The Condor and the Eagle Fly Together
The Condor and the Eagle Fly Together
Topa Institute, Ojai Santa Paula Road, Ojai, CA, USA
March 8, 2026
About this Retreat
Details of this retreat
Sunday Gathering: 10am to 4pm at the Topa Institute
There is an ancient legend from the Amazon prophesying the era when bridge-building between the North and the South is needed for life to continue. The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor only speaks of the potential. It's up to humanity to activate this potential and ensure that a new consciousness is allowed to arise.
Many years ago in 1989, Daniel Dancer, Art for the Sky and Gigi Coyle, then Co-Director of The Ojai Foundation (now Topa Institute) called the community into a month-long ceremonial time to learn, play and pray as they made a giant California condor feather, best viewed from the sky. The feather has functioned as a quiet ceremonial site for many years, a prayer in the ground seen from the sky bearing witness to many visitations and magical encounters. Its continued care has been a prayer for restored relations between all tribes, all peoples, all beings.
We have waited for the right time to add the eagle feather and feel that now, spring 2026 is that time.
By making an eagle feather on the land adjacent to the Condor, we are calling on peoples of Ojai and Southern California, citizens of the Northern Hemisphere to listen deeply to their neighbors from and in the South, to ask and invite each of us to do our part in restoring, co-creating and living in healthy, whole communities.
A small group of people will spend a week on the land creating an eagle feather, representing the North, adjacent to the condor feather, representing the South.
On Sunday, March 8th, you are invited to join us in community to celebrate the completion of this story...into the future. Come to witness and celebrate the completion. And be part of a special time of blessing ways, beauty way, and council.
Listening for what is ours to do...
What is our prayer and action needed in these times?
With Hosts and Guides - Gigi Coyle (Beyond Boundaries) and Orland Bishop, (ShadeTree Multi-Cultural Foundation) artist in residence - Daniel Dancer (Art for the Sky). Along with other TOPA community members and leaders.
Special “Guests” include -
Julie Tumamait -Stenslie - Chumash elder
Grupo de DanzaTia Chuchas Cultural Center Members - Trini Rodriguez and Zacarias Bernal https://www.tiachucha.org/
Dance Offering with Grupo Xochiketzalli
Open to the public - any and all who feel called to join
Taco Truck will be on site for lunch! Please bring cash
Gifts/Donations are encouraged and will be shared amongst our hosts & guests
There is an ancient legend from the Amazon prophesying the era when bridge-building between the North and the South is needed for life to continue. The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor only speaks of the potential. It's up to humanity to activate this potential and ensure that a new consciousness is allowed to arise.
Many years ago in 1989, Daniel Dancer, Art for the Sky and Gigi Coyle, then Co-Director of The Ojai Foundation (now Topa Institute) called the community into a month-long ceremonial time to learn, play and pray as they made a giant California condor feather, best viewed from the sky. The feather has functioned as a quiet ceremonial site for many years, a prayer in the ground seen from the sky bearing witness to many visitations and magical encounters. Its continued care has been a prayer for restored relations between all tribes, all peoples, all beings.
We have waited for the right time to add the eagle feather and feel that now, spring 2026 is that time.
By making an eagle feather on the land adjacent to the Condor, we are calling on peoples of Ojai and Southern California, citizens of the Northern Hemisphere to listen deeply to their neighbors from and in the South, to ask and invite each of us to do our part in restoring, co-creating and living in healthy, whole communities.
A small group of people will spend a week on the land creating an eagle feather, representing the North, adjacent to the condor feather, representing the South.
On Sunday, March 8th, you are invited to join us in community to celebrate the completion of this story...into the future. Come to witness and celebrate the completion. And be part of a special time of blessing ways, beauty way, and council.
Listening for what is ours to do...
What is our prayer and action needed in these times?
With Hosts and Guides - Gigi Coyle (Beyond Boundaries) and Orland Bishop, (ShadeTree Multi-Cultural Foundation) artist in residence - Daniel Dancer (Art for the Sky). Along with other TOPA community members and leaders.
Special “Guests” include -
Julie Tumamait -Stenslie - Chumash elder
Grupo de DanzaTia Chuchas Cultural Center Members - Trini Rodriguez and Zacarias Bernal https://www.tiachucha.org/
Dance Offering with Grupo Xochiketzalli
Open to the public - any and all who feel called to join
Taco Truck will be on site for lunch! Please bring cash
Gifts/Donations are encouraged and will be shared amongst our hosts & guests
Getting Here
Topa Institute, Topa Institute, Ojai Santa Paula Road, Ojai, CA, USA
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