Daniel Donciu. My work is about more than healing — it’s about remembering who you truly are. Beneath the layers of pain and story, your soul remains whole, luminous, and ready to guide you forward.
My path began during a five-year health crisis that brought me to the edge physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Searching for answers, I journeyed deep into the Amazon rainforest, where I encountered the profound healing of indigenous shamanic traditions. That experience opened a doorway to meaning and set me firmly on a path of service.
Since then, I have trained with master shamans in the Andes, studied with renowned teachers, and completed advanced training with The Four Winds. Today, I serve as a senior teacher at The Four Winds Energy Medicine School, sharing these transformative practices with students and clients worldwide.
Before dedicating my life to this work, I spent nearly two decades as a software engineer. That background taught me precision and logic — qualities I now weave with the sacred wisdom of ancient traditions to create a grounded yet deeply spiritual approach to healing.
These teachings guided me back to health, harmony, and purpose. It is my honor to walk beside others as they reclaim their light, release the past, and create lives rooted in beauty and balance.
This is my calling. My service. My offering to you.
Languages: English & Romanian
For more visit www.munayni.com
Book a session here: munaynish@gmail.com / +44 7490 397437
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Martha is a Professional level Kripalu Yoga Teacher and was a Lead Teacher of the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Kripalu Institute for Yoga and Health from 1998 to 2007. She is also a Movement Therapist, trained by Daniel Leven of the Leven Institute for Expressive Movement and Alice Rutkowski in her work called Motional Processing.
She began studying with The Four Winds in 2007, taking the Energy Medicine Training, Masters’ Classes and going to Mount Pachatusan and the Amazon jungle. She began teaching for The Four Winds as an assistant in 2017 and is now a Lead Teacher for the Energy Medicine Training, both residential and on-line.
In working with clients, she finds that Energy Medicine gets right to the heart of the matter and opens the way to profound transformation. She loves supporting current students and graduates as a mentor and encourages the people she works with to release self-imposed limitations and live the life of their dreams.
Martha lives on Martha’s Vineyard Island where she teaches yoga, on-line classes for The Four Winds, and has an Energy Medicine Practice.
Tracey Robinson is a dedicated practitioner of energy medicine in Australia, who brings a rich tapestry of healing modalities to her practice. Trained at The Four Winds Society in shamanic energy medicine and currently teaching the Energy Medicine Wheel to help others weave ancient wisdom with modern techniques to support deep, transformative healing.
With additional training in Qi Gong, Breathwork, Yoga, and Meditation, Tracey approaches wellness holistically—balancing body, mind, and spirit.
Through compassionate guidance and intuitive practices, Tracey empowers clients to release limiting patterns and imprints, reclaim their inner power, and reconnect with the wholeness of who they truly are.
Tanja Mayer, MD Born and raised in the Austrian Alps, Tanja developed a deep connection to nature and the wisdom it holds. Her professional journey began in conventional medicine, where she gained a strong foundation in science and healing. Yet, she felt drawn to explore ancient and holistic approaches, leading her on a transformative path across the world. Today, Tanja runs a private practice in southern Germany, specializing in functional medicine and shamanic energy medicine. She works with patients from around the globe, empowering them to take an active role in their healing journey. By seamlessly integrating modern medical insights with ancient shamanic practices, she offers a comprehensive approach that nurtures body, mind, and soul. In addition to her clinical work, Tanja is a dedicated teacher at the Four Winds Society, where she guides students through the Online Energy Medicine Training and the Grow a New Body Program. She also collaborates closely with Dr. Alberto Villoldo, assisting in Grow a New Body retreats in Chile and Europe, and is part of his medical team. With a profound commitment to holistic healing, Tanja’s mission is to help others reclaim their vitality, restore balance, and reconnect with their true essence.
Marcel Heyder explored many spiritual traditions and healing techniques before finding his life's purpose in energy medicine. He has been working with groups and individuals in Germany for over a decade. He enjoys seeing people grow and bringing them into connection with their inner essence, beyond all assumed limitations and beliefs. The most important aspects of his work are finding inner peace and living it in the world, opening the heart to one's own journey and to people. Understanding yourself as a spiritual being who is always connected to the source.
