Our Fourth Illuminators -
Grandmother Gayle-Allaq Crosmaz, Susan Stanton
& Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons
On December 21st, Grandmothers Gayle-Allaq Crosmaz, Susan Stanton, and Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons,
joined us in the Green Tent Circle, Watch the recording below!
joined us in the Green Tent Circle, Watch the recording below!
Gayle Allaq-CrossmazGayle-Allaq is a story teller/public speaker and has been actively aiding others through their healing journey for 40 years.
From personal experience and growth, she shares her wisdom of the origins, primordial based knowledge of the ancients. After Gayle-Allaq trained for 8 years with Elder Angaangaq Lyberth/Ice Wisdom International, she was initiated in Greenland as a Shaman/Angakkoq under the traditions of Greenland. Her efforts led her to co-found the Greenlandic Grandmothers Council, to achieve solidarity with indigenous citizens. |
"Gayle-Allaq is passionate about helping to improve Gayle-Allaq is researching ways to bring the voices of the indigenous people of Greenlandic citizens, to colonialists and to the world. Gayle-Allaq is passionate about helping to improve the living conditions and lifestyles of the disadvantaged indigenous people of Greenland.
Grandmother’s Home As the years went by, Angakkorsuaq got more and more determined to tackle this feeling of collective pain at the root. Hence, the idea was launched to open Aanakasaap Illua, which is Greenlandic for Grandmother’s Home. Aanakasaap Illua strives to be a place of inspiration and regeneration for people from around the world offering a sanctuary to nature lovers and visitors with an affinity for holistic healing and revitalisation. |
Mary LyonsGreat-grandmother Mary Lyons is an Ojibwe elder, known as a world-renowned wisdom keeper, empowerment coach, activist, and author. She is an international keynote speaker and seminar leader at such gatherings as the Parliament of World Religions, NYC Climate March, Global Elder’s Gathering on Climate Change, and she is also an elder observer at the United Nations Forum on Indigenous Issues, just to mention a few of her most important projects and activities. She is the author of Wisdom Lessons, focusing on self-development, self-care, and personal empowerment.
Mary teaches seminars internationally, and has appeared on radio around the world. She has a passion for helping people to broaden their perspective of reality, and for helping empower individuals to recognize and step into their wholeness. She has dedicated her life to helping people take command of their lives in highly effective, powerful, positive ways. A pioneer in the human potential field, she has spent nearly 50 years teaching thousands of people meditation, prayer, affirmation, and intuition. Mary is a visionary co-founder of several global groups, including Women of Wellbriety, Int’l, a 100% volunteer, online wellness group with yearly gatherings that promotes sobriety and healing. Amongst her strong commitments, she's also one of the co-founders behind the global Grandmothers of the Sacred WE. She developed a Circle Leadership style of organizational structure to bring the collaborative process to change the hierarchical structure in today’s society. She continues to work at the intersections of criminal justice, environmental issues, and child welfare systems, and develops |
"Mary Lyons is a writer, storyteller, and has published books about spirituality, self-examination, and cross-cultural understanding. She is also a community organizer, world traveler, and has often appeared in the media as an activist for climate justice and social justice issues. As an Ojibwe elder, a non-violent direct action activist, she believes we can change the world for the better again if we come together as a community. " policy and advocacy strategies to help reduce the chances of family separation and MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.)
She is a writer, storyteller, and has published books about spirituality, self-examination, and cross-cultural understanding. She is also a community organizer, world traveler, and has often appeared in the media as an activist for climate justice and social justice issues. As an Ojibwe elder, a non-violent direct action activist, she believes we can change the world for the better again if we come together as a community. Mary brings a de-colonial and anti-capitalistic framework to the mainstream environmental movement through spiritual wisdom lessons. She speaks at rallies, city council meetings, schools, women's prisons, and at global elder circles. Being an activist and policy changer, she’s worked on issues including Native Lives Matter, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, LGBTQ issues, Moms Clean Air Force organization, and bringing awareness and action to protecting the four elements — water, air, fire and earth. |
Susan Kaiulani Stanton (Mohawk/Native Hawaiian) is the Founder and Senior Grandmother of Grandmothers Circle the Earth Foundation, an international organization that travels the world in service of Mother Earth and future generations, giving birth to new Grandmother councils all over the planet. Susan is Vice-President of the Great Balance, bi-located in the United States and Colombia with a focus on building a culturally appropriate university and the planting of one million trees to protect and perpetuate the culture and sacred land of the
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"Susan is the Founder and Senior Grandmother of Grandmothers Circle the Earth Foundation, an international organization that travels the world in service of Mother Earth and future generations, giving birth to new Grandmother councils all over the planet." mamos, the Indigenous People of the beautiful Sierra Nevadas de Santa Marta.
She is a delegate with the International Public Policy Institute to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, and has also participated in United Nations forums on Indigenous rights. Susan lives with her husband Brad Walking Bear Stanton (Narragansett) on the Mississippi River in the heartland of North America. |
Books
Organizations
Videos
Great-Grandmothers Mary Lyons speaks at the Parliament of the World's Religions in 2015
Grandmother Susan Stanton shares her wisdom.
Grandmother Gayle-Allaq Crosmaz shares her journey with Wisdom Drums International.