Intro to Shamanism: Building Relationship with the Natural World
About the Series
"Intro to Shamanism: Building Relationship with the Natural World" is a four-week immersive experience designed to guide participants into a deeper understanding of nature’s wisdom and their own inner landscapes. Drawing on the Andean worldview and universal spiritual practices, this series fosters a supportive environment for both beginners and experienced seekers. Through guided meditations, shamanic journeying, and reflective writing, you’ll learn to connect with elemental forces, personal guides, and animal allies, culminating in a fire ceremony that weaves together all your insights. It’s an opportunity to expand your sense of self, strengthen your community ties, and honor the timeless traditions practiced by cultures around the world.
The Class Flow
Each class will include time for personal connection, exploration of the many realms, and spiritual practice including guided meditation, shamanic journeying, and writing practices to deepen your connection with spirit and self.
Time: Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30
Class 1 (January 14): Introduction to the Elements and Andean Indigenous Worldview
Dive into the Andean perspective on reality and explore the sacred relationship between the elements and our lives.
Class 2 (January 21): Shamanic Journeying and Meeting Your Guide
Learn the foundational practice of shamanic journeying and connect with your personal guide—a spiritual ally available to everyone.
Class 3 (January 28): Meeting Your Animal Ally
Discover and engage with an animal ally, learn how to trust spirit, and make offerings that deepen this sacred relationship.
Class 4 (February 4): Integration and Fire Ceremony
Weave your learnings together through an integration practice, culminating in a fire ceremony.
Who is this for?
This series is open to anyone with an interest to learn more about nature, yourself, community, and the long time practices universally practiced by people all around the globe. Whether you’re just beginning or already experienced in shamanic or meditative practices, you’re welcome to join this class! No prior experience is necessary. If you have questions, please contact Amy at TeachHeart@me.com.
What to bring:
Journal & pen
Refillable water bottle
Extra pillow or blanket to sit on
An object that kindles your relationship to the Divine
Where?
The classes will be held in a peaceful, private space on Valley Forge Mountain in Phoenixville.
Directions and address will be provided upon registration. Space is limited.
7 Stars Medicine Lodge
Cost:
$144 or $134 each if you come with a friend (use the code “BUDDYLOVE” at checkout for the discount)
Note: this class typically sells out and we have very limited space- so please reserve your spot by paying below - note: If the class says “no times available” it is full. If you would like to be on the waitlist please email Amy at teachheart@me.com
Credit to Village Wellness will be given for emergency cancellations.
About Amy
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Willka Hampiq: an Intermediate-Level Shamanic Intensive Apprenticeship into the Healing Arts [3 weekend intensives over 5 weeks]
Join Amy for Willka Hampiq: a deep dive into the Healing Arts and Animal Allies of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition. Certification is available by application.
Willka Hampiq is a shamanic apprenticeship for those called deeply to the path of healing. It includes intensive practice in the ritual use of the vibrational frequencies of earth, water, air, fire, and ether to harmonize challenges within the body, mind, emotions, spirit, and soul.
Building off your foundational relationship with the elements, the Wilka Hampiq (Sacred Medicine Spirit)
Apprenticeship is an opportunity to expand your capacity as a healer for yourself, your community, and the planet. By forming a personal and active alliance with the tutelary animals and energetic forces of each direction of the Pachakuti Mesa, you will greatly elevate your capacity for healing.
This exceptional hands-on training will include:
Quechua Sacred Words
Vibrational Music
Platonic Solids
Elemental Colors
Breathing Techniques
Shamanic Journeying
Exploration of the Cosmovision
and more shamanic tools to expand your healing practice
Each session will provide ample time to practice giving and receiving healing work, and experienced mentorship throughout.
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of shamanism provides a comprehensive understanding of the ritual cosmology and healing use of the sacred powers and forces revered by Andean wisdom-keepers since time immemorial.
