Living Ceremony (TM)

Tailored presentations for each occasion.
Heart felt meaningful connections to self, others, and the environment.
The quest for authentic being.
Authentic lineage teachings according to protocol or historical research.
Finding inner stillness and peace.
Sacred Sound Arts and Music.
Experiential events that encourage self exploration and overcoming limiting beliefs and concepts.
Indigenous and Inspirational Drum journeying. According to Elder's lineage protocol or culture.
Blessing and Purification.

BIO: Founder of Living Ceremony, Kaiumari or "Mari" is a member of the Scottish Bard Clan MacEwen / Clan Ewing & Irish Clan Mac Eoghain. She has spent years studying with 3 Indigenous Medicine lineages and was a member of Danza Azteca Cuauhtemoc under Pastel Mirales. She became a pipe carrier and spent 4 years formally, studying sweat Lodge Protocol under Apache Roadsman / Medicine Person Mark Montijo (on a weekly basis) in the good old days of direct apprenticeship. Mari was also in a musical group that did benefits for Big Mountain Arizona alongside the late "Floyd Red Crow Westerman," as well as known activists like "John Trudel, and Jesse Ed Davis." She also has played many benefits for the indigenous people of El Salvador and Nicaragua. She has lived with and assisted Grupo Chaarip, a family of Amazonian Shuar Medicine Men and Women with writing projects to preserve the Rain-forest. Kaiumari also has experience with Celtic Medicine practices.

Mari has been a direct Apprentice of Taoist master Ching Fung Dao Shr since 2008 and facilitates the practices from the lineage of Wudang Cha Shing Mountain Taoists. She also has been working with Sacred Sound and Sound Healing for 26 years and is a member of the Scottish and Irish Bardic Clan MacEwen / Ewing / or "Clan Eóghain".

Mari was originally gifted a spontaneous form of movement meditation that came to her after attending a traditional indigenous dance in 1992. She had already been working with her own form of sacred sound for a year or so before this, one that was completely complementary to this movement meditation. She plunged into her own in depth internal study of these mysteries, and her own moon cycle following a spontaneous Kundalini awakening, spending many many years developing a relationship to this work in private. Then she encountered Tibetan Buddhist Master Yuan Miao who told her that she was "cut from the same cloth" as herself when they discussed this spontaneous movement mediation and Mari's sacred sound work, and indicated that her spontaneous movement mediation was an actual Tibetan Buddhist practice.
When Kaiumari met Ching Fung Dao Shr eleven years later, she realized that his form was one of the forms she had been developing on her own for years.

Mari has also studied Total Body Modification and apprenticed with a world renowned energy healer for over 8 years, serving as his medical intuitive. She has also studied with Sifu Jenny Lamb, Tibetan Master Geshe Gyeltsen, Taoist master and Kahuna, Shen Ballesteros; is a level 3 Matrix Energetics Graduate, and a practitioner of realized master B. Prior's "Form" practice. Kaiumari has performed Marriages for clients and is a licensed minister. She has training as a Motivational Interviewer (coach), and served in a program helping youth to define their goals and support them to transition off drugs in a USC Motivational Interviewing pilot program with Keck School of Medicine.

Mari also is a graduate and has a formal education from CSULB. She also has studied at UCSB, SJSU, PCC, and WVJC where she has formally studied Theater, the Arts, mask making, and body and face decoration as well as philosophy and religion. She has also taught at 4 Unified School Districts, the Armory Center for the Arts, Antelope Valley J.C., Cinema Academy, and Joe Blasco Academy.

She holds Certificates of Accomplishment in Mindfulness Meditation (University of Leiden) Healing & the Arts (University of Florida), Music and Wellness (Berklee), Preventing Chronic Pain - A Human Systems (University of Minnesota), Curanderismo 1,2,3 (Indigenous Healing of Mexico), Stonehenge (University of Buckingham), Archaeology of Henges / England (University of Reading), Celtic Studies (various classes and universities), Magic & the Middle Ages (University of Barcelona), Viking Sagas (University of Zurich), Ancient Egypt (U. of Pennsylvania), Ancient Architecture & Arecheoastronomy, the Science of Happiness (UC Berkley), Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence (Case Western Reserve U.), Site Specific Dance and Performance (Cal Arts / Stephan Koplowitz), Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Duke Univ.), Creativity, Innovation and Change (Penn State U), Music Production & Vocal Production (Berklee School of Music).

She has further completed coursework in:
Mindfulness Meditation (Monash University)
Buddhism (UC Santa Barbara)
Taoism (UC Santa Barbara)
Buddhism and Modern Psychology (Princeton University).
The Science of Stress Management & Promoting Well-being (Univ of Washington).

