✨ Event Description
Medicine Family Gathering – Jamaica 2025
📅 October 24–27, 2025
📍 Breadnut Valley Estate, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica (near Montego Bay)
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🌿 About the Retreat
The Medicine Family Gathering warmly welcomes the Huni Kuin of the Brazilian Amazon for a rare and sacred gathering with the Rastafari, Taíno, and Maroon peoples of Jamaica.
Held on the lush, ancestral grounds of Breadnut Valley Estate, this immersive retreat invites participants into a powerful space of cultural exchange, ancestral remembrance, and community healing. Over four days and three nights, you will be guided through traditional ceremonies, rituals, and teachings rooted in Indigenous wisdom, reconnecting with earth, spirit, and one another.
This is more than a retreat—it is a call to remember, a chance to realign with nature, and an opportunity to experience the joy of unity in diversity.
✨ Central to this gathering are Nawa Siã and his partner, Yaka Banu, both respected young leaders of the Huni Kuin people.
Nawa Siã is a medicine singer recognized for his dedication to the chants (Huni Meka) and healing prayers (Pakarin). He has traveled widely since the age of 17, carrying his people’s songs across Brazil and beyond, and today shares his work globally on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp. He brings the strength and creativity of the new generation, inspired by the teachings of his elder, Pajé Kupi Huni Kuin.
Yaka Banu is an artist, mother, and member of the Mawa Isa Keneya women’s group, devoted to amplifying the voices of Indigenous women and preserving ancestral traditions. Guided by her grandfather, Pajé Kupi, she embodies both the continuity of ancient wisdom and the vitality of a new generation of Indigenous women leaders.
Together, they represent a powerful balance of masculine and feminine energy, music and prayer, continuity and renewal—a living bridge of the Huni Kuin people’s ancestral knowledge.
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🥁 Highlights
Two Amazonian Plant Medicine (Ayahuasca) Ceremonies
Cannabis Ceremony
Hãpaya (Hot Pepper) Baptism & Song Circle
Watiao Traditional Kinship Ceremony (led by Yamaye Guani Council)
Rastafari drumming and chanting
Earth-honoring rituals
Integration & sharing circles
Cross-cultural exchange between Huni Kuin, Rastafari, Taíno, and Maroon traditions
Immersion in sacred prayers and songs of the Huni Kuin and Indigenous peoples of Jamaica
Waterfalls, camping, and hiking trails at Breadnut Valley Estate
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🎒 Accommodation & Participant Needs
3-night camping accommodation provided (individual tents; limited availability). Bringing your own tent is encouraged.
All meals included (vegetarian, minimally processed).
Participants must bring their own sleeping supplies (pads, pillows, blankets, bedding).
Blankets are needed for ceremonies (nights can be cold).
Chairs and mats are limited—bring your own if desired.
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✈️ Location & Travel
Breadnut Valley Estate, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica – 72 acres of ancestral land with waterfalls, trails, and medicinal plants.
Nearest airports:
Sangster International (Montego Bay) – approx. 2 hours drive
Norman Manley International (Kingston) – approx. 2.5 hours drive
It is suggested to arrive at least one day before and depart one day after for adequate preparation and integration.
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💰 Exchange & Registration
Early Bird: $1200 (full payment due Aug 30th)
Regular: $1350–$2200 (payment due by Sept 30th)
Payment Plans: $470/month (Aug–Oct)
Sliding scale, day rates, and local options available
📩 To apply/register: https://forms.gle/s33VoSwfgZUZFZH4A
⚠️ Important: When registering, please include “Moriah” as your referral so my role as affiliate organizer is recognized.
📧 Contact: medicinefamilygathering@gmail.com
📱 Instagram: @medicinefamilygathering
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🌺 Support the Vision
In addition to helping spread the word as an affiliate, I am also raising support for my own journey to Jamaica and for strengthening the cultural bridge between Afro-Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
If you feel called to contribute:
GoFundMe (international donations): https://gofund.me/c84563db
Vakinha (doações no Brasil): https://www.vakinha.com.br/5683139
Every contribution supports not only my travel but also this larger movement of healing, unity, and cultural preservation.
