“You’ve got to be honest with yourself about how much you participate in your own suffering.” – Ash Alves Our mind can create lies and untrue stories, especially when we are in the fight-or-flight state. It can create 10 chickens out of just 1 tiny feather, just by thought alone. When we are in stress,…
This is Sachamama. Quechuan for Serpent, and translating to: ‘Mother of the Earth’. Sachamama is associated with the South – the first of the Six Directions when opening up Sacred Space according to the Q’ero Shamans of the high Andes in Peru (the beautiful Lineage we are both initiated into). Each of the Four Directions…
Soaking up some Cosmic Solar Rays before the New Moon in Leo tomorrow! I took time to rest, slow down and receive yesterday. Allowed my heart to guide me to the ocean. (And here’s the important part: I actually listened to my heart / intuition! ) Wasn’t sure why I needed to go exactly, but…
When we are living with the fight-or-flight system turned on, our instinct goes bad. It’s hard to tune into our intuition and we start trusting people that we shouldn’t and we start mistrusting people who are good to us and wanna help us. Maybe you have wondered why you have a bad instinct for men/women,…
I used to think I was selfish or a bad person if I loved myself, or took care of myself and my health, or listened to what was right for me. Instead I did what was expected or wanted from me or how society meant I should be. Society doesn’t teach you self love and…
“The shaman’s understanding of disease is quite different to what we are taught through western medicine. Western medicine focuses on killing, burning, and cutting conditions out of the body, which often result in healing the body for a while, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that the body is cured. Shamanic energy medicine focuses on finding…