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Learn directly from Indigenous elders who carry unbroken lineages of ancestral wisdom.

Foundations of a Meaningful Life

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Return to Wholeness

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A Deeper Way of Belonging

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Nana Amalia Tum Xinico, Maya Kaqchiquel healer with sacred plants
NewCourse

How to Heal Yourself & Others with Sacred Plants

Nana Amalia is a gifted healer, naturopath, and renowned spiritual leader of the Maya Kaqchiquel tradition. Founder of the elder council Iq’B’alm and a member of Guatemala’s commission of sacred sites, she teaches how common plants, rooted in Maya cosmovision, can heal yourself and others.

Benki Piyãko, Ashaninka spiritual leader in prayer with traditional headdress
Retreat

Mazatlan, Mexico | September 22nd - October 3rd, 2026

Kamarampi (Ayahuasca) A Sacred Plant of Consciousness

Benki Piyãko is a globally recognized political and spiritual leader of the Ashaninka People. Mentored by his grandfather Samuel Piyãko, a revered Antaviari, he shares ancestral wisdom and healing ways with the world, and has planted 3 million trees through reforestation and community work in the Brazilian Amazon.

How to Heal Yourself & Others with Sacred Plants

Weave Ancestral Wisdom Into Your Everyday Life

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Ga'an: The Sacred Mountain Spirits of the Apache People

With Chiffon Lark

$33

Yanatin Ñan: Sacred Duality Ceremony

With Inka T'ito & Mama Qori

$60

Chief Raoni's Earth Wisdom and the Fight for Our Planet

With Chief Raoni Metuktire

$33

Butterfly Wisdom

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$44

Songs & Healing with the Shanenawa

With Shanenawa

$22

Aganguashi: Wisdom of Cleansing Thoughts and Healing Your Timeline

With Mamo Rafael Malo

$125

Diné Wisdom on The Power of The Seasons

With Jerry Nelson

$33

The Living Spirit of Water

With Chenoa Egawa

$44

Diné Kinship

With Jerry Nelson

$33

Ho'oponopono: Me, My Selves, and the I - Returning to Truth Beyond Limits

With Kumu Ramsay Taum

$240

The Huni Kuin Women's Art Collective

With Ninawa Pai Da Mata

$22

Sacred Chants & Ancestral Wisdom of the Shanenawa

With Shanenawa

$44

Water Prayer

With Mona Polacca

$22

Heal Yourself & Others with Sacred Plants

With Nana Amalia

$44

Full Moon

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$22

"Eskawata Kayawei" Sacred Huni Kuin Chant for Healing & Transformation

With Ninawa Pai Da Mata, Birunani, Tuwe

$44

New Moon Ritual

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$33

Winter Solstice Observance

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$44

Traditional Apache Wisdom, Stories & Prayers

With Twila Cassadore

$33

Our Spirit Animals

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$44

Our Connection With The Spiritual World

With Benki Piyãko

$22

Creative Life Force Energy Part II

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$60

Colonization

With IriTah Shemira

$33

Story of Creation: God vs Devil

With Benki Piyãko

$44

Hapéh Ceremony with Matsini

With Matsini

$33

Sacred Trees: Building Reciprocal Relationships with Trees

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$88

Day of the Dead: Honoring the Ancestors by Creating an Ofrenda

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$33

Mayan Solar Calendar & Its Carriers of Time

With Nana Rosalia Zavala

$45

Ancestral Healing Icaros

With Maestra Inez, Laura, and Lila

$22

Traditional Mayan Cacao Ceremony

With Nana Rosalia Zavala

$54

Sacred Sites, Ancient Symbols, and Spiritual Offerings

With Matzuwa Oscar

$27

Introduction to Sacred Sexuality, Part I

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$88

Sacred Songs of The Forest

With Ninawa Pai Da Mata, Birunani, Tuwe

$22

Traditional Wisdom Around Prayer Fans & Feathers

With Patrick Scott

$44

Sacred Songs To Connect To The Elements

With Matua Ruia Kereopa

$22

Understanding Fear, Sadness and Anxiety

With Benki Piyãko

$44

We Are All Related

With Mona Polacca

$22

Reconnect to Water Culture Based on Ecological and Cultural Values

With Mona Polacca

$44

Hopi Prophecy

With Mona Polacca

$22

Connection & Healing with The Elements That Give Us Life

With Nana Amalia Tum & Tata Mario Ovalle

$88

Manqospi Kawsay

With Túpaq Ttito Kuntur

$366

Sacredness of the Feminine from a Zaga Perspective

With Zaga Josafina

$189

Kamarampi (Ayahuasca) A Sacred Plant of Consciousness

With Benki Piyãko

$44

Working with the Moon

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$44

Honor Life and Death

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$44

Peaceful Coexistence

With Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

$88

The Inka Secrets of Purification

With Túpaq Ttito Kuntur

$77

Healing Ceremony

With Nana Amalia Tum & Tata Mario Ovalle

$55

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Sacred fire ceremony, elders gathered around the flame
Portrait of Benki Piyãko, Ashaninka elder from Apiwtxa, Amônia River, Acre, Brazil, teaching ashaninka wisdom, kamarampi & earth stewardship

