Please Join us for a Winter Solstice Despacho Ceremony and Sacred Fire facilitated by Amy Mermaid Isakov.
The winter solstice is the threshold of stillness. It is a profound opportunity to gather in community and slow down, together.
The despacho ceremony, if you've never heard of it, comes from the indigenous people of the Andes, in South America. I was apprenticed in these arts by my teacher, don Oscar Miro-Quesada as well as many people in his community of ritual artists. It is, essentially, a way of making your prayers manifest in this world, through the patterning of all types of offerings, some specific and some not, into a balanced and beautiful mandala, which we then completely turn over to the sacred fire.
Please bring:
A blanket to sit on (chairs and back-jacks available)
A refillable water bottle
An object for the mesa (will return home with you)
If you are able wear all black!
POTLUCK DINNER (please bring a dish to share) and Music and Merriment TO FOLLOW
Reciprocity $20 solo or $15 if you bring a friend.
Location:
Valley Forge Mountain
EVENT IS NOT LOCATED AT VILLAGE WELLNESS - your confrimation email will say Village Wellness - but (exact directions will be given after registration - closer to the event)
Please RSVP via the Book now button below
About Amy Mermaid Isakov,
Sanctioned Teacher of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
Amy Mermaid Isakov is an innovative dreamer, passionate about connection, spirituality, music, ritual arts, and how the Divine can manifest in all its forms. Having left the traditional education path, she has studied in-depth with shamans, bodyworkers, evolutionary thought leaders and green builders since 2001. While working at The Shift Network, she hosted and managed all of don Oscar’s courses, while having the privilege to host and learn from many of the world’s leading mystics, dreamers and visionaries.
She is a Pachakuti Mesa Sanctioned Teacher, writer, singer and mother — among other things — and looks forward to helping as many people as possible return to the truth of interconnection in this time of dire beauty. She regularly leads gatherings in her region and beyond, subscribing to the truth she recognizes in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching “The next buddha will be a sangha.”