THE HISTORY OF FORCA FEMINA OR ABOUT THE FIRST FEMALE SHAMMAN (SHAWOMAN)

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 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 favor 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 only things products for a whole year, and learning. However, the men did not recognize their healing powers. They said they would do it 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 no choice but to recognize them as shamans. Thus the Yawanawa tribe became the first in which a woman became a shaman.

It was the beginning of great changes in the tribe. Since then, other women have also started to eat sacred plants, use Rapé 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.

RAPÉ FORCA FEMININA

Rapé Forca Feminina came to one of the sisters – Putani during Rare Muka, and after completing this path, she began to share this Rapé with other women. I like to call this Rapé a jungle feminist.

Only women are allowed to produce Forca Feminina – spiritual warriors. It is created with good intentions towards all women in the world.

Today it is mixed by Putani’s daughter, Nawashahu, who cultivates her mother’s way.

Rapé Forca Feminina contains the strength of these women, the first shamans – strength and determination that allowed them to go through two years of a rigorous path, who managed to gain the prestige previously reserved only for men. The power of a liberated woman.

RAPÉ FORCA FEMINA AND IT’S PROPERTIES

Although this Rapé is strongly feminine, it can be used by both women and men.

It cleanses, restores peace and gives strength.

Works well with everything that is feminine – emotionality, gentleness, water energy, intuition, perseverance and patience. It opens the heart to feeling, to being, being in feeling.

It teaches about emotions and how to express them.

But besides the energy of gentleness, it will also give you a lot of strength. For this Rapé will always contain the energy of women who had to go through many tests in order for their power to be recognized.

It works beautifully around the chakras assigned to female energy – sacral chakra (creativity, sexuality, life satisfaction, the ability to derive pleasure from experiences, self-perception and acceptance), third eye chakra (intuition, clear intuitions, access to universal knowledge, contact with the subconscious, imagination, dreaming, creativity, inspiration, clarity of one’s path) and of course the heart chakra (love, feeling of unconditional love, sensitivity to beauty, willingness to help, gentle temper, great relationships, the ability to forgive, heal, the ability to take and give with joy).

It will help you open these spheres, heal, strengthen, calm down, integrate – whatever you need.

Thanks to the Mulatria tree, Rapé Forca Femina will also help you keep your youth or bring it back – the youthfulness of body and spirit. Mulateria is called the tree of youth because it sheds its bark year after year and regenerates it again. The decoction of this bark has anti-aging properties.

Maybe you think that since Rapé Forca Feminina is related to femininity, it will be delicate – nothing could be further from the truth. Another of the properties of the Mulatria tree is to enhance the action of what it is mixed with – thanks to this, Rapé Forca Feminina has an undeniable strength and intensity.

FOR WHOM

We recommend it to all women, especially in times when we women ‘liberate ourselves’, women leaders, women warriors, women who are enslaved (in any way), or those who need strength and power to implement their plans and make their dreams come true.

Rapé Forca Feminina will help you to recall the spirit of a strong woman, integrate her in you, connect with her.

We recommend this Rapé also to men who work on their feminine aspect, are in the process of getting to know their inner woman, work on integrating the anima, or have complicated relationships with women, need care and tenderness, self-acceptance, love for themselves, or others, patience and persistence in action, breaking out of existing conventions.

May love and strength be with you.

YAWANAWA

In the Pano language, ‘yawa’ means ‘white-mouthed speaking peccary’ (an animal similar to a boar) and ‘nava’ means ‘man’. This tribe recognizes the peccary as its symbol because, like them, they are a family that has lived close together since time immemorial. Currently, they have about 1,200 people and inhabit the area along the Gregorio River. They share this territory with the Katungina tribe. The members of the two tribes are largely mixed – most of the members of one tribe have a relationship with those of the other tribe.

The Yawanawa believe in the power of Rapé, called Rume in their language. Legend has it that Rapé came to them after the death of the first shaman – after the funeral, unusual plants grew on his grave, and the wisest man in the village decided that they should be dried and pulverized. Later, they were consumed in various ways and found to have healing properties. This is how Rapé medicine was born.