In an unprecedented 7-week course with curandera Grace Alvarez Sesma, a leading figure in understanding the spiritual importance and practices of Mexican traditions, youâll be immersed in DĂa de Muertosâ rituals, wisdom, and healing power as a path that leads to the sacred within you and your own ancestral roots.
If youâve been intrigued by DĂa de Muertos, youâll learn how its traditions can be reverently explored and celebrated by everyone as they ultimately teach us how to reclaim our own ancestral traditions as a path to healing and wholeness.
In understanding a tradition at its deepest levels, we can craft a relationship with our own ancestors in a way that most honors them and blesses our lineage â giving you peace and freedom from the past, and setting you up for healthier relationships and friendships for your future.
From an early age, Grace was urged to return to the ways of the Ancestors and Indigenous medicine during dreams with a group of Indigenous Grandmothers of various Native nations. The Grandmothers gave her teachings to help usher in a return to feminine leadership, and help restore balance on Mother Earth, including respect and protection of land, water, and holy places.
She currently educates conventional healthcare providers on how to respectfully integrate curanderismo cultural healing traditions with Western medicine in a way that addresses the whole person.
As you journey with Grace into the living traditions of DĂa de Muertos to understand how this cultural practice can apply to your own lineage, youâll experience a Soul-Mending Ceremony to help you reclaim the parts of yourself that have become fragmentedâŠ
⊠by letting go of trapped emotional energy that resides within you and dissolving connections with deceased loved ones that may be draining your energy.
In doing so, youâll heal unhealthy connections to those who have passed and begin to rebuild these relationships in a way that uplifts your life â and that of future generations.
Youâll learn how to reverently celebrate DĂa de Muertos observances without appropriation, prayerfully experiencing its spiritual dimensions and those of your own ancestryâŠ
⊠and how to move through life with a deeper understanding of the purpose of death.
Youâll gain a new perspective of the impact of trauma through the Mesoamerican view of the human body, and explore how Indigenous cultural practices can help you shift out of unhealthy mental and emotional patterns.
Grace will also share how DĂa de Muertosâ cultural icons, La Catrina and El Catrin, can be catalysts for you to live your life with greater connection and authenticity â and how death and your inner wisdom prompts you to align your heart, identity, lifeways, and spirit.
Are you ready to access the rich living traditions of DĂa de Muertos to receive deeper heart-healing and guidance â and a new way of celebrating and honoring life, death, and living?
In this 7-week transformational intensive, Grace will guide you through the fundamental skills youâll need to connect with your ancestors through the rich traditions of DĂa de Muertos to receive deeper heart-healing and guidance â and a new way of celebrating and honoring life, death, and living.
Grace will welcome you and your ancestors into her circle with reflection and prayer during the opening week of class, and set the intention that will guide the course plåticas, or heart-to-heart talks.
Youâll explore the meaning and importance of DĂa de Muertos for mental, spiritual, and physical wellbeing, and for healing ancestral-lineage and intergenerational wounds.
Youâll learn how the rituals and practices that are part of this observance can help you begin mending your relationship with someone who has diedâŠ
⊠and experience DĂa de Muertos as a vibrant, joyous, living tradition that continues to be revered and celebrated by Mexican, Chicanx, and Indigenous communities in Mexico and the United States.
Youâll also gain a deeper understanding of the spiritual dimensions of your ancestry from an Indigenous perspective, rather than the Western approach of interpreting spiritual phenomena as archetypical or symbolic.
Grace will also encourage you to begin a journal of the blessings and lessons of DĂa de Muertos, which you can track throughout the course.
As you explore the living traditions of DĂa de Muertos, youâll:
Rituals that transcend the mundane are central to worldwide observances that honor ancestors. Ceremonies, incense, prayers, and flowers are universally accepted as ways in which we can show respect and honor what is sacred to us.
This week, youâll learn why DĂa de Muertos is not Halloween, and how you can reverently participate in DĂa de Muertos celebrations to connect with your ancestors in a respectful way â one that honors the sacred in you and that of the Mexican people who generously share DĂa de Muertos with you.
Youâll also learn how your presence influences the energies of sacred places, including the campos santos, where your loved ones are laid to restâŠ
⊠and how DĂa de Muertos holds profound wisdom that can help guide your life choices.
Lastly, youâll expand your understanding of DĂa de Muertosâ origins in Mesoamerica to todayâs blending of Catholicism and Native Mexican philosophy.