Lee Grane is a certified Energy Medicine Practitioner trained with The Four Winds, offering deep and heart-centered healing rooted in Andean wisdom. She is also a Mayan Dreamspell teacher and oracle reader, guiding individuals to reconnect with their cosmic essence through personalized Mayan Oracle chart readings and transformational courses on the 13 Moon calendar. A singer-songwriter with a soul-infused sound, Lee Grane weaves music, ceremony, and ancestral knowledge into all that she offers, creating sacred spaces for reconnection and healing, remembrance, and inner alignment.
As mother, mentor, visionary, healer, and student of life, Anetta loves empowering individuals to create and travel their own transformative journeys. She practices and teaches Energy Medicine with the Four Winds. Through her synthesis of Psychotherapy, Body practices, Mind practices and Energy Medicine, she tailors holistic and personal approaches to each individual's Life Quest. Book a session here: https://www.anetta.gr/get-started
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El doctor Alberto Villoldo es psicólogo y antropólogo médico con más de 40 años estudiando las prácticas de sanación chamánicas del Amazonas y de los Andes. Él es el fundador de The Four Winds Society—escuela que une la antigua sabiduría chamánica con la medicina y la psicología modernas.
Actualmente el Dr. Alberto ofrece sesiones sólo a estudiantes y graduados de The Four Winds. Para reservar una consulta con él, escribe a consultations@thefourwinds.com
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Marcela Lobos
Since 2003, Marcela has been initiated into the healing and spiritual traditions of the Amazon and the Andes, later deepening her path through Tantric Buddhist practices. Today, she is pursuing a PhD in Psychology, Religion and Consciousness.
Marcela is the author of Awakening Your Inner Shaman, The Sacred Andean Codes, and co-author of the Mystical Shaman Oracle deck. Born and raised in Chile, Marcela graduated from a prestigious journalism program. In her mid- twenties, she pursued studies in yoga and wellness and in 2005 she graduated from The Four Wind Society’s Light Body School. Soon she joined the teaching staff and today she serves as the Vision Keeper of the organization.
Marcela hosts retreats at Los Lobos Sanctuary, the center she and her husband Alberto Villoldo built in the mountains of Chile. She travels internationally to teach shamanic wisdom and leads sacred journeys that invite participants to awaken their own power and grace. contact@marcelalobos.com
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Sebastián nació en Quito, Ecuador, y desde muy joven se involucró en prácticas ancestrales que honran a la Tierra. Sebastián ha realizado especializaciones en orientación humanista, trabajo terapéutico con síntomas, y desarrollo transpersonal. Estudió una pequeña carrera en Ciencias Ancestrales y se formó en psicoterapia gestáltica en Argentina.
Fernanda, nació y fue criada en el campo, rodeada de cerros, ríos y animales. Estudió Artes y Psicología, es egresada de Pedagogía en Danza con mención en terapia corporal. Inspirada por esa profunda pasión por el cuerpo y sus formas continuó los estudios como profesora de Yoga Integral, Anusara Yoga y Terapeuta Floral.
Antonella nació en Lima, Perú, e inició su exploración en el ámbito del aprendizaje humano a través de diversos procesos de transformación personal, formándose como Coach Ontológico Integral. Ha dirigido procesos de aprendizaje y terapéuticos enfocados en la transformación de personas y comunidades a través de experiencias vivenciales.
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A full-time shaman devoted to his path. Steffen has a background in consulting and digital media before he answered Spirit’s call to hold sacred space for his clients. He is trained as a systemic coach on the ISC Finger in 2011 and shamanic energy medicine withe Alberto Villoldo. Steffen is initiated in the tradition of the Laika, the shamans of the Qero, who have their home in the Peruvian Andes.
María Clara Castañeda is a trilingual facilitator in personal development and conscious transformation. She guides professionals and individuals in life transition through transformational processes that integrate ancient wisdom, embodied practices, and strategic insight—supporting the alignment of inner purpose with outer expression across diverse cultural contexts.
