I’m getting ready to go to back to Peru. (Maybe I’ll already be there by the time you read this.) After nine years, I’m finally returning to Putu Cusi.   My first trip to Peru was in 1996. I felt called to go, but didn’t know why until I watched a slide show and saw the Andes Mountains. I felt them in my body, and that night I joined a group that would be participating in the Hatun Karpay, or Great Initiation, with Andean priest and mystic, Juan Nunez del Prado. It was a ten-day initiation and...

We just completed our 13th annual Healing Quest. Our theme, as always, is Unity and our mission: Healing and Awakening the Human Soul. This is a personal task, as well as a planetary one and begins with each individual Quester. This summer we had twelve courageous Healing Questers 100% willing to delve deeply into their own unique soulscapes and shed any heavy energy that was keeping them bound. Bound in what? Dysfunctional lives affecting their happiness, health and freedom. These are the...

The collective Human Soul is fracturing and cracking. And there isn’t just one crack; there are many fragmented cracks dispersed within its entire Beingness. Are you feeling this within your own individuated Soul? How are you dealing with it? Earth is being infused with transformational energies right now, energies that are a vital part of what’s necessary for this new era and shift. Their purpose is to free the collective Human Soul (which is made up of each of our individuated, unique souls)...

A Quick Fix A situation within Hope’s family was causing her deep suffering, and she found herself in an emotionally chaotic state. Hope desperately wanted to be of service to her loved ones but was unable to get out of her own personal turmoil. Intention - I am centered, grounded and in my body. My teacher and power animal took me out into the cosmos to Hope, who was uncontrollably caught within a swirling vortex of energy. The energy felt unmanageable to me, and I told my teacher I didn’t...

Sit or lie upon Pachamama, Mother Earth. Feel the beat of her heart, and let it permeate your soul. If the sun is shining, absorb the rays of light. If wind is whirling, receive the energy. If it’s raining, let the waters from the heavens cleanse you. Can you see the moon? Take in the luminosity. All answers, all healing can be found within Mother Nature. Notice the birds. Do you hear them singing? What are the crickets telling you? Breathe deeply. Explore. What do you notice? Allow Mother...

A number of my friends recently created a Blessingway ceremony for me for my 60th birthday. A Blessingway is a traditional Navajo ceremony. The name, Blessingway, is a basic translation from the Navajo language and encompasses everything that can be interpreted as good, including beauty, harmony, success and well-being. A Blessingway honors a life passage or helps to prepare for an upcoming event. It’s a spiritual and heart expansive ceremony which we’ve loosely borrowed, (thank you so much)...

This blog is dedicated to pregnant women and their partners, mothers and fathers, childbirth professionals and actually, to everyone who has ever been born. The Birth Guardian Each of us, as Spirit, has a Birth Guardian. These Beings of unconditional love, often called Guardian Angels, watch over, nurture and guide all unborn spirits. They’re our constant companions as we leave the spirit realm, travel through the Birth Gateway and incarnate into human form. Their energy is always female. Our...

Dear Friends, A Pachacuti, as the Q'ero say, is upon us. A time of great change. All indigenous prophecies are optimistic about this time, for at its core, an old cycle is ending and a new one beginning. Death and rebirth are occurring both outside and inside of us - a true cosmic, shamanic rebirth. December 21 is the Winter Solstice, and every year the path of the Sun and the equator of the Milky Way galaxy align. This year the alignment will be on the plane of the entire galaxy, as the...

Today you need a Mother. This is why I have come. I have come to Mother you all. Imagine yourself resting in my arms….. Leaning back into my body, My arms around you, Holding you, caressing you. Loving you. Experience the safety of this. Experience my Love as you rest against me. Relaxed. My arms around you, My heart and soul beating only for you. You are safe. You are loved. You are cared for. All is taken care of. I am your Mother. I am taking care of you. There is nothing to do. There is...

2012 Healing Quest – Teachings from the Questers Every year on the last day of Healing Quest, the entire community gathers in the tepee. Each person, whether they were a Mountain or Camp Quester, has the opportunity to sit in front of the Counsel of Elders. This is a time where Questers come to greater clarity regarding their experiences, as well as receive guidance, wisdom and suggestions from the Council. We conclude each meeting with a question - "As a result of your personal Healing Quest...