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Welcome to the
Pachamama Healing Center
a community healing center
for people and animals
PHC has a new Inca Medicine Wheel starting this March:
Where: Duvall Washington.
South – March 23, 24, 25 2012
West – June 22, 23, 24 2012
North- October 12, 13, 14 2012
East- March 8, 9, 10 2012
contact : Gina@SalkaHealingCenter.com or PHC
Check out event calender for more information
April 21 - April 28 Jungle Medicine Journey
April 28 - May 5 North Desert Medicine Journey
May 5 - May 12 Cuzco, Sacred Valley, Walkay Wilkie Journey
( It is under Expeditions 2011) contact PHC for more information
October 2011, PHC students participated with Jon Rose and Waves For Water to deliver 50 pure water filters to 50 Q'ero village families of Chua Chua and Challma Chimpana (formerly Yawacancha). VCF also delivered dental supplies, school supplies, and veterinary medicines for the 6000 Q'ero alpaca and llama. More information and photos coming!!!!
Congratulations to Ayllu News!!!!!
Congradulations: Bonnie Griskevich and Glenn were married on New Year's Eve! A wonderful ceremony surrounded by friends and family.
Kristina Kinch - Graduated as an Acupuncturist with Honors...in just 3 years from Tri State Acupuncture College in NY. This school is special because it teaches different traditions including Acupuncture Physical Medicine, Traditional Japanese Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Trigger point Acupuncture as well as many complimentary modalities! Kristina also has a B.S. in Behavioral Nuero Science from Northeastern University!
Congratulations to our new Reiki Practitioners:
Lorraine Racca, Christian Nataline, Filippa Petrucelli,
Rachel Sakai, Ashley Plante, Alex Tapia
Congratulations to our Alberta Reiki 2 Practitioners:Michelle Hartum, William Hoskins, Darryl Boyer,
Heather Lapp & Barbara Zak
Congratulations to our new Inca Medicine Wheel healers!
Holly Howe, Joanne Kaye, Dace Krasts, Barbara Krulich, Gina Lauvstad, Carmelle Minor-Callow, Janet Partlow, Debra Petrosa,
Cindy Sherbert, Angela Steele, Barbara Vane, Kim Williams-Brinck, Leslie Britt
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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
ISBN 978-1-4415-3383-8
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