A former Social Worker and Retired Director of Technology, Larry found the Four Winds in 2014 and dove in to begin to dream his world into being. The idea of moving beyond story was life changing. Larry has been around the medicine wheel several times and did a year long apprenticeship with healers from other shamanic teachings. Larry now lives in Pennsylvania and practices shamanic healing full time.Book a session here: PAShamanicHealing.com
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Karen Johnson, JD, MPH, MPIA Author • Teacher of Energy Medicine • Wise Woman of Grief & Rebirth • Crone and Grandmother
I am honored to carry the medicine teachings that allowed me to choose a new path from Washington, D.C lawyer and judge to teacher and practitioner of shamanic medicine. I was shaped by loss and am devoted to walking others home to new pathways.
I am a former federal administrative law judge with master’s degrees in public health and public and international affairs, and a Fulbright scholar. My life took a profound turn after the death of my 27-year old son from a heroin overdose. To understand grief and loss, I left behind a 30-year legal and public health career to follow the path of spirit; becoming a nomad and studying with shamans, priests and spiritual masters around the world for two- and-a-half years.
My book, Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss, helps those navigating the deep waters of bereavement to honor the departed by choosing to create a new life from the ashes of the old with love and purpose.
Whether your healing journey is one rooted in a desire to make life or career changes, exploring grief and loss of any kind, or perhaps taking on the mantle of crone or sage, we walk the path together listening beyond words, walking with the unseen, and creating a new life that remembers but does not remain in the past.
Trained by Alberto Villoldo, Karen Hoza is a graduate of The Energy Medicine Training, holds a Masters Certification, and works as a lead teacher and academic advisor for the Four Winds Society. She is gifted at creating and holding safe sacred space for rites of passage, ceremony, personal transformation, and self-empowerment for groups and individuals. Deeply connected to the Divine Feminine, Karen is inspired to share creative wisdom with all those ready to experience transformation in their lives.
A wise and heart-centered shamanic energy medicine practitioner who also practices functional nutrition through detoxification and plant centered healing. Hyacinth works with Alberto on the Grow A New Body Detox Programs and travels sharing Energy Medicine healing, Adaptogenic Plant Medicine workshops and Cacao Ceremonies. Hyacinth is passionate about guiding others back home, to the heart of self love, optimal health and the profound wisdom teachings of nature.
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Trained by Marcela Lobos at Los Cuatro Caminos School of Energy Medicine, Antonella integrated this practice with her work as Life Coach. Her path and inspiration is based on living reciprocity and compassion, thus attending to her call to accompany others to remember their own human nature and life purpose. She believes that by reconnecting with our ancestral roots through ceremonies and rituals we can awake our true power as children of the Earth.
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Growing up up in the community of energy medicine practitioners, Alexis embraced The Four Winds' teachings and merged them with her Neuroscience and Psychology studies from Swarthmore College. She harmonizes Western science with the wisdom of the medicine wheel, aiming for global harmony. A passionate teacher and advocate, Alexis envisions a world prioritizing community health, earth's wellbeing, and self-awareness, believing our best destiny lies in understanding and nurturing the universe that sustains us. She believes wholeheartedly that, as Earthkeepers, we will find our highest and best destiny in confronting our true selves, and in caring for the universe that loves and supports us all.
Born in Quito, Ecuador, Sebastian was drawn to ancestral Earth-honoring practices from a young age, fostering a passion for celebrations centered on the Divine Feminine. He studied Ancestral Sciences in Ecuador and later trained in Gestalt psychotherapy in Argentina, where he became a Priest of the Goddess of the Southern Cross. Specializing in humanistic counseling and transpersonal development, he's been a ceremonialist and workshop leader at various events, including Pagan Pride and The Goddess Conference.
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Fernanda, raised in the countryside amidst nature, was deeply influenced by her family's Arabic rituals and mysticism. From a young age, she embraced Metaphysics, Yoga, and Tarot, leading her to study Arts, Psychology, and Dance Pedagogy. Passionate about the body's connection to energy, she became a certified Yoga instructor and Floral Therapist. Today, she practices Energetic and Shamanic Medicine at The Four Winds and runs a holistic therapy clinic in Chile.
