
STARTING OUR JOURNEY
Every journey begins with a single step.
For Red Road Journey, ours starts with supporting our local tribal communities.
Since the inception of our organization, we have engaged with tribal leaders via various grassroots campaigns aimed at restoring tradition, honoring cultural places of emergence, and earning support from our tribal communities for the construction of Red Road Project, an intertribal wellness space which will serve as a sanctuary for people from all walks, ages and backgrounds.
We have made inroads with leading, state-of-the-art wellness institutions in the US and Mexico through establishing workshops at their facilities that revitalize ancient healing techniques. We recognize the need for modern thinking to make room for the promise of ancestral wisdom.
We have also partnered with thought-leaders via international forums - providing us a global platform for sharing our mission of raising the collective consciousness through the practice and preservation of indigenous spirituality and holistic traditions.
The following stories detail our Journey - from our founding in April 2022 until today.
WATER IS LIFE SACRED RUN & RALLY
MAY 2022

After running 254 miles in 3-days, Hopi runners arrive to a warm welcome in Phoenix.

A quick prayer and pep talk in Pine, AZ before hitting the road to continue our run to Phoenix.

In the old days of Hopi, all important messages were delivered by foot in buckskin. To commemorate this tradition, Hopi runners carried the Water is Life Proclamation in buckskin 254 miles from First Mesa to Phoenix.

After running 254 miles in 3-days, Hopi runners arrive to a warm welcome in Phoenix.
Water is life and water is sacred.
In partnership with Hopi Elders, and under the leadership of renowned water activist Vernon Masayesva, Red Road Journey raised the $5,000 necessary to organize a Sacred Run for prayer and protection of Sípàapu, the Hopi spiritual and cultural place of emergence in the Grand Canyon, which is currently under threat from a record drought and human activity.
Over the course of 3 days spanning 254 miles, six leading traditional Hopi runners, along with Red Road Journey co-founders Tony and Antonio, carried a State Proclamation from Polacca, First Mesa to Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix.
This Proclamation, held in traditional buckskin, is an Arizona State legislative act which recognizes water's importance to sustain life, and more specifically, its sacred connection to all Indigenous peoples.
SHARING VISION WITH HIPPOCRATES INSTITUTE
DECEMBER 2022

Renowned for its cutting-edge advances in healing, Hippocrates boasts an all-vegan regimen and state-of-the-art health facilities.

Whether its a cold plunge, sauna or a mineral bath, Hippocrates offers its guests an array of healing techniques that holistically address a diverse range of chronic illnesses.

Serene mornings and peaceful nights bring forth the perfect moments for meditation - for finding balance between the physical and spiritual elements.

Renowned for its cutting-edge advances in healing, Hippocrates boasts an all-vegan regimen and state-of-the-art health facilities.
Hippocrates Institute is a wellness space in West Palm Beach, Florida that focuses on healing the body through a whole food, plant-based vegan diet. As famously said by Hippocrates: "let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food".
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Red Road Journey was invited to experience Hippocrates' 7-day wellness transformation program as a form of best-practice to adopt for the development of Red Road Project.
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Similar to Hippocrates, Red Road Journey believes in the healing promise of food and the importance of a balanced diet with exercise to achieve peak physical performance.
Where Hippocrates' cutting-edge scientific innovations address modern health issues, Red Road focuses on our strength as tribal people, leveraging ancestral technology and tradition to reawaken our strength to heal from within.
VISITING OUR FRIEND, ARKAN LUSHWALA
JUNE 2023

Arkan Lushwala is a renowned ceremonial leader, author and activist with roots from Quechua and Lakota traditions.

A peaceful walk through Arkan's healing sanctuary, Arawaka, located just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Like a womb, the dome of the main hall provides a warm home to all guests of Arawaka, completed with a welcomed ray of sunlight.

Arkan Lushwala is a renowned ceremonial leader, author and activist with roots from Quechua and Lakota traditions.
Arkan Lushwala, a Quechuan Elder from Peru, is a published author and renowned Indigenous activist and ceremonial leader, known mostly from his books Deer and Thunder, and Time of the Black Jaguar.
Arkan leads campaigns through Pachamama Alliance, an organization that seeks total protection of earth and ensures Indigenous peoples' rights as guardians of earth's resources.
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Red Road Journey's co-founders were invited to Arkan's home in Arawaka, New Mexico for a 3-day earth ceremony, as well as to discuss a shared vision of our two organizations working together in the near future.
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With sincere gratitude to Arkan's generosity, Red Road Journey received our first major monetary donation, which has allowed us to jumpstart organizational development.
RED ROAD JOURNEY AT RANCHO LA PUERTA
SEPTEMBER 2023

Our co-founders, Antonio (far left) and Tony (second from left), with Red Road Journey Council Knowledge Keeper, Rosa Tupina, and the director of Rancho La Puerta, Sarah Brightwood (third from right).

