Condor & Eagle
Manitoba: July 11th – August 11th 2009
“When the Eagle of the North flies with the Condor of the South, The Spirit of the Land, She will Re-awaken.” –Inca prophecy
Condor & Eagle is an ongoing and growing grassroots initiative to develop a lasting and meaningful exchange of knowledge and culture between indigenous and non-indigenous communities of peoples from throughout both North and South America.
Condor & Eagle 2009 will focus on a visit to Manitoba, Canada by Maestro Juan Flores Salazar, his wife Sandra Encalada and their daughter Alexandra. It should also be noted that Jeremy Narby, a reknowned Swiss anthropologist and author, is visiting Manitoba with his family as well. Mr. Narby is a good friend of Mr. Salazar and they have worked together in the past.
This will be Juan and Sandra's third visit to Manitoba since 2006. In that time they have made good friends here and worked with many people, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal. In the last two visits, they came during the autumn months, and this third visit will bring them to Manitoba in the middle of the summer. The goal of the visit is to continue to deepen their work, teaching and cultural exchange with various aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities throughout Manitoba. They are coming in the summer months so they can learn and work with local plants, as well as to experience various seasonal aboriginal ceremonies and traditions such as the Sundance.
We are currently soliciting support for the Condor & Eagle 2009 initiative. Interested parties and individuals please contact Jim at info@nosis.tv.
Schedule
| July 11th | Maestro Juan Flores and his family arrive from Peru |
| July 11th - 15th | Visit and cultural exchange with the Hollow Water First Nation. |
| July 15th - 17th | Community consultations in Winnipeg. |
| July 17th - 19th | Nosis Gathering: Windy Hills Retreat, Lake Winnipeg |
| July 19th | Jeremy Narby public talk; screening of excerpt from the film Nosis - The Park Theatre, Winnipeg. |
| July 20th - 23rd | The Condor & Eagle Retreat at Windy Hills Learning Centre |
| July 24th - 26th | Return to the Centre - Manito Ahbee retreat |
| July 26th - 29th | Visit Canupawakpa Dakota & the community of Clearwater. |
| August 1st - 8th | Special guests of a Sundance ceremony - North of Winnipeg |
| August 8th - 11th | Community consultations in Winnipeg |
| August 11th | Leave for peru |
Background Information
In 2005, Jim Sanders and Andre Clement traveled to Peru and to Mayantuyacu, Juan Flores Salazar's healing centre deep in the Peruvian jungle. They were in the beginning stages of making their soon-to-be released feature documentary film Nosis: A Cinematic Vision Quest. After that first visit, Jim and Andre became good friends with Mr. Salazar and his family. This friendship and collaboration has continued to develop with Juan and Sandra visiting Manitoba twice, and with Jim and Andre returning to Peru and Mayantuyacu for more filming.
During both of their previous visits to Manitoba, Juan and Sandra connected and began to develop relationships with various aboriginal communities, Elders and healers. They have befriended Cree, Anishinabe and Dakota peoples. This third visit will allow them to further deepen these relationships.
They will spend time working with the Hollow Water First Nation on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. They will visit the Dakota near Turtle Mountain in the southwestern, Manitoba. They will be special guests of the Nosis Gathering taking place at the Windy Hills retreat centre, an event that will be attended by a mix of aboriginal and non-aboriginal leaders and activists from around Manitoba and the world. They will be special guests of a Sundance ceremony North of Winnipeg. This particular ceremony, hosted by Wilfred and Connie Buck, is very much a spiritual legacy of the late Cree Elder Don Cardinal. Juan and Sandra had a special connection with Don Cardinal, a bond they will honour by attending this Sundance's inaugural year.
Juan and Sandra's third visit will build on a strong foundation forged during their last two visits. Currently, community support for this initiative is greater than ever.
Biographies
Juan Gilberto Flores Salazar, 56, is an Ashaninkan healer from the Peruvian Amazon, who has dedicated his life to the study of medicinal plants and indigenous culture. Mr. Salazar comes from a lineage of healers that dates back hundreds of years to the time of the great Inca civilization. He has spent most of his life traveling throughout Peru learning from various elders and master healers from many different tribes. In 2001, he founded Mayantuyacu, a centre for the study of medicinal plants and culture that is situated in the crater of an ancient volcano, surrounded by virgin rainforest and is in one of the most bio-diverse regions in the world. Mr. Salazar is known worldwide for his vast knowledge of medicinal plants and his success in healing everything from cancer, to diabetes, to rheumatism, to depression and much more. His work has been highlighted in the publications of the Swiss-based writer and anthropologist Jeremy Narby. (The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, Shamans Through Time and Intelligence in Nature). Recently, Mr. Salazar has begun to travel and work with people abroad. His interest is in working with the best of both traditional and western medicine for the betterment of all of humanity.
Sandra Enclada is a trained nurse and the indigenous President of Mayantuyacu, the healing centre she founded with her husband Mr. Salazar. Her close work with the Maestro has given her a unique perspective on working with both Western and Traditional medicine. Ms. Encalada has an interest in developing support networks for women healers, indigenous and nonindigenous.
Alexandra Encalada is their 5-year-old daughter. She accompanied her parents on their last trip to Manitoba. She is heir to their knowledge and has been learning from an early age the art of healing with plants. Her visits to Canada will help ensure a deep and lasting connection between Mayantuyacu and Manitoba for generations to come.
Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., is a world-renowned author, anthropologist and activist. Narby grew up in Canada and Switzerland, studied history at the University of Canterbury, and received a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University. Since 1989 he has been working for Swiss NGO Nouvelle Planete as Amazonian projects director. He is the author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge and Intelligence in Nature, among others. His main work is to support and fundraise for indigenous run initiatives in the Amazon. His research into the relationship between the spirit world and the molecular world has acted as a bridge for a whole generation of people throughout the Western world, to open up to shamanism and the indigenous worldview.