About Shuni
Nana Shuni Giron is an internationally-recognized Guatemalan Ceremonial leader Mayan Ajq’ij – a Maya Calendars Day Keeper and spiritual guide. She has doctorate in Naturopathic medicine, Iridology and Alternative therapies. She is shamanic plant healer and teacher that specializes in Psychotherapy and shamanic rituals.
She has led many Maya Fire ceremonies at world events, indigenous summits, and international world festivals such as Unification Maya, Cosmic Convergence, Maya Heart Festival in Guatemala, Tribal Gathering in Panama, Heart and Mind festival in Poland and New York, at Lighting in a Bottle , Lucidity, Disclosure festival in Los Angeles, at Magnet festival in Amsterdam, Peace for the earth in Costa Rica, Out time festival in Mexico, Eclipse Festival In Montreal, Morph Festival in Berlin, Sincromagnization Festival in Chicago, at The Gathering of the Peace Makers in North Carolina and at the USA World Constellations festival in Seattle WA.
Nana Shuni is passionate about teaching the ancient ways of the Maya wisdom and the science of Maya time keeping, the Mayan Calendars, Mesoamerican cosmology, at Easter University in Chicago, at The Native American Ojibwa community College in WI and at the open center in New York. She offers workshops, classes, lectures, retreats on Maya Spirituality and Mesoamerican Shamanism around the globe.
Nana Shuni has also taught and lead Mesoamerican studies in Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Minnesota, Michigan, St Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Connecticut, New York , Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, Germany, Serbia, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland and Amsterdam.
She is the spiritual guardian of the Oral Traditions of the Popol Vuh Sacred Book of the Maya that resides in modern times at the New Library in Chicago. She has appeared in many shows, shamanic documentaries and televisions series for the History Channel, also for WGBH Public TV in NY and On the Story Of God as a co-star with Sir Morgan Freeman for the National Geographic Society.
Nan Shuni is a lifelong environmentalist. Her family founded ARCAS 30 years ago, an association of wild life rescue centers in Guatemala, and she believes that our relationship to nature and earth are vital to personal health and the health of the planet. Through fire ceremonies, classes and individual sessions, Shuni offers opportunities to connect to the natural world and to the sacred in all things. She also facilitates workshops in sustainability, and earth healing ceremonies.
Nana and chief Shuni Giron is a Ossinagen pipe carrier trained not only by the Mayan elders of also by North American elders of various tribes.
She founded Kasa Kame, a non-profit organization dedicated to the transformation of the human the spirit, through use of alternative therapies, active consciousness, environmental awareness, and artistic performance.
As she is sometimes called, Nana “Shumantla Fenix” continues to study and research sacred plants, to teach, and to perform Mayan Sacred fire ceremonies around the world.