by Mary Hernandez | Mar 12, 2016 | Indigenous Groups, Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
Dear CfBS friends and donors: We want to share a quick update about the crowdfunding campaign to support the T’boli teachers and school children in the LASIWWAI community. Teacher stipends, children’s meals and school uniforms were funded through the campaign. Jenita...
by Jen Maramba | Nov 26, 2014 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Decolonization and Filipino Identity, Events and Conference, In the News, Indigenous Education, Modern Practices, Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
by Celeste Ann Castillo Llaneta in UP Forum For countless years, indigenous peoples (IPs) have lived on the fringes of society, barely mentioned even in the footnotes of history texts. The IPs, if given any attention at all, are often viewed as collateral damage in...
by Omehra | Feb 6, 2012 | Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
Tahanan-Aralan Para sa Babaylan (CFBS) Our annual planning retreats began in 2010 when we planned and organized the First International Babaylan Conference. In 2011, we met to plan the August retreat/symposium, “Decolonization and Indigenization as a Path to...
by Omehra | Jan 28, 2011 | Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
Moon smiling down on us at at the lake on last night of retreat. (Photo by Karen Pennrich) On the last evening of the Babaylan Retreat 2011, we gathered at nearby Lake Ralphine in Santa Rosa, California to make an offering to our ancestors. The twilight sun softly...
by Omehra | Jan 24, 2011 | Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
Attending: Leny Strobel, Perla Daly, Letecia Layson, Lorial Crowder, Mila Coger, Lane Wilcken, Virgil Apostol, Lizae Reyes, Gina Honda, Karen Pennrich, Lily Mendoza, Tera Maxwell, Venus Herbito, Frances Santiago, Titania Bucholdt Last night of the retreat. The lake...
by Omehra | Mar 14, 2010 | Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
Honoring Ancestry: A Journey of oneness interweaving ancestral offerings Share Brought to you by Unity of Berkeley, Center for Babaylan Studies, CIIS Alumni Sound Voice Music Healing Ensemble, March 12, 2010 The Boro Boro gongs called us to gather. The Warsi ritual of...
