BeYOND Shamans

Musings on Quetzalcoatl

2011-04-06T07:24:00.000-07:00

For some reason I've never felt a strong bond with Quetzalcoatl. I always know he's around but I've had the strongest bond with Huascar, gate keeper to the underworld. Although I think of Quetzalcoatl briefly as I go through my daily chakra ritual reinforcing my archetypes, we haven't ever worked together.

Today this changed. He brought his lessons to the forefront. The timing is perfectly appropriate since the lessons align with my new moon intention to 'Cherish today & be unattached to tomorrow' which started 3 days ago with April's new moon. I started with this intention to practice the Buddhist philosophy of Deattachment. It seems easy if you have nothing you're afraid of loosing, but it's much more challenging to me when I choose to have things and people in my life who I cherish, who I can't imagine a future without. Hence, my intention to 'Cherish today, regardless of tomorrow' may seem childishly obvious but it's a major life challenge & lesson for me. It's great and is bringing me incredible joy, but it's still challenges me to be out of my comfort zone.

Quetzalcoatl has added his energy to my intention today. During my run when I reached the part of my invocation at my 6th chakra, Quetzalcoatl distracted me into my body to focus on balance, using the right leg equally as the left, thinking about how my body was moving, how my feet hit the ground, is my right side balanced with my left? Focusing on the body is a wonderful way to be present. My cells feel alive, I feel saturated with spiritual energy, I focus on accepting Earth energy and Sky energy and those being balanced and pulsing and working together in my body. Yes, it was a good run!

We've agreed to extend this balance into my heart, my emotions, how I project and accept the interactions of life & work & relationships. This is what I'm working on today and through this moon's first quarter. Can you tell I'm excited? I'm so grateful, I feel so safe and cared for by Spirit and so excited about the future. Regardless of what tomorrow brings, I feel the past, the present and the future embodied in me right now, bringing Huascar, Quetzalcoatl and Pachacuti together into one tremendous life energy. These moments make me believe in living the impossible journey and crossing the rainbow bridge. Thank you Quetzalcoatl and all my incredible archetypes and spirit guides. I do this work to bring you to life as much as you bring me to life.

Namaste

Have our seeds germinated?

2010-04-22T14:56:00.000-07:00

There is alot to think about after receiving all nine rites of the Munay Ki. How can we tell if all this has taken hold? We've received a mentor (Healer's rite), Bands of Power, Archetypes (Harmony Rite), tools for seeing & projecting and sometimes a clarified life focus.

A SEED has germinated to the extent that you have a relationship with it. For example, the Harmony rites place an archetype in each of your seven chakras. You will be able to call up, visualize and communicate with each archetype. When the Bands of Power are well rooted, you will feel & know their exact placement and will be able to feel when they are strong or weak.

If you have no sense of a particular archetype, say Huascar for example, and you find it very difficult to bring his image to mind. Then that particular seed might not have germinated and may need to be replanted by repeating that rite.

When an archetype is strong, you can recall his image as easily as a loved one. Respect the messages you receive. These rites are working for us and advise us with love.

Teaching the Munay Ki

2010-04-14T14:26:00.001-07:00

Now we step into the role of Teacher.

I prefer teaching in a group setting because when you're one on one it's more likely to become a healer rather than a Munay-Ki provider. Also, the community is intrinsic.
Set out an agenda for protégés to let them know what to expect of your program.

Be sensitive to the needs of your protégés. You don't want them to tell their story (that's usually our broken record where we get stuck), but you want to know when they're in trouble. Every story is a victim story. Their safety is your responsibility. Get past the 2012 disaster story. We are projecting ourselves and our proteges into who we want to be in the future, and that is always homoluminous.

You can either give and teach all the rites at one time or you could spread out your class over 6 weeks to 3 months. As people heal from foundation rites, be there for them as shifts happen. As we heal on the inside, changes show up on the outside. Allow for individual timing. Everybody processes things differently.

DO NOT give archetype rites without first giving the bands of power. The archetypes feed off the bands of power, that's why we need to constantly reinforce our bands.

Caution: We want to be gardeners not weeders, deal with the BIG problems but not all of it.

Don't do your spouse, close friends or children. This just sets you up for hard knox.

THREE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS:

1. Sacred Space - live it or leave it. There is no room for just going through the motions.
2. Breath, for transmission
3. Fire to germinate the seeds. Munay-Ki fires are very quiet, personal and sacred to each individual.

BeYOND MASSAGE THERAPY
Beyond = Everything that I do involves stepping beyond the ordinary, stepping beyond what I accept as ordinary or possible for myself.

VOWS of the SHAMAN

1. Non-Violence
- bring harm to no-one including ourselves, no judgments
2. Truthfulness
- Be true to your word so people can rely on what we say.
3. Integrity
- walk your talk. Come from a place of knowing and experience.
4. Moderation
- know when to say no, these take a lot of energy
5. Generosity
- nothing belongs to you. Give more than you take.

The people who you teach the Munay-Ki are the people who we want to work with and walk with in 2012. We don’t want people who are low integrity. This is an honor. You can say no. You will instinctively know when to say yes or no.

Vow of Confidentiality: all information revealed within a class stays in the class.

Rite #9, Creator's Rite

2010-04-14T14:25:00.001-07:00

Ninth Rite
CREATOR RITE / Spirit Keepers Rite

We take on the responsibility of time to come, of the stewardship of what's infinitely before us. For all life for all generations to come, for the well being of our galaxy and of the entire universe. Designed to awaken and to activate the God, the Buddha within us. The inner Divine.

Christians describe this as the time of the second coming. We shaman's describe it at becoming homoluminous - as are angelic beings.

This is a very subtle rite. It grows over time. When you take this rite, you have accepted stewardship of everything. steward = caretaker.

We understand that God is MASCARADING as each of us.

You really get it more so when you pass this rite on to others.
This rite involves you gifting to the protégé whatever they need, God may come in different forms.

With your intent bring down what that protégé needs.

PROTOCOL

1. Open Wierracocca
2. Attune - have one hand on each shoulder to balance masculine and feminine.
- vibrational level is different from 8th rite.
- Attune to my God, my Sprit
- this time bring the protégé to you (your God self)
3. Bring them to you
-match breathing, match vibration
4. Place their pi stone on their crown chakra & blow through it.
- informing the pineal and pituitary glands that new information is coming.
5. Move and Sit in front of client
- ensure that you are attuned to how God appears to you.
6. With your intent ask that it be given in whatever form needed by the client, to the client.
7. Hold protégé’s pi stone in your left hand over your heart
- heart is centre chakra
8. Put your right hand over your left and draw into your left & draw into it your version of God, or Spirit & put it into their second chakra.
With your right hand go back to pi stone and take another handful of God and take to their 4th chakra
Repeat to their 6th chakra.
Once you've placed the god essence into their 6th chakra, put the pi stone (in your left hand) at the base of their skull. Draw their forehead to yours.
Gift them everything that you know & everything that you are.
Spirit will transmit itself.
Gentle breath to release.
9. Place the pi stone into their hand, hold their hands a moment to let cook before breaking away.
Cup their hands and blow the remaining energy of their attunement into their hands.
10 . Close wierracocha.

Rite #8, Starkeeper's Rite

2010-04-14T14:23:00.000-07:00

STAR KEEPER’S RITE

Two fold:
1) Anchor us solidly in 2013
2) Building our Rainbow Body
- find the color and bring it back. Saturate the chakra in that color.

The star keepers rites builds us a home in 2013. WE ANCHOR OURSELF OUT IN 2013. The first step in looking after all life, is looking after our place here, for our children and our grand children. Our first responsibility is awakening universe.
Shaman goes to a place in the future. Takes that rainbow body and anchors it somewhere else.

We step into that light body, that luminous self anchored in 2013. Helps us step away from colluding with consensual reality & be unaffected by the fear mongering which impacts how we act and react. We don't want to get sucked into the drama of what's physically happening. This is not the end of everything. We can change it. It is worth trying. We want to be BEYOND the time of the great change.

