+ • + • + … i come from where the first celestial waters touch the earth … + • + • +

my name is Uta. Uta is the song my mother gave me before I had a mouth. I have been finding my way back to this name for a long time. Restriction in the voice, the throat, the womb, the birth canal, is our karma, but is not our destiny. I came here to transform it all.

I am a womb worker, which is to say I am a water protector, and I tend to the sacred waters of the body (human body, earth body, beyond body) through my drumsong, mystic poetry, energy work, and traditional birth arts. Before I remembered this path, I was a writer. Always a writer. It was the way I knew how to pray before I was guided back into relationship with any traditional prayer technologies. I am no longer waiting to be recognized, as I recognize myself, and my ancestors recognize me. I thank my ancestors for recognizing me, I thank sacred mother Earth for holding me up in the deep-rooted palm of her hand, and I thank my descendants, the buoyant blueprints of life still dancing within me, for celebrating each blossoming and wilting of my emergence and becoming.

here I will share word medicine that has supported to me to alchemize many junctures of healing. I will share word-prayers, or Kotodama - language incanted in order to transmit the transformative spirit of sound. These words are meant to move energy in those who take them in our speak them out loud, as they have done for me. I hope they support your journey.