Meet Our Facilitators
Roman Guaraguaorix (Redhawk)
An accomplished indigenous Taino artist, lecturer, storyteller, drummer, singer and respected community/spiritual leader. He is the Kacike (chief) for Maisiti Yukayeke Taino; a tribe of the Taino Nation. Redhawk is a spiritual leader who facilitates Vision Quests, Sundances, Sweat Lodges and Taino ceremonies.
Roman works with the sacred tobacco to help people with their own healing physical ,spiritual and mental, helping open their own consciousness to the sacred plant. Roman is a certified End of Life Doula since 1998 has been helping people with those services since.
Redhawk has done presentations on Northern and Taino native teachings at notable institutions, including major universities, public schools, The Peabody Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and The Smithsonian Native American Museum and a certified fire starter for the White Bison recovery program, a program to help Native people deal with the grips of addiction.
Inspired by the beautiful sounds of Taino instruments (log drums, shell, gourd rattles and conch shells), he also does presentations through song and dance.
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