Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lara Medina And Martha R. Gonzales
  • Morning prayers. Sunrise prayer / Inés Hernández-Ávila
  • ... Keeping It Real... / Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Prayer To The Orishas / Martha R. Gonzales
  • Honoring the sacred directions. As the ceremony begins... / Sara H. Salazar
  • Honoring the sacred directions / Lara Medina
  • Creating sacred space. The Curandera prepares for healing / Sara H. Salazar
  • My home altar / Ofelia Esparza
  • Shrine of self-realization / Rosanna Esparza Ahrens and Ofelia Esparza
  • Reclaiming our mother, reclaiming ourselves / Alba Onofrio
  • Creating an altar for the healing of our younger self / Susy Zepeda
  • Bendiciones de casa (house blessings): life and spirit in living spaces / Marta López-Garza
  • Blessings for babies and young children. Life arrives / Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • A home baptism / Lara Medina
  • A little baby prayer / Patrisia Gonzales, Traditional Baby Catcher
  • The Mujeres Circle / Mónica Russel Y Rodríguez
  • Planting the umbilical cord / Jennie Luna
  • Creating art as spiritual practice. On creating art / Flor Y Canto / Yreina D. Cervántez
  • Bordar y tejer es medicina / Dora Xochitl Lopez-Mata And Maria Eva Mata
  • Aprender bordando: embroidery as meditation and knowledge making / Esther Díaz Martin
  • Luz De Luz / Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • The gift of art / Margaret "Quica" Alarcón
  • Joto rituals for healing, self-love, and social justice / Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr.
  • Creating art through prose and poetry. Mujer Jaguar PRESENTE! / Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Fuerza ancestral ; Writing is as necessary as air to me / Xánath Caraza
  • Canto Ocelotl / Jaguar Incantations / Yreina D. Cervántez
  • On my relative's skin / Claudia A. Mercado
  • Latinx liberation: a meditation on writing / Lauren Frances Guerra
  • Creating art through danza. Queering mi palabra / Luis Salinas
  • Prayer in motion / Issa Linda Arroyo
  • Wearable prayers: danza ceremonial traies / Patricia Juárez / Chicueyi Coatl
  • Communing with our dying and beloved deceased. Ofrenda / Gloria Enedina Alvarez
  • Nana's hands / Sybil Venegas
  • Death as a peaceful, loving teacher / Alan Hicks
  • Ancestral ties / Maritza Alvarez
  • The rose in my heart / Patricia Rodriguez
  • Showing me the path home: a poz, third-gender xicanx constructs a triad of the divine feminine / Omar Gonzalez
  • Teachings From Mami / Norma Elia Cantú
  • What my abuelita taught me about prayer and memory... / Theresa Torres
  • Conjuros / Rossy Evelin Lima; Translated by Don Chellini
  • Life embracing death / Jocelyn Vargas
  • Día de todos los santos: xicanx healing ritual after the death of a child / Aida Salazar
  • Lamento Cihuateteo / Llanto De Juárez (The Lament Of The Cihuateteo/The Cry Of Juarez) / Yreina D. Cervántez
  • Dreaming. Cultivating a healing dream practice / Atava Garcia Swiecicki
  • On dreaming / Maritza Alvarez In Conversation with Lara Medina
  • After the limpia / Sara H. Salazar
  • Holistic health care.
