2-A THIRD

Magic, Mystery, and Miracles in Oaxaca, Mexico: Ritual and Healing Among Indigenous People

Joyce Miller, RN, DNP, RMT-P has been involved both in clinical practice as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Her focus has primarily been in rural clinical settings. As faculty from 2004 the focus within the graduate program has to move students through the clinical expectations necessary to prepare for practice. Her research trajectory has included body piercing, health literacy, conflict decision making, transitionists, and spirituality.

Katherine Baumgartner, RN, DNP has a rich background in transcultural community health nursing with significant experience in Mexico and Guatemala with Mayan healers and curanderas. Her focus areas for teaching include transcultural nursing. The politics of health care and health and healing practices in marginalized populations. She has a special interest in end of life issues and rituals and ceremonies which heal and protect health.

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Joyce P. Miller, DNP, RNKatherine Baumgartner,

DNP, RN

Appreciate expanded dimensional realities, as the

cosmology and expanded perception of indigenous people is shared

Recognize that caring and transformational healing takes place in multiple domains of reality, including physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual realms

Objectives

El Dia de los Muertos

An ancient Mexican tradition of honoring ancestors who have passed into the next world.

Altars (ofrendas) are created in every home, decorated with food and flowers intended to please and satisfy the ancestors

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Expressions forDay of the Dead

Ofrendas Parades Art Food Visiting the cemeteries Fireworks Healing rituals Costumes Plays and parties Wind paper Music

Art of El Dia delos Muertos

Personal Ofrendas

Nursing Students participate through the creation of ofrendas for

their own ancestors

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Honoring the Ancestors, Attending the Graves

Welcoming the Ancestors...here is magic and mystery

The skies filled with “orbs”

as the ancestors

were invited to participate

in the celebration

Dancing with the spirits

Continuing relationships between the living and the dead

Expanded dimensions of consciousness filled with mystery

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Healing Rituals

Temazcal, a magical, healing ritual using the essence of flowers, the heat of the sweat and the presence of one another to cleanse mind, body and spirit.

Limpia

Gathering plants for healing

Limpia – cleansing and healing ritual using plants and prayer

A Journey of Healing