Ceremony and Reverence
Rooted in sacred Andean tradition, our Despacho ceremonies and Pachakuti Mesa Empowerments are intentional, heart-centered experiences. These can be co-created earth offerings made with natural elements or a guided individual activation using sacred stones, breathwork, and visualization.
Despachos
Join in co-creating a beautiful and balanced mandala made from natural elements such as flowers, seeds, grains, and sweets. The Despacho is a sacred Andean ceremony of gratitude and ayni—the principle of sacred reciprocity with the Earth.
During the ceremony, we mindfully place each offering onto a consecrated paper while holding personal prayers and shared intentions. As the despacho is assembled with care and reverence, it becomes a living prayer to 'dispatch' - creating a powerful energetic offering that supports healing, harmony, and balance.
Despachos are especially potent when offered during energetically significant times such as the full moon, new moon, eclipses, solstices, and equinoxes. Honouring the cycles of death, birth, rites of passage, transitions or unions are also powerful times to make despachos.
Whether practiced in community or individually, this ceremony invites us to reconnect with nature, honor the cycles of life, and restore balance through gratitude and intention.
Photo by Michael Mossop
Pachakuti Mesa
This ceremonial practice is informed by the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition (PMT), a cross-cultural path of earth-honoring spirituality rooted in Peruvian healing traditions.
PMT draws from both kamasqa curanderismo of coastal Peru and the paqokuna traditions of the Andean highlands. Through this training, practitioners learn to work with a Mesa—a sacred altar or medicine bundle used for prayer, ceremony, healing, and personal transformation.
The teachings are guided by the wisdom of Andean cosmology, which recognizes three interconnected realms:
Ukhupacha – the inner or unseen world
Kaypacha – the middle world of everyday life
Hanaqpacha – the upper world of spirit and illumination
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition was brought from Peru by Don Oscar Miro-Quesada, who shared these teachings as part of a vision of Pachakuti, or sacred renewal—a turning toward greater harmony within ourselves and with the Earth.
My work is inspired and offered with deep respect for these traditions and the teachers and lineages that continue to carry them forward. My apprenticeship has mostly been with the lineage carriers Darcy Kopas and Robin Flynn of Visionary Hearts.