  • The Curandera begins / Sara H. Salazar
  • Womxn caring for womxn is ceremony / Grace Alvarez Sesma
  • Baños de limpia espiritual / Sandra M. Pacheco
  • The thirteen aires and self-limpias / Atava Garcia Swiecicki
  • El Temazkal, A place for rest and purification / Estela Román
  • Wellness ways for beginning self- and community care / Felicia "Fe" Montes
  • A Poppet for mental health / Jessica Lozano Rodriguez
  • La Oración / Pedro Alvarado
  • Life changes. The rite of passage for a young woman / Linda Villanueva
  • Fiesta de maíz: A ceremony for our young adults / Lara Medina
  • Transcẽnera: A transformative ceremony / Jacqueline Garza Lawrence
  • Luna Mia: A Xicanx guide for a first-moon ceremony / Aida Salazar
  • Leaving home / Lara Medina
  • Querida tierra-sol-mar-y-viento / María Elena Fernández
  • Mynopause: from "change of life" to a nepantla state of enlightenment / Elisa Facio
  • Meditation. The warrior womxn envisions... / Sara H. Salazar
  • Connecting with the elements / Lara Medina
  • Following my breath / Brenda Romero
  • A mediation on beauty for releasing pain and trauma / Linda Vallejo
  • Learning to Breathe: Ancestral Healing, Spiritual Activism, and the Medicine Wheel / Heidi M. Coronado
  • Medicinal foods. Remedies y rituales / Berenice Dimas
  • Atole / Neomi de Anda
  • Nourish your body and soul / Gloria Quesada
  • Cultivando semillas y culturas en la Madre Tierra (Cultivating seeds and cultures on Mother Earth) / Melissa Moreno
  • Spirit plates / Claudia Serrato
  • Mother-child bonding. Radical Mami love: Chicana Consejos del corazon / Brenda M. Sendejo
  • Be stewards of the earth / Karen Mary Davalos
  • Find your truth / Elvira Prieto
  • Live in the present / Maria Elena Cruz
  • Receta for radical wholeness / Tia Naya / Naya Armendarez Jones
  • "We are not a conquered people" / Jackie Cuevas
  • My relations / Maria Elena Martinez
  • Consejos of remembrance / Alicia Enciso Litschi
  • Petra's gift / Modesta Barbina Trevino
  • Why being truly popular is hard to do / Martha P. Cotera
  • Huitzin de mi alma: A meditation on healing in adoption / Corina Benavides López
  • Welcome, Nova: Consejos for surviving pregnancy loss / Patricia Marina Trujillo
  • Chalchiuhtlicue-The passing of one's child / Aida Salazar
  • Post-cesarean ceremony / Baby's first journey to the heart / Jennie Luna
  • Fortifying our spirits: a talking circle for our daughters / Irene Lara
  • Shaking it all up / Laura Perez
  • Moon meditations. Coyolxauhqui Canto / Cristina Gorocica
  • Full Moon Coyolxauhqui Circle / Felicia "Fe" Montes
  • Patzin: Abuela Luna and the Cycles of la mujer / Patrisia Gonzales
  • Moon gazing / Lara Medina
  • Sacred sexualities. The Incarnate God and embodied desire / Lauren Frances Guerra
  • In gratitude / Martha R. Gonzales
  • prayer to my Lover // Ofrenda a mi amante / Yaz Mendez Nunez
  • Healing from Sexual Trauma / María Elena Fernández
  • Prayer and song. The wounded warrior / Sara H. Salazar
  • On prayer / Laura Pérez
  • Cantico de mujer / Rosa Martha Zárate Macías
  • Woman song / Cristina Gorocica
  • Woman nation / Marisol Lydia Torres
  • I pray: Un Rezo of Healing pa'lxs Mariconxs / Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr.
  • Relationship with land and plants. The earth moves / Laura Pérez
  • Encontrándome / Berenice Dimas
  • Letter to Eva / Theresa Yugar
  • Growing Maíz / Maritza Alvarez
  • Spiritual activism. The scriptures of Lydia Lopez / Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
  • The Peace walks of Dolores Mission Parish: How One community moves toward healing from violence / As Rita Chairez And Raquel Roman Of Dolores Mission Parish Have Shared With Jennifer Owens Jofré
  • The day after the election: protecting body, mind, and spirit / Sandra M. Pacheco
  • The Dharma and the dragon girl / Patrisia Gonzales
  • Misa Mujer / Mujerista Mass / Patricia Pedroza González
  • Spiritual pedagogy. A pedagogy of ofrendas: The altar as a tool for integrating social justice in the classroom / Norell Martínez
  • A spiritual pedagogy / Lara Medina
  • Decolonizing spirit in the classroom con Anzaldua / Susy Zepeda
  • Talking circles. The Curandera listens / Sara H. Salazar
  • From past to present: the power of healing circles / Trini Tlazohteotl Rodriguez
  • En este círculo / Ann Hidalgo
  • Circles of women / Naomi H. Quiñonez
  • Evening prayers. Ángel de mi guardia / María Figueroa
  • Descansando en paz / Jerry Tello
  • Tlazocahmati Tatita Sol / Grace Alvarez Sesma.