Shamanic Tools, Books, Cds & Copal

Shamanic Tools,

Books, CDs & Copal by Eliberto Jimenez, Amalia ixmalé Forest & Ohki Forest

Everyone wants to do something to help heal the disastrous imbalances on the planet in these times. By taking action with Red Wind to help the indigenous who live closest to the Earth, you are protecting Mother Earth herself because, as an ancient people & conscious Maya, they are themselves taking many actions with self-sustainable eco-projects to protect our natural world.

Thank you very much for considering a Shamanic tool or Medicine item from our Medicine people at Red Wind Councils in Chiapas

Ordering information: If you would like to make a purchase or place an order, please email us at [email protected] with your choice of item(s) & your mailing address. We will get back to you ASAP with the total, including certified shipping fee from Mexico or the USA when available (please note that shipping fees are not included in our prices below). All orders must be prepaid. We accept personal checks made out to Red Wind Councils (PO Box 1064, Pepperell, MA 01463), secure credit card processing by calling us (978-633-7388), Venmo (@RedWindCouncils – code 8109), or you can go directly to our website at www.redwindcouncils.org & click on the Donate button to make a payment by PayPal. If you choose to pay by PayPal or credit card, please add 5% to cover the credit card processing fees.

Commission information: Should you choose to commission a piece please let us know the type of item you would like, & what you would like to include in it, a particular intention, depiction of a specific Spirit animal, or your sacred signs & symbols. Eliberto & Amalia are more than happy to communicate directly with you & may ask for your photo &/or a description of the sacred healing or prayers you feel you need at this point. We will get back to you with a price of your requested item. For the custom-made pieces, please allow a week or two for its creation & a few more weeks at the most to reach you through mail from Mexico.

Muchisimas gracias in advance for your purchase, Eliberto & Amalia for Red Wind Councils

Medicine Pouches, Necklaces & Woven Bags for Medicine Objects by Amalia ixmalé Forest

Amalia ixmalé, daughter to Ohki & Eliberto, is a Maya/Mohawk- descent 4th generation healer & artist. She has followed Ohki’s Native ways since she was a young child. Amalia creates amazing Medicine necklaces & healing Medicine pouches for transformational, dreaming, healing & protective work, as well as special bags made with traditional weavings by the Maya women to keep your sacred objects. Amalia empowers her Medicine pouches with special ceremonies of prayers by placing them under the sun, moon & stars in the crystal Medicine Wheel of Chiapas.

Medicine Pouches We take orders of any of Amalia’s themes or you can bring an idea of your own medicine to Amalia & she’ll create a pouch especially for you. Her pouches are all one-of-a-kind & her themes include, among others:

Restful Dreams Courage & Determination

Health & Vitality Unconditional Love

Abundance & Earth Protection Vision & Sacred Purpose

Psychic Powers

They contain carefully selected natural elements such as sacred semi- precious stones, shells, buckskin, charms, metals such as silver, & organic herbs among others. Each pouch is blessed in Amalia’s medicinal herb garden imbued with magical healing energies & the special powers of the elemental forces & surrounding sacred mountains of Chiapas & in the Crystal Medicine Wheel.

If you would like to know the exact contents in a particular pouch listed below or for a commission, Amalia ixmalé is happy to provide this info to you.

All Medicine Pouches come with a booklet describing the contents of the pouch as well as the powers associated with them.

Medicine Pouches are $115 + shipping - 4" tall

“Amalia's work is extremely magical. I recently asked her to create a Medicine pouch for a special project I have been working on for a decade with no result whatsoever, & it became an integral & potent part of the process. Her pouch was so effective - my request to the universe was soon granted & we were able to have a smooth & easy birthing of our important project, even beyond what I had envisioned.” ~ Anna D., student of Ohki

Courage & Determination

This pouch contains among others... Stones Amethyst is a great stone for calming fears, encouraging a higher spiritual connection & granting you courage on your path. Lapis Lazuli is a very magical stone, one of its many qualities is courage & intuition to follow the truth of your spirit. Garnet is a protective stone. It transmutes any negative feelings & energies & gives you courage & determination.

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Grounding & Intuition

This pouch has powerful herbs & stones that guide you to find your connection to Earth & her powers. It helps you to strongly connect to your inner center & for you to truly attune to your inner intuition.

