Three Sacred Days to Powerfully Enter the New Year

The coming 12 months hold great significance, as 2012 has been a symbol of fear and chaos as well as love and possibility. Here at The Shift Network we are committed to helping catalyze a year of great healing, powerful awakening and the dawn of a new era for humanity.

That’s why we are offering a powerful opportunity to release the stories and wounds of the past - including distortions around the Mayan prophecies of 2012 - and move forward into this New Year with openness, inspiration and hope.

Join Grandmother Flordemayo on these three sacred days, bridging the close of 2011 to the start of 2012, and take part in prayer and ritual to heal our hearts, activate our deepest selves, link with others from around the world and help us navigate these prophetic times with grace and ease.

In indigenous wisdom, these three days begin with “The Sacred Dawn” during which we can forgive and release the past. The second day we “Gather the Net” in which we further release our human entanglements and prepare to move into the New Year in the spirit of “The Celestial Serpent,” a day devoted to evolving into our highest selves and deepening our spirituality.

Feed Your Soul, Clear Your Mind, Open Your Heart

This is our time to CHOOSE awakening, healing and possibility as we prepare for the shifts ahead of us, and this series will powerfully support you in doing that.

The Mayan Prayer Circle is like a miniature retreat with a planetary elder, offering ways to feed your soul, clear your mind, cleanse your body and open your heart as you step into the New Year, empowered in the shared work of our collective healing.

This series also directly supports a spiritually-guided mission of Grandmother Flordemayo to create a Seed Temple that protects the seeds of food and medicinal plants that are at risk from GMO-crop contamination. Learn more about this important project below.

In preparation for these sessions, Grandmother Flordemayo attunes to the collective energy of those present, drawing from the inspiration and guidance of Spirit for each particular time and place. Though there are themes for each day, Flordemayo remains open to the direction of Spirit and what you and other participants will need at that time.

Friday, December 30
Session 1: The Sacred Dawn

In this session, Grandmother Flordemayo will lead us in a Mayan-guided meditation of opening the 13 sacred centers for the purpose of healing and blessing our lives and releasing the old. This session represents a powerful opportunity to complete 2011 with energetic clarity, making room for a powerful 2012.

In Grandmother Flordemayo’s tradition, this is a potent day for ceremony, for burning incense, and a day that represents the sound of the sacred Quetzal Bird that initiated the new dawn - the opportunity of life for this generation of creation.

This is a perfect day for asking the Spirits for forgiveness and blessings, releasing attachment to any errors that we have taken part in, consciously or unconsciously. This day also represents immediate change in one’s life and moving into transformation that is necessary in our destiny.

Saturday, December 31
Session 2: Gathering the Net

In this session on the final day of 2011, Grandmother Flordemayo will take our releasing even deeper and teach us the practice of releasing the entanglements of “the Net” through a sacred bath for the Mother. We will learn to prepare a sacred bath with the intention and purpose of “cleansing ourselves in the elements as we reunite with the Mother Earth.”

“The Net” represents the entanglement of problems that become trapped and held tight on a personal and collective level. This day marks the power to come together in unity (internally and as a group of conscious beings) to affect the things that we need. We ground ourselves in the knowing that our human entanglements come from our own provocations; and it is destiny that puts us on our paths so we can learn from them and move beyond them.

Sunday, January 1st
Session 3: The Celestial Serpent

In this session to begin 2012, Grandmother Flordemayo will lead us to connect with the divine fire within each of us, an aspect she calls “The Golden Child within.” She will share her vision of the Golden Child for participants stepping into this powerful year in history and will lead a deep meditation to foster your divine connection within.

The Celestial Serpent is the energy from our internal fire that we have at the base of our spinal column, which is related to our ascension and is the mission of all humans. It also represents the spiral motion of Mother Earth and is representative of the plumed serpent and the movement of the Q’uq’kumatz.

Q’uq’kumatz is the Creator and Maker of the universe and is related to human evolution and the unfolding of spirituality. It is the fire within the base of our vertebrae, the life force and the DNA where all genetic information is held, which is the collective memory of humanity. Thousands of years ago, the Mayan Grandfathers said all is in the form of a spiral.

SPECIAL BONUS:
Grandmother Flordemayo’s Sacred Bath Water Spray Sent Directly to Your Home

As part of this 3-part series, you will also receive Grandmother Flordemayo’s Sacred Bath Water Spray that will empower you in the New Year to cleanse your body, energetic and auric fields. The spray contains rare herbs grown specifically for Flordemayo and was created from a traditional healing recipe that indigenous medicine people have used for centuries. The combination of these herbs has the capacity to clear the past (including generational healing) and to clear the present in preparation for the future. The spray also helps clear and strengthen our auric fields to prepare ourselves for this time of great shift and change.

