Are you a SuperCeptor? In this weekend online workshop we will be looking at how to work with energy effectively, based on the concepts that come out of the Andean paqo (shamanic) traditions. We look at how these beliefs may be used to enhance our own and we will see if we can reframe our relationship with energy so we have a more empowered experience with it, rather than a diminishing one.  We will examine our beliefs around energy, share our experiences, and find ways to be able to hone our gifts. We will be focusing on using energetic exercises from the Andean training to step out of victim and into empowerment.

• Day 1: Let's talk about what we know! And what our beliefs are... what do we believe and why? How do we get stuck?
• Day 2: Let's do some energetic exercises to come back into balance, to deal with overwhelm, to step out of victim and into empowerment.

2024 Dates offered: 

• May 4/5

Time: 11:00 am-2:30 pm Central Time

Cost: $165. Fee is non-refundable. 

Class size limited to 20

No recordings will be made, you must be able to attend.

This is an introductory online class for those interested in testing the waters of Andean Mysticism as taught at ASC. The traditional Andean paq’os, or “shamans” live high in the mountains of Peru.They have a set of teachings, practices, and initiations unique to their environment, and an exemplary level of love and respect for one another that has served as a means of survival in these harsh conditions. Their whole world view or "Cosmovision" is based upon them. Often described as mystical in nature because they interact with the energetics of Creation directly, they focus on honing our everyday consciousness and refining our personal power to interact with these energies with the highest level of efficacy. They are truly Masters of the energetic realm.

The path of the Andean paq’o is a distinct form of “shamanism” that asks us to stay grounded and embrace our humanity, to see it as an instrument, not something to escape from or endure. Our job is to refine and hone these gifts, and to work with the personal limitations we put on ourselves, keeping us from that. We come equipped with everything we need to engage with the creative force effectively. The more aware we are of how we limit this and give out power away, the more effortless and more dynamic our exchanges become. This class is an  introductory exploration of these traditional teachings. It stands on its own as a sampler, or you can use it as a leaping point into the deeper teachings at ASC.

Content includes:

• Learn the basic energy medicine principles of the Andean paq'o (the Quechua word for shaman or priest). 
• Learn about your energetic anatomy, as taught in this tradition.
• Learn how to engage the energetic world around you.
• Learn about how to refine your 3 human powers and your paq'o capacities
• Learn about the misha (or mesa) 
• Step onto the path of honing your personal integrity, a profound journey to self mastery.

This sampler class is a basic introduction into the complex world and teachings of the Andean Cosmovision, as they have been passed down through oral tradition since before the Inka Empire. 

• You can use these tools and this perspective to enhance your every day life.
• It is a good basic introduction to the basics of Mystical Shamanism as taught at ASC. Get to know us!
• This is also a good primer for the more advanced Andean Foundation series, if you have no experience with the tradition.

Spend a day dipping your feet in the water and familiarizing yourself with the basics. See if this is a path for you!

This is a single day, three and a half hour zoom class with a small break in the middle. Please clear your schedule so you can be completely present the entire time. These are sacred teachings. Please sign up when you can devote your entire time and attention to being in the class.

2024 Dates offered: 

• January 14 

• August 25

Time: 11:00 am-2:30 pm Central Time

Currently we are only offering this once in 2024.

Cost: $85 nonrefundable

Class size limited to 20

No recordings will be made, you must be able to attend.

When you sign up please indicate which of the above dates you are interested in.

The Andean Foundation Training

In the Andes there is a set of people called paqos, or priests, or shamans, who live everyday lives herding alpaca and planting potatoes, and yet they live in a world filled with magic and mystical engagement, every minute of every day! They know that the entire universe is animated and alive. Engaging with it is a natural part of their day, just like breathing. In their world the mountains are wise protector spirit beings and the waters and caves are sources of feminine nurturing. Life is a continuous exchange with this living field of energy that created them. Everything is in sacred exchange. And the beautiful thing is, they want to share this way of engaging the world. Part of their world view is that iif you have something valuable, you share it. The fastest runner teaches the slowest how to run better. In this light we share the Andean Foundation Training, as it has been shared with us, as a profound life enriching spiritual path.

