Presenters

MAESTRO DOMINGO DIAS PORTA & MARIA GUADALUPE ABUNDIS DE DIAS (LUPITA)

Venerable Sat. Arhat Domingo Dias Porta was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1930. Under his guidance, the Initiatic Sovereign Solar Order of Chichaan Itzaab (S.O.S.X.I.) has developed in different places in Venezuela, Mexico, the United States, Europe and Peru. He has founded and organized cultural and spiritual activities in almost all countries in the Americas, in 10 European countries, in Israel and in Morocco. He is the founder of the Association of the Solar American Indian (M.A.I.S.) Movement of Cultural Approach to the Autonomous Traditions and Peoples of the Continent. He is also the founder of “Acción por la Unidad Mundial” (A.U.M. - Action for Global Unity), a movement of International Cultural Integration to promote a culture of peace through dialogue of personal transformation, through exchange of knowledge, and joint participation in activities and programs (both on the individual and group level).

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. Maestro Manuel is also an artist, certified iridologist, naturo-therapist, vegetarian chef & the visionary guiding the Golden Drum community and many vegetarian restaurants including Jungle Café in Brooklyn. Guided by his teacher, Maestro Domingo Dias Porta, Maestro Manuel has been following the trails of indigenous healing arts for over 40 years. Maestro Manuel travels around the world sharing initiatic traditions, leading workshops, lectures, sweat lodges and healing rituals.
In 2010 Maestro Manuel and a number of his students opened Golden Drum as a space for sacred traditions in New York City. Founded to give voice to the worldview of Native Americans, indigenous peoples and the esoteric schools, Golden Drum features living representatives and students of these great traditions.

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MARAKAME DON JOSE

Representative of the Wixáritari Indian elders of Sierra Madre Occidental in La Laguna Seca. Marakame, ceremonial leader, healer. He always travels with his violini. The main character of the documentary film "Huychole, the last peyote watch". An active activist for the protection of the holy land of Wirikut, as well as the rights of indigenous peoples, among others. in Mexico, USA, Colombia and Bolivia.

JOANNE SHENANDOAH

Joanne Shenandoah, is Native America’s most celebrated musicians and lecturer. She carries beauty in her soul and voice but also through her interactions with diverse communities around the world. She provides strength and passion for the people that is found in the likes of iconic philosophers and wisdom-keepers. Holding a Grammy and 45 plus music awards, plus an Emmy nomination, she is an Ambassador of peace, human and earth rights, capturing the hearts of audiences all over the world. Her philanthropic efforts have included works with organizations for earth and human rights specifically women and children. In addition, she is a founding member of the Hiawatha Institute for Traditional Knowledge a non-profit educational organization who’s aim is to provide all with ancient knowledge of her ancestors.

LARAAJI

Philadelphia-born, New Jersey-raised polymath Laraaji has maintained a pursuit of spiritual transcendence through music since the mid-70s. After several years of studiously developing an aesthetic informed by Eastern faiths and transcendental research in his long-time home in Harlem, in 1979 Brian Eno stumbled upon him busking in Washington Square Park in New York, improvising celestial meditations with his electric zither. The producer invited him to contribute to his influential Ambient series, resulting in the 1980 album Day of Radiance.

Ever since, he’s remained an outsized figure in new age and ambient music, eschewing synthesizers in favor of hand-made sounds, consistently embracing a human presence in his ever-seeking performances. Whether using monochord instruments, singing, or deploying electronics-kissed percussion, Laraaji’s music remains connected to cosmic African-American tradition, and as hypnotically beautiful as his work has been he’s never been afraid to inject ripples of tension and dissonance into his trance-inducing journeys.

LEWIS BURNS

Lewis Burns is a Tubba-Gah Wiradjuri man born and living in Dubbo, NSW Australia. He has been learning about his Aboriginal culture for as long as he can remember. He continues to practice and respect these life skills each day and still learns and grows from this ancient knowledge. Lewis’ love of his heritage is evident when you speak with him, and depicted even more in his Aboriginal crafts, traditional dancing, didgeridoo performances, mural paintings and teaching. He is very dedicated to sharing what he knows with others to help keep these customs alive.