ADDED BONUS:
For Only $50 More, Receive a 5-Session Digital Download of Grandmother Flordemayo’s Bringing the Spirit of Shamanism into Your Everyday Life Course.

This is a unique opportunity for you to receive Grandmother Flordemayo’s heart-based shamanic wisdom and learn some of her indigenous healing practices that can serve our modern-day culture.

In these five sessions, you can take steps to:

• Embrace your daily work as sacred - from paying bills to washing dishes and everything in between
• Receive greater guidance from your dreams and visions
• Simplify your life and let go of the things that no longer serve your higher purpose
• Enter into stillness and dialogue with everything around you
• Connect in a profound way to the rhythms and cycles of nature and gain knowledge of the healing properties of the plant and mineral kingdoms
• Speak to non-physical beings and draw strength and guidance from their wisdom
• Renew your hope for our future and understand the unique role you play

Grandmother Flordemayo covers the following topics in these five sessions:

Session 1: Falling in Love with the World & Embracing the Sacred in the Everyday
Session 2: The Universal Path of the Priestess
Session 3: Accessing Visions, Dreams, and Guides: Speaking to Non-Physical Beings
Session 4: Connecting with the Healing Power of Plants and Minerals
Session 5: Navigating the Times Ahead-“Year Zero” (2012) and Beyond

 

A Word from Flordemayo about the Seed Temple Project

I was asked by Emigdio Ballon, an accomplished plant geneticist from Cochabamba, Bolivia, to watch over the seeds through prayer and ceremony. Additionally, the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers asked me through The Path to build a seed temple or vault on the land to protect the seeds.

The reason this is so important is that there is a grave threat to the loss of the heritage seeds due to contamination from the genetically modified seeds, which equates to the ultimate threat to our food supply.

So, the Seed Vault I’ve been led to build will provide a natural temperature-controlled environment that will protect the food, medicinal and flower plant seeds, and The Path will collect and share them. Each species of seeds will be carefully categorized and sealed in glass jars to keep them viable. The Path will receive their seeds beginning from the local area and eventually from around the world.

In addition to the preparing of the seed temple, we will, at the appropriate time, need to recuperate the seeds through a controlled environment that includes an organic garden in a hepa-filter greenhouse. This step ensures the integrity of the heritage seeds, protecting them from GMO contamination. This process will also require individuals who will administer the Seed Temple so that future generations will be served through the use of the heritage seeds.

About Grandmother Flordemayo and Patricio Dominguez

Curandera espiritu (healer by divine spirit) and Mayan priestess Flordemayo is one of the 13 grandmothers of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, a global alliance that teaches ancestral ways of prayer, education and healing. Flordemayo was born in a small village on the Nicaragua Honduras border. Her father was a local shaman and her mother was a midwife and healer, whom Flordemayo apprenticed with from the age four. As her own children grew, Flordemayo began to work as a healer. Today, she uses the sacred breath, laying on of hands, application of herbs, as well as distance healing, with her clients.

Flordemayo has worked with alternative western healers, Native American and Mayan healers. She received 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. Many alternative healing practitioners, medical doctors, nurses and medical institutions have recognized her knowledge and natural healing skills. She is a frequent presenter at international conferences such, as the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Bioneers, and is a 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. She is also founding director and on the board of the Institute of Natural and Traditional Knowledge in San Juan, New Mexico.

Patricio Dominguez was born in the Southwest United States into the Pueblo de Las Cruces tribe in the summer of 1949, and given the name Patricio, Dominguez being his family name. His youth was spent in a small traditional community accumulating the spiritual knowledge that was necessary for life, and he was cultured by the contact of not only his parents and Grandparents that lived in the community but also his great grandmother until he was 13.

At the age of five he was presented in a public ceremony to the medicine men to be blessed as a man of spiritual knowledge. Like most of Native Americans his age, he learned two worldviews, the philosophy and religion of the western man and the traditional metaphysical occult ways of the indigenous people.

Patricio now lives in Albuquerque and serves on the advisory committee of the International Indigenous Coalition, the board of directors of NIME, a delegate to Elders Council, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Confederation of Indigenous Elders and Priests of America as secretary. Additionally, he is also an active member of the Shamanic Lodge of New Mexico and returns to Las Cruces four times a year to dance with the tribe at four major feasts.

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