Who is it for? These practices are relevant for people from all walks of life who are seeking to maximize their presence as sources of healing light in the world. Working with teachers sanctioned by don Oscar Miro-Quesada and the PMT Lineage, you’ll be apprenticed in time-tested healing arts derived from Peru’s northern coastal kamasqa curandersimo and southeastern highland paqokuna shamanic traditions.
What healing energies will be covered?
Kawsay – Earth Energy for Physical Healing
Samisonqoy – Water Energy for Emotional Healing
K’anchay – Air Energy for Spiritual Healing
Samiumay – Fire Energy for Mental Healing
Illanunay – Ether Energy for Soul Re-Membering
Integration and Elevation – Includes using the Pendulum as a healing tool!
This level of shamanic medicine contribution to the Great Work is needed more than ever in the world, especially given the current alarming level of systemic intensification in prophesied Pachakuti witnessed at a global scale. All said and done, Now is the TIME, and the Time is NOW to emphatically ‘roll up our sleeves,’ or better even, ‘pull out our Ajuar de Artes,’ and lovingly embrace and honor the soul empowering medicine ways of our shamanic ancestors.
Presented in 3 Weekends ( you may pick and choose or do all)
May 13-15, 2022
Friday 7pm - Sunday 1pm
1: Kawsay: Elemental Earth Medicine for Physical Healing and Harmonization
2: Samisonqoy: Elemental Water Medicine for Emotional Healing and Harmonization
June 3-5 2022
Friday 7pm - Sunday 1pm
3: K’anchay: Elemental Air Medicine for Spiritual Healing and Harmonization
4: Samiumay: Elemental Fire Medicine for Mental Healing and Harmonization
June 24-26, 2022
Friday 7pm - Sunday 1pm
5: Illanunay: Elemental Etheric Medicine for Soul Integration and Harmonization
6: Integration and Elevation
Pre-requisite: two (2) or more online courses with don Oscar and/or the Foundational Apprenticeship (5-part)
Certification option: The Wilka Hampiq intermediate-level apprenticeship includes the option to achieve an Energy Healer certification.
Cost for each weekend: $333
Location: 7 Stars Medicine Lodge, Valley Forge Mountain, Phoenixville, PA (directions sent when registered.)
Shamanic Journeying 101
Shamanic Journeying 101
with Amy Mermaid Isakov, Sanctioned teacher in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
Join our beloved Amy Mermaid Isakov, Mesa Carrier and Sanctioned teacher in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, for an Interactive Live Stream Introduction to Shamanic Journeying 101.
During the 90 minute session, you will have an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of this basic shamanic practice and have a chance to experience a fully guided session.
If you’ve been curious about shamanic journeying but have never tried, this is a great place to start.
Amy provides a safe and fun container to explore the realms beyond what we usually perceive.
Date: Sunday December 12 @ 12pm - 1:30 pm
Cost: $33
Location: Zoom (link provided upon Registration)
Summer Solstice Ceremony on Valley Forge Mountain
Hello Everyone!
Let’s honor all we have been through this past year by gathering for a Despacho Ceremony + Fire on the summer solstice!
Please bring your music, song, poetry, art, or silence in a sacred raucous around a holy altar.
KID FRIENDLY
Fee: $25
some work/exchange available - please email Amy via teachheart@me.com
PLEASE BRING
A Snack + Water
Something to sit on (chair or blanket)
An item for the central altar (it will go home with you)
A small amount of your favorite food or spice (for the offering)
RAIN OR SHINE
No experience necessary.
Location: Private Residence in Phoenixville, PA (NOT at Village Wellness)
Please pre-pay to reserve your spot using the button below. (or use the pay later option if you are bringing a non-monetary contribution
Directions will be sent. No refunds.
Shamanic Apprenticeship – Valley Forge Mountain 2021-2022 {sold out - waitlist available}
Year long
Shamanic Apprenticeship
with Amy Mermaid Isakov
Sanctioned Shamanic Teacher in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
Cross-Cultural Peruvian Shamanic Arts for Personal and Planetary Renewal
You are invited on a sacred journey. . .
