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Voices from the ancestors : Xicanx and Latinx spiritual expressions and healing practices, edited by Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales

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Voices from the ancestors : Xicanx and Latinx spiritual expressions and healing practices
Title
Voices from the ancestors
Title remainder
Xicanx and Latinx spiritual expressions and healing practices
Statement of responsibility
edited by Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"This anthology of personal essays, prayers, and poems serves as an offering of spiritual expressions for everyday life"--
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Provided by publisher
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AzTeS/DLC
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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1953-
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Medina, Lara
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  • Hispanic American women
  • Indian women
  • Spirituality
  • Healing
  • Spiritual life
  • African Americans
  • Anthropology
  • Civilization
  • Feminist spirituality
  • Folklore
  • Manners and customs
  • Mexican Americans
  • Religion
  • Shamanism
  • Latin America
  • United States
Label
Voices from the ancestors : Xicanx and Latinx spiritual expressions and healing practices, edited by Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Honoring the sacred directions.
  • As the ceremony begins...
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • Honoring the sacred directions
  • Lara Medina
  • Creating sacred space.
  • The Curandera prepares for healing
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • My home altar
  • Ofelia Esparza
  • Introduction
  • Shrine of self-realization
  • Rosanna Esparza Ahrens and Ofelia Esparza
  • Reclaiming our mother, reclaiming ourselves
  • Alba Onofrio
  • Creating an altar for the healing of our younger self
  • Susy Zepeda
  • Little altars
  • Martha R. Gonzales
  • Bendiciones de casa (house blessings): life and spirit in living spaces
  • Marta López-Garza
  • Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales
  • Blessings for babies and young children.
  • Life arrives
  • Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • A home baptism
  • Lara Medina
  • A little baby prayer
  • Patrisia Gonzales, Traditional Baby Catcher
  • The Mujeres Circle
  • Mónica Russel Y Rodríguez
  • Planting the umbilical cord
  • Morning prayers.
  • Jennie Luna
  • Creating art as spiritual practice.
  • On creating art / Flor y Canto
  • Yreina D. Cervántez
  • Bordar y tejer es medicina
  • Dora Xochitl Lopez-Mata and Maria Eva Mata
  • Aprender bordando: embroidery as meditation and knowledge making
  • Esther Díaz Martín
  • Luz De Luz
  • Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Sunrise prayer / Inés Hernández-Ávila
  • The gift of art
  • Margaret "Quica" Alarcón
  • Joto rituals for healing, self-love, and social justice
  • Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. --
  • ... Keeping It Real...
  • Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Prayer To The Orishas
  • Martha R. Gonzales
  • On my relative's skin
  • Claudia A. Mercado
  • Latinx liberation: a meditation on writing
  • Lauren Frances Guerra
  • Creating art through danza.
  • Queering mi palabra
  • Luis Salinas
  • Prayer in motion
  • Issa Linda Arroyo
  • Wearable prayers: danza ceremonial trajes
  • Creating art through prose and poetry.
  • Patricia Juárez / Chicueyi Coatl
  • Communing with our dying and beloved deceased.
  • Ofrenda
  • Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Nana's hands
  • Sybil Venegas
  • Death as a peaceful, loving teacher
  • Alan Hicks
  • Ancestral ties
  • Maritza Alvarez
  • Mujer Jaguar PRESENTE!
  • The rose in my heart
  • Patricia Rodriguez
  • Showing me the path home: a poz, third-gender xicanx constructs a triad of the divine feminine
  • Omar Gonzalez
  • Teachings From Mami
  • Norma Elia Cantú
  • What my abuelita taught me about prayer and memory...
  • Theresa Torres
  • Conjuros
  • Rossy Evelin Lima; Translated by Don Chellini
  • Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Life embracing death
  • Jocelyn Vargas
  • Día de todos los santos: xicanx healing ritual after the death of a child
  • Aida Salazar
  • Lamento Cihuateteo / Llanto De Juárez (The Lament Of The Cihuateteo/The Cry Of Juárez)
  • Yreina D. Cervántez
  • Dreaming.
