Introduction / Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales --
Morning prayers. Sunrise prayer / Inés Hernández-Ávila --
... Keeping It Real... / Gloria Enedina Alvarez --
Prayer To The Orishas / Martha R. Gonzales --
Honoring the sacred directions. As the ceremony begins... / Sara H. Salazar --
Honoring the sacred directions / Lara Medina --
Creating sacred space. The Curandera prepares for healing / Sara H. Salazar --
My home altar / Ofelia Esparza --
Shrine of self-realization / Rosanna Esparza Ahrens and Ofelia Esparza --
Reclaiming our mother, reclaiming ourselves / Alba Onofrio --
Creating an altar for the healing of our younger self / Susy Zepeda --
Little altars / Martha R. Gonzales Bendiciones de casa (house blessings): life and spirit in living spaces / Marta López-Garza --
Blessings for babies and young children. Life arrives / Gloria Enedina Alvarez --
A home baptism / Lara Medina --
A little baby prayer / Patrisia Gonzales, Traditional Baby Catcher --
The Mujeres Circle / Mónica Russel Y Rodríguez --
Planting the umbilical cord / Jennie Luna --
Creating art as spiritual practice. On creating art / Flor y Canto / Yreina D. Cervántez --
Bordar y tejer es medicina / Dora Xochitl Lopez-Mata and Maria Eva Mata --
Aprender bordando: embroidery as meditation and knowledge making / Esther Díaz Martín --
Luz De Luz / Gloria Enedina Alvarez --
The gift of art / Margaret "Quica" Alarcón --
Joto rituals for healing, self-love, and social justice / Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. --
Creating art through prose and poetry. Mujer Jaguar PRESENTE! / Gloria Enedina Alvarez --
Fuerza ancestral ; Writing is as necessary as air to me / Xánath Caraza --
Canto Ocelotl / Jaguar Incantations / Yreina D. Cervántez --
On my relative's skin / Claudia A. Mercado --
Latinx liberation: a meditation on writing / Lauren Frances Guerra --
Creating art through danza. Queering mi palabra / Luis Salinas --
Prayer in motion / Issa Linda Arroyo --
Wearable prayers: danza ceremonial trajes / Patricia Juárez / Chicueyi Coatl --
Communing with our dying and beloved deceased. Ofrenda / Gloria Enedina Alvarez --
Nana's hands / Sybil Venegas --
Death as a peaceful, loving teacher / Alan Hicks --
Ancestral ties / Maritza Alvarez --
The rose in my heart / Patricia Rodriguez --
Showing me the path home: a poz, third-gender xicanx constructs a triad of the divine feminine / Omar Gonzalez --
Teachings From Mami / Norma Elia Cantú --
What my abuelita taught me about prayer and memory... / Theresa Torres --
Conjuros / Rossy Evelin Lima; Translated by Don Chellini --
Life embracing death / Jocelyn Vargas --
Día de todos los santos: xicanx healing ritual after the death of a child / Aida Salazar --
Lamento Cihuateteo / Llanto De Juárez (The Lament Of The Cihuateteo/The Cry Of Juárez) / Yreina D. Cervántez --
Dreaming. Cultivating a healing dream practice / Atava Garcia Swiecicki --
On dreaming / Maritza Alvarez in Conversation with Lara Medina --
After the limpia / Sara H. Salazar --
Holistic health care. The Curandera begins / Sara H. Salazar --
Womxn caring for womxn is ceremony / Grace Alvarez Sesma --
Baños de limpia espiritual / Sandra M. Pacheco --
The thirteen aires and self-limpias / Atava Garcia Swiecicki --
El Temazkal, A place for rest and purification / Estela Román --
Wellness ways for beginning self- and community care / Felicia "Fe" Montes --
A Poppet for mental health / Jessica Lozano Rodriguez --
La Oración / Pedro Alvarado --
Life changes. The rite of passage for a young woman / Linda Villanueva --
Fiesta de maíz: A ceremony for our young adults / Lara Medina --
Transcẽnera: A transformative ceremony / Jacqueline Garza Lawrence --
