Classes and Workshops

23 - 26 October, 2008

The Myths, Practices and Healing Techniques of the Kurak Akulleqs - The Starkeepers

An in-depth Mastery Exploration of the Inkan Medicine Traditions with Jose Luis Herrera

At Gaunts House, Wimborne, Dorset, UK

Shamans in the Andes undergo a series of rites of passage as they develop their medicine body. Each level of the Andean priesthood holds a body of knowledge and a set of skills which are the cornerstones for mastering different realms of reality and healing techniques.

This workshop, the third in the series, explores in depth the myths, practices, tools and healing techniques of the Kurak Akulleqs, (Starkeepers, in the Munya Ki), the highest level of Inka Shamanism. The Kurak works with star energy and luminous beings as companions. His or her cosmology is directly connected to the movement of celestial bodies in the heavens. Time and space are no longer constants as they source from the primordial pool of consciousness or original map, bringing insight and intuition into every engagement.

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30 October - 2 November, 2008

The Inka Shaman's Cosmovision - London, UK

Inka Medicine Cosmology for Personal Empowerment and Growth with Jose Luis Herrera

Part I - Pachas

For thousands of years indigenous peoples have effectively used practical ways to heal, transform, and envision the human potential in accordance with the natural principles of Heaven and Earth. They have mastered heart-centered processes which allow them to maintain their natural condition of well being. These methods of healing are used to attain equilibrium in the course of one¹s life. The three-step path to personal healing and power revolves around the concept of the Andean Pachas - Inka maps of consciousness and intersections of time and space in which are contained all the aspects of one¹s journey: imprints, wounds, behaviors, karma, and potentials.

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Spring 2009

Death and Dying - The Inka concept of working with death and making it our ally

A workshop with Jose Luis Herrera

To the indigenous peoples, death was an ally. A doorway into another dimension, indigenous people always understood the importance of experiencing death in a symbolic form, in order to know it and make it their ally. For such an understanding serves to inform an individual, or collective, of what is truly of importance in life.

In our modern, Western world, we have forgotten this practice. Without the awareness of how to allow something, which no longer serves us, to die, in a sacred and graceful manner, we tend to hold on to things, even when they impede on our future growth and fulfilment. By recognising and allowing things to die when the time is right, by saying “I love you” or “I forgive you”' to all, including ourselves, to whom we yearn to express such emotion - while we are still in the physical body, we can move into and allow the rebirth of a new life, a new relationship, a new job, and even a new physical body.

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