I found myself in the Andean highlands with a small group of pilgrims, getting ready to do huachuma (known in Spanish as San Pedro), a visionary plant medicine that is one of Peru’s master healers. (Haven’t read part 1 yet? Go here) I saw the retreat as...
Continuing from my last post, the heavy energy known as hucha is created in any setting where humans have been. Including a field of flowers or by the shore of a wide sea, or the ridge of a mountain. In DC, condos grow like bamboo, each crane feeding on the...
Since we’ve been in Lima, I’ve been reading up on the energy practices of the region, playing a bit of that compare-and-contrast game we all learned so well in school. In Andean Shamanism, there is no positive or negative energy per se, but rather a...
The first time someone laid her Reiki hands on me was after a harsh breakup. (Feh! I know: they’re all harsh. This one was sudden, and though I knew I wasn’t in love with the person in question, that this wasn’t the relationship I wanted to be in...
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