Shamanic Apprenticeship 2021-2022
Valley Forge Mountain
This five part initiation into the living heart and ancestral soul of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition is intended to awaken in every participant who completes the program, a remembrance of their incarnational purpose as luminous strands of the Great Web of Life in service to the Seven Generations.
The apprenticeship is made up of 5 in-person weekend retreats,
Through the apprenticeship:
you will receive personal healing
be guided in the use of time-honored Peruvian shamanic rituals, healing methods, and ceremony
learn how to create your own Mesa, a sacred altar for self-exploration, empowerment, and transformation,
cultivate your relationship with the unseen world by discovering your personal guide(s) who will help you “re-member” on your new path of expanding possibilities.
You will leave this apprenticeship with powerful healing tools that you can use for your own soul’s growth and to help your friends, family, pets, mama earth, your clients, or patients.
No experience in healing work or shamanism is necessary and beginners are encouraged to apply.
“The PMT apprenticeship has changed my life. I view everything with so much more appreciation and awe as well as with a greater sense of personal responsibility. In each of the five weekends over the year, I learned so many things (material, meditations, practical applications and more) and then had the opportunity to go home and integrate it into my life for a few months and then reconvene to do it again. Each weekend, my understanding grew deeper. I wish it didn’t end, but I so appreciate the community I am now a member of and look forward to more classes in the future. My personal and community connections continue to grow through the Wednesday night link ups and other gatherings.
Amy is a powerful and interesting teacher of the material, with an amazing ability to communicate all concepts in a practical way. She teaches with reverence and humility while also exuding love, light and joy. I couldn’t imagine up a more inspirational teacher.”
APPRENTICESHIP SCHEDULE
Retreat Weekend Schedule:
Friday night: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Sunday 10:00 AM- 1:00 PM
Location:
Held at a Private Residence
(Address available upon registration)
on Valley Forge Mountain
Phoenixville, PA 19460
DATES
5 Weekend in-person Retreats
Part 1:
A Call to Heal: Releasing the Past
April 23rd-25th, 2021
Part 2:
A Balance of Power: Transforming the Present
July 23rd-25th 2021
Part 3:
The Condor’s Quest: Creating the Future
October 22nd-24th, 2021
Part 4:
The Hummingbird’s Ascent: Living the Mystery
January 21st-23rd, 2022
Part 5:
The Shamanic Self: Serving the Earth
April 22nd-24th 2022
Testimonials
“This apprenticeship has changed who I am to the core and given me the ability to navigate through life with grace and purpose. I am so grateful.”
“This apprenticeship really exceeded my expectations and helped me connect deeply to a powerful wisdom tradition and community.”
“I experienced profound shifts after participating in the PMT apprenticeship. The PMT is the only tradition that consistently manifests transformations in my life. The fullness and magic I feel in these circles is unparalleled and real.”
Registration: (This hoop is FULL - however if you are interested in either being on the waitlist or reserving a spot for our 2022-2023 hoop please fill out the application below)
Payment Options:
Pricing below is for the full 5 Part Apprenticeship
Tuition:
$1675 paid in full or $430 paid per weekend (5 weekends)
Application form
Once we review your application we will send details and payment information.
Please take your time to thoughtfully answer the questions below
Cancellation Policy
We know that schedules can change and cancellations are sometimes necessary. Tuition will be refunded less cancellation fees according to the following schedule:
$50 processing fee until 8 weeks before class,.
$200 cancellation fee from 4-8 weeks prior to the first day of class.
No refunds for cancellations less than 4 weeks prior or no-show. (In cases of family emergency, we will put your tuition towards a future apprenticeship.)
All cancellations must be in writing, by email that has been acknowledged and responded to by us. Cancellation dates are the date of an email response by us. Refunds will be processed within 2 weeks of request.
