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Shamans practiced energy medicine for more than five thousand years, transmitting this knowledge from
one generation to the next through an oral tradition.

Join us to carry forward ancient knowledge for the stewardship of self and of the earth. The Medicine Wheel is a process that Shamans have passed on orally since the beginning of time. Informing and enriching, the Medicine Wheel guides participants on personal healing journeys and re-connects them with nature. Shamans practiced energy medicine for more than five thousand years, transmitting this knowledge from one generation to the next through an oral tradition.Healing methods used are a synthesis and interpretation of ancient healing practices. Techniques for healing with spirit and light are my contemporary reinterpretation of ancient healing practices. Shamanism is an ancient tradition that has been passed down orally for centuries. The practice of Shamanism has been around and used since the beginning of time. There use to be a time when people had a strong connection to the the Earth and to the Spirit of the Universe. All were connected and cherished in unity through ceremonies, dance and rituals. Over the last few centuries, humanity has lost this connection that was once a natural rhythm of the world. As time begins to shift and people begin to awaken, the need for this connection is returning in a strong way as people are recognizing that their lives are not only physical but very much spiritual. We are embracing what was once becoming lost which is now returning. Are you ready to reconnect once again with the natural realm because the Earth Mother has so much that she can teach us through her song and dance that we have taken for granted for so long. It is time to protect her beauty and embrace this Unity once again.

02/17/2026

Be the forgiver.

The great work:�Accept. Let go. Forgive.

Forgiveness is not forgetting.�
Forgiveness is not weakness.

Forgiveness is severing the attachment to your own hurt feelings—a liberating sense of expansion beyond yourself.

The opposite of forgiveness is resentment, which reinforces the initial mental impression (saṃskāra) of a wrong done to us. With sustained ill will, the cumulative mental energy causes the saṃskāra to develop into a vāsanā—a persistent tendency, a character trait.

Resentment becomes who you are. It can shape your relationships and your capacity to trust. The antidote for this kind of bo***ge is forgiveness, or letting go.

Forgiveness plays a healing role in three ways:�
→ Regarding the harm we have done to others�
→ The harm others have done to us�
→ The harm we do to ourselves

Forgiveness releases us from the past and opens our lives to renewal. - Devadatta Kali

The greatest healing in the world is to be forgiven.�
The greatest healing you can give is the medicine of forgiveness.
Be the forgiver.��

Yā devi sarva-bhūteṣu
kṣānti-rūpeṇa saṁsthitā
Namas-tasyai, namas-tasyai
namas-tasyai namo namaḥ.

We bow to the divine Goddess existing in all, who resides in the form of patient forgiveness. We bow to her, we bow to her, we continually bow to her. – Tantroktam Devi Suktam, Verse 14

02/13/2026

Resting in the Arms of Pachamama-Medicine Women retreat with at 🙏🏼🕉️🌟🐬🙏🏼
Gracias por tu medicina retreat Audio :Maiima

02/11/2026

Today, in the dark hours before the city rises, my first words are prayer.

A dialogue with the Divinity as close as my own heartbeat.

Prayer is unpretentious. It strips me down to my humanity—a vulnerable offering of trust into some-thing, some-One who can hold the multiplicity of this life.

Some Being-ness that holds both the beauty and the terror with grace.

Prayer makes us available to the known and the unknowable. And is the action in the mundane that penetrates dimensions.

This is how we hold ourselves—and each other—alight in the dark.

02/09/2026

✨ Community Song Circle & Cacao Ceremony ✨

Saturday, March 7th | 7:00–9:00 PM
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw Totem Hall
1380 Stawamus Rd, Squamish

Join Dr. Christine Selda and Rochelle Quarry for a heart-opening evening of community as we welcome special guests Master Paqo Pampamesayoq Don Alejandro Apaza and Andean Cosmovision teacher Beti
Tuero from the Inca Medicine School during their first visit to Squamish.

This gathering takes place during our Mountains Calling Mountains intensive — an evening of connection, devotion, and shared medicine. If you’ve been wanting the chance to sit in circle with these wisdomkeepers, this is a beautiful opportunity.

🌿 What’s included:
• Cacao ceremony
• Guided kirtan & devotional singing
• Sacred circle gathering

🌷What to bring:
• Your favourite mug for cacao
• Cushion, blanket, or something comfy to sit on
• Water bottle
• An open heart & voice

✨ All ages welcome

✨ Sliding scale pricing available

Comment SONG CIRCLE below to register

02/04/2026

Only 10 spots remain for Mountains Calling Mountains

We're honoured to host Master Paqo Don Alejandro Apaza Machaca on Squamish Territory, March 6-9, 2026.

Don Alejandro is 73 years old. He carries 60 years of healing wisdom from Peru's Qero Nation. He is the last living expert in Chumpi stone healing—knowledge passed down through his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.

For his first 40 years, he lived at 4,800 meters in the high Peruvian Andes, surrounded by sacred mountains (Apus), condors, pumas, and mystical waterfalls. He received initiations and permissions from the powerful beings of the land to share this ancient wisdom with the world.

