Shamanic Training · Level One
Path of the Ñusta
Personal Healing & Inner Transformation - Rooted in the Andes. Connected to the Cosmos.
Shamanic Training - Level One
This is not a course. This is a path you walk.
There comes a point where learning more information no longer creates change. What is needed is experience. Relationship. Time.
In the Andean tradition, the Ñusta (Ñust'a) represents the sacred feminine - the priestess, the one who listens, who feels, and who walks in deep relationship with the Earth.
She is guided by the Apus, the mountains who hold memory and wisdom. She understands the flow of Yaku, water as a living force of movement and renewal. She lives in Ayni, the sacred balance of giving and receiving.
The Q'ero, descendants of the Inca, have preserved this understanding - that healing is not something outside of you, but something remembered through relationship.
The Path of the Ñusta is where that remembering begins.
Where That Remembering Begins
Here, you:
- Begin your personal healing journey
- Release emotional and energetic patterns
- Build your Mesa with sacred kuyas (living medicine stones)
- Develop a grounded, daily connection to your practice
This path invites you into a deeper relationship with yourself - not to fix, but to realign.
Your Mesa
The Path of the Mesa - Your Personal Medicine Bundle
At the center of this path is your Mesa. It's the storyteller of your healing journey.
Built over time, your Mesa is a sacred bundle of kuyas - stones that carry intention, energy, and meaning.
These are not decorative objects. They are tools. They are relationships.
You will learn to:
- Work with kuyas as energetic allies
- Use your Mesa for grounding, protection, and clarity
- Bring your Mesa into ceremony and daily life
- Develop a practice that evolves with you over time
Your Mesa becomes a reflection of your journey - what you have moved through, what you carry, and what you are becoming.
Personal Healing
A Path of Personal Healing First
Before stepping into the role of a healer, there is a deeper invitation: To know yourself. To understand your own patterns, your energy, your reactions, your strengths.
This path supports you with:
- Emotional release
- Clarity in your life direction
- Greater intuition and awareness
- A sense of grounding and alignment
There is no pressure to become anything. Only an invitation to be present with what arises.
The Training
A Different Kind of Training
This is not a fast-track program. It is not designed for large groups or surface-level learning. Instead, it is:
- Intimate
- Experiential
- Lineage-based
- Designed to unfold over time
You are not memorizing information. You are developing capacity.
Receive the 13 Sacred Rites of the Andean Tradition
Learn the Art of Living in Ayni
Your Sacred Medicine Bundle
Create Your Personal Mesa and Sacred Medicine Bundle
The Path of the Mesa is designed to help you return to a life of greater balance, clarity, and connection through the Andean principle of Ayni—living in right relationship.
Participants often experience:
- A deeper connection to their authentic self and life purpose
- Greater emotional resilience and inner peace
- Healing from old patterns, wounds, and limiting beliefs
- A stronger relationship with nature, spirit, and the sacred
- Increased trust in their intuition and inner guidance
- Freedom from patterns of over-giving, burnout, and self-sacrifice
- A sense of belonging, meaning, and connection to community
- Greater clarity around life's next chapter
- A personal spiritual practice rooted in ceremony and daily connection
- A sacred mesa that becomes a lifelong companion on the journey
Ultimately, the Path of the Mesa is not about becoming someone else. It is about remembering who you truly are and learning to walk through life in harmony with yourself, your relationships, and the world around you.
Intimate Retreats. Deep Transformation.
What You Will Experience
13 Sacred Karpay Rites
Ancient initiations of the Andes
Ancient initiations for healing, transformation, and spiritual growth.
Direct Teachings from Q'ero Shamans
Wisdom Keepers of the Andes
Learn from the Wisdom Keepers of the Andes through ceremony and relationship.
Build Your Sacred Mesa
Your personal medicine bundle
Create a personal medicine bundle and lifelong spiritual companion.
Return to Ayni
Living in right relationship
Discover what it means to live in harmony with yourself and the world around you.
Small Group Immersions
Deep connection and community
Deep connection, personal attention, and meaningful community.
A Path Back to Yourself
Remember who you are
Release old patterns and reconnect with your authentic nature and purpose.
Who This Is For
Who This Is For
This path is for those who:
- Feel genuinely called to deeper personal healing
- Are drawn to shamanic traditions and energy work
- Want to build a meaningful, grounded spiritual practice
- Are open to transformation that unfolds over time
- May feel a calling toward healing work with others
Who This Is Not For
Who This Is Not For
This path may not be the right fit if:
- You are looking for a quick certification or structured course format
- You prefer purely intellectual learning without personal experience
- You are not ready for reflection, emotional awareness, or inner work
- You are seeking techniques without relationship or depth
The Teaching
The shamans teach that healing is not something you give.
It is something you learn to hold.This path is not about becoming someone new. It is about remembering your place within the web of life - between the mountains, the stars, and the unseen forces that have always been guiding you.
Path of the Mesa
Return to Yourself Through Ancient Andean Wisdom
The Path of the Mesa is a sacred healing journey through the 13 Karpay rites of the Q'ero tradition. Guided by Q'ero shamans, Shaman John Whitehorse, and Kristen White, participants experience ceremony, initiation, personal transformation, and the creation of their own mesa—a sacred medicine bundle and traveling altar.
Through a series of intimate small-group retreats, students are supported in releasing what no longer serves them, reconnecting with their true nature, and returning to the path their soul came here to walk.
On This Journey…
You are invited to release old patterns, strengthen their intuition, deepen their spiritual connection, and return to the person they were always meant to be.
This is not a certification program. It is a journey of healing, remembrance, and transformation designed to help you walk through life with greater clarity, peace, purpose, and connection.
Begin Here
If something in you is responding to this, even quietly, it is worth paying attention.
Path of the Mesa students start with a complimentary discovery call to discuss readiness, timing, and fit.