Presented By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Lecture: Yuria Celidwen: “Indigenous Cosmologies And The Relational Earth Consciousness”
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This historical moment presents us with the urgent challenge to reflect on who we are, how we got to where we are, and what we can do to create collaborative solutions to move onwards in a restorative way. Indigenous Peoples have for millennia developed a sense of awareness of the keen consciousness of the Earth to enhance embodied knowledge and a relational capacity that reverences life based on collaboration and compassion. The cosmologies that come from such insight incite acknowledgment and gratitude to all our relations. Interdependence does not stay as a mere ideal, it manifests as a perceived, shared truth engaged in action. Come together to explore our exceptional capacity of reconnection to the nourishing, relationship, empowering and transformative force of the Earth.
Yuria Celidwin Bio
I am of Indigenous Nahua and Maya descent from the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. My interests are the interdisciplinary approaches to the experience of self-transcendence, its embodiment in contemplative practice, and how it enhances prosocial behavior (ethics, compassion, kindness, reverence, and a sense of awe and sacredness) across Indigenous contemplative traditions. As a scholar, I work on the intersection of Indigenous studies, cultural psychology, and contemplative studies. My thesis on the “Ethics of Belonging” is an earth-based ecological relational experience that engenders an ethos of conscious social responsibility for self, community, and environment. Within this work, I examine how self-identity relates to cultural narratives and how reconstructing them can transform our times’ social and racial injustices. I teach Indigenous epistemologies, spirituality and pioneered the Indigenous contemplative experience within contemplative studies. As an activist, I strive for Indigenous representation and the revitalization of Indigenous wisdom as sophisticated systems of contemplative insight. I emphasize the reclamation, regeneration, and transmission of Indigenous ways of knowing and the advancement of Indigenous rights and the rights of the Earth for social and environmental justice.
Presented by the University of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies in collaboration with the Center for Creative Studies (Detroit)
This historical moment presents us with the urgent challenge to reflect on who we are, how we got to where we are, and what we can do to create collaborative solutions to move onwards in a restorative way. Indigenous Peoples have for millennia developed a sense of awareness of the keen consciousness of the Earth to enhance embodied knowledge and a relational capacity that reverences life based on collaboration and compassion. The cosmologies that come from such insight incite acknowledgment and gratitude to all our relations. Interdependence does not stay as a mere ideal, it manifests as a perceived, shared truth engaged in action. Come together to explore our exceptional capacity of reconnection to the nourishing, relationship, empowering and transformative force of the Earth.
Yuria Celidwin Bio
I am of Indigenous Nahua and Maya descent from the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. My interests are the interdisciplinary approaches to the experience of self-transcendence, its embodiment in contemplative practice, and how it enhances prosocial behavior (ethics, compassion, kindness, reverence, and a sense of awe and sacredness) across Indigenous contemplative traditions. As a scholar, I work on the intersection of Indigenous studies, cultural psychology, and contemplative studies. My thesis on the “Ethics of Belonging” is an earth-based ecological relational experience that engenders an ethos of conscious social responsibility for self, community, and environment. Within this work, I examine how self-identity relates to cultural narratives and how reconstructing them can transform our times’ social and racial injustices. I teach Indigenous epistemologies, spirituality and pioneered the Indigenous contemplative experience within contemplative studies. As an activist, I strive for Indigenous representation and the revitalization of Indigenous wisdom as sophisticated systems of contemplative insight. I emphasize the reclamation, regeneration, and transmission of Indigenous ways of knowing and the advancement of Indigenous rights and the rights of the Earth for social and environmental justice.
Presented by the University of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies in collaboration with the Center for Creative Studies (Detroit)
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