In this apprenticeship weekend students will experience the upper world and learn about its lightning bolt of mystical illumination and the flow of kamasqa, the power of Creation. They will work with the elements, the forces of the universe, the body of Mother Earth, and sacred healing objects. In sacred reciprocity participants will create despachos to honor Mother Earth, the sacred mountains, the elements, the unseen world, and prepare for a paqowachu, a sacred pilgrimage.

This workshop deepens participants’ experience of soul and spirit through ritual process. Students will work with the power of creation in the kaypacha or middle world, dimensionality and time, the three suns, and the hampiqamayoq process: ancient breathing techniques for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health, well-being, and transformation. Participants will further empower themselves, their mesas and sacred objects through the arte declaration process and learn to work with the mesa’s vertical and horizontal dimensions of fields, forces, and organization.