Four Winds Medicine Wheel Teachings
We will follow the wisdom teachings of the Laika (medicine men and women from Peru, whose knowledge has been nurtured and passed on from generation to generation). This beautiful way of being in the world has been adapted for us by Alberto Villoldo and Linda Fitch of the Four Winds Society into methods that help us to remember these teachings. I say remember because somewhere in all of us this knowledge waits to be rediscovered.
The Medicine Wheel consists of 4 weeks where we will share our deepest fears and our greatest dreams
A brief description of the course content follows for your information
For each direction you will bring 3 beautiful stones. These, through ancient ceremony and processes transform woundings that live within you to personal beauty and power. The stones become Kuya (medicine stones) and they are held in a mesa (medicine bundle).
The South Direction
You begin to create your mesa (medicine bundle) in the South where we take the opportunity to really look at the stories that we tell and how they inform our lives. We begin to unravel the beliefs and shadows that are held within these stories so that we can honor the reasons or no reasons and begin to choose differently. We take a deeper look at the beliefs and unused potential sides of us that remain hidden and undernourished.
During this week you will receive 3 technical rites of passage and the healer’s rites to your mesa
The West Direction
In the West you will work with your ancestors and learn how we become bound by our genetic and karmic lines. More importantly you create space here to honor you ancestors, acknowledge the gifts and unbind the ties. Here you truly begin to step into your life fully, no longer informed by the past.
In the West you receive the rites of passage of the Pampa Mesayok – here you step into the place of stewardship of all of life and how you respond to this call.
To allow space for the integration of the work done there will be a 6 hour vision quest which will follow the tradition of the north Native American tradition, so enriching your personal experience of the medicine ways.
The North Directione
In the North close the door to the West and step into the place of your becoming. You engage less at the emotional and physical and begin to process from the mythic and energetic. You take your incredible journey, no longer picking pockets for bits of wisdom but sipping rich nectar and knowing the flowers to drink deeply from.
You remember how to step outside of time and find a deep place of stillness within. You will take your place at the fire, stepping into destiny claiming your life and your journey.
You will receive the rites of passage Alto Mesayok - Caretaker of the mountains, service to the ancient ways, wisdom and teachings. Also included is an introduction to reading the signs of destiny.
The East Direction
In the East we look at projection and perception in a deeper way. You will begin to recognize that everything is projection. This is a powerful awareness as we journey through life, for here you can truly understand how the universe is simply a mirror. You will have the opportunity to look at your own limiting beliefs and hidden excuses for not stepping fully into participating in life.
The rites of passage are the Kurac A Kullek - Caretaker of the stars, service to the great masticator, to chew the knowledge and give in an understandable way. We will conclude the medicine wheel with ceremony and the art of creating rites of passage.
As life happens we continue to go around the medicine wheel. The gift is the awareness, knowledge and wisdom of how to shift and choose differently, more consciously and more quickly.