In this set of 8 online classes (4 weekends) you will learn the foundational spiritual principles that guide the paqos, and the energy practices that allow them to keep moving, even when there is great heaviness in the world. Paqos are masters of this living energy. It is through their regular engagement with this energetic world that they develop heightened awareness and expanded levels of consciousness. They naturally become healers because of their understanding of how to move and tune energy. The higher level paqos even work with communities of people to shift them out of heaviness and into better health. In this tradition differences between people are celebrated and honored. What better time than now is there to step onto this path?

The series is sacred journey, with definitive steps, so it is important to set aside the time to dive in completely. Yes, it is online. The energy of creation is everywhere! You don't need to retreat to a sacred mountain getaway to do this, you just need to see the value in it and carve out some sacred time for yourself. Many of us gather in person to practice together and we also have international online groups. Strangely technology is reminding us that we are all connected, in every moment of every day! 

The Teachings

These are the sacred teachings of three old school Andean Master paqos, Don Bonito Qoriwaman, Don Andreas Espinoza, and Don Melchor Desa. They were originally taught to Juan and Ivan Nuñez del Prado of Peru, and then passed on to Joan Parisi Wilcox, who with their support, interviewed the Q’ero Indians extensively in 1994 and subsequently wrote Masters of Living Energy. Joan, Ivan, and Juan have spent numerous hours sharing their wisdom and these teachings with Christina. She has also sat with many of the paqos herself and learned directly from them.

Christina brings these teachings through in their traditional form. She infuses them with her deep understanding of physics, psychology, and neuroscience. The Andean Healing Arts are a living body of knowledge. They are a practice that can be used for many applications. In this vein Christina also brings to her teaching over 20 years of practical experience helping people heal from trauma. Part of any healing is creating new and healthier maps. The Andean Foundation Training is exactly that, a new healthier map to self empowerment. While these teachings are the path of the traditional paqo, this wisdom applies to anyone wanting to improve their relationships with self, nature and with others. 

A Path Of Spiritual Evolution and Self Actualization

These four weekends all one body of work designed to activate your true or core self (Inka Seed) and to give it license for divine expression. Each section (Paña, Chaupi, Llank'ay) comes from one of the three Master paqos Juan studied with.Traditionally paqos studied all three aspects. 

In these AFT classes we will use over 20 energetic practices, exercises, tools, initiations and teachings to take you through the alchemical process of becoming a paqo yourself. You will be taught the three main tools for moving energy and we will do many different group exercises to learn how to sense the nuances of the energetic world. You will learn how to create a misha (mesa), your power bundle, learn how to make despachos (prayer offerings), and you will be introduced to, and initiated into, the two main paqo lineages from the Andes, the Huaskar Lineage and the Inkari lineage, both originally Inka. 

You can take it for interest or you can put the process to use. There are optional homework assignments between each weekend that encourage your development and take you deeper onto the path of the paq’o.

Once you have completed the series with Christina you can return as many times as you'd like to retake it, at whatever donation you care to make, refining and deepening both your understanding of the material and its practices.

Content Includes:

• The Paña, or right side of the path. These are the teachings of Master Don Benito Qoriwaman. This is the path of knowledge and wisdom, the yachay path. It teaches us about the Andean Cosmovision and how to interact with the external energetic world. We receive initiations, learn about how to engage the energetic world, begin the journey of honing our perceptions of energy, learn the core energetic practices of this tradition, learn about despachos, and we build a misha (mesa) or medicine bundle. We spend two weekends here.
• The Chaupi, or middle path (traditional path of the Q'ero Indians). These are the teachings of Master Don Andreas Espinosa. This is the teaching of Munay, or unconditional love. This work is relational. It addresses your energetic exchanges with others. You will learn in depth about your energetic anatomy, as it is defined by the Andean systems, and your capacities. You will receive the bands of power and learn how use them to tune energy to several different frequencies as a healing practice. This is our 3rd weekend.
• The Lloq'e, or left side of the path. These are the teachings of Master Don Melchor Desa. This is the path of action or llank'ay. It is the path of going within to refine your personal power, or karpay. We will do a lot of energetic exercises in this side to help you evolve to a person of great energetic effect. This is the path of action and embodiment, of purposely working on stepping yourself up to a more evolved and effective holder of personal power. This is our fourth and final weekend.

