De mim o que ele pediu - na verdade exigiu - foi o meu Grande Encontro comigo mesma. Para isso precisei mergulhar também nos meus pontos de fragilidade. Você tem medo de expor a sua fragilidade e perder a sua força, como Aquiles? Você tem medo de morrer? O meu calcanhar de Aquiles é a minha própria história, minha própria vida, essa é a minha fragilidade. Eu não sinto medo da minha fragilidade, não. Assusto-me quando não quero expor a minha fragilidade. Isso me assusta, pois eu sei que estou querendo ser o que eu não sou. Mas quando eu exponho, sinto liberdade... Quando me flagro neste jogo digo para mim: "Opa, vamos sair disso." A minha fragilidade é a minha força. O que eu renunciei na minha vida, o que eu passei na minha história é que me deu forças para continuar, na minha dor estava a minha força. Quando eu mais clamava, quando eu mais sofria, quando tudo mais doía, nascia então a minha força, a minha asa ficava mais forte para voar, para eu chegar mais perto de mim mesma. Não precisamos ter medo da nossa fragilidade; nós somos guerreiros frágeis dentro de uma luta insana, a luta interior. Colocamos armaduras, nos armamos até os dentes, mas por dentro trememos tanto! Prefiro então despojar as minhas armas, pois as armas me pesam e eu não sei carregá-las; se me livro delas fico mais leve, e morro. Vivemos uma libertação quando expomos algo escondido. Eu experimento essa liberdade em mim. Fica leve se relacionar com as pessoas que você ama e que te amam, quando você expõe a sua natureza humana. O amor comporta tudo...

Deus abençoe cada um e cada uma,
Alba Maria


An experience of a young Volunteer in Terra Mirim.

This was written by Holli Sullivan, from USA. The Shaman, Alba Maria, reminds that Holli's experience was possible for her openess to it.

My Second Birth

My alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, but it was wasting it’s time. I had already been woken up by the sounds of tambours, maracas, and chanting in the distance. I jumped up and quickly got into my bathing suit and beach dress… but I definitely wasn’t going for a day at the beach. I was headed to my first ever Cabana da Purificação… Cabana of Purification.

I had heard scary things about the Cabana. It was a small dome-shaped tent type of deal, with fiery stones in the middle, which would have water poured over them to create massive amounts of steam, causing you to sweat your brains out and release all the toxins and negative energy that you had acquired over the year. It was said to be pitch black, horrifically hot, and the definition of claustrophobia. Many people I had already talked to had had to leave in the middle of the ritual their first time-sometimes it was just too much.

But despite all the rumors I had heard, my 4:30 a.m. self was free of worry, so I walked out into the cool morning air and followed the music.

I arrived at the Temple of Fire to see exactly what I had heard. About 40 people in a circle, faces glowing from the flames. Most had tambours or maracas in hand, and those who didn’t were clapping their hands along with the rhythm, and the whole group was chanting in languages I couldn’t understand, but I sat down excitedly and joined in as best I could, and found it was easy to get lost in these beats. I looked around the circle to see most everyone I knew from Terra Mirim - No one wanted to miss out on the Cabana. Many with feathers and beads in their hair, all filled with passion and intensity.

5:00 arrived, bringing other first-timers and guests, with nervous looks drawn all over their faces. Alba Maria, the Shaman, began her speech, explaining to us what was going to go down in the Cabana.

“You will take a shovel full of hot stones and slide it into the Cabana. After-words you will get down on all fours and crawl in, to the left, until you are touching the next person. Make sure you are very close to them so we can all fit.” Oh boy, claustrophobia is right.

The entrance began, one after another taking their shovel full of very hot stones and entering into the Cabana. Like a first timer would I messed up a little and went too early in the procession, but all was well. My turn came and I slid my stone into the cabana, took one more breath of fresh oxygen, and crawled inside.

One after another members of the group, now dressed in either bathing suits or birthday suits, entered the cabana until it was completely full. Squished in between a person on either side of me as well as one in front of me, I put my head down and began to try and relax with deep breaths and positive thoughts.

Alba started the ritual with some words of wisdom, and my body started the inevitable drenching-in-sweat process. The flap was closed and the ritual began.

