About this Retreat
International Mentor, Guide, and Retreat Leader
Co-founder of
Star River Sanctuary & the "Empowerment & Resource Model" of Healing
Co-founder of the
Way of Sovereignty - Shamanic Tools for Spiritual Warriorship
Darcy is a gifted and highly trained plant spirit medicine Kamaska Curandero who specializes in sacred plant spirit medicine ceremonies and distance energy medicine. He is a sanctioned teacher of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition and mentors other healers and practitioners globally. Darcy has worked with thousands of clients through his ceremonial and transformational energy work practice. He is tapped into the alive potential within humanity to transform and evolve into ways of living that are supportive of life. He has a deep passion for helping people heal and thrive, and has dedicated many years to training within shamanism, consciousness studies, self-inquiry, and various energy healing modalities.
Over the last 20 years he has been traveling to Peru to study with the Master shamans of the Peruvian Amazon, the high plateaus of the Andean mountains, and coastal Peru in the practice of traditional Curanderismo and Paqokuna shamanism. Eventually Darcy discovered the beautiful Pachakuti mesa lineage of Andean medicine taught by don Oscar Miro-Quesada. He felt very called to begin apprenticeship in this wisdom system, as well as journeying within the Pachakuti teacher’s path. Darcy has been astounded and astonished at the beauty, the majesty, and the incredible potential for these ancient Andean energies to transform and awaken consciousness in our lifetime. He is honoured to be able to be in service to the beauty of this lineage.
Darcy's synergetic ceremonial practice is an expression of his love for life and spirit. This practice is characterized by his love of learning, fearless curiosity, playful sense of humour, and kindness. Darcy is committed to support as many people as possible in this planetary evolution, and tremendously honored to be of service in the support of others in their own healing, wholeness and well being.
Kamasqa Curandera- Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist- Visionary Creatrix ~ New Earth Mystic
International Mentor, Guide, and Retreat Leader
Co-founder of
Star River Sanctuary & the "Empowerment & Resource Model" of Healing
Co-founder of the
Way of Sovereignty - Shamanic Tools for Spiritual Warriorship
Robin is one of the only a few fully trained western Kamasqueras and one of the only women in this field of practice. She was called to the ceremonial work after a decade long struggle with an undiagnosable and untreatable "mystery illness". She has lived and walked the path of the wounded healer. With over 22 years of ceremonial immersion she kindly, compassionately, and expertly guides each client into their own unique power, medicine, and direct connection to the inner healer. Robin has worked with and supported incredible elders from South and North America to learn the medicine ways through direct guidance, observation, and energetic transmission. Robin vast experience in the realms of ceremony, including immersion within the ceremonial ways of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, Huachuma Curanderismo, Ayahuasca Vegetalismo, the Sacred Mushrooms, North American Medicine Wheel and sweat lodge teachings, Theta Healing, new science and wisdom teachings from Earth Honouring European and Egyptian mystery schools. Robin has radically unique training, medicine, and a vast reservoirs of experience, shamanic power, and teachings she generously shares with all who come.
Robin has facilitated well over a thousand ceremonies (and worked with far more clients) from her cross-cultural shamanic practice and in this time she has learned what truly serves and prospers her clients to heal from their own direct connection, resource, and personal empowerment. She reverently weaves the ancient plant spirit medicine ceremonial arts, the beauty of visionary arts, the depth of the mystery school teachings, and the power of personal sovereignty to create a potent healing container.
Robin holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Eco-psychology from Naropa University and a Master of Arts in Good and Sustainable Communities from Northern Arizona University. She completed the fieldwork for her master’s thesis “Entheogenic Soul Evolutions” on her first trip to Peru in 2006.
Robin is a sanctioned teacher and mentor in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross cultural shamanism and offers the 5 Part Apprenticeship series with her soulmate and husband, Darcy. This stellar and radically transformative lineage has woven together all of Robin's previous fields of study into a comprehensive whole, rooted within an ancient yet evolutionary lineage of wisdom keepers. It is her great joy and honour to share this with the growing body of mesa carriers and Earth stewards.
Robin and Darcy offer workshops, retreats, and pilgrimages through out the Americas.
Check out www.starriversanctuary.com and www.wayofsovereignty.com for more information.
Details of this retreat
Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Apprenticeship Series
“Pachakuti” means “world reversal” and refers to the time of transformation we are living now. A mesa is an altar for self-exploration, transformation and personal growth in which we create a new paradigm of one’s relation to the Self and the Universe. This tradition, in all its richness, is an evolving practice of inner and outer activities that restore balance and harmony to our relationships with All That Is.
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition: Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts for Personal and Planetary Renewal is a five- part series of intensives in the shamanic arts of restoring harmony, health, and earth stewardship. This workshop series aligns the traditional shamanic arts of Peru and the wisdom of its heritage with the needs of the present day, a transformational moment of planetary and human history.
