Pachakuti Mesa tradition
apprenticeship series
June 13 - 15, 2025
star river sanctuary, nelson, bc
First Weekend of Series with a repeat/makeup
aug 1 - 3, 2025
Sunshine Coast, BC near Roberts Creek
with
DARCY KOPAS & ROBIN FLYNN
The Pachakuti mesa apprenticeship training
The Pachakuti Mesa Apprenticeship training is a 18 month ceremony of initiation and transformation. Within this 18 month training are 5 in-person apprenticeship weekends offerered at Star River Sanctuary. There will be 3-6 months of time in between the weekends for practice and integration.
This journey is one of the most powerful transformational and evolutionary processes we have ever experienced and each year as we guide groups through this process, our love and devotion to the resource and empowerment based process exponentially deepens.
You can access a recent call recording below where we answer many questions about our upcoming PMT Hoop!
“Pachakuti” means “world reversal” and refers to the time of transformation we are living now. A mesa is an altar for self exploration transformation and personal growth in which we create a new paradigm of one’s relation to the Self and the Universe. This tradition, in all its richness, is an evolving practice of inner and outer activities that restore balance and harmony to our relationships with All That Is.
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition: Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts for Personal and Planetary Renewal is a five- part series of intensives in the shamanic arts of restoring harmony, health, and earth stewardship. This workshop series aligns the traditional shamanic arts of Peru and the wisdom of its heritage with the needs of the present day, a transformational moment of planetary and human history.
Participants will cultivate a deeper relationship with nature and the unseen world, and receive multiple opportunities for self-exploration, empowerment, and profound personal growth. This apprenticeship series is open to all people who desire to be of service, whether they are long-time mesa carriers or new to this tradition.
Benefits of Being a PMT PRACTITIONER
Learn to gracefully walk between spiritual and material worlds as a shamanic initiate of the Great Work
Receive heartfelt apprenticeship in pre-Columbian Andean cosmology, earth-honoring ceremony, and healing arts
Join a diverse global family focused on compassionate Self-transformation who joyously celebrate life as a sacred gift
Awaken your sovereignty as a child born of Pachamama’s sanctity and love
THE APPRENTICESHIP
Weekend I: The Call to Heal (Releasing the Past)
This apprenticeship workshop initiates participants into the Pachakuti Mesa, a powerful and sacred altar. Students learn how to create their own mesas and work with them for self-empowerment, transformation, and helping others. Through shamanic journey and visionary states of consciousness, participants will explore the three worlds of the Andean cosmovision, sacred reciprocity with all that is, the core ingredients of ceremonial mastery, sacred sound and ritual language, healing and curanderismo, and the inner world of the Ukhupacha.
Weekend II: A Balance of Power (Transforming the Present)
During this workshop intensive, participants will apprentice in the center of the mesa, traditional Peruvian healing practices, and the Kaypacha, the middle world. They will explore the Kaypacha’s elemental matrix and magico-spiritual power, and learn about the moon’s presence in the middle world, mapping the cosmos on Earth, and celestial death and rebirth.
Weekend III: The Condor’s Quest
(Creating the Future)
This workshop is an initiation into the Paqokuna, the Andean Shaman/Priesthood mystical path, the lineage of the sacred mountains, and the five virtues of the mesa. Participants will also journey to and experience the Hanaqpacha, the upper world beyond the physical, work with the unseen world there and deepen their connection to their own spiritual resources.
Weekend IV: The Hummingbird’s Ascent (Living the Mystery)
In this apprenticeship workshop students will experience the upper world and learn about its lightning bolt of mystical illumination and the flow of kamasqa, the power of Creation. They will work with the elements, the forces of the universe, the body of Mother Earth, and sacred healing objects. In sacred reciprocity, participants will create despachos to honor Mother Earth, the sacred mountains, the elements, and the unseen world, and prepare for a paqowachu, a sacred pilgrimage.
Weekend V: The Shamanic Self (Serving the Earth)
This workshop deepens participants’ experience of soul and spirit through ritual process, including the spiritual creation, activation, and care of an apacheta. Students will work with the power of creation in the kaypacha or middle world, dimensionality, and time, as well as with the three suns, and the hampikamayoq process (ancient breathing techniques for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being and transformation). Participants will be further empowered by evoking both seen and unseen sources of cosmic awareness within their mesa, sacred objects, and own being, and initiation into the lineage of this revered tradition.
If you would like more information about the
2025-26 Pachakuti Mesa Training
please email starteam@starriversanctuary to book a call with
our team to explore this powerful journey and if its right for you…
Nelson, BC Dates 2025 - 2026
All weekends are held at Star River Sanctuary, our beautiful eco retreat on Crystal Mountain, right above Nelson, BC. Enjoy delicious meals, pristine air and water, astounding beauty – plus kind knowledgeable hosts.
Part I: The Call to Heal (Releasing the Past): June 13-15, 2025
Part II: A Balance of Power (Transforming the Present): October 10-12, 2025
Part III: The Condor’s Quest (Creating the Future): April 10-12, 2026 (Timbuktu)
Part IV: The Hummingbird’s Ascent (Living the Mystery): July 10-12, 2026
Part V: The Shamanic Self (Serving the Earth): Oct 9-11, 2026
