Carlos performs as Cardan Balam, a musician and ceremonialist who fuses pre-Hispanic instruments, prayer and live electronic production. His touring project is Cardan Balam Ancestral Music.[1][2] Born in Atlixco, Puebla, he leads cacao ceremonies, temazcal and Hikuri ceremonies from his own ceremonial space in Playa del Carmen, on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán.[1] His path crossed with Mayan culture and with Wixárika (Huichol) shamans when he was young, and he represents Wixárika, Mexica and Maya shamans today.[1] He founded Colectivo Cultura Ancestral, and with his family works to preserve Mayan lands and heritage in the Yucatán.[1] He has released music since 2021, most of it on the Balam Music Label, and in July 2024 he led the Tribal Village at Dreamersland Festival in Poland.[5][6] In November 2023 he was one of three credited artists on Sukum Balam, a five-track electronica album on the Balam Music label.[3] His Instagram, @cardan_balam_musica, has about 25,000 followers.[2]
Mae Seracarpio, otherwise known as Au Mayari, is a Filipina healer, ceremonialist, intuitive reader and coach in Manila.[1][3] She holds cacao ceremonies across Asia and internationally, working with ceremonial cacao that is imbued with Icaros, plant medicine songs.[2] Au reads intuitively and has trained to access the Akashic records. She also uses tarot, practises Pranic Healing and Access Bars, and coaches one to one.[1][3] She has been a Trainer and Speaker Manager at the Philippine Academy of Intuitives for at least nine years.[4][5]
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