Have you ever felt a disconnect between your physical and spiritual well-being? Perhaps you yearn to awaken the powerful healer within.
In this blog post, Mystic Mag explores the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, a unique approach to shamanic healing, guided by Naty Howard, a sanctioned teacher and author. We’ll delve into the core principles of this tradition, including the Pachakuti Mesa Healing Altar and the concept of the “inner healer.”
As a Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Sanctioned Teacher, could you provide insights into how this tradition informs your approach to shamanic healing and teaching, and what distinguishes it from other shamanic practices?
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition (PMT), originated by don Oscar Miro Quesada, is a unique shamanic tradition deeply rooted in compassionate love (Munay), sacred reciprocity (Ayni), and sacred relationship. It encourages perceiving and interacting with the world through the lens of wholeness and unity rather than fragmentation and separation.
This tradition offers a journey inward to remember our wholeness, guided by the Pachakuti Mesa Cosmovision, which I like to call the spiral of awakening. It provides a framework to understand ourselves, our suffering, our stories, and how to transform them, the world, and our roles in it.
Central to my teachings and shamanic healings are the Pachakuti Mesa Healing Altar, PMT wisdom teachings, and rituals for harmonizing the five gateways of inner healing. These elements form the core of the mentorship and shamanic healings I offer.
As don Oscar Miro-Quesada often says, “More than the world needs healing, it needs loving.”
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition opens our hearts to a conscious, interconnected multiverse of realms, elements, directions, and shamanic tools (artes), all aimed at weaving greater coherence of body, heart, spirit, mind, and soul.
This tradition serves the healing of self and all beings, including Pachamama (Mother Earth), seen and unseen realms, and beyond time and space. The depth of alignment, compassionate love, and alchemy it awakens in us make the PMT uniquely powerful for healing self, each other, and Pachamama.
The concept of a Shamanic Healing Circle is intriguing. How do these circles enhance the healing experience for participants, and what role does community play in the context of shamanic healing within this tradition?
Ancient shamanic healing practices awaken the body’s self-healing intelligence, creating greater coherence in our energy field and mind-body physiology.
Shamanic Healing Circles take place during New and Full Moons, Equinoxes, and Solstices. They include group energy healing, council sessions, meditation, breathwork, mantra, mudra, yoga, and guided journeys, anchored by the Pachakuti Mesa Healing Altar and Tradition.
Each practice aligns with the astrological and spiritual significance of the Healing Circle, enhancing participants’ ability to connect with a sacred space within. This supports releasing the past, transforming the present, and creating the future with self compassion, trust, and wisdom.
Healing rituals performed in alignment with the Moon’s magic and the Sun’s transformative power support balance in our dualities—heart and mind, feminine and masculine, shadow and light, flow and flame, safety and transformation, emotional trauma and inner dialogue, emotional intelligence, and inner wisdom.
In Healing Circles, transformations are activated by the sacred space of the healing lodge, the awakening of the sacred centre within us, and the re-claiming of our connection with our soul (authentic self).
Specifically, a Healing Circle enhances the healing experience by supporting participants to:
- Create safety in the body and regulate the nervous system, allowing safe emotional expression, and lifting the veils that hold them back.
- Befriend the mind-body and personal story, fostering greater self-compassion, self trust, and connection to the unseen web of life.
- Gain awareness of emotional and ancestral trauma imprints that shape their identity. • Gain insights into how current inner dialogues keep them stuck and how to shift into greater wisdom.
- Clarify inner vision to take aligned action for transforming their story. • Reclaim connection with the authentic self, activating the inner healer. • Find sanctuary within, connecting with your most intimate space of belonging.
Participants walk the Pachakuti Mesa Cosmovision to deeper layers of healing, from body healing to witnessing suffering with compassion, shifting self and spirit relationships, transforming limited beliefs into inner wisdom, and meeting themselves in the sacred within.
Community plays an essential role in the Healing Circles in two ways:
From the outside in: The lodge’s field of healing influences the participant from the outside space towards their core, as focused intentions are set in the opening council and transformation experiences are shared in the closing council. Sacred community holds and reminds participants that they are never alone in their healing journey.
