Walking in Beauty through Difficult Times with Lupita McClanahan

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We are honored to welcome Lupita McClanahan to speak about “Hozho,” or “The Beauty Way,” a core practice of the Diné/Navajo people. It’s a practice grounded in connecting to Mother Earth and Father Sky so that everything that one does in their life is done with the intention of creating beauty. This can be true when things are easy, but it is most important to practice when things get hard.

Lupita McClanahan is a Dine’ Elder from Canyon De Chelly in Arizona. She was raised in secrecy by her clan’s medicine people so that she could avoid the boarding schools and keep her culture alive. She is perhaps one of the only indigenous people left in North America who was raised in the traditional way, by traditional elders, and still lives on her ancestral land. While she was eventually discovered and taken to boarding school, she has used the experience as a way to understand the modern world and to build a bridge between our cultures. Join us for a very special evening as she speaks about her life, her relationship with the land, our relationships with one another, and how to move forward, walking in Hozho together.