Lift the Earth: Bringing Peace To Our Ancestors (Four Day Option)
With Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Grandmother Clara Shinobu Iura, Grandmother Mona Polacca, Grandmother Rita Blumenstein, Grandmother Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance, Grandmother Flordemayo, Grandmother Maria Alice Campos, Chief Phil Lane, Dr. Henrietta Mann, Jussara Korngold, Robert A.F. Thurman, Maya Tiwari, Anne Marie Miller, Tim Guinee and Julia Walsh
September 19 - 23, 2019
Taking place on World Peace Day and the Fall Equinox, LIFT THE EARTH is a four-day event, from September 19-22, which includes the participation of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, Dr. Henrietta Mann, Chief Phil Lane, Dr. Robert Thurman and other spiritual leaders and activists from around the world.
This gathering will include interactive dialogue, prayer circles and teachings on ancestral healing, water and land issues, and the future for the generations to come.
Join us for this special event and participate in this world-wide collective prayer for outer and inner peace.
Full Program Tuition: $520
4 Day Commuter Fee (No Meals): $100 * Lunch and dinner will be available for purchase provided by Veggie Oassis food tent on site
4 Night Accommodations with Meals: $392 – $724
Schedule
Thursday, September 19th
- 3 – 6pm Check-in
- 4pm Sweatlodge
- 6 – 7:30pm Dinner
- 8pm Fireside Storytelling – Grandmother Agnes, Grandmother Flordemayo, Grandmother Rita, and Marie Meade
Friday, September 20th
- 6am Sweatlodge
- 7:30 – 9am Breakfast
- 9:30am Opening Ceremony – Grandmothers Prayer Ceremony
- 12 – 1:30pm Lunch
- 2:30pm Bringing Peace to Our Ancestors: Our Shared Heritage – Grandmother Bernadette, Grandmother Maria Alice, Chief Phil Lane and Maya Tiwari
- 6 – 7:30pm Dinner
- 8pm Panel on Reincarnation – Dr. Robert Thurman, Maya Tiwari and Jussara Korngold
Saturday, September 21st
- 6am Sweatlodge
- 7:30 – 9am Breakfast
- 10am World Peace Day – Chief Phil Lane, Grandmothers Council and Special Guests
- 12 – 1:30pm Lunch
- 2:30 – 4pm Water Forum – Grandmother Agnes, Grandmother Mona and Grandmother Maria Alice
- 4 – 5:30pm Sacred Land Forum – Grandmother Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance, Grandmother Clara, Dr. Henrietta Mann
- 6pm – 7:30pm Dinner
- 7:30pm The Peace Mandala with Maya Tiwari
- 9:30pm Altar Prayer – Prayers and Music with the Grandmothers Council and Special Guests
Sunday, September 22nd
- 6am Sweatlodge
- 7:30 – 9am Breakfast
- 9:30 – 11:30am Call to Action: Grandmother Maria Alice, Chief Phil Lane, Tim Guinee, Julia Walsh , Anne Marie Miller
- 11:45am – 1:00 pm Future Generations: Grandmother Mona, Dr. Henrietta Mann, Júlia Freire de Medeiro
- 12 – 1:30pm Lunch
- 2pm Grandmother’s Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation book presentation and book signing with the Grandmothers Council
- 4:30pm Closing & Gifting Ceremony
- 6pm Departure for 3 Day Program participants
- 6 – 7:30pm Dinner
- Quiet Night for Spa and Relaxation
Monday, September 23rd (Extra night)
- 7 – 8am Morning Yoga with Golriz
- 8 – 11am Check-out of Rooms
- 7:30 – 9am Breakfast
- 9am -12pm Free time for Relaxation & Spa
- 12 – 1:30pm Lunch and Departure
*Please note that program is subject to change
We invite all participants to join us for a more intimate experience with the grandmothers after the main event. Our three women’s circles will take place September 23rd – 25th. For more information regarding these extended retreats please use links below.
