The Call to Heal: Releasing our Past

with Jason Blaesing

Friday February 19, 8:00-11pm
Saturday February 20, 10am-10pm
Sunday February 21, 10am-4pm

A workshop in Peruvian and Cross-Cultural Shamanism from the lineage of don Oscar Miro-Quesada centered on the empowerment of one's own individual altar or “mesa.” The Call to Heal is the first of a 5-part apprenticeship intended to further strengthen the spiritually awakened global community. Join the circle to deepen your personal study and gain the tools necessary to navigate these changing times.

This apprenticeship weekend initiates participants into the Pachakuti Mesa, a powerful and sacred altar. Students learn how to create their own mesas and work with them for self-empowerment, transformation, and helping others. Through shamanic journey and visionary states of consciousness, participants will explore the three worlds of the Andean cosmovision, sacred reciprocity with all that is, the core ingredients of ceremonial mastery, sacred sound and ritual language, healing and curanderismo, and the inner world of the ukhupacha.

Workshop Location: Br. David Darst Center for Justice & Peace, Sprituality & Education.

The Darst Center is a warm and welcoming urban retreat center dedicated to peace, justice and respect for human dignity and the environment.

The Darst Center is located in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago at 2834 South Normal Avenue. The neighborhood is primarily residential, with grocery stores, convenient stores and fine, reasonable restaurants close by. The Center is also in close proximity to Chinatown, just 4 blocks away, and US Cellular Field, home of the White Sox, at 8 blocks. The Center is within walking distance of the CTA Orange Line stop at Halsted and is just 4 miles from Chicago's city-center.

Housed in the former All Saints-St. Anthony Convent, the Darst Center provides a spacious meeting room, an equally large chapel, kitchen facilities and a dining room for up to 30 people. There are sleeping accommodations for 27 people in 11 bedrooms. There are three shared baths. http://www.brdaviddarstcenter.org

This event is sponsored by the Heart of the Healer Foundation www.heartofthehealer.org

Music by Xavier Quijas Yxayotl
THOTH International Gathering
Shelby, Michigan 2005

The talented musician, better known by his indigenous name, "Yxayotl, " (which in Nahuatl means "tears"), was born in Jalisco, Mexico. His passion for the traditional handmade instruments -- Mayan and Aztec drums and flutes, Tarahumara drums, turtle shells , rain sticks, Teponaxtli log drums -- led him to learn how to make replicas of the ancient instruments of the prehispanic peoples. A master flute maker specializing in the Mayan and Aztec double and triple flutes made of clay, he is also a skilled musician with several successful recordings. In 1985, Yxayotl formed a dance and music troup in Los Angeles named America Indigena, composed of others who share his love of ancestral musical forms; last year the group was honored by their invitation to play for the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize at the presentation ceremony in Rome. We were delighted to welcome him to the 2005 International Gathering in Michigan.