Ohki Siminé Forest
P.O Box 8
Maynard, MA 01754-0008
"As a warrioress of life and death I am,
and will always be, in constant spiritual resistance against ignorance, striving humbly to bring back the great laws
of Earth."
Ohki's Life Walk
Ohki Siminé Forest is a vision-holder and spiritual teacher of Canadian Mohawk descent who has lived in Chiapas, Mexico since 1986 where she works with the impoverished Maya people. Trained and initiated by Maya, Mongolian and Canadian shamans, Ohki has taught a unified practice of ancient Native Medicine Wheel ways for over 25 years. Her transformative seminars include guided meditations, journeys, drumming, breathing and movement practices. She shows how to walk your path as a True Human, teaches how to use the Medicine Wheel as a map of understanding, and provides guidance in the spirit world.
When Ohki was a small baby a fireball fell on her family´s house, a great sign to the medicine people who eventually taught her that she was to be initiated into the ways of shamans. In her adolescence, Ohki pursued her spiritual journey by traveling to Asia where she studied with shamans from different traditions. In 1984, she returned to the Mohawk people in Canada and was admitted for this period of her life into the Wolf Clan at the traditional Long House of Kahnawake, part of the League of Peace of the Iroquois Nations. While of Mohawk descent, Ohki does not represent the Iroquois League of Peace. In 1986, following the signs of her path, she traveled to Chiapas in southern Mexico where she continues to live, and was initiated into the world of Maya shamans. In 1987 she founded a grassroots social justice and spiritual organization in Chiapas to support the indigenous Maya people in their struggle for autonomy, respect for their traditional way of life, and for spiritual training in the ancient Maya Ways. Ohki's vision is the return of the ancient laws of Earth through which all peoples can reclaim and renew the natural dignity, balance and justice that is the true dreaming of our sacred Earth.
Manifesting the Ancient Council Ways
Ohki is author of Red Wheel/Weiser's
DREAMING THE COUNCIL WAYS:
True Native Teachings from the Red Lodge, one of the foremost books on shamanism today linking Medicine Wheel ways with the indigenous vanguard of social justice.
CLICK HERE for more information about this essential book on modern matrifocal shamanism.
CLICK HERE for an excerpt on
Manifesting the Ancient Council Ways.
CLICK HERE for an excerpt on
Fake Shamanism
CLICK HERE for an excerpt from Ohki's Bioneers talk on
When Women Lead
Ohki visits North America regularly to lead retreats, spiritual warriorship trainings, and to speak at conferences. In recent years she has presented at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, the first Indigenous Seed Sovereignty Conference at Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico, the Vedanta Centre in Cohasset, MA, and Beaming Bioneers in Santa Fe where her humility, practical wisdom and deep knowledge of these sacred Earth Ways has brought inspiration to thousands. Click Here for a detailed list of Ohki's events résumé.
Ohki sits on the Council of Spiritual Elders at the Gitche M’Qua Centre for Healing and Dying, a charitable organization in Toronto, Canada that brings awareness and compassion to exploring conscious living and dying. At this time the Council consists of Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo, Cherokee & Buddhist Spiritual Teacher & spiritual director of Sunray Mediation Society, and Roshi Joan Halifax, Buddhist Teacher & Founder of Upaya & the Project on Being with Dying. (http://gitchemqua.org)
Ohki Siminé Forest
PO Box 8
Maynard, MA 01754-0008
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