Red Road Journey Council Knowledge-Keeper Rosa Tupina (far left) leads a prayer for the health of our earth through a moving ceremony of music, prayer and offerings.

Red Road Journey Council Knowledge-Keeper, Twila Cassadore, prepares to host a workshop on overcoming trauma through stones.

Our co-founders, Antonio (far left) and Tony (second from left), with Red Road Journey Council Knowledge Keeper, Rosa Tupina, and the director of Rancho La Puerta, Sarah Brightwood (third from right).
Voted as the one of the leading health spas in the world, Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico consists of a 4,000 acre campus, cooking school, winery, garden and spa that inspires the complete well-being of all people.
Red Road Journey was invited by President and Director of Rancho La Puerta, Sarah Brightwood, to participate in a 7-day wellness program. We were also given the unique opportunity to present our organizational vision to the 150 guests of the ranch.
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Our co-founders, along with Council Knowledge Keepers Rosa Tupina, Chimali Wash and Twila Cassadore, led talks on Indigenous thinking, as well as organized group prayers for the earth and nearby sacred mountain, Kuchamaa, that sits at the top of the Ranch.
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Red Road Journey's reception was so well-received that we have been invited to return in the future to host multiple talks throughout the year centered around healing through ancient modalities.
FEEDING AN APACHE COMMUNITY IN NEED
JULY 2024

Red Road Journey Council Knowledge-Keeper, Twila Cassadore, prepares and provides traditional foods to her tribal community affected by brushfires.

This potluck was arranged by Twila (pictured above) and Red Road Journey President Tony Skrelunas, to help feed over twenty families whose homes were destroyed in the brushfires.

Twila, renowned Apache forager and traditional cook, pictured with famous Apache painter, skateboarder and photographer Douglas Miles.

Red Road Journey Council Knowledge-Keeper, Twila Cassadore, prepares and provides traditional foods to her tribal community affected by brushfires.
The San Carlos Apache Nation came together, united by food and community, in support of twenty families whose homes were destroyed by a wild brush fire, affecting the lives of hundreds of local tribal members.
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Having spent more than two weeks in nearby hotels awaiting word from tribal authorities on efforts to rebuild their homes, these families were out of touch from their community and traditional foods.
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Recognizing the role as medicine which food has always played for her community, Red Road Journey board member and renowned traditional cook, Twila Cassadore, along with co-founder Tony Skrelunas, arranged a potluck for the families affected by the fire.​
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This potluck included help from the Navajo Nation, as well as local nonprofit organizations, and featured food trucks and buffets of traditional Apache and Navajo food. Ultimately, over 275 local tribal members were fed.
RED ROAD JOURNEY HOSTS WORLD DREAM DAY
SEPTEMBER 2024

World Dream Day gave Red Road Journey a unique opportunity to share our vision of bringing indigenous ways of thinking to the forefront of modern discourse.

World Dream Day gave Red Road Journey a unique opportunity to share our vision of bringing indigenous ways of thinking to the forefront of modern discourse.
Click on the image to see the recording of World Dream Day!
Red Road Journey had the delight and honor to join thought-leader Ozioma Egwuonwu in hosting this year’s World Dream Day Summit.
Observed annually on Sept. 25th, World Dream Day is the only global participatory holiday focused on encouraging individuals, families, schools, businesses and communities to take time to focus on their own ideas and sources of inspiration. The goal of World Dream Day is to unite and move forward our global community of “dream-leaders”.
Alongside Ozioma, co-founders Tony and Antonio, and Elders from our Council of Knowledge-Keepers, Don, Twila and Chimali, opened up World Dream Day with a blessing of the Sacred Directions, led an Apache prayer for water, and shared our organizational vision of bringing indigenous dreams and visions to the forefront of modern discourse.
Our message fortunately left a strong and positive impression. We have the distinct privilege of being invited back for future World Dream Day celebrations as a permanent dream-ambassador!

SUPPORT OUR JOURNEY
As we're currently raising funds to construct Red Road Project, your contribution places us one step closer to fulfilling this mission.
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Thank you for supporting our journey.