  • Cultivating a healing dream practice
  • Atava Garcia Swiecicki
  • On dreaming
  • Fuerza ancestral
  • Maritza Alvarez in Conversation with Lara Medina
  • After the limpia
  • Sara H. Salazar --
  • Writing is as necessary as air to me
  • Xánath Caraza
  • Canto Ocelotl / Jaguar Incantations
  • Yreina D. Cervántez
  • Atava Garcia Swiecicki
  • El Temazkal, A place for rest and purification
  • Estela Román
  • Wellness ways for beginning self- and community care
  • Felicia "Fe" Montes
  • A Poppet for mental health
  • Jessica Lozano Rodriguez
  • La Oración
  • Pedro Alvarado
  • Life changes.
  • Holistic health care.
  • The rite of passage for a young woman
  • Linda Villanueva
  • Fiesta de maíz: A ceremony for our young adults
  • Lara Medina
  • Transcẽnera: A transformative ceremony
  • Jacqueline Garza Lawrence
  • Luna Mia: A Xicanx guide for a first-moon ceremony
  • Aida Salazar
  • Leaving home
  • Lara Medina
  • The Curandera begins
  • Querida tierra-sol-mar-y-viento
  • María Elena Fernández
  • Mynopause: from "change of life" to a nepantla state of enlightenment
  • Elisa Facio
  • Meditation.
  • The warrior womxn envisions...
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • Connecting with the elements
  • Lara Medina
  • Following my breath
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • Brenda Romero
  • A meditation on beauty for releasing pain and trauma
  • Linda Vallejo
  • Learning to Breathe: Ancestral Healing, Spiritual Activism, and the Medicine Wheel
  • Heidi M. Coronado
  • Medicinal foods.
  • Remedies y rituales
  • Berenice Dimas
  • Atole
  • Neomi de Anda
  • Womxn caring for womxn is ceremony
  • Nourish your body and soul
  • Gloria Quesada
  • Cultivando semillas y culturas en la Madre Tierra (Cultivating seeds and cultures on Mother Earth)
  • Melissa Moreno
  • Spirit plates
  • Claudia Serrato --
  • Grace Alvarez Sesma
  • Baños de limpia espiritual
  • Sandra M. Pacheco
  • The thirteen aires and self-limpias
  • Maria Elena Cruz
  • Receta for radical wholeness
  • Tia Naya / Naya Armendarez Jones
  • "We are not a conquered people"
  • Jackie Cuevas
  • My relations
  • María Elena Martínez
  • Consejos of remembrance
  • Alicia Enciso Litschi
  • Petra's gift
  • Mother-child bonding.
  • Modesta Barbina Trevino
  • Why being truly popular is hard to do
  • Martha P. Cotera
  • Huitzin de mi alma: A meditation on healing in adoption
  • Corina Benavides López
  • Welcome, Nova: Consejos for surviving pregnancy loss
  • Patricia Marina Trujillo
  • Chalchiuhtlicue-The passing of one's child
  • Aida Salazar
  • Post-cesarean ceremony / Baby's first journey to the heart
  • Radical Mami love: Chicana Consejos del corazon
  • Jennie Luna
  • Fortifying our spirits: a talking circle for our daughters
  • Irene Lara
  • Shaking it all up
  • Laura Pérez
  • Moon meditations.
  • Coyolxauhqui Canto
  • Cristina Gorocica
  • Full Moon Coyolxauhqui Circle
  • Felicia "Fe" Montes
  • Brenda M. Sendejo
  • Patzin: Abuela Luna and the Cycles of la mujer
  • Patrisia Gonzales
  • Moon gazing
  • Lara Medina
  • Sacred sexualities.
