Current and Upcoming:
(scroll below for full details)
HAYWARIKUY (DESPACHO) CEREMONY: (Online) Sunday, October 17th, 2021
THE SPIRIT OF MONEY WORKSHOP: (Online) 6-Weeks, Wednesdays beginning October 20th, 2021
SITTING AT THE GATES: (In-Person) 6-Weeks, Saturdays beginning October 23rd, 2021
MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION: (Online) 6-Weeks, Mondays beginning November 8th, 2021
THE 7-DAY CREATOR PROCESS: (Online) Saturday, November 13th - Friday, November 19th
QUECHUA PRAYERS & SONGS WORKSHOP: (Online) Sunday, November 28th, 2021
MINDFULNESS IN NATURE HALF-DAY RETREAT: (In-Person) Sunday, December 12th, 2021
(scroll below for full details)
HAYWARIKUY (DESPACHO) CEREMONY: (Online) Sunday, October 17th, 2021
THE SPIRIT OF MONEY WORKSHOP: (Online) 6-Weeks, Wednesdays beginning October 20th, 2021
SITTING AT THE GATES: (In-Person) 6-Weeks, Saturdays beginning October 23rd, 2021
MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION: (Online) 6-Weeks, Mondays beginning November 8th, 2021
THE 7-DAY CREATOR PROCESS: (Online) Saturday, November 13th - Friday, November 19th
QUECHUA PRAYERS & SONGS WORKSHOP: (Online) Sunday, November 28th, 2021
MINDFULNESS IN NATURE HALF-DAY RETREAT: (In-Person) Sunday, December 12th, 2021
Haywarikuy (Despacho) Ceremony
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
LIVE online Haywarikuy (Despacho) Ceremony of Gratitude, Restoration & Renewal!
This traditional Andean gift of gratitude to Pachamama, the Ancestors, and the Cosmos
will be led live online by Q'ero Paqo Andres Apaza Ccapa and the family of Asunta Q'uispe in Cusco, Peru.
We will be connected via Zoom at 10am Pacific/11am Mountain/Noon Central/1pm Eastern.
**PLEASE NOTE TIME ZONES!**
Anyone may join from anywhere in the world!
Donations are requested via PayPal to Ruben Apaza: apaza.dhino17@gmail.com
Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81017313365
LIVE online Haywarikuy (Despacho) Ceremony of Gratitude, Restoration & Renewal!
This traditional Andean gift of gratitude to Pachamama, the Ancestors, and the Cosmos
will be led live online by Q'ero Paqo Andres Apaza Ccapa and the family of Asunta Q'uispe in Cusco, Peru.
We will be connected via Zoom at 10am Pacific/11am Mountain/Noon Central/1pm Eastern.
**PLEASE NOTE TIME ZONES!**
Anyone may join from anywhere in the world!
Donations are requested via PayPal to Ruben Apaza: apaza.dhino17@gmail.com
Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81017313365
The Spirit of Money Workshop :
Healing & Transforming Your Financial Reality
What is your current relationship with Money and your Financial Reality? What deeply held belief patterns do you experience around Money and Resource? Is it always a struggle? Does it seem to come and go in flood and drought? Are you always racing and chasing the tail of money? Do you feel the weight and crush of debt and owing more than you can ever pay?
How do you understand, appreciate and honor the Spirit of Money in a time when it's so un-tethered from anything tangible or seemingly real? How has the Spirit of Money evolved through your own Ancestral and Karmic timelines? What do you need to transform and heal between yourself and the Spirit of Money?
How can you more clearly communicate with the Spirit of Money regarding your needs and desires? How can you become an even greater steward of the Sacred powers of Money and Resource?
How do you awaken and cultivate your natural co-creative capacity to responsibly manage the streams of ebb and flow of financial energy? What does Sufficiency and Sustainability look and feel like in your life?
You are invited to explore these questions, find answers, and transform your relationship with your resources during the Spirit of Money Workshop.
In this six-week online* workshop and ceremony you will engage powerful energetic tools to open, explore, clear and transform your Ancestral, Karmic and Present-time limiting beliefs about Money and Resource.
You will establish new empowered connections to the true origin point of Earthly Resource and level-up your awareness of the unique relationship you have with the Spirit of Money. You will open and clear the lines of communication with the Spirit of Money and practice ways of honoring the Sacredness of this relationship.
In sacred ceremony you "get right" making Ayni, with yourself, your Ancestors, Pachamama, and your spirit helpers.
By engaging in this sacred ceremonial work, we understand the path to healing and transforming the Spirit of Money on a Global Level is through our own personal journey of conscious evolution. We must dream new ways of relating to Money in our own lives as leading-edge way-showers for the New Earth World being birthed at this time.