Some of Mari's Teachers (see photo page)

Ching Fung Dao Shr, Kunlun System (R)
Sifu Jenny Lamb, Internal Martial Arts, and Qi Gong Master
Ven. Geshula Tsultim Gyeltsen, Tibetan Gelugpa Master
Danza Azteca Cuauhtemoc, Pastel Mirales, Dance Chief and healer
Yaun Miao, Tibetan Buddhist Master.
Ramanand Patel, Senior Teacher for B.K.S. Iyengar
T. Shen Ballesteros, Taoist Priest, martial arts master; Hawaii
Warren Barigian, Vocal Bio Matrix founder
Kan San, from our Kunlun Nei Gung (R) Arts lineage
Apache Pipe Carrier and Roadsman, Mark Montijo
Richard Bartlett, Founder of Matrix Energetics
Victor Frank, Total Body Modification
Dr. Daniel Reeves, D.C,, N.D., PHD.
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BIO: from Blue Fluteman -
Blue is the only one of three generations of Apache relations to revive and carry on the ancestral tradition of Song Catcher. Inspired by a vision dream in answer to a prayer. His music inspires, comforts and uplifts audiences of all ages throughout the United States, Asia and Europe.

He was featured on nationwide TV in both "ABC7 Salutes" and in a KCSM Public Television piece titled "A Blue Moment".

Blue's music crosses barriers and penetrates the heart and spirit in unprecedented ways. In addition to his professional career, he is a dedicated volunteer in service to his community. In May 2003, awarded Blue the honor of " Outstanding Performer of 2002" by Bread and Roses. Bread and Roses brings performers to institutions such as prisons, drug rehabilitation centers and centers for severely emotionally disturbed children and youth.
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BIO: Tchise Aje
is a Ceremonialist, Priest, Licensed Massage Therapist, spoken word artist and natural healer. She has a background in indigenous ways and therapeutic Arts. She further has an in-depth background in the healing properties of stones, classical astrology, aroma therapy and energy medicine. She has a degree in Theater from Cal State Long Beach.
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BIO: Ayo Adeyemi -
Ayo was born and raised in Nigeria where he was initiated as a babalawo (Youruban Priest) in the indigenous Yoruba religion, Ifa. He has been drumming, singing and dancing since he was a child. In the 1980s, Ayo, whose name means "happy", came to America where he lived and toured with renowned Yoruba master drummer Babatunde Olatunji for eight years. In the 1990s, Ayo was proprietor of Yoruba House in West Los Angeles. Today, he is touring in order to offer his music and teachings to a wider audience.
Ayo says, "If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance." In the indigenous Yoruba religion, drumming, singing and dancing are considered forms of prayer. Songs and rhythms honor various Orishas, gods and goddesses who embody natural forces and assist the one Creator.

To Ayo, music is both a spiritual practice and a powerful form of healing. He says, "Rhythm is healing. Drumming is advanced meditation where your body speaks to your spirit. That's why once you start drumming, it's difficult to stop." — from (link hidden)

Ayo is a spiritual priest of Ifa. Ifa is one of the oldest and most sacred religions of mankind. It most closely resembles Native American spiritual Practice including chanting, drumming, and dancing. Ayo was named Ayodele, which means my joy, has reached home. Anyone who has had the privilege of being in his Presence will testify to the joyous and loving space he creates. Ayo is an amazing performer formerly of Baba Olatunje Drum's of Passion he performs individually or with his group and dancers.
Ayo's Training began in childhood to become a babalawo. This includes training in drumming, rituals, etc. Ayo established his own place of worship called the Yoruba House in Los Angeles where he taught drumming, performed ritualistic ceremonies and also provided healing services for individuals.
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BIO: LUIS PEREZ XIONEZTLI - (availability only during certain times)
Medicine Person, Luis Perez Ixoneztli, born in Mexico City on July 11, 1951, has dedicated his life to the study of Pre-Columbian musical instruments and the research of the living musical traditions among the ethnic groups of Mexico. He has a collection of over 700 native instruments from Mexico including replicas and archaeological artifacts, some dating more than 3,000 years old. Perez traveled all over the countryside of Mexico in order to study the indigenous cultures. He has lived with several ethnic groups among them the Nahua where he learned to speak Nahuatl the ancient language spoken by many groups including the Aztecs. Perez has collaborated with artists ranging from Kitaro to Jackson Browne to Hans Zimmer to Yes frontman Jon Anderson.
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WHAT TO EXPECT: In General, but depending what it is, our services intend to bring in the sacred. The services intend to open understanding to one's greater connection and purpose, heal wounds, transition in some way, assume a new and broader view point, to embrace life in a deeper manner.

If we participate in a group, a space needs to be made for quiet. The atmosphere at the event needs to be one of awareness and attention. We can go into an event that is faster paced, but when we come into it, people need to be willing to slow down and change the energy of the event or there at least needs to be a space we are working in where the people there are creating a space for quiet, contemplation and awareness away from the faster paced area. We have been repeatedly successful in doing this while allowing the other part of the "party" to go on in a separate area.

We have the participants of the event prepare in many ways before the event. We consult these participants and help them create a personalized service based on their individual understandings, characteristics and the needs of the situation. Basically this is about Education and Participation.

As according to indigenous protocol, we never charge for any actual indigenous ceremony. We charge for the tutoring, the organizing, the workshop / mentoring / education services and what goes into the whole thing.