Hamaima

Yawanawa Retreat with hushahu

in the Brazilian Amazon

15th - 24th of February 2023

Experience 7 days of celebration during which we will be together with the community holding ceremonies, traditional dances, traditional games, medicinal baths with native plants or clay. We will get to know a bit of the culture and the strength of the Yawanaw people’s spirituality.

About Hushahu

Hushahu was the first woman who entered into a shamanic study in the story of her people. Before her this path was only open to the men of the tribe. As a young woman curious to discover the world of the Pajés (Shamans). She asked her father Tuinkuru to study and eventually Tuinkuru and the Pajé Tata accepted her onto the path to study and she did a diet of one year and three months isolated in the forest with her teachers.

During her diet she began to discover the world of the Pajés as a woman, expressing this through her art and her voice, bringing a female voice to the traditional songs. Today the designs that she received are used in the artworks of many different tribes in Brazil. Following her diet Hushahu continued to study with Tata until his death and the path of spirituality opened for the women of the tribe. Today many women are studying and singing as equals to the men in ceremony.

Today Hushahu is one of the spiritual leaders of her village Mutum and is dedicated to keeping the tradition of her people alive. She has many students among the youth of the village as well as from the world outside the forest where she travels and holds works for those who wish to study. She is a great inspiration for female empowerment for the Yawanawa and for women around the world.

Next year I will visit the Yawanawa tribe for the first time in their home, a village called Mutum in Acre, which is located in the Brazilian rainforest. If you are interested to join us then please email me for more details.

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