The shamans of the Q'ero tradition in Peru use mestanas, which are sacred hand woven cloths used as personal altars. Mestanas are used for spiritual practices, such as wrapping sacred items and kuyas, or sacred stones, and channeling energy.
I spent a month in Chile studying with Peruvian shamans of the Andes in March. During that time, we worked our way through the four directions - South, West, North and East to complete the Medicine Wheel while at the same time being given some of the sacred rites of the Q’ero traditions. In working within each direction, we choose a stone into which we blew our intentions for healing. Once through the process for each direction with these stones, they then become kuyas, or sacred stones, infused with the wisdom of our own process.
The stones are then kept inside the shaman's mesa and are used in every healing the shaman conducts. At the beginning of the healing session, the patient chooses one of the kuyas that speaks to them to be used during their healing.
I recently spent a magical week in the Red Rocks of Sedona with a dozen of the other shamans who shared this life-altering journey with me. If you know of Sedona, you probably know there are four energy vortexes in the rocks surrounding the town. A few of us went to the top of one of my favorites, Cathedral Rock, for a hike.
This picture was taken at the very top of one of Sedona’s most powerful vortexes. I open my mesa to allow the palpable and overwhelming energy as well as the sun and the sky to touch, revitalize and energize my kuyas.
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