I want to find my way back
And you carry the sentence almost nobody says out loud: I'm not indigenous enough to claim this. I carried it for years as the granddaughter of a Yaqui musician. The roots never asked you for proof.
Start hereColonization tried to erase it: the heritage, the body, the voice, the livelihood. This is a journey of reclaiming all four, and reconnecting with the roots that never left.
My grandfather's music gave people somewhere to put what they were holding: release, belonging, the sound of their own voice. If you ever feared it was too late, or that you were never enough to belong, it is not too late. The roots never asked for proof.
Reclaiming your body and reclaiming your blood are the same work.
And if you think you arrived too late for both — you did not. Where do you want to start?
Written by one of us · 44 · Sonora / Puerto Vallarta
And you carry the sentence almost nobody says out loud: I'm not indigenous enough to claim this. I carried it for years as the granddaughter of a Yaqui musician. The roots never asked you for proof.
Start hereAnd every strength program is written for someone who doesn't look like you, doesn't carry what you carry, and started at twenty. I rebuilt mine at 44, training with my cycle instead of against it.
I also formulate skincare for this same woman at Dorada.mx
Start hereAnd you have spent half your life believing you were lazy, too much, or disorganised. I recognised myself at forty, without a consultation, and the pattern had been written in my own songs for twenty years.
Start here · en españolFor a night your guests remember. Jazz and big band, ceremony or retreat. Mezzo-soprano, in Spanish and English, based in Puerto Vallarta.
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