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Shamanism
Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
Shamanic Apprenticeship
Reclaim the Heart and Soul of your Sacred Nature.
This is your pathway to ground your authentic calling as a beloved of the Earth.
You are a sacred being, and you deserve a spiritual path that allows you to be fully YOU.
This re-union of souls from around the world is a chance to break free from the mundane world, and reclaim your magic.
Because you belong on this sacred Earth.
Big Island
Hawai'i
The big island of Hawai'i is a world-wide destination place for good reason. She is dripping with fertility, abundance, and deep potential for healing transformation.
We will gather upon the some of the newest earth being created in the world by the flows of Tutu Pele. And we will dream into being ourselves as carriers of this new earth vision for humanity.
Join our hoop for an incredible experience into the wild reclaiming of Self, and the path of the shamanic wanderer. Here we hope you find your way home.
Schedule
Our Foundational series of apprenticeship is designed for international as well as local participation. Offered over a total of 3 gatherings, with options to stay onsite or commute for locals.
A Call to Heal
Balance of Power
August 2025
6 days 6 nights
Tuesday - Sunday
Condor's Quest
Hummingbird's Ascent
February 2026
6 days 6 nights
Tuesday - Sunday
Shamanic Self
Council
august 2026
4 days 4 nights
Thursday - Sunday
The Journey
This five part initiation into the living heart and ancestral soul of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition is intended to awaken in every participant who completes the program, a remembrance of their incarnational purpose as luminous strands of the Great Web of Life in service to the Seven Generations.
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition: Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts for Personal and Planetary Renewal is a five-part series of intensives that aligns the traditional teachings of Peru and the wisdom of its heritage with the needs of the present day.
Through the apprenticeship, you will:
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Remember your sacred purpose and connection, and claim a life of deeper meaning
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Reconnect to your innate powers as a ritual healer
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Receive personal healing & potent initiations to awaken your inner magical genius
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Receive profound wisdom teachings of cross-cultural shamanism and the shamanic arts
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Be guided in the use of time-honored Peruvian shamanic rituals, healing methods, and ceremony
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Learn how to create your own Mesa, a sacred altar for self-exploration, empowerment, and transformation
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Cultivate your relationship with the natural unseen worlds by discovering your own personal guides
You will leave this apprenticeship with powerful healing tools that you can use for your own soul’s growth and to help your friends, family, pets, mama earth, or clients.
No experience in healing work or shamanism is necessary and beginners are encouraged to apply.
August 2025
the call to heal
Releasing the Past
August 26-28
Tuesday 6am-9pm
Wednesday 9am-9pm
Thursday 9am-12pm
Hawaiian Culture WKSP
Thurs 3pm-6pm
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.
balance of power
Transforming the Present
August 29-31
Optional Beach Trip:
Friday 10am-3pm
Friday 6pm-9pm
Saturday 9am-9pm
Sunday 9am -12pm
Optional late check out
During this workshop intensive, participants will apprentice in the center 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.
February 2026
A condor's Quest
Creating the Future
February 17-19
Tuesday 6am-9pm
Wednesday 9am-9pm
Thursday 9am-12pm
Optional Volcano Trip: Thursday 6pm-10pm
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.
hummingbird's ascent
Living the Mystery
February 20-22
Hawaiian Culture WKSP
Fri 12pm-3pm
Friday 6pm-9pm
Saturday 9am-9pm
Sunday 9am -12pm
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.
August 2026
the shamanic self
Serving the Earth
August 27-29
Thursday 6am-9pm
Friday 9am-9pm
APACHETA TRIP
Saturday 9am-12pm
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.
paqowachu council
Mythic Witnessing
August 29-30
Saturday 6pm-9pm
Sunday 9am -10am
In this apprenticeship workshop, students will sit in a final integration council. Here they will be encouraged to share their Paqowachu stories, and experieces of the apprenticeship.
They will be given mythic mirroring of their sacred journey of both the apprenticeship and their Paqowachu (if completed) by the Maestra and students alike. They will make their final claiming as a mesa carrier apprentice.
Note: this is an additional element from the standard foundational apprenticeship, designed by Shardai, to support our international hoop schedule.
Virtual
Council
Monthly Connection
August 2025-August 2026
Monthly Date/Time TBD
Due to the nature of our extended breaks away from each other, Shardai will host a monthly council call via zoom, for us to stay connected. It will also serve as a q&a and check-in around your mesa practices.
