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...
In June, I went to Peru for a few weeks to do a spiritual retreat in the Andes, for which the current euphemism seems to be “working with plant medicine.” Last year, I led my first solo international yoga retreat a couple of weeks after I had been...
It was the first time JC had been to Peru in more than three years, and the first time I had been there in more than 20. it was a pleasure to meet and hang out with his very large and adoring family. I felt like I knew his kids already from skyping with them, and I...
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...
I’m happy to be able to accompany JC back to his home after years of living abroad — first in Rome, now in DC, the city which the Founding Fathers referred to as “Rome on the Potomac.” We met in Lima in 1992 and I haven’t been back...