Between now and then we hope to reach critical mass and achieve spontaneous transmission. Shifting perspective shifts power. Goal to influence those people who can make big changes. A problem cannot be solved at the level at which it was created. 2013 is the end of the tumultuous time.

Rainbow body is about creating your luminous self. Live differently, act differently. Our luminous body affects how we feel.

Even our lineages have done their job. I CAN choose to always be an Earth Keeper, because they touched me, but their jobs in my life are now done.

We always have a VISA - we can visit any lineage at anytime. Let them help me with a particular issue.

Protocol:

Our job is to go through the chakras, we go beyond the archetypes.
As you go to install the 8th rite, you go through the chakra, if there is an archetype there you try to go around the archetype. If it's prominent, send the person to fire to feed archetype and put it to sleep.

Access the star through the portal of the chakra to get the color and bring it back and anchor that color into the chakra.

Pi Stone - portal to step out of time (key to going through the portal) - step between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. You can do it with or without a pi stone.
Take myself, my energy, down through the crown chakra, Step through my heart, through the pi stone and into the client's chakra.

Many people go through this portal at death.

STEPS:

Use Their Pi Stone.
Keep your pi stone near or on you.
Spritz it with florida water to clean their pi stone.
1. Open sacred space
1.a. Open wierracoccha
2. Attune (cheek to cheek)
3. Place their pi stone on your heart.
4. Reach into your wierracoccha
- find your own self - to step out of time - you need to find your idea of time and shift it.
- Looking for the red color which envelops both of us - feel around for it, wait for it. You're setting the intention of red..
- Bring energy and color down through your heart.
5. Find protégé’s 1st chakra
-sense spirit. - dive through pool of chakra - may be different for everybody
- you will see a Star calling (matches your expectation) land on star. when you land it will be steeped in that color - you will become that color
-you have your protégé with you, slow down enough to keep them with you.
-bring back the color - you'll be leaving a trail of red through the universe
-come back and you'll see it saturated in red.
-once the pool of the chakra is full of red, find the red layer in their aura and fill it up with red. Let the color overflow the chakra.
6. Seal the chakra with your breath.

When you're finished, you've built a body of light out in the future.

When you give them their pi stone back, blow into their hands to blow in any residual colors.

FOUR BRAINS

2010-03-08T13:33:00.001-08:00

The Munay-Ki evolved as an energetic methodology to harness the power of the Four Brains.

1. Reptilian Brain
• Brain of survival, procreation

2. Mammalian Brain / Limbic Brain
Four F’s: Fear
Feeding
Fighting
Fornication
Harnessing the power of this Limbic Brain means becoming able to step beyond fear, beyond violence, beyond lack and experience abundance and intimacy.

3. Neocortex
• This is the brain of Einstein, Mozart, of mathematicians, of savants
• It is the philosophical brain
• Is awakened by the Wisdom Keepers Rite
• When this brain is awakened, it allows us to step beyond mind and into spirit.
• We step into universal ethics
• We taste infinity.

4. Forebrain / God Brain
• Pre-Frontal lobes of the forehead
• These lobes have not been active until recently, these hold the potential and capabilities of the God brain.
• This is the brain of homoluminous, of who we are becoming.
• Is awakened by the Earth keeper’s Rite
• When this brain is awakened it allows us to steep in communion with Spirit, to break free of time and to influence the events of the past, to nudge destiny.
• We may dwell and reside in infinity.

• The Munay-ki is the technology used by shamans to awaken the God brain.

We need little more that a brain the size of a gecko’s to thrive in this world, yet we have more than ever before. They believe that the size of the human brain has doubled in the last ten generations.

The munay-ki activates the capabilities of this neuro-computer, our brain.

The earth keepers of old understood that when they went through these rites, they were tapping into the vast and unlimited capabilities o f the brain.

Step into the fullness of our human nature, our God nature, our spirit nature and to participate consciously in the process of creation, in dreaming the world into being.

Rite #7, Earth Keeper Rite

2010-03-08T13:30:00.000-08:00

EARTH KEEPERS RITE

The Earth Keeper’s rite is very special. Up until 2006, this was the highest rite available for a shaman to receive from another shaman.

This is the first step of going beyond our planet. We are accepting stewardship of the earth which means we are holding the Earth in the palm of our hand. It’s precious.

This rite connects you to a lineage of archangels who are guardians of our galaxy. These archangels are reputed to have human form and to be as tall as trees (LordofRings-Ents; Sylvia Brown). We come under the direct protection of these Archangels. We can summon their power whenever we need to bring healing and balance to any situation.

In the Earthkeeper’s Rite Masculine and Feminine are harmonized into one and are aspects of the whole. Located in the East on the Medicine Wheel.

Job:
• You step out of time and dream the world into being.

Important Role:
• To promote spiritual healing.
o About our connection or disconnection with God
• To learn the ways of the seer.
o This rite enhances your seer’s abilities.
o Responsibility for the way we see the world.

Process:

The process of giving this rite is the same as the other rites.

It is conducted at a higher vibration. It’s wonderful to give.

To hook onto this lineage is a little different than the previous 6:
To start with: Centre yourself. Quiet yourself. Breathe.
You take yourself out to the nearest star, the Sun. From the sun, look back and view the earth as your child.

Imagine that you're standing in a line of archangels, and angels and people and entities all lined up looking at Earth. All of these beings, yourself included, are taking care of Earth. You are connected to these guides, these archangels. You are part of this lineage.

Feeling: Protective. Parental pride. Mixed emotions of having to be at arms length, yet also wanting to protect and to nurture. It's like letting a child do something on their own for the first time.

Let those feelings build.

Put that feeling into the protégé’s 2, 4 & 6th chakras.

Transmitting:
• Integrity
• The archangels who look after this planet
• You have to give everything that you have freely without reservation.

The transmitting part is when I touch my forehead to yours. I’m running through this list and giving everything that I will ever have and will ever be.

This is the first of the rites which opens the door to the Tatanchi rites 8 & 9. You have accepted stewardship of the earth. You Are INTEGRITY. This is the first true step in becoming homoluminous.

Rite #6, Wisdom Keeper's Rite

2010-03-08T13:27:00.000-08:00

The Wisdom Keepers rite heals and balances our masculine energy with the feminine energy of the Day Keepers Rite. We must decide WHO we are and stand up for that. The Wisdom Keepers of the world ask you to care enough to take a stand, as lovingly as possible.

Associated with the Great Mountains of the earth. Within these mountains is retained all the wisdom and knowledge of the earth. The Masculine energy is what retains all of that knowledge and wisdom.

The Wisdom Keepers Rite is the seat of SOUL healing. We are still in the garden, we are still whole regardless of the life experience we've chosen. Healing those parts of our soul which have been damaged and disentangled occurs by remembering that we are all Spirit, all teaspoons of God. Here we learn the difference between information and knowledge. The difference between data and knowing what to do with it.

This is where we step into that gut knowing. We Don’t need affirmation or reference. The Shaman is Self referencing.

The feeling of the Wisdom Keepers is strong, solid, powerful & slightly aloof. They don't rush to us, you must choose to go there. If you want what their wisdom, you must go to them, ask them & they'll share it. It's like sitting at the feet of our Grandmothers and Grandfathers.

We join the Ancients who step out of time. We go into Circular time. Used for distance work. Wisdom keepers confer on us the privilege of stepping out of time.

Job:
• To protect and to share the medicine teachings of the ages.

Important Role:
• To help heal former lifetimes.

