Teachers
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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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Jason Blaesing, NCJason Blaesing began his apprenticeship in Peruvian healing and ceremonial traditions of kamasqa curanderismo and the Pachakuti Mesa in 1995 and has been teaching since 2003. He has continued direct apprenticeships on the coast and in the northern highlands of Peru. As a practitioner of the healing arts, Jason interweaves his experiences from kamasqa and Pachakuti Mesa ceremony, northern Peruvian folk medicine and curandero lineage, and traditional herbal lore. 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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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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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. She also serves on the THOTH Board and Education Committee. Contact Cynthia Greer, cbagreer@bellsouth.net |
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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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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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Lulu (Lisa) Lerner, NYLulu’s apprenticed in the Pachakuti Mesa tradition with Oscar since 1999. She’s also studied other shamanic traditions, is a registered polarity practitioner and an advanced apprentice in Adhishtana Meditation. The Mesa is one of her greatest teachers. She’s a devoted student of life with passion for universal truth & unconditional love. Her medicine is in empowering others to manifest their dreams, which is enhanced by her unique and unusual style. Contact Lulu Lerner, getttheconnection@aol.com. Or visit her web site at: www.lululovingllfe.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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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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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, info@buffalo-lodge.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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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 |
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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."
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“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.”
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