Ceremonies
Ceremonies
A Ceremony is a time-space of profound connection with the Great Mystery, with our heart, and with all the elements and dimensions we feel and perceive. It is a moment outside of time… every instant can become a ceremony when we connect with our breath.
In many ceremonies, we pray and celebrate, often around a sacred fire or an altar where all the primary elements of life—fire, earth, water, and air—are present. Music frequently accompanies ceremonies, further deepening the connection and the ability to listen to the everything within and around us.
Cocoa Ceremony
Cacao is a plant with powerful healing properties for the body, mind, and spirit. It allows us to connect with our emotions, expand consciousness, and open the Heart ❤️, fostering a profound and intimate connection with ourselves. The circle of Medicine Songs accompanies and embraces this process, bringing hearts closer together and grounding the connection in the here and now.
Cacao is a sacred plant that has been used for millennia by the indigenous peoples of Central America as an essential element in their rituals. A potent activator of serotonin, the hormone of Joy and Love, it lifts the mood and stimulates blood circulation.
In the Mayan cosmovision, the Spirit of Cacao was considered one of the most important deities. It is referred to by native peoples as “The Drink of the Gods.”
The consumption of cacao is a sacred moment, a gateway to connect with the Divine through a deep inner journey that begins with the heart…
Circle: Union of Medicine Families
The Circle of Medicine Families is a moment of profound importance for Pachacanta, one of the festival’s energetic centers without which it could not exist.
At the heart of our vision lies the dream of seeing the Medicine Families sitting together in a circle around the same fire, united in one great prayer, before a single grand altar symbolizing connection and union: the union of the Human Heart with the Great Spirit, of the One with the Whole.
Throughout the year, entire families or representatives of various spiritual traditions dedicate themselves to fostering spiritual growth—both individual and collective—through significant practices such as temazcal, vision quests, sun and moon dances, elemental ceremonies, and much more.
Each follows their path in different places, with unique methods, songs, and colors—each carrying their own distinctiveness and beauty. Pachacanta offers a unique opportunity for them to meet, to look into one another’s eyes, to listen, and to share what they carry forward throughout the year.
It is a chance to share and unite their prayers, intentions, and songs, with the awareness that they are all walking a single journey—on parallel paths but toward a common goal: a new humanity vibrant with Love and Care.
A moment to realize, together, that we are all Medicine for the World.
Temazcal Ceremony
Return to the origins. The union between water and fire, the stones, the mother’s womb are in the primordial line of an ancient design, the arrow that allows you to turn your gaze to the center to return to the origin, to memories. purifying the blood, the skin, the mind, strengthens the heart, develops perception, maintains healthy family ties of the community, culture and ancestors.
Agostina KalfuMalen: artist, dancer, yoga teacher, temazcalera Fuego Sagrado Itzachilatlan, sahumadora. She is interested in the care of the physical, psychic and energetic body with plants and astrodiagnosis through traditional Mediterranean medicine, the ancestral knowledge of the natives and body practices. Dancer of Peace.
Pablo YolotlCuautli, cook, Yoga and Vedic philosophy teacher, interested in the knowledge, traditions and philosophies of native, Andean and Mediterranean cultures. Guides men’s circles. Temazcalero Fuego Sagrado Itzachilatlan. Peace Dancer.
Rapè ceremony
with medicine songs with Kolibri and Renata.
We travel from Chile to share with these lands an Amazonian medicine that has accompanied us for several years in our personal and especially spiritual development, a powerful tool where in this ceremony it will take us deep into ourselves and enter into a harmonious communion with our body – mind and soul. The medicine of rapè (original name Romé Potó) is a mixture of ashes of plants and barks (not psychoactive) and tobacco reduced to powder, this is applied through a special blow via the nose causing an effect that opens and frees the mind from negative thoughts, anxieties, fears etc … cleans and purifies our physical and spiritual body that in the company of medicine songs and energetic purifications that we will perform during the ceremony you can experience a very deep journey of great transformation helping us to free mental and emotional blocks.