Lewis paints in traditional Aboriginal and contemporary styles. He has exhibited globally and performed globally with his handcrafted didgeridoos. Each piece of Lewis’ artwork tells a story…..a story that will live on forever through the generations, as the artwork is handed down from one family to another.

ANIA ANAHATA

Ania passionately conveys emotions colored by the poetic world of oriental and ethnic colors, incantations, dream pop melodies and the background of experimental music. It is accompanied by: transient looper, Indian-shruti box, known for thousands of years of healing effects of crystal bowls, oceanic harp, i.e. Waterphone, hypnotizing voice, breaths, whispers of light, viola, electric piano, immersive visualizations and intoxicating smells of natural incense.

In her music you can find a connotation with the voices of the vocalists of the band Cocorosie, the climate of the band Sigur Ros and the surprising sounds of the band Mum.

IXCHEL PRISMA

Ixchel Prisma is a life long vocalist, song writer, performer and sound healer who brings beauty and vibrancy through her music. The original music she creates is designed with the intention to inspire healing, transformation, and expansion.

As an initiate of sacred songs, Ixchel also carries traditional healing songs from all corners of the globe, and weaves these cultural treasures in with her own prayers for the planet.

Ixchel is a devoted student of Maestro Maneul Rufino and the initiatic path, as well as an active member and supporter of the Heart and Mind Festivals, the Golden Drum cultural center, and Dream Seed sound healing collective.

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LAURA KRASSNER

Laura Krassner (Dharam Dhyan Kaur) Laura is a member of the Golden Drum community and a student of Maestro Manuel Rufino, to whom she is infinitely grateful. She is a KRI certified Kundalini Yoga instructor. She completed her Level 1 Teacher Training in Rishikesh, India in 2013 with Golden Bridge Yoga and has traveled to Europe and the Middle East to complete Level 2 and 3 training courses in Authentic Relationships and the 21 Stages of Meditation.

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XANGO SHOLA

Shola is dedicated to developing peace and understanding by nurturing community building through education, service and the healing arts. For the past 10 years she has been traveling the world with her teacher, Maestro Manuel Rufino in an effort to weave together a global support network & international community that embraces the transcendental path of wisdom, love, truth and ancient knowledge.

Shola is one of the pioneers of the Sacred Arts Research Foundation; an NPO that provides educational programs that support the exploration and disciplines of the sacred arts locally & globally. She is a student of Maestro Manuel Rufino and an active member of The Golden Drum, a cultural community center for consciousness in Brooklyn, and a member of the Universal Initiatic College, learning healing ways and sacred wisdom traditions. Shola is also a member of Dream Seed: A Shamanic Sound Journey. She is part of the production team for an international festival called, The Heart & Mind Festival which brings together indigenous wisdom keepers, spiritual elders, scientists, youth leaders and visionary humans from all paths of life. Shola’s mission is to be in service to the preservation of the sacred traditions of the earth and enrich communities through education and service.

Shola is the director of the Sacred Song school, she is a drummer, flutist, guitarist and song carrier; singing traditional songs from around the world and has been weaving music, art and healing practices to empower the human heart towards a more gentle, peaceful and purposeful existence.

TOMMY HAREVIS

Polish flutist, multiinstrumentalist, traveler and composer. Initiated Mayan Tz’utujil fire and day-keeper. Inspired by native cultures, he creates highly atmospheric music using ethnic instruments from all over the world. In his musical output he already has 10 albums recorded solo and with other musicians.

Harevis, using his exotic instruments, takes the audience on a colorful journey to the limits of the imagination. Beyond time and space. From temples hidden in the jungle thickets, to the tombs covered in the sands of desert. Rhythms of tribal dances around the fire and echo of meditating monks.