Why would someone want to take these classes?

We are all born with an Inka Seed beneath our hearts. It is ours to develop and to bring into its full potential. The more conscious we are, the more aware we are, the better we are able to do that. The more aware we are, the better we are able to hone our personal power and use it effectively, and express our Inka Seed without unconscious interference. And when we evolve we push the human collective consciousness forward. While some of you may want to use this material to lay down a foundation for being a more adept healer, this set of classes is also an effective set of teachings and exercises to help anyone become more aware and effective at whatever they do! From parent, to CEO.

It is strongly recommended, although not required, that if you have no experience with these teachings, you take the Introduction to Andean Mysticism online class at ASC before starting the AFT training. .

This series is taught as four weekend-classes spanning a period of two months. Please make sure you are available for the entire weekend class period, both Saturday and Sunday, for each of the four weekends. This is an alchemical process… Your presence and participation all the way through are essential if you want to “get it!”

This can be taken by recording only if you want, but it is highly recommended that you are present for each class if you truly want the benefits of this initiation. 

 

Podcast: Jason Grechanik of the Universe Within interviews Christina Allen about the Andean Path

 

New 2024 dates for the 4-weekend series: 

• Winter Series: January 20/21, February 3/4, February 17/18, March 2/3

• Fall Series: September 14/15, 28/29, October 12/13, 26/27

Time: 11:00 am-3:30 pm Central Time 

 

There will be 4 hours of instruction (with a small human comfort break midstream), initiations, and both group and partner practices each day. Please make sure your deck is clear when you commit to take these classes. They cannot be done effectively while multitasking! 

Class size limited to 20.

Cost: $650 nonrefundable fee for the whole series. Ask about breaking it into payments if you need to... Let's do this!

[Have you already taken the series? Come back for a repeat at the donation of your choice!] 

 

"Who would have thought internet conference technologies developed for traditional corporate business would become the backbone for new innovative platforms for delivering high quality non-traditional education. Christina's Andean Mysticism Program is a good case in point. Classes are easy to access regardless of where you are in the world ... Hong Kong, LA, London or Maui or a small ranch in the backwaters of NE Texas. What you give up in the in person educational experiences you more than make up in convenience, cost, and quality of instruction. And even the in person aspects have found new ways to be taught and experienced through this fascinating technology. Christina's Andean Mysticism Foundation Program gets a Five Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  rating. Extraordinary program with lots of energy work woven into the instruction. For me, the best program I have ever participated in within the field commonly referred to as "shamanic teachings". This is a truer teaching comparatively, the Lamborghini of Andean indigenous teachings." GAB

This is a set of four day-classes co-taught by Christina Allen and Joan Parisi Wilcox. It is designed to help you delve into the inner makings of our soul, or psyche, in an effort to become more self aware and masterful with the use of your personal power. Using a blend of Andean energy medicine concepts and practices (learned in the Andean Foundation training) and Jungian psychological concepts, we look at how we are generating hucha (heavy energy) by trying to be someone we may not actually be.

We all have an essence at the heart of who we are, in the Andean traditions it is called our Inka Seed, or Inka Muju. As we strive to be who we are "supposed to be," (as dictated to us by our engagements with our early caretakers, our environment, our institutions and the cultural consensus, through personal experience of what "works" and what does not), rather than who we came here to be, we can be at odds with the expression of our Inka Seed. We use this class to explore the four archetypes of our self development: The Persona, Shadow, Animus and Anima, and the Self. In this set of classes (a "tawantin" is a grouping of four, thus the "Inner Tawantin) we dive in deeply. Each 3 hour class is preceded by readings and pre-work that we use in class interactions and discussions, ultimately leading to a series of energetic exercises that take all this talk and wisdom into the experiential realm where we can actually start moving the hucha we have generated. It is a beautiful, deep, journey of self exploration that puts our healing arts into practice.

