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Hushahu Yawanawa started her studies of her tribe traditions over fifteen years ago. She studied the traditional practices in-depth, and now she is empowering females around the world by bringing strength and wisdom and opening the tradition of the Yawanawa to guide and inspire others. For many years, Hushahu studied with her father Tuinkuru and legendary shaman Tata. They used to call Hushahu “the mother of Rapé” (tobacco-based medicine), as she has a very strong relationship with this medicine and knows to hold and transmit its force very well. She has helped many women in the tribe to find their force and gain freedom and recaptured a lot of the Yawanawa culture by receiving patterns of body painting, handcrafts and songs. She is an amazing singer with a voice of unique strength and capacity and today a well-respected community leader. Recently her story was captured in the VR documentary “Avavena”.

Bartosz Żurowski is a Berlin-based theatre director, playwright, yoga and meditation teacher from Poland. In 2017, he was awarded the “Young Poland” scholarship for artists with outstanding achievements. Focusing on theosophy, spirituality and sanity, he is a PhD candidate in the European Graduate School’s programme “Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought”, where he is a student of Judith Butler and Slavoy Žižek. Żurowski studies and works with teachers and healers from the Amazon. He started with the Shipibo tribe (Peru), but the last four years he dedicated to studying with the Yawanawa tribe (Brazil) – especially with Hushahu, the first woman in the history of Yawanawa tribe accepted as a spiritual leader.