Chakana Path – A Discovery of the Andean Healing Arts
July 19, 2025 - July 12, 2026
$200
Welcome!
May the discovery of this information lead you to fruitful experiences on your path.
Our year-long Chakana Path class is meant to provide a comprehensive foundation of the Andean Spiritual Arts, as taught to Katy by her master teachers from Peru. Katy is dedicated to respecting the authenticity and knowledge as it was passed down to her, and will convey to her students exactly which lineages the teachings come from. While most of the information and teachings are from the Andean traditions, Katy does include the teaching of shamanic journeying using cross cultural shamanic techniques because she thinks this skill is important for you to have in your toolbox. These techniques will not detract from traditional Andean teachings, and are simply meant to enhance your ability to tap more readily into hypnogogic states of higher consciousness.
Katy is also highly enthusiastic about giving her students meaningful experiences while on their path of discovery. Intellectual knowledge is great, but experiential knowledge is the deepest way you can learn from Spirit. All classes contain lectures and handouts with important information, and students also engage extensively in energy and healing practices, including ceremonies and offerings – so that they can gain knowledge through their own experiences. And while this work is serious, Katy also understands the importance of being playful and experiencing joy upon this path. If you’ve ever been around P’aqos, then you know how playful they are, as they inject humor and joy into everything they do!
This class is appropriate for a variety of students, beginner and experienced alike. If you have never been exposed to shamanism, then this class is for you. If you’ve taken classes in the Cross Cultural or Four Winds brands of Shamanism, then this class is for you. If you’ve already learned how to shamanically journey, then this class is for you. And if you desire to explore higher consciousness and want to know how to do that on a very deep level, then this class is for you.
As you embark on this mystical journey of personal growth, you will traverse the Chakana through the Andean cosmos while cultivating and nourishing your true essence and full human potential – your Inka Seed. I invite you to explore yourself while finding your true purpose, and to flourish from within the Rainbow Mystery.
Course Topics
The following is not an exhaustive list of what you will learn in our year together, but it will give you a good idea of the topics of study:
- History of the Incas
- Types of P’aqos (shamans) and their roles
- Extensive Quechua vocabulary. Quechua is the language of the Indigenous peoples of the Andes
- The Chakana (Incan cross), which is a sacred Incan symbol that represents Andean Cosmology
- The Andean sacred animals
- The three worlds
- Journeying
- Spirit guides, benefactors, and allies
- Connection to Pachamama, the Apus, and the Ñustas (Mother Earth, the mountain spirits, and the feminine land spirits) .
- Sacred Space
- The Three Personal Powers
- The Ñawis, which are energy centers of the body that are similar to the chakras.
- The Seven Levels of Consciousness & the Seven Saywas
- Shadow Work – by recapitulation and self-auditing
- Self Healing
- Building a Mesa, which is a personal altar or medicine bundle used by p’aqos in ceremony and healing.
- Energy practices, including Saminchakuy and Saywachakuy, plus many others.
- Tracking Energy for finding the healed and fulfilled states.
- Shapeshifting
- Ancestral Healing
- Soul Retrieval
- Energy Healing on others
- Ceremonies, including energy practices, healing, fire ceremonies, despachos, offerings, and more
While some courses meet just a couple of times a year, we structure our classes differently. There will be 7 weekends over a 13 month period of time where you will come together with your Allyu, or your group, and engage in learning the Andean Healing Arts. The classes will meet every other month for 2 days over a weekend, shortening not only the time between exposure to new concepts, but also the connection with your peers. While I understand that online classes might be convenient, it pales in comparison to the experience of connecting and practicing the medicine with other people, which is very important to keep you flowing along on your path in a meaningful and productive way. Face-to-face collaboration and interaction with others is a very important part of the learning process. Additionally, the Andean masters’ teachings are firmly rooted in students having their own personal experiences of connecting to the land, performing ceremonies, and engaging in energy work. It’s difficult to feel the full effect of these experiences behind a computer screen.
There is also a student access only area on the website where you can log in and download copies of all written materials and resources for your class.
All classes will take place on a Saturday and Sunday on 64 acres of eco-conscious meadows, ponds, woods and gardens in Chatham County, North Carolina. They will begin at 9 am on both days with a goal of being finished by 6:00 pm (while admittedly sometimes students like to hang out longer sometimes, especially after fire ceremonies). You will be provided with meal breaks and will also have time throughout the day to contemplate, meditate, practice, and write while wandering through the woods or sitting next to one of our two ponds. And don’t forget to enjoy yourself by joking around and establishing connections with your classmates, which can be just as meaningful!
Dates for 2025 Class:
- July 19-20
- Sept 13-14
- Nov 8-9
- January 10-11, 2026
- March 7-8, 2026
- May 2-3, 2026
- July 11-12, 2026
Questions about cost?
The price shown on this listing is the estimated monthly payment amount. However our courses are designed to be very affordable and flexible, which is why we provide a variety of personalized options for payment. This course is a labor of love in sacred service, and not a financial necessity. One of the things that is very important to us is that no one should be denied the opportunity to take this course because of financial difficulties. If you are feeling strongly called to the medicine and you think it would be difficult for you financially, reach out! Don’t let the fear of scarcity deter you on your path! Simply send a message via the contact form on our website, and we will work it out. We can always provide a variety of solutions, including reduced cost in some circumstances, and flexible payment options.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. And don’t forget to send us a quick message from the contact page on our website when you register! Be sure to tell us a little about yourself and why you are taking the class. We love to learn about people and to connect with others who are on this path.
And last but not least, THANK YOU! The more people engaged in medicine practices, the better our world will be. Stay engaged!