This healing workshop and ceremony is guided live online by Celia Blackwood.
Compassionately offered by heart-guided sliding-scale, $60 - $120.
Attendance LIVE is encouraged. Only the teaching periods will be recorded.
The Spirit of Money Workshop
6-Week Series
LIVE DATES:
WEDNESDAY, October 20th, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
WEDNESDAY, October 27th, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
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WEDNESDAY, November 10th, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
WEDNESDAY, November 17th, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
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WEDNESDAY, December 1st, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
WEDNESDAY, December 8th, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
ALL Times are listed in Arizona Time
*DON'T WORRY! Although this is an online workshop , there are periods of online teaching, offline exercises and practices, and intentional sacred ceremony space holding. Plan ahead for this to be an immersion into the roots and branches of your financial and spiritual worlds. Prepare to be deeply resourced and transformed!
How do you understand, appreciate and honor the Spirit of Money in a time when it's so un-tethered from anything tangible or seemingly real? How has the Spirit of Money evolved through your own Ancestral and Karmic timelines? What do you need to transform and heal between yourself and the Spirit of Money?
How can you more clearly communicate with the Spirit of Money regarding your needs and desires? How can you become an even greater steward of the Sacred powers of Money and Resource?
How do you awaken and cultivate your natural co-creative capacity to responsibly manage the streams of ebb and flow of financial energy? What does Sufficiency and Sustainability look and feel like in your life?
You are invited to explore these questions, find answers, and transform your relationship with your resources during the Spirit of Money Workshop.
In this six-week online* workshop and ceremony you will engage powerful energetic tools to open, explore, clear and transform your Ancestral, Karmic and Present-time limiting beliefs about Money and Resource.
You will establish new empowered connections to the true origin point of Earthly Resource and level-up your awareness of the unique relationship you have with the Spirit of Money. You will open and clear the lines of communication with the Spirit of Money and practice ways of honoring the Sacredness of this relationship.
In sacred ceremony you "get right" making Ayni, with yourself, your Ancestors, Pachamama, and your spirit helpers.
By engaging in this sacred ceremonial work, we understand the path to healing and transforming the Spirit of Money on a Global Level is through our own personal journey of conscious evolution. We must dream new ways of relating to Money in our own lives as leading-edge way-showers for the New Earth World being birthed at this time.
This healing workshop and ceremony is guided live online by Celia Blackwood.
Compassionately offered by heart-guided sliding-scale, $60 - $120.
Attendance LIVE is encouraged. Only the teaching periods will be recorded.
The Spirit of Money Workshop
6-Week Series
LIVE DATES:
WEDNESDAY, October 20th, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
WEDNESDAY, October 27th, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
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WEDNESDAY, November 10th, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
WEDNESDAY, November 17th, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
-break-
WEDNESDAY, December 1st, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
WEDNESDAY, December 8th, 2021 - 5pm-6:30pm
ALL Times are listed in Arizona Time
*DON'T WORRY! Although this is an online workshop , there are periods of online teaching, offline exercises and practices, and intentional sacred ceremony space holding. Plan ahead for this to be an immersion into the roots and branches of your financial and spiritual worlds. Prepare to be deeply resourced and transformed!
Sitting At The Gates
Honoring Grief in 5 Parts:
Abandonment, Disappointment, Rejection, Overwhelm & Forgetting
"Embrace your grief, for there your soul will grow." ~ Carl Jung
How do we learn to carry our grief and not collapse or turn away in denial?
How do we come to see grief as vital and necessary and not something only to be endured?
In essence, we are asked to take up an apprenticeship with sorrow.
An approach of reverence offers us the chance to learn a more skillful pattern of relating with grief.
When we come to our grief with reverence, we find ourselves in right relationship with sorrow, neither too far away or too close. We have entered into an ongoing conversation with this difficult, holy visitor.
Learning we can be with our grief, holding it softly and warmly, is the first task in our apprenticeship.
This will be a sacred time and space for honoring, embracing, turning toward the experiences of loss and grief.
Compassionate practices include, meditation, journeywork, ceremony, ritual, sharing, connecting, healing, transforming.
The 5 Gates of Grief
The First Gate: Everything We Love, We Will Lose - The Grief of Abandonment
The Second Gate: The Places That Have Not Known Love - The Grief of Rejection
The Third Gate: The Sorrows of the World - The Grief of Overwhelm
The Fourth Gate: What We Expected and Did Not Receive - The Grief of Disappointment
The Fifth Gate: Ancestral Sorrows - The Grief of Forgetting
This ceremonial series is based on the work of Francis Weller.