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Higher Abundance

The herbs & stones of this magical pouch helps you call & manifest abundance in your life, whether it is material or spiritual while guiding you inwardly to manifest what you need on your path.

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Restful Dreams * This pouch provides a magical aura of relaxation so you can find deep connection with your dreams while restoring your natural dream cycle, it also enhances your Dream Body for greater clarity & intuition.

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Medicine Necklaces Made of semi-precious stones, Amalia's Medicine necklaces have a small pouch containing a sacred herb, special stone & other items for enhanced healing benefits & magical purpose. If you have a particular intention or need, you can order a necklace based from the list above in her Medicine pouches or bring your own personal intentions to Amalia & she’ll create a necklace especially for you.

Prices do not include shipping

Uplifting Unconditional Love * This enchanting necklace contains amber & jade from the Maya land, as well as pink quartz, citrine & turquoise. The small pouch contains a purifying apophyllite & healing verbena. The stones & flowers are programmed to open your Heart Center so you can experience true love with the new eyes of compassion & unconditional sharing.

$85 ~ 12.5”

Health & Higher Protection

This necklace is made with amber from the Maya land, for protection & healing as well as turquoise for wisdom, intuition, higher protection & health. Inside the small pouch there is a red Jasper, a great stone for healing & protection & other items that have many magical properties including physical & spiritual protection as well as healing properties.

$95

Centering & Grounding

This necklace is made with amber from the maya land, for protection & greater connection to Mother Earth. It’s also made with turquoise for wisdom & intuition. Inside the small pouch there is a black Tourmaline for grounding & centering & to help you connect with the roots of the Earth, to help you be steady & centered.

$95

Enlightening Courage

This beautiful necklace is made with amber from the Maya land, lapis lazuli & labradorite. The small pouch contains empowering citrine & other elements to strengthen yourself. These stones are intended to help you find courage in difficult, challenging moments of your life, or when facing stressful situations.

$95

ixmalé bags for your Power Objects Amalia ixmalé makes exquisite bags to store & carry your medicine objects & sacred items. With traditional weavings of Maya women, & her lovely hand-crocheted bags, these pouches are both elegant, practical & honoring of your power & magical objects. $36 for woven bags ~ $42 for crocheted bags + shipping

Height 19" - 20" / Width 7” Woven & 11” Crocheted

ixmalé Tarot / Medicine Object Bags ~ New * 3@ $20 small ~ 10” long x 5.5” wide 3@ $25 medium ~ 12” long x 5” wide $43 per pair *Top right & bottom left pairs in group photo are sold

Woven Bag ~ 1/Front Woven Bag ~ 1/Back 7” wide ~ 8” long * *

Woven Bag ~ 2

Crocheted Bag ~ 1

Woven Bag ~ 3 / Front Woven Bag ~ 3/Back * *

Medicine Bone Pendants, Hand Pieces & Animal Bone Earrings

by Eliberto Jimenez Eliberto is an indigenous artist, musician & healer from Maya Zoque roots. He creates powerful, one-of-a-kind, spiritually imbued bone Medicine pieces to wear or place on altars, & inlaid bone Medicine earrings. They are made from Horse, Deer, Wild Bull bones, Buffalo or Deer antlers collected in his Medicine walks or traded with Native people. He then purifies the bone over his smoked-oven fire for a month & blesses them with Maya copal. In the process of carving, he either dreams the Power Animal of each piece or allows the Spirit of the bone to speak to him for creating these truly unique tools. The results are strong allies which truly help you call higher protection, great shamanic healing & beneficial spirits in your life.

For a special order with your Spirit Animal, spiritual symbols can include: Men or Women spiritual warrioress (or both), Fetus for rebirth, Corn for Earth abundance, Sun with amber, Moon with abalone & Star energies, or any other sacred symbols that the artist tune into or you would wish for your Medicine piece.

Eliberto’s Hand/Altar Medicine Pieces These pieces can be used for your journeys & meditations & be held in your hand for greater healing & connections, they can also be placed on your altars, wrapped or unwrapped, or placed in your medicine bundles. They are power pieces & are imbued by Eliberto, Maya shaman, with great energies of activation & sacred healing.

