The Shaman sees everything as alive and interconnected... this realization connects the practitioner to ancient wisdom. The healer/shaman travels between the material and spirit-based worlds, accessing the knowledge of the ages, weaving a sacred web, and bringing harmony and healing to the universe and themselves. The ability to access and interact with this invisible world is primary for all shamanic practitioners/healers.

With the aid of nature and our helpers from the animal, plant and rock kingdom, we will practice connecting with these realms of the ordinary and non-ordinary consciousness to receive information/knowledge as we bring balance, harmony and healing to our universe. We will use journeying, tracking, rattling, feathering, and other indigenous-based modalities to remember our connection to all things. Come and feed your energy body, for your personal healing and for the healing of our world.

We will be creating our own personal healing altar (mesa) and will need a small mesa cloth and a stone (khuya) for each of the four directions... South is for physical healing, West is for emotional healing, North is for spiritual healing and East is for mental healing. If you are interested in reading about this work, please go to shamansmarket.com and look for "Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakuti Mesa" by Matthew Magee.

Linda Henning has been teaching the Shaman's Path in San Diego County since 1997. Her knowledge and experience are derived from her studies with master healers in the Andean shamanic traditions including Alberto Villoldo, Rubin Orellana, Theo Paredes, and Oscar Miro-Quesada; her many journeys to Peru and her over 11 years of teaching and sharing this tradition with other seekers. She is honored to share these earth-honoring traditions with you.