The Heart of the Andes

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I do not make miracles.   I project love!              -- Don Américo Yábar

You are invited to step outside time and enter a deeper reality! Experience the magic of Peru and the beauty of her people through internationally renowned Andean mystic Américo Yábar, nagual Gayle Yábar, conscious living teacher Carla Woody, Q'ero Elders and other healers.

Photos from Previous Peru Trips   Testimonials from Previous Peru Trips
Fine Art Photograpy of Peru   Related Book Excerpts by Carla Woody

Join with us as we travel to power places that the average visitor never sees and enter the world of native healing and spirituality. Set your intent to connect with the Cosmos... with the spirits of the Pachamama... the mountains... the rivers... with the light of the stars... then bring these energies home to inform your everyday life. Hopi Spirit Keepers are invited guests accompanying us.

We will journey to ancient sacred sites of the Incas and Pre-Incas in and around Cusco and beyond. Along the way, we will enter into a relationship with the land and experience ceremony with the Q'ero Indians. We will traverse the highlands of the Andes and come to rest in Salk'a Wasi, Don Américo's 300 year old ancestral home, known as the House of Undomesticated Energy. There we will engage with the Mollamarka Indians and develop connections through works that open the heart, festivities and everyday village life.

Leaving the Cusco Region we will travel to the Altiplano of Peru, home of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world. Here in the Puno Region, indigenous to the Aymara people, are a number of sacred sites, natural and human-made, many known only to the native people who frequent them. We will visit some of them to discover what is resident there.

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The mountain lion goes to a place... He does this in a position of correct relationship with Mother Earth... Pachamama... When you become the mountain lion... like a mountain lion you will move. It will be your ally. If you can incorporate the spirit of the eagle, you will have a way to project your spirit that will be just natural for you... I want you to understand that this is the work we are going to do... all our lives. It is a path that expresses the sensation of a mountain lion facing the world... and the childish joy that each one of us has inside... -- Words of Don Américo Yábar Excerpted from Calling Our Spirits Home by Carla Woody

AN ADVENTURE OF THE SPIRIT!

Don Américo in sacred ceremony with the Q'ero

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Contact us at 928-778-1058 or info@kenosis.net to arrange a Spiritual Travel journey for your group.

Don Américo Yábar is an internationally recognized Peruvian mystic and poet. Initiated by the Q'ero as a young man, he is a chakaruna, or living bridge of feeling between cultures. A master in moving energy, he is particularly adept in guiding Western minds in opening their hearts to connect their filaments with the Cosmos. Don Américo and the Q'ero have been written about in Calling Our Spirits Home and Standing Stark by Carla Woody, Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge by Joan Parisi Wilcox as well as articles in Shaman's Drum and many other publications.

Gayle Yábar has been walking the path of the nagual, a guide tracking salk'a, nearly his entire life. Through the transmission from his father, renowned Andean mystic Don Américo Yábar, and the circle of Q'ero elders, Gayle has the innate abilities of the puma and the full heart required to show others the ways of connection. In the past few years, he has been sponsored by private groups to such places as Costa Rica, Italy and the UK to work with youth.

The Q'ero call themselves the children of Inkari, the first Inka. They live in isolation at 17,000 feet in the Andes, as they have for the hundreds of years after the conquistadors came, preserving the ancient mystical and shamanic traditions. They are the most untouched by Western culture of any indigenous peoples in the Americas. From them, we can learn about pachacuti, the stepping outside of time, and living in ayni, sacred reciprocity.

Carla Woody, MA, CHT... author of Calling Our Spirits Home and Standing Stark... is the founder of Kenosis LLC, an organization based in Prescott, Arizona, supporting human potential through workshops and spiritual travel opportunities. She has steeped herself in the world of Andean mysticism for over fifteen years and is highly skilled in grounding its transformative powers into everyday reality. Carla is the developer of "The Re-Membering Process", a model for spiritual growth, and works with individuals and groups in areas of transition, relationships, spirituality and whole health. In 2007 she founded Kenosis Spirit Keepers as the nonprofit arm of Kenosis LLC.

Cost:	2012 TRIP: Early registration discount $3095 by March 5. After March 5: $3195. Registration cost includes an automatic donation (tax-deductible for U.S. taxpayers) of $495 toward Kenosis Spirit Keepers programs. Please note that Kenosis LLC is a philanthropic organization and is limiting normal profits and passing the tax-deductible donation on to you. No additional funds have been added to your tuition costs. Tuition includes all work with Don Américo Yábar, Gayle Yábar and Carla Woody, healing ceremonies with Mollamarka and Q'ero shamans, lodging in double or triple rooms, all meals in Salk'awasi, and breakfast in Cusco and Puno. Also includes a pre- or post-trip Lifepath Design session — complimentary — with Carla Woody regarding intent or re-entry. Participants of spiritual travel programs are offered a special discount for the six-month mentoring program Navigating Your Lifepath. This deep discount is not available to others but offered as an add-on to further support integration of the spiritual travel journey. For complete details, contact us. Detailed logistics document sent upon registration. MC/Visa accepted via PayPal here. We are offering a limited number of partial sponsorships for young adults (18-25) to participate in this offer. To apply for a sponsorship, go to www.kenosisspiritkeepers.org/support.html to download an application (due by January 5, 2012) or to learn more about Kenosis Spirit Keepers programs. Important to Note: We do not go to the tourist sites of Machu Picchu or the Sacred Valley, but reserve our programs for those harder to reach, often quite hidden, places. We seek to offer experiences that are unlikely you would have elsewhere. Because of this our rates include the increased travel cost to bring you such an opportunity. Optional individual travel arrangements to Machu Picchu or the Sacred Valley before or after the formal offering are quite easy to arrange and inexpensive for you to travel there on your own. Many tour companies operate out of Cusco or are available online.
Deposit:	Non-refundable deposit of $500 made out to Kenosis LLC to hold your place. Remainder due in full by March 21, 2012. For payment by check or money order, send the final payment in two checks or money orders as follows: one check made out to Kenosis Spirit Keepers for $495 and the remaining registration amount to Kenosis LLC. Mail both to: Kenosis LLC, PO Box 10441, Prescott, AZ 86304. For credit card or PayPal payment, call 928-778-1058 or email info@kenosis.net.
Other Information:	We believe in ayni, the sacred sense of reciprocity practiced in the Andes. Your tuition includes a financial contribution to support the welfare of the Quechua people with whom we engage. When you register for our programs you are also helping to sponsor others. Automatic donations from tuition for this Spiritual Travel Program will be forwarded to Kenosis Spirit Keepers, a nonprofit organization that seeks to honor and preserve indigenous wisdom and sacred cultural practices. Their programs provide cross-cultural exchange, education and community-building sponsorships for indigenous peoples, non-native young adults and others. Donations are recognized as a charitable contribution by the State of Arizona, and by the US Internal Revenue Service under Section 501(c)(3). Visit www.kenosisspiritkeepers.org to learn about all current projects. When you register for our programs, you are also helping to sponsor others.
	REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Registration deadline is April 5, 2012.
Cancellation:	45 days or more prior to the start of the trip, full refund (less $500 deposit). From 44-30 days, full amount (less deposit and tax-deductible donation, if applicable) is transferable to any Kenosis offering within two years. From 29 days to trip start 15% of tuition is transferable within two years. This policy reflects our need to cover expenses in the case of cancellations.