With every bucket of water poured onto the coals the cabana got hotter and steamier, and with every minute the chanting got louder and more intense. Breathing was key. Without keeping your breath steady and in control, you would most likely lose it and have to leave, as 3 or 4 people found out.

But the thought of leaving never even crossed my mind. Despite all the discomfort, I found a way to enter into a new state, into knowing that I was in control of my mind, not my mind in control of me. I could feel the physical toxins, the dirty mental thoughts, and the spiritual negative energies leaving my being. A true purification process.

The sweat and heat continued for what I think was about an hour and half, but then again time changed a little in there. But after some amount of time, the crew began to exit the cabana. Still to the left, and butt out first. I made my way through the line, going towards the most literal definition of the light at the end of the tunnel…

What I found once I entered the light was a perfect picture of “the next life.” The soft glow of dawn lit our space ever so gently. Bodies lay everywhere of the people who had left in front of me, spread-eagle on the earth, steaming into the air from the heat before. I crawled my way over to a perfect patch of grass and joined them, kissing the ground, thanking the grass for being as cool and fresh as it was. My eyes were now opened in a new way. I observed every tiny vein that ran throughout each leaf and flower petal, feeling that after going to a place that almost resembled death, I had a new understanding of what life was. I rolled to my back to watch the clouds drift by, and let myself drift with them for 10 minutes or so.

When I was ready, I followed the rest of the people to the showers near the Temple of Water. We all rinsed the earth and sweat off of our bodies, oh thank God for water. The next step of the process was the Banho das Ervas, or Bath of Herbs. I got down on all fours and was drenched with 2 pitchers of the most heavenly smelling herb-infused water that has ever existed in the universe. The water was cool and cleansing, and basically took my breath away.

After the earth time and baths the group returned to the fire, and proceeded to hug each other, each and every one. The love felt there for people I hardly knew was so strong and real. An understanding of the other, being able to see right into their souls without having to ask any questions. Just love, peace, and understanding.

The experience of the Cabana da Purifcação was like nothing I have felt since January 2nd 1993… my real birthday. I felt I had truly been reborn, and seen things in a way I never could have had I not participated in this cabana. I carry this experience with me now, and will never forget how the feeling of the steam, the sound of the chants, or the smell of the Banho das Ervas made me feel… Purified.
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Cotidiano de uma Comunidade
Círculos de Partilha

Há 25 anos que a Xamam Alba Maria (AM) se dedica ao xamanismo. Academicamente uma psicóloga, porém se sabendo uma mulher filha da Terra e dos dizeres da Mãe Natureza, renunciou aos caminhos da academia e seguiu os ensinamentos de seus Avós, os Quatro Elementos: a Terra, o Ar, o Fogo e a Água. Contempladora e devota da Irmã Lua e do Irmão Sol realiza ritos e jornadas nos Campos do Mundo: Chapada Diamantina, Peru, Índia, Alemanha, Itália, Islândia, Estônia e na Fundação Terra Mirim em Simões Filho, Bahia (Brasil), onde vive.

Pergunta: O que é o xamanismo Alba Maria?
AM: Xamanismo é uma ciência, uma ciência espiritual. Abrangente porque ultrapassa os campos de realidade convencionais e toca em campos ou em realidades paralelas e assertiva porque mergulha sem medos em realidades interiores buscando curar e cicatrizar núcleos feridos dos seres humanos.

Pergunta: O que é necessário pra se tornar um/a xamã?
AM: Um sinal interior, um chamado ardente da alma. Uma identificação profunda com a Natureza. Diferente da ciência acadêmica, o/a xamã não faz o caminho, é o caminho que faz o/a xamã. Acrescente-se a isto tudo uma disponibilidade total para mergulhar em seus próprios infernos interiores e sair de lá vivo, isto é, ultrapassar a linha que existe entre a sanidade e a loucura e tocar a Unidade onde se localiza a real moradia da Deusa Mãe.


... à noitinha, no templo, construção primeira da comunidade Terra Mirim, Alba Maria realiza os Círculos de Partilha onde escuta orações e clamores de cada pessoa que por lá passa. Em seguida, a Xamam oferta seus ensinamentos. Publicamos aqui alguns trechos destes momentos.