The steps to transmit the Wisdom Keeper's rites to another are:
1. Open sacred space - ecosphere.
2. Seat protégé
3. Open Wierracocha
4. Standing behind your protege, place your hands on their shoulders - both hands to be in balance.
5. Attune / merge with protégé. You're attuned when you can no longer differentiate where you stop from where they begin, you're truly one, your hearts beat in rhythm, your breathing is synchronized.
6. Focus on and connect to your Wisdom Keeper. This may be an image, a place (Stonehenge, Machu Piccu, Huamanlipa, a mountain). For me it's the elders, the Grandmothers and Grandfathers who come to me from the north, I see them sitting in council behind me. They guide me in how to and when to share the medicine teachings. They are infinite beings since they have stepped out of time to help me today.
7. Hold their Pi stone in your left hand on their 7th chakra & gently blow through the hole in the Pi Stone. Again, we're waking up the Pineal & pituitary glands to say "New information coming". Your mind, your thoughts and your heart must be full of light.
9. Never break contact as you move around to sit in front of your protege.
10. Again we transmit to the 2nd, 4th and 6th chakras.
11. Start by holding the protege's pi stone at your heart and project your picture or feeling of your Wisdom keepers from your heart, into & through the pi stone and draw it to their 2nd chakra. Again fill the pi stone with your image of the Wisdom Keepers then draw it to their 4th chakra and feel the energy of the Wisdom Keeper’s Rites go into their 4th. Repeat with 6th. Keep pi stone in your left hand over your heart and draw with your right.
12. Take pi stone to base of their skull
13. Touch foreheads & let Rites & image go into their Third Eye. It's a feeling of giving the picture in your head to them. You don't have to push, it will go. If not, ask your Wisdom Keeper to share itself with your protege.
14. Place the pi stone back into their hand.
15. For a moment, hold your hands around your protege's hands which now hold their pi stone. Feel the energy grow and enjoy this moment sharing energy. This is a very special moment and a terrific feeling to share.

Remember Wisdom keepers walk their talk. BE the truth. Embody it. Be shamanism rather than just liking shamanism or doing shamanism. Am I willing to give up and step into my truth. Live it.

Rite #5, Daykeeper's Rite

2010-03-08T13:25:00.000-08:00

DAY KEEPERS

The DayKeepers are the masters of the ancient stone altars, from Machu Picchu to Stone Henge. The Day keeper is able to call on the power of these ancient altars to heal and to bring balance to the world.

They are Mother Earth. The Feminine. Life Giving. Nurturing. Day Keepers are generally women, the midwives and herbalists of the world. The Day Keepers are about emotional healing.

According to lore, the Daykeepers drummed the Sun to rise each morning and to set each evening. This requires being present, in the now. They ensure that humans are in harmony with mother earth. The rhythms and cycles of life and death.

On a medicine wheel, Daykeepers are located in the West.
Learn impeccability.

Qualities:
• Gentle
• Soothing
• Healing

Jobs:
• To help us step beyond fear into a place of peace.
• To ensure that people stay in harmony with Mother Earth. Re-connect with the indigenous traditions.

Important Role:
• To help heal scarcity & issues related to Lack.

Day keepers help us understand that abundance is about how full we are, not how much we have. The real measure of abundance is how rich your heart is.
Scarcity is a perception that we created.

Each of us envisions the Day Keepers differently. Such as: Divas in charge of Maccu Piccu, Stone Henge, etc.

These Rites are about returning to the garden, walking again in the Garden of Eden. Healing our inner feminine is about reconnecting with mother earth - she has every element of the feminine. It re-establishes that umbilical cord from us to our Mother Earth.

The process of passing on the Day Keepers Rites:

Attune to the lineage which you're going to transmit. Places: power sources. Drop in, find How do I relate to those power spots, what do these Day Keepers appear to me & how do they feel? Think of planting seasons, harvesting seasons, abundance of the earth, Stone Henge, Maccu Piccu, Nose Hill Park.

Clear your mind
Steps
1. Open sacred space -ecosphere.
2. Seat protégé
3. Open Wierracocha
4. Place your hands on their shoulders - both hands to be in balance.
5. Attune / merge with protégé
6. Drop into Day Keepers - focus
7. Stand behind them.
7. Hold their Pi stone in your left hand on their 7th chakra & gently blow through the hole in the Pi Stone. This wakes up the Pineal & pituitary glands to say "New information coming".
(This is why clear focus is soooo important). Pure.
9. Never break contact as you move around them and sit in front of them.
10. You inform: 2nd, 4th and 6th chakra.
11. Hold the picture of Day keepers in your heart and take to their 2nd chakra, Then take pi stone back to your heart and then take it to their 4th chakra and feel the energy of the Day Keeper’s Rites go into their 4th.
Repeat with 6th. Keep pi stone and left hand over your heart and draw with your right.
12. Take pi stone to base of their skull
13 Touch foreheads & let Rites & image go into them
14 Place the pi stone in their hand.

When giving the rites you give three things:
1. Lineage
2. Everything you know
3. Everything that you are

If something doesn't take, that's a warning sign that something isn't right.

Rite #4, Seers Rites

2010-03-08T13:05:00.000-08:00

Seers are able to perceive the imperceptible world (the invisible world). We strive to see with both the heart & the mind. This rite ties together the third eye (6th chakra) and the heart (4th chakra), linking them to our visual cortex located just below the occipital protuberance.

From the visual cortex, that bump at the back of your head, there will be five glowing silver threads embedded in the top of your head stretching to the third eye. Then from your visual cortex are two more threads going down to your heart chakra. Together these allow you to see with an equal balance of heart and mind, love and intellect.

1. Open Sacred Space
2. Open Wierraccocha
3. Attune to your Protégé
4. Pi Stone – place on protégé’s third eye to signal to their third eye that new information is coming.
5. With the Pi Stone on its edge, trace five silver threads of light from the third eye to the visual cortex. You can use your five fingers as a guide for placement of the five threads. Start with your middle finger on the sagittal suture. We are actually embedding a pathway of light.
A. Draw the first silver thread from the third eye over the top of the head to the occipital protuberance.
B. Draw the second silver thread from the third eye along the right side of the head to the occipital protuberance.
C. Draw the third silver thread from the third eye along the left side of the head to the occipital protuberance.
D. Draw the forth silver thread from the third eye along the right side of the head, just over the ear to the occipital protuberance.
E. Draw the fifth silver thread from the third eye along the left side of the head, just over the ear to the occipital protuberance.
6. With the Pi Stone on edge, trace a silver thread from the occipital protuberance / visual cortex to the heart along the right side.
Then trace a silver thread from the visual cortex to the heart along the left side.
There will be a total of seven silver threads grooved in the head and chest.
7. Hold the Pi Stone directly on the occipital protuberance with your thumb. Place your free right hand on the forehead of the protégé. Place your forehead to the back of their head.
8. Hook up to the lineage of the seers.
9. Transmit the seers rights with a little breath to the visual cortex. This activates the sixth chakra.
10. Repeat with your right hand on their heart to activate their forth chakra. In transmitting the rites we are asking our gift to move from us to our protégé.
11. Close Wierraccocha.
12. Send the protégé to the fire to feed chakras 4 & 6.

The seers rights move us from being a seer to being a witness. To be able to affect change in the world because we are not affected by it.

MINIMUM WEEKLY FIRES to nurture and establish your seeds & FEED EVERYBODY - chakras, archetypes, etc.

Rite #3, Harmony Rites

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Third is the Harmony rites, formerly known as 'Archetype Rites' in which you receive seven archetypes into your chakras. This rite gifts you with the lessons and strengths of each Archetype.

Into your first chakra, you receive the archetype of serpent who comes from the South and who teaches us to shed the past the way the serpent sheds her skin.

Into your second chakra goes Jaguar, the mighty cat from the West who teaches us to walk with courage knowing that she is the Queen of the jungle.

In the third chakra rests Hummingbird who flies the impossible journey from the North on the winds of the Grandmothers and Grandfathers.

The fourth chakra is the home of eagle who flies high above and teaches us to see the big picture.

Then, three “archangels” go into your upper three chakras.
In the fifth chakra is Huascar, the Inka keeper of the lower world and the unconscious.

Into the sixth chakra goes Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent God of the Americas, and keeper of the middle world (our waking world).

In the seventh chakra comes Pachakuti, the Inka sun god, the protector of the upper world (our super-conscious) and keeper of the time to come. Legend has it that Pachakuti built Macchu Pichu and that he will return to reclaim his throne in 2012.

