IK': Indigenous Breathwork Ceremony for Radical Self Love
We are in a time when new medicines are being woven from old ways, to address the needs of this time and this place. To unlearn our participation in systems of dominance, we must address the ways our internal world replicates these same systems.
Welcome to the Ik’ breathwork ceremony created by Marita, One Who Catches Lightning & Keeper of the Thunder Stone with The Path of IX.
With permissions and intensive training, Ash Bell, Vesna Vavladellis and Aunty Mixch are hosting the next breathwork ceremony live in Melbourne on the 25th of August 2023.
Ik’ is the breathing practice of recognizing the intelligences of all our different parts, learning to live in balance with ourselves so we live in balance as a collective.
“The Mayan Astrology Sign Ik' is about ideas and change. It represents the wind, lightning, storms, and the renewal of life. It is the space inside your body. It makes energy come alive. It is both the crystal clearness of glass and the windows in Mayan temples. Ik' purifies the body, mind and spirit. It is the air we breathe and the words we speak. It is the space between the earth and the sky – the air around us, between us, and within us.”
The Ik’ Three Breath Practice comes to us at a time when the world is in crisis, a time of war and dismantling of systems. This is an evolution and weaving of multiple practices, which have had to change to deal with the accelerating speed and consumption of the western world. Indigenous traditions are living traditions that change, not systems of culture frozen in time and space like a photograph.
We are devouring ourselves, faster and faster.
The medicine has had to change.
Developed by One Who Catches Lightning with permission from the Moonwalker elders (who now use a version of this technique as well) we bring this woven imagery of breath, connection, self love (of all beings), sovereignty, and liberation (acceptance) to you as a tool for personal use.
These sessions go beyond teaching you breathwork techniques. They include history and culture, and are woven with ancient rituals and ceremonies of liberation.
Held by the medicina of cacao, we will be supported on this journey, you will not walk alone.
There are Three Main Parts that go into these circles:
1. Breath: 3 Breath Practice, T breath, Ik' practice
2. Cuatro Manos Y Cinco Volcanes Cacao offering
3. Liberation Threshold Ritual
We look forward to walking alongside you on your journey.
Ash, Vesna & Aunty Mixch
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS:
Ash, Vesna & Aunty Mixch
Ash Bell is an internationally recognised Healer, Leader, and Teacher, specialising in energy healing, sound healing, ceremonial cacao, mentoring spiritual and psychic work. With a strong ancestral lineage of healers and oracles, Ash has combined her deep study and leadership experience in indigenous circles, with The Path of Ix and Cuatro Manos y Cinco Volcanes Cacao Farm, to create a unique tapestry of woven medicine and offerings.
Ash's work aims to empower individuals to become leaders in their own lives and communities, fostering growth, healing, and thriving. She guides people in finding purpose, gaining clarity, and establishing stronger and more loving relationships with themselves and the world around them.
Through her understanding and integration of ancient wisdom, a background in clinical Social Work and a ‘keeping it real’ approach to the spiritual journey, Ash brings forth transformative experiences. Her dedication to continuous study and embodiment of healing practices have allowed her to weave powerful modalities that inspire profound shifts.
Through her teachings, healings, and leadership guidance, Ash invites you to embrace your own unique medicine and make a positive impact on yourself and the world.
Vesna is a facilitator of Cuatro Manos Y Cinco Volcanes Cacao, a meditation & movement facilitator, reiki practitioner & sound alchemist. As a current student of Marita One Who Catches Lightening at the Path of IX and having trained in MetaMusic under the guidance of world-renowned Hang Musician & Sound Alchemist Laura Inserra, Vesna invites us to go beyond the cognitive limitations of our mind with the support of Cacao, sound, movement and meditation to access the wisdom that resides within the rich unchartered terrain of our inner world.
Vesna aims to create environments which are safe and nurturing and that allow us to meet ourselves wherever we are at on our journey. Vesna believes that it is from this space of deep connection and reverence that we have the opportunity to explore, heal, evolve and rediscover our relationship with our body-mind-essence so that we may come into sacred union with all that we innately are.
Vesna draws on her own journey through intergenerational and lived experiences of trauma with an aim to inspire and empower others to reclaim their innate wisdom and realise their true potential. Vesna continues to walk alongside her teachers, ancestors and guides on her own spiral journey navigating the intricate, multi-faceted magnificence that is this human experience.
Mixchelle Maulette-Evans (aunty mixch) of Heart.Earth.Drum is an international indigenous teacher, ceremonial facilitator, hawaiian cacao plant medicine carrier, rootworker, storyteller and heart meditation/reiki tummo trained healer with 15+ years experience.
Mixch is also a teacher’s aid and one of the founding students who still continues to learn from Marita and Rose at The Path of IX.
Her medicine stems from the roots of her unbroken matriarchal lineage of African and Mascarene islander grandmothers and the strong relationships that she holds with her Yoruba ancestors through the traditions and rituals of Voudun.
Mixch is passionate about empowering all genders to recognise the tools that they have within. She is a strong believer of teaching people “how to feed and nurture themselves”, by enabling their own creation stories of the HEART through their Iburu (strong voice), weaving respectful relationships with all that live and breathe on the EARTH and having the freedom and choice to dance in celebration of all their parts to the beat of their own DRUM.
You can find her work and offerings on ig/fb heartearthdrum.