THE PACHAKUTI MESA TRADITION SHAMANIC APPRENTICESHIPS

Heather teaches the Five-Part Foundational Apprenticeship series of intensives, as well as advanced workshops through the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition (PMT) of Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts.
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The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition is one of three essential facets of the The Heart of The Healer Shamanic Mystery School, founded by don Oscar Miro-Quesada.  The five-part series of intensives in the shamanic arts provide a foundation and initiation into the living heart and soul of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition through earth-honoring ceremonies,  self-exploration and communion with nature and the unseen world.​

​This workshop series aligns the traditional shamanic arts of Peru and the wisdom of its heritage with the present day needs of this transformational time in planetary and human history.  Participants cultivate a deeper relationship with nature and the unseen world, and receive multiple opportunities for self-exploration, empowerment, and profound personal growth.  This apprenticeship series is open to all people who desire to be of service, whether they are long- time mesa carriers or new to the tradition.​

THE CALL TO HEAL:  Releasing the Past

Illa Amaruq Kurkun: ‘The Shining Body of the Serpent’

Participants will be initiated into the Pachakuti Mesa, a powerful and sacred altar.  Each student will learn how to create their own mesa and work with it for self-empowerment, transformation, and helping others.  Through shamanic journey and visionary states of consciousness, participants will explore the three worlds of the Andean cosmovision, sacred reciprocity with all that is, the core ingredients of ceremonial mastery, sacred sound and ritual language, healing and curanderismo, and the inner world of the ukhupacha.
Through this powerful weekend-long intensive, students will:
  • Have an understanding of historical and mythological roots of Peruvian curanderismo and its place as the underlying cosmovision and lineage of the Pachakuti Mesa.
  • Receive instruction in the fundamentals of the Pachakuti Mesa: The Five Directions, forces, energies and medicines.
  • Obtain an understanding of the three pachas and the notion of World Eras​.
  • Be apprenticed in the ukhupacha, the nature of initiation, the ‘Calling’, and transformation.
  • Create their individual mesas and empower an animal/ancestor ally (purun illa) piece.
  • ​Experience an ukhupacha journey to cultivate relationship to Unseen levels of guidance.
  • Release personal impediments/blocks, through self-disclosure and ritual, opening to a more soul- infused and healthy life.
  • ​Participate in a council process.
  • Participate in the Wednesday Night Link-Up, global shamanic healing process.

A BALANCE OF POWER: Transforming the Present

Hatun Pumaq Uman:  ‘Great Head of the Puma’

Apprentices will delve into studying the center of the mesa, traditional Peruvian healing practices, and the kaypacha, the middle world.  Participants will learn the Peruvian perspectives on the flow of energy through the realms, explore the kaypacha’s elemental matrix and magico-spiritual power, and learn about the sun and moon’s presence in the middle world, mapping the cosmos on Earth, and celestial death and rebirth.
By immersing themselves in this apprenticeship, students will:
  • Understand the play of culture in the kaypacha, and the role of culturally specified forms of experiencing the sacred.
  • ​Gain understanding of the differences between cultural paradigms of healing in traditional/original peoples and in hybrid/majority culture.
  • Have an experiential initiation into the importance of the balance of polarity within the mesa and life.
  • Receive a didactic understanding of kaypacha phenomenon as central to communal states of equilibrium between runa (humans) and Pachamama.
  • Receive wisdom transmissions about the role of Sun and Moon in the kaypacha, and encanto as a creative force both within the maestro’s mesa, and our experience.
  • Gain an appreciation of the forces that weave the matrix of the kaypacha.
  • Have a basic understanding of the Four Levels of Creation.
  • Experience a kaypacha journey.
  • Choose and initiate an arte maestra and inti- and killarumis.
  • Activate the ‘rainbow bridge’ and experience mesa-assisted viaje con sombra.

THE CONDOR'S QUEST: Creating the Future

Wiñaypaq Kunturnin Ánimun:
​‘The Eternal Spirit of the Condor’

This workshop is an initiation into the paqokuna, the Andean Shaman/Priesthood mystical path, the lineage of the sacred mountains, and the five virtues of the mesa.  Participants will journey to the hanaqpacha, the superior realm to receive guidance for future work with the mountain spirits, and to deepen their connection to their own spiritual resources.  Apprentices will also explore the world of the Guardians of Ayni and create a despacho as a ceremonial offering to the earth and the Unseen.
Participants will experience in the following:
  • An initiation into and an understanding of hanaqpacha dynamics.
  • Wisdom transmissions on relevant South Andean paqokuna concepts.
  • An understanding of ayni as the intrinsic connecting principle of the Universe and shamanic practice.
  • An understanding of the nature of the Tirakuna, Awkikuna, Malkikuna, Machula Awlanchis & Apukuna.
  • The animating essence of sami and the mikhuy processes.
  • Teachings on the Five Attributes.
  • Connection with the PMT Lineage Apus.
  • Establishing a tutelary relationship with an Apu and paqowachu pilgrimage site

THE HUMMINGBIRD'S ASCENT: Living the Mystery

Siwar Q’enteq Nunan: ‘The Soul of Siwar Q’enti’

Participants will be initiated into the healing arts of this tradition and learn about the lightning bolt of mystical illumination - the flow of kamasqa - the power of Creation. They will work with the elements, the forces of the universe, the body of Mother Earth, and sacred healing objects. In sacred reciprocity participants will create despachos to honor the sacred mountains, the elements, the unseen world, and prepare for a paqowachu, a sacred pilgrimage.
During this apprenticeship, participants will:
  • Receive a transmission of proper ceremonial etiquette for high Pachakuti Mesa ritual.
  • ​Be apprenticed in the dynamics and importance of the hanaqpacha in its relationship to the phenomenal realm and our kaypacha experience.
  • Be apprenticed in the Five Healing Forces, their delivery, purpose and anchoring within appropriate Healing Artes.
  • ​Experience the Pachamama Renewal Process for personal equilibrium and wholeness as well as group harmonization.
  • Understand the importance of despachos in the exchange of ayni and the maintenance of relationship to the Unseen, as well as ritual feeding of the seq’e network.
  • ​Be apprenticed into the hatun hallpay ritual.
  • Make contact with the Apu-guia and future pilgrimage site through a shamanic journey. 

THE SHAMANIC SELF: Serving the Earth

Sumaq Llamaq Sonqon: ‘Most Beautiful Heart of the Llama’

An experiential intensive into soul and spirit through ritual process, including the spiritual creation, activation and care of an apacheta (stone altar).  Students will work with the power of dimensionality and time, the hampikamayoq breathing techniques, and be exposed to ancient hermetic wisdom. Participants will be further empowered by evoking both seen and unseen sources of cosmic awareness within their mesa, sacred objects and own being, and receive an initiation into the lineage of this revered tradition.
In this final apprenticeship, participants will experience:
  • Encanto dynamics associated with the upper, middle and lower zones that comprise the ‘living body’ of their regional tutelary Apu, and assimilated as “calicanto en virtud de sombra” within their istrillas.
  • ​​Building of a group apacheta, with the understanding of why and how to do this process as an individual.
  • The Rainbow Tribe Hand Salutation.
  • The transmission of allpa kallpa and nuna kallpa within the campo de equilibrio and transmitted it into each apprentice’s mesa ajuar.
  • A beginning understanding of The Kybalion.
  • A basic understanding of capnomancy as a form of divination within the mesa field.
  • An apprenticeship into the Three Campos of the PMT.

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