RESIDENTIAL RETREAT: MAY 16-18, 2024
EXAMINATIONS OF KAMAY:
Divination, Alignment, and Rituals of Renewal
Wimberley, TX
with Mateo Magee
RETREAT ARRIVAL OPENS: FRIDAY AT 4:00PM (CEREMONY BEGINS AFTER DINNER)
AND ENDS SUNDAY AT 4:00pm.
Tuition, Housing, and Meal Plan Options:
Housing options below will be offered on a first come first serve basis and is currently limited to 10 participants. All others interested in staying on site are welcome to camp on the property at no additional charge.
We are also delighted to offer warm, healthy dinners and breakfasts during your ceremonial weekend. From Friday dinner through Sunday breakfast, each meal will be lovingly prepared with fresh, wholesome ingredients, thoughtfully chosen to align with the season. Seasonal food not only enhances flavor and nutrition but also deepens our connection to nature’s rhythms, an essential element of the ceremony.
Food is an integral part of the ceremony, providing not only physical sustenance but also a sense of grounding, connection, and community. Sharing meals together creates a sacred space for reflection, gratitude, and unity, supporting the weekend's transformative nature.
We invite you to bring your own lunches and snacks to enjoy during the day. This allows you to personalize your daytime nourishment while we take care of your morning and evening meals.
If you have any dietary restrictions or preferences, please let us know so we can do our best to accommodate your needs. We look forward to sharing this time of connection, warmth, and nourishment with you.
Achieving Alignment Through Kamay
The nature of kamay exists, on all scales, as an interwoven matrix of replicated forms throughout the universe, where the whole exists within the part and the part within the whole. An example being the majestic Oak tree, which exists within a tiny acorn, and the acorn exists within the Oak.
Expressions of kamay – anchored in stone, water, the stars, the Mesa, etc., – not only reveal the interdependent connection we share with all things, but they also show us the path to imbuing Mesa artifacts, and the Mesa itself, with medicine through the power of telescopic magnification.
This occurs in much the same way a curandero prepares an herbal remedy (remedio). In order to brew a potent batch of medicine, the shaman must bring a large volume of water and plant material down to a single, concentrated dose through reduction. This same reduction takes place when energetic medicine is gathered and channeled through the process of kamay (i.e., the medicine of an entire mountain is now contained within a single stone). When this is achieved, a Mesa becomes a portable version of the surrounding landscape (both seen and unseen).
Expressing this act of creation through ceremony is one of the greatest functions of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition. When a Pachakuti Mesa is constructed, the entire cosmovision of the Peruvian Andes is rebuilt, piece-by-piece, and its every element is brought into being through the alignment, reflection, modeling, and capturing of kamay. In other words, when one sets up a Mesa, one is building a miniature model of the Universe itself.
RASTREO AND DIVINATION
As the weekend unfolds, we will also learn the ancient symbolic language of coca leaf divination, as well as shell divination.
Inside this art form is the means to communicate directly with the unseen world in a way that catalyzes insights to areas of your path that may be difficult to see or discern.
This practice is incredibly effective when hard times arrive in our lives, and it can be a tremendous benefit to achieve course correction and discernment in times of confusion or chaos.
The Healing Power of Las Huaringas
Highland lakes and lagoons have long been places of spiritual import for the healers of Peru. Curanderos and Curanderas alike make annual pilgrimages to sacred lakes to perform ancient forms of baptism, and to clear their body's energetic slate from accumulated hucha, and any negative energey they have absorbed from all of the healing work they have conducted that year.
One of the themes we will discuss in this residential retreat is the power of those highland lagoons, and how to access and utilize their healing potentials through kamay... even if we cant physically journey to these lagoons directly.
Shamanic apprenticeship has always been maintained and passed down through direct experience. There are certain things that can only be conveyed through ceremonial language with its layered assortment of symbolic forms of communication. A good ceremonial teaching involves all the senses, weaving them into a sacred crescendo that opens a window to view the truths of life more clearly and profoundly.
RESIDENTIAL RETREAT: MAY 16-18, 2024
EXAMINATIONS OF KAMAY:
Divination, Alignment, and Rituals of Renewal
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