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12/28/2022

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11/12/2022

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04/25/2022

A Women’s Healing Journey
TURTLE ISLAND PROJECT

A Perspective
by CharlesEtta Sutton and Mona Polacca

Life is transition. Since 2020 we have been in constant state of overwhelm: joy, pain, suffering, loss, birth, the unknown… Issues like global warming, police indiscriminate killings of Black men and women, kidnapping and murder of Indigenous women, immigrants in concentration camps, intolerance, the murders of our men, women and children, food insecurity, world upheaval…. The lying and mistrust at the highest level of government has us confused and missing the warmth and body of our families.

Turtle (Turtle Island Project) stands in awareness of what is missing in our lives like the experience of moonlit pathways, reflections on the water and on the rocks, the sound of a rooster’s crow, the smell of coffee and sitting in a circle just LISTENING so that we can reconnect to a world that is familiar yet new.

Ritual, Ceremony and storytelling moves us. We might be moved by high mass, praise and worship time at church or nature--sunrises, sunsets, the changing winds, and the mystery of nature's natural disasters. Piecing together an experience of ritual, ceremony , resilience and their value has our mind, body and spirit coming together in alignment.

With Indigenous wisdom and practices there is acknowledgement that healing does not just come from modern medicine. The use of rituals and ceremonies opens us to creative new ways of seeing and being. This is especially true for women, as healers and nurturers of the world. Our work involves rekindling personal awareness for a renewed global culture and honors the views of many disciplines that recognize connections in all of life’s natural cycles.

Mi Takuye Oyasin (To All my Relations).

Our Turtle Sister community hears this call and wants to be part of this community beginning a journey of exploration in the seminars, retreats, community projects and many gatherings of the Turtle Island Project. We provide a process that declares the participant as the principal agent in changing her/his life. Owning and recognizing one’s power aides in this healing process. The faculty practices and models listening and growth, facilitating with presence, as an important calling in this world today.

We all need community that helps us sustain this type of growth and support.

Especially now, we need support, our family, our community.

Grandmother Mona Polacca and CharlesEtta Sutton
Turtle Island Project Faculty

To learn more about A Women’s Healing Journey or to donate please visit the Grandmothers Wisdom Causes page on our website at grandmotherswisdom.org/a-womens-healing-journey-turtle-island-project

03/22/2022

A Water's Day Message from our Mona Polacca (Turtle Sister) and Grandmother Mona of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

A WORLD WATER DAY MESSAGE FROM MONA POLACCA 💧

We live in water in our mother’s womb. Moments before we come into this world, the water of our mother’s womb gushes out, and we follow behind. That is why the Hopi call water our first foundation of life.

It is no coincidence that the Earth has the same percentage of water as the human body does.

It is also not a coincidence that, as the sacred waters of the planet - Mother Earth’s blood - are becoming dangerously polluted, we are at the same time forgetting our innate connection to the Sacred Universe, the only understanding that will save us.

If we consciously greet the water as we drink and bathe in it, for instance, we begin to have a relationship with water.

We know the Creator can bless us with answers through water. That element can help us with understanding. The more we honor and feel gratitude toward water, the greater the assistance we will receive from it in our lives.

Because of our connection to the elements, we also have the capacity to heal the waters, just as the waters can heal us.

Quantum physics is proving what indigenous people have known all along, that prayer can change the pollution in the waters. The Grandmothers pray every day for the waters of the Earth to become purified again.

~ Grandmother Mona Polacca

International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers

Water Blessing from the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers:

Instructions

💧Prepare a bowl of clean water or stand beside a body of water.

💧Please pray for the water in apology; for polluting and disrespect. Then offer prayers of love, gratitude and respect.

💧Hold both of your hands toward the water, from your heart your energy will be projected into the water through your hands. You can close your eyes during this process.

💧Please intend that the vibrations, which now fill the water, will spread to the waters all over our Mother Earth.

💧You may also add your own prayer to the water, meditation, chanting, music, songs, dancing, and so on, intending the same purpose.

💧Pour a little bit of the water in your hand, with a loving thought, sprinkle a little water away from you (as in spreading seeds), then drink the remaining water with a feeling of gratitude.

We thank all those who join us as we pray for the life of water for our future generations.

02/03/2022

GOOD THURSDAY morning - and every morning. Luv up

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01/29/2022

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01/06/2022

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12/22/2021

Savor This. Happy Holidays and Welcome Winter

Good morning. The shortest day of the year, everything gets better from here. XO

09/09/2021

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08/17/2021

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07/31/2021

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05/05/2021

Grandmother wisdom.

“Part of our prophecy is that when White Raven returns we will become ourselves, we will become spiritual, we will become like a family without fighting each other. We have to rid ourselves of greed. When White Raven returns we will become human. Becoming human is to balance ourselves, connecting ourselves with the matrix of the earth, becoming rooted.”

-Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein

04/28/2021

Don't miss this. IT is this Friday 2 pm Eastern Time.

“Through time prophecies have foretold that the moment of humanity’s transmutation would arrive, and that women would be at the forefront of this process. And here we are, bringing our seed.”

- Grandmother Marie Alice Campos Freire

LISTEN TO THE GRANDMOTHERS WISDOM:
Meeting Challenging Times

Session Fourteen:
GRANDMOTHER MARIA ALICE
Live from Brasilia, Brazil

Date: Friday April 30th, 2021
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT

---> Register here: https://www.grandmotherswisdom.org/listen-to-the-grandmothers-wisdom