ABOUT JL
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Jana Lynne (JL) Caldetera Umipig, Lawag Nakem (The Light of Knowing/Consciousness) is recently ordained and gifted the name Dayang Sidlan Laya or Princess Vessel of Freedom through Luntiang Aghama Divine Arts + Shrine with Apu Adman Aghama.
JL is mother of Kalilaya Amorosa Umipig-Candelario, life partner of Enmanuel Candelario and daughter of Rosemarie Caldetera Umipig (Pagudpud, Ilokos Norte) and Godofredo Peralta Umipig (Santa Maria, Ilokos Sur) was born and raised in Honolulu on the Kingdom of Hawaii and also raised on Yokuts Territory (Stockton, CA). Her current and closest relation to land is the Lenape Territory (Bronx, NY). She is a cultural organizer and knowledge bearer as named by her elders and does so through her multidisciplinary artistic expression/creation work, role as an education and sharer of knowledge and as an intuitive and bodywork healer in uplifting the healer within all who come to exchange with her.
JL is an intuitive healer and seer. She uses her creative power and full embodiments of her artistry to channel connection to Spirit, which guides much of her healing work.
JL is also a Death Doula, supporting families in creating rituals to honoring on going relationships with those in their lives who have transitioned Spirit Side. She centers much of this work as in all other work on supporting children and youth’s relationships to loss and death as well as supporting families who have their lost children.
She recently closed 10 years of organizing and serving as a core member for the Center for Babaylan Studies, is the host of podcast Kultivating Kapwa and founder of CfBS Decolonization School and Co-founder and Artistic Director/Creator of Raised Pinay through Roots of Health where she centralizes her organizing around Decolonization and Liberation Education. Some of JL's most know creative works include JL is the US/Internationally travelled Journey of a Brown Girl and the Diasporic Pilipinx education and divination tool of Kapwa Tarot.
JL has trained in Pekiti Tirsia Kali since 2015 through Pekiti Tirsia Elite NY/NJ under the tutolage of Matasna Guros Francis Estrada, Agalon Njoli Brown and Mandala Arvee Garde.
JL is a practitioner of Hilot through her elders from her Maternal lineage and through tutelage from Apu Adman Aghama of Hilot Academy of Binabaylan. She has been an Inner Dance facilitator since 2016 and has been instructed under Serena Olsen and Pi Villaraza. JL is also certified Level 2 Reiki Practitioner through Minka Brooklyn from the teachings of Reiki Masters Aki Baker and Manu River Del Prete. And is a Vinyasa certified Yoga instructor specified work in Prenatal Yoga and holds a certification in Embodied Social Justice through The Embody Lab instructed by Dr. Sará King & Dr. Rae Johnson in May 2021 and completed her Somatic Attachment Therapy Practitioner Certificate in April 2022.
JL received her colonial institutional degrees at The Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine in Theatre and Ethnic Studies, and Steinhardt at New York University in Educational Theatre for Social Justice and Communities. JL also is a physical theatre, puppetry and mask work practitioner and studied Commedia dell Arte at the Accamdia Dell'arte in Arrezo Italy. Her focus has been rooted in Physical Theatre, Embodied/Somatic Theatre Therapy and Transformative Community Storytelling with influences of applied theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed Techniques.
She has been doing direct service organizing work all over the US and Internationally in detention centers, rehabilitation centers, community centers, and the homes of those in need, for over 13 years, and has worked with primarily Youth and Diasporic communities. She spent 7 years serving through leadership at El Puente shaping programs for Creative Justice and Healing with young people in Williamsburg Brooklyn and is a founding member of the Global Justice Institute supporting the codifying of curricula to match EP's 40 years of service to the Afro-Latino movements across the US and a certified coach with the Empowerment Institute. She also was the founding Teacher at East Brooklyn High School, building Theatre through a lens of Social Justice and Healing that she has been shaping for going on years with the students and families she serves in East Brooklyn and Brownsville, NY. She currently is one the Associate Director of Curricula with OF/BY/FOR ALL.
She was also a recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York initiative where she focused on creating convening spaces for inter-generational dialogue, creation and healing.