Maria Teresa Valenzuela is a Mexican Indigenous woman that comes from a lineage of healers and curanderos in the Sierra Madre. She presently lives in Guanajuato, Mexico, where she is well known as a spiritual teacher and healer who uses the Shamanic medicine taught by her grandmother and father. She has worked with healer/shamans in Mexico, Peru, Equador and with indigenous elders from the Maya culture of Guatamala.
Maria Teresa has a wealth of knowledge of Meso-American wisdom, myths and traditional forms of indigenous medicine and healing. She travels the Americas to share this wisdom, drawing on her heritage, life experience and training as a practitioner of healing.
Workshop: The Children as Prophets: Bringing Peace to the World Sunday, January 21
Santa Fe Room 10:45am to 12:00 noon
Indigenous prophets predict that these times we are living will be either a time of spiritual and technological progress or a time of turmoil and cataclysm. A question we must all ask ourselves is. " What condition will we leave the planet, its resources for children?"
Many young, wise voices are speaking out about their responsibility to the sacred stewardship of the planet. They speak of healing mother earth and bringing her into balance, they talk of peace, and dream of a better world for their children. How critical it is to listen to the voice of the future caretakers of our mother earth.
Goal:
Through the art of the children, you will better understand how the they are creating their future
Objectives:
• To better understand the kind of future we are creating for our children,
• To better understand what children have to teach us through their drawings of
their future, and
• To find solutions for the relationship of the planet and our children.
Workshop: The Earth's Evolving Consciousness: Indigenous Perspective on the Ancient Prophesies of Meso-America as Related to Modern Times
Monday, January 22, 2007
Santa Fe Room 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Indigenous prophets of ancient and modern times believe that the new millennium may be a time of spiritual and technological progress, or a time of war, turmoil, and cataclysm. The Virgin of the Americas-Guadalupe appeared as a prophecy to the Aztec people approximately 500 years ago with four individual messages during a time of turmoil by the Spanairds. In this program, Maria Teresa discusses the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a prophecy under the Spanish Conquest and, drawing from that period of time in history, will explore the concept of prophecy as a way of understanding the challenges of the times in which we are living.. She discusses how ancient wisdom and healing practices can help people and communities today.
Goals:
To bring together the historical and spiritual understanding of the Aztec Era, Spanish Conquest, and the Apparition of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe in Mexico as a act of prophecy approximately 500 years ago; to bring that period of history into the times we are presently living as a new prophecy for our new story as humanity.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the concept of prophecy in ancient and present times
• Bring awareness to the significance of the great turning point in history in the time of the Aztecs and the Appariton as related to the crossroads we face today
• Bring consicousness to the psychology of what we are creating today to move us into our future history