  • The Incarnate God and embodied desire
  • Lauren Frances Guerra
  • In gratitude
  • Martha R. Gonzales
  • prayer to my Lover // Ofrenda a mi amante
  • Be stewards of the earth
  • Yaz Mendez Nuñez
  • Healing from Sexual Trauma
  • María Elena Fernández --
  • Karen Mary Davalos
  • Find your truth
  • Elvira Prieto
  • Live in the present
  • Cristina Gorocica
  • Woman nation
  • Marisol Lydia Torres
  • I pray: Un Rezo of Healing pa'lxs Mariconxs
  • Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr.
  • Relationship with land and plants.
  • The earth moves
  • Laura Pérez
  • Encontrándome
  • Berenice Dimas
  • Prayer and song.
  • Letter to Eva
  • Theresa Yugar
  • Growing Maíz
  • Maritza Alvarez
  • Spiritual activism.
  • The scriptures of Lydia Lopez
  • Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
  • The Peace walks of Dolores Mission Parish: How One community moves toward healing from violence
  • as Rita Chairez and Raquel Roman of Dolores Mission Parish have shared with Jennifer Owens Jofré
  • The day after the election: protecting body, mind, and spirit
  • The wounded warrior
  • Sandra M. Pacheco
  • The Dharma and the dragon girl
  • Patrisia Gonzales
  • Misa Mujer / Mujerista Mass
  • Patricia Pedroza González
  • Spiritual pedagogy.
  • A pedagogy of ofrendas: The altar as a tool for integrating social justice in the classroom
  • Norell Martínez
  • A spiritual pedagogy
  • Lara Medina
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • Decolonizing spirit in the classroom con Anzaldúa
  • Susy Zepeda
  • Talking circles.
  • The Curandera listens
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • From past to present: the power of healing circles
  • Trini Tlazohteotl Rodriguez
  • En este círculo
  • Ann Hidalgo
  • Circles of women
  • On prayer
  • Naomi H. Quiñonez
  • Evening prayers.
  • Ángel de mi guardia
  • María Figueroa
  • Descansando en paz
  • Jerry Tello
  • Tlazocahmati Tatita Sol
  • Grace Alvarez Sesma
  • Laura Pérez
  • Cántico de mujer
  • Rosa Martha Zárate Macías
  • Woman song
Control code
1122630114
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xvi, 433 pages
Isbn
9780816539567
Lccn
2019008635
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1122630114
Label
Voices from the ancestors : Xicanx and Latinx spiritual expressions and healing practices, edited by Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Honoring the sacred directions.
  • As the ceremony begins...
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • Honoring the sacred directions
  • Lara Medina
  • Creating sacred space.
  • The Curandera prepares for healing
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • My home altar
  • Ofelia Esparza
  • Introduction
  • Shrine of self-realization
  • Rosanna Esparza Ahrens and Ofelia Esparza
  • Reclaiming our mother, reclaiming ourselves
  • Alba Onofrio
  • Creating an altar for the healing of our younger self
  • Susy Zepeda
  • Little altars
  • Martha R. Gonzales
  • Bendiciones de casa (house blessings): life and spirit in living spaces
  • Marta López-Garza
  • Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales
  • Blessings for babies and young children.
  • Life arrives
  • Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • A home baptism
  • Lara Medina
  • A little baby prayer
  • Patrisia Gonzales, Traditional Baby Catcher
  • The Mujeres Circle
  • Mónica Russel Y Rodríguez
  • Planting the umbilical cord
  • Morning prayers.
  • Jennie Luna
  • Creating art as spiritual practice.
  • On creating art / Flor y Canto
  • Yreina D. Cervántez
  • Bordar y tejer es medicina
  • Dora Xochitl Lopez-Mata and Maria Eva Mata
  • Aprender bordando: embroidery as meditation and knowledge making
  • Esther Díaz Martín
  • Luz De Luz
  • Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Sunrise prayer / Inés Hernández-Ávila
  • The gift of art
  • Margaret "Quica" Alarcón
  • Joto rituals for healing, self-love, and social justice
  • Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. --
  • ... Keeping It Real...
  • Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Prayer To The Orishas
  • Martha R. Gonzales
  • On my relative's skin
  • Claudia A. Mercado
  • Latinx liberation: a meditation on writing
  • Lauren Frances Guerra
  • Creating art through danza.
  • Queering mi palabra
  • Luis Salinas
  • Prayer in motion
  • Issa Linda Arroyo
  • Wearable prayers: danza ceremonial trajes
  • Creating art through prose and poetry.
  • Patricia Juárez / Chicueyi Coatl
  • Communing with our dying and beloved deceased.
  • Ofrenda
  • Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Nana's hands
  • Sybil Venegas
  • Death as a peaceful, loving teacher
  • Alan Hicks
  • Ancestral ties
  • Maritza Alvarez
  • Mujer Jaguar PRESENTE!
  • The rose in my heart
  • Patricia Rodriguez
  • Showing me the path home: a poz, third-gender xicanx constructs a triad of the divine feminine
  • Omar Gonzalez
  • Teachings From Mami
  • Norma Elia Cantú
  • What my abuelita taught me about prayer and memory...
  • Theresa Torres
  • Conjuros
  • Rossy Evelin Lima; Translated by Don Chellini
  • Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Life embracing death
  • Jocelyn Vargas
  • Día de todos los santos: xicanx healing ritual after the death of a child
  • Aida Salazar
  • Lamento Cihuateteo / Llanto De Juárez (The Lament Of The Cihuateteo/The Cry Of Juárez)
  • Yreina D. Cervántez
  • Dreaming.
  • Cultivating a healing dream practice
  • Atava Garcia Swiecicki
  • On dreaming
  • Fuerza ancestral
  • Maritza Alvarez in Conversation with Lara Medina
  • After the limpia
  • Sara H. Salazar --
  • Writing is as necessary as air to me
  • Xánath Caraza
  • Canto Ocelotl / Jaguar Incantations
  • Yreina D. Cervántez
  • Atava Garcia Swiecicki
  • El Temazkal, A place for rest and purification
  • Estela Román
  • Wellness ways for beginning self- and community care
  • Felicia "Fe" Montes
  • A Poppet for mental health
  • Jessica Lozano Rodriguez
  • La Oración
  • Pedro Alvarado
  • Life changes.
  • Holistic health care.
  • The rite of passage for a young woman
  • Linda Villanueva
  • Fiesta de maíz: A ceremony for our young adults
  • Lara Medina
  • Transcẽnera: A transformative ceremony
  • Jacqueline Garza Lawrence
  • Luna Mia: A Xicanx guide for a first-moon ceremony
  • Aida Salazar
  • Leaving home
  • Lara Medina
  • The Curandera begins
  • Querida tierra-sol-mar-y-viento
  • María Elena Fernández
  • Mynopause: from "change of life" to a nepantla state of enlightenment
  • Elisa Facio
  • Meditation.
  • The warrior womxn envisions...
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • Connecting with the elements
  • Lara Medina
  • Following my breath
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • Brenda Romero
  • A meditation on beauty for releasing pain and trauma
  • Linda Vallejo
  • Learning to Breathe: Ancestral Healing, Spiritual Activism, and the Medicine Wheel
  • Heidi M. Coronado
  • Medicinal foods.
  • Remedies y rituales
  • Berenice Dimas
  • Atole
  • Neomi de Anda
  • Womxn caring for womxn is ceremony
  • Nourish your body and soul
  • Gloria Quesada
  • Cultivando semillas y culturas en la Madre Tierra (Cultivating seeds and cultures on Mother Earth)
  • Melissa Moreno
  • Spirit plates
  • Claudia Serrato --
  • Grace Alvarez Sesma
  • Baños de limpia espiritual
  • Sandra M. Pacheco
  • The thirteen aires and self-limpias
  • Maria Elena Cruz
  • Receta for radical wholeness
  • Tia Naya / Naya Armendarez Jones
  • "We are not a conquered people"
  • Jackie Cuevas
  • My relations
  • María Elena Martínez
  • Consejos of remembrance
  • Alicia Enciso Litschi
  • Petra's gift
  • Mother-child bonding.
