Heart of the Shaman: online class series
Join us from wherever you are
Our online class shares some of the foundational teachings of the Medicine Wheel; it gives you an opportunity to make or tend our own relationship to the lineage; and it is an opportunity to do our own personal healing work. The dates for our Autumn 2025 class are below, and we hope we’ll see you there!
This Autumn, Chris will be sharing some of the teachings of the lineage — and then we will be joined, live from Cusco in Peru’s Sacred Valley, by Don Pascual Apaza Flores, who will create a healing Despacho ceremony for the group, a wonderful opportunity to receive healing from a Q’ero shaman!
These classes are open to everyone – no prior experience is necessary. You are welcome to join us for the entire series, or week by week.
In this lineage, the foundations remain essential to our practice, no matter how experienced we are. You’ll often find members of the teaching teams and past Medicine Wheel students alongside those joining us for the first time – all of us continually learning and deepening our understanding, continuing our own personal healing journey, and grateful to be with our friends and teachers from this wonderful tradition.
A community of kindred spirits
These gatherings are also about being part of a community, a village of like-minded people who want to create positive change — both within ourselves and in the world around us. The magic of these series lies in the simple yet powerful techniques you will learn, which require no specialist equipment or cost.
Read on, and you’ll find more about the topics that we’ll cover.
Our next HEART OF THE SHAMAN course…
Wednesday 12 November, 7pm-9pm UK
Wednesday 19 November, 7pm-9pm UK
Wednesday 26 November, 7pm-9pm UK
Wednesday 3 December, 7pm-9pm UK
Wednesday 10 December, 7pm-9pm UK
Friday 19 December, 7pm-9pm UK
More details and booking links coming soon!
Awakening the inner shaman
To the Q’ero, everything has meaning, everything has a spirit, and their world is deeply connected to Mother Earth (Pachamama). The Andean Chacana is a map for life, a map of human consciousness, and is a sacred symbol that we find all across Peru’s Sacred Valley, most commonly as stone and water altars. The Chacana is their map to these connections, and Chris explores how the chakana helps us to find peace, harmony and balance in our own world.
This series, the first class of the course is a free event. We hope this will be especially useful if you’re joining us for the first time, or sharing this event with someone you think might enjoy it.
The power to heal in your own hands
Do you find yourself collecting stones wherever you go? One of the main tools that our Q’ero shamans work with are the stone people. They use stones (called khuyas) in their healing work. Some stones seem to call us, and these may become our healing allies. In this session, Chris will share a process using stones to help cleanse your luminous energy field, which, if you have ever been with us to Peru and received healing from one of our shamans, you’ll know they do this at the start of every session.
Connecting with the universal forces of nature within
The four unifying principles of creation, archetypical energies that inform our luminous energy field become powerful allies in helping us to stay deeply connected to Mother Earth, and come into balance and harmony with our world. These principles have names, Serpent, Jaguar, Hummingbird and Eagle-Condor, but they are not animals that we can domesticate! They are forces of nature, that help us to see the world with new eyes. In our training we have a personal relationship with them that we grow over time so that we know we are held and supported by the same energies that create all life.
The path of rites and initiations
This lineage is a tradition of rites – energetic initiations that are shared by those who have received them, most commonly through a medicine bundle called a ‘Mesa’. Chris tells the story of the initiations that we receive on our Medicine Wheel training programmes, on our Peru journeys, and in the Munay Ki class. We always approach them with beginner’s mind – so you’ll find our group includes people new to this work and people who have trained with us for many years.
A path of fire and deep transformation
Since the beginning of time, we humans have gathered around fire, to dance, to tell stories, to connect, to warm ourselves and to hear the voices of our ancestors. We share with you how we can use fire as a great ally to assist us in releasing those things that no longer serve us and how we honour through the fire ceremony our own healing. The spirit of the fire brings us together in circles and helps us to remember our soul’s longing for connection and belonging.
Solstice celebration
For our final week this series, we will be celebrating the coming of the Winter Solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere). Don Pascual will create for us a beautiful Despacho to rebalance, renew, and restore us, inviting us all to let go of the things that no longer serve, so that we can indeed create together a world that is different from the past.
On this auspicious night, you’ll bring with you the dream that you wish for the future of our world; you will plant this ‘seed’ into the Despacho for our children and future generations to inherit. Bring also your personal dream-seed to plant, so that as the light returns these seeds will begin to grow towards the light and manifest into reality. And finally, bring a candle (and the means to light it!)
“I have self-confidence and boundaries now, something I didn’t have before. Working with this medicine has changed my health, and my life.”
Debbie
The essence of a lineage
These classes are all about the essence of this lineage: fundamental practices, principles and elements of this tradition that we can take away and practice in our everyday life.
Each session is unique, and somehow always speaks to what feels most needed by those present.
A living connection with the tradition
Whether you are joining this deep healing lineage for the first time or tending your connection to the traditions you’ve already trained in, this online class offers a wonderful way to connect with this lineage and its medicine people. How amazing that we can be in our own home, and spend time with our Q’ero shamans live from Peru!! And if you’re considering joining the Medicine Wheel practitioner training, which begins in April each year, this class provides a wonderful introduction.
We look forward to gathering with you around our virtual fire and making a great journey together.