Recommended reading: The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground." ~ Oscar Wilde
In-Person in Tucson
Limited to 9 participants
Dates:
Saturday, October 23rd, 5-6:30pm (AZ)
Saturday, October 30th, 5-6:30pm (AZ)
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Saturday, November 13th, 5-6:30pm (AZ)
Saturday, November 20th, 5-6:30pm (AZ)
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Saturday, December 4th, 5-6:30pm (AZ)
Saturday, December 11th, 5-6:30pm (AZ)
This healing workshop and ceremony is guided live in-person by Celia Blackwood.
Compassionately offered by heart-guided sliding-scale, $120 (in full in advance) or $25 (per session).
ALL SPOTS ARE NOW FILLED!
If you would like to attend in the future let me know.
Mindful Self-Compassion 6-Week Training
Online Course Series via ZOOM
Mondays 3pm-5pm (Pacific)/6pm-8pm (Eastern)
Session 1: November 8, 2021
Session 2: November 15, 2021
Session 3: November 22, 2021
Session 4: November 29, 2021
Half-Day Retreat: December 5, 2021 (Sunday 9am-1pm/Noon-4pm)
Session 5: December 6, 2021
Session 6: December 13, 2021
What is MSC?
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an empirically-supported 6-week course designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. It was developed by Christopher Germer, PhD, a leader in the integration of mindfulness and psychotherapy (www.chrisgermer.com) and Kristin Neff, PhD, a pioneering researcher in the field of self-compassion (www.Self-Compassion.org).
MSC combines the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion to enhance our capacity for emotional well-being. Mindfulness is the first step—turning with loving awareness toward difficult experience (thoughts, emotions, and sensations). Self-compassion comes next—bringing loving awareness to ourselves. Together, mindfulness and self-compassion comprise a state of warm, connected, presence during difficult moments in our lives.
Most of us feel compassion when a close friend is struggling. What would it be like to receive the same kindness and compassion that you give to others when you suffer, fail, or feel inadequate? All that’s required is a simple U-turn--including yourself in the circle of your compassion. Self-compassion is essentially a humble enterprise.
Self-compassion involves the capacity to soothe, comfort, and validate ourselves, as well as to protect, provide for and motivate ourselves, when things go wrong in our lives. It is learned, in part, by connecting with our natural compassion for others. Learning how to be self-compassionate also helps us sustain and expand our compassion for others.
Numerous research studies show that self-compassion is strongly associated with emotional well-being, coping with life challenges, lower levels of anxiety and depression, healthy habits such as diet and exercise, and more satisfying personal relationships. It is an inner strength that enables us to be more fully human—more fully ourselves.
Fortunately, self-compassion can be learned by anyone.
In MSC Training you’ll learn to:
Practice mindfulness and self-compassion in daily life
Understand the science of self-compassion
Use self-compassion to live in accord with your values
Handle difficult emotions with greater ease
Motivate yourself with kindness rather than criticism
Work with challenging relationships
Manage caregiver fatigue
Practice the art of savoring and self-appreciation
Teach simple self-compassion skills to others
MSC is designed for members of the general public. Meditation experience is not necessary to participate in MSC.
All are welcome! The program is based on the values of equity, diversity and inclusiveness.
Program activities include short talks, experiential exercises, meditation, group discussion, and home practices.
MSC is a journey—an adventure in self-discovery and self-kindness. Self-compassion has the paradoxical effect of both soothing our emotional distress as well as opening us to the pain that we may have been unconsciously holding inside, often for many years. Therefore, challenging emotions are likely to surface during the program, including past trauma. MSC teachers are committed to helping participants feel safe and comfortable during the course. However, participants agree at the outset that they will take primary responsibility for their emotional well-being.
MSC is therapeutic, but it’s not therapy. The emphasis of the program is on building the resources of mindfulness and self-compassion. MSC is not a substitute for medical or mental health care.
Participants should also be aware that MSC is mindfulness-based compassion training. Mindfulness and compassion go hand-in-hand, but our main purpose is compassion training.
In a randomized, controlled study, MSC significantly increased self-compassion, compassion for others, mindfulness, and life satisfaction, as well as decreased depression, anxiety and stress. Read the full-text article. Improvements were linked to how much a person practiced in their daily lives. MSC participants are asked to practice mindfulness and self-compassion at home for up to ½ hour per day, and teachers guide and support participants in that endeavor.
Highly recommended while participating in the MSC course:
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer
It is also recommended, but not required, that participants read the following two books to get the most out of the training:
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion by Christopher Germer
6-Week Course Fees are based on your personal financial reality.
Please choose the option that most reflects your current finances:
$300 (full price)
$150 (half price)
$75 (quarter price)
(Additional payment options and scholarships available upon request.)
