AWAKENING BEGINS WITH LETTING GO

Letting go is not easy to do.  And, unfortunately, the more severe the hurt, the harder it is to be free of.  Then add in the potential for the repetitious pattern of harm over a span of years, and you have a recipe that needs help to deal with.  We all have our versions of this.  And the ancient traditions dealt with this as well.  And rather than suppressing symptoms through mind dulling medications, they treated the issue holistically, reverently, energetically.  This old wisdom was shared by wise cultures all around the world.  

For thousands of years, across varied shamanic traditions, the rites if transmission and extraction are found ubiquitously paired.  They work together seamlessly as a team to manufacture profound transformation.  Particularly in the hardest to reach places, deep within the heart and soul.  In these ancient rites, first we must let go, release, surrender... and become the open, transparent, empty container.  Only then are we truly available to receive.  Transmission must be a seed planted in fertile ground.  

We will learn these arts in the same manner they have been passed down for thousands of years. 

Through ritual and ceremony.  

ENVIRONMENTS CONDUCIVE TO HEALING

Attending a ceremonial retreat is food for the heart and soul.  Through it, we create a container that can gently house every part of you. Even the parts of you that often get neglected, or overlooked.  The parts of you that dont fit in to societal norms, or within the tight confines of work protocols.  Investing in retreat is investing in creating space for these parts of us to rest, stretch out, and be nourished.  All of which they are desperately needed.  Cohesive wholeness can only happen when the whole of us is attended to.  Not just the parts we like. 

Step away from your everyday routine, and slow your stride to a ceremonial pace... to the pace of nature itself.  Let the whole of you catch up.  Call back the parts of you that are sprinting forward.  Wait patiently for the parts of you lagging behind.  Move at a pace where every part of you can walk together.  This is the pace of ceremonial movement.  And this is the pace that creates the environment for soul retrieval to take place.  

Karpay and Horqoy are part of something bigger...

In order to be effective and the rites of karpay and horqoy one must understand the essential mechanics of ceremony.  In this retreat we will also break the systems of ritual and ceremony down into manageable bites, so participants can not only begin to understand how ceremony works, but also begin designing , constructing, and facilitating their own ceremonies in a way that carries greater strength and effectiveness.  

MEET OUR FACILITATOR

Mateo Magee has been serving communities as a spiritual teacher, guide, and expedition leader since 1998. His book Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakuti Mesa was the first written account of a lineage that spans thousands of years, bridging the Northern Coastal Huachumero and Southeastern Andean Paqokuna traditions of Peru.

Though he holds multiple university degrees, Mateo regards his true education as having come from decades of immersive living and apprenticeship with traditional Indigenous communities across North and South America.

With 27 years of dedicated study in the Peruvian systems of curanderismo, his current work explores the power of receptivity in nature, stillness within movement, and the profound teachings found in silence and solitude.

One of Mateo’s core gifts lies in his ability to be a student at all times.  This mindset allows him to make complex and often elusive spiritual principles both accessible and deeply relatable to his students. His inclusive teaching style fosters a safe, expansive spaces where every soul can stretch out in, evolve, and ultimately find their way home.    

OUR RETREAT CENTER AND CEREMONIAL SPACE

The property is on 10 acres of forest-covered hills, the ecological “gem” of which is a living spring that feeds the local creek, and is home to crawfish, turtles, snakes, fish and more. Other wildlife on the property include deer, armadillo, red fox, snakes, a number of birds, and insects who pass through the land on their annual migration. This spring has been continuously occupied for thousands of years, and features the archeological remains of many tribal peoples, most recently the Apache. These lands have a long history of traditional ceremonial work.

The temple is a dodecagonal maloka with a 36’ diameter, loosely styled after the Munay Sonqo maloka in Peru’s Sacred Valley. It features a beautiful spiraled roof design centered over a selenite altar.

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