This is complimentary during your year-long apprenticeship.
1:1 healing
Optional
Self-booking
This optional opportunity is a chance to receive highly individualized shamanic medicine through Shardai. Able to be booked virtually or in person, these sessions are offered to you on an as-needed basis.
Offerings
Each weeklong gathering is designed to deliver the PMT curriculum and ceremonial experience, and to introduce each participant to the bounty of this native Hawai'ian culture.
Foundational Apprenticeship
5 part curriculum
Enjoy your full PMT apprenticeship curriculum
Hawaiian Culture
Workshops
local guest teachers
Woven in to honor the culture of this specific land or 'aina.'
Volcano & Sea
Trips
Explore the island
Take a day off or join us for an outing between teaching modules
Our ceremonial
Accomodations
We will be staying at the lovely Whalesong (Hestia) Retreat Center on the Kona side of the big island.
Our spacious medicine lodge will hold the bulk of our teaching & ceremonial time. Featuring balcony views of the Kealakekua bay, infamously home to the spinner dolphins, and migrating whales.
Each participant with have a spacious shared room and private bathroom with one other student. Private cottages are available should you prefer to rent one at your own cost.
The 5.5 acre grounds are ours for holding earth-honoring ceremony and nature connection practices. We will be going on outings off-site to the ocean and volcano as she calls us, during our apprenticeship weeks.
Your Maestra
Shardai rose Moon, RN, ST, RP
Shardai Moon, is your Sanctioned PMT Teacher for this year-long apprenticeship. Having started her journey with this lineage in 2014, she continues to integrate and live its profound teachings in her everyday life. She hopes to engender a sense of belonging, empowerment, and connection with each of her students. Through her intuition ceremonial creations, and moments of deep stillness and surrender, she invites us into communication with our ancient ones. It is her honor to be carrying this lineage to the far-off destinations of Hawai'i and Morocco, and infusing her Priestess medicine into her shamanic path.
Lineage Originator
don Oscar Miro-quesada
The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross-Cultural Shamanism was originated by Don Oscar Miro Quesada.
Oscar is a respected kamasqa curandero and altomisayoq adept from Peru, originator of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition cross-cultural shamanic ritual healing arts, and Founder of The Heart of the Healer (THOTH) Shamanic Mystery School. don Oscar is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, Earth-honoring ceremonialist and author.
All PMT Teachers are personally sanctioned by don Oscar Miro-Quesada.
Policies
Sacred Exchange
$2,8o0 1st & 2nd gatherings
$2,200 3rd gathering
Exact price may shift slightly if venue changes.
Including tuition, lunch & dinners, airport pick-up & drop-off, 'field trip' transport.
Not including airfare, breakfast/snacks & any personal ground transport.
Option to book extra days or privacy in your accommodation.
Local commuter option:
$2,000 gathering 1 & 2
$1,800 gathering 3
Food:
You will be provided at least 2 island-fresh meals per day while in session. Vegan, vegetarian, fish & gluten free options. You are responsible for your own snacks or special items.
If you have a restrictive diet beyond vegan or gluten free, or severe allergies like celiacs, let's discuss providing your own food, and having a private kitchenette.
For logistical reasons, commuters are on our food plan.
Payment schedule:
$500 deposit plus application due 90 days before first retreat
(deposit counts as your first payment)
50% retreat cost due 60 days before any retreat start date
100% retreat cost due 30 days before any retreat start date
or pay in full
Cancellation:
When you register for the apprenticeship, you do so with the intent to join for the whole series, unless otherwise discussed.
80% refund 90 days before any retreat start date
50% refund 60 days before any retreat start date
25% refund 45 days before any retreat start date
0% refund 30 days before any retreat start date
We understand unforeseen circumstances may arise that prevent you from attending all retreats. If so, please notify Shardai 90 days prior to start of next retreat.
If you sincerely do not feel a soul calling to continue after our first retreat, please notify Shardai within 30 days after retreat completion.
Unfortunately, due to the onsite retreat and lodging costs, last minute emergency cancelations cannot be refunded. However, your tuition portion can be credited towards your next hoop with Shardai.
Thank you for supporting our budgeting and lodging process.
Apply by May 25th!