Luna Mia: A Xicanx guide for a first-moon ceremony / Aida Salazar --
Leaving home / Lara Medina --
Querida tierra-sol-mar-y-viento / María Elena Fernández --
Mynopause: from "change of life" to a nepantla state of enlightenment / Elisa Facio --
Meditation. The warrior womxn envisions... / Sara H. Salazar --
Connecting with the elements / Lara Medina --
Following my breath / Brenda Romero --
A meditation on beauty for releasing pain and trauma / Linda Vallejo --
Learning to Breathe: Ancestral Healing, Spiritual Activism, and the Medicine Wheel / Heidi M. Coronado --
Medicinal foods. Remedies y rituales / Berenice Dimas --
Nourish your body and soul / Gloria Quesada --
Cultivando semillas y culturas en la Madre Tierra (Cultivating seeds and cultures on Mother Earth) / Melissa Moreno --
Spirit plates / Claudia Serrato --
Mother-child bonding. Radical Mami love: Chicana Consejos del corazon / Brenda M. Sendejo --
Be stewards of the earth / Karen Mary Davalos --
Find your truth / Elvira Prieto --
Live in the present / Maria Elena Cruz --
Receta for radical wholeness / Tia Naya / Naya Armendarez Jones --
"We are not a conquered people" / Jackie Cuevas --
My relations / María Elena Martínez --
Consejos of remembrance / Alicia Enciso Litschi --
Petra's gift / Modesta Barbina Trevino --
Why being truly popular is hard to do / Martha P. Cotera --
Huitzin de mi alma: A meditation on healing in adoption / Corina Benavides López --
Welcome, Nova: Consejos for surviving pregnancy loss / Patricia Marina Trujillo --
Chalchiuhtlicue-The passing of one's child / Aida Salazar --
Post-cesarean ceremony / Baby's first journey to the heart / Jennie Luna --
Fortifying our spirits: a talking circle for our daughters / Irene Lara --
Shaking it all up / Laura Pérez --
Moon meditations. Coyolxauhqui Canto / Cristina Gorocica --
Full Moon Coyolxauhqui Circle / Felicia "Fe" Montes --
Patzin: Abuela Luna and the Cycles of la mujer / Patrisia Gonzales --
Moon gazing / Lara Medina --
Sacred sexualities. The Incarnate God and embodied desire / Lauren Frances Guerra --
In gratitude / Martha R. Gonzales --
prayer to my Lover // Ofrenda a mi amante / Yaz Mendez Nuñez --
Healing from Sexual Trauma / María Elena Fernández --
Prayer and song. The wounded warrior / Sara H. Salazar --
On prayer / Laura Pérez --
Cántico de mujer / Rosa Martha Zárate Macías --
Woman song / Cristina Gorocica --
Woman nation / Marisol Lydia Torres --
I pray: Un Rezo of Healing pa'lxs Mariconxs / Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. --
Relationship with land and plants. The earth moves / Laura Pérez --
Encontrándome / Berenice Dimas --
Letter to Eva / Theresa Yugar --
Growing Maíz / Maritza Alvarez --
Spiritual activism. The scriptures of Lydia Lopez / Jacqueline M. Hidalgo --
The Peace walks of Dolores Mission Parish: How One community moves toward healing from violence / as Rita Chairez and Raquel Roman of Dolores Mission Parish have shared with Jennifer Owens Jofré --
The day after the election: protecting body, mind, and spirit / Sandra M. Pacheco --
The Dharma and the dragon girl / Patrisia Gonzales --
Misa Mujer / Mujerista Mass / Patricia Pedroza González --
Spiritual pedagogy. A pedagogy of ofrendas: The altar as a tool for integrating social justice in the classroom / Norell Martínez --
A spiritual pedagogy / Lara Medina --
Decolonizing spirit in the classroom con Anzaldúa / Susy Zepeda --
Talking circles. The Curandera listens / Sara H. Salazar --
From past to present: the power of healing circles / Trini Tlazohteotl Rodriguez --
En este círculo / Ann Hidalgo --
Circles of women / Naomi H. Quiñonez --
Evening prayers. Ángel de mi guardia / María Figueroa --
Descansando en paz / Jerry Tello --
Tlazocahmati Tatita Sol / Grace Alvarez Sesma.
