Flourishing Kin

“Immense gratitude to the energy of the nahual kat for giving our dear sister Yuria Celidwen the authority to share the wisdom of our Peoples. In the twelve chapters of Flourishing Kin, the voice of the great Spirit gives life to the distinct and diverse cosmovisions of our Indigenous Peoples of the world. I raise my word to the eternal infinite of the Divine Creator, the heart of the Skies, the heart of Mother Earth to bless the words in this book. May they connect with the reader to awaken our practices, revitalize our cultures, and attain harmony with Mother Earth. This book is an opening path! Matiox Ajaw jun, kamul, Ajaw, one, two, and three times thank you.” –Angelina Sacbajá Tun, sacred knowledge keeper of the Maya Kaqchikel, International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, and leader of traditional Indigenous midwifery

“Spoken as a true sage, Yuria Celidwen has voiced a mindful story of prayer, hope, and remembrance of the Indigenous Spirit of Mindfulness. It is a story of a Spirit that still exists and whispers to us its message of love, kindness, and reverence for undying Spirit of Life. A pleasure to read and an inspiration for all to move forward to mindfully face the intractable challenges of our times!” –Gregory Cajete, PhD, former director of Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico and author of Native Science

“Indigenous cultures have managed to live sustainably in their natural habitats for many thousands of years. They know things about life and land, kin and relationality, nature and sustainability that we humans need to wake up to and instantiate on every level, from the personal to the planetary. In Flourishing Kin, Yuria Celidwen shows herself to be a weaver of worlds, articulating the original Indigenous sacredness and interconnectedness of all life on this precious planet of ours, and the need for us as humans at this moment to live our way into the very real strands of relationality and kinship that might sustainably right long-standing wrongs and injustices and repair the harm, the exploitation, and the grief that our othering and impulses to capitalize, extract, and dominate inevitably lead to. The only way to do this, of course, is for humanity to wake up to its deepest embodied and enacted nature, and this is what this book might just catalyze and nurture in us going forward.” –Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and author of Full Catastrophe Living and Coming to Our Senses

“In this brilliant and stirring book, Indigenous scientist, activist, and teacher Dr. Yuria Celidwen will take you on a powerful and inspiring tour of Indigenous histories, cultures, and wisdom, all brought together in a moving synthesis of scholarship, personal story, and practice. Reading this book will transform how you live your life, orienting you to your deep relatedness to nature and all living forms and pointing you to a path toward collective flourishing, so urgently needed during these times of crisis.” –Dacher Keltner, PhD, Distinguished Professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, founding director of the Greater Good Science Center, and author of Awe

“Dr. Celidwen has made a profound contribution to the study of human flourishing, which has traditionally ignored rich Indigenous traditions and focused on the individual. Flourishing Kin provides a deeply needed antidote by bridging Western and Indigenous science and centering on relationality, interdependence, mutuality, and the meaning inherent in all living phenomena. Celidwen makes a convincing case that only by striving for the flourishing of all our kin can we achieve true well-being.” –john a. powell, director of the Othering & Belonging Institute and author of The Power of Bridging

“This extraordinary book brings us to the very heart of what it means to flourish in our world today and to nourish flourishing in our world. Drawn from the deep roots of Indigenous wisdom, it is a brilliant light in our imperiled world.” –Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, abbot, Upaya Zen Center, and author of Being with Dying

“Yuria Celidwen is an Indigenous healer, scholar, and scientist of Nahua and Maya heritage from Chiapas, Mexico. Flourishing Kin is her extraordinary book that blends the ancient wisdom of her Elders and Mother Earth with modern science and presents a sorely needed recipe for reverence, respect, reparations, and more to help restore our balance with our planet and with each other. She provides simple, accessible Indigenous contemplative practices that are relevant for us all and will help us to reconnect with our Spirit, our kin, and our planet. A very timely manifesto that will be of great benefit to our future.” –Richard J. Davidson, PhD, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds and coauthor of New York Times bestseller The Emotional Life of Your Brain

“The essential truth reflected in this heartfelt and scholarly work is the powerful Indigenous wisdom of community. Yuria shows how much the beauty and vision of the collective has been neglected in the individual focus on contemplative practice and how important it is to awaken together with all!” –Jack Kornfield, cofounder of the Spirit Rock Center and the Insight Meditation Society and author of A Path with Heart

“Our ecological crisis and global violence arise from us humans forgetting our belonging, our embeddedness in the web of life. Drawing on the vast repository of wisdom from Indigenous contemplative traditions, Yuria Celidwen offers us a pathway of awakening from an individual identity to the cellular realization of our collective belonging. This powerful guide is a spiritual transmission that flows from Yuria’s own Indigenous roots and directly evokes a reverence for the sacredness and connectedness of all life. Flourishing Kin is profoundly relevant to our times, an urgently needed medicine for planetary flourishing.” –Tara Brach, founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC, and author of Radical Compassion

Yuria Celidwen, PhD, (Indigenous Nahua and Maya) works on the intersection of Indigenous studies, cultural psychology, and contemplative science. She investigates the embodied experience of self-transcendence in world ecstatic and Indigenous traditions and how it enhances prosocial behavior. She emphasizes the reclamation, revitalization, and transmission of Indigenous wisdom and the advancement of Indigenous and planetary rights.

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