Maria Guadalupe Abundis de Dias (Lupita) has dedicated her life to the Sacred Initiatic Tradition for her own spiritual and human evolution and for the benefit of those who surround her. She graduated with a Masters Degree in primary education in 1982, and she entered the Initiatic path and became a student in the lineage of Dr. Serge Raynaud De La Ferriere In 1998. She currently works with many women’s groups and has helped organize many women’s gatherings at both the national and international levels, having lived in the United States, Mexico, and Venezuela. Lupita is a member of Insignias Aztecas, a nonprofit organization promoting and preserving the tradition and teachings of the Aztec dance. She has participated at the Shoshone-Kumiai Ghost Dance in Escondido, California and has participated in the “Magos de La Tierra” seminar with Jose Arguelles in Chile and Portland, Oregon. Lupita is currently a member of S.O.S.C.H.I. (Sovereign Solar Order of Chichen Itza), an organization promoting peace and the spiritual development of individuals for the benefit of all humanity, and L.H.A.S.S.A. (the Academy of Ancestral Wisdom).

She is the director of the Superior Course in Theurgy, an online course taught by Maestro Domingo Días Porta, and is an essential member of the organizations M.A.I.S.C. (The Movement of American Indian Solar Culture) and Accion por la Unidad Mundial (A.U.M.) / Action for Global Unity as a personal support to Maestro Domingo Dias Porta. Additionally, she is currently studying to receive a license in Gurukul Ayurveda under the direction of Dr. Ramon Gonzalez at UPTM University in Mérida, Venezuela. Lupita is happily married to Maestro Domingo Dias Porta, is the mother of 4 children, and grandmother of 2.

TATA PEDRO CRUZ

Tata Pedro Cruz is one of the few surviving members of the Mayan Council of the Elders of Tz’utujil, which is a branch of the Maya Qui-che. “Tata Pedro,” as he is most affectionately known, is a traditional Mayan Ajq’ij and Day Keeper, and one of the principal authorities of the Council of Mayan Elders of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. He received the title “Heart of the Lake Atitlan” K’U’XYA by his fellow Mayan Council of Elders and Tz’utujil people.

Tata Pedro recognizes the interconnectedness of all people, the expanding consciousness of the planet, and the urgent need to unify our spiritual, cultural, and ethnic wisdom for the benefit of the planet and humanity. Tata Pedro is a globally recognized elder in the Mayan tradition and has traveled far and wide sharing knowledge, ceremonies, and practices. He is the interpreter of dreams for his community and a leader of the preservation and education of Mayan day keeping and fire ceremonies.

NANA MARINA CRUZ

Nana Marina Cruz is a healer from the Tz ́utujil Tribe, and is a spiritual guide of the old traditions. She is the daughter of Tata Pedro & works not just as a healer and therapist with natural folk methods, but as a ceremonial leader of fire, tobacco, cacao and sweat lodge, and also teaches native Mayan languages.

KRISHNA DAS

Layering traditional kirtan with instantly accessible melodies and modern instrumentation, Krishna Das has been called yoga’s “rock star.” With a remarkably soulful voice that touches the deepest chord in even the most casual listener, Krishna Das ” known to friends, family, and fans as simply KD ” has taken the call-and-response chanting out of yoga centers and into concert halls, becoming a worldwide icon and the best-selling western chant artist of all time. His album ‘Live Ananda’ (released January 2012) was nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Age album category.

KD spent the late ’60’s traveling across the country as a student of Ram Dass, and in August 1970, he finally made the journey to India, which led him to Ram Dass’ own beloved guru, Neem Karoli Baba, known to most as Maharaj-ji.

Given the name Krishna Das, KD began to chant as part of following the path of Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion.

MAMO RODRIGO

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.

DREAM SEED

Dream Seed is a shamanic sound ensemble hosted by members of Golden Drum and Didge Project. Shamanic chanting, mantras, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos, crystal singing bowls, bells, gongs, harmoniums, tuning forks and other overtone-emitting instruments are used to create an environment conducive to deep relaxation and inward investigation. Participants are led through guided meditations and sound healing practices designed to harmonize body, mind and spirit.

HUSHAHU YAWANAWÁ

In 2005, at the head of the Gregorio River in Acre, Hushahu Yawanawá, an indigenous woman of 25 years old, decided to break a taboo in her tradition and started, along with her sister, a women's revolution in their village.

Up until that moment, no woman had spent one year in isolation as a form of shamanic ritual initiation (dieta) to access the forest’s spiritual knowledge. Seeking directly the teachings of the village's past elders, Hushahu became a reference in Yawanawá spiritual and artistic knowledge, at a time when her people were undergoing processes of weakening traditional practices due to the strong missionary influence in the indigenous land and culture.

