The Prayer of the Guarani-Kaiowá
A World Film Premiere and Online Gathering
Produced and Created by Science & Nonduality (SAND)
22 September 2026

“Water lives in our bodies. It evaporates into the air, becomes a cloud of love, falls as rain, sprouts the buds, blooms the flowers. We are Nature.” These are the words of a Kaiowá poet.

For the Guarani-Kaiowá people of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, there is no clear line where the body ends and the land begins. They call themselves Yvy Poty — Flowers of the Earth — expressing a profound relationship with the living world and the land that has sustained their people for generations.

Yet their ancestral territory has been dramatically transformed. For more than a century, much of their homeland has been cleared and fenced for agribusiness, restricting communities to small areas of land and threatening their traditional ways of life, language, culture, and relationship with the Earth.

The new documentary Flowers of the Earth: The Prayer of the Guarani-Kaiowá follows their journey through prayer, ceremony, and Retomada, the return to ancestral land, as they work to protect their territory and preserve their sacred worldview for future generations.

The film premieres globally on 22 September accompanied by a special live online gathering with Guarani-Kaiowá Elders, spiritual leaders, healers, and Indigenous scholars. Hear directly from those carrying this living tradition and discover a powerful story of land, identity, prayer, resilience, and relationship.

Watch the film anytime by donation. A portion of every contribution supports Indigenous-led reforestation, traditional food forests, land reclamation, and cultural preservation.

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