Teachers
Our List of THOTH-endorsed teachers of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Cross-cultural Shamanism Apprenticeships and other workshops are listed below. If you are interested in attending their workshops or other events, please contact them directly, email us at programs@heartofthehealer.org or call 877-314-3778
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Sam Austin, GASam Austin has studied shamanic and healing arts for many years, including intensive apprenticeship with don Oscar Miro-Quesada for over a decade. He has a mesa-based healing practice, incorporating what he has learned from traditional medicine people in the mountains, jungles and coast of South America. For years he has taught individuals and groups the sacred realities that he has learned in North America, South America, and the Himalayas. Contact: Sam Austin pumaruna@bellsouth.net |
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Daniel Baxley, KSDaniel's lineage is Native American. He has apprenticed extensively with don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Peruvian and Native American Healers, and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. He is the founder of the White Deer Lodge, a Healing and Retreat Center. His practice includes the Sweat Lodge, Vision Quest, and other honoring ceremonies. Daniel facilitates teachings and workshops, is a Body worker, Reiki Master, Attunement Practitioner, and Craniosacral Therapist. Contact Daniel Baxley, rainbowspiritstar@yahoo.com or visit his website at: www.shamanicpathways.net |
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Audrey Bennett, CTAudrey began self-study into Indigenous Wisdom and Earth based medicine paths in 1996. She began apprenticeship with don Oscar in 2008. Her hearts work and dedication to "all our relations" also took her through formal commitments in First Nations traditions of the Plains People, as well as working with Alberto Villoldo, Linda Fitch and don Martin Pineado from Wasau, Peru. Her formal education in Social Work and pursuit of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition unite in bringing practical and meaningful depth to her teaching. Yet "Great Mystery" guides the "hollow bone". Audrey is a forensic social worker and has a private Integrative Psychotherapy practice as well. She is the founder of Weave Your Life LLC & The Center for Holistic Practices & Psychotherapy in Southington, CT. Contact Audrey Bennett at audbenn@hotmail.com |
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Jason Blaesing, NCJason Blaesing, AM engages Peruvian healing as a practicing curandero (healer), and as a researcher of traditional medicine in the Andes. He began his apprenticeship in 1995, learning the Pachakuti Mesa and kamasqa curanderismo from don Oscar Miro-Quesada, and has for over a decade spent part of each year on the Peruvian coast and northern highlands, working under the tutelage of several healers, chiefly don Victor Bravo Cajusol, while maintaining a full-time healing practice in the US. He has taught the Pachakuti Mesa since 2003, and in 2009 finished the book which undergirds the Heart of the Healer Foundation’s apprenticeships. In a related capacity, he served as the five-year volunteer chair of the foundation’s Education Committee, and remains an advisor to the organization. Jason has also conducted documentary filming in North Peru, and recently completed the first stage of graduate study (Masters) at the University of Chicago, where he wrote on Peruvian medicine and mathematics, and for which thesis he earned the University’s Raymond D. Fogelson Prize for ethnological and historical science. He is now working on his PhD at Cornell University. Contact Jason Blaesing, programs@heartofthehealer.org |
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Garry Caudill, COGarry received his spirit name, Aquila Negra, from a shaman in Chiapas, Mexico. Discovering this path in 1998, he was able to create spiritual practice that supports his calling to live in harmony with the beloved Earth Mother. After a deep apprenticeship and experience with don Oscar, many trips to Peru and the land of the Maya, he shares the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition with great reverence and honor. Contact Gary Caudill, aquilanegra48@yahoo.com |
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Phyllis Clay, NMPlease check back for updated information
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D'oro Cunha, NYD'oro’s passion is sharing the indigenous wisdom “written on her bones” throughout her shamanic apprenticeship. A practitioner of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition – transmitted by Oscar Miro-Quesada – she delights in sharing transformative practices and Earth-honoring ritual so helpful for creating positive change for the Self, one's community, and our planet in these unprecedented times. Dorothy also studied with Alberto Villoldo and John Perkins, and completed Spiritual Leadership Training with Harshada Wagner. Contact Dorothy Cunha, shamanicarts@hotmail.com |
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Catherine 'Kendra' Davis, CAKendra strives to represent the heart of our community. She has studied the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition since 2005. Kendra has been a body worker and myopractor for over 18 years and is currently training therapists in myopathic neuro-muscular re-education. She teaches meditation, crystal healing, journey work and space clearings, and is a past community member of Madre Grande Monastery who has taken lifetime vows of service. Contact Kendra Davis, kendra@heartofthehealer.org. |
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Valerie de MagdalenaSince Valerie’s first initiations in 1998, the shamanic and yogic traditions have been at the heart of her personal transformation, her therapeutic work with others, and her relationship with life. Initially a student of Shadow yoga, core shamanism and the Huna tradition of Hawaii, Valerie began her apprenticeship in the Peruvian paqokuna tradition in 2004 and shortly thereafter in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition. She is a student of don Oscar Miro-Quesada, don Mariano Quispe Flores, teacher, healer and ceremonialist of the Andean Paqokuna tradition, and an apprentice to her beloved Pachakuti Mesa. She teaches yoga, facilitates workshops on Peruvian Shamanism and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, and works with individuals in her healing practice. In service to the light of consciousness and to the Great Mystery that permeates all things, her classes, workshops and one-on-one work reflect her dedication to supporting individuals on their pathway to healing and consciousness. You can reach her at valerie.de.magdalena@gmail.com or visit her website at www.pathwaystowholeness.net.