Women’s Circle Immersion One: The Vision of Spirituality in Africa
Women’s Circle Immersion Four: Prayers, Vision, Wisdom & Spirituality Of The Maya
About the Leaders
Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim
Agnes Baker Pilgrim (Federated Tribes of Siletz) is the oldest living member of her tribe. Grandmother Agnes has been honored as a treasure of her people. She brought back the traditional Salmon Ceremony along with other traditions that were soon forgotten. She is the oldest on the Council at age 94 and the spokesperson for […]
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Grandmother Clara Shinobu Iura
Born in the State of Sao Paulo Brazil, Clara studied philosophy at the University of Sao Paulo. Through her experiences of Clairvoyance and mediumship, she has initiated many teachings from macrobiotics to Umbanda. After helping with the curing of Padrinho Sebastiao, spiritual leader of one of the Santo Daime's largest churches, she was invited to […]
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Grandmother Mona Polacca
Mona, a Hopi/Havasuai/Tewa elder has a Master of Social Work degree and has recently been chosen as a member of the World Council of Religious and Spiritual Leaders due to her international justice work. She has worked on issues of Indigenous Peoples especially related to the Right to Water, social and health issues, including the […]
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Grandmother Rita Blumenstein
Rita worked as a traditional healer in the South Central Hospital in Anchorage as a tribal doctor using plant and energy medicine and now travels tirelessly healing and teaching the was of her grandmother. Rita is currently employed with South Central Foundation as a tribal doctor using plant and energy medicine. At age nine, Rita's […]
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Grandmother Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance
Unci means grandmother in Lakota. Unci Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance is Oglala Lakota, she was born in the SW corner of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. She still lives on the land that was allotted to her great grandparents over 100 years ago. Unci Rita cherishes and advocates her traditional Lakota ways […]
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Grandmother Flordemayo
Born the youngest of 15 children in the highlands of Central America, Flordemayo was found at an early age – like others in her family – to have the gift of Sight. By age four, she was being trained in the art of curanderismo, which had been handed down from mother to daughter for many […]
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Grandmother Maria Alice Campos
Maria Alice Campos Freire is a healer with Amazonian plant medicine, leader of Umbanda ceremonies and founder of Centro Medicina do Floresta (Forest Medicine Center) which offers healing flower essences internationally. She has developed research and healing methods with plants of the Amazon, as well as education programs for children about the preservation of nature […]
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Chief Phil Lane
Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. is an enrolled member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations and is an internationally recognized leader in human, community, and economic development. During the past 50 years, Chief Lane has worked with Indigenous Peoples from the Americas, Micronesia, South East Asia, China, India, Bhutan, Hawaii, and Africa. He served […]
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Dr. Henrietta Mann
Dr. Henri Mann is a Cheyenne enrolled with the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes and she is the founding President of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College. Dr. Mann was the first individual to occupy the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, BOZEMAN, where she is Professor Emeritus and continues to serve as Special […]
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Jussara Korngold
Jussara Korngold, BS, MBA. Jussara is the founder and president of the Spiritist Alliance for Books (SAB), a non-profit organization, which has the aim to promote and disseminate Spiritism, in English, as codified by Allan Kardec. Mrs. Korngold is also one of the founders and president of the Spiritist Group of New York, located in […]
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Robert A.F. Thurman
Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University as well as co-founder and President of Tibet House US and it's Menla Retreat & Spa. A world-wide lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, activist for the plight of the Tibetan people, translator of Buddhist texts, and writer of popular Buddhist books. He recently has been awarded […]
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Maya Tiwari
Maya Tiwari is an extra-ordinary spiritual teacher revered by thousands of people whose lives were transformed by her healing presence. For the past 35 years, Maya has been filling a significant void in world culture as spiritual mother, nurturer, and healer–a living personification of harmony. A world-class spiritual teacher, she is the founder of The […]
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Anne Marie Miller
Anne Marie Miller is the Founder & Executive Director of Indigenous Celebration, a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization currently serving 19 tribes in the Amazon with a mission to preserve the forest and it’s wisdom by empowering the world’s indigenous through a celebration of culture. Ms. Miller founded IC with the understanding that an intrinsic wisdom […]
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Tim Guinee
Tim Guinee is an American stage, television, and feature film actor. Tim has given presentations on the climate crisis all over the United States as well as in Canada and North Africa. He enjoys giving talks to oppositional and underserved audiences including such diverse groups as conservative fire departments, Houston oil industry executives, and maximum security inmates. He […]
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Julia Walsh
Julia Walsh is a community organizer and political strategist who has worked on progressive issues and campaigns for twenty years. Julia is the co-founder and director of We Stand United, a new organization that works to unite the power of popular culture with grassroots organizing to advance social change. In 2010, she started Frack Action […]
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