The documentary film, "Voices of the Grandmothers", features in-depth interviews with esteemed indigenous elders. Their legacy is a gathering for humanity, presented as a 4-part video series by Hive filmmakers 
Voices of the Grandmothers
[Original Documentary Film]
Part 2: Heart Intelligence
Thanks for your interest in the second segment of this world premiere public screening, featuring our original documentary: Voices of the Grandmothers. You can be among the first to view this film, featuring esteemed indigenous elders, offering guidance that is vital at this time of global shifts. The complete film is scheduled to be released in four parts. Here is Part 2: "Heart Intelligence."
Film Launch Schedule:
- Part 1: Sage Wisdom - Wednesday, September 9, 2020
- Part 2: Heart Intelligence - Wednesday, September 23, 2020
- Part 3: Sacred Ceremony - Wednesday, October 7, 2020
- Part 4: Healing Paths - Wednesday, October 21, 2020
While a healthy mind is essential for interpretation the heart's emotions, the way of the divine feminine is an art in feeling, rather than thinking. Sure, rationality and level-headedness are important assets, and yet we must also develop alternative skillsets at this time in human history. Now, in order to survive and thrive, we must nurture our gifts of emotional expression, creative thinking, and genuine connection.
As Grandmother Flordemayo says, our children have the right to see the beauty we see right now. The grandmothers are speaking. The wise ones, the ancient ones, the remembering ones. The trees, the stones, the earth, the waters. They have all been speaking to us. But most of us haven't been listening. Now we are in what some are calling a pandemic.
We must go into the heart of the Earth and trust in what is unfolding, in what life is offering us, and in the great unknown. Our future ancestors depend on us to strengthen our foundations of trust. It is our responsibility to preserve and protect the seeds of beauty in this world. Not for ourselves alone, but for future generations and all the species of life on Earth now and to come.
It is time to remember our value as human beings, that our compassion, patience, peace, trust and openness are the skills needed for this time. Let's allow spirit to speak to us and life to move through us. We must gather together energetically to open our hearts and lift our voices with the songs and stories that remember us to wholeness, to wildness, to belonging. We turn our gaze, our attention to the grandmothers and we listen with open hearts. We listen.
Inspirational Scenes from the Film
"And all of a sudden there comes this moment that you know, okay, now I have to go and create. So what I did is that I sorted out every bird: pheasant feathers, guinea fowls, turkey... and then I made a circle of the feathers and I did ceremony for the birds. And I met them all, I just thanked them all to give this beautiful gift for creation. So when I feel I have to create, I open up and the work comes through." —Angelique Boas, Shamanic Practitioner and Artist
"Migration has been happening since the beginning of dawn. We're migrating beings. The same as the wild animals. And how do you put walls to separate the animals? How do we stop that? How do we say to nature you can't move into the land? Because the land belongs to no one. The land belongs to everyone. And we have the right as humans to live on the earth and be able to sustain ourselves and raise our children." —Grandmother Flordemayo, Mayan Elder and Founder of The Path
"We've been saving seeds for the future generations. And with the seed temple, I also have other tangible temples that represent the four sacred elements of life." —Grandmother Flordemayo
"When we are afraid is that we don't understand the unknown. The truth of the matter is that we don't. It's part of the great mystery. And so we as humans are afraid to walk into something that we don't understand. And so that's where the fear comes in. But if you're in a place of surrender, then what that means is that you put it in the hands of the Creator. And you ask, beloved Creator, guide me, guide me." —Grandmother Flordemayo
"In our way, in the Hopi way, there's a saying that without the mother, the family is lost. So motherhood, sisterhood, grandma-hood, is a very important role. And like you mentioned before, unfortunately we have become so involved with our own self that we don't consider that as sisters, in the universe, that we say, we all serve and we are here for the same purpose and that's to bring life into the world. Women are becoming very competitive in their own role and we're forgetting about the sacredness of womanhood. And Creator gave woman the ability to have babies. With that right to give birth, comes extreme compassion, love. When you hold a baby in your arm, there is no feeling that you can describe about what that feels like. To know that you carried this baby with you. And that is the joy of motherhood and that we should celebrate that with all the sisters in the universe." —Pershile (Perci), Hopi / Tewa Elder
"I'd cry, I'd cry because I wanted to be home. Always longing to be home but also knowing that I had to be out doing this work. And so I always remember, it doesn't matter where I am in the world. It's the same Mother Earth. It's the same Father Sky. Same Creator. Same universe... So it's about finding that space in me wherever I'm at to connect again. To come back to the connection on my heart." —Grandmother Moetu-Taiha, Maori Tuhoe Elder
"People are very confused about what love means and what it looks like, you know? I meet a lot of people that say, 'My parents never told me they love me.' And they wear this, they carry this burden with them through their life. And I have to stop them and say, 'But did they ever show you that they loved you?' Well of course, that's what love is about. It's just not the words that you speak, it's how do I express that to you? Because I can tell you that, I could say I love you and not mean it but the words are there. But when you truly love somebody, you show them in the little gestures. You clear the path for them if you see they're gonna fall. You brush the hair out of their face when you see it's getting into their eyes. You tell them there's boogers running down their nose and those are gestures of love." —Pershile (Perci)
"Do you want to be in resonance with your human family? Song is one of the most beautiful ways you can do that. It's about that allowing. And in fact, those sisters who are singing a little too loud and those ones that are singing in their own key, I love it. I love that allowing, it's a chance to practice that allowing." —Madi Sato, Founder of Praising Earth and Song Carriers.
"I feel the grandmothers show you that everyone belongs, everyone. Everyone belongs and you're given something without even having to ask for it. Grandmother Flordemayo sees me and she says, "Can I get you some water?" and just puts it there in front of me. She doesn't let me say yes or no to that. And that's the beauty of the grandmothers. It's just giving you, without you even asking. And then that really, you feel this sense of really being seen and belonging." —Madi Sato
"We're all on a journey on this Earth walk. Where do we wanna go? What do we want to become? But before that time, we came from the stars. We're star people and then we were birthed into this Earth." —Grandmother SaSa, Abenaki Elder and Founder of the The Rose and The Swan Healing Center
Acknowledgements
Voices of the Grandmothers is a love offering by Hive filmmakers
We offer our heartfelt thanks to the grandmothers (in order of appearance): Flordemayo, Pershile (Perci), SaSa, Moetu-Taiha, Reverend Eila Paul, Joanne Shenandoah, along with special guests: Madi Sato, Matthew Reifslager, Leah Shenandoah, Geri Littlejohn, Master Mingtong Gu, Angelique Boas, Joanne Shenandoah, and Angela Lynch.
We gratefully acknowledge ARISE Video Studio as the producer of this film. This is our video production company, centered in Austin, Texas. Additional contributors include: The Gathering for Humanity, The Chi Center, The Path, The Shift Network, Unify, Global Sisterhood, The Crystal Earth Project, Praising Earth, Wicozani Flutes, Nathan Crane, Heather Hall-Dudney, Kim Langbecker, Angela Corriz, Timothy McLaughlin, Imani White, Grandmother Nakai Breen, and Unci Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance. Much love and thanks to each of these organizations and individuals.