I’ve been in Gold Beach, Oregon for the past ten days. My friends have a condo and offered it to me for a writing retreat. I love it here. The kitchen table sits opposite a long, rectangular expanse of window. At the center is a sliding glass door that opens on to a deck. And beyond the deck, alive in all her glory, is Mama Cocha, Mother Ocean. I’ve been sitting at this table writing on my computer every day, sometimes for more hours at a time than I can believe. Talking out loud and staring...

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain Dear Friends, I wish you a wondrous New Year, full of Love, Happiness and Good Health. Let's each explore and dream as if for the very first time. Here we are, in another present moment. Let's LIVE our lives. Awake and full-hearted. And offer our...

This came through me a number of years ago. I was teaching a Spiritual Healing Class at the time and opened up to the highest guidance of the Light to receive a teaching for the class. This is that teaching. It was so profound at the time that after it was complete, we listened to it again on the recording. I feel it's appropriate for everyone, always, and feel called to share it with you now. Take a few minutes. Breathe. Open your heart. Receive. HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON TO ALL From Annie and...

I’m discovering my creative flow. As a result of all that led up to and culminated in the powerful shamanic rebirth experience I had at Healing Quest this past summer, I’m out of my way and into writing. My book, that is. One of several trying to come through me for too many years. So many starts and stops. With the past now behind me, I can finally be a vehicle for the flow of words. This is what my life has been looking like since mid-August: I go into a “cave of writing” as I’ve begun...

“Not until a person dissolves can he or she know what union is. There is a descent into emptiness. A lie will not change to Truth with just talking about it.” Rumi   Shamanic Rebirth is a template for healing and awakening. It offers an opportunity to participate in conscious death and rebirth within this lifetime. We name an unhealthy theme or pattern we’ve been struggling with, and with the help of an ancient Q’ero ceremony, sometimes known as the "ceremony of the black pant," (see...

The Sacred Khuya Ceremony   The Khuya Ceremony takes place within the soul, or energy bubble as the Q’ero call it. This is the field of living energy surrounding our physical bodies that expands, contracts, and defines our personal space (or lack of.) Khuya stones are used to open, cleanse, empower, and connect the seven major energy centers of the body via a series of chunpis - belts of power. During this interactive experience, heavy energy of all kinds is released, and by the end, a...

Healing Quest 2014 Teachings can only truly be obtained via direct experience, the shamanic way. THANK YOU to our devoted, powerful, willing and humble Questers.           Only you can rescue yourself.          If you can switch your perspective, it can change everything. Be in the new life in the way of curiosity. Uncover. Discover. Recover. Don’t do; allow. Teaching spirituality is teaching peace. We are all miracles. Don’t stand in the way of your own healing. Be generous with abandon....

Dear Friends, I’ve been back for about 3 1/2 weeks now and am still unable to put any words on paper to begin sharing my stories. The trip exceeded both my planning and imagination, the two-week group part, as well as the one-week afterward in Cusco with some of the group. Peru changed me. Beginning with our opening ceremony north of Lima at the 5000 year old Caral ruins, where we connected with and received foundational energies of our ancestors of the Americas, to our first meeting with Apu...

FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, I’M GRATEFUL TO MY TEACHER, JUAN NUNEZ DEL PRADO. THANK YOU FOR PAVING THE PATH.

I like to name things. My car is Mama Cocha, Mother Ocean in Quechua; my house/property is Gratitude Sanctuary. I’ve been known to name days, clothing, events, trips…... My special recording pen is Penita. My most recent naming is a chair I bought just before my birthday. A dear friend, Winona was visiting, and we went on an outing to a local second hand store. Just the week before I had told a class, “I’m sick of this chair (an old rocker I was sitting on;) I want something cozy.” We walked...