Red Path Gatherings
What is the Native American red path?
​WHAT IS THE RED ROAD? The Red Road is a phrase frequently used by Natives signifying a deep commitment to living life in the best way possible — with an intrinsic respect for others, oneself, and creation and a dedication to worshipping the Creator.
Fiona was initiated as a medicine woman, and spiritual leader, and given the responsibility of carrying the lineage of the Red Path tradition and Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan by Aurelio Tekpankali.
As her medicine man and teacher, Aurelio entrusted Fiona with the honour of carrying, holding and care-taking these indigenous ritual ways in the UK and abroad.
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The intention was also that this ancient form helps support a remembering of the traditions and wisdom held in our own lands.
She has walked this Red Road since 1993 and has held sweat lodges, ceremonies, blessing ways, weddings and rites of passage since her initiation as a Medicine Woman in 1997. Ceremony and ritual are essential to the experience of connection, and her work is to 're-member' them back into the fabric of our lives. Fiona has been creating communities in the UK, Europe and Israel with ceremony at the heart of all things.
Aurelio Diaz Tekpankali
Fiona was initiated by Aurelio Diaz Tekpankalli, as a spiritual leader and medicine woman of the Sacred fire of Itzachilatlan in 1998. She has received the blessing to hold the Temescal (sweatlodge), medicine ceremony, and vision quest. She carries the teaching of this lineage with humility and integrity, and has sought to connect with the ancestors and spirits of the lands she works in, within the form and holding of this ancient lineage. To use this powerful and safe container of the lineage, to remember ourselves back home to unity and oneness with all things.
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A few words about Fiona’s teacher and elder Aurelio.
AURELIO DÍAZ TEKPANKALLI -The Chief of chiefs, of the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan. Native of Purepecha of Michoacan, México, today he is one of the greatest native leaders of the Red Road. Chief Aurelio lived in the United States as a young man with his parents, painting and building his career as a renowned artist working with themes related to indigenous people and politics. In search of knowing his ancestors, he has lived on various indigenous reservations, participating in rituals with his elders, and being initiated into various tribes and native nations, among them the Lakota Sioux of Rosebud, where he was recognized as a chief of the Sun Dance.
Leader of the Sacred Fire, he is working to expand the “native recognition” beyond the frontiers of indigenous communities. Promoting his internationalism as a great and fundamental expression of the Sacred Fire. Chief Aurelio is working to circulate indigenous knowledge, bring people together strengthening unity, and sharing sacred medicines, such as tobacco, peyote, ayahuasca, San Pedro, and others.
This work is based in the prophesy of the Eagle and the Condor, representing the North and South Americas, in which indigenous nations unite as one. Tekpankalli is the spiritual leader (cantoneiro) of the Native Church of the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan and President of the Confederation Condor and Eagle.
Red Path Gatherings
Fiona holds four-tobacco ceremonies in the traditional design.
These ceremonies are a unique invitation to sit with the old, wise ways of the Red Road and be in communion with the land we walk on now.
Fiona holds these ceremonies in the beauty and prayer of connection to the fire, our ancestors and Great Spirit at the points of power in the Celtic wheel of this land: Imbolc, Beltane, Samhain, the Solstices and Equinoxes.
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This work is a weaving of our own indigenous culture of honouring wild, elemental land guardians and elementals with the medicine traditions of Chanupa, Grandfather Fire and teachers carrying the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan.
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This spirit work of bringing these traditions to meet together is a vessel for home-coming and transformation that Fiona holds with a strong intention and sacred purpose.
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