Participants will cultivate a deeper relationship with nature and the unseen world, and receive multiple opportunities for self-exploration, empowerment, and profound personal growth. This apprenticeship series is open to all people who desire to be of service, whether they are long-time mesa carriers or new to this tradition.
Part I: The Call to Heal (Releasing the Past)
This apprenticeship workshop 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.
Part II: A Balance of Power (Transforming the Present)
During this workshop intensive, participants will apprentice in the center of the mesa, traditional Peruvian healing practices, and the kaypacha, the middle world. They will explore the kaypacha’s elemental matrix and magico-spiritual power, and learn about the moon’s presence in the middle world, mapping the cosmos on Earth, and celestial death and rebirth.
Part III: The Condor’s Quest (Creating the Future)
This workshop is an initiation into the paqokuna, the Andean Shaman/Priesthood mystical path, the lineage of the sacred mountains, and the five virtues of the mesa. Participants will also journey to and experience the hanaqpacha, the upper world beyond the physical, work with the unseen world there and deepen their connection to their own spiritual resources.
Part IV: The Hummingbird’s Ascent (Living the Mystery)
In this apprenticeship workshop students will experience the upper world and learn about its lightning bolt of mystical illumination and the flow of kamasqa, the power of Creation. They will work with the elements, the forces of the universe, the body of Mother Earth, and sacred healing objects. In sacred reciprocity participants will create despachos to honor Mother Earth, the sacred mountains, the elements, the unseen world, and prepare for a paqowachu, a sacred pilgrimage.
Part V: The Shamanic Self (Serving the Earth)
This workshop deepens participants’ experience of soul and spirit through ritual process, including the spiritual creation, activation and care of an apacheta. Students will work with the power of creation in the kaypacha or middle world, dimensionality and time, as well as with the three suns, and the hampikamayoq process (ancient breathing techniques for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being and transformation). Participants will be further empowered by evoking both seen and unseen sources of cosmic awareness within their mesa, sacred objects and own being, and initiation into the lineage of this revered tradition.
Investment requirements:
Deposit of $333.00 paid upon registration- non-refundable + tax
*The deposit goes towards your first payment of 18 if you choose the payment plan option otherwise the amount is deducted from the total program cost
Payment options:
Payment plan $333/month + tax 18 months - includes lodging and food for all 5 levels
Program paid in full of $5,555 + tax - includes lodging and food for all 5 levels
*Important notes around financial commitments:
When agreeing to the payment plan option you are agreeing to pay for the complete 18 months of payments regardless of attendance.
This is an immersive residential retreat where all participants stay on the land of Star River Sanctuary for attunement and integration of the teachings for the weekend. There will be shared accommodation available for each level. Accommodation bookings are on a first come first serve basis, with priority to elders or increased needs. Delicious plant-based garden to table meals included in the trainings price.
What is The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition?
Pachakuti” means “world reversal” and refers to the time of transformation we are living now. A mesa is an altar for self-exploration, transformation and personal growth in which we create a new paradigm of one’s relation to the Self and the Universe. This tradition, in all its richness, is an evolving practice of inner and outer activities that restore balance and harmony to our relationships with All That Is.
What is the origination and lineage of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition?
Don Oscar Miro-Quesada Solevo is the originator of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross-cultural shamanism and the visionary founder of The Heart of the Healer organization (THOTH). Through his teachers, don Celso Rojas Palomino and don Benito Corihuamán Vargas, the ancient lineage of this shamanic tradition can be traced back to its origins over 5,000 years ago.
Don Oscar’s first experience with Peruvian shamanism was under the famed huachumero don Celso Rojas Palomino from Salas. After don Celso transitioned to the Spirit World, don Oscar then started a four-year apprenticeship within the Andean Paqokuna tradition of shamanism with famed kuraq akulleq don Benito Corihuamán Vargas from the village of Wasao.
Both of these venerated elders sanctioned Oscar with a similar compacto de voz y palabra (i.e., “an oral bequeath as elder lineage carrier for the people,”) requesting him to share the “prophetic vision” of the “Ancient Ones”, among as many people as possible living in modern Western developed nations of the world. Both elders insisted this was the only way of safeguarding the true “inner wisdom” behind the Earth-based spiritual traditions and healing arts continuously practiced by Peruvian indigenous cultures since time immemorial. They both insisted that this was the only way to prevent the total disappearance of these sacred wisdom traditions.
THROUGH THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF SHAMANIC RITUAL ARTS, INDIVIDUALS LEARN TO LIVE IN HARMONY WITH NATURE, MOTHER EARTH AND HER CHILDREN, THE ANIMALS, PLANTS, MINERALS AND EACH OTHER.
What is a Sacred Commitment in relation to the Pachakuti Mesa Apprenticeship?
When we embark on a sacred commitment we are fostering our desire to honour the path of becoming a sanctioned Pachakuti Mesa Carrier. This Pachakuti Mesa apprenticeship is a journey over 18 months with five in person immersion weekend intensives. Each intensive level is an initiatory lineage activation and transmission that must be fulfilled sequentially. For example, the first level is a prerequisite for the second level.
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