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Birthing Awehai Star Woman ~ New * This greatly healing Medicine piece represents the Mohawk myth of the origins of Awehai Star woman who descended from the Pleiades & gathered in her arms all the seeds of plants, animal beings & so forth. She was pregnant as she fell through the universe & landed in the Ocean of our planet where Turtle offered her back to receive her sacred Star being. She then spread all the seeds & animals she had collected, gave birth to her twins thus becoming the great Mother of us all, humanity.

The powerful piece is carved in a naturally shed Deer antler for Trust & Rejuvenation/regeneration. She holds her child while holding with her left hand (the side of her heart) the star Venus made of red coral & turquoise, the star of Life & Death in the Maya tradition. Over her head, at her crown chakra, she holds the Earth made of a lovely Maya jade for dreaming & manifesting the Dream of the Earth. The lapis lazuli represents Mercury, the star of the future spiritual evolution of our humanity that she visited upon her descent to the Earth.

This is a great altar piece for manifesting & helping you birth your true vision & mission in this world as well as removing hindrances on your path to accomplish your sacred purpose in the future. A most effective healing & protective piece against negative energies, it also calls your inner power to connect with your highest, spiritual Self, move beyond the blocks of the ego & release past karma.

$315 9.5"

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Kukulcan Plumed Serpent Woman ~ New * This extraordinary, exquisitely carved, Medicine masterpiece represents the Return of the Plumed Serpent for these times as prophesized by the ancient Maya. The Plumed Serpent was a Maya high priest from Venus who brought a reign of peace & spiritually, advanced civilization to the Maya. It is said that his consciousness has started to return to the planet since the Harmonic convergence in 1987 from the 3rd Eye of the Americas which is in Chiapas & is increasingly growing to awaken all of humanity raising from the Earth in a movement of massive, rapid expansion. The Plumed Serpent announces the Return of the Feminine forces on Earth & in our human affairs while shattering in his passage the male, patriarchal forces which have created so much destruction to our beloved Mother & all her children. Beyond the ignorance of greed, exploitation & destruction of the female, this piece evokes the return to the true Circle of Life & the respect we all owe to the Feminine within each one of us so we can collectively, finally live in a way that is in harmony with the universe.

This Birthing piece represents the sacred, Spirit warrioress within who is pregnant of a rare Maya Lavender Jade. This stone endows the holder with the power of grounding & connectedness to receive all the energies of awareness raising from the Earth in these times. We can observe the Earth Serpent raising from the base of this naturally shed Elk antler for stamina & female energies, as Elk females always lead the path of their herds. Spirit Woman holds with her left hand the mouth of the Plumed Serpent directly becoming the channel for this return within her. Her right hand becomes the Quetzal bird for the transformation of the Earth Serpent into the prophesized Plumed Serpent ascending to the 13 Maya Upperworlds of Consciousness thus overcoming the 9 Underworlds of illnesses, vices, torments, darkness & death itself within the minds of humans. We can observe the tail of the Quetzal bird becoming the hair of the spiritual warrioress. There is the merging of the Sun & Moon for reaching the Totality within, which is made of amber & red coral. There are 4 corns to the side representing the true natural Abundance that the Earth vision confers to us at all times. It speaks of the end of fears, lack & victimhood, & the return of the natural economy based on the eternal feminine principles.

A major piece for manifesting your higher purpose, for becoming a powerful agent of higher consciousness & unconditional love on Earth, as well as helping you reach the perfect alignment needed to embody those returning energies in the world & truly inspiring others to do so as well.

$435 12"

Medicine Bone Pendants

“The first time I held Eliberto’s altar pieces in my hand 10 years ago, I felt a power & palpable presence of Spirit & real medicine in them. They were the most beautifully carved medicine pieces I had ever seen.

In December 2020, I was diagnosed with breast cancer & was going through a deep transitional period. I reached out to Ohki for a Birthing altar piece from Eliberto for my healing ceremonies. I bought one sight unseen & the moment I opened the package from Chiapas, I could feel the amazing power from this piece. It has helped me greatly through my recovery, has a special place upon my altar, where its medicine speaks to the cycle of life; in particular the transition between death & the birth of something new.

