4320 Cerrillos Rd
Santa Fe, NM 87507
USA
Madi Sato is a singer and women’s community leader of Japanese Ainu and Celtic roots. Madi has guided hundreds of women in awakening and empowering their authentic voices through the self-designed Song Carrier method of gathering in the community. From a young age, she was immersed in indigenous ceremonies and drawn to the feet of traditional grandmothers. Through prayer, she creates original earth songs and chants and is a lifelong dancer versed in an array of traditions and styles.
Madi and her husband, poet Timothy P. McLaughlin, are co-founders of the Praising Earth community that is devoted to regenerating humanity’s essential role in the wild ecology and tends two land bases in the storied Galisteo Basin of northern New Mexico. Madi is the creative mother of the community’s SONG CARRIERS programs. She lives in Santa Fe with Timothy and their three children.
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Madi Sato
