Shaman's Teaching and Topics

During the Andes Summit, you are invited to attend each of the participating Shamans’ one-hour-long presentations/workshops. Ask questions and experience their medicine. Get to know them to choose your healing session with the Shaman who resonates with you. Here are their proposed topics (subject to change):

The Healing Sounds of The Andes
Don Oscar Santillan

Don Oscar will explain the healing power of sound vibration methods. He'll also demonstrate a Condor feather flute, 400-year-old Jade panpipes-conch shells, rattles, drums, bells, string instruments as well as chants. Through sound healing, you’ll release blocked energy, fears and traumas, and let your energy return to its natural harmonious flow.

The Tsachilas Ancestral Healing
Don Manuel Calazacon

Don Manuel is one of the Santo Domingo de Los Colorados that are believed to be the holders of secrets of the rainforest. He will be sharing wisdom on effective healing powers whenever western medicine or other shamans have failed. He is an expert in energy purification, Plant Medicine, and Temazcal (sweat lodge).

Midwifery and Women's Healthcare
Doña Maria Juana and raul Yamberla

Dona Maria Juana will share her healing teachings, life stories rooted in her faith in God, and medicine stories. She is working with women, men, and child-birthing. Her tales are abundant with nuggets of wisdom, humor, and laughter. 

The Path of Light: The Andean Healing Tradition
Dona cuilla taco

Mama Josefina Lema will share with us the teaching of the Path of Light, which is a way of living that awakens the Divine within to guide us in bringing forth our unique expression to the world so that we may be a beacon for others.

Special presentation: Doña Laura Santillan 

INTEGRATING indigenous culture in our modern education

Doña Laura Santillan is the co-founder and principal of the Yachay Wasi school. Its mission is to give its students an intercultural and bilingual education (Kichwa & Spanish) with cultural pertinence and ecological justice to the Andes Mountains. Its purpose is to invigorate the knowledge of the original people of this land, in combination with contemporary, modern, knowledge of the people today; recuperating the respect of all forms of expression of human life, nature, and deities. The principle is “to form humans caring of diversity, and caretakers of the Mother Earth (–la Pachamama).” This is why the inclusion of a bio-diverse field, "la chackra" is a must in their educational space.