Join us for an opportunity to share and practice together, invoking the ancient wisdom of the Tubu Hummurimassä Nation to align ourselves with the tides and rhythms, death and renewal of our timeless human story. This is an invitation to experience the ways that ancestral wisdom can teach us of our place as humans within the web of life.
Guided by Imika Tariru and the plants of knowledge of the Anaconda Canoe, we will turn to the ancestral healing stories, chants and ritual dances of the Tubu Hummurimassä Nation to rediscover what it means to live as a healthy and conscious society.
Imika Tariru of the TUBÚ HɄMMɄRIMASA Nation is a wisdom keeper, healer, spiritual guide, and dancer of the Jaguars of the Yurupari. He was raised in community on the banks of the Paca River, a tributary of the Apaporis River, under the guidance of his father Hummugubu. The TUBÚ Nation originally comes from the region on the eastern border of Colombia with Brazil, between the APAPORIS River, Vaupés (Col.) and Rio Negro River (Br). According to Oral history, their true origins are from Sirius.
Due to diverse situations of internal conflict in Colombia, many of the few Tubu families have been displaced, and are currently settled in Bogotá. After a long process of healing and adaptation, they realized that the best they could do was to share their ancestral knowledge of how to rebuild and maintain a healthy and conscious society.
Imika’s life in the urban context has not been easy, but in sharing this extraordinarily pertinent knowledge for our times, he has met a challenge that brings purpose. Always ready to listen, Imika teaches by example in action, sharing freely and always ready to keep learning in this great “theater of life”.
Imika is the founder of the TUBÚ HɄMMɄRIMASA Urban Council and the creator of the SUARY project. These collectives serve as ways to reunite the community, defend their rights and find a relevant place for their legacy in these new times. As a dancer of the Yurupary, a complex shamanic system shared by more than 20 different indigenous nations bonded by intermarriage, he is a keeper of an incredible knowledge on how to interweave and color the paths of life, sharing and exchanging from simplicity and in deep respect and honoring for our human diversity. Imika’s teachings offer an alternative way of relating to the world and the complexities of life and an ancient yet practical way to break down the barriers that separate and classify humans.
“ I believe in the construction of a society associated with dance - the peak of human knowledge and maximum vehicle for healing, transmitted in stories. Within the dances, there are collective strategies that allow for a weaving and intersecting of paths as a way to create balance for humanity. The meaning of dancing and listening to the stories is to be able to maintain the health of the community from within our differences.”
We will explore
Ancestral technology of the Story: “healing stories” - different from what we know as myths - stories that offer us a framework for a different kind of thinking. Stories that reveal cyclical tendencies that recur throughout time and space, offering ageless wisdom that speaks to the current world reality of our times.
The science and art of dialogue, conflict resolution and deep listening as aided by plant medicines.
The correct use and “place” of the medicines of the Anaconda canoe. We will be working with Mambe (coca), Ambil (tobacco paste), Murundi (tobacco snuff/rapé) and San Pedro, learning the songs, dances and stories associated to each medicine.
Weaving from and within our differences - finding the complementarity between ancient wisdom and modern ideas to forge a common path.
Profound and very practical wisdom about the proper use of plants of knowledge - their stories, songs and traditions and millennial wisdom for how plants are used as a complement to building and sustaining a healthy society.
Ancestral dances, songs and stories that contain “healing codes” - knowledge embodied and encoded in expressive, vibrational form - as a spiritual technology for community healing.
Identifying our own particular role and place within our own communities as revealed through the Tubú ancestral Healing Story of Origin.
Rediscovering fundamental practices of healthy communal living.
Awakening to our original freedom and sovereignty - as taught by the wisdom of a people that had no need for these words, because they were born fundamentally free and sovereign
SHARING THE WORD
For the Tubú Nation, ancestral memory is kept alive in the practice of sharing of the Word: The Ajphy bará: the “mambeadero”. Ajphy bará is a meeting place of dialogue for daily life, where situations created by the “dizziness of life” are solved, and where future actions are envisioned and planned.
