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Mama Donna Henes
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Jun 13, 2008
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Website:
Rituals for Personal and Planetary Transformation.
About Me:
For the past 36 years I have served as an urban shaman, celebration artist and "Unofficial Commissioner of Public Spirit of New York City" (The New Yorker). Over these past three decades, I have produced hundreds of public participatory events and ceremonies in parks, plazas, museums, schools and streets throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and North Africa.
As shamans in every culture always have, I create contemporary rituals for my community which I consider to be all of humanity. My role is that of catalyst: organizing and instigating innovative, de-mystified systems for creative public interaction, celebration and communion.
I work to facilitate non-threatening, yet tranceformative ways for people to interrelate with each other, their own deepest and best selves, and the entire universe, thus creating an energetically joined conceptual web: a real communications network which connects us all at our cosmic center.
All of my work emphasizes community involvement and creative expressions of interconnectivity. I strive to bring all sorts of people together in unusual and non-threatening ways to interrelate with each other in the spirit of sharing, caring and peace.
It is my special concern to offer significant and relevant ways for city people to observe and participate in the wondrous workings of the world around us. To that end, I have designed and performed a series of Celestially Auspicious Occasions. Celestially Auspicious Occasions is a term that I coined to denote the special holidays and holy days celebrated by people throughout time in recognition and honor of the universal cycles created by the movements of the sun, moon and stars.
The ultimate goal of this work is a tranceformation of our sense of personal and communal response-ability that comes from the realization of the complex and inexorable interconnectivity of the universe, and hence, hopefully, our protection of this, our only planet-home.
I believe that the only thing that can save our Earth from our own shortsighted and selfish attitudes and actions is for us to start thinking of ourselves as the planet. It is time for us to join together as inter=dependent partners, as inter=connected members of our families and communities, as co=existent inhabitants of the earth, and as co=creators of our mutual future.
...Donna Henes is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, popular speaker, and award-winning writer specializing in multi-cultural ritual celebrations of the cycles of the seasons and the seasons of our lives. Her joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than 100 cities for thirty-five years. She is the author of four books: the award-winning amazon.com best selling The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife, The Moon Watcher's Companion, Celestially Auspicious Occasions™: Seasons, Cycles, and Celebrations, and Dressing Our Wounds In Warm Clothes, as well as the CD, Reverence To Her: Mythology, the Matriarchy, & Me and the acclaimed quarterly journal, Always in Season: Living in Sync with the Cycles. She currently writes columns for The Huffington Post, Beliefnet and UPI Religion and Spirituality Forum, and publishes a monthly Ezine, The Queen's Chronicles. A respected ritual expert, she serves as a consultant for motion pictures. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, USA Today, The Daily Beast, Martha Stewart Living, Japanese Vogue, Crain's New York Business, Variety, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and more than 200 radio programs, and national television in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. In addition to teaching and lecturing worldwide, Mama Donna, as she is affectionately called, maintains a ceremonial center, spirit shop, ritual practice and spiritual consultancy where she works with individuals, groups, institutions, municipalities and corporations to create meaningful ceremonies for every imaginable occasion.
Hometown:
Exotic Brooklyn, NY
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Urban Shaman
Interests:
Environmental Response-ability, Personal Transformation, The Empowerment of Women, The Pursuit of Peace and Reverance for All Life
Books:
My own! The Queen of My Self, The Moon Watcher's Companion, Celestially Auspicious Occasions and Dressing Our Wounds in Warm Clothes
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DISBAND Reunion Performance at PS1, Feb. 17, 2008.
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