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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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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February 08, 2024
Podcast with Jason Grechanik of The Universe Within
Tags: Shamanism, Intitations, the call to shamanism, Shamanism and Physics, inititations and neuroscience, The Q'ero tradidion, Dark Energies, choice, Andean mysticism, Psychadelics, Psychadelic Therapy, podcast, Juan Nuñez Del Prado, Joan Parisi Wilcox, Trauma
Podcast: Jason Grechanik of the Universe Within interviews Christina Allen
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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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April 20, 2023
Interview with Olivia Young: Uncovering the Secret to Trauma Healing with Christina Allen!
Tags: Trauma, Energy Medicie, Shamanic Healing, Psychedelic Therapy, Reparenting, Freeze, dissociation, boundaries, consent, Soul work, psychological triggers, shadow, inner child, soul reteival, Andean Healing Arts
Live interview and conversation between Christina Allen and Olivia Young on healing from trauma using shamanic tools.
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March 26, 2023
Mastay: Healing From Trauma Is A Reorganization of Your Soul
Tags: Trauma, healing, psychedelic therapy, shamanic healing, soul work
There is order to all of Creation. Think of a human body. It starts from two cells, an egg and a sperm. They come together in a single moment and then begin to organize and multiply into an array of highly differentiated cells signaling back and forth to each other, creating a complex being pulsing with life. These cells multiply and replace themselves many times through a lifetime, renewing themselves to keep the organism healthy and vibrant. This intricate ordering can be disrupted, however, and a new one can unfold. A missing, damaged, or extra chromosome, for example, can cause a mutation that results in a different form or structure. Creation is an endless process of ordering and reordering. But not all form is viable or healthy. Creation just creates. Take cancer, for example. We know that metastatic cell proliferation usually occurs in response to a stressor. The resulting mutations drive cells into reproducing themselves without check. A new order ensues but not a healthy one.
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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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August 13, 2022
Falling Into The Fire
Tags: Reset, Transformation, Freeze, Trauma, Andean Healing Arts, Solstice Ceremony, The Shamanic Way
It all actually started for me when I fell into the fire on Summer Solstice of 2019. It’s been a long 3 years. I don’t know about you but I was taken down to zero. I fought it. I was not going to go down. I’m tenacious, I’m stubborn. But over and over again I got the message to let go. To die the shamn's death. And finally I did. I’m sure this happened to many of you over the COVID time-out.
I literally fell into a ceremonial fire, landed with my left hand on a log of burning embers and was apparently engulfed in flames, briefly. I heard this voice say "This is an intitation." Then came the unraveling. And the reformatting. And the alchemy. You see, at the core of this was the call for me to heal from a lifetime of what I call freeze. It’s one of the three states we can go into when events are too big to face. We run. We fight. Or we freeze. My go-to was to freeze.
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