11/19/2025
✨ Soul Weavers Series ✨
Honoring Doña Silvia 🤎🔥
Some women carry whole borderlands in their bones. Doña Silvia is one of them, an elder whose life has been shaped by two cultures meeting, crossing, blending, and creating something entirely its own. She is a living story, a bridge, a matriarch in her own right.
In her 70s, she continues to say yes to learning, to movement, to curiosity. She became a yoga teacher in recent years, a reminder that the path doesn’t end; it keeps unfolding as long as the heart stays open. She moves her body with joy, with devotion, with the wisdom of someone who understands that movement is prayer.
She has been reclaiming the medicine of cacao with so much humility and tenderness, approaching the medicine not as something to perform, but as something to honor. At The Art of Circle, she supported our workshop by offering movement, serving cacao, holding space with strength and softness, and showing us what it looks like to be both rooted and vulnerable at the same time.
And being in community with her reminds me of one of the greatest gifts we have as women: the richness of different generations learning side by side. Elders with decades of lived experience, younger women with fresh vision, we keep each other humble, curious, and growing. This cross-generational circle is priceless. It keeps traditions alive while allowing new ways to bloom.
Doña Silvia carries stories from the frontera. Stories of her people, her lineage, her childhood, her elders and her matriarch energy is undeniable. She mother’s communities. She mothers through presence, through laughter, through grounding, through wisdom passed quietly from the marrow of her being.
Powerful. Humble. Fiercely feminine. Chicana heart. La frontera walking in human form.
I honor you, Doña Silvia, your courage to keep learning, your devotion to community, and the way you show us that womanhood, elderhood, and sacred leadership are lifelong journeys.
Gracias, hermana mayor, for weaving your medicine into our circles.
Gracias for your strength.
Gracias for your stories.
Gracias for your corazón.