Força Feminina
Força Feminina comes from the classic and traditional combination of Tsunu ashes with forest herbs. Tsunu forms the base of many Rappés from the Yawanawa. These ashes are accompanied by sacred plants and herbs that the tribes value for their feminine force. That is why the complete blend has a feminine energy manifesting in itself. The snuff is prepared exclusively by spiritual warrior women of the Yawanawa tribe.
A force of nature. It cleanses, restores peace and gives strength. A very special medicine infused with courage and resilience.
Força Feminina comes from the classic and traditional combination of Tsunu ashes with forest herbs. Tsunu forms the base of many Rappés from the Yawanawa. These ashes are accompanied by sacred plants and herbs that the tribes value for their feminine force. That is why the complete blend has a feminine energy manifesting in itself. The snuff is prepared exclusively by spiritual warrior women of the Yawanawa tribe.
A force of nature. It cleanses, restores peace and gives strength. A very special medicine infused with courage and resilience.
Força Feminina comes from the classic and traditional combination of Tsunu ashes with forest herbs. Tsunu forms the base of many Rappés from the Yawanawa. These ashes are accompanied by sacred plants and herbs that the tribes value for their feminine force. That is why the complete blend has a feminine energy manifesting in itself. The snuff is prepared exclusively by spiritual warrior women of the Yawanawa tribe.
A force of nature. It cleanses, restores peace and gives strength. A very special medicine infused with courage and resilience.
A strong Rappé that invokes the healing power of the feminine – emotionality, gentleness, flow, intuition, perseverance, creation and receiving. It opens the heart to feeling, too being in feeling. Don’t assume it is a soft medicine due to the energy of gentleness, it will also gives one strength.
Do not assume it to be a ‘soft’ medicine due to the energy of gentleness, this Rappé will also give one strength.
Força Feminina contains the energy of courage and is the inspiration of a woman who had to go through many tests in order for their power to be recognized. Unleashing the feminine force of nature. Do not assume feminine to be weak rather understand its form in all things. Whether the masculine seeks to connect to the inner feminine or the feminine needs support - one will find a deep arousal deep within when invoking the feminine spirit of the jungle found in this blend.
Força Feminina is a Rappé prepared by one of the daughters of the chief of the Yawanawá. Before this new time of reconnecting to their cultural roots and medicine, their medicine work was exclusively for males. Chief Biraci’s wife Putani Yawanawa is the first woman together with her sisters to engage in condoned spiritual work. She and her sisters for the first time undertook their trials of initiation. Their daughter Nawashahu carries on the work of her parents, receiving and singing her medicine songs and making this beautiful Rappé.
THE HISTORY OF FORCA FEMINA OR ABOUT THE FIRST FEMALE SHAMAN
In the Yawanawa tribe, to become a shaman one has to go through a very difficult and rigorous path known as Rare Muka. A person passing through Rare Muka lives in isolation and may not eat products containing salt or sugar, including fruit. Instead, he or she uses many sacred herbs, connecting with the forces of nature, communicating with the spirits of animals and plants, with the spirits of ancestors and teachers, receiving from them tools and guidance on how to create his own medicine. After passing Rare Muka, these people receive the status and prestige of a healer – shaman. They can perform Uni (Ayahauasca) rituals, create Rapé, and be a spiritual guide. This road lasts about a year and has been reserved exclusively for men for centuries, from the very beginning.
Some time ago, however, two women, sisters – Hushahu and Putani decided to take this path. Despite many objections, they managed to win the leader’s favour and, under the watchful eye of one of the tribe’s shamans, they started their Rare Muka. They graduated from it, without sparing their efforts, eating a strict dieta for a whole year, and learning. However, the men at first did not recognise their healing powers. Some said they would accept the woman healers on the condition that they go through one more year of Rare Muka – not believing that someone could make it. Yet both sisters succeeded, and in 2006 the men of the Yawanawa tribe had little choice but graciously accept ad to recognise them as shamans. Thus the Yawanawa tribe became the first in which a woman became a shaman in the region.
It was the beginning of great changes in the tribe. Since then, other women have also started to eat sacred plants, use Rappé and Uni (which they were previously not allowed to do) and, of course, they may now pass the Rare Muka.
Moreover, since 2009, Hushahu and Putani started going to big cities and doing rituals for “strangers”, sharing their knowledge. They are recognized as a kind of missionaries who bring sacred medicine to the world of cities. Thanks to their actions, the Rare Muka path also became accessible to non-tribal people.
YAWANAWA
The Yawanawa people are a small group with an estimated 1,300 residents living in little villages along the Gregorio River. They have always been associated as warriors with excellent sword skills. Like most of the tribes in the Amazon they were close to extinction with only an estimated 300 Members remaining after the first rubber booms in the late 19th century. Today, the group continues to grow and preserve their strong spiritual principles in a very tight community. The Yawanawa are thought to be one of the first tribes to initiate woman into Pajès (Shamans) and have a strong history of powerful medicine workers. In the Yawanawa language Rappè is called Rumè or Rumã. The Yawanawa are excellent snuff makers and love to mix in tsunu. The Yawanawa blends are quite special in that they feel very sophisticated. They often use their powerful tsunu blends during Ayahausca ceremonies.
The Yawanawa have a profound knowledge in their shamanic system kept by their initiates and shamans. The study of Yawanawa spirituality begins with prayers and special diets (dieta’s) and intense initiation processes. Among the sacred medicines of the Yawanawa people the Rumé or Rumã as their Shamanic Snuff has a central place in their culture. It is one of their main preparations of power. Rappé has an ancestral legacy of healing existing since immemorial times in their cosmology as related in their stories and myth.