RECORDING & PRESENTER VIDEOS — Heart & Mind Festival

Maestro Manuel Rufino

Maestro Manuel Rufino is a recognized elder in the Taino tradition and World Director of M.A.I.S.C. He is a spiritual guide, gifted ceremonial leader and teacher of sacred initiatic traditions of the world. He is the founder of the Golden Drum and the Heart & Mind Festival.

Chief Arvol and Paula Looking Horse

Arvol Looking Horse is widely recognized as a chief and the spiritual leader of all three branches of the Sioux tribe, The Lakota, Nakota & Dakota Nations.

Paula Looking Horse in an accomplished traditional Dakota singer and artist. She has been involved in Native rights for over 40 years.

Maestro Domingo Dias Porta & Maria Guadalupe Abundis de Dias (Lupita)

Maestro Domingo Dias Porta has founded and organized cultural and spiritual activities in almost all countries in the Americas, in 10 European countries, Israel and Morocco.

Lupita graduated with a Masters Degree in primary education in 1982. She is director of the Superior Course in Theurgy and works with many women’s groups.

Tommy Harevis

Tommy Harevis is a Polish flautist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. Inspired by native cultures, he creates highly atmospheric music using ethnic instruments from all over the world.

Tata Pedro Cruz & Nana Marina Cruz

Tata Pedro Cruz is one of the few surviving members of the Mayan Council of the Elders of Tz’utujil. He is one of the principal authorities of the Council of Mayan Elders of Lake Atitlan in Guatamala.

Nana Marina Cruz is a healer, ceremonial leader and spiritual guide from the Tz ́utujil Tribe. She also teaches native Mayan languages.

Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser

Rabbi Yom Tov has been teaching as a senior Rabbi at Aish Hatorah in Jerusalem, Israel since 2000. In 2002, he founded “The Possible You” self-transformation seminar, which has helped thousands around the world to break through deep emotional and psychological blocks and deepen their connection with spirituality.

Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, non-profit and political activist, and spiritual thought leader. She is the author of 14 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times best sellers. She is the founder of Project Angel Food, a non-profit that has delivered more than 12 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989.

Mamo Rodgrigo Barros & Teyuna Wisdom Keepers

Mamo Rodrigo comes from a family of Mamos and his sister is a Zaga. He speaks Wiwa, Damana as well as Spanish. He is a teacher of Spanish subjects and Ancestral Wisdom, as well as community leader, musician and storyteller. He acts as a bridge between his people and the Western World.

Paulani Case (Pua)

Pua’s life path and purpose led her to become a Kumu Hula, a teacher of traditional dance and chant, and a teacher of the ways, culture, and traditions of the kanaka maoli, native peoples of Hawai’i. Pua has integrated ‘Ike Hawai’i or Hawaiian knowledge and lessons into the public school system for over 30 years.

Lama Aria Drolma

Lama Aria Drolma has been studying and practicing Buddhism for over a decade. She is trained in the Dharma Path program of progressive stages of Mindfulness and contemplation for serious practitioners, a program which is offered by Kagyu Thubten Chöling monastery (KTC) New York.

Tito La Rosa

Tito La Rosa is a descendant of Quechua Indians of the Peruvian Andes. For many years he has been recovering, preserving, studying and intuiting the ancestral music of Peru.His 2002 CD, "The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor," was nominated for a Native American Music Award, for Best World Music Recording.

Leah Song (Rising Appalachia)

Leah Song is a powerful songstress, multi-instrumentalist, storyteller and poet steeped in the traditions of Southern Soul and international Roots Music. Living between New Orleans, Cuba India, Appalachia, and Latin America she incorporates sultry vocals, rhythm, banjo, guitar, ballads, dance, and storytelling into her work.

MaryAnn Bearheels

MaryAnn is a Ceremonial Prayer Woman of the Sicangu Lakota from Rosebud, South Dakota. “We are creating awareness about our Indigenous environmental issues through our teachings of the water, buffalo, and bear teachings. Re-vitalizing our spiritual and physical being as Lakota women is vitally important to our future generations.”

Yube Huni Kuin

Yubi Huni Kuin is from the Hunikuin people of Acre, Brazil. He is an Indigenous Agroflorestal Agent and Indigenous filmmaker. He has participated in indigenous film festivals in the United States, Germany, Mexico and Bolivia and his films have won numerous awards. Yube was and Advisor for Indigenous Affairs with the Government of the State of Acre from 2011 until 2019.

Kundalini Yoga with Dharam Dhyan Kaur (Laura Krassner)

Certain scriptures say that Kundalini Yoga is the fastest way to create the transformation and establish an aligned relationship between the body, mind and the soul. Kundalini Yoga is also known as the Yoga of Awareness; its focus is on self-awareness and delivering an experience of your highest self.

Breathwork with Avery Whitmore

Breathwork is medicine for the body mind and spirit. it allows us to quiet our mind and central nervous system while at the same time pulling life force energy into our body. combine this together and you have a powerful recipe for self healing.

Panchita Calfin

Panchita Calfin is a Native of the Francisca Nienlaf Community, Widow of Calfin in the Commune of Toltén, Araucanía Region. Francisca has been a healer since she was very young, her grandmother -who was machi (traditional healer and spiritual leader) – received her at birth and raised her to the WenuMapu (world above, heaven) saying sacred words to take care of her family.

Kawennontie Martin

Kawennontie Martin is from the Six Nations Grand River Territory. She is of the Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan Family. She has been an active role model for her community through her loving heart and creative thinking. She embraces ancient Ancestral knowledge through daily living and a seasonal rhythmic ceremonial life while planting seeds of important values as a Haudenosaunee/Waldorf Teacher.

Kevin Nathaniel

Kevin Nathaniel is a visionary musician who, with voice and ancient Afrikan instruments, channels sound as a universal healing force. He resonates songs of the "big picture" of love in ways that propel the soul to dance! A long-time devotee of mbira, kalimba, circle song, drum, dance, meditation, and yoga; Kevin is a world-traveled healer sharing musical medicine.

Dream Seed

Dream Seed is a sound healing ensemble created by members of the Golden Drum, Sacred Arts Research Foundation, the Heart & Mind Festival and the Didge Project. Chanting, mantras, overtone singing, healing songs, crystal bowls and other overtone-emitting instruments are used to create an environment conducive to meditation, designed to harmonize body, mind and spirit.

Maestro Manuel Rufino

Open Mic

This year, the Heart & Mind welcomed participants tuning in from all around the world to share songs and words inspired by the festival in an inclusive, open format.

Maestro Domingo Dias Porta & Maria Guadalupe Abundis de Dias (Lupita)

Maestro Domingo Dias Porta has founded and organized cultural and spiritual activities in almost all countries in the Americas, in 10 European countries, Israel and Morocco.

Lupita graduated with a Masters Degree in primary education in 1982. She is director of the Superior Course in Theurgy and works with many women’s groups.