Ifugao Center for Living Culture
Videos
We believe in providing resources for our family around the world to help them in their journey to reconnect with ancestors and live simply. Sharing cultural knowledge and tradition is a gift, and the elders who give their time and attention time after time to keep this knowledge alive should be supported by their communities. Because in this day and age, physical community is more difficult to create, due to many thousands of years of intentional colonization and capitalism, we live in digital communities around the world. We encourage you to to support your elders in exchange for this knowledge. We want you to know that the following videos were lovingly created by our friends and collaborators to provide information and to document our way of life. Because there is such valuable information here, we urge you to consider donating to our cause to support our elders, our mission, and share the love with the folks who helped us create this content. Even a suggested donation of $10 goes a long way, especially in “developing” countries like the Philippines. If you can’t donate, please help us by sharing to gain support for the work that we all do to preserve culture. Cheers to all the amazing supporters who keep us fed and fueled to continue this important work!
Mumbaki: Ifugao Wisdom Keepers in Kinakin, Banaue, Ifugao
by Ifugao Center for Living Culture
Visit our YouTube channel for more videos about our work, documentaries about our culture, and a little bit about our day to day lives.
You can also see the amazing work that our collaborators and friends are doing alongside us. We do this work as community to support, teach, and learn from each other.
Other videos from our channel
Invitation to Reconnect With Our Ancestors
We are proud to have Kultura Films to support and capture our work for viewers around the world. Kultura Films specializes in documenting Filipino and Filipino-American culture and arts.
In this video Mamerto Lagitan Tindongan would like to invite you to heal through shamanic ceremonies and invoking help of the ancestors and deities of the spirit realm.
Other Videos by Kultura Films
IFUGAO TINUNGUR QI GONG
We are excited to have the chance to collaborate with longtime friend Erik Peterson who has supported our projects with building infrastructure and capturing content. To learn more about his process of living from the land, check out Fern Hollow Farm in Ohio which he homesteads with his partner, Olivia.
In this video, you can learn Ifugao Tinungur Qi Gong, a beautiful and calming moving meditation created by Mamerto “Lagitan” Tindongan. This video briefly covers the background and philosophy of the form before teaching the opening and closing meditation, and the 12 movements of the form. In part 4, viewers can follow along as Lagitan goes through the form beside the rushing waters of Jemez Falls, New Mexico.