Breath is life. Our breath is our essence. By becoming mindful of and changing the patterns of our breath, we have the power to change how we feel, how we walk through the world and connect to mother Earth. Donatella guides us through the process of awakening our body and returning to the easy breathing of a newborn baby – equipping us with the skills to become grounded, calm, present, and focused. Donatella will teach how to create clear and effective boundaries, unify  physical and metaphysical being and tap into the energetic fields of mother Earth.

Music is Medicine. For millennia, mothers have sung lullabies to heal, uplift, transport, and connect the children to the Divine. Donatella taps into these ancient fields of the Divine Feminine with Moltisanti Soul Singing, a method she developed that uses the power of the human voice to heal, cleanse, purify, and release deep seeded traumas in the nervous system. Soul Singing is more than a sound bath, it is an opportunity to learn to ride the sound current and orient yourself to new timelines of existence, inner peace and harmony.

Learn to recognize the language of our soul and receive divine transmissions in the dream time. The Night school practice heightens our awareness and receptivity to what is happening during the awakened and dreaming states. Donatella guides us into a restful and spiritually connected night using the Soul Singing method. Night school opens a deep dialogue with the unconscious mind, prepares us to receive teachings from our guides and remember our unique connection to source.

Ana Maria will lead the Dances of Universal Peace. The Dances blend chanting, live music and evocative movement into a living experience of unity, peace and integration.  The mantras or sacred phrases used are scriptures and poetry from the many spiritual traditions of the earth.

This spiritual practice opens us to our true nature- authentic, beyond form and imbued with the spaciousness and love that connects all. The dances are designed to connect our hearts, across culture and systems of belief, bringing us together in a dance that is made as an offering to the global movement of peace and understanding.

Our Anatomy Project empowers a collective reimagining of the way we learn and teach about sexual expression, gender and relational power. Jote Lamar is the artist and founder of this project and a team of Andean elders has stepped forward to support the research. These elders know, that in order to heal, we must honor our erotic origin. This includes nurturing peaceful relationships of respect and curiosity between all genders.

Through Participatory Action Research and fine art images Our Anatomy Project is awakening a new earth-based pedagogy. Ancestral wisdom and modern research are flowing together to understand how we can better teach and learn about sexuality. Jote will share some of the art and research that is coming from this allyship.

The ancestral practice of dialog with the territory leads us, little by little, to remember how to experience an embodied connection with the landscape. We awaken our connection and communication with the ecosystem through Offerings, Pagamentos, Embodiment Practice, Sacred Walks and Readings of the territory. Many of us have lost the ability to be present and receive stories and guidance from the elders of the territory- the volcanoes, lagoons, rivers, trees and mountains.  We will guide different practices to explore and uncover your unique way of sensing and receiving the gifts of your connection with the territory.

The voice is the divine organ of creation. The Andean cosmovision states that the word creates the world. 

We must learn to feel before we think and and think before we speak. Bearing these teachings in mind, we will sit in council and weave the word. Ana Maria will share the medicine of the chicha and the ancient stories, songs and symbols that come as a result of our shared intent. She will also guide us in the preparation of chicha.

Chicha is a traditional fermented drink from the Andes. It is made from corn, water and sugar that is imbued with prayer during its preparation. An alchemy takes place between the spirits of the fire, the water, the corn and our prayers.  Chicha is thought of as the milk of the Great Universal Mother and as the water with its own life. The process of fermentation elevates and transforms our prayers, integrating them into a unified culture. When chicha is shared intentionally in council, we have the opportunity to be transported into a quality of presence where deep wisdom can be learned and shared.

Raised on the island of Sicily, Donatella Moltisanti grew up surrounded by ancient healing wisdom, which fed her gift as a natural healer. She discovered this gift as a young child, when she was able to eliminate pain in her family members, simply by putting her hands on the places that hurt. It was only after enrolling in a music conservatory and receiving her degree as an opera performer and teacher, however, that Donatella discovered the extent of her healing power: When she sang, she felt transported to an altered state of consciousness and higher state of awareness, while those around her reported spontaneous emotional breakthroughs and metaphysical experiences.

