SP1 Content: Course 1 Maya Aztec Traditions 1 - 3 lessons

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  In this training, you will learn the practice and theory of Andean, American and Siberian shamanism, through which you will recover your own personal power and gain the ability to help others to do the same. It will be a path of personal transformation that will not be granted to you through an initiation or a ceremony, but rather gained through a process of self discovery. The shamanic path of initiation. You will learn to assemble the 'Andean Table', the altar or sacred space of the shaman.  The practices that you will learn are aimed at cleaning the auric field and at aligning in relationship with the spirit world. Later in this course you will learn 'the removal of karmic markers' and methods of shamanic healing. In these practices you will learn to deepen the practice of astral travel and the union with allied spirits, animals and power teachers, for the purposes of healing. These work to extract the origins of the blockages that generate disease or pain. They involve removal of all energy that alters the state of the energy field resulting in harmonization. 

Walking the shamanic path is learning to recover the personal power of intuition, the language of the soul. For this, consciousness expansion techniques are applied. Through mastery of the 'small mind', and the development of the qualities of the spirit, one moves toward the awakening of consciousness. 

The shaman is an awakened being who is at the service of his community, guardian of the physical and spiritual health of other beings, who collaborates with evolution, respecting the cosmic order and the sacred laws of nature. 

Shamanism is the direct contact that we have with nature. The shaman is an animist because he/she believes that everything has a spirit or soul. From the smallest plants to the spirits like the Sea or the Mountain, each have an energy and identity.

What shamans do is communicate with these spirits to learn, heal and work in harmony with nature to raise the vibration. 

A shaman is a healer, magician or witch doctor who manages to voluntarily separate his spirit from his body, enter into other worlds and gain access to subtle substances , to the soul and spirit, and to their vital energy. 

Through shamanic practice you can make use of your spiritual gifts to acheive a life of meaning and direction, to gain mre self esteem and personal assurance, and therefore to have the resources to solve your problems on a day to day basis. 

The shamanism that you will learn is not only based on the learning of healing techniques, but through providing a true guide toward self discovery  and the increase of inner strength. We work on the levels of the body, mind and spirit, fusing psychology and spirituality. 

Shamans have known how to commune with the spirits of nature to heal, acquire power and to gain knowlegde of their brothers and sisters. Connected with everything that is alive - plants, rocks, animals, the elements, Pachamama Mother Earth, and Father Sun - shamans speak the Universal Language and see the Great Spirit in everything that exists.

'Onalli', the soul or subtle matter, and the wise shaman, his advisor, his healer. Ecstasy, is the propituous state for the meeting of both. This meeting has been going on for centuries among the Nahual and Mayan ethnic groups of Mexico despite everything they have had to endure. 

Shamans, from their initiation, recognize the importance of dreams and the consumption of psychoactive substances, as a means to acheive altered states of consciousness, which lead to ecstasy and the exit of the soul from the body. In that state they are able to cure illness and to divine the future. 

The shaman carries out rites that guide the passage from the mundane to the sacred, with the use of objects, elements, actions and magical formulas, as well as music, dance, singing and invocations.

Historically, pre-hispanic and colonial testimonies, found in codices, sculptures and paintings, give the account of how, for medicinal and ritual use, differnt plants were used such as peyote or pericon, hallucinogenic mushrooms and also animals such as toads and some birds and insects.

Over the coure of this history, it is clear that, in addition to the great public rituals that were celebrated in ceremonial centers, shamanic practices were carried out in private homes as well. And the fundamental characteristics of these practics has been preserved to this day.

Changing the way that one one views death is part of the shaman's abilities. 

They have a spiritual connection with the universe through communication and by observing its variations. 

Within the shaman's power is the use of the energy of  love as a means of healing. 

Their life and experiences are divided into two worlds - the real and the spiritual. 

The shaman has good communication with everyone and presents an inner strength that is evident to others.

The shaman can communicate with both the ancestors and the spirits, based on visions, which allows for the process of divination, or seeing the future. 

The shaman has the ability to change the weather and to determine the right places for various agricultural activities.

The position of the shaman is often passed down from one genration through the next through the education of child.