Return to Mother Nature’s Wisdom
In many ways, the postmodern world is driven by a toxic masculine that endorses wars, destroys the environment and makes us sick—all in the name of profit. This is the same mindset that reveres an invisible and distant God while abusing and...
Befriend your Ego!
Today is common to speak of the ego as an enemy to be defeated, but this an invalid view if we consider its original meaning - an essential part of our psyche that we must turn into our ally. Ego is Latin for “I”, and it was the Sigmund Freud...
What are your true motivations and needs?
While peeling away the many layers of the year 2024 to make room for what I want to co-create in the future, I am experiencing the need to rest more and to spend time contemplating. On the other hand, seeing the ecological disasters around the...
The Five Virtuous Principles: Where Andean Shamans meet the Yogis of the Himalayas.
When Alberto and I met twenty years ago, we shared a fascination for the practice of yoga. Soon, wanting to better understanding the most ancient text of this wisdom tradition, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, we set on a pilgrimage to its mother...
Being an Earth Keeper while traversing the Holiday season
Anything that has to be sold by the end of the year or put on clearance after the holidays is a commodity that, more often than not, we can live without. As we face the extinction of dozens of species per day due to the over exploitation of natural...
Understanding the Echo and Narcissus dynamic
Today it is common to hear about narcissism, for all the right reasons. We learn to be cautious with people’s narcissistic attitudes but, equally important, we can also recognize our own narcissistic tendencies. In order to understand narcissism,...
Catharsis in ancient rituals and theater
Alberto and I just completed an exploratory journey to our Western sacred origins in Greece. One of the topics we dove into was theater as an ancient healing medium that would bring about catharsis—an emotional and psychological purification. From...
Three levels of the Bön Practice
For the past ten years, Alberto and I have been immersing ourselves in the indigenous Tibetan spiritual tradition known as Bön. Now we are in India visiting their main monastery and nunnery in exile and filming a documentary about their...
The Four Ways of the Shaman
The term shaman is thought to have come from the Tungus and Evenki word sâman from the natives of Siberia, and it means “one who knows”. In the 18th century the term became popular in Europe when anthropologists began using it as an umbrella word...
Munay-Ki – Ten wisdom codes from the Andes
The wisdom of the Munay-Ki from the Amazon and the Andes of Perú is meant to connect you with your loving essence and innate potential. The medicine of the lineages of ancient shamans guide you in areas of your life where you need clarity and...