ANCESTORS
A Seasonal Gathering of Ancestral Honoring & Celebration
Ceremonial Cacao 𖥔 Community Altar 𖥔 Live Music 𖥔 Indigenous Market
Join us for a ceremonial evening in honor of Samhain & Dia de los Muertos.
Through this cross-cultural offering we will dive into the sacred teachings of different lineages and traditions that guide us at this time of year, as we explore ways we may align with the seasonal energies to honor the cycles of our lives and our loved ones who have moved on beyond the veil.
In honor of our ancestors, you are encouraged to bring photos and offerings for your loved ones who have passed, as together we will build a community ancestral altar, light candles and celebrate the cycles of life and the power of ritual and ancestral connection.
Our gathering will include ceremonial cacao offered by Litzia and Lizette and sacred world music by Winter. This is a space for honoring and celebrating through story and song as we acknowledge the seasonal energies which surround us and the power and resilience of our ancestors which continues to live on.
This is a community event and all are welcome, children included!
Friday, October 30th
6:30pm - 9:30pm
The Source Chiropractic
Berkeley | Ohlone Territory
Offered on a Sliding Scale of $40 - $80
Children 13-17: $10
Limited $35 early bird tickets
What’s Included:
Ceremonial Cacao
Wisdom Teachings
Ancestral Altar
Sacred World Music
Indigenous Market
For those who need financial support, contact us
Guided by Winter, Lizette + Litzia
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Lizette Ohxochitl is a traditional healer and medicine woman from Jalisco, Mexico, carrying the teachings and ancestral wisdom of her Wixárika and Nahua lineage. Guided by the voices of Mother Earth, Grandfather Fire, and the ancestral spirits of nature, her path is rooted in prayer, healing, and remembrance.
She is devoted to creating circles of prayer and community healing through her work with Getting To The Root, an Indigenous-led Bay Area non-profit dedicated to sharing ancestral teachings, consciousness expansion, and creating empowerment opportunities for Indigenous communities.
Through her work, Lizette shares the medicine of remembrance and reconnecting people to ancestral practices that bring healing, balance, and deeper understanding through honoring the sacred relationship with Mother Earth and her medicines, including the temazcal, sacred tobacco pipe, song, and fire purification ceremonies.
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Litzia Chalchicihuatl Sierra is a Mayan woman from Yucatán, Mexico, whose path is deeply rooted in preserving the memories, wisdom, and sacred traditions of her ancestral lineage. Through prayer, ceremony, cultural practice, and traditional teachings, she carries forward the living traditions of her people with reverence and devotion.
She is a Culture Bearer, Fire Keeper, student and practitioner of Traditional Indigenous Medicine, ceremonial drummer, and artist. Her work is dedicated to honoring Indigenous knowledge, strengthening community connection, and keeping ancestral traditions alive for future generations. Through ceremony, music, and cultural expression, Litzia creates spaces for remembrance, healing, and spiritual connection.
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Winter Jendayi is a ceremonialist, musician and mentor whose path and work is rooted in ancestral healing arts. For over a decade she has been a devoted student within Indigenous traditions, as well as, relearning and reconnecting with her own ancestral ways of Turtle Island, West Africa and Europe.
Winter is a nine-year Moon Dancer of the Meztztliyolilitzli Danza in Costa Rica and has spent the last 13 years immersing in cultural teachings, studying sacred cosmovisions, reclaiming her own ancestral identity and deepening within the artistry of all she holds.
She is the founder of Altar de Koskatlan and co-organizer of Nawabu Culture, and has traveled extensively, working as an organizer/facilitator for her communities and teachers and weaving worlds for cultural exchange and prayer pathways. Her studies span across oceans, lands and countless territories.
As a woman of Afro-Indigenous and European ancestry, Winter believes in reindigenization as a path to liberation through honoring our intrinsic connection with the Earth and remembering our Original Ways. This is the prayer that holds all she offers.