August 22nd – September 8th  2016   It has been said that the ancient ones conserved power in holy places for the good of humanity. Time on our planet is speeding up and change in the nature of our world is occurring. The…

Spiritual evolution and psychological development is a process involving both the body and the mind. As many of us who begin to follow a shamanic path in our culture are aware, there is a societal “pull” to focus on growing a persona (or ways of showing up in the world), with an emphasis on cognitive development…

If someone had asked me years ago, I would have said that I didn’t believe in evil. If the idea that we attract whatever we focus on is true, then acknowledging that evil exists would in fact create it. Although I agree in the law of affinity – like attracts…

Sacred Ceremonial Emersion Retreat in Capitol Reef,Utah with Andean Altomesayoq Adolfo Tito Condori, Rodolfo Tito Condori, and Deborah Bryon (November 8th – 11th and November 13th – 16th) Part I and Part II four-day immersion retreats practicing traditional Incan ritual and ceremony in the ancient energetic power sites of the Anasazi. (Classes are designed to…

A k’intu is a grouping of three coca leaves together, with stems pointing down and leaves facing up, with the smallest leaf on top. The three leaves together represent the three worlds, the lower world of Uhu Pacha, middle world of Kay Pacha, and upper world of Hanaq Pacha. The…

Awhile back, I began writing about integrating Jungian Depth Psychology with traditional Andean medicine[1] through the lens of a Jungian analyst and shaman (Andean medicine people use the term paqo which I will also use in this article). I wanted to find a way to unify these two different but…

Join us on a ten-day sacred journey in the Andes Mountains of Perú, visiting the sacred mountains of Ausangate, Alancoma, and Waqay Wilka to learn the ancient knowledge of the Inca traditions with the Altomesayoq Adolfo Tito Condori and the medicine people (shamans) of Ayllu K’anchaq Qoyllur (AKQ). ITINERARY JULY…

Christopher Bollas (1987) wrote, “I argue that a person’s character is a subjective recollection of the person’s past.”[1] Applying this statement in regard to integrating shamanic experience – recapitulation of past experience is necessary because it determines who we are at any given moment. One of the practices I learned…

Jung said that psychic healing occurs through numinious archetypal experience – by working with symbols and images. Similar to Jung’s use of symbols, Andean shamans – or paqos – use ceremony and rituals to create vessels that contain archetypal energy, and provide a means of differentiating from the experience in order to…

    Similar to psychotherapists, shamans believe that healing the past occurs through feeling in our hearts and bodies. Telling (and retelling) our recollection of the past or reliving our dreams in any given moment can connect us with the feeling. At deep levels of profound energetic collective experience, a faint thread…