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Paula Givan, COPaula is THOTH’s Representative in Peru. She is a life-long student and traveler of the Americas beginning in Guatemala and El Salvador in the 1970s. A Colorado native, Paula is active in building a grounded community of earth stewards by sharing her love for the mountains and her studies of Peruvian Wisdom traditions. Paula is a healing arts practitioner and has practiced CranioSacral and massage therapies for 17 years. Contact Paula Givan, programs@heartofthehealer.org |
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Bonnie Glass-Coffin, UTBonnie Glass-Coffin, PhD, is a nationally recognized professor of anthropology at Utah State University. She has studied with Peruvian curanderos since 1982 and is author of The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru. She began apprenticing with don Oscar in 2005, experiencing the transformative power of these wisdom teachings and integrating these deeply into her life. She currently lives in Logan, Utah. Contact Bonnie Glass-Coffin, bridgerland.ayllu@gmail.com
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Cynthia Greer, NCCynthia is a teacher, healer and ceremonialist. Since 1998 she’s apprenticed in the shamanic arts with don Oscar, the Pachakuti Mesa, the Unseen World, and several other shamans from the Americas where she’s traveled extensively. Cynthia has over 20 years of teaching experience and knows the best teaching is from the heart and the best learning happens when it’s fun. Contact Cynthia Greer, cbagreer@bellsouth.net |
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Oakwalker (Philip) Groff, TXOakwalker has been deeply and intensively studying shamanistic healing principles and ceremonial service since 1995, and has been apprenticing with Oscar Miro-Quesada since 2002. He is a Certified Clinical Herbalist from the Self-Heal School in San Diego, an initiated sound healer by Tito La Rosa and an initiated Pampamisayoc (Earth Steward) by Linda Henning. He has done the service of the Three Year healing series with Oscar, and has been professionally involved in alternative health consulting since 2002. He brings a certain flair for relating obtuse principles of shamanism to the “real world” of technology and science by virtue of his life’s work in day jobs as an electronic engineer, which has allowed him to “see the fields” in a way that are in touch with the quantum mechanics of creation. Contact him at herbaleveryman@gmail.com
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Robin Harman, GARobin has apprenticed in the Pachakuti Mesa tradition for 18 years with don Oscar Miro-Quesada, shaman and master ceremonialist, building upon many years of in-depth consciousness training with other revered teachers. With degrees in music, religion and the arts, Robin ‘s commitment to infusing an essence of Spirit into unwavering Service to Pachamama colors all that she does. A creative sense of play, humor, gratitude and wonder are her watchwords. Contact Robin Harman, altaryourlife@aol.com |
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Janet Harvey, NCJanet Harvey is one who bridges the mysteries whether in her role as artist, poet, mediator, chaplain, ceremonialist, or leader of pilgrimages to local sacred sites. She is an ordained minister rooted in the Transcendentalist tradition of Thoreau, Emerson and Fuller. She follows the dreaming of Carl Jung, the reverence of John Muir and the wonder of Loren Eiseley. She has apprenticed with Don Oscar Miro-Quesada in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition since 2004 and studied with Don Mariano Quispe and Jason Blaesing. She brings a deep sense of the interconnection of all that is together with a continuing curiosity that only increases as she journeys through life. She has been active in the Ancient Mountains Ayllu in Asheville and is a member of the Qollasuyu Council of the Southeastern United States.Contact Janet at chacaruna@earthlink.net.