For Questions: Contact Amy at (443) 955-2211 or email
About Amy Mermaid Isakov,
Sanctioned Teacher of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
Amy Mermaid Isakov is an innovative dreamer, passionate about connection, spirituality, music, ritual arts, and how the Divine can manifest in all its forms. Having left the traditional education path, she has studied in-depth with shamans, bodyworkers, evolutionary thought leaders and green builders since 2001. While working at The Shift Network, she hosted and managed all of don Oscar’s courses, while having the privilege to host and learn from many of the world’s leading mystics, dreamers and visionaries.
She is a Pachakuti Mesa Sanctioned Teacher, writer, singer and mother — among other things — and looks forward to helping as many people as possible return to the truth of interconnection in this time of dire beauty. She regularly leads gatherings in her region and beyond, subscribing to the truth she recognizes in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching “The next buddha will be a sangha.”
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{Sold Out] Rose Equinox In-Person Ceremony
With Amy Mermaid, Shamanic Teacher, sanctioned in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
This small in-person gathering will be a place to honor the equinox in the spirit of love, compassion, and the magic of the Rose. We will enjoy the presence of the flowers, her scent, and we will journey to meet her spirit!
Please BRING:
Water bottle (to stay hydrated)
Journal & Pen
Eye Cover
Pillow & Blanket
Location: Private Residence in Phoenixville - We will meet in a place that allows us to be physically distanced and have fresh air flowing. Address upon registration.
Cost: $30* Space limited to 7 people
*no refunds
More info: Email Amy via teachheart@me.com
If sold out - email to be put on the waiting list.
Shamanism Q&A and FREE Intro to the Pachakuti Mesa Shamanic Tradition
Are you interested in the 5-Part Shamanic Apprenticeship in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition (PMT) of Cross-Cultural Shamanism?
Do you have questions about the tradition, lineage, what you will get out of it, who the teacher is?
Would you like to hear from people who have already experienced the apprenticeship with me?
Then this 2-hour introduction and Q&A session IS FOR YOU!”
Join me, Amy Mermaid Isakov, sanctioned teacher of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, for a conversation about the apprenticeship.
Is it for you?
How would participating benefit you?
Will becoming a mesa carrier help you to offer healing to yourself, friends and family, and Mother Earth?
Are there opportunities to create and participate in earth-honoring ceremonies with like-minded community members?
Bring your questions and curiosity on Sunday, March 14th!
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition was created by don Oscar Miro Quesada, a Peruvian altomisayoq and northern coastal curandero. don Oscar has woven together the ancestral shamanic teachings received during his lengthy apprenticeships with two Peruvian shamanic lineage traditions. The PMT cosmovision and ritual and ceremonial practices you will learn in the apprenticeship provide a powerful architecture for the unfoldment and remembering of your soul purpose. For more information on the PMT, please visit and enjoy the PMT web page heartofthehealer.org.
Here's the Zoom invitation. The schedule is for 2 hours, but we will end whenever all questions have been answered.
FOOD OF THE GODS: The Despacho as Ritual Expression of Gratitude and Reciprocity
Come Learn all about what to feed the unseen world and make a Despacho!
There is so much depth and wisdom in the simple things that will catalyze your relationship with the All… come learn more!
Despacho is the Spanish word for a ritual offering made with reverent intention in sacred reciprocity (ayni) for that which has been given to us. This tradition has been passed from don Oscar Miro-Quesada, originator of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition (PMT), to Amy Isakov, Sanctioned Teacher of the PMT.
Similar to the Buddhist sand paintings, these offerings are arranged in a mandala like fashion and then bundled up and offered to the unseen realms.
In order to participate you will need to have:
A postage stamp size piece of jerky or other dried animal product
A small flower or herb or piece of plant, fresh or dried
A tiny crystal or crushed mineral product
A tiny flammable human-made object, ideally something you made
A piece of incense or an incense stick
Consecration ingredients (cornmeal, tobacco, bay leaves, Florida waters)
A white piece of paper, no smaller than Letter sized
A red string (any color is ok if you can’t find red)
If you have access, please also bring fresh flowers or respectfully gather some fresh offerings such as moss or leaves from the nature around you.
