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ONLINE EVENT
Aganguashi Ancestral Wisdom from the Sierra Nevada with a Wiwa elder
Sit with an Elder of Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Harmonization with Madre Tierra, purification, and círculo de palabra, with everyone present welcomed by name
📅 Saturdays in October 2026
💻 Live on Zoom
⏰ 04 : 00 P.M. EST
The Heart of the World
The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is the highest coastal mountain range on Earth, rising from the Caribbean Sea to peaks of nearly 19,000 feet in northern Colombia. Its four Indigenous peoples (the Wiwa, the Kogui, the Arhuaco, and the Kankuamo) call it the Heart of the World.
They understand their work as keeping the Earth in balance. They have carried that work through centuries of pressure and it is intact. In March 2026, the Colombian government declared 942,000 hectares of the Sierra Nevada a protected natural reserve, recognizing these four peoples as its cultural and ecological guardians.
UNESCO inscribed their collective ancestral knowledge as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2022. The world is beginning to pay attention. Bridgepath has been walking alongside the Wiwa community for two years.
Upcoming gatherings
Aganguashi is an ancient practice for the modern mind
Aganguashi is a cleansing of the mind, a healing technique the Wiwa people have practiced and refined across generations to restore mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
It is not a one-time event. Like the body, the mind needs regular purification to stay clear. We do not bathe once in a lifetime. We return to the water again and again. Aganguashi works the same way because each session builds on the last, restoring alignment between body, mind, and spirit.
In these online gatherings, Mamo Bunkua sets a powerful intention of harmony for each person present, and for the collective field we all share. When one person returns to balance, something shifts in the whole.
Why the Wiwa understanding of healing works
The Wiwa people have understood for generations what modern science is only beginning to confirm: that mental health, physical health, and our relationship with the Earth are not separate things. They are one.
In Wiwa cosmovision, illness (physical or mental) arises when a person falls out of harmony with natural law. When the connection to land, water, community, and the sacred is broken, the body and mind suffer.
Aganguashi works by restoring that connection. Through ceremonial offerings, sacred songs, and the living knowledge of Mamo Bunkua, each session realigns the participant with what the Wiwa call natural law, the deep order underneath everything.
This gathering is for you if...
You feel the pull toward older ways of knowing
You tend the earth or the water where you live
You have been seeking something with real roots underneath it
You want to sit in the presence of someone who carries a lineage intact
You simply want to arrive somewhere true
What happens when we stop feeling
In the life most of us are living, we have learned to go numb and we tend to we avoid what obsesses us. We push down what hurts. We bottle up grief, anger, fear and carry it silently, year after year, until the body begins to speak what the heart could not say out loud.
The body always tells the truth. When we live long enough with what is unresolved, it becomes illness. It damages our relationships and it dims the light of what we came here to do.
If you have felt depressed, anxious, exhausted, or disconnected from meaning, that is not a personal failure. That is what happens when a person lives out of alignment with their true nature for too long..
if you wish to continue learning from indigenous wisdom online
The five encuentros that follow carry the rest of the path on Saturdays
October 03
Entrega de tributo · Limpieza mental
The Initial Offering - the clearing of the mind and the first act of connection with the Spiritual Parents
October 10
Contribución de alimento a los Padres Espirituales
Nourishing the Relationship - food offered to the Spiritual Parents as an act of care and reciprocity
October 17
Canto al agua · Canto de alimento
The Sacred Songs - songs to water and to food, the two elements that sustain all life
October 24
Historia de Shinukza y Abu Nububa
The Ancestral Stories - Shinukza and Abu Nububa, received after preparation, as this tradition requires
October 31
Cierre de armonización · Entrega de Shona
The Closing - the seal of harmony and protection that completes what the five sessions have built
Círculo de palabra follows every gathering.
Every session is recorded and sent to to registered participants
How Your Contribution Reaches the Sierra Nevada
The Wiwa have always understood that individual healing and collective healing are the same act. When one person returns to harmony, the field around them shifts. When enough people return, the world changes because our presence on this Earth is necessary.
When we live in harmony, we contribute to the health of the whole. When we live in disconnection and suffering, that too ripples outward.
Aganguashi is a personal practice and it is also an act of collective care
This is the heart of everything Bridgepath does
In the spirit of reciprocity, the full cycle carries a contribution of $222, a seed that travels back to the Sierra Nevada, supporting the Wiwa Women's Economic Sovereignty Program and the cultural preservation work Bridgepath accompanies there
Bridgepath Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit · EIN: 990760841
Sessions are led in Spanish by Saga Ana. Maria Claudia translates and interprets.
The one who carries the knowledge
In Wiwa tradition, a Mamo is the highest spiritual authority of the community.
From childhood, a Mamo is trained in the Ley de Origen, the complete legal, ethical, and cosmological system that governs the Wiwa people's relationship with the land, the sacred sites, and all life.
A Mamo does not simply know about the Earth. He is in active relationship with her, through ceremony, through sacred plants, through the living knowledge of natural medicine that the Sierra Nevada holds.
Mamo Bunkua Loperena carries that knowledge. His participation in these gatherings is his own offering, an opening of his spiritual work to those outside his territory.
This is not a cultural presentation. It is the work itself.
Live · Online · Open to All
We look forward to seeing you at our next webinar
Bridgepath hosts regular online gatherings in partnership with the Wiwa community. Some are free. Some carry a contribution. All are rooted in the living knowledge of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the Heart of the World
Maria Claudia M.
MSW, Integrative Life Coach, Bridgepath Foundation Director
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