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…

Commentary on Andean Sacred Teachings and Practices in Capital Reef, Utah and Denver, Colorado, November 2014 The “NUNA PACHA” or the Andean spiritual cosmology is sacred and is present in the memory of the times and spaces, its concept, its action and use is as old as man himself in Andean territories … “Nuna…

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…

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…

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…

Andean high shamans – called Hatun Mesayoqs perceive energetic experience outside of temporal reality as being multidimensional rather than being layered. With this being said, because they live in the high mountains of Peru, – surrounded by magnificent mountains on all sides – their experience of the natural physical world…

    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…

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 all and 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…