Cost:: $33 USD
Zoom Link Sent upon registration
Winter Solstice Ceremony
Please Join us for a Winter Solstice Despacho Ceremony and Sacred Fire facilitated by Amy Mermaid Isakov.
The winter solstice is the threshold of stillness. It is a profound opportunity to gather in community and slow down, together.
The despacho ceremony, if you've never heard of it, comes from the indigenous people of the Andes, in South America. I was apprenticed in these arts by my teacher, don Oscar Miro-Quesada as well as many people in his community of ritual artists. It is, essentially, a way of making your prayers manifest in this world, through the patterning of all types of offerings, some specific and some not, into a balanced and beautiful mandala, which we then completely turn over to the sacred fire.
Please bring:
A blanket to sit on (chairs and back-jacks available)
A refillable water bottle
An object for the mesa (will return home with you)
If you are able wear all black!
POTLUCK DINNER (please bring a dish to share) and Music and Merriment TO FOLLOW
Reciprocity $20 solo or $15 if you bring a friend.
Location:
Valley Forge Mountain
EVENT IS NOT LOCATED AT VILLAGE WELLNESS - your confrimation email will say Village Wellness - but (exact directions will be given after registration - closer to the event)
Please RSVP via the Book now button below
About Amy Mermaid Isakov,
Sanctioned Teacher of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
Amy Mermaid Isakov is an innovative dreamer, passionate about connection, spirituality, music, ritual arts, and how the Divine can manifest in all its forms. Having left the traditional education path, she has studied in-depth with shamans, bodyworkers, evolutionary thought leaders and green builders since 2001. While working at The Shift Network, she hosted and managed all of don Oscar’s courses, while having the privilege to host and learn from many of the world’s leading mystics, dreamers and visionaries.
She is a Pachakuti Mesa Sanctioned Teacher, writer, singer and mother — among other things — and looks forward to helping as many people as possible return to the truth of interconnection in this time of dire beauty. She regularly leads gatherings in her region and beyond, subscribing to the truth she recognizes in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching “The next buddha will be a sangha.”
Shamanic Apprenticeship – 2019-2020 – FULL
Year long
Shamanic Apprenticeship
with Amy Mermaid Isakov
Sanctioned Shamanic Teacher in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts for Personal and Planetary Renewal
You are invited on a sacred journey. . .
Shamanic Apprenticeship 2019-2020
Valley Forge Mountain
This five part initiation into the living heart and ancestral soul of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition is intended to awaken in every participant who completes the program, a remembrance of their incarnational purpose as luminous strands of the Great Web of Life in service to the Seven Generations.
The apprenticeship is made up of:
5 in-person weekend retreats,
6 virtual mesa sessions for practice, sharing, and Q&A.
Through the apprenticeship:
you will receive personal healing
be guided in the use of time-honored Peruvian shamanic rituals, healing methods, and ceremony
learn how to create your own Mesa, a sacred altar for self-exploration, empowerment, and transformation,
cultivate your relationship with the unseen world by discovering your personal guide(s) who will help you “re-member” on your new path of expanding possibilities.
You will leave this apprenticeship with powerful healing tools that you can use for your own soul’s growth and to help your friends, family, pets, mama earth, your clients, or patients.
No experience in healing work or shamanism is necessary and beginners are encouraged to apply.
“The PMT apprenticeship has changed my life. I view everything with so much more appreciation and awe as well as with a greater sense of personal responsibility. In each of the five weekends over the year, I learned so many things (material, meditations, practical applications and more) and then had the opportunity to go home and integrate it into my life for a few months and then reconvene to do it again. Each weekend, my understanding grew deeper. I wish it didn’t end, but I so appreciate the community I am now a member of and look forward to more classes in the future. My personal and community connections continue to grow through the Wednesday night link ups and other gatherings.
