A mesa represents and can assist you on your spiritual journey. This powerful series of classes can transform your life and empower you in the ways you want to become. 

A series of four classes complete your mesa in a span of one year. Classes meet one evening a week for five weeks, during which you build the foundation of your mesa for that cardinal direction. Price $400/direction. Class schedule: 

South: Jan 2009 ♦ West: Apr 2009 ♦ North: Aug 2009 ♦ East:  Nov 2009

For best results, I ask that you commit to attend all four directions so you can complete your mesa. Register. (I can travel to your area to teach for your group/organization.)

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What is a mesa?

The mesa is an embodiment of you, representing your path of spiritual self-learning.  The mesa itself is really quite ordinary in that it is composed of a woven cloth and a bundle of rocks from various locales. However, its quality is empowered first by the power places where you will have gathered the stones, and second, by the ritual of illumination, which awakens the stone persons to their new healing/spiritual role, infuses them with specific medicine, and establishes a powerful, healing relationship between you and them. In addition, initiation rites link you the lineage of shamans that have gone before you, in this case, the Peruvian shamans of the high Andes.

What you can do with a mesa?

The medicine or power or energy in your mesa can be used to assist you on your spiritual path -- to help you learn and grow, to help you align your energies with the energies of the universe, and to bring harmony and health to yourself. Your mesa's ability to help you along your path derives from the initial work to build your mesa and how you spend time with your mesa in the days and years to come. Therefore, your mesa is a reflection of the collective power from the different places where the stones and cloth originated combined with how you have worked with your mesa. As a spiritual practice, working with your mesa becomes a practice that grows with you throughout your life and throughout your life experiences, assisting you all along the way.

When you work with your mesa, it can ...

• Help you center and ground

• Help you realign your energy body with energy to live in harmony and reciprocity, thereby nourishing your energy body

• Drain away stress and anxiety and bring understanding, rejuvenation, peace, and harmony to your well-being through meditation

• Be a method to empty your mind from which, like a vacuum, new ideas, connections, and insights can emerge

• Help you reflect or ask questions and seek guidance or divination

• Allow you to execute life from a place of empowerment, not out of reaction

• Help you access non-ordinary reality to perform healing (for example to dissolve patterns and alter the energetic or luminous body)

•  Help you listen to a prosopopeia (e.g., like a personification) of ancestors of mesa carriers that have come before or will come after to which each mesa is linked energetically

• Access your personal power and vision that manifests your cosmology so you can transform yourself from the personal to the transpersonal

• Help you learn and grow throughout your life.

• Dream actively

How do you build a mesa?

The primary mesa configuration represents the journey to the four corners of the world you will make when constructing your mesa. At each direction, you add power objects (stones) to your mesa to help you digest and embody the lessons of that direction.

South -- You cleanse your emotional body of difficulties that limit your potential. You learn to shed this past just as the serpent sheds her skin – all in one piece. This is the time to shed the emotional dramas that constrict your life. 

West  -- You explore your relationships with your ancestors so that you may learn how you carry their seeds within you. And you learn how to drop those seeds that longer serve you. This is the time to die to your planned death so that you may live and be present each day.  

North -- You examine your roles in society and how they keep you masked and hiding from your true self. After peeling away these masks, you align yourself with the lineage of mesa carriers that have gone before you and will go after you.  

East -- You step into your becoming. You develop your vision, journey to retrieve your destiny, and then dream this into being. You complete your mesa able to return to your home and your community to realize your destiny. You also examine how your shadow is aspects of your own personal power that you have turned against or not acknowledged and learn how to reintegrate it.