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Judy Hoaglund, CAJudy Hoaglund is a Pachakuti Mesa Tradition practitioner and energy worker living in northern California. Her lifelong interest in nature, consciousness, mysticism, spirituality and ceremony have led her through many years of study with Oscar Miro-Quesada, other mesa teachers, the Sufi Order of the West and various Native American and teacher plant guides. She incorporates the PMT, Reiki, bioenergetics, hypnotherapy, neo-shamanism, and Mazatec ceremonies into her private healing practice. Contact Judy Hoaglund, jhoaglund@earthlink.net or visit her at her web site: www.ShamanicAlchemy.net |
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Waltraud Hoenes, ItalyWaltraud Höenes is a curandera and ceremonialist in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, and a transpersonal psychologist. From 1997 - 2007 she apprenticed with don Oscar Miro- Quesada. Her work as ceremonial leader of the Dolomiten Ayllu in Europe has grown a branch of the PMT complementing it with the region’s shamanic- mythic heritage. She gives workshops and leads pilgrimages in the sacred mountains of the Dolomites (Italy), where she lives. Contact Waltraud Hoenes, waltraudhoenes@hotmail.com or visit the web site at: www.dolomiten-ayllu.it |
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Gary Langston, MORev. Dr. Gary Langston (Red Bear Who Sees All Worlds) is a shamanic counselor, ordained minister and holds a Doctorate of Divinity in Metaphysics and Spirituality. His Northern Cherokee tribal membership, apprenticeships within many Native traditions and his natural intuitive abilities guide his work in helping others find sacred space within their own hearts. Called upon by his own tribe as medicine man, Gary serves with respect, honor and love. Contact Gary Langston, revsawredbear@gmail.com |
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David Metz, NCDavid’s background is very diverse. He is a certified herbalist, body worker, healthy eating advocate and shamanic practitioner. His training is in South American and North American shamanic work and herbalism, Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine. In his practice he is skilled at getting to the root of a problem using his love of nature and his understanding of plants as teachers.for healing. He resides in Asheville, NC. Contact David Metz, apu67@live.com |
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Thomas Mock, VTThomas Mock was initiated into Lakota healing practices in 1984 and in 1989 into West African Yoruba practices, completing several levels of apprenticeship towards priesthood. He began training with Oscar Miro-Quesada in 1999, completing his level four apprenticeship in 2007. Thomas was the first Executive Director employed by the Heart of the Healer Foundation where he helped guide THOTH towards its current vision of service work in the world. Contact Thomas Mock, thomas.mock1444@gmail.com |
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Daniel Moler, KSDaniel Moler, MLA, is located in the Kansas City area. Daniel has spent many years researching and training in a variety of healing modalities, particularly indigenous medicine practices. A teacher and published author, Daniel’s passions include the shamanic arts, as well as alchemy, consciousness, liberal arts, philosophy, and spiritual awakening. An endorsed teacher of the Pachakuti Mesa, Daniel is dedicated to serving Earth and Spirit with great reverence. For more information about Daniel’s practice, visit: www.whitemountainmed.com |
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Ray Nobriga, CAThrough his extensive apprenticeship with don Oscar Miro-Quesada, supplemented by his numerous journeys to Peru to study with the indigenous healers and ceremonialists of the highland regions, and previous training in the Mazatec tradition, Ray offers to others the wisdom teachings he has received and the rich and varied experiences gained through his service to the natural and spiritual worlds. As Ray has experienced the extraordinarily transformative power of this tradition, he has committed himself to serving others in their process of transformation. As such, Ray maintains a healing, teaching and ceremonial practice incorporating his many years of training and experience. Ray is the founder of The Sanctuary at Mt. Shasta, a retreat and healing center in Mt. Shasta, California. Contact him at rnobriga@gmail.com or visit his website: www.thesanctuaryatmtshasta.com
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Bruce Pemberton, GABruce Pemberton, a psychologist, has been in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia for over thirty years. He is partially retired and has been deeply involved in learning from Indigenous Healers in North America, Peru and Ecuador over the past fifteen years. A past board member of The Heart of the Healer Foundation, Bruce is committed to impacting current psychological and cultural understandings with traditional wisdom teachings. Contact Bruce Pemberton, bkp60@mindspring.com |
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Lois Remeikis, ILLois focuses on carrying medicine from one world into the other. An initiated kultrun carrier and apprentice of Don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Lois fuses these traditions in the process of being a subtle warrior for manifesting spirituality in our everyday lives. Awakening earth-honoring wisdom in ourselves, Lois creates deep personal change through rituals, stories and transformative experiences. Laughter, gratitude, wonder and desserts are among the ways she brings forth her medicine. Contact Lois Remeikis, loisremeikis@sbcglobal.net.