Amy is a powerful and interesting teacher of the material, with an amazing ability to communicate all concepts in a practical way. She teaches with reverence and humility while also exuding love, light and joy. I couldn’t imagine up a more inspirational teacher.”
APPRENTICESHIP SCHEDULE
Retreat Weekend Schedule:
Friday night: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday 9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Sunday 9:00 AM- NOON
Location:
Held at a Private Residence
(Address available upon registration)
on Valley Forge Mountain
Phoenixville, PA 19460
DATES
5 Weekend in-person Retreats
Part 1:
A Call to Heal: Releasing the Past
November. 1st-3rd , 2019
Part 2:
A Balance of Power: Transforming the Present
January 24th-26th, 2020
Part 3:
The Condor’s Quest: Creating the Future
April 17-19, 2020
Part 4:
The Hummingbird’s Ascent: Living the Mystery
July 17th-19th, 2020
Part 5:
The Shamanic Self: Serving the Earth
October 16th-18th, 2020
6 Virtual Mesa Sessions
Wednesdays 8-9 pm on the following dates:
Feb 19, 2020
March 18, 2020
May 20, 2020
June 17, 2020
August 19, 2020
September 16, 2020
Testimonials
“This apprenticeship has changed who I am to the core and given me the ability to navigate through life with grace and purpose. I am so grateful.”
“This apprenticeship really exceeded my expectations and helped me connect deeply to a powerful wisdom tradition and community.”
“I experienced profound shifts after participating in the PMT apprenticeship. The PMT is the only tradition that consistently manifests transformations in my life. The fullness and magic I feel in these circles is unparalleled and real.”
Registration:
The apprenticeship is currently FULL.
Would you like to be on the waiting list? Email Lance. Due to the demand, we will likely be offering another apprenticeship hoop in early 2020. Ask for details.
Payment Options:
Pricing below is for the full 5 Part Apprenticeship
Option 1: Full payment of $1,620 due October 1st, 2019
Option 2: First Class and then Pay as you go
via check, cash or with each payment due one month prior to each scheduled weekend.
$420/weekend for total 5 weekend series.
For Questions: Contact Amy at (443) 955-2211 or email
About Amy Mermaid Isakov,
Sanctioned Teacher of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
Amy Mermaid Isakov is a tech savvy and innovative dreamer passionate about connection, spirituality, music, ritual arts, and how the Divine can manifest in all its forms. Having left the traditional education path, she has studied in-depth with shamans, bodyworkers, evolutionary thought leaders, and green builders since 2001. She is a Pachakuti Mesa carrier, writer, teacher, singer, and mother — among other things.
Introduction to Shamanism {Free Talk}
Village Wellness Talks
Free Lecture Series
Come learn from the best Holistic Health Care Providers in the Philadelphia area.
What is Shamanism?
Introduction to the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition with Amy Mermaid Isakov
Join Amy Mermaid Isakov, Sanctioned Shamanic Teacher for a FREE intro to the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross cultural shamanism for personal and planetary renewal.
You will have the opportunity to learn about an ancient system for healing ourselves and the planet in this 1 hour talk and Q&A about our upcoming year long apprenticeship program.
Everyone is welcome. Beginners are encouraged to attend!
LOCATION: Village Wellness. 6 Waterloo Avenue, Berwyn, PA 19312
COST: free
RSVP: Though this talk is free, space is limited, please reserve your space below.
Kindly give us 24 hours notice if you are unable to attend. Thanks!
Summer Solstice Ceremony
Hello Everyone!
I would REALLY love to have a whole bunch of beautiful people in one place, offering their gifts of music, song, poetry, art, or silence in a sacred raucous around a holy altar on the summer solstice.
KID FRIENDLY
$25 solo
$20 each if you bring a friend
$0 if you bring a song, poem, or other contribution to the day
PLEASE BRING
A Snack
Something to sit on (chair or blanket)
An item for the central altar (it will go home with you)
RAIN OR SHINE
No experience necessary.