Over the course of their vocal and breath work with Donatella, some opera students even experienced physical healings, from ailments as pronounced as scoliosis. As Donatella continued to sing internationally, at venues ranging from local churches to Carnegie Hall, she embarked on a quest to understand and amplify her natural healing abilities. To this end, she became a certified nutritionist and holistic health counselor, through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, and she studied with numerous spiritual teachers from diverse modalities of healing. Ultimately, Donatella developed the Moltisanti Soul Healing method, a six-step process that helps individuals access their core being, let go of residue from trauma, and express themselves authentically. At the core of this work are the Moltisanti Soul Singing method, a music-based healing that fuses classical opera, sacred Eastern music, and improvised vocalization, and the Moltisanti Conscious Breathing method, a tool for awakening the body and becoming both spiritually aligned and emotionally grounded, by mastering the breath.

Through her wellness company, Vitality Soul, Donatella teaches these methods and additionally offers group programs, international retreats, and private sessions. To this end, she has worked with A-list celebrities, Fortune 50 executives, elite athletes, and everyday people – bringing her innovative work to those in need worldwide, on a mission to help heal humanity, one soul at a time.

Since her childhood, Ana Maria has had the good fortune of experiencing different forms of spiritual expression, which allowed her to develop conceptual flexibility and dialogue with different systems of thought and tradition. In her studies she discovered the essential similarities between many religions despite the differences and distances between their external forms.  

Ana Maria came from a Catholic family and was blessed with a childhood with access to Indian teachers and spiritual studies. At the age of 11 she was initiated by Master Kirpal Sing with whom she traveled the path of yoga and sound meditation. She is currently a Sherag of the Sufi Ruhaniat International order and a leader and mentor of Dances of Universal Peace.

Ana Maria has been a follower of the Red Path of the Sioux peoples of North America for 20 years, a dancer of the Sun, a carrier of the Sacred Chanupa and carrier of the prayers of the Inipi and Hamblecheyapi.  She is a co-founder of the councils of grandmothers and grandfathers of Colombia, where she plays a role of facilitator between the different cultures represented. She is also a Moon Dancer of the Mexica tradition. 

Ana María co-founded the ecovillage and ceremonial center Atlántida. Atlantida is a mother house, a community that welcomes people from different traditions and invites them to collaborate for the good of all. The dance of the Sun Condor Eagle, the Dance of the Moon and four vision quests happen there each year. Atlantida is also annual host to a variety of intercultural meetings supporting the creation of alliances. Atlantida is the most important Latin American epicenter of the Dances of Universal Peace.

Under the teachings of the Mexican Don Antonio Velazco Piña, Ana Maria received the understanding and practices of the Sacred Walks and rituals relating to the spiritual and energetic centers of the planet. She works to balance the Earth's energetic system through communion and dialogue with the telluric consciousness of volcanoes, lakes, rivers, mountains and the sacred places where today churches and cities are built.  

In 1997 Ana María founded the Danza y Vida Foundation through which she dedicated herself to work in projects that benefit the environment and the less favored communities - afro-descendants, indigenous people, displaced people and slums in the periphery of the cities.

Jote has always worked with communities and organizations centered in wellness, the arts and community organizing. They bring relational skills rooted in cultural somatics and systems thinking. Jote is passionate about creating communities of practice where we can develop the necessary skills for large scale collaborations and culture shift.

Right now, Jote feels that they can make the biggest societal impact by working and studying with the elders, coaching Sociocracy implementations and by creating the evolutionary art projects requested by the Mother.

Art is one of the ways Jote digests the poison of our times and redirects the power it holds. Personal stories and collective dreams guide their subject matter as they bring forward ancestral wisdom that has been pushed underground. Jote centers stories of people in relationship- with water, fire, the land, our bodies, and the rest of the wild, animate world. In this way, they unearth stories that lead us toward a healing mythology of what is possible when humanity realizes our role as an integral part of the landscape.

Jote is the founder and artist for Our Anatomy Project, an art and research project creating a new pedagogy for learning and teaching about sexual expression, gender and relational power. So far, the research team consists of Jote and four Andean elders. With the guidance of these elders, Jote is building the structure and momentum to gather a diverse team to expand the research. Sociocracy and Participatory Action Research give structure and guidance to Our Anatomy Project.

Jote studied the Hakomi Method and has spent over ten years in the dynamic process of working with families and children in groups and in one on one coaching. Jote founded and directed Five Creeks, a homeschool collective and forest school in Berkeley, California that was collaboratively run by teachers, parents, and students using the principles of sociocracy.

Through the combination of modern and ancestral ways, Jote is birthing an inspiring and efficient new culture of collaboration that includes art, ritual, and solid structures for research and collaboration.