Donna Henes(1945-2024)
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Donna Henes is an internationally renowned urban shaman, eco-ceremonialist, award-winning author, syndicated columnist, popular speaker, and workshop leader whose joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than 100 cities since 1972. She is a wedding officiant and also a certified funeral celebrant. In addition to her popular public rituals for equinoxes and solstices, she is the official Grand Spirit Marshall of the world famous Greenwich Village Halloween Parade and the Mistress of Blessing Ceremonies for NYC Earth Day Festivities. She has also conducted a Purification Blessing of Wall Street, a Blessing of the Fleet for New York's Quadricentennial Festival, and a Presidential Inauguration Purification Ceremony in Washington, DC. Mama Donna has received commissions and citations from Mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins, and Governor David Patterson, as well as two grants each from the National Endowment for the Arts and NY Foundation for the Arts. She has published four books, a CD, an acclaimed quarterly journal and writes for The Huffington Post, Beliefnet and UPI (United Press International) Religion and Spirituality Forum. Mama Donna, as she is affectionately called, maintains a ceremonial center, spirit shop, ritual practice, and consultancy in Exotic Brooklyn, NY where she offers intuitive tarot readings, spiritual counseling, and works with individuals, groups,institutions, municipalities, and corporations to create meaningful ceremonies for every imaginable occasion.