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NOW PAU WAU
REGISTRATION OPEN
7TH ANNUAL NOW PAU WAU
Eagle Condor Prophecy
JULY 31ST - AUGUST 3RD 2026
BALDERSON, ON
Elders Tent
Flor de Jamaica Tea Ceremony with Special Guest Willie T. Gamarra, a Peruvian-Canadian musician, sound healer, and cultural facilitator
Crafting Tent
Storytelling
Drum Circle
Trading Post
Kids Activities
Party for the Soul - Intuitive Movement Circle facilitated by Zoia Nikolova
Yoga Circle
Yonicise Circle (special for women)
Somatica Live Band Closing Night
Willie T. Gamarra
Willie T. Gamarra is a Peruvian-Canadian musician, sound healer, and cultural facilitator dedicated to sharing the spiritual essence of the Amazon and the Andes. Through musical ceremonies and ancestral wisdom, he creates immersive experiences that inspire inner connection, harmony, and well-being.
Nicole Smith
Nicole is passionate about health, wealth, and femininity! With over 20 years of yoga experience and an entrepreneur at heart, Nicole has successfully created programs empowering woman such as Yonicise and Burlesque Show. As well she is a Digital Marketing maven encouraging others to live their dream life!
Pau Wau Guests
Zoia Nikolova
Zoia comes to us with the gift of Intuitive Movement with her creation, Party of the Soul! She is a medicine keeper of CHOICE and encourages this in practice as a woman, mother, doula, wife, and sister. Truly empowering others to BE who they are!
Somatica
Enjoy the music of Somatica as they close out the Pau Wau on Sunday. They will be playing popular covers and sharing their own creativity!
Our family will be hosting our 7th Annual Now Pau Wau!
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Each year WBFIT Indigenous Center hosts a Summer Now Pau Wau over the long weekend in August, honoring the traditional ways of coming together in peace and love. Connecting to discuss our present state of being, building community, educating one another traditionally and innovatively, and of course honouring with drumming, dancing, traditional feasting, games, and storytelling.
A Pau Wau is a ceremonial gathering and celebration. It is an opportunity to teach, share and learn by all attending. It is a way to remember the gift of ceremony and how by bringing ceremony into our life more regularly we can mend the hoop of life. This is what the WHOLE needs, to heal Mother Earth and all that she encompasses and to protect, through preservation, a home for the next 7 generations.
We open the ceremony with the lighting of a Sunrise Sacred Fire and close collectively the following day at Sunset, therefore all attending are not spectators though participants. Dances will be open to all choosing to participate and will encourage with teaching the medicine of dance.
Music will be honoured in a variety of ways. Collectively we will drum and rattle honoring the medicine of sound and the individual instruments and there will be singing as it is a way to effectively carry prayer.
The NOW PAU WAU sings the song of unity and equality. Not only does the NOW PAU WAU honour the traditional ways, we are starting new traditions that include the practice of ONE NATION. The Sacred Circle over time has embodied the colors red, yellow, black, and white and this is partly in recognition of the colors of the races of the world. Today many of us are a rainbow of colors, known as intertribal and it is upon this time that the PROPHECIES of many indigenous tribes declare that we will need to come together to ensure preservation of Mother Earth and ALL OUR RELATIVES.
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We are always open to collaborate! If you are interested in sharing your gifts, teachings, services, volunteering, and/or...., please reach out and CONNECT
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REGISTRATION WILL OPEN JUNE 2026
The NOW PAU WAU is an annual ceremony that happens every August on the long weekend. We open the land for OPTIONAL CAMPING for 3 nights. This is a traditional pau wau, where we open with a SUNRISE SACRED FIRE CEREMONY and close ceremony 1 day later with a SUNSET CEREMONY. ​
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There are no mind, heart, and/or body altering medicines during the pau wau.
We have limited space for camping and will honor on response order.
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Once you are reserved, we will send a welcome email with details of the pau wau.
THE NOW PAU WAU IS FREE WITH THE OPTION TO DONATE TO THE CENTER