09/12/2025
Beautiful Family,
We are deeply honored to welcome Majé (Female Shaman) Tumē, her daughter Mistica Samany and her son Txana Tuyn Kaya of the Huni Kuin people to our sacred land in the Netherlands from December 27th to Januari 2nd.
Together, we will open a special opportunity to take a deep dive into your healing and study process during New Year's Eve. We organize a beautiful ceremony retreat on the 30th and 31st of December — guided by ancestral songs, prayers, and the sacred medicines of the Amazon. This gathering is an invitation to reconnect with the heart, to receive healing, to honor the wisdom of the forest and welcome the new year in an immersive sacred way.
A few spaces remain open for this retreat. If you feel the call to join this transformative and immersive experience, we welcome you to reach out for more information.
We are also blessed to offer a Sacred 🌶️Hãpaya🌶️Baptism Ceremony on December 29th — a rare and beautiful opportunity to receive this sacred Amazonian medicine in deep prayer and guidance.
Hãpaya, known as “Baptism of Pepper”, is a very sacred ritual in Huni Kuin culture. Conducted by Majé Tumē, the baptism is done with prayers, songs and a pepper macerate (yutxi), which Majé Tumē passes on the initiate's tongue with the beak of the Txana bird, known in Portuguese as japinim, a bird that mimics the song of all other birds.
As Majé Tumé dips the bird’s beak or a macaw feather into the pepper infusion and applies it to the initiate's tongue, he chants specific prayers. The initiate must extend their tongue, allowing saliva to drip while feeling the intense burning sensation on their tongue. The baptism is done in the village on people who wish to become masters of singing and prayer. The practice is therefore a ritual to "open the chant" and "ignite the memory" of the singers, so that they can be spokespersons from the forest, invoking its sounds, prayers and spirits. This ritual is designed to assist in the learning of songs, enhance memory, strengthen the voice, and help the person open their voice, improving their ability to sing, communicate, and express themselves more freely.
Majé Tumē
Tumē Huni Kuin is a woman leadership, a healer and master of the sacred medicines and guardian of the culture of her people. Tumē is a nai bey, the term used in the hatxá kui (Huni Kuin native language) for those who heal body and spirit and guard ancestral wisdom. She stills considers herself an eternal student of the Huni Kuin mysteries and knowledge, deepening her path through diets – one of the traditional ways of spiritual study – passed on by her grandmother Biruanĩ. Born and raised in the Humaitá Indigenous Territory, Tumē also lived in the Jordão Indigenous Territory, where she built a family and raised five children. Later, she returned with them to the Humaitá River, settling in the Espelho da Vida Village, where she served as vice-coordinator of the Espelho da Vida Center Institute. Her feminine political presence has been important in strengthening and empowering the Huni Kuin women of the Humaitá River, contributing so they may have voice and space to carry out their healing work.��Today, Tumē is dedicated to the realization of a dream that has been cultivated in recent years: the founding of Inkaberu Village and the Txa Txa Beru – Olho D’água Healing Center, a space of research and strengthening especially for women healers. The village is currently under construction and in the process of gathering resources for its continuity.��Beyond her work in her Indigenous territory, Tumē travels the world sharing the culture of her people, leading spiritual works together with her family's collective, the group Txana Shukuabu.
Mistica Samany
Mistica Samany Huni Kuin comes from the meeting of two lineages: nai bey Tumē, a women’s spiritual leader of the Huni Kuin people, and chief Ibã Sales, a professor and researcher of ancestral wisdom of Huni Kuin people. Raised within the heart of tradition, she began sacred diets at the age of 14 - a threshold where her voice blossomed into song: at times offering ancient chants, at times receiving new melodies in the force of diets.
Samany has been living her mission on the healing path, serving in ceremonies and circles guided by the força feminina, spreading love and joy with grounded presence. As an artisan, she studies the knowledge of the kenes - the sacred graphic patterns of Huni Kuin people -deepening in the mysteries that comes from the forest.
Txana Tuyn Kaya
Tuyn Kaya is the son of nai bey Tumē Huni Kuin and professor Ibã Sales, a researcher of traditional chants and healing medicines. As a young txaná, Tuyn carries a deep dedication both to musical art and to the spiritual study of his people. A talented musician and composer, he also deepens his knowledge of the hatxã kuĩ language and the traditional Huni Kuin chants - the Huni Meka.
From an early age, he has undertaken dietas that strengthen his connection with the forest, having already completed twice the Muka's diet and the txana's diet affirming his commitment to the sacred. As part of the new generation, Tuyn represents the continuity of tradition in times of change and the commitment to carry forward and share what he has learned.
If you feel called to immerse yourself in the wisdom and medicine of the Huni Kuin tradition, or if you have any questions, please reach out by email:
📧thesacredcircle@protonmail.com
We look forward to share sacred space with you!
Haux Haux! So alegria!🙏💜🔥🦅🪶🌶️😇