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Carol Rydell, MOCarol Rydell is a shamanic soul coach, teacher, healer, priestess, business woman, explorer and the founder of Celestial Earth. She brings embodied oneness - anchoring qualities of courage, transparency, authenticity, unconditional self-love, trust, practicality, co-creative brilliance and love for all beings. Her teachings and transmissions support natural alignment with the Soul and its inner wisdom. Carol is a culturally diverse ceremonialist who has studied indigenous teachings and practices from around the world. Contact Carol Rydell, carol@carolrydell.com |
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Anita Stewart, GAAnita Stewart has practiced shamanic, ceremonial and healing arts for many years as artist, writer and weaver of heart-centered community. Intensive apprenticeship with don Oscar Miro-Quesada and other extraordinary teachers has deepened gratitude for profound gifts that ancestral wisdom brings our contemporary world. Anita teaches, offers ceremony and leads transformative journeys to the Andes, opening doorways into sacred realities as we each awaken to vast possibilities inherent in our lives. Contact Anita Stewart, samanita@mindspring.com |
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Edie Stone, COEdie Stone loves to share the beauty and transformative power of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition. She has taught Mesa workshops, and led circles and pilgrimages in Colorado and Wales since 2005. Edie has studied with don Oscar since 1999. She also walks the Celtic mythic and mystical path of her Welsh ancestors. Edie has been the sacred witness and facilitator of hundreds of Heart-Vision Shamanic Journeys in her practice in Boulder, Colorado.Contact Edie Stone: estone@ediestone.com or visit her event website: www.ShamanStone.org |
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Jean Tindle, ILJean Tindle is a teacher, healer and ceremonialist, and has spent the last 15 years studying shamanic traditions of both North and South America. She has studied the Pachakuti mesa with Oscar Miro-Quesada for many of those years. Her current practice merges the mesa tradition of Peru with both crystal and sound healing. She is a certified Sound Healer, Crystal healer and Reiki master. Her greatest joy is creating the space for others to experience the profound healing that can be found in these practices. She is a Kultrun drum carrier in the tradition of the Mapuche medicine women of Chile. She can be reached at jeantindle@spiritdancercrystals.com. Her website is www.spiritdancercrystals.com. |
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Robin Van Loon, PeruRobin Van Loon lives in Madre de Dios, Peru, where he works as the director of the Camino Verde organization. He has deep love for the medicinal plants of the Peruvian Amazon, and is an optimistic supporter of the healthy transformation of people´s relationships with the broader community of life. Contact Robin Van Loon, rgvanloon@yahoo.com |
Mary Rae Waller, SCPlease check back for updated information |
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"For years I have been attending don Oscars weekend events yet I wanted to understand more about this beautiful ceremonial art so I signed up for the new THOTH-Endorsed Pachakuti Mesa Tradition apprenticeship. I just completed “A Call To Heal,” the first in the series and I am profoundly happy that I am deepening my study of this tradition through this apprenticeship series. One of the most inspirational teachings for me was learning the history of don Oscars tradition and seeing the pictures of don Oscars principal teachers, don Celso Rojas Palomino and don Benito Vargas. During the first PMT weekend I experienced some profound healing which I am continually reminded that this type of personal growth is likely the most effective of all my past healing endeavors and supports my individual manifestation in the world. I recommend this apprenticeship series to ALL mesa carriers that want to understand the Pachakuti Mesa and the tradition at a deeper level as well as those new to this tradition."
--David Hansen, Carlsbad, CA, Composer, Producer, Arranger
“The bottom line, this workshop has changed my life. All I can do is think about running around with an ‘Alpaca’ and I now find myself constantly wanting to go deeper into this work as well as return to the land of Peru where this tradition has originated. I am hopeful that one day I can personally thank ‘Don Oscar Miro-Quesada,’ the originator of this tradition, for bringing these seeds, these fruits, this promise of hope and source of vitality, to us Westerners.”
--B.E., Denver, CO, Paralegal/Investigator, Kung Fu Teacher & Holistic Health Coach