Curanderismo Workshop 7: Healing w/ the Sacred Masculine (Tonatiuh), 9 August | Event in Phoenix | AllEvents

Curanderismo Workshop 7: Healing w/ the Sacred Masculine (Tonatiuh)

The Sonoran Desert Cultural Preservation Society

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Sat, 09 Aug, 2025 at 11:00 am

2.5 hours

Ocotillo Library & Workforce Literacy Center

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Sat, 09 Aug, 2025 at 11:00 am to 01:30 pm (GMT-07:00)

Ocotillo Library & Workforce Literacy Center

102 West Southern Avenue, Phoenix, United States

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Curanderismo Workshop 7: Healing w/ the Sacred Masculine (Tonatiuh)
Learn the basics of curanderismo Sacred Masculine healing, working with the Solar energies, and the Medicine Wheel direction of Omeyocan.

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Part 7 of 8 in the CAHAM curanderismo workshop series!

Led by curandero Jesús Cuauhtémoc Villa, this class will focus on the basics of healing with the Sacred Masculine and working with the direction of Father Sky (Tonacatecuhtli) and Father Sun (Tonatiuh) in Chicano & Mexican curanderismo.

Topics covered will include:

  • herbs associated with the Sacred Masculine and solar energies
  • remedies for men's holistic health & well-being
  • The Tonalpohualli, the Nahua sacred ceremonial calendar
  • working with the solar energies and the tonalli, one of the body's animating forces and sacred powers in Nahua medicine tradition
  • a traditional cortalazos (cord-cutting) ritual for severing and clearing out negative, harmful energies
  • the healing elements associated with Fathers Sky and Sun
  • and more!

Jesús Cuauhtémoc Villa, M.A., is a curandero, a co-founder of the Patiloni Collective, a co-founder of and Director of Programming for the Sonoran Desert Cultural Preservation Society (SDCPS), the head instructor for the SDCPS's Center for Ancestral Healing Arts and Medicines (CAHAM), and a Ph.D. candidate in the Arizona State University School of Transborder Studies. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology (with a focus on Forensic Anthropology) and a Master's degree in Religious Studies (with a focus on Anthropology of Religion) from Arizona State University. His Master's thesis examines the African, European, Indigenous Mesoamerican, and other multicultural influences on Mexican curanderismo, the traditional medicine and ancestral healing art of Mexico and the Mexican diaspora. His doctoral research is in thanatology: the scientific and humanistic study of death and dying in a cross-cultural perspective and in the context of the México-U.S. borderlands. Villa is a community-recognized curandero (meaning "healer," a practitioner of curanderismo) who learned his healing arts from a family lineage dating back to pre-colonial Mexico; from a 13-year apprenticeship with local curandera Doña Patricia Federico; and from master curanderas, curanderes, curanderos, Conjure Doctors, Indigenous medicine people, and other traditional healing experts from all over Mexico, the U.S., Central America, and the Caribbean. When not in school or working on CAHAM and SDCPS matters, Villa enjoys gardening, hiking, making traditional Mexican and Chicano folk art, playing music, falling down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and talking to plants, rocks, bones in the desert.

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Arizona Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, this and all other installments of the CAHAM curanderismo workshop series is free and open to the public! The Sonoran Desert Cultural Preservation Society, its Center for Ancestral Healing Arts and Medicines, and the curanderismo workshop series instructors sincerely thank AZ Humanities and the NEH for making this project possible. ¡Muchísimas gracias, patrones!


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Curanderismo Workshop 7: Healing w/ the Sacred Masculine (Tonatiuh), 9 August | Event in Phoenix | AllEvents
Curanderismo Workshop 7: Healing w/ the Sacred Masculine (Tonatiuh)
Sat, 09 Aug, 2025 at 11:00 am
Free