Dan Waller.

Photographer, Blogger & Shaman.

Tag: Q’ero

  • The Q’ero for Newbies

    The Q’ero for Newbies

    In this week’s blog, I’m going to be discussing the history of the Q’ero people and how they came to inspire the shamanic Medicine Wheel training. The Q’ero for Newbies Who are the Q’ero? The Q’ero people live in villages in the clouds between 11,000 and 14,500 feet in the mountains of Peru. They are…

  • Wirracocha for Newbies

    Wirracocha for Newbies

    In this week’s blog, I will be taking a closer look at the Wirracocha and how shamans use them in their ceremonies and healing work. What is a Wirracocha? A Wirracocha is the doughnut-shaped 8th chakra, which floats above your head. Arguably, it is another manifestation of the halo, depicted around Holy figures in Christian…

  • Mesas for Newbies

    Mesas for Newbies

    In this week’s blog, I will be taking a closer look at Mesas and how shamans use their bundle of healing stones in their ceremonies and their healing work. What is a ‘Mesa’? The word means table or altar. In shamanic terminology, the Mesa is like a portable altar. What does a Mesa consist of?…

  • Three Worlds for Newbies: 2 of 2

    Three Worlds for Newbies: 2 of 2

    In this week’s blog post, I will be taking a further look at the Three Worlds – what they are and how you can explore them. In the last blog in this series, I focussed on the Middle World (aka ‘ordinary reality’), the place of our everyday existence. This week, I will take a closer…

  • Three Worlds for Newbies: 1 of 2

    Three Worlds for Newbies: 1 of 2

    In this week’s blog, I will be discussing the Three Worlds – what they are and how you can explore them. This week, I will be focussing on the Middle World, the place of our everyday existence, also known as ‘ordinary reality’. In the next blog, I will take a closer look at the Lower…

  • Neoshamanism for Newbies

    Neoshamanism for Newbies

    Neoshamanism – why we should not be afraid to embrace the term