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The Deep Healing Earth Spirit Yoga Retreat Story

My healing story began a long time ago however, what I call “the healing adventure” began in 2006.  We all have an aspect of ourselves that could be transformed. Whether it is physical, emotional, at the level of Spirit or from a previous lifetime there is often a story of “dis-ease” that needs transforming.  The Ayahuasca ceremony can be a deep release on all of these levels. It is a sacred journey of healing and oneness with all that is.  The Earth Spirit Yoga - Peru Shamanic Yoga Retreats began with a deep and beautiful healing journey. This journey took me through the pain of severe endometriosis and then the debilitating illness of Chronic Fatigue with more pain and depleted life energy.  For almost five years these debilitating conditions made it impossible for me to work and even functioning in the world day to day was a difficult and painful experience.  The many doctors I had consulted knew no cause or cure and after trying many natural healing methods I was eventually told that I would just have to accept that this was life for me now and that I would never be any more well.  Within days of hearing this I was booked on a flight to Peru. Inspired by my partner’s experiences years before in  the Ecuadorian Amazon, I found myself in the most profoundly beautiful experience of my life deep in the Peruvian jungle with a shaman who is now a dear friend and the sacred healing plant, Ayahuasca. (Finding the right person to guide me to a strong and experienced shaman was an important part of my journey and in this I was very blessed.)  The journeys were powerful and beautiful. The visions I was gifted with were deep and insightful. Words cannot express where I traveled and what I experienced. I can only say that after two nights with this sacred medicine all of the pain had gone, I was able to see and think clearly for the first time in years and my energy was like that of a child.  I was reborn.

Journal entry June 25th 2006

First Ayahuasca ceremony last night.  Shaman’s songs stayed strongly singing with me till late morning. This morning I feel changed. I know Her now. (Pachamama/ Mother Earth)  Wondering how I could be for so long without knowing Her or connecting with Her or remembering Her. Is this why I became sick? 

Journal entry June 27th 2006 

Pachamama has healed and nurtured me with her sacred medicine and the old story of pain, suffering and disconnection was left behind in the jungle. Now in it’s place is love and joy and a child-like bliss.  I first went to Peru in 2006 and in just two nights the story of more than 5 years of pain and suffering was over. I was healed and had discovered the magic of the plant spirits and a new connection and oneness with the Earth and was inspired to share the magic with others.  That year, during plant ceremony, I made a commitment to the plant spirits to work for them by bringing people to the Amazon for transformation and healing.  This is when Earth Spirit Yoga was born and since then 3 Earth Spirit Yoga Retreat groups have journeyed deep in the Amazon jungle with plant medicine and felt their Spirits soar in the Andes mountains with the Q’ero shamans.  Earth Spirit Yoga is dedicated to helping others move through their healing stories and awaken to their own power and truth experiencing oneness with all that is. We venture into new worlds and possibilities inspiring a more united and extraordinary Earth honouring vision.  Earth Spirit Yoga’s offering is a sacred and powerful experience now both in Australia and in our beloved Peru.  Run successfully now for three years, the Peru Shamanic Yoga Retreat is an amazing experience of Yoga, healing, learning and sacred earth honouring ceremonies with the shamans and sages of Peru in the Amazon jungle and Sacred Valley of the Inka. 

We awaken and reconnect with the earth and the deepest part of our being as we journey into the world of Spirit deep in the Amazon with our jungle shaman and the sacred ‘vine of the soul’, Ayahuasca.  Ayahuasca is the most revered and celebrated of Amazonian shamanic preparations. It is sacred medicine, the jungle’s nectar, a  magical intoxicant that can free the soul, allowing one to heal deeply and to wander in mystical encounters with the plant spirits and the self.  These plants are known as “teacher plants” and they are ready to help us move through our old stories of suffering and disconnection and into the joy and bliss that is our true nature.  In the Sacred Valley of the Inka we are blessed to share in traditional Despacho ceremonies and Karpays with Q’ero shamans.  Despacho ceremonies are traditional offering ceremonies to Pachamama, our Mother Earth and to the Apus, the mountain deities.  A Karpay is an initiation ritual or an energetic transmission of the teacher’s own power and spiritual lineage. It is a doorway, an opening to the sacred power.  These shamans are the Laika, the keepers of the ancient wisdom and the most respected mystics of the Andes. They are the link to the ancient lineage of the Inka. The ceremonies are performed at ancient Inka temples and allow us to experience a deep connection and gratitude to Pachamama, our Mother Earth.  Our days together begin with a morning practice of Hatha Yoga and meditation and include a deep rµelaxation session most afternoons, bringing us back to our essence of peace. From here we are open and still to receive the blessings of Pachamama. It is in this state that we receive the Karpays from the Laika, cleansed and clear, for a strong and powerful transmission of energy that inspirit us all to be potent Earth Keepers.  Join us in 2010 on one of our transformational retreats in Peru. June and September 1st to 13th    $2690Web: www.earthspirityoga.com.au Email: info@earthspirityoga.com.au

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