This is the first time the Chumpi Paqo lineage will be shared on Squamish Territory.

Four days of sacred teachings: • Allin Kausay - living in harmony with all beings • Chumpi stone healing with personal Karpay initiation • Seven Ñustas rainbow spirit healing with personal initiation
• Coca/bay leaf oracle reading • Inca Kallpa meditation and energy cleansing practices • Sacred ceremonies honoring this land

March 6-9, 2026 Squamish Nation Totem Hall Daily: 9 AM - 5 PM

This gathering will not happen again.

For those who are called: $100 off your deposit Use code FINAL100 at checkout (valid through February 13th)

👉 Register here: https://shamanicyoga.ca/hosting-wisdom-keepers/

This is for healers, medicine people, yoga teachers, bodyworkers, shamanic practitioners, counselors, and anyone awakening to deeper spiritual wisdom.

Mountains calling mountains. Medicine keepers meeting across continents.

Are you called?

02/03/2026

Not every relationship is meant to be preserved.

There are connections where the heart is not met—where you find yourself explaining, defending, or shrinking just to keep the peace.

The peaceful warrior knows where boundaries need to be upheld and where bridges need to burn.

This requires discernment: for you to be totally negotiable and completely uncompromising.

Totally negotiable means you're flexible in how things unfold. You can adapt, pivot, listen, and meet people where they are. You don't need to control the method. You're not rigid. You're not attached to being right.

Completely uncompromising means you're unwavering on what matters most. Your core values, integrity, and boundaries are non-negotiable.

What relationships need to be deconstructed in order for you to evolve?

01/29/2026

“For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet” by Joy Harjo

West Medicine. Thank you to these light carriers for the courage it takes to walk alongside us into the dark.

01/23/2026

“For the yogin who is continuously engaged in meditation frees themselves from suffering by putting their heart into the deep conviction of the expansive Absolute. Faith or shraddha is no placeholder for experiences we must postpone nor is it belief that defied or transcends experience itself. Rather, faith is precisely where we place our hearts.”

It is only by rejecting the notion that the Divine is everywhere that we estrange ourselves. We need to make the choice to look for the Divine everywhere, at all times, without the slightest doubt that the Divine has chosen to become everything.

Douglas Brooks, Poised for Grace

01/22/2026

What you fear, you feed.
What you face, you free.

In the West, we meet Jaguar—the great tracker. Jaguar teaches us that the darkness is not empty—it is full. Full of the power that went dormant. Full of what we buried to survive.

She walks beside us as we reclaim the medicine hidden in our wounds.

It is instinct—and remembering—that leads us to us meet fear eye-to-eye and choose love.

If you’re not in the training, this is a page from our West Workbook we’re sitting with right now—let it meet you where you are.

01/19/2026

Indrani: The Sovereign Goddess of the West

This Friday, our students cross the threshold into the West direction—into the domain of Indrani, one of the Ashtamatrikas.

She sits mounted on an elephant, radiant like saffron, holding the vajra in her hand. The thunderbolt that cuts through illusion. The weapon of clarity.

Indrani doesn’t soothe. She shows you what you’ve been avoiding.

She reveals spardha—the rivalry that lives in us. The measuring. The comparing. The fault-finding that keeps us small and separate.

Why? So we can develop gosthi—true fellowship. The kind where your power doesn’t require someone else’s diminishment.

Her work purifies matsara (jealousy) and guides us toward amatsara: radical acceptance of All.

The West is the direction where the sun descends. Where light finally meets shadow. Where we stop pretending and start integrating.

This is the warrior’s training ground.

Indrani stands at that threshold with her elephant’s steady strength and her vajra’s lightning clarity, and she asks the questions we’ve been dodging:
Where are you still competing instead of leading? Who do you need to diminish to feel powerful?

Our students are preparing to track through ancestral bloodlines this week—unearthing the inherited rivalries, the lifeless patterns, the core beliefs passed down like heirlooms.

Soul retrieval work in Indrani’s presence.

The willingness to call back what we’ve exiled, integrate what we’ve denied, and step into sovereignty through self-inquiry.

01/18/2026

In January, the world whispers “begin again,” and the mind wants to answer with a grand design. But transformation rarely arrives through grand declarations. It comes through small commitments kept with sincerity.

So this is a mantra we’re sitting with right now.

The word simple comes from the Latin simplex—meaning one-fold. One thing. Undivided. Returned to.

Om Mani Padme Hung (Tibetan pronunciation; often written “Hum”) — a compassion mantra (Chenrezig/Avalokiteśvara). One way to hold its meaning is: Behold the Jewel Inside the Lotus. And in mantra practice, understanding comes through relationship—through repetition.

5 minutes (and let it grow):
• sit comfortably (hands over your heart, or in padme mudra)
• 6 slow breaths
• repeat: Om Mani Padme Hung
• choose one anchor to hold you in presence: sound / heart / breath
• close in silence with a dedication of merit

Let the repetition do the work—our only job is to return.
May your practice benefit all beings in all worlds.

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