  • Modesta Barbina Trevino
  • Why being truly popular is hard to do
  • Martha P. Cotera
  • Huitzin de mi alma: A meditation on healing in adoption
  • Corina Benavides López
  • Welcome, Nova: Consejos for surviving pregnancy loss
  • Patricia Marina Trujillo
  • Chalchiuhtlicue-The passing of one's child
  • Aida Salazar
  • Post-cesarean ceremony / Baby's first journey to the heart
  • Radical Mami love: Chicana Consejos del corazon
  • Jennie Luna
  • Fortifying our spirits: a talking circle for our daughters
  • Irene Lara
  • Shaking it all up
  • Laura Pérez
  • Moon meditations.
  • Coyolxauhqui Canto
  • Cristina Gorocica
  • Full Moon Coyolxauhqui Circle
  • Felicia "Fe" Montes
  • Brenda M. Sendejo
  • Patzin: Abuela Luna and the Cycles of la mujer
  • Patrisia Gonzales
  • Moon gazing
  • Lara Medina
  • Sacred sexualities.
  • The Incarnate God and embodied desire
  • Lauren Frances Guerra
  • In gratitude
  • Martha R. Gonzales
  • prayer to my Lover // Ofrenda a mi amante
  • Be stewards of the earth
  • Yaz Mendez Nuñez
  • Healing from Sexual Trauma
  • María Elena Fernández --
  • Karen Mary Davalos
  • Find your truth
  • Elvira Prieto
  • Live in the present
  • Cristina Gorocica
  • Woman nation
  • Marisol Lydia Torres
  • I pray: Un Rezo of Healing pa'lxs Mariconxs
  • Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr.
  • Relationship with land and plants.
  • The earth moves
  • Laura Pérez
  • Encontrándome
  • Berenice Dimas
  • Prayer and song.
  • Letter to Eva
  • Theresa Yugar
  • Growing Maíz
  • Maritza Alvarez
  • Spiritual activism.
  • The scriptures of Lydia Lopez
  • Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
  • The Peace walks of Dolores Mission Parish: How One community moves toward healing from violence
  • as Rita Chairez and Raquel Roman of Dolores Mission Parish have shared with Jennifer Owens Jofré
  • The day after the election: protecting body, mind, and spirit
  • The wounded warrior
  • Sandra M. Pacheco
  • The Dharma and the dragon girl
  • Patrisia Gonzales
  • Misa Mujer / Mujerista Mass
  • Patricia Pedroza González
  • Spiritual pedagogy.
  • A pedagogy of ofrendas: The altar as a tool for integrating social justice in the classroom
  • Norell Martínez
  • A spiritual pedagogy
  • Lara Medina
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • Decolonizing spirit in the classroom con Anzaldúa
  • Susy Zepeda
  • Talking circles.
  • The Curandera listens
  • Sara H. Salazar
  • From past to present: the power of healing circles
  • Trini Tlazohteotl Rodriguez
  • En este círculo
  • Ann Hidalgo
  • Circles of women
  • On prayer
  • Naomi H. Quiñonez
  • Evening prayers.
  • Ángel de mi guardia
  • María Figueroa
  • Descansando en paz
  • Jerry Tello
  • Tlazocahmati Tatita Sol
  • Grace Alvarez Sesma
  • Laura Pérez
  • Cántico de mujer
  • Rosa Martha Zárate Macías
  • Woman song
Control code
1122630114
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xvi, 433 pages
Isbn
9780816539567
Lccn
2019008635
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1122630114

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