From the inside out: Community aligns with the PMT Healing Altar’s centre, the gateway for harmonizing soul and the rainbow tribe (sacred community). Anchoring into the Mesa’s center supports a more embodied self-healing path, aligning with true nature (soul), awakening the inner healer, developing inner wisdom, and shifting relationships into greater trust and emotional intelligence.
Your book, “Your Mighty Inner Healer,” suggests a focus on inner healing. Can you elaborate on the key principles or practices from the book that individuals can incorporate into their own healing journeys?
The healing journey calls for alignment with the Spiritual Healing Archetype and the Self Healing Code we are born with, integrating self-healing tools that align with our true nature to heal mind and body and come home to ourselves.
“Your Mighty Inner Healer” offers insights into Ayurvedic, mindfulness, and shamanic tools to transform the healing journey, rooted in the mind-body connection and the five portals of inner healing. Integrating self-healing tools at all levels—body, heart, spirit, mind, and soul—is essential.
Key principles and practices:
- Discover Your Spiritual Healing Archetype and Unique Self Healing Code: According to Ayurveda, each person has a unique ‘Archetype’ determining their strengths, tendencies, self-healing intelligence, and true nature. This Archetype offers insights into the root causes of symptoms and a path to deeper healing. Take the Spiritual Healing Archetype Quiz!
- Create a Sacred Space to Come Home Within: Establish a personal sanctuary to ground your nervous system, quiet your mind, and create safety within so you can transform feelings of fragmentation and anxiety into inner stability and connection.
- Nourish Your Vitality: Re-mineralize your body with liquid nutrition to detox effectively, rejuvenate at a cellular level, and activate your healing journey. Explore 108+ recipes included in the book.
- Center Yourself through Meditation: Begin each day with meditation to centre yourself in stillness and presence. Quiet the mind, cultivate inner peace, and connect more deeply within.
- Harmonize with Breathwork: Use breathwork to harmonize body and mind. Breathwork practices clear the imprints of trauma and cleanse sense perceptions.
- Embodied Awareness: Engage in mindful movement practices like gentle yoga, tai chi, or qigong to connect deeply with your body, clear stagnant energy, release tension, and transform your physiological imprints.
- Self-Reflection: Set aside time for introspection and self-examination at your sacred space. Reflect on experiences, beliefs, and behaviours to gain insights into patterns contributing to pain or suffering.
- Shift Your Inner Landscape: Utilize shadow work, shamanic journeying, and rituals to traverse realms of consciousness, accessing ancient wisdom and healing energies to cleanse deep-seated traumas, awaken self-compassion, and reclaim innate wholeness.
- Connect with Nature: Spend time in nature to nourish mind, body, and soul. Nature’s healing energy fosters peace, clarity, and connection with the world.
- Awaken Your Inner Healer: Embrace self-responsibility and self-advocacy, gathering self-healing tools aligned with your true nature to transform at all levels.
- Meet Yourself in Your Heart: Pause in your sacred space to honestly feel your emotions, recognize needs and desires, and set healthy boundaries for emotional and physical well-being.
- Find Sanctuary Within: Connect with the sacred within daily through rituals, remembering who you are and meeting the world with inner strength, resilience, love, compassion, awareness, and sacred reciprocity for universal healing.
Once you understand your unique Spiritual Healing Archetype and align self-healing tools with who you are, the path to wellness and wholeness becomes a dance between aligned action and the soul’s call to heal at all levels.
As a teacher and author, how do you guide individuals in connecting with their inner healer, and are there specific rituals or practices from the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition that play a significant role in this process?
I guide individuals to awaken their mighty inner healer through The Healing Circles and The Healing Vortex, a sacred four-month immersion blending ancient wisdom and modern healing practices.
The Healing Vortex is an opportunity to unlock your path to healing from within and embody wholeness through transformative Ayurvedic and shamanic practices.
Pachakuti Mesa Tradition rituals used in The Healing Vortex include:
- Creating a personal Pachakuti Mesa Healing Altar.