I highly recommend any of the Medicine items that Amalia or her father Eliberto make. Each piece is imbued with incredible healing wisdom. I feel so grateful & fortunate to have these truly unique & beautiful objects & pendants of Love & Spirit.” ~ F. S., MA student to Ohki for a decade

$105- $155 + shipping depending on the size & work Size: 1.5 - 2.7 inches

Lightning Horse * Carved in a Horse bone for Strength & Power, this powerful piece represents a Lightning Horse of the West for deepening the connection to the Earth, the Winds & the traveling of your life's walk. This Medicine Horse becomes a Spirit warrioress with her hair flowing with the winds of Freedom. Its beautiful red coral has the natural shadow of a Moon in it, which helps with the manifestation of one's desires in life. The lightning confers a strong alignment from Sky to Earth for the manifestation of abundance as well as great protection to the wearer. Inlay of black coral & abalone shell.

Carved in Horse bone ~ $135

Sun Twin Horse * Carved in a wild bull bone for groundedness, this medicine Horse helps you with enhancing your intuition & brings power to your walking in life. The male & female warriors as twins bring the balance & the totality of your being within to become a true human. This piece has beautiful amber with ancient fossils & represents the light of the Sun for the higher clarity, vision & power of purpose that is needed on your path. With inlays of turquoise, red & black coral.

Carved in wild Bull bone ~ $125

Raven Spirit * Carved on a Horse bone this powerful medicine piece represents Raven Spirit which assists you for deepening your healing process. It has a red coral in its mouth which symbolizes the Entrance into the Maya 5th Sun for the Return of the Feminine & the necessary Earth ways of this new era & to heal our world. The eye of the Raven is made of Lapis Lazuli for the higher discernment needed in the spiritual path & for enhancing your power of seeing what is not visible.

Carved in Horse bone ~ $150 ~ 3”

Hawk Spirit Woman * This amazing medicine piece speaks of the journey of our Spirit woman within. Placed in a fetus position she represents the rebirthing of the Feminine for the entire humanity as she holds in her hands the Earth/Moon lodge of woman in the world. Hawk Spirit is her totem animal for the messenger qualities of Spirit that hawk confers to the wearer. A piece to help you transmute all negative & depressive energies into higher hope, unconditional love & true joy of life. With inlays of turquoise & red coral.

$135

Buffalo Raven Spirit Woman * This exquisite Medicine piece is carved in a Buffalo bone for evoking the power of Compassion & the Earth connection within. Buffalo represents the grounding & rooting into the Earth & confers on you the vision of how to walk in a sacred manner on Earth. Raven helps you soar into Spirit & is also a great medicine for Healing all ailments. The feathers of Raven on the piece are not carved but are the natural, rugged finish of the bone. An abalone Moon is rising over the buffalo to help you be in touch with your true, inner Feminine self. With inlays of black & red corals.

Carved in Buffalo bone ~ $145

Lizard Spirit Woman

* This beautiful Dream piece helps you connect to the true Dream of the Earth & your inner sacred vision for life. The Spirit woman carries a Maya clay vessel on her head filled with water for her connection with the Source & her vision, & an abalone shell to represent the great healing powers of Ixchel, the Moon goddess, goddess of all Medicine. This Dream Lizard brings groundedness to your being & helps with your sacred manifestation. The 3 corns are calling abundance in your life & symbolize the Maya Underworld, the Earth plane & the Upperworld, thus creating great harmony & protection against negative & evil energies. With inlays of black & red corals.

Carved in Deer bone for Trust & Innocence - $105

Birthing Spirit Woman

* Carved in a Buffalo bone for Earth

connection, this magnificent

Medicine piece brings to the wearer Earth abundance, symbolized by 3 large corns for merging with the 3 worlds, Underworlds, Middle world or world of humans & Upperworlds. With a beautiful abalone shell, the Moon rising over the corn field is for the connection to your inner sacred dreams. There is a 4th baby corn at the very bottom of the piece for innocence, trust & playfulness on the path. The Spirit warrioress holds a water jug on her head for the Vision of the return of the Feminine in this earth plane. In the jar there is a fetus conferring inner birthing into true Spirit of the Self & the dream of the Earth. The umbilical cord of the child is attached to a skull to bring forth the death of all limitations & veils of the ego impeding higher growth. In the skull there are 3 inlays of red coral which once more symbolizes the source of the universe within & the 3 worlds or planes. With inlay of turquoise.

