Huni Kuin Ceremonial retreat

Who is coming from Brazil to the Netherlands?
Yubeinu: With 14 years of experience in the Nixi Paē medicine, Yubeinu is a young apprentice of the Huni Kuin tradition, bringing stories and knowledge of his people, ancestors and their living culture, straight from Acre, in the Amazon rainforest.
In addition, he is a young Txana chief, son of Siã Inu Bake Huni Kuin, who is the son of Isaka Huni Kuin, known as Chico Barbosa. His grandfather, who has already passed away, was the one who demarcated the Katukina Kaxinawá indigenous territory.
Txana Diet: The Japiim bird diet is a rigorous practice performed using the bird's beak to open voices and knowledge.
For 12 years, Yubeinu maintained a 3-month diet each year, which includes putting chili peppers on her tongue with the bird's beak (Txana) along with a diet of Mani Mutsa (banana), Atsa Mutsa (manioc), Sheki Mutsa (corn porridge), and no intimate contact with her partner.
It is a very strict diet where salt, sugar, meat, and fish are strictly prohibited. The diet must be carried out every year and, whenever she leaves the village for external work, a period of isolation and diet is required, which varies between 1 and 3 months.
Shãkuany: Yubeinu's wife, Shãkuany is a young apprentice of the Huni Kuin tradition, an artist who brings the history of her people, their ancestral culture, music, dances, arts, and the knowledge of the elders. Born in the Pupunha Village, she has lived with her partner in the São Francisco Village since 2018.
She began the Txana diet at the age of 6 for two years and was introduced to medicine by the shaman Huabusa. She was baptized as a child and followed the boa constrictor diet until the age of 10, eating only traditional food without salt or refined sugar. She is currently studying Huni Kuin chants and prayers and is being initiated into herbal studies and baths to become a midwife at the São Francisco Village -
Nia Ibu Isaka. She is preparing for the Nixpu-Pima diet, a ceremony where one receives strength and powers from the spirits of nature through sacred songs and prayers.
MaêjeTxima: At 61 years old, grandmother of Shãkuany, MaêjeTxima is an elder of the Huni Kuin tradition, born in the rubber plantation of the Purus River. She lives with her granddaughter and has the gift of spirituality, communicating with her ancestors. She learned about the forest, herbs and diets from the spirits of her great-grandparents.
They have already followed several diets from their indigenous tradition and today they pass on their knowledge to their granddaughters and children. In addition to working with forest medicines, they develop storytelling, games, dances, body painting, craft workshops and conversation circles.
They come to the Netherlands to share the Huni Kuin culture, the history of struggle, the journey with ancestral medicines, the current situation in the villages of the Envira River and the social policies adopted.
Yubeinu, Shãkuany and MaêjeTxima are from the Huni Kuin people of the São Francisco village (Me Nia Ibu Isaka), located on the lower Envira River. They work to rescue the Huni Kuin culture, which has suffered great losses due to exploitation, by rescuing their traditional medicines, Hãtxa Kuî language and ancestral prayers. The meetings aim to pass on knowledge, information, prayers and ancestral and holistic wisdom to those who feel in their hearts the desire to add this knowledge to their journey of self-knowledge.

Join 2 night of traditional ceremony

you can book a kambo ceremony or individual healing session extra

Let" s gather around the Sacred Fire to Dance and Pray celebrating Life is Sacred
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