Calpulli Tonalehqueh 2013

Aztec Music, Dance, and Healing

Tonalehqueh History & Mission

Founded Oct 2004, Calpulli Tonalehqueh is an Azteca Mexica community based in San Jose, CA. The name is from the ancient Nahuatl language meaning “the community of guardians who accompany the Sun.”

Our Mission is to provide a space where the community

can practice the Native cultural traditions of Mexico, North America and the Western Hemisphere.

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Tonalmachiotl

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TIANGUIS

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What is Psychopathology?

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What is Psychopathology?

Badianus Manuscript “Codex Barberini” Created in 1552 and possibly the most vital document on traditional Mexica (Aztec) medicinal knowledge.

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Psychotherapies

•Medicine Wheel •Music Therapy •Temazcal/Sweatlodges •Herbs/Yerbas

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Medicine Wheel North

White, Intellectual, Receiving, Air Mind

West Black, Earth, Holding, Physical

Body

East Yellow, Fire,Spiritual, Determining

Spirit

South Red, Emotional, Water, Giving

Give with Emotions

Soul Universe

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Music Music can be an extraordinarily powerful tool for those who are able to

utilize their sense of hearing to create an “environment” in which healing can take place.

Music is powerful because it is a language that somehow bypasses the intellect. It’s a language that we understand intuitively.

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A temazcal is a type of sweat lodge which originated with pre-Hispanic Indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica. In ancient Mesoamerica it was used for healing the sick, improving health, and for women to give birth. It is currently being recovered by all sectors of society in that part of the world and is used as a cleansing of mind, body and spirit. The four elements are used to heal and maintain health: Fire, Water, Earth, Air.

Temazcalli/Sweatlodge

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Herbs/Yerba ‘Malinalli’ originated in the Aztec calendar and signifies constant regeneration of nature. This

ancient herb of Mexico, true to the Aztec calendar representation, is bursting forth from the remains of a lower jaw bone. Malinalli embodies the importance of roots, the infinite and constant changes of humankind, the earth, and of all forms of life intertwined in existence.

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Tezcatlipoca Quetzalcoatl

Huitzilopochtli

When you are happy, you can do harm to no

one.

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Ometeotl

OMETEOTL! Thank you for all that I have

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Annual Azteca Mexica New Year 2013

Preserves Indigenous Medicine and Healing Affirmation that our traditions are still alive and viable

today. A way of life according to ancestral teachings &

knowledge. All Life Is Sacred

We Appreciate Your Support Ce Calli Xihuitl Mexica

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