THE REMEMBERING FILM REVIEWS AND FILM TOUR TESTIMONIALS
“The trailer is a tantalizing glimpse of what just might be one of the most important documentaries to emerge this year. I love the title, Remembering, as this is a phrase I use in presentations I offer. It Is The Time To Remember. We know the truth. We know who we are, why we are. We just have to remember. Blessings on this project.”
Just WOW on so many levels. This film was brilliant in it’s elegant, reverent, moving imagery, and words about being in right relationship with each other and the Earth. I wept. I absolutely loved it. Thank you for creating this.
- Erin Telford
This was and is such beautiful medicine! My heart was full and beating the entire time. To witness parts of ceremony is humbling and it truly felt like I was there. Remembering. Such honour. I have shed many tears to feel what is truly meaningful. Thank you Liv, thank you Kontomblé, thank you all who participated. This is it!!
- Taylor Britt
I just watched The Remembering! My heart is so moved … by your work, by the experience of the pilgrimage, the shamans, and the message. Thank you for sharing this with the world (and me). Blessings.
- Leanne Turpin
“It is very hard to put it into words.. It's like ayahuasca without the physical medicine. It's pure surrender and presence to spirit within ceremony. Liv, my beautiful Kontomblé Voice Diviner, you listened and acted. You got us all to meet in Tokyo but it wasn't fully clear to any of us why us? Why Tokyo? As the ceremony started and we were trying to work through some opposing consciousness trying to stop the potent energy we were collectively carrying, it hit me: We were brought here to break the code. Each of us bringing a key, hence the variety of races present. Together we entered a space that I will never forget. So much cleansing, so much reinstating back to the natural. It reminded me of the vital importance of ceremony, presence and spirit. it also showed me that I have a new love in my life: Japan and its gracious, humble and beautiful inhabitants. I love you."
-Christianne VanWijk
"This past weekend, I had the honor of being part of the Elemental Reverence 精霊への畏敬 with Liv Mokai Wheeler as a translator. Everything was soooo beautiful and magical. Liv, Sylvie, Emmy, Cliff, AshEL, Natalie, Christianne, Lindsey, Aislinn… every moment, I was in awe of their authenticity and beauty. The energy and transformation that they have brought upon Japan is huge. Their presense, the Kontomblé ceremony, the amazing film "The Remembering” by Emmy Wu, the beautiful shrines by Lindsey and music by AshEL ...reconnected us Japanese to our ancient ancestors, spirits of nature, and our true authentic selves. I feel that it is truely a remembering and a new beginning for all of us. With deep appreciation and respect, thank you Liv and Kontomblé for bringing us all together.”
- Kae Miyazawa
"Last weekend, I attended to the Kontomblé ceremony in Tokyo, which honor Mt. Fuji, whales, and Nipsey Hussle. And I came out from the ceremony with full of love and hope in my heart. It took so long to turn my eyes back to the country that I was born and raised. At one point, I was pretty hopeless at the future of Japan and shamed being Japanese. And then I connected with my soul family, who truly willing to honor Japan and the Earth, through the ceremony. I can see the beauty of the country and its culture again. Is there anything more precious than this?
I’d like to refer Barack Obama’s tribute for my new hero, Nipsey Hussle; 'While most folks look at the Crenshaw neighborhood where he grew up and see only gangs, bullets, and despair, Nipsey saw potential. He saw hope. He saw a community that, even through its flaws, taught him to always keep going. His choice to invest in that community rather than ignore it ... is a legacy worthy of celebration.’ The ceremony surly showed me the hope for our future. Thank you, Liv. And thank you for all who shared the experience together. I feel so lucky to be part of the community.”
- Kyoko Kato
"I stepped through a portal into another world this past weekend. It was a remembering, a return to our wild nature. Remembering that child inside, the one that roared with the wild things with an untethered Soul. The more we gather in ritual, in ceremony; the more we release, open, and expand beyond the confines of the urban jungle with all of its boxes, titles, rules, and divisiveness. We’ve been fed an illusion, and the Earth that gave rise to our bodies is paying the price. What we may not see is that what is happening around us, is also happening within us. Can we be so blind to how beautifully and intricately interwoven we really are? Can we turn our eyes in naivety and delusion to something so precious? What will it take to make humanity at large wake up and open their eyes to the Truth; open their hearts and see with the Purity of a child’s Spirit. This is my Prayer... A Return to our True Nature. I was surrounded by some amazingly powerful women this weekend. I am humbled and I am beyond grateful. Liv, you are a True Warrior; as you walk with a Legion of Ancestors and Beings to raise the consciousness with the most beautiful Heart I have ever witnessed in a human. Thank you for all you do. I lift you up; Blessings on your Journey."
- Christina Garrand
“Ojai, land of beauty, energy, transformation, sacredness, grief, pain, and memory. Thank you for holding me. For holding US in ceremony as we made offerings to the land, the mountain, the Chumash people. As we learned how to listen, how to feel. Thank you to the Kontomblé and their partner Liv Mokai for their devotion to this world and humanity, for guiding us in how to reconcile with reality, to really feel grief and pain, feel the destruction and violence and thoughtless waste, and know we can simultaneously hold those feelings and make beauty of our lives... It was such a deep honor to sit in ceremony with so many incredible souls, and to humbly offer our love and receive so much inspiration, healing, and strength together. I bow to you all and to my ancestors who brought me to this moment and got me to this gathering... I feel so much hope, and I know we are all so strong and capable. I commit to remembering what was shared in this most sacred of rituals. Blessings to all of my new/old friends.”
-RACHEL JONTE
"Deep bows and gratitude for the medicine you shared with all of us and to the feminine that was rattled and awoken. I drove away in silence to listen to nature around me. With an over flowing heart, Thank you thank you thank you."
- Kristy Bogart
“These wonderful souls, whose ancestors are coming from all over the world came to Serbia, for Offering pomegranate seeds to the Great Mystery. When our intentions and our medicine come together, a great healing happens that affects all the women of the world. Thank you sisters for bringing and pouring your medicine on my wounded land, on me, and on each other. So much love and gratitude I have for each of you! Thank you, Liv Mokai, for your courage and compassion for coming to my motherland Serbia and pouring your healing medicine on all of us, my ancestors, the earth, beings and our descendants. Thank you for bringing the wonderful sisters who contributed with you to this healing work. My deep bow and respect goes to you. I'm here for you, I'll stand for you to support your healing work.”
-BILAYANA CINCAREVIC
“Liv Mokai, I am honored to have had a chance to experience your medicine from which I grew to feel deeper into my soul's purpose and my truth, no words can match my gratefulness! Thank you for your work... your visit meant sooo much to me. I am deeply moved forever, you will have a special place in my heart.”
-MILICA COSIC
"Forever grateful for this weekend. It was one of the most beautiful and transformative experiences I have ever had. I am so thankful for all of the love, kindness, strength, and courage that I witnessed. I came home with an overflowing heart. Thank you from the bottom of my heart."
- Mikayla Rigsby
“Thank you Liv, and thank you Sylvie, and everybody present at the gathering. It was a great honour to be there with you, and I feel I gained so much from all that I've heard and felt.
I wish you a great time in Serbia, and thank you for coming to my country and for bringing your medicine, it is so needed here.
Thank you and bless you.”