***To reserve your spot please RSVP VIA pre-pay at the ticket link--> https://villagewellness.net/classes-events-wayne-maineline-philadelphia/summer-solstice-ceremony
Location: Private Residence in Phoenixville, PA (NOT at Village Wellness)
Please pre-pay to reserve your spot using the button below. (or use the pay later option if you are bringing a non-monetary contribution
Directions will be sent. No refunds..
Facing Compassion - A Weekend Retreat into the Shamanic Arts
Facing Compassion
A Weekend Retreat
into the Shamanic Art of Mask Making
Cross Cultural, Peruvian Based, Evolutionary Magic
With Amy Mermaid Isakov
New Moon — February 2019
Friday February 1 — Sunday February 3
Pendle Hill Retreat Center — Wallingford/Media, PA
As winter wears on us but spring is not yet in sight, join me in a powerful retreat that will allow who you’ve been to die and become fertilizer for who you will become. Only by a deep and radically compassionate embrace of who wear are can we truly become who we’re meant to be. We will stretch time and journey from Friday night until Sunday afternoon into the depths of Compassion. There are few forces more powerful at transforming adversity, than Compassion.
This weekend will be a chance to radically deepen our Love of self, and by extension, deepen our love of the world around us, through ceremony. You will be guided through a Sacred Death Mask Ritual and be given an opportunity to connect with the indelible honeycomb of life through the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, and everyone present.
The energies on the planet right now are asking so much of us. Compassion creates endurance.
WHEN?
Our Retreat will start with Dinner on Friday February 1st and conclude Sunday February 3rd after Lunch.
THE SETTING
Pendle Hill Retreat Center
338 Plush Mill Road
Wallingford, PA 19086-6023
TUITION: (includes Mask Making Materials, Ceremony, and all farm to table organic meals & snacks)
Retreat + Meals: $490
Retreat + Lodging + Meals: $640 (shared room)
Retreat + Lodging + Meals: $720 (private room)
Let us know if you have any questions.
$100 Early Bird Discount - Register by December 1st
use the coupon code DEATHMASK
Cancellation Policy *
Refunds are available up to 30 days prior to the start of the retreat with a $100 cancellation fee. 50% refunds will be available until one week prior to the start of the retreat. No refunds will be given within one week of the start of the retreat.
About Amy Mermaid Isakov
Amy Mermaid Isakov is a Pachakuti Mesa Carrier as taught by don Oscar Miro-Quesada and is passionate about spirituality, music, art, and how the Divine can manifest in all its forms. Having left the traditional education path, she has studied in-depth with shamans, bodyworkers, thought-leaders, and green builders. She finds herself blessed and grateful to be of service at The Shift Network as a course manager and to the greater Shift in our Collective Consciousness. When not on the computer, she takes her shoes off and lets the Earth sing her songs.
Meet your Spirit Animal – a shamanic journey
Join Amy Mermaid Isakov for a 90 minute deep dive into your own awakening.
Gathering around the Pachakuti Mesa (sacred shamanic altar), we will open beautiful and safe space to rekindle your connection with your Spirit Animal Ally.
Bring along a journal
No experience necessary.
$25 or $20 with a friend. pay at the door.
Facing Compassion: November Shamanic Retreat
Facing Compassion:
Retreat into the Shamanic Art of Mask Making
Cross Cultural, Peruvian Based, Evolutionary Magic
With Amy Mermaid Isakov
Full Moon — November 2017
Friday November 3 — Sunday November 5
Pendle Hill Retreat Center — Wallingford/Media, PA
When the days get darker and the other side feels close, there will be a Gathering. We will stretch time and journey from Friday night until Sunday afternoon into the depths of Compassion. There are few forces more powerful at transforming adversity, than Compassion.
