tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11658940362068379492024-03-14T10:01:24.212-04:00QOLLASUYUThe Southeast Region of the TawantinsuyuUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165894036206837949.post-40652011830933670872023-06-26T16:48:00.013-04:002023-06-30T23:09:30.374-04:00QOLLASUYU SEPTEMBER GATHERING <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">QOLLASUYU SEPTEMBER GATHERING</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">September 8-10, 2023 </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Highlands, North Carolina</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Qollasuyu September Gathering has occurred every year (except 2021) since 2010. Following our original mission to promote and support workshops with Oscar Miro~Quesada in the Southeast, the Qollasuyu Council determined we also needed to create Council sponsored gatherings to bring the PMT mesa carriers and interested others together in beautiful surroundings to be in community and ceremony as a way to be together and practice the practices. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This year we invite you to join us for:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><b> MESA AS MIDWIFE: BIRTHING OUR MEDICINE</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25demLf0sl-S9N4nH2KBh3HOxKrtE_cfVWNFyR4PlFM14ZlB4h_2vcLFtZ04fWysNM0lyivYCmSzY5BpLofs4_3TxjXGgcNLfyxd1I_1eHuAfNfcJrW3jDalhC4yZ_olfmfaAnMJ0bWxC5JGab9BZwOC-2ZaZoDVJnKoXkhzLelIbqvWAH-qJirzhl3ru/s4032/20190915_120338.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1960" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25demLf0sl-S9N4nH2KBh3HOxKrtE_cfVWNFyR4PlFM14ZlB4h_2vcLFtZ04fWysNM0lyivYCmSzY5BpLofs4_3TxjXGgcNLfyxd1I_1eHuAfNfcJrW3jDalhC4yZ_olfmfaAnMJ0bWxC5JGab9BZwOC-2ZaZoDVJnKoXkhzLelIbqvWAH-qJirzhl3ru/w253-h401/20190915_120338.jpg" width="253" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times;">CHANGE continues to happen as we move through so many transitions and tribulations: personal, communal, organizational, global and planetary.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times;">Change is inevitable yet the current pace is faster, the voices louder and the path not always so clear.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Taking time to gather in community becomes not just important but also essential.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Who are we called to be as carriers of medicine for self and others in relationship with our Earth Mother and the Living Energy that animates forming and reforming in creative transformation through time and space?</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">"Life is a neverending quest for balance, beauty, and belongingness enriched by the befriending of our ultimate ground of Being."</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">Oscar Miro~Quesada</span></span></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">The September Gathering </span></span></i></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">provides a time out of and within time</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">to rest </span></span></li><li><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">to regather our energies </span></span></li><li><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to practice the practices</span></span></span></li><li><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>t</span>o clarify the next steps on our path. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A momentous weekend to be together in ceremony as we embody ways of Being in relationship to one another, the ancient oak forest on The Mountain and the practices of our tradition.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> <span> </span><i><span>"In community we pause, we open, we nourish, and we become."</span></i></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i> </i></span><i>Yuria Celidwen</i></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">During this weekend we will be exploring the source, nature and practice of creativity ritualized through ceremony, small group sharing, personal time and play.<br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Your Conveners and Ceremonialists: Sanctioned Teachers, Long Time Mesa Carriers and other Wonderful People who comprise the Qollasuyu Council: Robin Harmon, David Jordan, Glenda Skelley, Joella Walker, Janet Harvey, Jenny Felder, Bonnie Knezo, Rebecca Meyers, </span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">and Philippe LePelch.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why The Mountain? This retreat center holds many cuentas/stories/energetic accounts. This is the place where Oscar Miro~Quesada held many of his initial apprenticeship series and subsequent weekends. The Center sits amid an ancient oak forest on top of Little Scaly Mountain (one of our initial regional apus). For many of us, the Mountain is a spiritual home.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The weekend begins on Friday with dinner at 6:00 pm and the Opening Ceremony at 8:00 PM</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The weekend closes on Sunday after lunch (by 2:00 PM).</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Mark the date and plan to join together with the Qollasuyu Council and the larger mesa community for a renewal of spirit and connection.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Cost of Lodging and Meals at The Mountain:</b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Double $220<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>($234.85 with taxes)</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Single<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>$340 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>($362.95 with taxes)</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Register at The Mountain</b> ! Please register by August 18.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Group limited to 40 participants</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Go to <a href="https://www.themountainrlc.org">https://www.themountainrlc.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and tap the "Registration Portal" button.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Cost of the Program:</b> $65.00<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>payable to the Qollasuyu Council upon arrival at the event.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Please register your intent to attend by completing the form below.</b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://forms.gle/8wAE7TTxvzEKqBhC7">https://forms.gle/8wAE7TTxvzEKqBhC7</a></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">After you register with The Mountain, you will receive additional information from the Qollasuyu Council about what to bring and other information.