Dear Friends,
You are receiving this invitation because you have expressed interest in stewarding an Earth Treasure Vase. At long last, I am very excited to offer you a chance to steward your own Earth Treasure Vase. In April, I am leading a retreat with Native American potter, Marian Naranjo, who will guide us in making our own holy vessels. This is a very special opportunity to learn from a master and receive her teachings. It is also a rare chance to receive the teachings on the Earth Treasure Vase practice and become a steward yourself. This retreat will initiate a 3rd Generation of ETVs, hand-made by those who attend. Because of the nature of this retreat, we are offering it by invitation only at this time. Space is limited and it will fill quickly. Please let me know if you are interested. All the info and the registration link is below. I hope to see you at Ghost Ranch!
Many blessings,
Cynthia
PS Since we do not have enough of the original ETVs left to respond to all the requests, this retreat is an incredible opportunity to fulfill your wish to learn the practice and make your own! Together we will be taking another step along the path of our sacred activism in service to Mother Earth.
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Crafting Earthen Vessels for Global Healing
Bringing an Ancient Practice of Sacred Activism Alive for Today
A retreat within the sacred lands of the Tewa People in northern New Mexico at Ghost Ranch with Cynthia Jurs, Marian Naranjo & friends
April 19-24, 2020
Register Here:
Crafting Earthen Vessels for Global Healing at Ghost Ranch
Password Code - EarthenGR
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“What can we do to bring healing and protection to the Earth?" This was the question that dharma teacher, Cynthia Jurs, asked a 106-year-old Tibetan Buddhist Lama living in a remote cave in Nepal back in 1990. In response, she was given a practice to fill and seal and bury Earth Treasure Vases. For thirty years Cynthia has taken these holy vessels around the planet, making relations with elders and activists and filling them with prayers and offerings to bring healing and protection to the Earth. Once filled, these little clay pots are planted like seeds in the Earth in diverse cultures, communities and ecosystems around the world. The prayers and intentions they contain take root in surprising ways and creative initiatives have been catalyzed though this ancient practice of sacred activism especially suited for our times.
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The first location for these holy vessels was within the sacred lands of the Rio Grande bioregion of northern New Mexico. Here, in the region known to the Tewa people as their Church, at the center of what has become a global healing mandala of prayers for Mother Earth through the Earth Treasure Vase practice, there once stood a mountain range as tall as the Himalayas. When this mighty volcano exploded a million years ago, the caldera it left behind became the ceremonial center for the Tewa people. In the 1940’s the US government seized a nearby mesa from the Tewa people to build the Los Alamos National Laboratory and develop the atomic bomb. The time has come to focus our healing prayers even more deeply in this region.
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 Co-leading this retreat with Cynthia Jurs is acclaimed Santa Clara Pueblo potter, activist and educator, Marian Naranjo. The retreat will begin with Marian and a group of Tewa women potters who will ceremonially create traditional sacred seed pots as an offering to this land. These earthen vessels, the local equivalent of earth treasure vases, will initiate a new chapter of the necessary healing called for here, serve to make reparations between all our relations, and support the reclamation of an important traditional Tewa life way. The seed pots will be gifted to Native and Hispanic farmers who are part of a movement Marian and members of the New Mexico Food and Seed Sovereignty Alliance started to grow native food and save seeds for the benefit of future generations, insuring the continuation of life.
This is a rare opportunity for retreat participants to be invited into prayer and ceremony with Marian and other women elders to learn the respectful mannerisms of the Tewa people within their church and witness the women as they mix the clay and craft the pots in the traditional way. Having received this transmission, participants will then be guided in the process of hand-making sacred earthen vessels as an offering for the healing, protection and renewal of our own lands.
During the retreat, Cynthia will offer dharma teachings, guided meditations and experiential learning on the land. We will listen deeply to how we are each being called to make our most heartfelt offerings for the healing, protection and renewal of the lands we love. When the pots are dry, they will be fired overnight and at the end of the retreat we will join together for a final ceremony to consecrate the seed pots for the local farmers and seed keepers and the hand-made earth treasure vases for our own parts of the world.
Space in this retreat is limited. If you are interested in participating in this deep ceremonial healing work and are serious about taking up the practice of the Earth Treasure Vases please apply here: Crafting Earthen Vessels for Global Healing at Ghost Ranch – Code - EarthenGR
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 Cynthia Jurs is a Tibetan Buddhist lama and a Dharmacharya in the Order of Interbeing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh whose source of refuge and spiritual inspiration is Mother Earth; Gaia. In 1990, she made a life-changing pilgrimage to meet the hermit and meditation master, Kushok Mangden Charok Rinpoche, a 106-year-old lama living in a remote cave in Nepal from whom she received the practice of the Earth Treasure Vases when she asked him “What can we do to bring healing and protection to the Earth?” For 30 years, Cynthia has been building a global community committed to planetary healing and collective awakening in partnership with elders and activists around the world. Cynthia teaches an innovative blend of engaged buddhism and sacred activism through the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project, the Open Way Sangha in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the international Gaia Mandala Community. For ten years, Cynthia has worked with the women in peace building and former combatants in Liberia, West Africa, teaching mindfulness and co-founding the Peace Hut Alliance for Conflict Transformation. Cynthia’s book, Summoned By The Earth, is forthcoming along with a documentary film. www.EarthTreasureVase.org
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 Marian Naranjo is the founder and director of Honor Our Pueblo Existence (HOPE), a community-based organization located at Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. She is the mother of four and grandmother of eight, and a lifelong traditional potter. She has worked actively for well over twenty years to address environmental and health issues of concern for her region and the Santa Clara Pueblo as the Los Alamos National Laboratory is located within her ancestral homelands. She has served as the Communities for Clean Water supervisor/mentor for the Youth Council Initiative Project and is the co-founder of three coalitions in northern New Mexico. Her work with HOPE also includes cultural preservation and reclamation projects within the Santa Clara Pueblo and surrounding Tewa villages that promote sustainability for traditional lifeways. She also supports and participates in projects that preserve and protect sacred sites in New Mexico. www.honorourpuebloexistence.com
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