Wendy Van DIlla interviews Michele 'Ama Wehali' Rozbitsky. Michele is trained as both a psychotherapist and a shamanic healer. She introduces us to modern shamanism and techniques useful in a therapeutic session. She is doing a presentation at the SEED Institute's Conference on Wisdom from the Origins on Healing and Transformation through the Paradigm Shift of 2012, September 14th in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Jerry Honawa is a member of the Hopi tribe, a retired educator, village elder, and a life-long farmer and cultural advisor. In this video he talks about the Hopi Prophesies and offers some advice on how to accept what is happening and going to happen. He lives and farms in Hotevilla, one of the original Hopi villages, situated in the high desert country of what is now northern Arizona. He is the Cultural Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Black Mesa Trust and will speak at the SEED Insitute Conference in September, 2012.

Video presented by the Foundation for Global Humanity.

Interview features Grandmother Margaret Behan (Cheyenne), also known as "Global Grandmother." Since the founding of the International Council for Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers in 2004, Grandmother Behan has been a vocal spokesperson for the rights of Mother Earth and importance of preserving nature for the next seven generations. Listen to Behan share about her experience with addiction and recovery, and true spiritual awakening after achieving sobriety.  She will be in Albuquerque at the SEED Institute's conference, Wisdom from the Origins, September 14, 2012.

Barbara Marx Hubbard spoke at East West about the tools of insight you'll find in her new book, Birth 2012 and Beyond. Barbara's Birth 2012 campaign culminates on December 22nd 2012 -- what Barbara calls "Day One", the Birthday of a new planet.

She is a presenter at the Seed Institute's Wisdom from the Origins conference, September 13-17, 2012, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Hosted by the SEED Graduate Institute

Video produced by Jack Downey.

Keys to Recognizing the Great Mystery by Mayan elder Flordemayo of the Thirteen Grandmothers, recorded at the interspiritual conference in 2009.

Tata Pedro Cruz talks to an audience about the relationship of the Mayan Calender to our bodies, our ten fingers and ten toes. He talks about the Mayan calender and 2012. The venue was at Liverpool Holistic Circle.

Uqualla, a member of the Havasupi Tribe (people of the blue-green waters), is a wisdom keeper, gifted orator, story teller, spiritual emissary, dramatist, bridge between the worlds of ancestral wisdom and the western world. Here he encourages you to let spirit speak to you, you are the being of spirit.  to you. Visit the Seed Graduate Institute site to learn more about the September conference where he is to be a presenter.

July 27, 2012 SEED Institute It is with great sadness that we have learned that Grandfather/Maestro Tlakaelel (Francisco Jimenez Sanchez), Mexica-Tolteca Elder, teacher, guide and guardian of the oral tradition, has passed into the next world. Tlakaelel lived into his 90s and spent his life learning, teaching, and honoring ancient and oral traditions. He shared his knowledge with Indigenous and non-indigenous people alike.  We are grateful beyond measure for Tlakaelel’s life and legacy and will honor him during the upcoming Wisdom from the Origins Conference, September 13-17, 2012, in Albuquerque, NM.

What if the native Wicomiss of Maryland had never encountered the colonists? What if they had thrived to become a modern culture and civilization? What would our towns look like in this alternative universe in the 21st century? Gabrielle Tayac, an historian at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, helps us imagine it.

A very special performance by Dancing Earth Creations on Saturday evening, September 15, 2012 has been arranged as part of the Wisdom of the Origins Conference: The Mayan Calendar and Other Prophecies on the Future of Humanity hosted by the Seed Graduate Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

DANCING EARTH CREATIONS supports Indigenous dance and related arts, to encourage and revitalize awareness of diversity through artistic expression for the education and wellness of all peoples. The Director is RULAN TANGEN. Her lifetime passion for dance includes international experience in the US, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and South America as a choreographer, performer, teacher, and lecturer.

The Dancing Earth received the 2010 National Museum of American Indian’s Expressive Arts Award.  Register for the conference here.