These archetypes are transmitted into your chakras as seeds. These seeds germinate with fire, and you have to perform a number of fire meditations to awaken them and help them grow. Once rooted, they help combust the psychic sludge that has built up in your chakras, so that your chakras can shine with their original light as you acquire a rainbow body.

The essence of the Harmony Rites is "Ayni Karpi" which means Harmony & Balance.

1. Open Sacred Space
2. Open Wierraccocha
3. Attune to your Protégé
4. Transmit the rite. Hold the Pi Stone in your left hand, over your heart. Focus on Love, the meaning of Munai. The archetypes are transmitted with unconditional love.

 With your Right hand over your first chakra. Bring up and envision the Serpent. With your Right Hand, draw the energy of serpent from your first chakra, and hold it over their first chakra until you feel the serpent leave your right hand and go into their chakra.
 With your Right hand over your second chakra, bring up Jaguar. Transmit the energy of Jaguar to their second chakra. Wait until you actually feel the Jaguar jump into their chakra.
 Repeat with Hummingbird at third chakra.
 Repeat with Eagle and Condor at fourth chakra
 Repeat with Huascar (time past) at fifth chakra.
 Repeat with Quetzlcoatl at sixth chakra.
 Repeat with Pachakuti at seventh chakra.

To let the archetypes settle, cover the client’s hands, while holding the Pi Stone in your Left hand, to give them a moment’s pause to absorb. Then send the client to the fire to feed each of the Archetypes.

Pi Stones

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Pi Stones are round stones with a hole in middle. The Pi Stones represent a mini mesa (the shaman's kit), a mini shaman. It can act as a portal to both travel to a different place and to bring forward healing gifts from another place in time.

Rite #2, Healers Rites

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The second rite is the Healers rite, which connects you to a lineage of Earthkeepers from the past that come and assist you in your personal healing. The Laika know that we have tremendous spiritual assistance available to us. These luminous beings work on us during our meditation and sleep time to heal the wounds of the past and of our ancestors.

In receiving the Healers rite, the healer which comes to you will be your personal mentor. Know that they are with you in your experiences. Most of us will have different healers choose to be with them on this journey, from Mother Theresa to Jesus, to Buddha.

Our Healers Lineage
- The lineage itself will fill in the blanks
- This is our foundation in the Munay-ki
- It’s job is to awaken the ability to heal yourself and others
- In healing ourselves we already begin to heal others
- Lineage is here to help us with our personal healing
- The first four deal with the dense energy of the physical
- The guardians of the other lineages
- Things, including the rites, fall away as you do your work and move onto the other rites and no longer need them.
- Mythic mapping – spend some time in meditation with that icon, that healer who came to you.

Giving the Healers Rite

1. Open Sacred Space
2. Open Wierraccocha
3. Attune to your Protégé. Match the breathing, heart rate, as if you melt together. It’s the shaman’s job to attune to the protégé (not the other way around).
4. Connect to your (the shaman’s) healer. Hook up or connect to the healing lineage, ie: any example of a wound healing. Become one with that lineage, with that healer.
5. Place the Pi Stone in your Left Hand & hold it over your heart.
6. With your Right hand, take/draw energy from your second chakra to the protégé’s second chakra. Gift the power of MANIFESTATION. Total Work Power so that this healing will work.
7. With your Right hand, take/draw energy from your heart chakra to the protégé’s heart chakra. Gifting them Total LOVE Power.
8. With your Right hand, take/draw energy from your sixth chakra, third eye, to the protégé’s sixth chakra, Gifting them Total MIND Power, the Power of VISION. Some shamen touch their forehead to their protege's forehead.
9. Cup the protégé’s hands and blow into them to awaken the healing power in the protégé’s hands.
10. Run your right hand down the right side of their body and bring your Left hand with the Pi stone around their hands to let cook for a moment. Place the Pi Stone in their hands.
11. Close Wierraccocha.
12. Send the protégé to the fire to feed chakras 2, 4 & 6.

This time you are giving your energy because you are the universal energy. When we give a rite, we are sharing our own rite.

Rite #1, Band of Power

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Please see December 2007 entry on how to give the Bands of Power

Gifting the Munay Ki

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“I love you. Be thou as thou art.”

The gift of the MUNAY-KI is the actual manifestation of the prophesies of 2012. We create ourselves as Light Beings, HOMOLUMINOUS, today. We may dream a future of grace, love, peace and humanitarianism into being right now.

Previously, the 8th and 9th rites were only given by Spirit (luminous) to special shamen. Now we’ve been permitted to transmit these rites directly from Man to Man. We can move forward into becoming Day keepers, Earth Keepers, Wisdom Keepers, Star Keepers, and Light Keepers. It is the balance of masculine and feminine on Earth.

The First Four Rites are the FOUNDATION RITES. These are about our physical healing. They clean out our Luminous Energy Field (LEF) including our chakras.

The rites of the Munay-ki are given at the energetic level. Before now most rites are given symbolically. Until now, we didn’t have Spirit’s permission or the right to give rites at the energetic level. The Munay-ki speeds up evolution. We are shifting from scarcity to grace and we have our ancient lineage of healers behind us, helping us.

The Munay-ki is gifted with the heart. Repeatedly giving of these rites will strengthen the rites within yourself. These give benefit to anyone and everyone.

The general procedure to gift each rite separately is:
1st. Open Sacred Space
2nd. Attune to the client's vibration
3rd. Transmit the rite.

1. SACRED SPACE - ECOSPHERE

There are two parted to sacred space. The Ecosphere is the large area in which you're working such as a room or building or specific area of land.

Please refer to the blog posting of December 2007 for step by step guide to opening sacred space and welcoming in the earth energies.

In opening sacred space, you’re acknowledging and recognizing the forces of creation. You are greeting the fundamental principles of creation: Gravity, Electromagnetism, Strong Nuclear Force, Weak Nuclear Force

Everything on earth has four base pairs of DNA. DNA is the hardware, the blueprint of our bodies. In opening sacred space we’re saying that we are one with the four elements and one with the four base pairs and one will all creation. We are no different.

WIERRACCOCHA – NOAHSPHERE

The Noahsphere is the smaller sacred space specifically around you or you and your partner.

It started with the Wierraccocha which some call the eigth chakra which is a ball of God energy above our heads (6-18"). It's the direct connection to Spirit.

Once you feel the Wierraccocha, reach into it and pull it down around you as if you're building a forcefield of light around you. Pull your protection over everyone you work with, like a double wall of our aura. The LEF, electromagnetic field, around us extends into the earth 12 – 16” and ties us to the earth. We pull down our Wierraccocha because it allow a shaman to step out of time.

2. Attune

To prepare to transmit the rite, attune to your partner's energy. You can be sitting or standing, in front or behind. Start by placing your hands on their shoulders. In attuning, your goal is to become 'one' with your client, feel their breathing and match it; feel their heart beat and match it. Allow your energy to blend with theirs. When you can no longer tell where you end and where they being, you are attuned.

3. Transmit the rite.

Tune into the particular rite you're wishing to transmit, focus on it. Ask the rite to be transmitted. Then get out of the way and simply allow the rite to pass from you to your client effortlessly. Let your ego rest, let doubts fade and trust that it's happening exactly as it should.

FIRE

Send your protege to the Fire to germinate the seeds. Fire feeds the seeds so someone with new rites should do fires weekly to feed their rites. If you've never done this, you just focus on your rite, archetype, chakra, etc and then scoop the energy above the flame and draw it to you. Imagine it warming and nurturing you and the seeds, etc.

Reminder Acronym: S.A.T.
S = Sacred Space is openned. Open Wierraccocha
A = Attuning to client’s vibration. Move to that common ground. Match their breathing, heart rate, etc.
T = Transmit. Get out of the way and the lineage will basically transmit itself.

Some people to whom you give the seeds of these rites will not germinate the seeds. In that case, the seed will dissolve and feed their luminous body. There is no harm

Precaution: Don’t go unless you’re invited. Persons must ask you for your help or gifts. Otherwise it’s sorcery.