KOLIBRI: Kolibri, a soul receptive to earthly forces and fraternal bond, immerses himself in an eternal journey of learning from the simplicity of his being.
A singing healer, explorer of medicine and keeper of ancient ceremonies and sacred songs. Kolibri traces his path from his early years, when he began his connection with the master plants. This path has evolved with a greater commitment to the search for spiritual healing, deepening his study in native communities in the Amazon and drawing on the ancestral wisdom of the elders of various centers in the Abya Yala territory.
Since then he has shared his experience and wisdom through music, accompanying the healing processes. His presence has enriched multiple meetings, ceremonies and festivals.
RENATA: a traveling soul and explorer of different cultures and their ancestral medicines, bearer of the sacred sahumador from the ancient Mayan Toltec tradition and guardian of the rapé medicine, Renata accompanies and guides in the spiritual healing processes during the ceremonies and will take us on a sensory journey and an energetic cleansing.
Water Ceremony Five Continents
Mariana “Tupaykusy” Tawantinsuyu
This prayer is a planetary prayer from, to and by Mother Water and for humanity. We are living in a time of boundless love for the diversity that Mother Water teaches us, nourishing us with the wisdom of unity. Let us achieve Peace through Unity and Unity through Peace.
We invite you to pray, make offerings, sing and dance together in a beautiful offering dedicated to Mother Water, the giver of life.
If you can, we invite you to collect fresh, pure, clean and crystalline water from a spring near your home. Bring some to this prayer so that we can all heal with the blessings of the pristine waters that we all give (5-10 ml is enough).
We appreciate the women in skirts who have come forward at this time. Also bring your energetic or healing elements (stones, drums, etc.) Flowers and aromas (incense, aromatic herbs, incense burners).
In those moments we will be in total planetary unity in the prayer of water.
Thank you for participating.
Mariana Aravales “TupayKusy” bearer and guardian of prayer, creator of mystical remedies of frequency, traditional practitioner of Tawantinsuyu, member of CAIT (Indigenous Ancestral Council of Tawantinsuyu, in Europe) and member of the interdisciplinary team INRICO (Collective of Indigenous Rights-Austria) and co-author of the Water Cult Project, an Andean intercultural project to promote the culture of water as medicine.
Currently she has started to collaborate with Wirikuta for the protection of the desert. Please contact anyone who is interested in protecting the waters and the territory of Wirikuta. We are just starting out and we need creative and kind-hearted people to join “Wirikuta Protectors in Europe”.
Mambeadero or Ritual of the Word
The ritual of the word takes up the spirit of the ancestral Sacred Houses, temples where one returns to the word of life, the word of coca and tobacco: the Mambeadero. It is in this space that the word reconnects with the sacred, arising from the Mind = cold (tobacco) and the Word = sweet (coca).
For the elders of the Andes, the coca plant is a sacred book, because each leaf is a divine word. Coca, symbol of language, allows one to grasp and record the word in the Mambeadero. Pronouncing a word is to invoke a power, a force that if not shaped can cause harm.
Words were a gift from the gods, therefore sacred and powerful. When one evokes a power one is obliged to make it “arise”, a poetic term that indicates creating, acting, the force that the word invokes.
Hayo or coca and Ambil or tobacco are the spirit of the hummingbird, an archetype that allows us to overcome normal perception by penetrating the mystery in its depth.
In the Mambeadero, Mambe (coca), with its feminine energy helps us to sweeten our words. Ambil (tobacco) gives us the clear and concrete words of masculine energy. Since ancient times these two plants have helped to intensify the inner disposition to sit in a circle at night around the fire capturing thoughts. To capture the thought we must capture the silence, that is to say that the fundamental connection is to establish a state of quiet, of inner silence that allows a connection with a superior mental state through which clarity, vision, wise counsel and the deep meaning of action appear.
In this way, through the presence of each participant and the art of communication, an important issue is revealed to be resolved for the entire group through the internal wisdom of its participants.
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