Carved in Buffalo bone ~ $145

Spirit Animal Bone Earrings These beautiful, one-of-a-kind Spirit Animal earrings are made from Horse, Deer, Wild Bull bones, & Deer antlers with abalone shell & a variety of semi- precious stones, which Eliberto collects in his Medicine Walks or trade with Native people. They are both wearable art & powerful Medicine. Length in inches without the silver hooks ~ Price + Shipping

Raven Spirit Earrings * Carved in a deer bone for trust with red corals & amethyst beads

$85 ~ 2” long

Howling Wolves to Earth Dream * Carved in deer bone for trust, turquoise & red coral beads

$75 ~ 2.5” long

Ascending Salmons for returning to the Source * Carved in wild cow bone for Mother energy, with shell beads & inlays of red coral & turquoise

$55 ~ 2.5” long

Landing Turtles for sacred Wisdom & Grounding * Carved in wild cow bone for Mother energy, with red coral beads & lapis lazuli

$55 ~ 1.8” long

Transformative Serpents for Renewal * Horse bone for inner intuition, inlays of lapis lazuli, red coral & turquoise

$75 ~ 2.25” long

Elk Earth Spirits * Carved in an elk bone for courage & determination with black & red corals for the Earth lodge & turquoise for the Maya 5th Sun

$95 ~ 2.5” long

Blue Corn for Abundance * Wild bull horn with turquoise beads & Chiapas amber

$40 ~ 2.25” long

Maya 5th Suns for Spirit Renewal & Soul Vitality * Carved in a translucent wild bull horn, with inlays of abalone shell & red coral

$85 ~ 2.5” long

4 Directions Lightning Balance & Power * on buffalo bone for grounding, with turquoise & red coral

$85 ~ 2 .62" long

Sacred Maya Copal

Copal is a resin from the Maya lands that is used for purification & for ceremonies. It comes in two forms: incense sticks & loose resin that can be burned in a clay bowl with a small charcoal.

Incense – 10 sticks @ $17

Sacred Maya Copal

Loose copal bags

Small 20 @ $20 Medium/Small 12 @ $22 Medium 3 @ $30

Sacred Maya Tobacco

Small 7 @ $15 Medium 5 @ $20 Large 9 @25

Ohki’s Book

DREAMING the COUNCIL WAYS: True Native Teachings from the Red Lodge $25 each +shipping In Dreaming the Council Ways, Ohki integrates diverse matriarchal Native teachings & prophecies – from Mohawk, Mongolian & Maya shamanic ways (among others) – to create a modern, healing synthesis of sacred spiritual wisdom & invites us all to explore anew this ancient knowledge. With profound insight & clarity, Ohki helps us rediscover the sacred Earth, where all races can live together in harmony & leads us on an inner journey into the Red Lodge, which has been long misunderstood by the Western world. She initiates us into the world of Power animal teachings, dreaming practices, Native healing ways, & the Shaman’s tree of life. This incredible book & most important wisdom today is a deep call to hear the Earth awakening within each of us, as foretold by ancient prophecies, & to embrace the Medicine Wheel - the Great Shield of Understanding - as a “map” for our lives & the pathway to our home within.

Review from Amazon.com

A comprehensive & poetic reporting of long misunderstood ways of the Red Lodge of indigenous peoples. Forest offers compelling evidence that the perspective from the Red Lodge is what the world requires for individual & collective restoration to balance & well-being. She shows in detail how the Red Lodge ways provide, through the Native Council & Medicine Wheel ways, an Earth-derived map to self- governance that modern people are questing for in many forms. With tremendous precision & clarity, she demonstrates how the Council ways prepares us to relate to planet & self in ways that naturally unmask & transform our egos, self- importance, isolating individualism & cultural trance. This is a powerful work to which those who study or practice shamanic work will refer again & again.

Shamanic CDs Ohki has created a series of Drum CDs & 8 ancient Native meditations that are most healing, centering & effective to our spiritual growth.

