The Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School presents
Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Sanctioned
Teacher Training Program
9 week training begins August 24, 2023
This training is mandatory for those beginning their referral and sanctioning process after July 1, 2023. For those who received sanction after January 1, 2023, don Oscar strongly recommends you take the training. This is a very special opportunity for you to be in the first group, on the live calls with don Oscar and designated teachers.
Classes will run from 7-9pm Eastern Time
Module 1: Welcome to the Amautakuna Allyu (August 24)
Teacher: don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Goal: Incorporate the essential significance of our PMT Cosmovision into your role as a teacher, allowing it to profoundly enhance and reinforce your spiritual growth as a devoted practitioner of the Great Work.
Topics:
- The role of our Pachakuti Mesa Cosmovision in the spiritual growth and shamanic soul maturation of a Sanctioned Teacher
- Developing a thorough appreciation for the use of proxemics aligned with the PMT Cosmovision for spatial placing of students configured around the central ceremonial ground
- The Kybalion’s Seven Universal Laws and their role illuminating our shamanic relationship with a living Cosmos
- Understanding your Compacto de Voz y Palabra as a declared oath of service and oral agreement of adherence to the PMT lineage and guiding principles
- Ayni as a core principle of shamanic action for strengthening sacred reciprocal partnerships between teacher, students, and All Our Relations
Homework:
- Engage in the ritual taught in class with printed day and night images of PMT cosmovision for fully accessing the archetypal support of kamasqa and paqokuna mythic wisdom paths.
Module 2: Foundational Concepts (August 31)
Teachers: Robin Flynn and Heather Weingartner
Goal: Address the core concepts that flow through the entire apprenticeship with a focus on quechua, and foundational teaching skills.
Topics:
- Best approaches to working with the documents
- Envision and plan the execution of the various processes outlined in your documents for harmoniously entering into relationship with the apprenticeship space when it’s time.
- The importance of a shared language
- Imparting an indigenous worldview through a western lens
- Importance of Quechua in Andean spirituality
- Observational awareness and deep listening to the organic flow and energetic dynamics at play in the ceremonial space
Homework:
- Review Quechua documents in Teacher Portal and develop your own succinct invocation (4-6 lines) in English for translation into Quechua by don Oscar for your personal use.
- Read all materials for A Call to Heal in preparation for the next module.
Module 3: A Call to Heal (September 7)
Teachers: Amy Isakov and Robin Harman
Goal: Provide the new teacher with the opportunity to increase their confidence to impart the core teachings and experiential processes of this module, while gaining an understanding of how to structure their time for a successful delivery of didactic and experiential material.
Topics:
- Arc of the weekend: consider ceremonial logistics and materials needed
- Student presentations and Teacher feedback
- Historical and Mythological Roots of Peruvian Curanderismo
- Lineage holders and their backgrounds
- Balanced Dualism
- The practice of Ayni as the defining principle of identity as a shamanic practitioner
- Fundamentals of the Pachakuti Mesa
- 5 directions and 3 pachas
- Ukhupacha as a shamanic realm for initiatory dismemberment, death, and rebirth
- Techniques for accessing the Ukhupacha
- Heeding the ‘Call’
- Limpia and Suspendida
Homework:
- Read all materials for A Balance of Power in preparation for the next module.
- Watch Limpia and Florecimiento videos
Module 4: A Balance of Power (September 14)
Teacher: David Jordan
Goal: Achieve a comprehensive understanding of the core teachings and experiential processes that must be covered during the weekend.
Purpose: Provide the teacher with empowered confidence to impart the core teachings and experiential processes of this module for the successful use of time.
Topics:
- Arc of the weekend: consider ceremonial logistics and materials needed
- Student presentations and Teacher feedback
- Differences between cultural paradigms of healing in traditional/original peoples and in hybrid/majority culture
- Importance of the balance of polarity within the mesa and life importance of equilibrium between runa (humans) and Pachamama
- Understand the role of Sun and Moon in the Kaypacha
- Encanto as a creative force both within our mesa and the fabric of our experience
- Four levels of creation
- The Kaypacha as an ayni woven matrix of life and death
Homework:
- Read all materials for Condor’s Quest in preparation for the next module.
Module 5: Condor’s Quest (September 20) **WEDNESDAY**
Teacher: Darcy Kopas
Goal: Achieve a comprehensive understanding of the core teachings and experiential processes that must be covered during the weekend.