There are two class tracts in 2024, and class size is limited:

There are two class options to choose from:  

• Sundays: March 17, May 19, July 21, September 22. 
• Wednesdays: April 17, June 12, August 14, October 16. 

Class times are 1 pm – 4 pm ET, 12 pm – 3 pm CT, with a session held every two months.

Cost: the fee for  the course is a single nonrefundable payment of $300 USD. 

Prerequisite: You must have completed the three-part Andean Foundation Training (as taught by don Juan Nuñez del Prado, Christina or Joan Parisi Wilcox, or a teacher Juan has trained).

Registration: Please use the sign up form below to ensure there are still spaces available in the class you are inquiring about and to reserve your place. Please specify which class track you are interested in. 

The four-part series class “Inner Tawantan” was a powerful continuation of exploration and evolution of the self. It was a privilege to have both Christina Allen and Joan Parisi Wilcox as teachers. Both are amazingly brilliant, wise, insightful, and compassionate. I found that the pre-work given before each class nudged me to dive deeper into the theme of the class and then allowed me to have profound insights during the guided exercises. The class gave me new tools to navigate this world through the direction of my higher self, my Inka Seed, rather than creating hucha by sourcing from old wounds and negative voices. It is as if a veil has been removed and I can clearly sense so much more now, knowing the beauty in myself and all around me. It has truly made a tremendous difference! This is an excellent class to take again!

K.V. California

Well seasoned paqo practitioners Christina Allen and Joan Parisi Wilcox join forces to bring together paqos from all over the world to discuss concepts, share approaches and experiences, and to do energy practices. This is a small group of AFT graduates that meet once a month, live or through recording, to put the rubber to the road. We invite the group members to send in topics for discussion and then Joan and Christina create a group practice class out of your interests. These can be formally Andean, or discussions on how we would apply the Andean work to everyday concerns or even your healing practice. It is a way for you to deepen your relationship with the material learned in the Andean Foundation Training Series, be in community with other practicing paqos, and to put it into gear so it all works for you.

We have two levels of practice groups: The New Paqo Practice group is a six month paqo practice group for people new to the tradition. For those who are continuing on we have a year long ongoing Paqo Practice group (open to the New Paqo Practice group after their first 6 months end).

 

New Paqo Practice Groups: 

2024 Dates for new members:

Modays: January 15, February 19, March 18, April 22, May 20, and June 24. There is a commitment to six sessions, with the option to continue for another six months, which will take the ayllu through the end of a calendar year. (If you want to continue, you will join the long-term group and, so that you can plan ahead, here are the dates for the second half of the year: July 29, August 19, September 23 October 21, November 18, and December 16.)

Time: We will meet on Mondays on Zoom from 2 pm to 3:30 pm Eastern time US / 1 pm – 2:30 pm Central time US. (Adjust for your particular time zone.)

Cost: The non-refundable fee for six months of meetings is a single nonrefundable payment of $190.

While it is always better to be live in an ayllu meeting, if you can’t make a session, Joan will provide a Dropbox link to the audio recording.

Anyone who wants to continue after a year of classes we will invite into the 2025 Advanced Paqo Practice Group (see below).

 

Ongoing Paq'o Practice Group:

For those of you who have already been in a Paqo Practice group for six months or more (see above), and want to continue on with being part of a practicing paq'o community we have an advanced collective group. This group is ongoing with a choice to renew every 6 moths.

Dates: 2024

First cycle: Mondays: January 8, February 12, March 11, April 15, May 13, June 17
Second Cycle: Mondays: July 22, August 12, September 9, October 7 November 4, December 2

Again, while it is always better to be live in an ayllu meeting, if you can’t make a session, Joan will provide a Dropbox link to the audio recording.

Time: 1 pm – 2:30 CT,  2 pm – 3:30 ET

Cost: the non-refundable fee for each 6 month cycle is $190 

Please sign up with the link below and specify which group you are joining. These groups do require completion of the Andean Foundation Training with either Joan or Christina.