Andean Shamanism
The ancient traditions of Andean shamanism originate thousands of years ago, deep in the Andean mountains and jungles of South America.
Shamans are the original doctors, the healers of their community. They used plants, herbs, intention, awareness and energy healing to clear unwanted imbalance before it reached the physical level. Unlike the medical doctors of today, shaman’s know that all illness (whether physical, mental or emotional) originates in our energy bodies. Physical symptoms are simply indicators/red flags, but never the root cause. Today we mask our physical symptoms with medications and man made chemical compounds (often riddled with side effects) which fail to address the root cause of our disease or discomfort. While some of today’s modern medicine is undoubtedly vital and valuable, we are called to remember and retrain ourselves to adopt the holistic approach to health forged by our ancestors.
We are all living energy: the trees, the sky, the fire, the stars, the animal kingdom, the humans. All one.
Energy healing opens us up to the beautiful simplicity of healing our energy bodies with Awareness and Intention. Finding right relationship with one’s self and others, through achieving oneness with Nature is a powerful medicine.
The Four Directions guide us through the medicine journey of life, with Nature as our ever faithful guide.
Through ritual, ceremony and a renewed idea of what it means to ‘be well’ we remember that nature provides all we ever need to heal.
The Illumination Process
The word ‘illuminate means to lighten up, or enlighten spiritually or intellectually. Illumunation is an ancient healing technique originating from the Q’ero in Peru, descendents of the Inka people.
The luminous energy field organises not only the physical body, but our external reality too. It informs and predisposes us to certain kinds of relationships, illnesses, and certain lifestyles. When we’re able to clear the imprints of the luminous energy field, we are able to experience freedom.
Our energy body (like an aura) is an invisible matrix that holds the imprints of our karmic, personal and ancestral memories, traumas or wounds. These imprints can be activated to subconsciously predispose us towards certain actions, behaviours, or patterns of being. An illumination clears these negative imprints by identifying sluggish energy around the chakras. This energy is then removed and cleared through intensive intention and breath work.
An illumination is helpful if you are feeling stuck in a repetitive pattern of behaviour; if you are struggling to heal from inherited health or emotional issues, or you suffer from emotional personal trauma that continues to haunt you and affect your wellbeing.