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Participants Journey Well to.......
      "A SACRED RE-MEMBERING:
     CEREMONIAL EARTHWAYS OF
         CONDOR AND EAGLE"
  
                        Mythic Initiation and Healing With
don Oscar Miro-Quesada
don Oscar Miro-Quesada
& Robert Vetter

    May 18-20, 2012
    
  Hope Springs Institute 
      Peebles, Ohio
      (Located Near Serpent Mound)
In this weekend initiation into the mythic dimensions and ritual healing practices from Heart Island and Turtle Island, you are treated to an intimate encounter with the living soul of our Mother Earth. The wisdom legacy of these ancient teachings provides spiritual nourishment for contemporary people looking to connect with the intersecting natural, spiritual, and social worlds.

This gathering artfully blends the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition (PMT) of cross-cultural shamanism originated by don Oscar Miro-Quesada and derived from indigenous Peruvian wisdom traditions, with Southern Plains Indian medicine teachings offered by Robert Vetter. This event involves the ceremonial use of a Southern Plains tipi in which a traditional cedar smoke lodge for physical and spiritual cleansing will be held. Learn to embody the teachings behind the Prophecy of the Eagle and Condor through:

•   Wisdom Teachings
•   Storytelling
•   Sacred Song
•   Artful Shamanic Healing Rituals
•   Daily Spiritual Practices That Reinforce the Teachings

Join us as we engage seen and unseen powers and forces of deep transformational value in shape-shifting out of the common ills associated with modern living. 

This invitation extends to you to embrace this experience with a peaceful, receptive heart and an open courageous mind. As don Oscar often reminds those heartfelt aspirants of the Great Work, “By doing, one learns; with study, one refines; through dreaming, one creates; in loving, one fulfills. This is the secret art of tending the sacred garden of the Soul.”  May all who resonate with this living truth respond to the prophetic calling of this unique apprenticeship in earth-honoring ceremony and shamanic healing arts.

About the Facilitators:
don Oscar 
don Oscar Miro-Quesada is our respected Peruvian Kamasqa Curandero, UN Observer to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, OAS Fellow in Ethnopsychology, originator of Pachakuti Mesa cross-cultural shamanism, and founder of The Heart of the Healer Foundation www.heartofthehealer.org       
Oscar has dedicated his life to the revitalization of Ethnospiritual wisdom traditions as a way to restore sacred trust between humankind and the natural world.  A popular international teacher and master ceremonialist, his work has been featured on CNN, Univision, A&E, and the Discovery Channel. For more information visit www.mesaworks.com 


Robert Vetter
Robert Vetter is a Cultural Anthropologist who has been conducting fieldwork in the areas of spirituality and healing among the Native Peoples of the Southern Plains since 1980.  He received an M.A. degree in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma in 1984.  His adopted grandfather was Oliver Pahdopony, the last medicine man of the Comanche’s.  In early summer, his book Big Bow: 
The Spiritual Life and Teachings of a Kiowa Family will be published.  This collaborative work tells stories of his adopted Kiowa uncle, Richard Tartsah (who was also a medicine man), and several generations of his family.  Bob is a teacher, lecturer and workshop leader on a variety of topics related to Native American traditions and cross cultural spiritual teachings.
 

Hope Springs Institute 

Our lodging, Sacred Teachings and Lodge Ceremonies will be held on the spacious, serene wooded grounds of Hope Springs Institute – Peebles, Ohio.  Visit: www.hopespringsinstitute.com for driving directions, airport connections go to "Contact Us" on their site.  Visit pictures there also to get an idea of this beautiful sacred landscape.
        (Closest Airport is Cincinnati approximately 1 1/2 hours away)

We will be within minutes of one of the largest Effigy Mounds in North America, Serpent Mound.  This mound is part of the 'activation' on the dragon line affected by the solar eclipse.  As part of the unity healing weekend, our group will be conducting a 7 Direction tobacco ceremony at the mound guided by don Oscar Miro-Quesada.  
Personal time is also encouraged before and after the workshop.  You may want to plan your journey to include extra time to make a personal pilgrimage to the Mound on your own.   You are also within the sacred valley of the Appalachian Mountain range that serves to hold this part of our Continent in balance with your presence.  Come empty and leave full.  This will be an intimate Healing weekend.
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"There is never any charge for Ceremony
All proceeds sustain the teachings, THOTH, Its’ teachers,
the local community, and the work of the Chinchaysuyu"

 
                                                  
For Any Help Or Additional information Contact Peggy at mkoebernic@aol.com


 Workshop Information:

May 18 *Check-In begins after 2 p.m. - Orientation 5:30 p.m. -    Dinner 6 p.m - Workshop Prep Begins  7 p.m. -
May 20 - Ends after lunch (2 p.m.) Sunday


 General Information:

Registrants - Women  we suggest you bring a skirt or sarong to wear at ceremony as is customary by the indigenous keepers of the land.

Hope Springs has a "green" incentive - no plastic water bottles.  They have a water filtering system - bring a favorite cup/mug for water.

No shoes worn inside policy - bring slippers or they will provide. 
Music makers, drums, rattles, string, wind instruments always welcome.

We look forward to your presence for another extraordinary, life-shifting weekend with extended community.   No previous Mesa or First Nation/Native American ceremony experience is required or necessary.  We welcome everyone to come sit together in sacred circle; we are all ‘teachers” for each other.   Thank You for your visit.
                                   Chinchaysuyu Committee: 
Peggy Kobernick, Elaine Noyes,
Virginia LoneSky

         Come in Peace…leave in Harmony on this Good Earth


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Refund Policy...We have adopted this Refund Policy...You
must notify Peggy at mkoebernic@aol.com in writing before March 18th - for 50% refund.  Exception: 80% refund if you find a replacement for your space at same level of tuition before May 1st. --- Thank you for your kind understanding that we are supporting the teachers and have to honor our contractual obligations...
No refunds After May 1st

Munay


About our Teachers

don Oscar Miro-Quesada 


Is a respected Peruvian kamasqa curandero, UN Observer to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, OAS Fellow in Ethnopsychology, originator of the Pachakuti Mesa cross-cultural shamanism, and founder of The Heart of the Healer Foundation (THOTH).

Oscar dedicates his life to the revitalization of ethnospiritual wisdom traditions as a way to restore sacred trust between humankind and the natural world. A popular international teacher and master ceremonialist, his work has been featured on CNN, Univision, A&E, and the Discovery Channel.



Visit www.heartofthehealer.org to find out more about Oscar's vision and www.mesaworks.com to find out more about his teachings.


Robert Vetter  - Guest Teacher
Robert is a Cultural Anthropologist who has been conducting fieldwork in the areas of spirituality and healing among the Native Peoples of the Southern Plains since 1980. He received an M.A. degree in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma in 1984. His adopted grandfather was Oliver Pahdopony, the last medicine man of the Comanche’s. In early summer, his book Big Bow: The Spiritual Life and Teachings of a Kiowa Family will be published. This collaborative work tells stories of his adopted Kiowa uncle, Richard Tartsah (who was also a medicine man), and several generations of his family. Bob is a teacher, lecturer and workshop leader on a variety of topics related to Native American traditions and cross cultural spiritual teachings.