Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo Founder and Spiritual Director of Sunray, holder of the Ywahoo Lineage and Chief of the Green Mountain Ani Yunwiwa. Her training to carry the ancestral traditions began in early childhood, under the direction of her grandparents and elders. As repositories of the sacred knowledge of their people, they passed to Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo the spiritual duty and blessing to carry the traditions on which the work and teachings of Sunray are based. The elders foresaw Ven. Dhyani’s duty to be involved in the manifestation of world peace, and that this work would bring many people and nations again to see the clear light of right relationship.
“The Ywahoo lineage was established 2,860 years ago by the “Keeper of Mysteries,” the Pale One, a great teacher whose name is spoken only in ceremonies. When the people has forgotten their original instructions, neglected their spiritual duties, and become warlike, the Pale One came to rekindle the sacred wisdom fire. Born in a miraculous manner, his body emitted great light, he appeared in many places at once and he spoke the language of all creatures. The teachings of the Pale One flourished throughout the Americas. He re-established the building of temples and schools, reformed the priest craft training, and gave methods for cultivating and maintaining peace within individual, family, clan, nation, and planet.
This great teacher was a living reminder of the unmanifest
potential of all. He rekindled the holy fire and renewed the original
instructions encoded within the Crystal Ark, that most sacred crystal that ever
sings out harmony’s beauteous note, inspiring people to act as one with the
sacred law and bringing all thoughts and actions to harmonious resolution.”
The duties of each Ywahoo are to care for the Crystal Ark and to maintain
ceremonies for universal balance. Thus the Ywahoo lineage is the caretaker of
the crystal and of the crystal-activating sound formulas and rituals.
There have been twenty-seven Ywahoo’s entrusted to maintain the teachings, to
ensure methods of stabilizing the mind in times of confusion. These teachings
were passed to Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo from her grandfather, Eonah Fisher (Bear
Fishing), who received the teachings from Eli Ywahoo, his father-in-law, who was
Ven. Dhyani’s great-grandfather, and from her grandmother, Nellie Ywahoo.For
hundreds of years the sacred teachings were kept hidden. During 1969, elders of
the Etowah Band and the Ywahoo bloodline conferred and decided that the general
aspects of the teaching were now to be shared with all those of good heart who
were dedicated to manifesting peace. The elders stated that the astronomical
teachings were to be restored to the world; these are the basis for
understanding the movements of the stars that give order to the ceremonial
calendar shared by most native peoples of the western hemisphere. The elders
said that the Medicine of the Twins was to be understood by all, so that even
anger and fear could be recognized as opportunities to realize that clear wisdom
fire within. And they said that the general teachings of the Pale One were to be
shared, to give light to a new day.
These things are being done according to instructions. In 1969, Sunray
Meditation Society was founded as a vehicle for the appropriate teachings of the
Ywahoo lineage to be shared with those of one heart, and today students and
practitioners of the Sunray teachings are flourishing as seeds of light and
right relationship in communities throughout Turtle Island (North America and
the world).