This week, youâll:
During DĂa de Muertos, you see adults and children wearing fancy hats and clothes, and very white makeup applied to evoke the faces of skeletons.
This reflects the tradition of La Catrina and El Catrin, the female and male iconic representations of faces of death in DĂa de Muertos. Within the festive attire of La Catrina and El Catrin are lessons of social justice, cultural resistance, and the notion of death as the great equalizer.
This week, youâll discover what you may have in common with La Catrina and El Catrin, and when it is and isnât appropriate to dress as them.
Grace will also guide deeper reflection and discussion on how La Catrina and El Catrin can be catalysts for you to live your life with greater authenticity.
During the third class, youâll:
The effects of colonization in the U.S. have contributed to a feeling of soul wounding and uncertainty for many â of susto, or soul fright. Many have lost their connection to ancestral practices, giving rise to a feeling of rootlessness.
Seeing DĂa de Muertos celebrations, you may question whether challenging relationships with your grandparents, parents, and other family members merit honoring them on DĂa de Muertos.
You may long to remember your culture and customs, but donât know how to reclaim your ancestral practices and worry about misappropriating another culture.
Your journey of reclaiming your ancestral customs and heritage can be difficult as many of us carry more than one lineage⊠yet it can also be life-affirming and empowering.
The call you feel to remember your ancestors is one way that your inner wisdom prompts you to align your heart, identity, lifeways, and spirit.
Upon reflection, you may recognize that healing is needed â for yourself and those who come after you.
This week, you will be invited to compassionately acknowledge those parts of yourself that have been impacted by the actions and decisions your dead beloveds made â decisions that may be making you feel less present and engaged in your day-to-day life, and with others.
As you reflect on how to heal your ancestors and yourself, youâll:
This week, with your permission, Grace will guide you with loving-kindness in a Soul-Mending ceremony, a re-membering of the parts of yourself that have been fragmented as a result of harmful energetic ties to people, situations, grief, and loss.
Youâll learn how to set your intention for the ceremony in order to dissolve spiritual connections with deceased loved ones that keep harmful energy trapped within your energy fieldâŠ
⊠which may be draining your energy and affecting your ability to have healthy relationships.
Grace will share an overview of the Mesoamerican understanding of the human body and how trauma affects your body, mind, and spirit.
Youâll also explore how the Ancestors are calling on us to do the work thatâs needed to heal ourselves, our families, and our communities â through our daily actions and in our larger world.
Youâll discover how in ways big and small, they are nudging us toward transformation and joyous rebirths â and how reflecting, praying, releasing, mending, and resting are all part of your transformational journey on this Earthwalk.
During the fifth class, youâll:
As DĂa de Muertos draws near, itâs time to begin gathering all that youâll need for the construction of your unique ofrenda, or altar.
This week, youâll learn the meaning of the various elements of an ofrenda â beginning with how your family altar is an invitation to your deceased loved ones to visit for a joyous family reunion!
Youâll explore how personal and community altars can be dedicated to the memory of persons you do not know personally, but wish to honor â or to a cause dear to your heart such as missing and murdered Indigenous women, Mother Earth, the oceans, or animal relatives.
Grace will share how your cultural identity, family history, and commitment to preserving ancestral traditions in a respectful and humble manner will guide the creation of your altar â and the items you place on it.
Youâll be guided on how to welcome your special guests with prayers, how to say farewell, and how to respectfully take down the altar until next year.
As you plan this very special party, your checklist includes your guestsâ favorite delicacies, beautiful flowers, drinks, fragrant incense, and of course, music!
As you learn how to welcome your beloved dead, youâll:
Being a good ancestor means planting seeds of good memories and actions today.
During the concluding week of class, youâll explore how to include family, children, and friends in your DĂa de Muertos celebration so that your family stories are preserved and passed to the next generation with every altar that is created.
Youâll learn ways of helping preserve the beautiful soul of this tradition by actively supporting Mexican, Chicanx, and Indigenous artists, craftspeople, and families who are working to preserve the integrity of their traditions.
Grace will also share a meditation practice using the phases of the moon to continue the healing that she has shared with you during this course.
Bringing the circle to a close, you will link your breath, mind, and spirit in prayer with Grace and set your intentions for being a good ancestor and an ally for intercultural healing in your community.
During the final class, youâll:
We feel honored that Grace Alvarez Sesma has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a curandera whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If youâre serious about connecting with your ancestors through the rich traditions of DĂa de Muertos to receive deeper heart-healing and guidance, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If youâre ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button to reserve your space now.
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