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Welcome to the
Pachamama Healing Center
a community healing center
for people and animals
Full Moon Fire Ceremony
Friday, April 6, 2012 at 7 pm. Hope you can join us!
March Full Moon was beautiful, Thank you for all who attended, we have been blessed with a great winter!
New Introduction to the Inca Medicine Wheel.
Experience all four directions of the Inca Medicine Wheel
in one weekend. Date: June 22, 23, 24, Seattle, Washington
More information coming, call now to reserve your spot! The weekend numbers is limited. Contact:gina@salkahealingcenter.com
A note from Denise
Shaman is a Turkic word originating from saman or shay men. It describes an individual who acts as an intermediary between the realms of the visible world and the invisible world of spirit for the purposes gaining information and healing an individual or the community. This shaman restores the community and/or physical bodies to balance and wholeness and mends the soul resulting in the elimination of ailments and disharmony. The first recorded shamans were women in Czeck republic, dating back to the Upper Paleolithic or stone age, dating back 50,000 years ago.
ARE YOU A SHAMAN? DO YOU TEACH SHAMANISM?
These are questions I am repeatedly asked. For many years I have avoided that description because of the many negative connotations associated with that word and technically speaking the word “shaman” belongs to the Siberian indigenous tradition. However, in our modern culture the words “shaman” and “shamanism” have been used to describe the vast array of indigenous spiritual traditions. The word “shamanism”, as it has come to be known, describes my work perfectly. I am a shamanic practitioner. I include indigenous training in my healing sessions and I teach indigenous traditions. My particular tradition does not use the word shaman or shamanism. The word used is paq'o. However a healer is a healer whatever the name or title. Many people do not know what a paq'o is but they may know what a shaman is! I find using the word “shamanism” helps people have a better understanding of what I do as a
healing practitioner and teacher.
( 2012 journey experience is under Expeditions 2011) contact PHC for more information
Peru Expedition 2011 and VCF Expedition with Jonathan Rose with photos is now under articles!
Available Now Two books by Denise A. Kinch!
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Promises to Peru, Remembering the Sacred
Promises.... that is what this book is about. Making promises and then keeping them, no matter how large or how small. It is about keeping your word, something that is lacking more and more in this world. If we do not keep our word, what else is there. This book is about keeping promises despite the difficulties.
This book documents the work of Vanishing Cultures Foundation, Inc. VCF provides a variety of services to the indigenous people of Peru. Providing Don Manuel Quispe with living and medical care until his death in 2004. Bringing medical teams and veterinary supplies to the Q'ero villages and the Cuzco region. VCF provided funding to build schools, training and education, teachers, health centers, health education, community kitchens fully packed with cooking tools, special programs for individual students, providing home and support for Q'ero children to attend school in Cuzco. VCF has provided Christmas celebrations to village children. This book is to recognize the heartfelt work of volunteers who assisted in delivering the supplies to Peru. Especially to recognize the Americcan students, who collected school supplies for the last 12 years, donating everything from pennies to pencils.
A Walk Between Worlds, Truth is Beauty, The Q'ero
Imagine moving through the veil of time, arriving in the Andes mountains 600 years past. This could be the village of Chua Chua or Yawacancha, home of the Q’ero nation of Peru. The beauty is that these villages are the same now as they were in the times of their grandfathers, grandfathers... The people who make them their home, walk in the footsteps of their ancestors each day.
A Walk Between the Worlds is the first book to explore the cultural traditions of the Q’ero Mountain people from their perspective. They have lived in remote elevations in the Andes Mountains since pre-Inca times. This isolation from the modern world has created a powerful community, honoring the value of each individual as an integral part of the whole. They are a living example of ‘being’ the balance between Heaven and Earth. This is the story of the master weavers, and how they have woven their relationship with the universe into the fabric of their being, in harmony with all their relations.
Their are over 200 professional photographs, opening your heart and spirit to the stark beauty of their landscape and the simplicity of these people.
Meet Denise Kinch, Humanitarian, Healer, Explorer and Modern day Medicine Woman. Her path to find the root of the healing tradition she was studying in the USA led her to meet Don Manuel Quispe, Healer and Altomesayok of the Q’ero Indians of Peru. A Walk Between the Worlds shares the stories or their time together, and the powerful messages Don Manuel has to share with those open to hearing them.
In her adventures in the high Andes and conversations with the elders of the Q’ero, Denise came across some suprising information. Many of the stories that have been taught in the west for the last 20 years about the Q’ero Nation are completely made up! She searched and searched to find validation for what she had been taught, and was in fact teaching herself only to come up continuously against walls saying ‘ this is not so’. After years of investigation and time spent with the people of the Q’ero in their villages she decided to put together this book. Upon his death bed in 2004 Don Manuel Quispe asked her to please tell the truth of his people…And so she is….
Denise explains to us what the Inca Empire was and shows us how the Q’ero were another nation represented in this huge cooperative. She gives us a brief description of the formation of the Communities at that time, and how land and wealth was divided amongst them. She shares with us some of the myths of creation still told by Peruvians today.
Dispeling the myths of many of the so called "Inca Prophecies", and other phenomenom that have been sold to us in the west, Denise masterfully guides you into the heart of this nation. In this way the door is opened to a possibility of living and healing that our spirits hunger for.
She covers the day to day ritual and routine of living and farming at altitudes of over 17 000 feet. From what they eat upon rising to what they wear each day. The traditional practices of their healing traditions and how these are integrated into their lives. The guiding principles of their nation are spoken from the mouth of Don Manuel Quispe and the elders of their nation.
The Q’ero people do not ‘have’ a spiritual tradition, they ‘are’ their spiritual tradition. Living at such high altitudes they are completely dependant on their relationship with each other and their environment. They know that to be balance with their land they must be in ‘ayni’ with all their relations. Ayni is a Quechua word for reciprocity. To come into Ayni with something means to be in an equal exchange of energy. Don Manuel Quispe embodied this tradition, incorporating it into his healing work and his teachings. Reminding us that we are not separate from spirit, that we do not need a ‘go-between’ to speak to God, as we too are a part of the whole picture…This is the nature of mountain medicine.
Adventure with her on her fist journey leading the Vanishing Cultures Foundation Mountain Medical team to the home of the Q’ero, where she discovered during the trip they didn’t live on the sacred mountain of Ausangate like she had been taught. Follow her into the village of Yawacancha and hear the heart wrenching tales of the effects of baby formula being introduced by a group of missionaries.
This womans single-handed desire to bring us the pure form of this tradition has sent her to numerous sacred lagoons, Mountains and villages. She has gone blindly through blizzards and up mountains into completely foreign territory, guided by faith alone. She has truly walked the walk and learned how to embody this tradition. It is who she has become.
What a gift that she has chosen to share it with us!
" And you can quote me on this, I believe that you more than anyone I know has made a difference in the lives, dreams and hopes of the Q'ero nation. You've done a great job, my dear, even if others don't want to recognize it. Spirit does. "
~Blessings, Alberto Villoldo
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