Al-Anon, The First 3 Steps

2009-01-03T06:47:00.000-08:00

While I was looking at the Twelve Steps on the wall at my meeting, I was suddenly aware of the words “admit,” “believe,” and “decide.”

Step One tells me to admit I am powerless over alcohol and that my life is unmanageable. Admit it—that’s a big step. To admit I am powerless is to admit that I don’t have control and that can be frightening to me. As the adult child of an alcoholic I want to fix things for everyone, but if I don’t control it, how can I fix it?

This Step brought such relief to me. My life was a wreck. I had seen many counselors and read all the self-help books. I had been unable to change the alcoholic, my situation, or myself. When I realized that I can’t control it, I realized I didn’t cause it either.

Step Two tells me to believe that a Power greater than myself can restore me to sanity. This brought me hope. I had tried so many ways to fix this problem and had gotten nowhere. I was an emotional, physical, and spiritual wreck trying to find a solution to the behavior.

Finally something more powerful than I am would work on this problem along side of me. I now had a chance of restoring my sanity and bringing peace into my life. I stopped looking to the alcoholic for peace of mind.

Step Three asks me to decide to turn my will over to God as I know Him. I have a choice. I can keep doing what I have been doing or I can give up the self-will to control things, fix things, and have things my way. God’s will might not be mine. I have to accept this reality and turn it all over to God.

When my will is God’s will, it is easy to turn things over. The hard part is making the decision to turn my will over to God and accept the circumstances as they are.

I am getting better at working these first three Steps. There are times when I feel weak, weepy, or worried about my life. When those feelings come to my attention, I remember to admit, believe, and decide. Then I always feel better.

By Tamara O., Missouri
The Forum, January 2009

© Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. 2009. All Rights Reserved.

Your Journey

2008-04-01T20:13:00.000-07:00

I would like to share with everyone on their journey, the following Note from Linda Fitch, The Dean of the Healing the Light Body School, Four Winds:

It is my honor to share the specific steps through ceremony that enable us to break free of our personal dramas and stories. Remember the importance of attending to our personal healing, particularly in these unsettling times, which the Mayans refer to as the 5th night.

Working at the level of the soul, through ceremony; the language of images instead of words, enables you to make room for who you are becoming. When you attend to your personal healing at the souls level, you can break free from the grip of death and fear.

Shamans throughout time have worked with fire ceremony. Use your breath to blow what needs to be attended to into an object. With honoring, place the object into the fire to release your personal story to spirit. This unbinds and releases the old story in the same way the light is unbound from the object in the fire as it burns.

Creating a sand painting is another way to work in ceremony to move what feels bound.

The sandpainting process is simple:

Create a Mandala with items to place around the outside edge to form a spirit catcher.
Find a stick or offering and use your breath to blow what needs to be attended to into the object.
With full intention of honoring the old, place the object into the Mandala or sand painting to allow the earth to help release your personal story.
You can rework the sand painting as other feelings come up.
Release everything back to the earth by scattering them, or take the objects to the fire after a short period of time (one day to a week).

The key to both of these ceremonies is to engage the sacred and to be fully present through honoring, to release the old stories. Working at the level of the soul allows a new story to emerge in your life. This is a time for us to make an extraordinary difference in the world.

Linda Fitch, Dean of the Healing the Light Body School

PERSONAL BILL OF RIGHTS

2008-02-21T14:07:00.000-08:00

I have the right to ask for what I want.
I have the right to say no to requests or demands I can’t meet.
I have the right to express all of my feelings, positive or negative.
I have the right to change my mind.
I have the right to make mistakes and not have to be perfect.
I have the right to follow my own values and standards.
I have the right to say no to anything when I feel I am not ready, it is unsafe, or it violates my values.
I have the right to determine my own priorities.
I have the right not to be responsible for others’ behavior, actins, feelings, or problems.
I have the right to expect honesty from others.
I have the right to be angry at someone I love.
I have the right to be uniquely myself.
I have the right to feel scared and say “I’m afraid.”
I have the right to say “I don’t know.”
I have the right not to give excuses or reasons for my behavior.
I have the right to make decisions based on my feelings.
I have the right to my own needs for personal space and time.
I have the right to be playful and frivolous.
I have the right to be healthier than those around me.
I have the right to be in a non-abusive environment.
I have the right to make friends and be comfortable around people.
I have the right to change and grow.
I have the right to have my needs and wants respected by others.
I have the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
I have the right to be happy.

Intimate Communication

2008-02-21T14:03:00.000-08:00

Intimacy between two people is a measure of how and how often we make an attempt at emotional communication and how the other responds to each attempt.

All relationships require the sharing of emotional information to stay connected. This information can be shared through small talk, humor, ‘friendly’ gossip, affection, romance, support, problem solving or meaningful conversation (values, goals, worries). It can be expressed by a comment, a question, a request, a gesture, a look or a touch. Intimate communication says, “I am trying to connect with you in this moment.”

Our partner can respond to our attempt at connection in one of three ways:

1. Turning Towards

¨ They react in a positive way with interest, humor or affection.

¨ Every respectful, friendly, interested or loving response adds to the level of intimacy in a relationship.

2. Turning Against

¨ They react in a critical, argumentative, contemptuous, defensive or domineering way. This says:

o Your need for attention makes me angry.

o I feel hostile towards you.

o I don’t respect you.

o I don’t value you or our relationship.

o I want to hurt you.

o I want to drive you away.

3. Turning Away

a. They react by ignoring the other’s attempt at connection or by acting pre-occupied;

b. Repeated turning away says:

i. I don’t care.

ii. I want to avoid connection with you.

iii. I am not interested in your interest.

iv. I’ve got more important things (than our relationship) on my mind.

v. You are not worth my time.

vi. I am too busy to make time for you.

Without intimate communication we feel lonely even in the presence of the other person.

Couples who turn away seem to divorce earlier in their relationship, but most couples who turn against seem to split up eventually.

The cost of an unhappy marriage is high. Studies show that staying in an unhappy marriage increases your chances of getting sick by 35% and shortens your lifespan by an average of 5 years.

Inca Archetypes

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The archetypes are called on to open and hold Sacred Space. They help us by lending us their strength.

The Inca start calling in the sacred space from the south. In the Inca tradition, the following four directional archetypes are called:

South – Sachamama, the serpent: to give the lesson of shedding what no longer serves us as the snake sheds its skin.

West – Jaguar: to teach us to face life and death without fear as the jaguar faces the trials of the jungle.

North – Sewar Kenti, the hummingbird: who teaches us that like the hummingbird, we too can make an “impossible journey.” The north is also the place of the “Old Ones,” our lineage of wise elders.

East – Eagle &/or Condor: to teach us to see the big picture from the high perspective and to strive to fly wing to wing with the Great Spirit.

Mother Earth: to hold us safe. We call on all of her people, the finned, the furred, the feathered, the rock people and the plant people, to work with us in Sacred space.

Father Sun, Grandmother Moon, Star Nations and the Great Spirit to shine their light and wisdom on our medicine space.

INCA FIRE

2008-02-20T13:30:00.000-08:00

When laying the Inca fire, the wood is laid out in the form of the Southern Cross. Once the fire is laid, open Sacred Space and light the fire. As soon as the fire is lit, the fire master will initiate the fire chant everyone present sings the fire chant through the entire ceremony.

The Fire Chant deepens the relationship with the fire and helps us be in harmony and balance with the community.

The fire master will make offerings of olive oil and sweet oil to the fire three times. When the fire becomes friendly (and our vibrations match that of the fire), the fire master will approach the fire and place their fire arrow into the flames. Once they have placed their fire arrow into the fire, they will then pass their hands through the smoke and draw energy from the fire three times, first to their belly, then to their heart and then to their forehead.

Once the fire master is finished, they will signal that people present may come up. Ensure that no more than four people are at the fire at one time. Participants offer their fire arrow to the fire, then draw energy three times to themselves.

While a person is at the fire, someone will stand behind them and guard them from intrusive energies which often choose this as a vulnerable time to attach themselves. Wear darker clothing to be invisible to the dark energies.

