Walking the path of a shamanic apprentice?
First things first, if you don’t know what shamanism is, go here.
It was 2023 when I was in the Andes of Peru, when I truly perceived the call of the Great Mother, our Earth. Today I feel I’ve been hearing this call all my life—even as a child—but I just didn’t pay attention. I was distracted, busy with other things, and truly too caught up in my mind to even slow down and listen to the whispers of nature.
Something worth mentioning is that shamanism works with feminine energy—the feminine of nature. Feminine energy is slow, rhythmic—it feels like a slow dance that is unique to each of us. And our journey in life is remembering that personal dance. That dance is directly related to our purpose. If you’re able to access that energy and reawaken it—or maybe just reconnect with it—you will open a realm of infinite possibilities, multidimensions, and joy. That is my shamanic path.
It all started back in 2016 when I said yes to learning Reiki. I had no idea what it was—I just followed my curiosity. I was paying attention to the signs: three people in one week mentioned Reiki, so for me, even back then at the very beginning, I knew something was up. So I followed that path. That first attunement opened a portal for me into the realm of energetics, intuition, expanded consciousness, and awareness of my own body, my energy, and the energies around me.
At some point in my journey, when I started to connect deeply with my body and feminine energy, that’s when I started to feel the call of nature. I found myself in the rainforest in Costa Rica, walking barefoot, touching the trees, and it came to me: I’m one with nature. I’m happy. I am love. I am safe.
Montezuma, Costa Rica
So that was it… well, not really.
It was the first nudge on my shoulder that triggered a deep path into inner healing—cleansing my body, my lifestyle, letting go of old patterns, dropping alcohol—and eventually finding myself in the Andes of Peru, doing plant medicine for the first time.
Ayahuasca showed me what today, almost 3 years later, I can understand—but back then, I had no idea what I was looking at. Grandmother Ayahuasca showed me the world and a path, going from place to place like a web of connections. Today I travel the world, to sacred places to do Gridwork.
During plant medicine journeys I saw myself as a wolf, as a bird, as a bee. I saw the creation of our earth and my soul journey. Grandmother showed me rainbows, my rainbow body, me as a mountain—and she kept repeating: You are nature. You are like me.
Receiving a Mapacho cleansing in the Andes at Apu Healing Center
This is not to say that plant medicine is for you or an answer, because is not. Plant allies are guides, like any other guide. For me was the catalyst and the reason I even created my business, The Light Arts.
My spiritual path took me to Spain, learning from a shaman there and receiving the Munay-Ki Rites initiation, then receiving the Rite of the Womb. With each step, I was getting closer to my truest path, guided by my ancestors and the spirits of nature.
Receiving the Munay-Ki Rites
And finally, one day, when I basically let go and surrendered to whatever my spiritual path was going to be, I was able to connect with my teachers—the elders of the Q’ero Nation in the highlands of Peru. My maestros. Once I started learning from them, it all made sense: the visions, what Ayahuasca showed me… I started remembering.
