Exploring Transformative Toltec Breath and Energy Practices

This workshop is being hosted live online only and will not be recorded to maintain the privacy of all attendees. Instructions on how to join will be emailed to registrants shortly before the workshop start date. 
 
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Toltec traditions and other Indigenous cultures of ancient Mexico and Mesoamerica carry powerful breath and energy practices, as well as the study of larger cosmic cycles. Passed down for thousands of years, these oral traditions and teachings were—and are—vital to becoming a person of knowledge, consciousness, and spiritual awakening. These practices help us to “blossom on our path of destiny,” conquer our “caves of power,” and provide a better understanding of the prophecies regarding the cosmic shifts we find ourselves in now. 
 
Join Toltec energy healer and curandera Brenda Salgado for a transformative workshop introducing traditional Toltec teachings for personal growth and power, personal and ancestral healing, and the awakening of our vibrant life force. In this workshop participants learn about Toltec understandings of energy and health, how to cultivate a respectful relationship with universal energies, Indigenous prophecy, the calendar shifts we are in, and why some of these practices are now being shared. 

In this highly experiential journey, Brenda guides participants through energy and breath practices for storing and working with Mother Earth and life/death energies, the Sun (our conscious mind), and the Moon (our unconscious). Participants learn practices that can assist with personal and ancestral healing, while also aligning with universal and earth energies that will usher in the Time of the Sixth Sun. Brenda guides participants in practices for releasing patterns that are not aligned with our purpose and deplete us, repurposing those energies for what we want to create in our life. 
 
Discover how ancient Toltec teachings can support individual and collective wellbeing in this current time of shift.

  
Brenda Salgado is founder of Nepantla Consulting and is in the process of establishing the Nepantla Land Trust, and the Nepantla Center for Healing and Renewal. She holds degrees in Biology (BA), Developmental Psychology (BA), and Animal Behavior (MS). Brenda is an author, public speaker, facilitator, teacher, healer, and organizational consultant. She has over 20 years of experience in transformative leadership development, nonprofit management, spiritual teaching, movement building, women’s health, and environmental and social justice. 

Brenda has received training from Indigenous elders in traditional medicine and healing ceremony. Trained by teachers in the Purepecha, Xochimilco Toltec and other Indigenous lineages, Brenda draws on the healing powers of the natural world to guide her work. 

Brenda’s first edited book, Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time, was written particularly for those who are new to mindfulness. It includes a collection of short mindfulness practices guidance from ten of the most trusted mindfulness teachers in the country that will help you navigate anxiety and stress, anger and hurt, grief and loss, and more. As she was working on this book, Brenda expressed her committed to including diverse chapter authors, and authors serving and bringing mindfulness into diverse and social justice communities. 

Brenda currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & InterSpirituality. In the past, she has served as the Director of the East Bay Meditation Center, considered by many to be one of the most diverse Buddhist Sanghas in the country and a model of gift economy and collective leadership. She has also served as Associate Director at Wisdom & Money, and as a Senior Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center, and on the boards of Movement Strategy Center, Lion’s Roar Foundation, and Unity Church of San Leandro. 
 
She is also the founder of Moons Rising Women’s Circle, and has taught, facilitated and led ceremony at numerous gatherings including: Bioneers, Mindful Life Conference, The Future of Religion and Interspirituality, Science and Nonduality Conference, We Will Dance with Mountains, WisdomWomen, and more. She has also brought her teachings and ceremony to foundations and organizations such as Decolonizing Wealth Project, CODE2040, California Institute of Integral Studies, SF Department of Public Health, Genentech, The Ford Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, and the Latino Community Foundation, among others. 

Her current projects are focused on transformational leadership, sacred economics, reconnecting others to remembrance and relationship with the land, mindfulness practices that draw from multiple traditions, ceremony for ancestral healing and collective transformation, and the weaving of mindfulness and indigenous teachings for understanding the times we are in as a human family. She is committed to co-creating a society filled with wholeness and beauty. Brenda is grateful to her ancestors for the values that have led her to spirituality, healing, and transformative leadership development.  

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