Monthly Events at the Charlottesville
Downtown Mall
Learn more about Peruvian shamanism
on Thursday nites!
December 17, 7-8:30
"Exploring Peruvian Shamanism"
January 21. 7-8:30"Shaking Down Trauma and Finding Peace: A Journey into Shamanic Healing Traditions of the World"
For more information and directions, click here.
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Wicala (believe)
Wicala is owned by my friends, Liz and John Olmstead. They make and sell beautiful soapstone boxes and memorials and dance horse sticks for deceased loved ones. As they put it:
A long time ago, we buried our loved ones on our own land and there they remained in our lives and our consciousness. We talked to them and about them with others.
Today, we bury our loved ones in public cemeteries or church yards, where we are unable to personalize their memorial ~ and often we live or move hundreds of miles away. We have lost a valuable connection. With WICALA honor boxes, you can bring your loved ones home again. You can create a sanctuary that is completely reflective of the person or pet you are honoring. With WICALA horse dance sticks, you can remember your horse or honor all horses with a personalized memorial to have and to hold. 
For more information, click here.
Or call:
434-249-3095
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Greetings, friends.
It is finally time for another issue of Shamanism for a New Age, a newsletter published for MettaKnowledge for Peace friends and colleagues interested in the shamanic healing dimensions of the work that I do. It has been a difficult year for many in our world today as war continues to wage in Iraq and Afghanistan and as the economic crisis in the U.S. has created hardship for so many. The phrase "the world needs healing" kept going through my mind in the days before I started on this issue of Shamanism in a New Age. So true. The world sorely needs help. This help, I believe, rests in part in the healing tools and practices that the indigenous peoples of the world have been putting into the hands of western educated intellectuals like my teacher, Alberto Villoldo. Therefore, I finally rested on the theme of the world of healing promised by the Peruvian mesa tradition. The mesa is a healing or medicine bundle carried by shamans throughout South America. They are now being carried, as well, by many in the West. In this issue's article, I tell you about this ancient tradition and how it works to heal imbalance and disease.
I am also excited to let you know that I am moving my healing practice out into the wider world. I will be sharing a beautiful office on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia with rolfer and psychospiritual counselor, Len Worley. You can call or email me to set up an appointment. In addition. on the weekend of January 29-31, at the beautiful retreat center 20 minutes outside of town, the Bridge Between the Worlds, I am sponsoring a workshop to help heal from trauma through the shaking and transformative energies of shamanism. You can attend a short lecture workshop on the third Thursdays of the month to learn more about Peruvian shamanism and my work! Thank you, as always, for your interest in Shamanism in a New Age.
Yours warmly,
Rachel Mann
Founder and Owner
MettaKnowledge for Peace
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A World of Healing: The Mesa in Peruvian Shamanism
I am a carrier of a mesa, a beautiful, multicolored bundle
containing various power objects and stones used for moving energy in
service of healing. A more commonly known term in the West might be a
"medicine bundle". This powerful shamanic healing tool has been
brought from the Peruvian Andes and elsewhere in Latin America to the
outside world through a variety of western teachers. I myself have been studying in the Four Winds Society Healing the Light Body School founded by new shaman, Alberto Villoldo. In the 1970s, he went in search of a curandero,
translated as shaman or folk healer in Peru, and found Don Antonio
Morales. They worked together to adapt the healing practices and
rituals of the Q'ero people, ancestors of the ancient Inca, into a
format that would convey in the West. Villoldo is only one of many
other western trained anthropologists and psychologists, such as Oscar Miro-Quesada and Elizabeth Jenkins who have helped preserve and translate this potent source of healing for a world sorely in need. Click here for more.
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 Shaking Down Trauma, Finding Peace:
A New MettaKnowledge Workshop
Do you feel stuck in old patterns related to childhood trauma? Are you caught up in ongoing cycles of conflict in your family, place of work or community? Are you disturbed by the violence that seems to permeate our world? Are you a professional who works with clients and in fields where trauma is an everyday reality? Do you suffer from chronic illness or pain and want to find a new source of healing for body and mind?
Join Rachel Mann at the beautiful Bridge Between the Worlds retreat center in rural Virginia to shake down our individual and collective trauma and learn how to dance peace in our lives. Using ancient techniques from some of the oldest shamanic cultures on Earth, including the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Q'ero of the Peruvian Andes, we will transform pain and suffering into peace, laughter, and ecstasy.
During the weekend, we will explore how our bodies and minds reflect patterns of trauma extending back through time in our ancestral lines and in the world as a whole. We will meditate, make art, work with the forces of fire and earth, and dance to shake off patterns that leave us feeling overwhelmed and depleted. By the end of the weekend, we will have planted seeds of resilience and joy in our bodies and minds that will leave us available to ecstasy and an enduring peace.DATES: Friday-Sunday, January 29-31, 2010 LOCATION: Bridge Between the Worlds, Keswick, VA (20 minutes outside of Charlottesville) COST: $275 if you register before January 1; $350 after January 1. For more information or to register, click here.
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