PERU
Lake Titicaca & Nazca
Machu Picchu & the Andes
Amazon & Ayahuasca
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April 11 - 30, 2009
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Peru. The very word evokes visions of ancient Andean monolithic temples built high upon mountaintops, figures etched in the coastal desert floor, the deep Amazon jungle and its tribal peoples who hold forth a magical brew that bridges dimensions. They are all real. Your visions exist in real-time.
I have created a journey, in April, to visit these magical places. Lake Titicaca with its floating islands, the Nazca Lines, Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo and Cusco. Ayahuasca ceremonies with tribal people who will accept us into their ancient relationship with the Spirit of their sacred brew.
Ok, so not everyone can carve out 3 weeks to travel to all three regions of Peru. I understand this, I really do. So I am making this journey available as three distinct and separate opportunities from which you can create the one, two or three week Peru trip that best suits you.
One week trips:
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Lake Titicaca & Nazca only: April 11 - 18
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Machu Picchu & Andes only: April 18 - 24
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Amazon/Ayahuasca only: April 22 - 30
(NOTE: Limited to 10 people on the Amazon/Ayahuasca trip!)
Combo trips:
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Lake Titicaca & Nazca and Machu Picchu & Andes: April 11 - 24
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Machu Picchu & Andes and Amazon/Ayahuasca: April 18 - 30
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Lake Titicaca & Nazca, Machu Picchu & Andes, Amazon/Ayahuasca: April 11 - 30
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Travel and the Environment
We are all aware of the need to reduce our impact on the envionment. We are making wise choices to use less, recycle, and leave a lighter carbon footprint. As one of the Caretakers of the Earth, these protocols have been a significant element of my choices and behaviors for decades. International travel can, and does, have a place in a responsible approach to be gentle with our habitat.
As to the carbon footprint... I am a member of Terra Pass. TerraPass is a carbon footprint offset company that invests directly in windfarm and biomass generation of electricity, as well as other programs to create sustainability. They are the only such program that is audited by the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS), the leading certification agency in the renewable energy market.
I will purchase an equal offset for your trip when you purchase an offset to your trip, thereby doubling the reduction of, not simply offsetting, CO2 emissions.
Please go to TerraPass to offset your carbon travel footprint.
Cultural Impact
The peoples of Peru warmly invite us to participate in their ceremonies, their lives and their culture. They know, and have expressed, that they are aware that they have something of value to exchange with us. The value they receive from us, in exchange, is not simply economic. Our world view, friendship and appreciation of their culture and way of life is of benefit to them for their own continuance and viability in an ever changing world.
The inherent value of participating in the lives of peoples for whom being in balance with nature is the matter-of-fact actuality is, in and of itself, a critical element in our stepping forth with humility into the choices of doing more with less. To see and experience the happiness of these folks who, while embracing the introduction of Western technology, nevertheless maintain the humble life of the forest, jungles, mountains and sacred landscapes of which they are a part, provides us a model of what is possible by combing the ease of the modern world with the respect and dignity of the ancient ways.
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Your privacy is a my honor.
Jade Wah'oo Grigori
Caretaker of 'the Ways', an authentic Shamanic lineage,
Jade Wah'oo brings forth the continuity of the ancient Shamanic practices of his heritage in a manner that meets the needs of today's Spiritual Questor.
Jade lives in Sedona, Arizona attending to the raising of his two teens. Jade keeps himself available to respond to the Shamanic needs of the Sedona community and all who travel there to sit with him in ceremony and receive teachings.
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Dear Sahar,
Shamanic Travel Adventures is the umbrella I have created under which I organize travels to sacred sites and places of power around the Earth. The intention of
Shamanic Travel Adventures is to open up to the spiritually-oriented traveler the opportunity of being in ceremony with authentic and tribal Shamans from various cultures.
Shamanic Travel Adventures is intentionally not a tourism-oriented travel group.
When you are ready to travel to the farthest realms of consciousness, when you are desiring to experience the depths and heights of the explorations of the Soul through the activations provided by the sacred sites and monolithic temples of the Ancients,
then are you ready to go in quest of the ineffable with the guidance and personal assistance that I offer through these
Shamanic Travel Adventures.
Meditate upon the consideration of visiting these places of power. Contemplate your arrival in the midst of natural wonders and monuments designed to harness the power of these Earth-grids. Envision your participation in ceremony with the lineage holders of the ancient knowledge, carried as a sacred trust, to awaken and enliven both you and the sites simultaneously.
Breathe deep and ask your Inner Self:
Shall I go? Will you clear the way and open the doors so that I may find the way to participate?
Breathe. Ask. Listen.
Only then will you know.
Blessings,
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An Andes Reminisce
A Journal of Travels in the Peruvian Andes
"Once... just once, you owe it to yourself to go to Peru.
