August 08, 2025
Online Andean Mysticism: Awakening the Seed of Self
Tags: Energy Medicine, Self Development, Shamanic training, Andean Cosmovion, neuromysticism, Trauma Healing, Spiritual Path
Online Andean Mysticism: Awakening the Seed of Self
The Transformational Path of Andean Energy Practice and Self-Mastery
Fall 2025 Series: Sept 27–28, Oct 11–12, Oct 25–26, Nov 8–9
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM CT • Live on Zoom • $650 (payment plans available)
Class size: Limited to 20
Step into an unbroken lineage of Andean mystical practice — a path of profound energetic mastery passed down through two authentic Inka lineages. In this highly experiential, two-month online intensive, you’ll receive sacred teachings, initiations, and more than 30 powerful energy practices for healing, personal clarity, and self-remembrance.
This is not a lecture series. You’ll be fully engaged in live partner and group work, receiving energetic transmissions that are just as potent online as in person.
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August 08, 2025
Online Introduction to Andean Mysticism
Tags: energy medicine, Andean cosmovision, Consciousness, Self development, Spiritual training, Spiritual path
Online Introduction to Andean Mysticism
Sunday, September 7, 2025 — 11:00 am–2:30 pm CT
$85 | Limited to 20 participants | Via Zoom
Step into the living tradition of the Andean Mystical paqo — an ancient lineage of energetic healers and wisdom keepers from the high Andes of Peru. This single-day online class is a sampler of the path and energy medicine taught at Austin Shamanic Center.
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July 27, 2025
When Compliance Is Not Consent: How Freeze-Based Trauma Undermines Our Agency And Will
Tags: Freeze, Trauma therapy, Psychadelic therapy, Andean Mysticism, Consciosness, Choice, Neuroplasticity, energy medicine
Emerging from the architecture of freeze—into the light of will, choice, and consent.
A Thief in Sheep’s Clothing
It has been said that trauma is a thief. The events themselves may have been horrific, but with freeze-based trauma, the worst of it often still lies ahead.
As children, we are usually outmatched by our aggressors. While the default stress responses are to flee or fight, neither is usually an option when we are small and dependent upon our abusers for survival. Children facing violence, abuse, or violations of their boundaries—and their bodies—have but one option: to survive it. A third stress response takes over: freeze.
When the nervous system chooses freeze, it does so by overriding our will. No one wants to freeze. It’s a form of paralysis. Without will, our agency, or ability to act according to our will, collapses. Now we are at the whims of our aggressors. To make matters worse, if this happens more than once our brain rewires itself to use freeze as the default stress response in the future. We are not making choices anymore in freeze. We are surviving them. What happens in the aftermath often causes far more harm than the event itself...
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July 19, 2025
Initiated by Lightning: Trauma as a Sacred Rewiring
Tags: trauma healing, neuroplasticity, intitations, Energy medicine, Andean Mysticism, plant medicine, DMN, psychadelic therapy
How trauma cracks perception open and reveals a portal into the soul’s higher gifts.
There is a kind of spiritual initiation in Peru that comes straight out of the sky.
Across the world’s spiritual traditions, initiations take many forms. Most are ceremonial and symbolic. Christian priests baptize parishioners with water to mark a rebirth in Christ, or offer communion through the ritual of bread and wine. In Judaism, the bar or bat mitzvah celebrates a coming of age. These are gentle rites of passage.
But in the high Andes of Peru, there is an initiation that comes not through ritual, but through lightning.
Many indigenous cultures have rites far more intense than the ceremonial softness of Western religion. Vision quests, burials, and Sun Dances are all deeply transformational…and often traumatic. In the Andes, some paqos, or Andean priest-healers, are said to be initiated by being struck by lightning. These are the altomesayokes, those who speak directly with the Apus, the mountain spirits. They are not chosen by human teachers, but by the cosmos itself.
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May 25, 2025
Neuromysticism and Healing Trauma
Tags: Trauma, Healing, Andean Mysticism, Freeze, Energy Medicine, Default Mode Network, Mental Health, Psychiatry alternatives, Shamanism, Plant Medicine, PTSD, Psychedelics
Mysticism: The World is Alive
What if the universe were alive, aware, and already in relationship with you?
In the Andean tradition, everything in creation is made of kawsay — conscious, living energy. Mountains breathe. Rivers listen. Rocks remember. All of reality begins in the kawsaypacha, an immaterial field of divine energy, and unfolds into form. From this perspective, nothing is inert or lifeless—everything is an extension of Source, awake and participating in the web of existence.
Mysticism, at its root, is the belief that we can commune directly with that Source. Unlike many spiritual or religious traditions that rely on intermediaries—angels, saints, spirit guides—mysticism holds that divine connection is innate. The sacred speaks through experience, not dogma...
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November 09, 2024
Interview with Shaman’s Directory 2024: Every Initiation Is A Death And A Rebirth
Tags: Global Summit 2024, Intitations, Shaman, Andean, Shamanic Trainng, Andean Mysticism, Energy Medicine
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Listen to an interview with Christina Allen by the Shaman's Directory at their 2024 Global Summit gathering
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December 02, 2023
Interview of Christina Allen at Shaman’s Summit: Healing Trauma, Body, Mind, and Soul
Tags: Shamanic Training, Shaman's Directory, Global Summit, Trauma, Energy Medicine, Freeze, Shamanic Teachers, Podcast, psychadelics, psychadelic therapy, Healing
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Listen to an interview with Christina Allen by the Shaman's Directory at their 2023 gathering
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October 22, 2022
Podcast Interview of Christina Allen by Olivia Young
Tags: Energy medicine, Default Mode network, psychadelic assisted therapy, shaman, Andean shamanism, healing, trauma, PTSD, Freeze
Podcast:
Olivia Young interviews Christina Allen on her work.
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June 01, 2017
Beyond Talk Therapy
Tags: Shamanic Healing, Imprint Work, Soul Healing, Energy Medicine, Psychological Counseling
A psychological counselor can be an invaluable ally when we are sorting through our emotions and looking for ways to better cope with our wounds. It is comforting to have a neutral, anonymous person to talk to, and someone who can help us root through our stuff to get a better handle on it. Why then, would you see a shamanic healer? The short answer is, you still feel wounded. Counselors work mind to mind, using their minds to interact with yours. If the root of your problem is imprinted on your soul, talking about it has limited effect.
Shamans believe soul sickness is the origin of all mental and physical illness. They operate from the principle that your body and mind are connected to, and informed by, a third body of consciousness. It is a membrane of light that surrounds your physical body, perceiving the world independently of it. People who have technically died, but who have been brought back to life, report still being very aware of their surroundings, despite their complete loss of neural activity. They also report seeing the whole event from a position outside their body.
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May 29, 2014
Tune in to Intention Radio Tonight!
Tags: Energy Medicine, Intention Radio
What is Energy Medicine? Tonight we will be talking with a modern day Shaman on her perspectives on health, illness, recovery, dying and death. She has much to say and is a wonderfully grounded and practical healer. Tune in to our interesting dive into her world. Click here to hear the interview.
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