Regenerative arts for
re-weaving the bond between people & Place
This is a very special opportunity to weave, celebrate, and study together with special guests and wisdom-keepers from the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Colombia.
In this union between the ancestral arts and cultivation of the land, we offer our dance as part of a greater prayer to re-weave the bond between people and place and to strengthen our community alliances in service to the regeneration of land and culture.
Over the course of two days, we will share stories, songs, traditional dances, and “Aswa Mama” or “Chicha,” the sacred fermented drink of the Andes. This workshop is an introduction to the ancestral traditions, tools, and arts of communication, connection, and celebration that have built a lasting relationship with natural cycles.
JUNE 11th - 13th
Uywanakuy: mutual upraising
Tusuymama: Dancing mother
Where Ancestral arts meet
place-based stewardship
“For many ancestral peoples, dance, music, singing, poetry, and the spoken word are not acts created solely for representation, entertainment, or amusement. They are a way of accessing the world and its manifestations through a logic of caring for life...”
These teachings invite us to step back from the demands and illusions of mainstream, consumerist society in order to affirm the relationships and practices that are truly generative, abundant, and life-sustaining.
Special Guests
"We are Nuhjay, from the Andean-Amazonian territory, right on the border between Colombia and Ecuador. Blessed with the heritage of our family lines and guided by the elders, we have passed on and shared healing ways of life in harmony with natural cycles. We have grown up in families, contexts, and experiences of recovering territories and traditions that were almost lost or forgotten, such as traditional dances, songs, stories, and seeds, which we have shaped into a path and way of supporting processes of transition toward more holistic ways of living. Currently, we care for a space in the Amazon where this entire cycle of recovery and regeneration of the memory of life develops and inspires people today...
”Now, we want to pass on these traditions, safeguarded, protected, and reconstructed with great effort and with the help and wisdom of the elders of different native communities in the Andean and Amazonian territories. The elders guided us throughout our journey, and now it's important to share this with other territories and families as a tool to navigate these times of change and evolve toward a more respectful way of life, more in tune with ourselves, with the living world, with planet Earth, and with the return to unity."
ALL proceeds support ecological & cultural regeneration in both the Amazon & Cascadia, including:
Restoration of ecosystems, ongoing conservation of local native habitat and biodiversity
Amazonian gastronomy, local food sovereignty efforts for native and non-native peoples alike
Place-based education and ongoing public outreach in the fields holistic sustainability and wellness, regenerative agriculture and land stewardship, community governance, ancestral/Indigenous knowledge systems, and more
Endogenous research, social justice, access to land and knowledge for low-income people and individuals of historically marginalized communities for the purposes of ecological living, sustainable agriculture and forestry, cottage industries and worker co-operatives.
Logistics
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Heart Contribution: $222-444
All-Inclusive*Special discounts and agreements are available for individuals and groups according to their need & service (i.e. non-profits & similar regenerative efforts).
All Families are welcome to attend! No pets please.
Children may attend by free donation & under your supervision.Elders welcome – please reach out so that we may accommodate you well!
Contact us as vanessam@lostvalley.org to inquire about special agreements.
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Arrival: 12-3pm Wednesday
Closing: 3-4pm Friday*More detailed schedule and arrival instructions will be provided closer to the event date.
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Tent camping provided with access to shared outdoor bathing facilities, restrooms, outdoor kitchen, and meals with a strong emphasis on local, organic, wildcrafted, and ethically sourced ingredients. Guests will also have access to nature sanctuary trails, creek, and meadow.
We will have a community potluck meal the first night on the 11th.
*Dorm rooms are available and may be booked separately through Lost Valley.
Please let us know at vanessam@lostvalley.org if you have need for any special accommodations or considerations.
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Fully prepared dish for community potluck on Wednesday evening.
Personal camping gear (tent, rain fly, sleeping bag, headlamp).
Garden & forest-worthy boots, rain jacket.
Snacks, fruits, seeds, teas etc. to share (extra bonus for cacao!).
Music instruments, songs & stories!
Cultural
Cross-Pollination
We come together to share seeds, songs, stories, and dances for the regeneration of community and communication, connection and culture, memory and soil.
As dominant systems strain under the weight of disconnection and isolation—from land, from spirit, from heritage, from each other—learning from cultures that have sustained life through reciprocity, oral memory, and deep ecological knowledge offers a path toward regeneration. These exchanges aren’t just acts of sharing or forms of entertainment; they are acts of healing and service to the whole—rebalancing narratives, awakening the memory of our bodies and territories, and reweaving a collective future rooted in respect, diversity, interdependence, and belonging.
While it is a privilege and an honor to welcome our Colombian family and to help build this bridge between the global North and South, we also want to recognize the prolific and diverse local efforts, seeds, projects, and communities working towards community, land, and cultural regeneration here in the Willamette Valley and Cascadia bioregion. We want to strengthen these local alliances and promote cross-pollination of ideas, visions, tools and arts.
For this reason, we are offering a special discounted rate of $133-199 for service-oriented folks or groups engaged in regenerative work, as well as elders.
To make a special agreement, please contact us via email or phone below with a short introduction of your work, community or organization:
vanessam@lostvalley.org
(509) 741-8855
calling all…
Artists, stewards, bridge-builders & peacekeepersm in the spirit of Friendship & Family...
Musicians, singers, poets, storytellers, weavers, brewers; keepers of fire, water, seeds of knowledge & memory; educators, weavers, defenders, permaculturists, forest people; brewers & dancers...
YOU!
How can we advance towards a new way of life that is more respectful and in tune with living beings?
What can we do to take our place as healthy cells in a greater living body – as a humanity that is an integral part of Mother Earth?
To reawaken unity?
