Mother's Day Sacred Sweat Lodge

ABOUT THE HEALERS GERARDO MARIMANKE & RAISA "TECOLOTZIN"

Gerardo is a Chilean therapist, musician and Film producer descendant from Diaguita Indigenous Tribe.

Raisa is an Educator Bachelor Degree in Educational Psychology from Venezuela.

Gerardo has participated in Sweatlodges since 1997 with Mayan and Meshica traditions and received the authorization and recognition to run Traditional Lakota Inipi Sweatlodges and also Meshica style of purification lodges. He has supported Sundances since 2003 and become a Sundancer from 2009.

Raisa has been participating in sweatlodges since 2011 and supporting Sundances in Mexico Colombia Colorado and New Mexico since 2016. Vision Quester and Sun Dancer at Zuya Taopi Wiwanyag Wacipi in New Mexico, USA.

She is a Pipe carrier of the MOONDANCE OF  OLLINTLAHUIMETZTLI under the lineage of GRANDMOTHER MALLINALI, has participated 17 times as a  Moon Dancer. Has danced in several countries such as Mexico, Colombia, California and Brasil. She lead Sweatlodges ceremonies (Temazcal) from the same tradition.

Raisa has many years of studies of the sacred feminine, a medicine woman born in Venezuela and a spiritual student of Mexican and North American traditions for several years.  Raisa shares her awareness of the gifts of the Divine Femenine, bringing practices and experiences from ancient traditions from North, Central and South America.

Gera learned the peyote way and has been participating in NAC meetings since 2000 in Chile, Mexico and United States, in different Mechica, Navajo and Lakota reservations. Support different Sundance in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and the United States, like Lakota Sun Dance in Colombia, Lakota Sun Dance in Amatlán and in Nayarit Mexico, Navajo Sun Dance in Tallpine Arizona, Lakota Sun Dance in Pine Ridge Reservation. Also learning from Wixarica tribe with different Marakames and doing ceremonies and offerings in the desert of Wiricuta since 2016.

Medicine Man/ Road Man of the Native American Church (NAC), member of the council of the sacred fire of Itzachilatlan, keeper of tradition and custodian of the altars of Chanupa, Inipi Lakota and Temazcal Meshica. Drummer and Olowampi singer (songs of Lakota Sun Dance), 13 year as a Sundancer and completed his Vision Quest in 2006 and support several Quest around the globe. He share circles of songs of the Native American Church NAC, and he has carried the boundle to leader NAC ceremonies since 2010.

In the same way he has walk under the guidance of his Marakame, Eugenio López Carrillo, he participates and organizes traditional Wixarica ceremonies and makes offerings for him in the Viricuta desert and other sacred places since 2016

Gerardo was honored with a doctorate in traditional medicines and he was recognized as a spiritual leader and international minister of the NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH OF TURTLE ISLAND - NACTI, the legal branch of NGOs with diplomatic relations of the United Nations and the Vienna Convention.