the Way of the Algonquin People, and many other books, including an Algonkian language series.
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| Kirsten Kairos |
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| Kirsten Kairos (KK) "Conscious Solitude in Nature"
An intimate nature-based discussion and experiential workshop.
At the heart of KK's "journey" music and environmental stewardship is her passion for the healing benefits of human-Nature relationships. She is a musician, producer, and transformational guide who created the music CD, birth of the ONE, and the nature-inspired music video "taka dum." She incorporates voice, breath, eclectic sounds, rhythms, and found instruments that convey an earth-based spirituality and naturally induce a transformational state. She is currently completing coursework to become a Certified Holotropic BreathworkTM facilitator through Stanislav Grof, while also pursuing an academic degree in ecopsychology––the integration of psychology and ecology in the study of reconnecting and healing the bond between humans and Nature. kairosonic.com
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On Sunday afternoon at 1:30 there will be a presentation panel from a number of experts in their field. Each presenter will speak for about 5 minutes on what their breakout session will entail and where to find them. This way the public will have more personal access to each one of the presenters.
Breakout sessions will run from 3-6:00 and participants may experience more than one if they wish. At the end we can all return for a final drum circle and jam!
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1:30 - 2:30 Wisdom Keeper’s Presentations Panel
3 - 6:00 Breakout Sessions With Wisdom Keepers
Flordemayo – Sacred Space and Creating an Altar
Evan Pritchard - Sustainability in the Hudson
Tony Moonhawk - Algonquin Culture
Daniel McBride - 13 Hands Grammy Nominee/ Yoga Therapy
Kirsten Kairos - Conscious Solitude in Nature
Alex Schein -Promoting Unity, Arts and Video
Rae Leiner – Female Warrior Spirit and Cultural Pride
6:00 Final Jam with 13 Hands and mz. Imani
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This video of Katie from Sweet Mama's Sol Food says it all!
We can vouch for the wonderful foods she creates with love, all natural and fresh!
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