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

Grandmother LánéSaán

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We are happy to share an offering for Día de los Muertos.

Our ancestors are the reason we are here today, we are the answer to their prayers, we walk the path they forged and they see life through us once again.

It is important to remember and honor our ancestors, they watch over us, and we will forever be connected to them. When our ancestors are forgotten, we can feel their pain and disconnection play out through blockages in our own lives.

There are some spiritual windows when the ancestors can get closer to us and us to them- and one of them is coming up on November 1st and 2nd.

Day of the Dead originated from Mesoamerica in modern-day southern Mexico and is a way to honor the ancestors. It spread from there south into Central America and North into the Southwestern states of the USA, and more recently it has spread globally.

Grandmother LánéSaan Moonwalker will share the background of Day of the Dead and how to create one’s own ofrenda, which is an offering altar to one’s ancestors.

Content

1 section · 2 lessons

  • Welcome
  • Day of the Dead

The teacher

Grandmother LánéSaán

Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker

Yoeme / Apache · United States

Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker has been an oracle, healer, spiritual teacher, and environmental guardian for most of her life. LánéSaán began her training in the healing arts at the age of 12 from members of Her family who were highly skilled curanderas (traditional healers who combine Native and Catholic spiritual beliefs and practices). She learned to work with creative expression as a doorway to spirit with her mother as her first teacher. LánéSaán is an accomplished artist, a weaver, and a painter, as well as a dancer and singer, and holds a degree in humanities and the visual arts from the University of Colorado. She has been a licensed minister for more than 42 years and is a Canon in the Brigade of Light. LánéSaán has studied with many spiritual teachers, including artist, writer, and visionary Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow), Eric Tao, and Marian Starnes. In 1987, she met her main teacher and mentor Tu Moonwalker, an Apache, the great great granddaughter of Cochise. Tu was the holder of this unbroken Moonwalker lineage. LánéSaán is an acknowledged part of that in addition to being from an unbroken lineage herself through her Yoeme grandmother. Together Tu and LánéSaán founded the Philosophy of Universal Beingness within the Whole. The foundation of this system is about working with nature in a sacred way.

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