Ayahuasca becomes a fruitful experience only under the guidance of a skillful ayahuasquero!

Roxana Melnicu2023-01-13T08:54:45+02:00

Here is what I learned from the discussion I had this fall with Miruna and Radu Nagy, the founders of the Inca Energetic Medicine School in Romania, together with Florentina Popovici. Invited by Monika Puiu to Wayra Astrae, they told me fascinating things about the mythical and shamanic horizon of the Andean space.   Our discussion - reported in two previous articles - began related to shamanism and the specifics of the school founded by Miruna and Radu. As I understood its...

Living shamanically!

Wayra Astrae2022-04-07T08:53:39+03:00

Can you live shamanically in the middle of a city? I say YES! Living shamanically means I respect Mother Earth and feel I am an integral part of it. I am as important to this earth as is anything else and I include rocks, plants, animals and humans and all that lives beyond our seeing eyes. It also means to live in the present and travel into the past and into the future. I am responsible for my own life, for my...

Myth busting: Spirituality has nothing to do with business

Wayra Astrae2022-04-07T08:41:55+03:00

Wrong, profoundly wrong! We are in our essence spiritual beings and even we have tried to separate our daily life from the spiritual life, we did not fully succeed and I am asking you WHY SHOULD WE? As a soul being we take on a human body and from then on, we are navigating through life, using any experience, any teaching, anything we do and construct in this life, for our soul growth, body and soul together, not separated. The effort used...

Soul Travels

Wayra Astrae2022-04-07T08:38:25+03:00

This article was published in September 2021 by Roxana Melnicu in 'Femeia de Azi' magazine in romanian language. From her native Austria to Romania, the country she chose to be her home, then to America, where her soul vibrated with the memory of her ancestors, Monika kept learning. From an early adolescence passion for astrology to a mature career in business, the wind of the stars led her to where she is now, her own place for initiation and healing in...

Myth busting: Is shamanism equal to black magic

Wayra Astrae2022-04-07T08:31:14+03:00

A shaman, a medicine man or woman, a mystique, should always work for the highest good of his or her client! White magic, spirituality - as I call it, means that I work with the highest good of a person, I do not know better, my will does not create something in someone elses life. I cooperate with the spirit guides of my client to fulfill his/her mission in this life and bring balance, right relation, Ayni, into the present moment. And...

Is spirituality and shamanism a religion?

Wayra Astrae2022-04-07T08:26:36+03:00

The short answer is ‘definitely not’!

Shamanism is not a religion and even if religions can be very spiritual and are followed by spiritual people, religion for me talks about dogmatic principles. Spirituality should be the essence of all religions, no matter the name and no matter the principles. A shaman or a healer or a medicine man works with the 3 worlds, the lower world or our inner world, the middle world, our every day understanding of being and...

Ceremony in the Andes

Wayra Astrae2022-04-07T07:46:17+03:00

In my recent visits of ceremonial places in the Andes, together with a master of ceremony, a Pampamisayoq, I have learned about their deep connection with Mother Earth, about their love of live and how they show their gratefulness for all they have in their life. There is this area at lake Titicaca with the most beautiful rock formations. You start walking on a formation called the 'Puma'. It is a long reddish rock maybe 6-10 meters high and 50-60 meters...