Pra conhecer um pouco mais, leia:
A Voz dos Quatro Elementos - Alba Maria – Ed Kalango
Xamã do Tibet – Master Maticintim - Ed Kalango
Mistério das Avós - Alba Maria - Ed Kalango



Guerreiros e Guerreiras de Deus


Quem nunca ouviu as belas histórias e lendas sobre grandes lutas onde nobres guerreiros e guerreiras davam tudo de si, diziam SIM à vida e até à morte por amor a uma causa, e nesta jornada descobriam a si mesmos?... Toda a energia, toda a força destes homens e mulheres seguia uma causa, tinha uma intenção.

O que faz com toda sua força um ser sem uma causa, sem guerras explícitas, sem nada muito nobre pelo que lutar? São criadas, então, no cotidiano, na convivência entre as pessoas as guerras particulares, para extravasar toda a belicosidade, toda a pulsão que muitos seres tem para guerrear: surgem as brigas tolas, imposições, lutas pelo poder.

Existe neste ser belicoso uma energia muito forte de realização pessoal, e é preciso criar um fluxo desta energia para a realização. Como a maioria das vezes não se sabe como fazer isso, o ser cria resistências, brigas, guerras pessoais. Na verdade uma freqüência altíssima de energia está penetrando e possuindo este ser, uma energia de força, uma energia de luta. Mas esta energia de força existe para a REALIZAÇÃO DE SI, para o profundo encontro do ser consigo, para esse nobre combate, essa luta interior onde cada um vai buscar o seu Santo Graal e descobrir a si mesmo. Cada um precisa ter uma clareza muito grande da intenção desta força, para não tentar travar guerras sem causa, onde, por mais que se ganhe, sempre se é perdedor.

Pergunte a Deus: "Porque esta força tão intensa dentro de mim? O que Você quer de mim? O que? De que forma eu vou encontrar comigo? Como eu posso manter este diálogo permanente comigo mesmo?" . Escute as respostas que brotarão do seu coração.

De mim o que ele pediu - na verdade exigiu - foi o meu Grande Encontro comigo mesma. Para isso precisei mergulhar também nos meus pontos de fragilidade. Você tem medo de expor a sua fragilidade e perder a sua força, como Aquiles? Você tem medo de morrer? O meu calcanhar de Aquiles é a minha própria história, minha própria vida, essa é a minha fragilidade. Eu não sinto medo da minha fragilidade, não. Assusto-me quando não quero expor a minha fragilidade. Isso me assusta, pois eu sei que estou querendo ser o que eu não sou. Mas quando eu exponho, sinto liberdade... Quando me flagro neste jogo digo para mim: "Opa, vamos sair disso." A minha fragilidade é a minha força. O que eu renunciei na minha vida, o que eu passei na minha história é que me deu forças para continuar, na minha dor estava a minha força. Quando eu mais clamava, quando eu mais sofria, quando tudo mais doía, nascia então a minha força, a minha asa ficava mais forte para voar, para eu chegar mais perto de mim mesma. Não precisamos ter medo da nossa fragilidade; nós somos guerreiros frágeis dentro de uma luta insana, a luta interior. Colocamos armaduras, nos armamos até os dentes, mas por dentro trememos tanto! Prefiro então despojar as minhas armas, pois as armas me pesam e eu não sei carregá-las; se me livro delas fico mais leve, e morro. Vivemos uma libertação quando expomos algo escondido. Eu experimento essa liberdade em mim. Fica leve se relacionar com as pessoas que você ama e que te amam, quando você expõe a sua natureza humana. O amor comporta tudo...

Deus abençoe cada um e cada uma,
Alba Maria



An experience of a young Volunteer in Terra Mirim.

This was written by Holli Sullivan, from USA. The Shaman, Alba Maria, reminds that Holli's experience was possible for her openess to it.

My Second Birth

My alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, but it was wasting it’s time. I had already been woken up by the sounds of tambours, maracas, and chanting in the distance. I jumped up and quickly got into my bathing suit and beach dress… but I definitely wasn’t going for a day at the beach. I was headed to my first ever Cabana da Purificação… Cabana of Purification.