Purpose: Provide the teacher with empowered confidence to impart the core teachings and experiential processes of this module for the successful use of time.
Topics:
- Arc of the weekend: consider ceremonial logistics, materials needed
- Student presentations and Teacher feedback
- Hanaqpacha dynamics
- Relevant South Andean Paqokuna concepts
- Deepening understanding of ayni as the intrinsic connecting principle of the Universe and shamanic practice
- Overview of the Tirakuna, Awkikuna, Malkikuna, Machula Awlanchis and Apukuna
- Teachings on the Five Attributes
- The Apukuna: Their critical importance as shamanic tutelary deities, transmitters of Paqokuna tradition, and their embodiment in local and regional geophysical landscapes
- Processes for Part III
Homework:
- Read all materials for Hummingbird’s Ascent in preparation for the next module.
Module 6: Hummingbird’s Ascent (September 28)
Teacher: Mona Rain
Goal: Achieve a comprehensive understanding of the core teachings and experiential processes that must be covered during the weekend.
Purpose: Provide the teacher with empowered confidence to impart the core teachings and experiential processes of this module for the successful use of time.
Topics:
- Arc of the weekend: consider ceremonial logistics, materials needed
- Student presentations and Teacher feedback
- Proper ceremonial etiquette for Pachakuti Mesa Tradition high ritual
- Dynamics and importance of the three worlds in their relationship to the phenomenal and kaypacha realm
- Five Healing Forces, their delivery, purpose, and anchoring within appropriate Healing Artes
- Importance of despachos in maintaining right relationship with the seen and unseen world
- Discuss the importance of Paqowachu to develop the student’s relationship with their apu
- Importance of understanding Kamasqa within the PMT
- Orienting to the power and relevance of the NW-SE axis on our mesas and the planet
- All Processes for Part IV
Homework:
- Read all materials for Shamanic Self in preparation for the next module.
Module 7: The Shamanic Self (October 5)
Teacher: Garry Caudill
Goal: Achieve a comprehensive understanding of the core teachings and experiential processes that must be covered during the weekend.
Purpose: Provide the teacher with empowered confidence to impart the core teachings and experiential processes of this module for the successful use of time.
Topics:
- Arc of the weekend: consider ceremonial logistics, materials needed
- Timing and execution within the flow of the weekend
- Student presentations and Teacher feedback
- Provide understanding of the distinct encanto dynamics associated with the upper, middle and lower zones that comprise the ‘living body’ of an Apu
- The ceremonial purpose of creating apachetas as bio etheric energy vortices connecting Pachamama’s seq’e network and apukuna
- Rainbow Tribe Hand Salutation
- Transmissions from the teacher
- Integration of The Kybalion’s PMT relevant wisdom teachings
- Three Campos
- Processes for Part V
Module 8: Creating and Maintaining a Strong Container (October 12)
Teachers: Anna Maria Lopez and Robin Harman
Goal: Walk the Path of the Sanctioned Teacher by creating and sustaining your apprenticeship ayllu and teaching space
Topics:
- Review proxemics
- Skills of the teacher
- Creating a strong energetic container in shamanic practice
- Holding and tending the field during and in between teaching gatherings
- Bringing awareness to experiential versus didactic dimensions involved in teaching
- Balancing spontaneous creative flexibility while emphasizing the vital adherence to core ceremonial protocols for establishing resonance in the field
- Sacred Community
- How to call in your ideal students
- Creating an apprenticeship ayllu container through daily practice
- Why we do this Work
- Communication before and after the apprenticeship gatherings
- Passing it forward – options for serving your local community
Homework: Submit one question or topic that needs clarification to bring to Module 9.
Module 9: Our Destiny Lies in Our Origins (October 19)
Teacher: don Oscar Miro-Quesada
Goal: Reinforce our alignment with The Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School’s global purpose and cross-cultural presence as a catalyst of human spiritualization within the larger web of adept initiates into the Great Work
Topics:
- What it means to be a PMT-initiated shamanic practitioner supportive of THOTH as a Shamanic Mystery School
- The critical role of community-centered involvement for ensuring that PMT shamanism remains a Seven Generation medicine gift to our world
- Q and A with pre-submitted questions for don Oscar
- Prayerfully reciting your Quechua invocation for engaging seen and unseen sources of visionary guidance as a PMT Sanctioned Teacher
- Final integration of our collective dharma as fashioners of blissful, beautifying, and benevolent human presence upon our beloved Pachamama
