The Drumbeat of Summer

Tai Guey Itainos, 🔥

July carries a different rhythm.

The gardens are growing. The river runs warm. The songs linger longer around the fire. The work of Spring has become the abundance of Summer, and the prayers we planted are beginning to show themselves in unexpected ways.

This season reminds us that community is not something we attend — it is something we build together. Hahom to Miguel Sague Jr. & M’anawa Kuya Ni for Celebrating The Summer Solstice with Us and to Everyone who came out to the land to participate in this beautiful tradition! Bo Matum!

Every prayer offered, every meal shared, every log split, every song sung, and every hand extended helps keep this space alive for those seeking healing, connection, and belonging.

🔥 Karaya Guey Guateke Arieto 🔥

World Overnight Prayer Dance with Behike Miguel Sagué Jr.

Join us for one of our most powerful gatherings of the year — a time of song, dance, prayer, fire, and community. Men, Women and Children are Welcome!

🌿 Prayer
🪘 Drumming & Song
🔥 Sacred Fire
💃 Dance
🪶 Community
🌙 Overnight Gathering

The Arieto is a living expression of remembrance — a way our stories, prayers, and ancestral memory continue moving through rhythm, movement, and collective intention.

RSVP today so we may prepare the circle, fire, and community in a good way.

🪶 Nature Quest 2026 — The Teachings of the Colibrí

Nature Quest is quickly approaching. This year comes the teachings of the Colibrí — the Hummingbird.

The hummingbird reminds us that wisdom is often earned through life’s challenges. It teaches perseverance, resilience, joy, and the ability to continue seeking the sweetness of life despite hardship.

We currently have:

🌿 2 spaces available for those called to sit on the blanket and pray for their life
🪶 Supporters needed to help hold the ceremonial container
🌲 Work days needed to prepare the land and Quest sites

A Nature Quest is a four-day rite of passage where a seeker enters the woods in solitude, fasting and praying, seeking clarity, healing, purpose, and deeper relationship with Spirit. Supporters will eat, pray, and perform in rituals to help you seek out the prayer for your life! 

🌿 Nature Quest Work Weekends — All Are Welcome

As we prepare for Nature Quest and the many ceremonies that will carry us through the remainder of 2026 and into January 2027, we invite all members of our community to join us in tending the land.

These weekends are not only about preparing Quest sites. They are an opportunity to care for the trails, gather materials, split firewood, tend the gardens, beautify sacred spaces, and help prepare the sanctuary for the many prayers, gatherings, lodges, and community events still to come.

🌿 July 31–August 1 — Nature Quest Volunteer Weekend
🌿 August 8–9 — Final Nature Quest Stewardship Weekend

Whether you are a Quester, Supporter, Supporting Member, or someone who loves this land, your helping hands are welcomed and appreciated.

🌿 The Land Is Always Calling

You do not need to wait for an official volunteer day to come tend the land.

If you feel called to help, you are welcome to reach out and schedule a visit. There is always wood to split, gardens to tend, trails to care for, structures to improve, and projects waiting for helping hands.

Remember this is a time for you to learn how to connect with the land which ultimately teaches you how to reconnect to self. Han Hankatu! 

The land teaches through relationship. Simply email us and let us know you’d like to come serve.

🌱 Become a Supporting Member

One of the most meaningful ways to support Taíno Woods Sanctuary is by becoming a Supporting Member.

Your membership directly supports ceremonies, Elders, land stewardship, community spaces, supplies, and sanctuary maintenance.

✨ Supporting Member Benefits:
• Free overnight stays during TWS lodge offerings
• One complimentary overnight stay each month for you and one guest
• Stay in your own tent or in one of our communal tents at the Itaíno site (must email us)
• $20 off lodge contributions
• Help sustain this work for future generations

💚 $10/month or $99/year
Together we keep the fires burning.

🪶 Gathering of the Tribes 🪶

Music. Storytelling. Prayer. Art. Dance. Community.

Our 2nd Annual Gathering of the Tribes continues to grow, and we need your help.

Please help us spread the word by sharing posts and flyers, posting on your social media feeds, inviting friends and family, and speaking about the work happening on the land.

We are currently seeking:
🎨 Artisans
🛍️ Vendors
🎤 Spoken Word Artists
🎶 Musicians
🤝 Volunteers
🌿 Sponsors

Every share helps another person find community.

We build this together.

🗓️ Upcoming Gatherings

🔥 July 24–26 — Karaya Guey Guateke Arieto / World Overnight Prayer Dance
RSVP today to sit with us in prayer, dance, song, and community. Dance starts the 24th.

🌿 July 31–August 1 — Nature Quest Volunteer Weekend
All members are welcome to tend the land and help us prepare ceremonial spaces. Receive free overnight stay exchange. Sweat will be offered. 

🌿 August 8–9 — Final Nature Quest Stewardship Weekend
Final land tending and preparation before Quest begins. Receive free overnight stay exchange. Sweat will be offered.

🪶 August 19–23 — Nature Quest Fast
2 spaces remain for those called to sit on the blanket and pray for their life. Supporters needed. Questers will need to tend the land prior. Email us events@tainowoods.com

🍂 September 19 — Fall Equinox Lodge
RSVP, join us in prayer and purification as the season shifts.

🪶 September 25 — Gathering of the Tribes
RSVP, share the flyer, and help us bring the community together.

The season is alive. Stay close to the fire. More to come.

Want to host a retreat?
Questions or want to support? Email us.

Want to host a retreat?
events@tainowoods.com

✨ Closing

The fires continue because people continue to care and show up.

Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for helping create a place where others can come to heal, remember, and reconnect.

Han Han Katu. Seneko Kakona.

🌿 Taíno Woods Sanctuary