Always move clockwise around the fire because moving counter-clockwise will unwind the energy.

Once everyone has made their offering, the youngest or the oldest person will then place the pachamama stick into the fire. The pachamama stick represents Mother Earth. Throughout the ceremony it is handed around the circle. Into the pachamama stick, you blow your prayers for Mother Earth, what you want to do for her or what you wish for her.

The fire master will then close the fire and the chanting will cease.

Fire Offering

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The fire offering usually consists of three sticks no larger than a pencil. Into each stick blow whatever you are trying to give up; resentment, a vice, a hurt, etc. Offer these to the fire and silently thank the fire for taking this burden from you. Watch your burden be burnt away and travel to the heavens in the smoke.

Read the fire from all four directions for further insight.

Blackfoot Fire Song

2008-02-18T12:30:00.000-08:00

WAY-OH-HAY

WAY-OH-HAY .. A..HAY…HAY…HAY…HAY…HAY

The fire song is sung four rounds while the elder walks clockwise around the fire. After the fourth round is sung, all present become silent. The elder will first approach the fire and cleanse themselves by drawing handfuls of fire and washing down their body. The elder then places their offering into the fire and steps back. At this point, those present may approach the fire, cleanse themselves and make their offering. No more than four people at the fire at one time.

During the fire, those present are to read the fire from four different directions. Always move clockwise around a fire. Be respectfully silent.

Once everyone has cleansed and made their offering and read the fire from four directions, the elder will approach the fire from the east, rattle four times, then move to the south and rattle four times, then the west and the north. Once this is completed, the elder will call for the fire Song once again by starting to sing. Again four rounds are sung in order to sing the fire to sleep.

Blackfoot Fire

2008-02-18T12:23:00.000-08:00

When conducting a Blackfoot Fire, open Sacred Space first.

Then the wood is placed in the form of a tipi, with an opening facing to the east. This opening represents the door of the tipi facing the rising sun. The fire is the releasing of the sun that has been held by the wood. The sun is the gift to the tree that helped it to grow and flourish, and through the fire, the tree passes on the gift to those present.

Once the fire is laid and is ready to light, the elder approaches the waiting wood from the east and rattles four times over the wood. The elder then moves to the south and again rattles four times over the wood, then the west and finally the north. Once the elder has rattled from all four directions, he/she lights the fire through the opening and begin the Fire Song.

Blackfoot Archetypes

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Blackfoot ceremonially opens sacred space starting by welcoming in the Archetype from the East and going clockwise to South, West, North, Earth and Sky.

Eagle (East): to teach us to fly with the Great Spirit and see the big picture from great heights.

Whitetail Deer (South): to teach us to walk softly on the earth, to see, hear, smell and to shed what no longer serves us, just like the deer sheds its winter coat.

Grizzly Bear (West): to teach us to walk through the forest of life without fear.

Raven (North): to spread his black wings of protection over us and to teach us to see both the serious side and the funny side of ourselves and life.

Earth: We ask Mother Earth to carry us on her back in safety while we do our medicine work.

Sky: We call on the old one Napi, and the Great Spirit Aapiistotoki to keep us safe while we are doing our work.

The Four Agreements

2008-02-18T11:30:00.000-08:00

By Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997

“The Four Agreements” summarize principles for life from ancient Toltec wisdom – one of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. They are principles that are consistent with First Nations teaching as know by those preparing these materials. The agreements are:

Be impeccable with your word (Careful and Honest): Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Don’t take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a protection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinion of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

Don’t make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.

Always do your best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

One additional ‘agreement’ not in the book:

Take Your Responsibility and only yours: Take responsibility for what is truly yours, including mistakes. Don’t blame others but allow them to take ownership of their responsibilities.

Bands of Power

2008-01-06T11:58:00.000-08:00

The Bands of Power is a protection mechanism built into the Luminous Energy Field (LEF). They break up and deflects negative energy. Keeps you solid and centred in yourself. It gives you the opportunity to step back and say “Isn’t that interesting” instead of reacting.

The Bands of Power feed your archetypes. Therefore you must have the bands before receiving the archetypes, otherwise the archetypes will eat the protégé’s energy.

1. Open Sacred Space

2. Open Wierraccocha

3. Attune to your Protégé. Feel their energy fields.

4. Start with your Pi Stone at their Crown Chakra.

Visualize and tie into the protégé’s rainbow fountain. Catch where it erupts from the seventh chakra.

Out of this rainbow, extract the Gold and Silver, and pull them down the back of the head and anchor with your intent to C7.

Continue to draw the Gold and Silver bands parallel down the spine to the Sacrum and anchor it with your intent.

Continue to draw the Gold and Silver bands between the legs and anchor or hook them into the second chakra, just below the navel.

At the second chakra, start the Black Band. Bring it around the body from front to back, locking into the spinal cord & tying into the Gold & Silver bands.

As you install the band, SEE it, Visualize the big, thick, healthy black band covering their entire second chakra area.

From the second chakra, draw the Gold and Silver bands up the front to the pit of the stomach and install the Red Band.

As you install the Red Band, Water, Think about it, visualize it as you install it.

From the pit of the stomach, draw the Gold and Silver bands up the front to the heart chakra.

Install the Gold Band of Power – Fire

Draw up to the throat. Install the Silver Band of Power – Air.

Draw up to the third eye, install the White Band of Power – Spirit.

Continue up to the crown, pause and allow it to anchor. Drawing up the front completes the loop.

You can quickly repeat the bands in your mind to confirm.

The Gold and Silver bands feed the bands of power.

5. Close Wierraccocha.

6. Send the protégé to the fire to feed the bands.

Exercise on Projections

2008-01-05T14:48:00.000-08:00

It’s often said that what we don’t like in others is a reflection of what we don’t like in ourselves. That everyone is a mirror for us. Therefore, when someone really gets under our skin, it’s a opportunity to reflect on yourself and work on ourselves.

We often project our beliefs and expectations onto others.

“That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our life as fate.”

Exercise:

Pick 3 individuals or situations that upset you. What are their characteristics?
Pick 3 individuals whom you admire.

All of the characteristics that we dislike in others are OURS. Even if you would never do that to another person, you probably do it to yourself. Examining our shadow, lets us be honest with ourselves. ALSO, own everything that we admire. Those traits which you admire in others. YOU do that too!

1. What are you most afraid of?

What are you most afraid of finding out about yourself?

What is the biggest lie that you’ve ever told yourself?

What could stop you from doing the work to transform your life?

There is no supernatural. There is only the natural world. Some things are just more visible than others.

"ANYI": The Inca word which means to be in right relationship. To be in balance. We want to hold the positive and negative equally. Know both sides of the shadow. Not either or. We must own both sides in order to walk down the centre in balance.

“The saint must know the sinner in themselves”

Inca Fire Protocol

2007-12-30T10:24:00.000-08:00

The Inca Fire can be used at anytime to honor the gifts you’ve been given. It is most commonly done at every full moon, and at the solstices to honor and thank the Great Spirit.

Fire Protocol:

The fire is laid out in the form of the Southern Cross.
Have a “fire arrow” ready - you will have blown an issue you want to get rid of into a small stick
Have a Pachamama stick ready - You will have blown your prayers for Mother Earth into a larger stick as your offering of reciprocity
Chant the Inca Fire Chant continuously from the lighting of the fire to when the fire burns out.
No speaking
The fire must burn out by itself & must not be put out
Always walk clock-wise around the fire.

Open sacred space.
Light your fire.
Begin your chant.
Offer olive oil (sweet oil) to the fire three times (in reciprocity)
When fire becomes “friendly” approach fire and offer your fire arrow.
At the fire, bless yourself with the flames and draw the energy from the fire three times to yourself – belly / heart / 3rd eye.
Continue to chant while observing the “life” of your fire.
Just before closing, offer your Pachamama Stick to honor Mother Earth
Close your fire – cease chanting.
Close directions.