Class size is limited - Advance registration required.
Zoom link address given upon approved registration
Payment plans and make-up sessions may be arranged as needed.
Click this button to register now
The 7-Day Creator Process
Saturday, November 13th - Friday, November 19th, 2021
Ignite Your Creative Fire
Do you have an idea that's been sitting on the back-burner for way too long?
Are you longing for the time, energy, support, and accountability to make your vision a reality?
Believe me, I get it!
I've been writing, creating, and producing workshops, courses, and events for over two decades and I totally understand the challenges (internal and external) involved in getting it all together and making it happen.
It's so easy to get stuck in doubt, uncertainty, and overwhelm.
Yet still... that dream persists. You know you have something special and unique to offer the world!
I want to help you bring that Sacred Vision into reality.
Ignite Your Creative Fire
Do you have an idea that's been sitting on the back-burner for way too long?
Are you longing for the time, energy, support, and accountability to make your vision a reality?
Believe me, I get it!
I've been writing, creating, and producing workshops, courses, and events for over two decades and I totally understand the challenges (internal and external) involved in getting it all together and making it happen.
It's so easy to get stuck in doubt, uncertainty, and overwhelm.
Yet still... that dream persists. You know you have something special and unique to offer the world!
I want to help you bring that Sacred Vision into reality.
Quechua Prayers & Songs: Part 4
Sunday, November 28th, 2021 - 10am - Noon (Arizona)
Watch Part 1 & 2 & 3 and practice the first Quechua prayer and song:
http://www.heartstonehealing.com/quechua.html
Quechua is the sacred and beautiful ancient language of the Andes.
Join native Quechua speaker and ceremonialist Karina Davalos LIVE online from Cusco, Peru
for an informative and experiential workshop featuring Quechua Prayers and Songs.
This is a wonderful opportunity to experience the Sacred Cosmology of the Quechua language.
Learn how to appropriately and respectfully speak and sing with these powerful vibrational words!
Mark your calendar! No advance registration required.
Here's the Zoom link to join:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81017313365
Offered by Ayni Donation directly to Karina via Paypal: spiritofthecondor@hotmail.com
Watch Part 1 & 2 & 3 and practice the first Quechua prayer and song:
http://www.heartstonehealing.com/quechua.html
Quechua is the sacred and beautiful ancient language of the Andes.
Join native Quechua speaker and ceremonialist Karina Davalos LIVE online from Cusco, Peru
for an informative and experiential workshop featuring Quechua Prayers and Songs.
This is a wonderful opportunity to experience the Sacred Cosmology of the Quechua language.
Learn how to appropriately and respectfully speak and sing with these powerful vibrational words!
Mark your calendar! No advance registration required.
Here's the Zoom link to join:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81017313365
Offered by Ayni Donation directly to Karina via Paypal: spiritofthecondor@hotmail.com
Mindfulness in Nature Half-Day Retreat
Sunday, December 12th, 2021 - 9am - 1pm
How would it feel to spend all morning mindfully immersed in the restorative, healing presence of the wild sacredness of Nature?
In this illuminating half-day retreat in the Santa Catalina Mountains, you can renew body, mind, and soul with the effortless joy, beauty, and tranquility of the natural world.
Using sensory awareness practices, mindfulness-based meditations, and simple sacred ceremonies, you awaken to direct experience of the power and grace of intentional nature practice.
Sitting and walking mindfully immersed in nature’s resilient wisdom restores your connection to a grounded way of being. Exploring the interconnection between your inner and outer landscape, you nurture and cultivate a direct relational experience with the natural world.
No previous meditation experience necessary. All levels of practitioners are welcome.
Logistical details to be announced closer to the event and location may change depending on weather conditions.
We will be practicing mindful physical distancing during this retreat when in group setting.
Limited to 10 participants.
How would it feel to spend all morning mindfully immersed in the restorative, healing presence of the wild sacredness of Nature?
In this illuminating half-day retreat in the Santa Catalina Mountains, you can renew body, mind, and soul with the effortless joy, beauty, and tranquility of the natural world.
Using sensory awareness practices, mindfulness-based meditations, and simple sacred ceremonies, you awaken to direct experience of the power and grace of intentional nature practice.
Sitting and walking mindfully immersed in nature’s resilient wisdom restores your connection to a grounded way of being. Exploring the interconnection between your inner and outer landscape, you nurture and cultivate a direct relational experience with the natural world.
No previous meditation experience necessary. All levels of practitioners are welcome.
Logistical details to be announced closer to the event and location may change depending on weather conditions.
We will be practicing mindful physical distancing during this retreat when in group setting.
Limited to 10 participants.