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Isku Ushu

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Isku Ushu

Spiritual Leader Marubo Tribe

Isku Ushu is an important spiritual leader of the Marubo people and also chief of Aldeia Vida Nova located in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land in the State of Amazonas in the Brazilian Amazon. He is a great and renowned Medicine Man – Pajé of his people who comes from an extraordinary healing lineage. He manifested his healing gifts from the age of 15. He is an exceptional healer who can greatly help people with extreme needs, curing a variety of illnesses, some that we don’t even understand.

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Mukaveine Yawanawá

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MUKAVEINE YAWANAWA

Mukaveine is referred to as the “Little Chief”. He is the youngest son of Yawanawa chiefs Nixiwakä and Putanny, coming from a long lineage of indigenous leaders and medicine men and women. Mukaveine has the name of the prophet of the Yawanawa who received visions of the invasion of white men and how powerful they were. The prophet thus instructed the Yawanawa people to form alliances with the invading people and not war. “Little Chief” Mukaveine is raised to be a leader of the Yawanawa people in the future. He lives in the Sacred Village of the Yawanawa nation where he learns Yawanawa language, spirituality, history and knows many songs of his people.

 

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Nixiwaka Yawanawá

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NIXIWAKA BIRACI BRASIL YAWANAWá

One of the most relevant indigenous leaders of our time. He has dedicated his life to reclaiming his people’s ancient way of life and powerful spirituality; reconquering the rights over their ancestral territory, and opening their culture to the outside world. Nixiwaka created the Yawa Festival, which was considered the most significant element of this cultural rebirth. As the first major indigenous festival held in the Amazon, it has inspired a “renaissance” among Indigenous Peoples throughout Brazil to spread their traditional knowledge. In recent years, Biraci has been devoting most of his time to the Sacred Village – safeguarding that precious sanctuary for humanity and preparing the younger generation to carry on the Yawanawá legacy. In his journeys outside of the Amazon, Nixiwaka has represented his people and led spiritual gatherings around the globe.

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Peû Yawanawá

Peu Yawanawa for Colibri Spirit Festival 2024

Peû Yawanawá

Peû is one of the most devoted spiritual leaders from the younger generation of the Yawanawa people. He committed to the sacred Samakai (diet), the Yawanawa’s highest spiritual initiation, for five consecutive years. In this period he received direct teachings from the elders Yawarani and Tatá, who have now left this plane. His studies with the elders brought exceptional strength to his work with the sacred healing prayers of the tradition. Peû is one of the few permanent residents of the Sacred Village, dedicating his life to spirituality and healing, alongside with his family. This will be the second tour of Peû in Europe. He has also taken the Yawanawa spirituality to many other parts of the world and of Brazil.

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Mukashahu Yawanawá

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Mukashahu Yawanawá

Daughter of Chief of the Yawanawá Tribe

Mukashahu is the youngest daughter of Yawanawa chiefs Nixiwaká and Putanny, she comes from a long lineage of indigenous leaders and medicine men and women and has been raised to be a leader of the Yawanawa people in the future. She lives in the Sacred Village of the Yawanawá people where she learns Yawanawa language, spirituality, history and the songs. From an early age she mastered the acoustic guitar and now in her teenage years brings out a strong voice ready to accompany her sisters and her mother.

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Nawashahu

Nawashahu

NAWASHAHU 

Nawashahu is the eldest daughter of Putanny and Biraci Nixiwaka. She has been brought up to become a leader. Nawa and her sister Ykashahu have been very dedicated to their studies of Yawanawa spirituality, dieting with the elders and always seeking to learn more from the leaders of the tribe. Nawashahu is a guardian of this knowledge and a very talented singer, who has accompanied her parents in their work and travels outside the villages since early ages.

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Nixiwaka & Putanny Yawanawá

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Nixiwaka & Putanny Yawanawá

Wisdom Speech: The Yawanawá History & Feminine Rise

Putanny and Nixiwaka, chiefs of the Sacred Village of the Yawanawá indigenous nation in the Amazon Forest of Brazil, will share teachings and stories of their people and their spirituality. An amazing narrative of the revival of an ancient culture and spirituality that today conquers the world through reconnection to our essence.

They will also share on the great importance of the feminine energy in today’s Yawanawá world. A spiritual transformation for the new time.


Find more information about Putanny and Nixiwaka in their biographies.

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Story of the Medicines

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Story of the Medicines

Wisdom Speech by Peû & Saku

Peû and Saku stand as venerable pillars within their community, revered for their profound mastery of healing arts and their profound understanding of Yawanawá and Marubo Spirituality. As seasoned healers, their journey traverses not only the tangible landscapes of our world but also delves deep into the ethereal realms where the spirits dwell. In this forthcoming session, they offer a sacred window into the intricate tapestry of their ancestral wisdom, weaving narratives that transcend the boundaries between the seen and the unseen.

Their narratives resonate with the echoes of ancient lore, recounting the poignant journeys of their forebears who walked the delicate bridge between our physical realm and the spiritual domain. Through these stories, Peû and Saku unveil the sacred medicines cherished by their ancestors, potent elixirs that serve as conduits between the mundane and the divine. With meticulous detail, they illuminate the significance of these medicines, not merely as remedies for physical ailments but as vessels of spiritual transformation.

In the sacred space they create, the healers articulate the profound symbiosis between the medicines and the spiritual world, elucidating how these potent brews neutralize negative energies and harmonize the delicate balance between the physical and the metaphysical.

 

Read more about Peû and Saku in their biographies.

Colibri Spirit Festival 2022 Ykashahu Yawanawa

Ykashahu Yawanawá

Colibri Spirit Festival 2022 Ykashahu Yawanawa

Ykashahu Yawanawá

Ykashahu is the middle daughter of Biraci Nixiwaka and Putanny. Since a very young age, Yka has been following in the footsteps of her parents, and nowadays travels around Brazil and abroad to share her people’s culture and spirituality. With an amazing voice and beautiful guitar playing, she represents the talented younger Yawanawá generation as a future Yawanawá chief, as well as the incredible feminine power of the nation.

Ykashahu carries the energy and ways of her mother, great Yawanawá chief Putanny, and is following in her steps to become one of the leaders of the nation in the future.

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Saku

Saku for Colibri Spirit Festival 2024

Saku

SAKU Saku is a very powerful medicine man of the Marubo nation in the Amazon Forest of Bra- zil, although of young age. He is now working with Nixiwaká and Putanny in Yawanawa ceremonies, assisting them in the healing of participants. In the Marubo nation, medicine men and women identify the children who will continue their work and they start doing healing work at a very young age. Saku started when he was age 4 and recently have suc- cessfully healed patients of diseases which their doctors in hospitals told them there was no cure due to its advanced stage.

Saku has for decades deeply studied the indigenous spirituality of his people, having undergone through very strict dietas to serve as channels for the healing of his patients. He is a master of ancient spiritual codes and techniques which he uses on the patient’s body and spirit to bless him/her in the way

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