A master of eloquence and innovative language, Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. As a half blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, his life took him from New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. There becoming a full village member of the Tzutujil Mayan population, he eventually served as a principal in that body of village leaders responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories through the rituals of adult rights of passage. Once again residing in his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad’s Kitchen. Through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people in many lands to retain their diversity while remembering their own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul.
Martín speaks with Joanna about: the mind you never imagined you have; of seeds and dignity; becoming a more beautiful culture; re-membering the ancestral ground; metabolizing grief into beauty
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Hi Joanna!
thank you for your great interviews. I hope you are doing really well!
:) hugs,
Virginia
Fantastic work good woman. Do enjoy autumn.
It is such a great honor and exquisite delight to hear you two elders laughing…such great spoken and unspoken Wisdom…Thank You…
thankyou Martin, Joanna and your ancestors, so many nourishing seeds and for me the last one shone particularly, being Present with grief metabolising it into beauty and in doing so feeding the Holy…
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Lovely — so wonderful to hear Martin and the beautiful word weaving you two create together. Thank you for this!
interest in Martine Prechtel’s work drew me to this site, via a friend