- Engaging in shamanic meditation and breathwork at your Mesa in your sacred space for daily cultivation of safety within.
- Performing Hucha release ceremonies, cord-cutting rituals, and shadow work to move beyond limitations, making peace with your body, story, and self.
- Receiving shamanic energy healings and shamanic journeying with specific animal allies aligned with inner healing portals.
- Practicing daily rituals to honour Pachamama, offering her tobacco, cornmeal, breath, and prayers in sacred reciprocity. As you tend to Mother Earth, your relationship with your body and self transforms, facilitating self-care.
- Living ceremonially to embody living in Ayni (sacred reciprocity) and to inspire compassionate love by the way you live.
These rituals, rooted in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, guide participants to:
- Pause and breathe into themselves.
- Meet their hearts and bodies with more compassion and awareness. • Establish a safe space within.
- Befriend themselves, their pain, and stories.
- Transform trauma imprints.
- Awaken their mighty inner healer.
The Pachakuti Mesa Cosmovision inspires a journey of remembering wholeness within, guided by the wisdom of sacred reciprocity and interconnectedness. Each practice aligns with your Spiritual Healing Archetype and true nature, guiding you to remember who you are, awaken your inner healer, and embody your sacred wholeness.
How does the concept of ‘inner healer’ align with shamanic principles, and in what ways can individuals tap into this inner healing power as part of their spiritual and physical well-being?
Shamanic principles hold that everything is aware, conscious, and seeks to know itself.
The healing journey involves self-transformation to rediscover our true selves by shedding the veils that obscure our inner truth. The ‘inner healer’ represents the teacher within, interwoven with the consciousness of our soul. It guides us to reclaim our wholeness and heal mind-body imbalances.
To tap into this inner healing power and enhance spiritual and physical well-being, individuals can:
- Create a Sacred Space: Establish a personal sanctuary to cultivate inner safety.
- Meditate Daily: Regulate the nervous system and process emotional veils through meditation. If you’d like to be guided, download the Self Healer Meditation here.
- Align with Your Spiritual Healing Archetype and Self Healing Code: Nourish your unique mind-body in harmony with your innate healing intelligence.
- Spend Time in Nature: Reconnect with your inner nature through solitude and silence.
- Practice Shamanic Rituals: Engage in shamanic breathwork, journeying, and shadow work to transform barriers.
- Take Active Responsibility: Embrace your role in your self-healing journey and align your actions for positive change.
- Deepen Your Understanding: Explore the principles in “Your Mighty Inner Healer” for comprehensive guidance.
Can you share stories or examples from your experience, either within the Shamanic Healing Circle or in your teachings, that highlight the transformative power of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition and the principles outlined in your book?
The transformative power of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition and the principles outlined in my book, will guide you to awaken the healer within, cultivate coherence of mind-body soul and a deep sense of alignment with your authentic self.
Some of the transformations individuals have experienced are:
- Healing Early Childhood Trauma: One individual moved from self-sabotage and disconnection to self-care, clarity, and self-love.
- Single Parenthood and Sleeplessness: A single parent transitioned from feeling alone and exhausted to feeling seen, held, and rested.
- Overcoming Alcohol Dependence: Another stopped using alcohol to numb anxiety and began using liquid nutrition and meditation for healing.
- Postpartum Overwhelm: A new mother of twins shifted from chaos to feeling centered, focused, and at home within herself.
- Prioritizing Self-Care: One person removed distractions, found clarity, and aligned actions with goals through compassion and awareness.
- Journey to Higher Self: Another gathered essential self-healing tools to guide her toward her higher self.
- Self-Compassion at 70: At age 70, an individual finally discovered self-compassion and loving-kindness.
- Establishing Boundaries: Someone learned to set boundaries, create sacred practice space, and respect herself deeply.
- Motherhood and Emotions: A mother of four transitioned from guilt and overwhelm to feeling and understanding her emotions, recognizing her healing power.
Find out more about Naty and her work at www.natyhoward.com. Naty’s email address: [email protected]
