The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers,
mä creative and the Grandmothers Wisdom project
invites you for a four-day online retreat and ceremonial gathering.
The Summit of the Rose asks the questions: How can we be more fully in love with life? Are we living the call of our heart? What is feeding our lives, and our priorities? Perhaps it is the time to reevaluate. Holy times are upon us. Our great Mother is speaking. To enter into the heart of the rose where she resides. Asking all to re-connect and honor the natural rhythms of life and cycles of our humanness. To go deep with Her as She builds the bridge between the states of life called birth and death. What is calling to be transformed? What is calling to be rebirthed? There is an almighty power ready to be released within the heart of every human being. It's purpose - the awakening of the soul. A work of great love and compassion. The healing of every human being is the healing of our Great Mother - it is the healing of all Her creatures - and we as part of Creation. Each human being is a mother, being prepared to die and give birth to oneself in the same life.
Participating Grandmothers & Special Guests
Grandmother Aama Bombo
Grandmother Bernadette Rebienot
Grandmother Clara Shinobu Iura
Grandmother Flordemayo
Grandmother Mona Polacca
Grandmother/Unci Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance
Dr. Henrietta Mann
Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook
Angelina Nasso
Marisol Villanueva
Online Retreat Program
Day 1 - Thursday June 4th, 2020
Opening Ceremony Prayer Session
Topic: Introduction to “Summit of the Rose”
Grandmother Mona (live from Arizona) and Angelina Nasso (live from New York)
Time: 12pm EDT
The Summit of the Rose asks the questions: How can we be more fully in love with life? Are we living the call of our heart? What is feeding our lives, and our priorities? Perhaps it is the time to reevaluate. Holy times are upon us. Our great Mother is speaking. To enter into the heart of the rose where she resides. Asking all to re-connect and honor the natural rhythms of life and cycles of our humanness. To go deep with Her as She builds the bridge between the states of life called birth and death. What is calling to be transformed? What is calling to be rebirthed? There is an almighty power ready to be released within the heart of every human being. It's purpose - the awakening of the soul. A work of great love and compassion. The healing of every human being is the healing of our Great Mother - it is the healing of all Her creatures - and we as part of Creation. Each human being is a mother, being prepared to die and give birth to oneself in the same life.
Day 2 - Friday June 5th, 2020
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Topic: Penumbral Eclipse: Illumination and Shadow
Mantra Meditation with Grandmother Amma and family (live from Kathmandu and the UK)
Time: 10am EDT
Grandmother Aama will open the day with a prayer invoking all the gods, goddess, and the ancestors, asking for blessings and healing for our Mother Earth and for humanity who are suffering so much loss, grief and pain at this time. Her prayer will focus on the transformation and healing of fear. Following the prayer she will guide us through a mantra meditation.
Grandmother Bernadette (live from Gabon)
Time: 11am EDT
Grandmother Bernadette will guide us into this powerful portal of the Rose Moon and Penumbral Lunar eclipse. The alignment of the moon and connection to the southern hemisphere which are points to the “gates of man” are a significant passageway for the arrival of a new time for humanity. To move through this current moment in human history the shadow must be embraced so that it may receive the light of illumination.
The eclipse can be seen from the motherland of Africa, also known as the cradle of humankind.
Dr. Henrietta Mann (live from Oklahoma) and Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook (live from New York)
Time: 3pm EDT
The great power is the sun = the sun light. Dr. Henrietta Mann and Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook will come together to share teachings about the Sundance: the highest female ceremony These teachings have been passed on from their ancestors and preserved by their elders for generations before them.
Full Moon Ceremony Grandmother Flordemayo (live from New Mexico)
Time: 4:30pm EDT
Closing the second day with the Rose Moon Ceremony, Grandmother Flordemayo will guide us through a time of sacred space, surrender and prayer. Through a special fire ceremony we will release unwanted energies and attachments from the past allowing each one of us to call in the energies of a higher vibrational frequency to shift your consciousness and align with your core desires.
Day 3 - Saturday June 6th, 2020
The Four Hills of Life
Embracing the Four Hills of Life with Grandmother Mona (live from Arizona) - Part 1
Time: 11am EDT
Embracing the Four Hills of Life with Grandmother Mona (live from Arizona) - Part 2
Time: 3pm EDT
Grandmother Mona will take us through the four stages of life: the child, the youth, the adult, and the elder. Our life is in a circle, our life cycle. Each stage or each part of the circle has very significant teachings for the development of yourself as a person. We will deepen our understanding of who we are in the context of a life cycle and what is calling our soul at this moment.
Day 4- Sunday, June 7th, 2020
Living and Dying
Closing Ceremony Prayer Session
Grandmother Clara and community members (live from Amazonia) and Marisol Villanueva (live from New York)
Time: 9am EDT
Grandmother Clara will take us into her home in the Brazilian Amazon. We will take a virtual walk into the forest to her terreiro (ceremonial grounds) where she and other community members will lead us into a ceremony calling and singing to the forces and spirits of the forest and nature.
Grandmother/Unci Rita and family (live from South Dakota)
Time: 12pm EDT
Grandmother/Unci Rita and her son Nathan will join us live from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for the closing prayer session of the Summit of the Rose.
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* Please note that program is subject to change.
* This event will not be recorded, it is being created for a live intimate experience in community and prayer.