INCA Fire Chant

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Nitchee – tai – tai ….. N U I

Oro Nika Oro Nika

Hey Hey …. Hey Hey

Oooh Aye

Body Awareness Meditation

2007-12-29T15:13:00.000-08:00

Meditation may seem like a mysterious and difficult practice but it really is neither. Meditation can be as simple as quieting the mind to as mystical as seeking enlightenment or even as productive as seeking the answer to a question.

There are many types of meditation from emptying the mind to journeying so there is no ‘wrong’ way. Sometimes there is so much in your head that it seems impossible to clear the mind of all thought. In those times, I like to distract my mind by focusing on one particular thing.

A nice meditation is Body Awareness Meditation. To practice:
Sit or lie comfortably. Start to focus on any part of your body which draws your attention first. You are practicing non-judgemental awareness. This means everything on your body is just fine, neither good nor bad, you are just noticing it.

Let your focus pull towards your spine, can you sense the muscle, the skin? Let your focus drift upwards to the base of your scalp, into your hair and around your head. Can you feel the hairs on your scalp? Gradually allow your focus to travel over every part of your body, including your tummy and your groin areas, down your legs and arms. Imagine feeling your skin as if you’re running a feather along your body. You may even feel the tickle of energy moving across your skin. Remember: Energy follows thought.

This exercise is a connection to your physical reality, it brings us firmly into the present moment and wonderfully rests the mind. You can allow your focus to include the room around you, what’s in the room? What are you sitting on, how does your bum feel on it? Are there any sounds in the room? Outside of the room? You are not trying to block anything out, you are being aware of it. Nothing is positive or negative, it just is. If you notice any emotions, acknowledge them. Emotions are part of your physical reality as well. Blocking anything will only make it seem bigger. So just acknowledge that it’s there and continue on sensing your body. Whenever you feel complete, take a breath, hug your awesome body and have a great day.

Prayer for creating Sacred Space

2007-12-27T11:00:00.000-08:00

To the winds of the South
Great serpent,
Wrap your coils of light around us,
Teach us to shed the past the way you shed your skin,
To walk softly on the Earth. Teach us the Beauty Way

To the winds of the West,
Mother Jaguar,
Protect our medicine space.
Teach us the way of peace, to live impeccably
Show us the way beyond death.

To the winds of the North
Hummingbird, Grandmothers and Grandfathers,
Ancient Ones
Come and warm your hands by our fires
Whisper to us in the wind
We honor you who have come before us,
And you who will come after us, our children’s children.

To the winds of the East.
Great eagle, condor
Come to us from the place of the rising Sun.
Keep us under your wing.
Show us the mountains we only dare to dream of.
Teach us to fly wing to wing with the Great Spirit.

Mother Earth.
We’ve gathered for the healing of all your children.
The Stone People, the Plant People.
The four-legged, the two-legged, the creepy crawlers.
The finned, the furred, and the wined ones.
All our relations.

Father Sun, Grandmother Moon, to the Star nations.
Great Spirit, you who are known by a thousand names
And you who are the unnamable One.
Thank you for bringing us together,
And allowing us to sing the Song of Life

Creating Sacred Space

2007-12-26T19:11:00.000-08:00

Shamans always begin healing ceremonies by opening sacred space. In this space we leave behind the affairs of ordinary life, the bustling world of meetings and schedules, and prepare to meet the divine. Sacred space allows us to enter our quiet inner world where healing takes place. Within sacred space our burdens become lighter and we can be touched by the hand of Spirit. After we finish our healing work, sacred space must be closed by again acknowledging the four directions, Heaven and Earth.

Sacred space is a healing sphere that is pure, holy and safe. I imagine it as a shimmering cupola above the area where I do my healing work. Everyone within this space is protected. Sacred space creates an environment where our defenses can be lowered, where we can explore our soft, tender underbelly. Sacred space also gives us access to the luminous healer - the medicine men and women who assist us from the Spirit world.

You can create sacred space and summon the healing power of nature anywhere on Earth. You can use it while your own prayer reveals itself to you.

The shaman's covenant with Spirit is that when she calls, Spirit answers. Powerful medicine people from the Spirit world appear in the form of luminous beings who assist us in our healing work.

You can employ a smudge stick of sage or a litle scented water if you like. Shamans throughout the Americas accompany their prayer by fanning smoldering sage or incense with a feather in the appropriate direction they are addressing, or holding their hand up to the sky and saluting each cardinal point. You will need to determine the points; ideally this is done with a compass, but a close approximation based on your knowledge of the landscape is fine.

Begin by facing South. Smudge or blow the scented water to the South, then hold up your hand, palm facing out. Recite the first verse, calling upon serpent. Face each direction in turn as you repeat the process. Touch the Earth and look to the Heavens when directing your prayers there. You close sacred space by thanking serpent, jaguar, hummingbird, and eagle. Release their energies and allow them to return to the four corners of the Earth. To connect with the energy of one of the directions, do not close that direction. Instead call on that archetype to enter you and accomany you on your path. (I do this by turning to the East, for example, and instead of closing that direction I blow the spirit of that archetype into my client's crown chakra. I imagine the spirit of eagle entering them and informing their lives.) Then thank Mother Earth and Father Sky.
--- by Dr. Villoldo; www.thefourwinds.com

