“We have been the keepers of rites that usher in who we are becoming as a people, as a planet. These processes are not only for the Indians, but for the entire world.”

– Don Manuel Quispe to Alberto Villoldo

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1980's

Alberto with legendary shaman Don Eduardo Calderon from the Coast of Peru.

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Late 1980's

Doña Bernardina Apaza with her husband don Humberto Sonco.

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1990's

Gathering of paqos, Alberto and a group of students at Mount Ausangate to summon the Mosok Karpay from the Heavens to the people.

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1990's

Don Manuel Quispe, Don Humberto Sonco, Alberto Villoldo. Photo by John Weiskopf.

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1990's

Don Manuel Quispe and Alberto Villoldo. Photo by Nancy Garbett.

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1990's

Alberto with Maria Reiche known as the Lady of the Nazca Lines of ancient Perú.

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1990's

Don Manuel Quispe. Photo by Nancy Garbett.

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Early 2000's

Don Humberto Sonco and Don Mariano Apaza creating an offering.

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2006

Don Pascual Apaza giving the Alto Mesayoq rite to Marcela Lobos.

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2012

Marcela sharing the rites in Perú with the Four Winds students.

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2013

Q'ero shamans offering the rites to our students by Mount Ausangate.

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2014

Marcela Lobos sharing the Rite of the Womb with students (in this photo is Leraine Horstmanshoff) at Joshua Tree.

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2018

Peruvian shamans traveling to Europe with Alberto.

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2022

Marcela and Q'ero shamans during a European tour.