About This Blog

This blog attempts to chronicle my interest and growing visibility in the shaman's way. As a child I was very open to spirit worlds, and this quality was fostered and nurtured by my parents, my mother especially. In my twenties I found myself immersed in the study and practice of Polarity Therapy, a holistic system of bodywork, counseling, yoga, and nutrition developed by Dr. Randolph Stone. I began my Polarity Practice in 2002, and it is from this point that shamanic doors began to open and I began to journey with my clients. In 2009 a radical series of life events and unexpected doors began to fly open in fast succession. The most deeply touching is that of the whirling dervish, where I was trained and initiated in a five month intensive process. Following the blazing path opened to me, I now work with daily practices combining many forms of bodywork, meditation, yoga, and ecstatic dance. I remain true to the beating heart of Ayahuasca on a personal level, and to the community of the Shuar from which she came to me. My doctorate on spiritual and artistic practice will be completed in 2014. Please share in my personal journey, it is ever growing and ever changing. As we each awaken and New Earth is being co-created, every one of your comments are most welcome. In Eternal Peace~ Hannah Skywalker Dancing Heart

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Project Ecuador

Sometimes the universe just keeps unfolding its splendor, and all we must do is hang onto the wave, laughing with the rhythms of our amazing lives, saying yes. Loves, this is such a moment.  In seven days my children and I depart for Ecuador.  We will stay with our lovely friend Mira and his family, and also with his teacher Miguel, near the village of Gualaquiza.  Here we will participate in traditional ceremony, dance, sing, play, garden, look at the sky, observe the insects, laugh with our new friends, open and learn. Beingness...in the rainforest...with beautiful souls.  Ohm yummy gratitude. 


Miguel's family
The tribe is the Achuar tribe, the culture is the Shuar culture.  The languages are Quechua and Spanish.  The village is on the edge of the rainforest but is accessible by road and has internet and other modern trappings.  Homes are built by the people themselves.  Food is grown to a large extent, but also bought, and there is symbiosis between modernity and the ancient ways.  
sacred waterfall near the village
One of the main foci of the village, the culture, the people, is the medicinal and healing properties of ceremony.  I imagine that, as with many indigenous peoples, ceremony is not separated into time and space parameters, but rather seen as a way of life.  Prayers about ceremony, preparations for ceremony, reflections on ceremony, and ceremony itself, are pretty much the same.  There are many songs and many dances and many ways to sit around the fire and travel: the fire  of the home, the fire of the lodge, the fire of the heart.  All members of the village participate in ceremony, and so we will be there in community, sharing extraordinary adventures on the astral plane together.   Across nations, across ages, through time, beyond space.
Miguel, Mira's teacher, calling for the ancestors
I am so bemused, so curious and so magnificently scrummy!  To learn and explore indigenous lifeways, by living them, is as important a part of the earths re-volution as our pro-test activities are.  One crumbles the soil so seeds may be planted, the other waters seeds so that we can thrive. Hermosa bailarse!  Beautiful dancing!  A figure of 8.

Shuar boys
Shuar girls and women
The children are coming with me. They have been given permission to take the time off school.  They will blog from a school-specific secure interface, and key stage two (years 3-5) will follow their adventure.  Upon return we will share dances and songs with the classrooms, and if we can get materials donated, we will build a little greenhouse and cultivate rainforest plants on the playground.  


I have made the jump to a smartphone and we will thus co-create lots of spontaneous photo, video, and sound clips to share. Prolific posting, when I'm not immersed in the moment of the moment, will continue on this blog. Keep checkin' in. :-)

And if you think of us, this coming few months, take a moment to connect with the sacredness of our adventure, the sacredness of our shared earth re-volution, the sacredness of our human connection.  With endless love~  


photos by Paul.  check his blog at: http://www.pauleijkemans.com/worldtrip/
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