This weekend will be a chance to radically deepen our Love of self, and by extension, deepen our love of the world around us, through ceremony. You will be guided through a Sacred Mask Making Ritual and be given an opportunity to connect with the indelible web of life through the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition and everyone present.
The energies on the planet right now are asking so much of us. Compassion creates endurance.
WHEN?
Our Retreat will start with Dinner on Friday November 3 and conclude Sunday November 5th after Lunch.
THE SETTING
Pendle Hill Retreat Center
338 Plush Mill Road
Wallingford, PA 19086-6023
TUITION: (includes Mask Making Materials, Cermony, and all farm to table organic meals & snacks)
Retreat: $450
Retreat + Lodging: $590 (shared room)
Retreat + Lodging: $630 (private room)
Let us know if you have any questions!
Cancellation Policy *
Refunds are available up to 30 days prior to the start of the retreat with a $100 cancellation fee. 50% refunds will be available until one week prior to the start of the retreat. No refunds will be given within one week of the start of the retreat.
About Amy Mermaid Isakov
Amy Mermaid Isakov is a Pachakuti Mesa Carrier as taught by don Oscar Miro-Quesada and is passionate about spirituality, music, art, and how the Divine can manifest in all its forms. Having left the traditional education path, she has studied in-depth with shamans, bodyworkers, thought-leaders, and green builders. She finds herself blessed and grateful to be of service at The Shift Network as a course manager and to the greater Shift in our Collective Consciousness. When not on the computer, she takes her shoes off and lets the Earth sing her songs.
Introduction to Shamanism and The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
Introduction to Shamanism and
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
4 Week Series
with Amy Mermaid Isakov
“The world of the Pachakuti Mesa carrier is not a world to know, to study, grasp or gain insight into, but a world to live in, to participate in, to be part of, to collectively fashion, make, enhance, and co-create.” - don Oscar Miro-Quesada
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition (PMT), emphasizes both personal and planetary healing. This practice involves ritual and ceremonial mastery of the mesa as passed down through the lineage of Peruvian curanderos. The mesa is an altar-like arrangement of empowered objects, a shamanic tool which is used to engage enlightened beings and elemental energies for restoration of balance, health and harmony between humans, other dimensions, and our natural world.
Learn:
- To create a sacred space
- Set up your own mesa (altar)
- Planetary and personal healing
- Shamanic Journeying
- Evolutionary Philosophy
When?
4 Week Series: Every Thursday in April 6:00-7:30 PM
You must be able to attend all classes
4/6 - Week 1: The foundations of the Pachakuti Mesa - overview
4/13 - Week 2: Shamanic Journeying
4/20 - Week 3: Building relationship - Befriend the Artes
4/27 - Week 4: Gratitude Ritual
Where?
NOT AT VILLAGE WELLNESS
Private Residence
41 W. Nippon Street
Philadelphia PA 19119
Fee: $100
Please Bring:
A square cloth (no bigger than 2’ x 2’)
A stone, shell, feather, white candle (with holder),a personal power piece
A notebook
A pillow to sit on
A lighter
Sound makers (rattles, drums, wind instruments, etc.)
Re-usable water bottle.
This class size is limited and will sell out, please make sure you only register if you are sure you can attend ALL classes. Thanks! <3
Spring Equinox Event
Join us to get your hands dirty honoring the Earth and the balance of Light and Dark. We will be building an apacheta, a style of stone cairn that acts as both altar and healing balm for the earth.
We'll play in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition - a cross cultural peruvian based way of staying connected and centered during these times of great upheaval!
Family Friendly!
No experience necessary!
Suggested Donation of $25 , Kids join for free.
Where? A Private Residence By the Schuylkill Valley Nature Center, Roxbourogh PA (directions given once you RSVP)
More Details:
Please Bring:
- a snack
- something to sit on (blanket or beach chair if you prefer)
- A reusable water bottle
- a sacred item for the mesa (altar) that will return home with you.
We will be outside, so please dress accordingly.
Once you book with the button below, Amy will be in touch with Directions/Address.