After that, it is a gift of replenishment."
~ Jade Wah'oo Grigori
Gleaming lakes of lustrous pearls lay upon the mesas, surrounded by glittering diamonds - glacial capped peaks of the Andes Mountains, between which sits the jewel of the Andes, Cusco. As it has always been, llamas browse through the stubbled fields of already harvested corn that grow amidst adobe built houses, roofs tiled and red.
The first breath that comes with the first step off the tarmac, and into the ancient city that sits two and a half miles above the sea, is drawn tentatively, thinking that it is the elevation in its rarity that might cause a taking of the breath. It is not. It is not the rarity of air, it is the first breath of air in a world that does not abide the Known from which we have flown.
Read the complete journal
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Ayahuasca Visions
A Shaman's Account of Healing with the Sacred Brew
...We are a group of peoples come, with respectful intent, to participate in this powerful and empowering ceremony that these ancient tribal peoples are making available to us, welcoming us into the inner secrets of their most potent Shamanic reality. As instructed, we each set our intent as to the focus of our night's journey, communing with our own Soul, speaking our truth as we know it, and listening to the response of our Soul informing us of our real needs. The needs of my life, as I see them, move forth into awareness. Health. Relationship. Spirit's Calling. We drink the brew, bitter and thick...As the Ayahuasca takes affect I feel a shivering, not of cold, but of life-force swimming through my body.
...It is not long before the wah-wah-wah-z-z-z-z are resonating through all my senses. Immediately my liver seizes in pain! Excruciating, body-doubling pain. I have not experienced this much pain in my liver since my two bouts with hepatitis when I was a young adult. This throbbing continues throughout the whole night, even amidst all the splendor and transformations and realizations that naturally come with an Ayahuasca experience, experiences that highlighted the measures necessary for me to release old patterns in relationships, and the on-the-spot transmutation of these old patterns of behavior. Deep and meaningful insights into the further direction of fulfilling my Spirit's Calling were revealed, and implemented. Towards the end of the journey, some four hours later, the Spirit of Ayahuasca, the sacred serpent, appears to me and speaks, very directly: "This will be the cause of your early death." I get it, really I do. I have had liver pain and distension every day of my adult life, ever since the hepatitis infections and a number of years of putting chemicals in my body that our organs are not designed to accommodate, Knowing the provocative nature of the Ayahausca, this information was not for naught, It was a declaration only if not received as a warning and relevant to my request for health.
... The second night's ceremonial proceeded much as the first. Songs sung by the Ayahuascero carried us in our Ayahuasca Visions into realms of our deepest held grief and fears, soared us thence into the highest of vistas filled with light, color, celestial sounds, soothing sensations and ecstatic joy. Their icaros, spirit songs, have a magical quality that seems to be that effusive celestial light made tonal, slivers of crystal that shimmer in awareness, freeing one into bliss and a oneness with All Being. My own quest of healing the liver began in earnest, as it had come to hurt once again soon after ingesting the Ayahuasca. Surrendering into the current of electric life that is released into awareness by the Great Mother Serpent, Yakumama, I was drawn into the realm of shimmering light, fractal rainbows and deeper, deeper into the weaving of manifest existence that underlies it all. I awoke within my own DNA. Amidst the spiraling ladder that twisted both up and down simultaneously, emitting sheer beams of light-encoded knowledge, songs of intense immensity, icaros in their own right. My attention was drawn to strands that were emitting dissonant frequencies, shrieking instead of singing. With a knowingness not guided by intellect I wove my awareness into the threads of light, reweaving the frayed strands, repairing broken bridges, making into wholeness that which had been damaged. As these DNA ropes wove into their original patterns, the job complete, the songs sung in beauty once again, I found myself flying, like a shooting star across the sky, back into 3-D substantiality. The pain in my liver, I noticed, was significantly reduced.
The third night, as soon as the Ayahuasca began working its way within me, I plunged into the dark recesses of my Soul. Swirling, twirling about/within me were the images of fantasy that I held onto. Fantasies of relationship, of how life could be, fantasies about all aspects of life. As each one swirled, it moved closer into my field of experiencing it, not just observing it. And as I experienced each one, one after another after another, they got really boring, so hollow and ungrounded were they. "I'm done with them!" I shouted into the vast realms of my own inner Being. And with that they all dissolved like a mist before the morning sun. A feeling of peaceful acceptance coursed through me. Presence of Being. The absence of fantasy indulgment. Got it! As I lie there, floating in the peace, I was also, simultaneously, clearing my Soul of extraneous beliefs and judgments that pervaded my everyday life. ...As I drifted back into the nether realms of bliss and exaltation I had the stray thought of realizing that my liver was no longer hurting. Nor has it hurt a single day since that night in November of 2005. My liver is, as far as I can tell, healed.
Night became day somewhere between the journey and slumber....
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