The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition: Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts for Personal and Planetary Renewal

This foundational apprenticeship provides tools to develop your connection to nature, spirit, and heartfelt community, offering a practical, compassionate path for navigating these times.
Thomas Mock

Teacher / Leader

Thomas Mock
Phone
802-369-4331
Email
thomas.mock1444@gmail.com
Website
https://heartofthehealer.org/sanctioned-teacher/thomas-mock/

Thomas Mock was initiated into Lakota healing practices in 1984 and in 1989 into West African Yoruba practices, completing several levels of apprenticeship towards priesthood. He began training with Oscar Miro-Quesada in 1999, completing his level four apprenticeship in 2007. Thomas was the first Executive Director employed by the Heart of the Healer Foundation where he helped guide THOTH towards its current vision of service work in the world. Thomas resides in Vermont.

Date

Jan 10, 2025 - Sep 28, 2025

Location

St. Albans, VT
St. Albans, VT

TO REGISTER and information on pricing, scholarship, time and event location, please contact the teacher using the links below.

Contact: Thomas Mock
Phone:
802-369-4331
Email:
thomas.mock1444@gmail.com

“Thomas Mock is a natural teacher steeped in the knowledge of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition. His gentle heart and keen understanding of the needs, inclinations, and personal nature of each participant are exceptional. He is a great listener while being proactive with his questioning leading to truly meaningful disclosure.” ~ Pieter Lefferts, NY

Part 1: The Call to Heal: Releasing the Past
October 18 – 20, 2024
This apprenticeship workshop initiates participants into the Pachakuti Mesa, a powerful and sacred altar. Students learn how to create their own mesas and work with them for self-empowerment, transformation, and helping others. Through shamanic journey and visionary states of consciousness, participants will explore the three worlds of the Andean cosmovision, sacred reciprocity with all that is, the core ingredients of ceremonial mastery, sacred sound and ritual language, healing, and curanderismo, and the inner world of the ukhupacha.

Part 2: A Balance of Power: Transforming the Present
January 10 – 11, 2025

During this workshop intensive, participants will apprentice in the center direction of the mesa, traditional Peruvian healing practices, and the kaypacha, the middle world. They will explore the kaypacha’s elemental matrix and magico-spiritual power, and learn about the moon’s presence in the middle world, mapping the cosmos on Earth, and celestial death and rebirth.

Part 3: The Condor’s Quest: Creating the Future
April 4 – 6, 2025
This workshop is an initiation into the paqokuna, the Andean Shaman/Priesthood mystical path, the lineage of the sacred mountains, and the five virtues of the mesa. Participants will also journey to and experience the hanaqpacha, the upper world beyond the physical, work with the unseen world there, and deepen their connection to their own spiritual resources.

Part 4: The Hummingbird’s Ascent: Living the Mystery
June 20 – 22, 2025
 In this apprenticeship workshop students will experience the upper world and learn about its lightning bolt of mystical illumination and the flow of kamasqa, the power of Creation. They will work with the elements, the forces of the universe, the body of Mother Earth, and sacred healing objects. In sacred reciprocity participants will create despachos to honor Mother Earth, the sacred mountains, the elements, the unseen world, and prepare for a paqowachu, a sacred pilgrimage.

Part 5: The Shamanic Self: Serving the Earth
September 26 – 28, 2025
This workshop deepens participants’ experience of soul and spirit through ritual process, including the spiritual creation, activation and care of an apacheta. Students will work with the power of creation in the kaypacha or middle world, dimensionality and time, as well as with the three suns, and the hampikamayoq process (ancient breathing techniques for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being and transformation). Participants will be further empowered by evoking both seen and unseen sources of cosmic awareness within their mesa, sacred objects and own being, and initiation into the lineage of this revered tradition.

TO REGISTER and information on pricing, scholarship, time and event location
Contact: Thomas Mock
Phone:
802-369-4331
Email:
thomas.mock1444@gmail.com

Thomas Mock

Teacher / Leader

Thomas Mock
Phone
802-369-4331
Email
thomas.mock1444@gmail.com
Website
https://heartofthehealer.org/sanctioned-teacher/thomas-mock/

Thomas Mock was initiated into Lakota healing practices in 1984 and in 1989 into West African Yoruba practices, completing several levels of apprenticeship towards priesthood. He began training with Oscar Miro-Quesada in 1999, completing his level four apprenticeship in 2007. Thomas was the first Executive Director employed by the Heart of the Healer Foundation where he helped guide THOTH towards its current vision of service work in the world. Thomas resides in Vermont.

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