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Laura, a former mathematician, possesses an unending fascination for science and mystical arts. Years ago, she embarked on a profound shamanic journey under the tutelage of Marcela Lobos at Los Cuatro Caminos and Alberto Villoldo through FourWinds Society. These advanced energy medicine practices seamlessly amalgamated with her expertise in mindfulness, breathing, nutrition, and compassionate inquiries into treating trauma. Today, she transforms life lessons into soul-centered workshops, retreats, and experiences, using her wisdom and compassion to guide others towards self-discovery and the pursuit of joy, passion, and purpose. Currently residing between the Amazon jungle and Peruvian Andes, she continues her education by learning from indigenous communities and honing her healing abilities.
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D.r Liz Esalen is the founder and CEO of Luminous Healing Center, MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy Clinic, and The Lotus Collaborative, eating disorder recovery centers in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, California. At Luminous Healing Center, Esalen's work is at the forefront of her field, offering new and progressive evidence-based treatments for psychological trauma, PTSD, and mind-body anxiety. Dr. Liz has dedicated her career to creating quality, heart-centered healing organizations that foster mind-body-soul reconnection and profound transformation.
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Trained by Marcela Lobos at Los Cuatro Caminos School of Energy Medicine, Antonella integrated this practice with her work as Life Coach. Her path and inspiration is based on living reciprocity and compassion, thus attending to her call to accompany others to remember their own human nature and life purpose. She believes that by reconnecting with our ancestral roots through ceremonies and rituals we can awake our true power as children of the Earth.
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A wise and heart-centered shamanic energy medicine practitioner who also practices functional nutrition through detoxification and plant centered healing. Hyacinth works with Alberto on the Grow A New Body Detox Programs and travels sharing Energy Medicine healing, Adaptogenic Plant Medicine workshops and Cacao Ceremonies. Hyacinth is passionate about guiding others back home, to the heart of self love, optimal health and the profound wisdom teachings of nature.
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Trained in energy medicine by Marcela Lobos at Los Cuatro Caminos School of Energy Medicine, Helaine subsequently integrated this practice into her work as a Life Coach. Her purpose is to accompany others to discover their gifts and remember their inner nature to live with freedom, authenticity and power. Helaine deeply believes that the most sacred thing we can do as human beings is enlighten our shadows, awaken our gifts, and cultivate our life from our inner healer.
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Born into a lineage of shamans, Lauren grew up working closely with tools of spirit and assisting others in their healing journey. During her early adult years she explored alternate paths, finding that all roads returned to her roots. Lauren conveys strength of passage to seekers, guiding them on a journey back home to themselves. She calls forth the inner warrior to rise up and expand into the greatest gift: Love.
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Patricia Iris, MD, MPH is a western-trained medical doctor whose holistic approach includes Ayurveda, Yoga, Energy Medicine and Functional Medicine. She integrates Eastern tools and practices with Western techniques to optimize health. As a shamanic energy medicine practitioner, Dr. Iris provides a personalized healing experience that assists her clients to achieve mental clarity, physical vitality, emotional equilibrium, and spiritual growth. By holding sacred space, she supports each individual to attain wellness through discovery of the true self.
A former Social Worker and Retired Director of Technology, Larry found the Four Winds in 2014 and dove in to begin to dream his world into being. The idea of moving beyond story was life changing. Larry has been around the medicine wheel several times and did a year long apprenticeship with healers from other shamanic teachings. Larry now lives in Pennsylvania and practices shamanic healing full time.
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A full-time shaman devoted to his path. Steffen has a background in consulting and digital media before he answered Spirit’s call to hold sacred space for his clients. He is trained as a systemic coach on the ISC Finger in 2011 and shamanic energy medicine withe Alberto Villoldo. Steffen is initiated in the tradition of the Laika, the shamans of the Qero, who have their home in the Peruvian Andes.
