I Offer You My Heart
Let us together turn the world side-by-side
Tue March 15th - Sun March 20th
Will you be a catalyst for global women rising to create a united, heart-centered sisterhood across boundaries?
Together we can build bridges for all people to unite, learn from one another, and weave a different world into being.
Let us begin a landmark journey creating a blueprint for future generations.
Join us for a FREE 6-day journey to come together in reciprocity, listen deeply to the voices of the global South, and collectively feel into what it takes to bridge the walls that divide us & keep us separate
The voice & presence of many, many women is missing in our growing movements to support all women to rise up & reach their full potential - most especially that of women from the Global South, who live at the crossroads of intersecting oppresions.
And yet these women hold deep medicine for us all, and us for them
- as too does the revolutionary act of dismantling the walls that divide us & keep us seperate and deliberately entering into meaningful relationship.
The world we ALL dream of
depends on re-connecting, developing a sense of the oneness of humanity, and recognizing that the well-being of the one impacts the well-being of the all.
It all starts with offering deep listening, respect & mutual understanding.
This is how we will build a more peaceful world.
YOUR voice matters.
YOUR deep listening & witnessing is needed.
Will you say yes to a powerful exchange steeped in respect & reciprocity that allows us all to rise up together, beyond division, separation, otherness?
YOUR heart will pave the way.
Schedule of events
Tuesday March 15th - 4pm PST - live online Opening Circle (replay available)
Wednesday 16th - Saturday 19th - offerings from our guest speakers delivered daily to your inbox
Sunday March 20th - 3pm PST - live online Closing Circle & Maya Ceremony for Spring Equinox with all participants, North & South (replay available)
This is a free event. If you wish to make a heart donation, you will be redirected to Buena Semilla’s International Women’s Month campaign. 100% of all funds donated will help support indigenous Maya women of Guatemala in their quest to reclaim their voice, identity, sovereignty, and self-determination, and a full life free of violence.
You are invited to step into a journey...
To travel to remote, mountainous Maya villages of Guatemala.
To listen deeply to the voices & stories of the women whom you will meet along the way.
To ask yourself what you are truly here to give, and what you are truly here to receive.
To start scratching away the surface, collectively, of all that keeps us separate (including overlapping and deeply internalized systems of oppression of colonialism, capitalism & patriarchy)
To open yourself to be touched, shaken, transformed.
To be part of the seeding of a new movement, for all of us.
We will be joined by…
Maya Mam and Tz’utujil women living in remote villages of San Juan Ostuncalco and Santiago Atitlán.
Floridalma Pérez Gonzalez, psychologist, Maya spiritual guide
Maudilia López Cardona, anthropologist, theologist, defender of women’s rights and indigenous land & culture
Negma Janeth Coy, weaver, poet, writer, Maya spritual guide
Patricia Castillo, feminist leader
Kathleen Brigidina, TreeSisters Artist Liaison & Community Engagement Coordinator, eco-artivist and creative empowerment facilitator
and others…
What you will receive...
One live online Opening Circle (replay available)
Four daily emails containing offerings from our guest speakers
One live online Closing Circle & Maya Ceremony for Spring Equinox (replay available)
A safe container within which to explore your connections & disconnections - previously known or unknown - with women on the other side of the walls that divide us and keep us separate
A glimpse into the Maya Cosmovision through the eyes of Mayan spiritual guides
An invitation to start collectively weaving-dreaming the world we all wish to co-create together
Eagle, Quetzal, Cóndor - by Anka Ullpu
You will feel the spirit of the Prophecy of the Eagle and Condor, which is the uniting of North & South coming to life.
The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor says that deep in the mists of history, human societies decided to take two routes and become two different people: the Eagle people and the Condor people.
The Eagle people are typically mind-oriented, industrial and related to masculine energy, often identified with science and technology. They have been the explorers, the colonists, and the aggressors in the records of history.
The Condor people are intuitive, creative, feeling, and related more to feminine energy. Indigenous people have usually identified with this path, as they prioritize the heart above the brain, and mysticism over rationalism in their cultures.
The prophecy says that for many years these two paths would not cross at all. Then, they would come together and the Eagle would be so strong as to practically drive the Condor into extinction—but not quite.
However, after 500 years, there would be potential for the Eagle and Condor to fly together in one sky, to mate and create a new offspring: higher human consciousness.
Some say that this offspring is represented by the quetzal of Central America, the Mayan bird that is the symbol of bringing together the heart and mind, art and science, male and female.
[Pachamama Alliance]
Let us start our journey together in Guatemala, the land of the Quetzal…
This is a free event. If you wish to make a heart donation, you will be redirected to Buena Semilla’s International Women’s Month campaign. 100% of all funds donated will help support indigenous Maya women of Guatemala in their quest to reclaim their voice, identity, sovereignty, and self-determination, and a full life free of violence.
“How can we ensure that everyone’s voice counts, when there are those of us who don’t yet stop and listen, and those of us who are still too afraid to speak? Within this query lies the key to a new world that stands beyond all that we know, beyond all greater than imagined possibilities. It is time to hear and learn from all the unseen and unspoken and unheard. For therein lies the medicine the world most urgently needs.”
— Anne Marie Chomat
Hello! I am Anne Marie Chomat, MD/PhD/MPH, and I will be your guide.
I started collaborating with Maya Mam women in the Western Highlands of Guatemala in 2009. After visiting with over 300 local women in their homes over several years, sitting with them and listening deeply to their stories, we co-founded a grassroots collective, Buena Semilla, supporting local women to rise up as leaders and co-create spaces for women (and recently also men) to come together, find support, reweave their social fabric and become agents of change in their own lives, families and communities. These women have been some of my most powerful teachers and guides over the years, leading me to recognize and start unravelling my own internalized systems of colonisation & oppression. Wishing to stand up for the voices and dreams of these women has called me in to strengthen my own.
As a transformational mentor, decolonization practitioner, activist, scholar & healer, my work focuses on contributing to women's empowerment, collective healing processes, decolonization journeys and intentional co-creation of new realities in partnership with local communities. I have been working in the "Global South" and across five continents for the last 20 years, and have come to believe that it is often those who remain voiceless whose voice most needs to be heard.
“Anne Marie holds a place of poetry, of bringing beauty into places, through her presence, through her voice, through the softness of her being. She has this way of soft power that is potent, that is needed.”
— Aurora Farber
I Offer You My Heart
Let us together turn the world side-by-side
Tue March 15th - Sun March 20th
JOIN US!
We so very much look forward to discovering with you all that is to be weaved into this space, with the threads we each carry
This is a free event. If you wish to make a heart donation, you will be redirected to Buena Semilla’s International Women’s Month campaign. 100% of all funds donated will help support indigenous Maya women of Guatemala in their quest to reclaim their voice, identity, sovereignty, and self-determination, and a full life free of violence.