Benki Piyãko

Ashaninka

Apiwtxa, Amônia River, Acre, Brazil

Benki Piyãko is a globally recognized political and spiritual leader of the Ashaninka People. Mentored from a young age by his grandfather Samuel Piyãko, a revered Antaviari, a healer and messenger of the Ashaninka, Benki absorbed the profound knowledge of his people’s traditions, spirituality and medicinal plants. He is dedicated to sharing this ancestral wisdom and healing ways with the world. Benki Piyãko embarked on his journey of reforestation, community development and education at a young age within his Ashaninka community of Apiwtxa on the Amônia River in the Brazilian Amazon. Since the 1990s, Benki has collaborated with various institutions, non-profit organizations, global activists, and local indigenous and non-indigenous communities to restore degraded areas. Benki has planted 3 million trees, his work has inspired individuals and groups to strengthen their communities and build projects to protect water basins, rivers, lakes, forests, and the environment as a whole. Benki was honoured by the Brazilian government for his dedication to human rights in 2004; the Human Rights Award in Weimer, Germany in 2013; the Culture for Peace Award by the Chirac Foundation, in partnership with the Culture and Diversity Foundation in France in 2020; and the 43rd Niwano Peace Prize in Japan in 2026.

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Free 2026 Aniwa
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With your membership, we will gift you an Aniwa 2026 Daily Planner as a daily companion designed to help you bring more awareness to your daily life.

Inside the Aniwa 2026 Daily Planner you will find:

Daily Intention Setting

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Daily Intention Setting

Practice Tracker

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Monthly Meditation & Reflection

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Maya Calendar Reading

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“I had the pleasure of joining for Ninawa Pai da Mata’s ‘Eskawata Kayawei’ in which he sang the ancient Amazonian medicine prayer of his ancestors. He explained the significance of each verse, and his authenticity was palpable. I feel this is extremely important work — we should deeply understand the essence of the prayers and ceremonies in which we partake.”

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Student, Eskawata Kayawei Sacred Huni Kuin Chant with Ninawa Pai Da Mata

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Student, The Sacred Power of Sexual Energy with Mamo Kunshemaku

“What I found so fascinating was the immediate connection to Nana Amalia. Her authenticity, respect, and love she has for the plants and nature shines through in her words and way. She is a true gift and a mentor that I will forever look to for guidance.”

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Student, Heal Yourself & Others with Sacred Plants with Nana Amalia

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Student, Ancestral Healing Icaros with Maestra Inez, Laura, and Lila

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Student, Kamarampi (Ayahuasca) A Sacred Plant of Consciousness with Benki Piyãko

“Chenoa’s Living Spirit of Water was heartfelt and sharing her wisdom and tribal stories was very special. She showed us our connection to everyone through water and that we are all related. Mitakuye Oyasin.”

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Student, The Living Spirit of Water with Chenoa Egawa

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Student, Family & Partnership Unity with Mamos & Zagas

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Student, Manqospi Kawsay with Túpaq T'ito Kuntur

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Student, Our Spirit Animals with Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

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Student, Ga’an: The Sacred Mountain Spirits of the Apache People

“Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker is a gifted communicator whose love for the Tree People and dedication to tradition created a beautiful space to help us decompose the mental frameworks that hold us back from experiencing true reciprocity with Mother Earth.”

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Student, Sacred Trees: Building Reciprocal Relationships with Trees

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Student, Sacredness of the Feminine from a Zaga Perspective

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Student, Introduction to Hoʻoponopono with Kumu Ramsay

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Student, Family & Partnership Unity with Mamos & Zagas

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Student, Manqospi Kawsay with Túpaq T'ito Kuntur

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Student, Sacred Trees: Building Reciprocal Relationships with Trees

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Aniwa is a global learning portal and membership where lineage-holding Indigenous elders share their teachings directly with a worldwide community, many of them publicly for the first time. Courses, live sessions, and gatherings are all accessed through one membership.

The alliance includes more than 40 elders from traditions across the Americas and beyond, Maya Kaqchiquel, Yoeme Apache, Kayapo, Diné, Hawaiian, Huni Kuin, Shipibo Konibo, Hopi Havasupai Tewa, and many more. Each elder chooses what they share and how it is shared.

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