According to the teachings of the Incan tradition, meaning comes from being in ayni, “right relationship” with the energetic connection that exists among all living things.  The medicine people say cultivating this relationship takes heart, which happens through experiencing munay (unconditional, universal love) in the world around us. Altomesayoqs such…

  Pachamama is a feminine spirit that governs the universe.  They are different tribes, different areas, and different animals, which are called Pachamama Kuma. Pachamama is the over-seeing spirit, the primary feminine spirit of the earth.  The Pachamama Kumas are the subset of the feminine spirits in places of the earth.  Pachamama,…

Paqos live their lives by tending to kausay and learning from the abundance in nature. Kausay is the building block of shamanism and Incan medicine. It is the fuel, life force, and the energy of creation, experienced in the body as a vibration, and in the heart as a feeling…

Returning to where we have always returned, anchoring our self where life has always emerged, in the belly of the physical and celestial mother. The current theology of Western culture is opposed to the presence of land in the body.  Like the benefactor opening within, there is an anchoring of…

Paqos serve Pachamama by feeling Pachamama. This connection happens in relationship with the mesa. The mesa anchors the paqo to the earth, and as an intermediary, serves as the gateway to the spirit world through connection with kausay pacha. A mesa‘s capacity to hold power or energy is a function…

  Above everything, we are children of the land. And the basic understanding is that we’ve always been children of the land, and as children of the land we need to, to remember the old way of dialoguing with that that supports us and nurtures us. Everything around us has…

Medicine people develop a very different understanding of their exterior world, growing up close to nature. Rather than learning to place value on personal achievement and individualism as we do in this culture, by encouraging people to “stand on their own two feet,” in shamanism everything in life begins, exists…