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A passionate shamanic energy medicine practitioner, Barbara Haussener chose the path of dreaming the world into being early on. She offers consultations in German and English and is skilled at supporting others to bring back lightness, color and joy of life. Barbara lives in Switzerland, where she follows her passions in deep union with Mother Earth. She is a teaching assistant with the Four Winds Society.
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Deeply rooted and experienced in helping people remember their true voice and personal power, Bridghe McCracken holds an advanced practitioner certificate from the Light Body School. She works with balancing energy systems for adults, children, animals, and the land through Illuminations, Soul Retrieval and Extractions. Bridghe is strongly called to work with the body to attain its highest vibration through a combination of food, lifestyle, and energy work. Her 20 years of experience in organic farming, creating pollinator habitat, restoring native ecosystems, and designing sacred spaces informs and inspires all her work. Email Bidghe at Helialanddesign@gmail.com to book a session.
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María Clara Castañeda is a trilingual facilitator in personal development and conscious transformation. She guides professionals and individuals in life transition through transformational processes that integrate ancient wisdom, embodied practices, and strategic insight—supporting the alignment of inner purpose with outer expression across diverse cultural contexts.
Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., is a psychologist and medical anthropologist who has studied the shamanic healing practices of the Amazon and Andes for over 30 years. He is the founder of the Four Winds Society, bridging ancient shamanic traditions with modern medicine and psychology.
He currently only offering sessions to students and graduates of The Four Winds. To book a consultation with him please write to Consultations@Thefourwinds.com
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Lynn Berryhill is an acclaimed artist whose paintings are featured in collections throughout the U.S. and Europe. Lynn has taught creativity classes, is an active energy medicine practitioner, and loves to teach. Her creative spirit lets her easily take students into the realms of the soul to learn to work with destiny.
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Emma believes in the importance of bridging the spiritual world with our internal compass. Through the radiant alchemy of balancing body, mind, and spirit, in order to connect with the aliveness of life. Throughout her childhood, she was exposed to spiritual practices and ideologies and even at a young age, she was aware that these tools would someday be useful. After University, Emma began exploring different philosophies in search of healing from deep anxiety, OCD, and a racing mind that she has experienced throughout her life. This is how she came into contact with shamanistic and Buddhist practices.
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Marcel Heyder explored many spiritual traditions and healing techniques before finding his life purpose in shamanism. For over a decade he has worked with groups and individuals in Germany, finding deep satisfaction in supporting others as they grow, discover true freedom and reclaim their sacred energy. He has enriched his personal experience with frequent travel to Asia and the Amazon and feels a deep connection to nature and the wisdom, light, and energy of the sacred medicine of the Amazon.
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Martha started her studies with The Four Winds Society in 2007, and has assisted with residential and online teaching since 2018. She is a certified Movement Therapist, professional Kripalu Yoga teacher, and creator of the Yoga Alliance-certified Spirit Moves You Teacher Training. Martha has led workshops and trainings throughout the US and abroad for the past 20 years. She lives and works on Martha’s Vineyard.
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Dean Taraborelli has traveled to sacred sites in over 30 countries to study and experience the wisdom of ancient cultures. His interaction with people from many nations has given him insight into world religions, beliefs, mythology, rites of passage, rituals and spiritual healing. Dean is the founder of the Sanctuary – A Life Transformation Center in Sedona, AZ., where he is actively and daily engaged as an energy medicine practitioner.
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Karen Johnson, JD, MPH, MPIA Author • Teacher of Energy Medicine • Wise Woman of Grief & Rebirth • Crone and Grandmother
I am honored to carry the medicine teachings that allowed me to choose a new path from Washington, D.C lawyer and judge to teacher and practitioner of shamanic medicine. I was shaped by loss and am devoted to walking others home to new pathways.
I am a former federal administrative law judge with master’s degrees in public health and public and international affairs, and a Fulbright scholar. My life took a profound turn after the death of my 27-year old son from a heroin overdose. To understand grief and loss, I left behind a 30-year legal and public health career to follow the path of spirit; becoming a nomad and studying with shamans, priests and spiritual masters around the world for two- and-a-half years.
My book, Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss, helps those navigating the deep waters of bereavement to honor the departed by choosing to create a new life from the ashes of the old with love and purpose.
