AYA Walk Team

Three iPhones showing the Chickasaw Prayer app on a turquoise background. Features include reading and listening to prayers in English and Chickasaw. The center screen shows 'Unlock the Chickasaw Spirit' menu, with 'LEARN AND LISTEN TO CHICKASAW PRAYERS' as the header.

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Learn Chickasaw Anompa ilbashshaˈ (Prayers)

Thu, Jun 27, 2024

Learn about the role of prayer in Chickasaw culture and how you can hear (and learn) prayers in the Chickasaw language.

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AYA's mindfulness app interface on two iPhone screens. Left screen displays a meditation timer with pause button, right shows feature menu. Text reads 'Mindfulness Made Simple' with 'Step-by-Step Guide' subtitle. Turquoise to purple gradient background with geometric patterns.

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Discover AYA's Mindfulness Feature: A Step-by-Step Guide

Wed, May 8, 2024

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with AYA's New Mindfulness Feature To enjoy AYA's new Mindfulness Feature and start your journey towards a...

Mindfulness How-To
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Screenshot of the AYA Walk App's mindfulness features: yoga session with person stretching in burgundy top, Choctaw hymn sheet music labeled 'Uba Isht Taloa 48', and breathing exercise interface with teal circular progress indicator. Shows app's integration of movement, cultural traditions, and meditation.

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Move, Breathe, Meditate: AYA Helps Renew Body, Mind and Spirit

Thu, Apr 25, 2024

AYA Launches New Mindfulness Feature We are excited to announce that AYA Walk is launching a new mindfulness feature in May! Now, on top of counting...

Chickasaw Culture Chickasaw Language Mindfulness
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Person wearing 'Creating Chickasaw Leaders' t-shirt sits overlooking a dramatic red rock canyon with blue water below. View is from behind, showing AYA logo with coral overlay. Image illustrates connection between nature walks and mindfulness.

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‘Awe Walks’ Improve Well-being: Walk in Nature with AYA Walk

Thu, Apr 25, 2024

Have you stopped to take in the beauty of a sunset, smiled at the joyful innocence of a child or been moved by the notes of a song you heard? When...

Chickasaw Culture Mindfulness
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A photo of a person in athletic wear smiling and holding workout equipment, against a teal background featuring stylized avatars of AYA walking partners in traditional/cultural dress. The AYA logo appears in white on a purple diagonal section at the bottom.

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Strengthen Mind and Body: Immerse Yourself in Chickasaw History as You Walk Toward Health

Thu, Apr 25, 2024

Walk Among Legendary Heroes: AYA Weaves Historical Narratives into Your Fitness Journey What do all these have in common? A Chickasaw warrior who...

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Three images of Chickasaw cultural demonstrations: an elder wearing traditional regalia and necklaces holding a ceremonial pipe, a person in historical dress teaching children, and someone in yellow regalia demonstrating traditional cooking methods. AYA logo overlaid.

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Adventure into Chickasaw History with AYA

Wed, Mar 27, 2024

AYA takes you places where history happened and introduces the people who lived it. When you take a walk with your AYA partner, you will embark on a...

Chickasaw History
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Dancers hold hands during a traditional Chickasaw dance, with a young girl in a purple ribbon dress seen from behind, holding hands with others wearing blue ribbon shirts. Image includes a blue diagonal overlay with 'AYA' logo in white.

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Dance, Pray, Speak, Sing: Chickasaw Culture Makes You Healthier

Wed, Mar 27, 2024

Dance is an essential part of Chickasaw tradition. Stomp dances were part of Chickasaws’ ceremonies to gather, give thanks, pray and renew themselves...

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A promotional book display featuring two novels: 'Chick Asawi: Unconquered and Unconquerable' with dark cover art showing faces with tribal markings, and 'Chula the Fox' by Anthony Perry with a minimalist white cover featuring a golden fox silhouette. The AYA logo appears in white on an orange overlay.

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AYA Walk Is Chickasaw History

Wed, Mar 27, 2024

The History of AYA in Three Simple Ingredients Once the idea for AYA was born, the AYA team came together to achieve the vision of encouraging...

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Portrait of Emily Johnson Dickerson, the last monolingual Chickasaw speaker, with her son. She wears a blue checkered shirt, her son has long silver hair. Both shown against a light background. AYA logo overlaid in white on teal diagonal

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Chikashshanompa': Keeping Chickasaw Culture and Traditions Alive

Wed, Feb 21, 2024

Emily Shon-she Johnson Dickerson was the last known person who spoke only Chickasaw. With Dickerson’s passing in December 2013, fewer than 100...

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An elderly Chickasaw singer wearing glasses and a traditional ribbon shirt in blue leads a hymnal service. Other Chickasaw singers in traditional ribbon shirts and regalia hold Chickasaw hymnals while gathered for traditional sacred songs.

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Chickasaw Elders Bring Chikashshanompa' (Chickasaw Language) to Life

Wed, Feb 21, 2024

AYA Is a Time Capsule Preserving Two of the Chickasaw Nation’s Treasures: Chickasaw Elders and Chickasaw Language.

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