Drum & Teaching CDs: $20 each / 1 Hour each 8 Teaching CDs: $150 Full Set of 9 CDs (includes Drumming CD): $170 + shipping Also available on MP3s

Red Wind Drum CD With a collective effort of Native musicians, Ohki created a Drum CD with an exquisite blend of pre-Colombian instruments to lead the spiritual seeker in shamanic journey. This CD contains 2 tracks, 30 min. each

Maya Water Dreaming Spirit Vision Hunting A Resourcing Journey A Purpose Journey

An inspiring & soothing experience Associated with Spirit, Wind, Sun & to the rhythm of Maya clay drums, Higher Self, journey to the steady ocarina flutes, sea conchs & gentle beats of Native drums, the melody cascades in an atmosphere of of cedar flute & Ohki’s Indian magical jungle sounds. The singing taking you to the Council of regenerative music carries you into Chiefs, Thunder & Wolves. This the realm of a dreaming journey centering journey helps you find with the elements of Water, Earth, answers to your personal questions Moon & the feminine source of all & develop the capacity for life. manifesting & having clear purpose on your path.

Shamanic Teaching CDs 8 CDs of Native Teachings that feature 4 Meditation CDs & 4 Journey CDs

Presented with a beautiful color booklet of teachings, Ohki brings spoken guidance & medicine through enlivening, gentle music to enhance your spiritual practice. Recorded 20 years ago in the jungle of Chiapas, Ohki is accompanied by her indigenous musicians on pre- Columbian Maya clay drums, bells & flutes.

4 Native Meditation CDs

The Medicine Wheel for Sacred Purpose

One of the most ancient meditations, the Medicine Wheel trains the mind to be more circular, as opposed to linear thinking. It helps you to find your center & move from inside out, rather than outside in as in the common linear thinking that creates imbalances. Frequent practice helps you be

grounded & present.

The Rainbow Warrioress for Conscious Transformation

This meditation activates & heals your physical, emotional, mental & spiritual bodies through the 7 colors of the rainbow & the 7 powers necessary for your sacred purpose. With Rainbow Warrioress you learn the qualities of different crystals to enhance your inner balance & daily awareness.

The Plumed Serpent for Spiritual Revolution

The Maya foretold the return of the Plumed Serpent for these times as the high consciousness of a rising snake from underneath the Earth, shaking the world of patriarchal paradigms. This timely, enlightening meditation prepares you for new emerging energies. A healing meditation to develop your divinity within & help reduce personal concerns & self-grasping.

The Four Elements for Divine Protection

This powerful meditation develops your relationship to the 4 Elemental spirits of Earth, Water, Fire & Air. By cultivating detachment & impersonality, & by developing gratitude toward nature’s gifts, you overcome fear, anxiety, depression & illness through the regular practice of this meditation where you learn essential Circles of Protection against negativity.

4 Native Journey CDs

The Cavern of Dreams Enter Magical Reality

For eons, Natives have taught that the dreamtime is the reality & this reality is the dream. Gaining greater detachment in seeing daily reality as a dream helps you to not over- analyze or over-dramatize. In this journey, you are guided to travel to the Moon to enhance the power of your dream body & develop a greater connection to your dreams & spirit.

The Regions of Mystery Reach Universal Source

The Regions of Mystery are called Xibalba by the ancient Maya, which refers to the Underworlds. This profound journey is an initiation into Xibalba’s 9 passages in order to find the source of your being & all that exists in the universe. A journey CD to gain awareness of your fears, clear inner shadows, & release suffering, hardships & obstacles.

The Hands of Earth & The Eyes of Sun / both journeys on the same CD

The Hands of Earth The Eyes of Sun Touch the Sacred Dream See the Spirit World

In Native ways, touching means not This transformative journey only touching with your hands, but develops your inner perception also with your heart. Connect to the beyond the form & surface of things. circle of sacred Life by feeling the Soar like an eagle into the light & hands of all people & celebrating shadows of the world for a deep together the flame of joy in the heart reflection about your spiritual & dream of Earth for overcoming responsibility & overcome the feelings of isolation & separateness. barriers of materialism & individualism within yourself.

The Roots of Earth & The Voice of Void / both journeys on the same CD

The Roots of Earth The Voice of Void Feel Divine Passion Hear the Power of Silence

A profound journey to meet with This journey guides you to realize Awehai, spirit goddess of Earth, & the nature of emptiness, where enter the sacred circle on her silence is beyond all sounds. In Turtle’s back where time & space order to find our source & spirit are one. This journey helps within, we must hear with our eyes rekindle the sacred flame of divine & see with our ears. Experience the passion within you & reconnect nature of the Void, which is divine with the totality of your true nature. harmony living at the heart of the universe.