Whether your healing journey is one rooted in a desire to make life or career changes, exploring grief and loss of any kind, or perhaps taking on the mantle of crone or sage, we walk the path together listening beyond words, walking with the unseen, and creating a new life that remembers but does not remain in the past.
Trained by Alberto Villoldo, Karen Hoza is a graduate of The Energy Medicine Training, holds a Masters Certification, and works as a lead teacher and academic advisor for the Four Winds Society. She is gifted at creating and holding safe sacred space for rites of passage, ceremony, personal transformation, and self-empowerment for groups and individuals. Deeply connected to the Divine Feminine, Karen is inspired to share creative wisdom with all those ready to experience transformation in their lives.
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Elise Kost has devoted two decades to guiding individuals and groups to claim courage and fully personify their beauty and joyful vitality of body, heart-mind, and spirit. She is a passionate poet, life coach, energy medicine practitioner, master certified Four Winds graduate, and lead faculty of The Four Winds Society. Greatly influenced by Nature and devoted to the Mystery, Elise helps others discover the Sacred, deepen their sense of trust, self-compassion, empowerment, and love for the transformational journey of creating a conscious life of wisdom, peace, and inspiration.
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Marcela Lobos
Since 2003, Marcela has been initiated into the healing and spiritual traditions of the Amazon and the Andes, later deepening her path through Tantric Buddhist practices. Today, she is pursuing a PhD in Psychology, Religion and Consciousness. Marcela is the author of Awakening Your Inner Shaman, The Sacred Andean Codes, and co-author of the Mystical Shaman Oracle deck. Born and raised in Chile, Marcela graduated from a prestigious journalism program. In her mid-twenties, she pursued studies in yoga and wellness and in 2005 she graduated from The Four Wind Society’s Light Body School. Soon she joined the teaching staff and today she serves as the Vision Keeper of the organization. Marcela hosts retreats at Los Lobos Sanctuary, the center she and her husband Alberto Villoldo built in the mountains of Chile. She travels internationally to teach shamanic wisdom and leads sacred journeys that invite participants to awaken their own power and grace. contact@marcelalobos.com
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Ruby Parker’s career in the healing arts spans over 20 years and includes work as a massage therapist, Reiki master, personal counselor, and Energy Medicine practitioner focused on the connection of mind, body and soul. Ruby is Assistant Director of Alternative and Complementary Health at The Sanctuary at Sedona. A graduate of the Four Winds with master certification in Energy Medicine, she is also part of the faculty of The Four Winds Society.
Dates: August 7-19, 2017 Hosts: Dr. Alberto Villoldo, Marcela Lobos
For countless millennia, the shamans have been keepers of ancient rites. They believe that if it were not for their stewardship of the Earth through prayer and ceremony, certain gateways to our collective destiny would be lost forever.
Join Dr. Alberto Villoldo and Marcela Lobos on a journey of ceremony to explore the wisdom we will need in order to thrive during the years to come in these times of great change.
The Return of the Magicians is an annual gathering to read the Prophecy of the Time to Come. This year the shamans will be taking the pulse of our planet and the changes that are causing such upheaval in the world.
Every day you will visit temples and archeological sites with Marcela and Alberto, and take part in ceremonies led by renowned medicine men and women. In the evening you will learn and master each of the Four Insights of the Medicine Way.
During this journey you will have daily contact and instruction from Alberto and Marcela, as well as the shamans who have worked with us for decades. Due to our lengthy relationship with these medicine people, they will share with us insights and lessons they do not disclose to other Westerners.
You will also receive rites of initiation that will help you become an Earthkeeper and truly make a difference in your life, and in the destiny of the Earth.
Every day you will join in ceremony with master shamans at ancient places of power. In the mornings you will practice yoga in our beautiful lodge in the Sacred Valley, near the ancient Inka capital of Cusco.
Come to the source! We invite you to journey with Dr. Alberto Villoldo, one of the first American anthropologists to work with the Andean shamans more than 30 years ago. Walk the ancient paths of the shaman and become part of the revolution in consciousness.