Through listening to ancestral healing stories, participants are invited to internalize an awareness and respect for the differences between us. Communication is supported by the medicines of the Anaconda Canoë of Knowledge: Murú (tabaco), Ajphy and Nomé - mambe (coca powder), Ambil (tobacco paste) and Murundi (tobacco snuff or rapé). These medicines are always present in the context of the mambeadero, shared under the guidance of the Wisdomkeeper.
The space of the mambeadero offers original teachings, stories, songs, dances and orientation on the correct use of each plant of knowledge that is part of the Anaconda Canoë. Each medicine has its history, its dance and its song. TUBÚ HɄMMɄRIMASA ancestral wisdom teaches how to use and share each plant of knowledge with respect, taking care of the conditions needed for them to help us build a more conscious society..
The AJPHY BARÁ is a space for teaching about the fundamental values upheld in the socio-economic and political organization of the Tubú Hummurimasa societal weaving: the importance and value of collective work, knowledge about food and its cultivation, the community-building value in the work of planting and harvesting; dance, song, crafts and music. All of this is shared with respect for the other, as a great celebration in the meeting with life.
BRAVE EARTH
Brave Earth, Center for Applied Cultural Transition, is a living laboratory rooted in principles of regeneration, resiliency and reciprocity. We provide immersive experiences in Nature that share alternative ways of living and being that are suitable for modernity and contextually relevant for the rapidly changing world we live in.
Immerse yourself in the majesty and mystery of the rainforest. Brave Earth is located between San Ramon and La Fortuna, nestled in between Arenal Volcano and the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, the largest reserve of protected wildlife in Costa Rica.
As a living lab, we have experimented with different building modalities using AirCrete and materials sourced on the land including bamboo and adobe. We have implemented biophilic design, closed-loop systems and permaculture design principles. Ornamental, food, and medicinal gardens surround the center as well as hiking trials to a nearby river, and a natural swimming pond.
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MEET YOUR GUIDES
Claude Guislain
Claude is a Peruvian anthropologist spending most of his time with indigenous peoples in Peru, Colombia and Brazil. With his first research about westerners’ use of ayahuasca and shamanism in Iquitos (2005-2007), he started the journey that brought him to dedicate his life to bridging indigenous wisdom and the modern world. Through more than fifteen years dedicated almost exclusively to supporting both indigenous healers and western patients and explorers he has been at service to the healing processes of hundreds of people. He has been working and training with the Shipibo since 2013, helping the Lopez family build their own center and he has also been a facilitator, advisor and team member of the Temple of the Way of Light since 2015. He has been working and learning from an Arhuaco mamo since 2012 and lately also has been very close to the Yawanawa people from Brazil.
Today he is an advisor and member of the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund and he also collaborates closely with ICEERS, and other organizations, inspiring and helping them to weave their efforts and gifts with indigenous processes on the ground. Moved by the firm conviction that a true alliance between ancestral wisdom and the modern world will bring forth a new paradigm of hope for humanity, he has been learning and collaborating with Imika since 2017. Imika’s teachings, the stories, the theories and the spiritual science of the Tubu Hummurimassa nation, could very well be the missing link we’ve been waiting for so that this alliance can be manifested.
Jessica Begin
Jessica has been supporting ceremonial healing work for the past 15 yrs. She has worked as a facilitator at some of the leading medicine healing centers in Peru and Costa Rica, including the Temple of the Way of Light, Niwe Rao Xobo Reunion, and Soltara Healing center. Currently, Jessica supports the indigenous led healing center Niwe Rao Xobo, as program director, facilitator and integration coach. Along with her teachers, Jessica hosts Master Plant diets and retreats in the Peruvian Amazon as well as abroad, including yearly dietas at Brave Earth. She brings to her work precision, clarity, artistry, sensitivity, care and passion.
Fluent in Spanish, French and Portuguese, Jessica is passionate about bridging cultures. She has worked globally as a translator and interpreter in several international indigenous and environmental gatherings. She first connected with Imika in Colombia six years ago, while on a personal quest to learn about the origins and correct use of coca and mambé. Deeply touched by the relevance of Tubú ancestral wisdom and stories for our times, she is delighted to support the bridging of this wisdom to the world!