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In February, the festivity of the Virgin de la Candelaria, our Little Virgen of Copacabana, is celebrated on Lake Titicaca and in many parts of the world In February, the festivity of the Virgin of Candelaria, our Little Virgin of Copacabana, Indian Mother of this land is celebrated on Lake Titicaca and many parts of …
(Notes from the conference on Traditional Peruvian Medicine Practices given by Pío Vucetich Nuñez del Prado in Irvine University of California). The indigenous concept of health is one of dynamic balance between the individual, oneself (inner balance) and the ecological and sociocultural environment, including the natural and spiritual worlds (external balance). We could describe it …
Traditional Andean-Amazonian Medicine: the Quadripartition Leer más »
About Traditional Medicine Traditional Medicine, or Ancestral Medicine, is an ancient concept, preserved nowadays only by the native tribes and remains unknown, or rather forgotten, by modern society. In Traditional Medicine, disease is a disorder, a chaos, an imbalance with one’s self, with others and with nature. The role of the shaman/traditional doctor is to …
In the therapies practiced at Sacha Q’ente, we apply psychoanalysis and transpersonal psychology, which recognizes the role of the inner healer of each person and the healing power of the psyche itself that emerges in sessions in which the patient plunges into their unconscious. The important thing is that in these therapeutic ceremonies of traditional …
In the Ocongate province, in the Urcos district, is located one of the highest mountains in this region, called Apu Ausangate. This place contains one of the most important rites of this time: Qoyllorrity, scene of ancient pilgrimages and prayers of the inhabitants of these lands. Pilgrimages have been made in our pre-Hispanic culture from …
In ancient Peru, the cosmic order was seen as organized from a quadripartite perspective. To ensure health and relationship to the external world, each person had to be in harmony with this order. According to this conception, life depends on the factors above and below, on the male and female factors; on the factors of …