In his recent webinar, The Return of the Magicians, Alberto Villoldo Alberto Villoldo discusses the importance of coming together in community and how you can become part of the revolution of consciousness.
Land costs $4,800 Double occupancy, $5,550 Single occupancy
LAKE TITICACA: BIRTHPLACE OF THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN
Dates: August 19-24, 2017 Host: Julie Hannon, Senior Faculty – The Four Winds Society
Lake Titicaca is the source and origin of the Inka, who were born on the sea on top of the world. Here the Sun and the Moon gave birth to the first Inka and Coya, who emerged from Lake Titicaca and journeyed north to the valley of Cusco and founded the Empire of the Sun. The conquistadors established an important shrine to the Virgin of rebirth and new life in Lake Titicaca.
Our journey will have as its focus our own emergence as we do ceremonies and meditations with the transformative energies of these power places. We will visit the ancient towers of Sillustani, the burial ground of kings, queens and shamans, in the middle of Lake Umayu, the river of consciousness. We will call on new life at the Temple of Fertility. We visit the floating reed islands of the Uru peoples whose myth of origin points to Sirius, the Dog Star. Ceremony at the Temple of Illapa, the Lightning God, and Pachamama the Mother Earth will balance the polarities in our lives. We step into our becoming at Amaru Muru, the mountain gateway known as the Andean Stargate.
Throughout the journey we will be surrounded by the beauty of islands that are virtually undisturbed since Inka times. At Amantani, we stay in the homes of villagers, where we experience the purity and joy of their traditional life.
Group limited to 16 persons. Land costs $2,900 Double occupancy, $3,200 Single occupancy
Dates: October 3-14, 2017
Hosts: Marcela Lobosand Monika Nataraj
A potent, experiential journey celebrating women’s rites of passage and the evolutionary path of the tantric wisdom goddesses. Join Marcela and Monika in prayer, dance, ritual and meditation to awaken the Cosmic Powers of the Universe, also known as the Mahavidyas. Through shamanic ceremonies and tantric teachings, you leave behind the stories and roles that no longer serve you and discover your true beauty, inner wisdom, alive awareness, fierce wildness, and the feminine mystery that lies at the heart of each of us. This is a transmission of an esoteric yet practical map to guide you through deep transformation and the way of the feminine divine.
Los Lobos is an intimate retreat and monastery in the mountains where you take part in a sweat-lodge ceremony, fire rituals, movement medicine meditations, nature explorations, and hikes. You also enjoy organic cuisine and get pampered in the spa with an ample option of treatments – from a facial to osteopathy to energy medicine.
Embracing the mystical insight granted through the gates of the 10 Mahavidyas and the power of Ma Durga, we leave behind the pain of our mothers and celebrate the community and potential of our sisters. With the help of earth, water, fire, wind, and song, we emerge renewed, awakened!
Marcela and Monika bring a combined 40 years of profound sacred practices for women experience.
This unique gathering is groundbreaking, as we intricately weave the wisdom traditions of the Himalayas and the Andes. Each of the 10 Tantric Wisdom Goddesses come alive through embodied exercises, meditation, medicine dance and sacred ritual in a way not shared anywhere else. Potent shamanic ceremonies anchor the teachings. We also dare to tap into the endless transformational well of igniting and harnessing our sexual energy.
Following our journey, you may continue to the region of lakes, hot springs and volcanoes in Southern Chile; to the dramatic landscapes of Patagonia; to the attractive town of San Pedro in the Atacama Desert plateau; or to mystic Easter Island. We can recommend hotels and transport!
About Monika Nataraj: Monika is a pioneer of modern sacred feminine practices, and transformational teacher-trainings for women. She travels the world studying and practicing with spiritual masters and, in turn, teaching sacred traditions. Monika is passionate about movement mysticism, tantric yoga, meditation, travel and community work. She enjoys dancing the Divine into existence, finding Truth in every breath and sharing with others.
Group limited to 28 women. Lodging not included, to view room options click here.
Optional upgrade: Brain Bar click here for more information.
Dates: August 7-19, 2017
Dates: October 3-14, 2017