YAWANAWÁ traditional UNÍ ceremony
we will offer 2 traditional uní ceremonies, with traditional dance, medicines of hapé shared.
if you wish to participate in both ceremonies please select 2 per participant in the quantity section of this page.
our traditional uni ceremonies will be guided by
chief Nixiwaka, putanny, peû, nawashahu, mukashahu, mukaveine and saku, all of whom have accomplished the one-year diet necessary to become a spiritual leader, healer and being allowed to share the medicine of uní.
in these ceremonies we will consecrate their sacred uní, will be guided by their traditional chants to invoke the force of the forest and guide the energies of the space and each individual, traditional songs and dance will be shared.
during the ceremony they will offer the medicines of rumê [hapé] and traditional dance.
after ceremony we will share soup and you are welcome to sleep and rest in the ceremonial space for as long as you need.
we will offer 2 traditional uní ceremonies, with traditional dance, medicines of hapé shared.
if you wish to participate in both ceremonies please select 2 per participant in the quantity section of this page.
our traditional uni ceremonies will be guided by
chief Nixiwaka, putanny, peû, nawashahu, mukashahu, mukaveine and saku, all of whom have accomplished the one-year diet necessary to become a spiritual leader, healer and being allowed to share the medicine of uní.
in these ceremonies we will consecrate their sacred uní, will be guided by their traditional chants to invoke the force of the forest and guide the energies of the space and each individual, traditional songs and dance will be shared.
during the ceremony they will offer the medicines of rumê [hapé] and traditional dance.
after ceremony we will share soup and you are welcome to sleep and rest in the ceremonial space for as long as you need.
we will offer 2 traditional uní ceremonies, with traditional dance, medicines of hapé shared.
if you wish to participate in both ceremonies please select 2 per participant in the quantity section of this page.
our traditional uni ceremonies will be guided by
chief Nixiwaka, putanny, peû, nawashahu, mukashahu, mukaveine and saku, all of whom have accomplished the one-year diet necessary to become a spiritual leader, healer and being allowed to share the medicine of uní.
in these ceremonies we will consecrate their sacred uní, will be guided by their traditional chants to invoke the force of the forest and guide the energies of the space and each individual, traditional songs and dance will be shared.
during the ceremony they will offer the medicines of rumê [hapé] and traditional dance.
after ceremony we will share soup and you are welcome to sleep and rest in the ceremonial space for as long as you need.
Since time immemorial Yawanawa people have lived in harmony with nature on the banks of the Gregorio river in the Amazonian region that concentrates the greatest biodiversity on the planet. In this rich habitat, their ancestors developed a vast knowledge of the healing plants of the forest and a worldview of great spiritual wisdom.
Their contact with western man happened a little more than a hundred years ago, very violently, initially with enslavement by the rubber barons and later by foreign protestant missionaries that forbid indigenous culture and spirituality. At the end of the last century, the Yawanawa regained the rights to their lands, drove away the missionaries and since then have been leading a process of cultural and spiritual revival that has crossed national boundaries and today fascinates the world.
The Yawa Festival is of major significance in this process, and has been held annually since 2001. Initially designed to restore and strengthen traditional culture among the natives, it quickly attracted international attention, and represents today an important milestone in the revival of the Amazonian ancestral cultures, serving as an example for several other tribes to follow the same path.
The traditional village where first contact was made is today a space dedicated exclusively to spirituality. Known as the Sacred Village, it is home to the burial grounds of their ancestors, a garden with more than 2,700 varieties of medicinal plants and is where the initiation of their spiritual leaders is carried out through isolation and plant diets.
