Jaguar Medicine: Sound Healing Benefit Concert w/ Ernesto Olmos (Co-Sponsored by ICSAW)

Join us for an evening of medicinal songs with Ernesto Olmos, Indigenous Ceremonial Sound Healer from Oaxaca. All proceeds from this Sound Healing Benefit Concert will directly support Ernesto's vision: "THE HOUSE OF THE JAGUAR OF LIGHT, a ceremonial center of Spirituality, Arts, and Culture (see below for more information about the vision). When: Saturday March 9th 6-10 pm Where: Grass Valley (Address shared upon registration) Offering: $25-$100 SPACE IS LIMITED, PLEASE PRE-REGISTER. 40 person limit. Please arrive on time to respect the container that Ernesto will create. Ernesto will be sharing this special experience with his handcrafted native instruments, traditional chants, and other healing tools RSVP, share the event & invite friends on Facebook. Sound Healing is an excellent tool for clearing emotional and physical pain through vibrational techniques of the voice and ancestral instruments. It has been used for centuries and holds powerful healing qualities that can help re-harmonize a person's experience, expand their consciousness and promote deeper connection with sacred sources of life. Ernesto Hernandez Olmos is a multi-talented artist, specializing in many cultural art forms of the pre-Columbian peoples of Meso-America including music, dance, storytelling, sculpture, painting and making traditional instruments out of wood and clay. Ernesto was born in Oaxaca, México, and received his degree in art at “La Escuela de Bellas Artes” of the University of Oaxaca, and is an accomplished muralist with many standing artworks around the Bay Area. Ernesto is founder and director of Xaguia Gura and co-director of Balamoatl, projects dedicated to the diffusion of indigenous Meso-American culture, music, and dance. Ernesto has been collaborating with la Clinica de la Raza and the World Wide Indigenous sciences network as a Cultural Practitioner for 7 years, at la Cultura Cura in Fruitvale, Oakland and serving Women and Youth circles in San Rafael with Canal Welcome Center. About the JAGUAR OF LIGHT PROJECT: Within the Jaguar sanctuary is the Ceremonial Center of Spirituality, Art, and Culture of Oaxaca, directed by Maestro Ernesto Hernández Olmos. The center was founded with the objective of preserving the ancestral traditions and practices of the ancestors by focusing on the culture and spirituality of the Jaguar. This will be realized through the teachings and practices of spiritual ceremonies and rituals of healing, such as the Temazcal, plant medicine ceremonies sound therapy (healing via the sound of ancestral instruments). The development of The Center was prompted by sightings of the White Jaguar of Light in the mountains of Oaxaca in 2004. Within the oral tradition of Ernesto’s native Oaxaca, the Jaguar of Light is the spirit of Mother Earth and her presence is alerting us of the Jaguar’s environmental, spiritual, and cultural importance in the global world. The Center will serve as a spiritual, cultural site for raising awareness to preserve the sacred Jaguar’s environment by helping rescue, rehabilitate, and release Jaguars. To assist directly in this effort, the Center will collaborate with the Yaguar Xoo from Union Zapata, Oaxaca. Yaguar Xoo, a jaguar sanctuary and preservation project directed by Víctor Rosas Vigil, that currently rescues and rehabilitates Jaguars with the mission of releasing them back to their natural habitats. To read more about this project click here: www.gofundme.com/jaguar-of-light-spiritual-center