Navaho Legend of the Rainbow Bridge

2007-12-25T10:46:00.000-08:00

Long, long ago when First Woman the Goddess was created, she became fully grown in four days. It seemed that every Dine (Navajo) Indian tribesman wanted her for his wife.
She did not love any of them, but she did like the handsome ones. Of all the men, however, she thought the most attractive was the Sun-God. Of course, she thought he could never be her husband.
To her surprise, one day Sun-God came up behind her and gently tickled her neck with a feathery plume. She was engulfed with warm sunshine, and in a magical way the Goddess became the wife of Sun-God. He fathered her firstborn, a son.
Not long thereafter, the Goddess was resting beneath an overhanging cliff when some drops of water fell upon her. Soon the Goddess gave birth to a second son, fathered by Water-God. Because the two boys were so close in age, they became known as the Twins of the Goddess.
They lived in a beautiful canyon that later became a part of Dine (Navajo) land. About that time, a Great Giant roamed over the country and ate every human he could catch. He discovered the Goddess but did not want to kill her, because at first sight he fell in love with her beauty.
The Goddess knew of the Great Giant's evil ways and would have nothing to do with him. He became very jealous of her when he saw footprints of the Twins outside her Hogan.
She saw Great Giant approaching, so she quickly dug a hole in the centre of her floor and there hid her two children, whom she dearly loved. She covered the opening with a flat sandstone rock, spreading dirt over it to prevent the Great Giant from finding her Twins.
Another day, Great Giant saw the children's tracks.
"Where did these children come from?" he asked the Goddess.
"I have no children." she replied, because she knew that he would try to kill them if he found the Twins.
"You are not telling me the truth," he said. "I see children's footprints in the dirt, right here."
The Goddess laughed heartily and said "Those are only my hand prints. I am very lonesome for children, so I only pretend by making tracks with the heels of my hand and the tips of my fingers, like this. These are the tracks of my children."
"Now I believe you," he said.
As the Twins grew larger, their mother could not hide them any longer. She was alarmed for their safety because of the Great Giant, who saw them one day and tried to catch them. But the Twins were too quick and got away.
The Spirit who made the Goddess appeared with a bow made of cedar wood for Sun-Child.
"It is time for you to learn to hunt," she said to him.
"We must now make some arrows and another bow for your brother," said the Goddess to Sun-Child.
"Mostly, we want to hunt for our father," said Sun-Child. "Mother, who is our father and where does he live?"
"Your father is the Sun-God, but he lives far away in the East," replied the Goddess.
Another bow was made for Water-Child and many arrows for both Twins. They began their journey to the East and travelled as far as they could, but without success in finding Sun-God. When they returned they asked, "Mother, have you lied to us? In the East, we looked everywhere and we could not find our father, the Sun- God."
"He must have gone to the South," she said. Again the Twins set out on another journey, this time to the South, returning without success.
"Please try the West and then the North, if at first you do not find your father in the West," said the Goddess.
She sent the Twins again on their hunting journey, anxious to keep them away and out of sight of the Great Giant. Many moons later, the Twins came back and said, "Mother, have you lied to us four times? Our father was neither in the North nor the West."
"Now I will tell you the truth, my sons," said the Goddess. "Your fathers, the Sun-God and Water-God, live far away in the middle of the great Western Water. Between here and there are great canyons where the walls of the cliffs clap together and would crush you.
"Even if you should succeed in getting through the canyons, there are the terrible reeds that you must cross. Their long knife-like sharp leaves will cut you into pieces.
"If you should escape the reeds, you can never cross the Grand Canyon, which comes first before you can reach the Great Water. You can never, never cross the water where your father's house is in the middle of the Great Water, the Western Ocean."
"But, Mother, we want to go and try to find our fathers," said the Twins.
The Goddess taught the Twins a song of protection for their next journey:"We are travelling in an Invisible Way to seek our fathers, the Sun-God and the Water-God."
This song she taught them to sing four times, the magic number. Day after day as they travelled along, they sang their song for protection.
One day, as they passed a little spider hole in the ground, they heard a voice say, "Ssh!" four times. The Twins looked into the hole and saw Spider Woman.
"Do not be afraid of me, I am your Grandmother. Come down into my lodge," she said four times.
"We cannot enter your lodge, because your doorway is too small," said the Twins.
"Please blow toward the Eastwind, Southwind, Westwind, and Northwind," Spider Woman called out.
The Twins blew in the four directions and the entrance enlarged enough for them to go through. Inside and to their amazement, they saw the lodge walls covered with bundles of bones wrapped in spider webs, exactly the way spiders wrap flies in a web.
"Do not be afraid, my grandsons," said Spider Woman. "These are the bones of bad men whom I killed."
Spider Woman talked with the Twins about encounters they might have on their trip. She taught them songs for their protection and explained what they could do to overcome obstacles they might meet on their way. "I will give each of you a magic Feather- Plume. Hold it before you as you travel, straight up or sideways to carry you safely forward," she said to the Twins.
"Be on the look out for a little man with a red head and a striped back. He will resemble a sand-scorpion, only a little larger--about the size of a Jerusalem cricket," she explained.
"Thank you, Grandmother, we'll be on our way," said the Twins.
Many days later, the Twins heard a voice from the ground. It was from the little man with the red head.
"Do not scorn me because I am so small," he said. "I can and want to help you. Put your hands down on the ground and spit into them four times. Now close your fists, saving the spit until you come to the Big Water. There you can wash off the spit."
The Twins did exactly as they were told, and after thanking the little man with the red head, they again began their travel. Soon the canyon walls that smashed together loomed ahead of them.
They repeated Spider Woman's prayers, holding the Feather-Plumes sideways. As they moved forward the clapping walls stopped long enough to allow the Twins to walk through safely.
When they came to the jungle of sharp reeds, again they sang the song Spider Woman taught them, touching the tops of the reeds with their magical Feather-Plumes.
Behold! The reeds turned into cattails, which pleased the reeds so much that they quickly opened a wide path for the Twins to pass through. A puzzling encounter for the Twins was the giant cliff. They walked around and around its rim, making a complete circle and finally returning to their starting place.
They were making no forward progress, so they sang songs taught them by their mother and Spider Woman. They prayed over and over again. When they opened their eyes, a beautiful Rainbow appeared, creating a large bridge for them to cross over the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.
After this spectacular adventure, the Twins continued West for a long time, until they saw the Great Water before them. The Water spread so far, they wondered, "How can we ever reach the Turquoise House of Sun-God, which we know is in the middle of the Great Water?"
The Twins walked down to the beach to the edge of the water and washed the spit off their hands, singing and praying at the same time.
Behold! The Rainbow appeared again! A long Rainbow Bridge stretched before them from the beach to the Turquoise House. The Twins raced onto the Rainbow Bridge, find their two fathers, the Sun-God and the Water-God, who welcomed them in the Turquoise House at the end of the Rainbow Bridge.

Munay-Ki, The Healer's Path

2007-12-24T19:30:00.000-08:00

The Munay-Ki comes from a Quechua word that means ‘I love you’ – ‘Be Thou as Thou Are.’ The Munay-Ki are the nine rites of initiation to become a person of wisdom and power who has accepted the stewardship for all creation. The nine rites are common to all shamanic traditions, even though they are expressed in different forms and styles in different cultures. They derive from the great initiations from the Hindus Valley that were brought to the Americas by the first medicine men and women who crossed the Baring Straits from Siberia during the glacial period some 30,000 years ago. These courageous travelers were the Laika, the Earthkeepers of old.
The Munay-Ki are the nine gates that heal us and transform our human energy field into that of homo luminous. The prophecies of the ancient Americas speak about a new human appearing on the planet – one who lives free of fear and resides in his or her transcendent nature. The Munay-Ki are the codes for the new human. They are delivered in the form of energetic transmissions.
As you receive the Munay-Ki, your chakras will become clear and you’ll acquire what the Laika know as the rainbow body. This is when your chakras glow with their original radiance. The nine rites are the sum total of attunements that we go through as we transit from the body of a human to the body of angels.These rites were first given to ancient teachers by angelic beings, and now are passed on from teacher to student. When an Earthkeeper gifts the Munay-Ki to a student, it is the lineage of luminous beings that transmits itself, that leaps from the head of the master to the student as they lean into each other and touch, forehead to forehead.

First Rite: The Bands of Power are five energetic bands representing earth, air, fire, water, and pure light. These protective bands are installed in your Luminous energy field, and act as filters, breaking down any negative energies into one of the five elements. The Bands of Power are always ‘on’, and negative energies bounce right off them. In a world filled with fear, the bands provide essential protection.

Second Rite: The Healers rite connects you to a lineage of Earthkeepers from the past that come and assist you in your personal healing.

Third Rite: Harmony rites, in which you receive seven archetypes into your chakras. These archetypes are transmitted into your chakras as seeds which we must germinate and help grow. They help combust the psychic sludge so that our chakras can shine with their original light as we acquire a rainbow body.

Fourth Rite: The Seer rite installs filaments of light extending from your visual cortex in the back of your head to your third eye and heart chakras. This practice awakens your ability to perceive the invisible world, so that you can see with the both heart and mind, love and intellect.

Fifth Rite: The Daykeeper rites links us to the lineage of Laika Shamen who were masters of the ancient stone altars such as Stonehenge to Machu Picchu. The Daykeeper is able to call on the power of these ancient altars to heal and bring balance to the world.

Sixth Rite: The Wisdomkeeper rites connects us to the lineage of medicine men and women from the past who defeated death and stepped outside of time. The job of the Wisdomkeeper is to protect the medicine teachings and share them with others when appropriate. This rite helps you to step outside of time and taste infinity.

Seventh Rite: The Earthkeeper rites connects us to a lineage of archangels that are guardians of our galaxy. They’re reputed to have human form and be as tall as trees. The Earthkeepers, who are stewards of all life on the Earth, come under the direct protection of these archangels and can summon their power when they need to in order to bring healing and balance to any situation. The rite of the Earthkeepers helps you learn the ways of the seer, and to dream the world into being.

Eighth Rite: The Starkeeper rite anchors us safely to the time after the great change that is said will occur on or around the year 2012. According to lore, when you receive this rite, your physical body begins to evolve into that of Homo luminous, the rainbow body. We acquire stewardship of the time to come and all future generations.

Ninth Rite: The Creator rite. When you receive this initiation, you awaken the God-light within you acquire stewardship for all of creation, from the smallest grain of sand to the largest cluster of galaxies in the universe. Although there were individuals who attained this level of initiation, and awakened their Christ or Buddha consciousness, it was never possible to transmit these from one person to another, until today. So while Spirit-to-human transmission happened on occasion, human-to-human transmission was impossible until now. The Creator rite was brought forth and gifted to us by Inka elders in the Andes during the summer of 2006.

For more detailed information on the Munay-Ki please visit http://www.munay-ki.org/