During her dieta, through contact with the forest spirits, Hushahu received different kinds of kene yawanawá and grafismos (sacred designs), and taught the other women of her village. In her immersion she also entered into the study of the making of rauti, ornaments and ritual artifacts, made of feathers, bones, and other materials, bringing strength and renewal to their tradition.

Upon returning from the dieta, she became a reference for other women from within and outside her village, bringing her work and message to far corners of the world.

ABHAIJOT KAUR

Abhaijot Kaur, Kundalini Research Institute, IKYTA Abhaijot has always had a deep passion for yoga a spiritual junkie and born healer she started practicing 20 years ago and never looked back. The union of the mind, body, and soul has helped her throughout her life live in a more compassionate heart filled abundant way. Her biggest joy in yoga has always been the Bhakti (devotion) of it. It was no wonder that through Bhakti her Shakti (essence of bliss) was revealed and that was Kundalini Yoga. Countless workshops with the great masters, Guru Dev Singh, Gurmukh, and devotional chanting with Gurunam eventually lead her to India for her Kundalini Teachers Training through Golden Bridge Yoga with Gurmukh, Gurushabd, Guru Dharam, and Guru Dev Singh followed with traveling the sacred land with her dear friend Gurunam. Abhaijot continues to be inspired by the humanity of Gandhi, the service of Yogi Bhajan, the compassion of the Dali Lama, and the knowledge of Swami Satchidananda. http://IHeartKundaliniYoga.com

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NICOLE ADRIANA CASANOVA

Nicole Adriana Casanova is a student of Maestro Manuel Rufino, a Taino Elder who founded the Golden Drum educational center in Brooklyn.

Nicole is a writer, poet, and storyteller, a 200 RYT Yoga Alliance certified Yoga and Meditation Teacher, a certified Reiki Master in the Usui and Karuna Reiki Riojo, a Shamanic Practitioner, a Human Movement teacher, and Magical Awakening Practitioner. Nicole blends decades of expertise in the wellness and holistic field to create one of a kind empowerment experiences in groups as well as one-on-one settings. As a Soul Architect, Nicole bridges practices and teachings from various wisdom traditions around the world, with intuitive knowledge and practical know how to create one of a kind blueprints of empowerment, healing, and remembrance.

ALYONA MINDLIN

Alyona was born dancing. Movement is her medicine.

Precision, connection, and joy through teaching embodiment is her vehicle. She has been practicing yoga for 15 years and teaching for over a decade. She taught at Kula Yoga Project for many years after which she retreated into private teaching.

Her studies with Schuyler Grant, Nikki Costello and Nevine Michaan inform the practice.

She is the founder of awakenmyheart.love, a company using ancient practices, like yoga, dance, sound healing, meditation, nutrition, shamanism and massage to raise consciousness in the Aquarian Age.

She is a dedicated student of Maestro Manuel Rufino, an active member of the Golden Drum and Dream Seed Sound Ensemble.

Alyona travels the globe learning and sharing these beautiful ancient technologies to spread light on earth.

JERRY WALSH

Jerry Walsh has been a student of the dharma for ten years and a student of Taino Elder, Maestro Manuel Rufino, for seven years, studying the sacred traditions of humanity focusing primarily on the shamanic traditions of the Americas. Jerry is a member of the Golden Drum sound meditation ensemble, Dream Seed, and has traveled to over twenty-five different countries on five continents, spending a full year studying Buddhism and Himalayan culture in India, Nepal, and Bhutan from 2010-2011. He is a founding member of the Sacred Arts Research Foundation 501 (c) 3 and the Ark in Greenpoint, Brooklyn where he resides with the Golden Drum community.

MARIA SOLTYS

Maria Soltys is a professional artist, painter, multi-instrumentalist, shamanic practitioner, master of arts graduated in Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice , Slavic philology graduate in Silesian University, maestro Manuel’s student. Maria has also learned healing arts from traditional cultures. In her therapeutic work she combines voice, sound of instruments like crystal bowls and energy work. Maria is an author of multiple articles about meditation and personal developement.

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HUSHAHU YAWANAWÁ