This digital workshop will be instructed by 4 Mamos and 1 Zaga:

• Mamo Rodrigo Barros Lazano (Wiwa)
• Mamo Blas Gil Sauna (Kogi)
• Mamo Lunekan Corando Alberto (Kogi)
• Mamo Manuel Barros (Wiwa)
• Zaga Francisca Daza Barros (Kogi) 

The Teyuna are an Indigenous group formed by the Arhuaco, Kankuamo, Kogi and Wiwa people of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, in Colombia. They, until recently, lived in isolation high in the mountains until they received a message that they had to come down to share their wisdom and work to help the Earth in places where it’s being destroyed. The spiritual leaders of these cultures are known as Mamos. A Mamo represents the beginning of knowledge, the maximum expression of wisdom. Mamos are spiritual guides of the laws of the origins, believed to be destined from the moment of conception by the superior forces of the universe.

Mamos are the spiritual leaders or priests for the Teyuna people. They are the counselors for their communities, and they perform all the important ceremonies for their people such as weddings, funeral rites, rites of passage, and baptisms. The word Mamo means enlightenment of both good and evil. Mamos hold the spiritual knowledge of their people and are trained since an early age to do healings, Pagamentos or ceremony as well as divination.

Mamo Sewigu Kakamukwa (Mamo Rodrigo) comes from a lineage of Mamos that goes beyond his great-great-grandfather, his family comes from the Kakamukwa lineage and there has been Mamos in his family in every single generation. 

Mamo Rodrigo was an educator and a leader of his community before receiving his Segwa at the head of the Jerez River when being ordained as a Mamo. Mamo Rodrigo is not only a Mamo, but he was a Maestro first. For the Teyuna, a Maestro is a weaver, a storyteller, a musician, a teacher, and is also in charge of making sacred objects for the community. 

Zagas (or Sagas) are the female equivalents of Mamos, spiritual leaders from the Teyuna people of the Sierra Nevada of Colombia. 

Zagas are much more than just leaders.  A Zaga is a Priestess, a medicine woman, a botanist, a midwife, a massage therapist, a weaver, a storyteller, an adviser, a seer, a diviner, a musician, and an elder. They represent the light in the darkness. They hold the ancestral wisdom for future generations. They move and behave in alignment with the rhythms of nature. They are the healers and hold the keys for the water, the Earth, and the air elements. And because of this, the Zagas have the big responsibility to sustain the planet. They are the weavers of knowledge to store wisdom. Zagas represent the moon and are the rulers of time and cycles.