I had heard scary things about the Cabana. It was a small dome-shaped tent type of deal, with fiery stones in the middle, which would have water poured over them to create massive amounts of steam, causing you to sweat your brains out and release all the toxins and negative energy that you had acquired over the year. It was said to be pitch black, horrifically hot, and the definition of claustrophobia. Many people I had already talked to had had to leave in the middle of the ritual their first time-sometimes it was just too much.

But despite all the rumors I had heard, my 4:30 a.m. self was free of worry, so I walked out into the cool morning air and followed the music.

I arrived at the Temple of Fire to see exactly what I had heard. About 40 people in a circle, faces glowing from the flames. Most had tambours or maracas in hand, and those who didn’t were clapping their hands along with the rhythm, and the whole group was chanting in languages I couldn’t understand, but I sat down excitedly and joined in as best I could, and found it was easy to get lost in these beats. I looked around the circle to see most everyone I knew from Terra Mirim - No one wanted to miss out on the Cabana. Many with feathers and beads in their hair, all filled with passion and intensity.

5:00 arrived, bringing other first-timers and guests, with nervous looks drawn all over their faces. Alba Maria, the Shaman, began her speech, explaining to us what was going to go down in the Cabana.

“You will take a shovel full of hot stones and slide it into the Cabana. After-words you will get down on all fours and crawl in, to the left, until you are touching the next person. Make sure you are very close to them so we can all fit.” Oh boy, claustrophobia is right.

The entrance began, one after another taking their shovel full of very hot stones and entering into the Cabana. Like a first timer would I messed up a little and went too early in the procession, but all was well. My turn came and I slid my stone into the cabana, took one more breath of fresh oxygen, and crawled inside.

One after another members of the group, now dressed in either bathing suits or birthday suits, entered the cabana until it was completely full. Squished in between a person on either side of me as well as one in front of me, I put my head down and began to try and relax with deep breaths and positive thoughts.

Alba started the ritual with some words of wisdom, and my body started the inevitable drenching-in-sweat process. The flap was closed and the ritual began.

With every bucket of water poured onto the coals the cabana got hotter and steamier, and with every minute the chanting got louder and more intense. Breathing was key. Without keeping your breath steady and in control, you would most likely lose it and have to leave, as 3 or 4 people found out.

But the thought of leaving never even crossed my mind. Despite all the discomfort, I found a way to enter into a new state, into knowing that I was in control of my mind, not my mind in control of me. I could feel the physical toxins, the dirty mental thoughts, and the spiritual negative energies leaving my being. A true purification process.

The sweat and heat continued for what I think was about an hour and half, but then again time changed a little in there. But after some amount of time, the crew began to exit the cabana. Still to the left, and butt out first. I made my way through the line, going towards the most literal definition of the light at the end of the tunnel…

What I found once I entered the light was a perfect picture of “the next life.” The soft glow of dawn lit our space ever so gently. Bodies lay everywhere of the people who had left in front of me, spread-eagle on the earth, steaming into the air from the heat before. I crawled my way over to a perfect patch of grass and joined them, kissing the ground, thanking the grass for being as cool and fresh as it was. My eyes were now opened in a new way. I observed every tiny vein that ran throughout each leaf and flower petal, feeling that after going to a place that almost resembled death, I had a new understanding of what life was. I rolled to my back to watch the clouds drift by, and let myself drift with them for 10 minutes or so.

When I was ready, I followed the rest of the people to the showers near the Temple of Water. We all rinsed the earth and sweat off of our bodies, oh thank God for water. The next step of the process was the Banho das Ervas, or Bath of Herbs. I got down on all fours and was drenched with 2 pitchers of the most heavenly smelling herb-infused water that has ever existed in the universe. The water was cool and cleansing, and basically took my breath away.

After the earth time and baths the group returned to the fire, and proceeded to hug each other, each and every one. The love felt there for people I hardly knew was so strong and real. An understanding of the other, being able to see right into their souls without having to ask any questions. Just love, peace, and understanding.

The experience of the Cabana da Purifcação was like nothing I have felt since January 2nd 1993… my real birthday. I felt I had truly been reborn, and seen things in a way I never could have had I not participated in this cabana. I carry this experience with me now, and will never forget how the feeling of the steam, the sound of the chants, or the smell of the Banho das Ervas made me feel… Purified.
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