Welcome, meet the initiator of INDIGENEXUS!

Mabuhay, lios enchim aniavu!

My name is Marianna, and I am excited to share INDIGENEXUS, an Indigenous-led business and publication focused on creativity, spirituality, and poetic musings on multidimensionality. ⋆˚࿔

As an ecologist, intercultural consultant, artist, dreamweaver, folklorist, and public health professional, I advocate for the health and well-being of all Kin, sensed and unsensed. My biology studies and graduate work in community and behavioral health deeply inform the topics and themes I explore in my creative and professional endeavors.

Thanks to my multicultural background, I have connections to many places and beings that influence my heart work. Recently, I have found myself surrounded by a community in the Midwest that embraces my unique voice—a voice emboldened by the power of the Yoeme/Yaqui, Filipino, and Mexican ancestors who have my back.

As such, I take a multidimensional approach to healing that is responsive to culture and the interconnected spiritual, emotional, physical, mental, and ancestral aspects of health and well-being.

With the support of my ancestors, spiritual guides, and mentors in this life, I initiated this space to create invitations for others to develop and maintain relationships with the creative and spiritual aspects of their being.

Unfortunately, these parts of ourselves are often neglected or shamed due to intrapersonal or interpersonal violence inflicted across lifetimes and lineages. Such violence can create deep, energetic wounds that make us tender around the exploration and expression of our creativity and spirituality, especially for those whose practices were buried in response to oppression and rejection.

However, like dormant seeds waiting to be expressed, our capacity for co-creation and connecting to all that is can bloom through conscious attention and intention.

With awareness of the present, we can, as creative and spiritual beings, reclaim and transmute the energies of the ancestral inheritances placed upon us—both the traumas and the treasures—into opportunities for insights and understanding.

Practicing and staying dedicated to this kind of alchemical heart and soul-based work is often a difficult path that many choose not to take. However, the fears and doubts creating blockages on this path as large as mountains await our traversal so they can be reduced to molehills. When such blockages arise (and they will), we need tools to channel our energy and move through the emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors limiting our potential.

That is why I plan to use my services and musings to help break down stigmas and expectations around healing our creative and spiritual wounds.

As we heal these wounds and step into the power of creative interbeing each day, aligned ways to improve other aspects of ourselves will naturally arise, especially for our mental health and socioemotional well-being. Now is the time to be true to your heart's calling.

What activities speak to your soul?

How do you reclaim your energy?

What brings you joy?