Samar Ocean Wolf Ciprian
Tul'ix Indigenous Arts, Qoya, Yoga
Retreats & Facilitator Trainings
Dear One,
Thank YOU
for Being Here
Over the last two decades, I have been blessed and privileged to dedicate my life to traditional healing and land tending.
As a child of two indigenous tribes, I am acutely aware of the losses humans experience when forced away from cellular and cosmic root systems. I am convinced individual healing cannot happen without environmental care.
I work with individuals and in community via Tul'ix bodywork and spiritual healing, Qoya and Yoga. Facilitator training is a huge part of my practice.
In 2019 I also became an accidental tree guardian, finding myself in the intersectional tension between the limits of human awarenes and Nature's right o life in Aotearoa.
Through the dreaming, I was led to custodianship of Tul'ix Indigenous Arts in 2020. This path has birthed many beautiful seeds, including a close relationship with the land protectors at Elijio Panti National Park in Belize and supporting our indigenous partners in Guatemala, Taos Pueblo and Aotearoa.
In 2021, I came to hold the container of Sky River Sanctuary in Opoutere Beach in Aotearoa. It is a great honor to continue the prayers laid down by Swami Shantimurti Saraswati on these lands via bodywork and movement intensives and soul expanding retreats.
When on Te-Ika-a-Māui (North Island of NZ), you'll find me between Sky River and Moon Yoga, my home under the sacred mountain Ōwairaka where this work for me began. Otherwise, I'll be with the hummingbirds in Taos or in the water somewhere my Spirit has been called.
As an Arab, I believe it my responsibility to support our Palestinian kin. All my offerings are a gift to them.
All of my offerings are shared via the lens of Compassionate Decolonization. I recently had the blessing of being a guest on wonderful Brenden Rolston's Creative Expression NZ Podcast. This interview is a supportive resource to ascertain if I am good fit for you as a facilitator or care provider.
Tul'ix Indigenous Arts is an offering rooted in the ancient healing traditions of Don Elijio Panti's Yucatec Maya lineage.
The work includes abdominal, pelvic and back body massage, spiritual baths, fascial work, pelvic steams/soaks, castor oil therapy and much more. It is a held journey into the night sky of the body.
Spiritual Healing as passed down by Don Elijio Panti is a synergy of Nature and Spirit, involving herbal baths, prayers, smudge and a deep reverence for the place of humanity on the wheel of life.
With the permission of the client, and tailored to their own belief structure, Spiritual Healing is an aspect of almost every bodywork session. Expanded Spiritual Bathing sessions are offered on request.
Qoya is a movement practice that includes dance, yoga, ceremony and the magic of the Andean traditions that inspired its existence. It is one of the most potent ways to heal in community and to remember that our species was born dancing
To me, Yoga is a shamanic technology that restores the antennae of our bodies to the wisdom of the cosmos. This is the place from where I offer it.
Every year, I offer multiple opportunities to gather and learn - online and in person.
My retreats are rooted in movement and ceremony. These are offered at Sky River and other sacred corners of our Great Mother.
Facilitator Trainings include Bodywork immersions, Qoya Teacher Trainings and Spiritual Healing month long online intensives, to prepare those called to help with embodied tools and supported experiences to begin to do so.
"Thank you for introducing me to this work. I have had chronic pain and irregular, uncomfortable cycles following a car accident about twenty years ago. I have tried MANY natural therapies to address the pain and the irregularity. So far, the results of the Mayan massage and herbs have been the longest lasting! My chronic sacral pain has not returned six months after my three treatments. After the treatment my cycles started without discomfort. My cycles have also stayed regular for months following a one month course of herbs. Thanks for bringing this work to New Zealand. Keep it up! "
E.H., Auckland, New Zealand
