What is the Medicine Wheel and where does it come from?

All indigenous cultures have a Medicine Wheel that represents the cycles of life that we as humans undertake during our time on earth. It is a map of human consciousness that guides us, helps us understand who we are, and allows us to grow and evolve as we journey around the wheel of life. It is also a spiral, so that as we walk we come ever closer to the center, bringing us home to who we truly are – who we came here to be – evolution in action.

This is the path of initiations of the Earthkeeper tradition from the Sacred Valley of Peru handed down by the medicine men and women of the Inca tradition; the rites of passage and initiations that you will experience as you make your way around the wheel with us, prepare your luminous energy field for the times that we are in right now – a time of great change and transformation that has been prophesied by all ancient traditions.

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What is the 6-day program structure?

During the first three days of each module you’ll create your Mesa (your medicine bundle). In each direction you will work with stones that have called you, stones that become the representation of your personal healing work, stones that will hold the transformation of your sacred wounds into your personal power.

Stones throughout time have been record keepers. They are the tools that ancient peoples have used since the beginning when they made altars in the land. Your mesa, which eventually will contain 13 medicine stones, becomes your personal altar of transformation, and the medicine that you have grown and evolved through your immersion in the deep healing processes in each direction, will become your unique gift that you offer to the world.

During the last three days of each module you will learn the Healing Tools that give you the skills to become a shamanic practitioner. During these three days you will immerse yourself in powerful and transformative energy healing techniques and tools.

Even if you do not wish to become a practitioner, the very act of assisting in the healing process of another brings you a quality of presence, a new sense of meaning, a self confidence, and a sense of purpose, all of which will transform your life. The energy medicine that you learn here will be with you for the rest of your life, and will ensure that you live a meaningful and fulfilling life, no matter what you do for a living.

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What are the 4 directions in each module of training?

SOUTH: THE WAY OF THE EMPATH – THE ARCHETYPE OF SERPENT

The South direction is the beginning of the healers journey to wholeness. Here we release the grip of our personal stories, unbinding them from our DNA. The work of scientists like Bruce Lipton and Greg Braden have helped us become aware of the fact that our DNA is not fixed – that we can indeed change it, and download a new version of ourselves that heals spontaneously, releasing us from the place of victim that we have inherited.

The principle of the South is the Binding principle. Just as serpent sheds its skin over and over again so that it can grow, so we too learn how to gently and with compassion, honor and respect, let go of our past, step away from our personal stories of pain and suffering, and discover the opportunity to grow more fully into each new stage of our lives. In doing so, you transform your first three stones into Khuyas, the first medicine stones of our Mesa.

In the South, you receive the foundation rites that prepare your luminous energy field for the rites of the lineage – the Healers Rites, the Bands of Power and Protection; the Seers Rites, and the Harmony Rites.

You also learn the Illumination Process –  the healing process that sits at the foundation of all the practices that come after. This includes how to clear the heavy energies that gather in the chakras.

WEST: THE WAY OF THE PEACEMAKER – THE ARCHETYPE OF JAGUAR

In the West, you heal the stories of your ancestors and release yourself from the grip of karma, scare-city, lack, toxic thinking, guilt and shame. Learn powerful processes that help you to step away from the legacies that served neither you nor your ancestors. And step away from the place of victim – whether of your genes, generational patterns, or past lives.

We incorporate the shadow work of Carl Jung, Debbie Ford, the Hendricks Institute, and Bill Plotkin so you can let go of that which no longer serves you.

In the West, you receive the rites of the Pampamesayoq, the Daykeeper Rites, that help us heal our relationship to the feminine, remember our deep connection to Mother Earth, and embrace the cycles of life/death and rebirth.

You also learn the Extraction Process – how to release with love and compassion intrusive entities and energies that create dis-ease and disharmony in the body, mind and spirit.

NORTH: THE WAY OF THE ALCHEMIST – THE ARCHETYPE OF HUMMINGBIRD

In the North, you learn how to work outside of time, and look at the world through the eyes of ‘possibility.’ Having shed your past, you are free to look beyond the roles you play and the masks you wear to consider who you really are and why you are really here.

The North direction encourages the manifestation of your unique gifts and talents in the world. You learn to step outside of time and download a new destiny, one that isn’t informed by the past but that calls to us from the future.

In the North, you receive the rites of the Altomesayoq, the Wisdomkeeper, that heals our relationship to the masculine, connects us to the mountains, and reminds us that we are all in the process of growth and evolution

You also learn the Soul Retrieval Process – how to reclaim the parts of ourselves we lost in past traumas and how to explore the inner realms of the psyche that hold the key to our success in life.

EAST: THE WAY OF THE VISIONARY – THE ARCHETYPE OF EAGLE/CONDOR

In the East, you learn that death is not the end, but the beginning of new, everlasting life. As you transcend even your human-ness, you realize that we are all a unique expression of the One being, that our purpose here is to grow god within us.

The East helps you understand how we create our world every moment throughout thinking and beliefs. As soon as we bring our beliefs into consciousness we have the ultimate power to change them for more life-enriching, self-encouraging beliefs that serve us and the world.

You also learn what it means to die consciously with your eyes closed and hearts open, via grief and ancestor work inspired by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Malidoma Somé, and Dr. Alberto Villoldo.

In the East, you receive the rites of the Kurak Akullak, the Starkeepers rites, that helps us to remember our connection to the stars and reminds us that we are all one with the Universe

You also learn the Transition Rites and the Death Spiral – how to assist others to die with ease, dignity and grace. This is the great and beautiful gift of the shaman.