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Questions? Contact Janet Harvey at <a href="mailto:chacaruna@earthlink.net"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">chacaruna@earthlink.net</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgk6DIb9_auH7a1plZxoSAOfxHLmkIAPBjMqS6dqi_DbA31X_j-vzGaU3asYDxAYwGf9TvYQXteGpLEhaEBGYeTWvyFQly7MFGKgaH2XOsVDboHf-0IWtL45wb6eq-4DTOdSm8P09VQAoNI9ArNWNIKRhX_pEzLolPGtMgGsSO_SvZ0ym3N348WyYLw9jL/s4032/20180908_230059.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgk6DIb9_auH7a1plZxoSAOfxHLmkIAPBjMqS6dqi_DbA31X_j-vzGaU3asYDxAYwGf9TvYQXteGpLEhaEBGYeTWvyFQly7MFGKgaH2XOsVDboHf-0IWtL45wb6eq-4DTOdSm8P09VQAoNI9ArNWNIKRhX_pEzLolPGtMgGsSO_SvZ0ym3N348WyYLw9jL/s320/20180908_230059.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165894036206837949.post-86602102542452934742022-07-06T11:11:00.007-04:002022-08-18T22:43:09.659-04:00QOLLASUYU SEPTEMBER GATHERING 2022<div class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
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We need to deepen our connections within the natural and unseen worlds by immersing in the encantos that sing us back to Life!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">These are the times to gather in ceremony. To be in companioned silence. To sit within the flow of the constant universal living energy pulsing through the ancient oaks, retained in the moss covered rocks, and soaring with the hawk in the distance.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span>We need time and space to breathe.</span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>To see, to listen, to smell and taste, to feel</i></span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is time for us to remember to be the Magic!</i></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: times; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: times; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The Council of the Qollasuyu invites you to join us for the September Gathering:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">a leisurely weekend of ceremony, workshops</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">being with the trees, communing with the night sky</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">sharing poetry and prose, music and dancing </span></li><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">conversation during meals and walks</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">healing sessions</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">vision quest /pacowachu preparation workshop</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">the Saturday night fire circle </span></li><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">your own dreamtime and meanderings</span></li></ul><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our weekend leaders include Sanctioned Teachers, longtime mesa carriers and invited guests.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: times; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">We begin with dinner followed by the opening ceremony at 8:30 PM on Friday evening and end with a late lunch on Sunday. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: times; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Additional information will be sent to registrants.</span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: times; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><b>REGISTRATION:</b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: times; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">1. <b>Meals and Lodging:</b> $210. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: times; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Reserve your space on "Registration Portal" the on The Mountain Website: <a href="https://www.themountainrlc.org/"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 105, 217); color: #0069d9; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span> </span>The Qollasuyu Council: </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Jenny Felder, Robin Harman, Bonnie Knezo, Cahro Dellenbaugh, David Jordan, Joella Walker, Glenda Skelly, Philippe LePlech, </span><span style="font-family: times;">Rebecca Myers,</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">Janet Harvey.</span></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest rails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i> Edwin Way Teale</span></p></span></span><p></p></div></span></span></span></div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165894036206837949.post-27237092794187575162020-01-26T18:23:00.024-05:002021-07-10T09:42:55.255-04:00The Trees Are Speaking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">
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Among indigenous people, tree Beings are highly honored emissaries of wisdom and aliveness: The Mallkikuna. Their roots penetrate the soulful ground of our Mother, and their intertwined branches stretch upward to receive Creator’s gift of transformative Light. . . All achieved while exhaling the oxygen needed for our human lungs, and life on this planet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The awe-inspiring presence of trees places them among the most revered expressions of the natural world. Their model of life links Heaven and Earth, and generously sources shelter, food, beauty and provision to all of Pachamama’s children.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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</script></div><div><br /></div><b>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION for LODGING And MEALS:</b><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center </span><br style="text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">in Highlands, North Carolina</span><br style="text-align: justify;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0tnEZutUN4wBIEOSyZDGwTV6sXDlnjxhyNW8nY5drk-92lU_btthtM984gDGP9M5tGcSYrXiONcbd5vpRLzqzO3oB7a1r796DHLag4IHROGEtnF9gxM90DB5YQuhyphenhyphenIUgU8Zq11eNlC1I/s1600/20170529_195027.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0tnEZutUN4wBIEOSyZDGwTV6sXDlnjxhyNW8nY5drk-92lU_btthtM984gDGP9M5tGcSYrXiONcbd5vpRLzqzO3oB7a1r796DHLag4IHROGEtnF9gxM90DB5YQuhyphenhyphenIUgU8Zq11eNlC1I/s640/20170529_195027.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span><br /></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-family: times;"> Please register online with The Mountain at <a href="https://themountainrlc.org">https://themountainrlc.org</a> by August 27 to secure your lodging and meals. If you have never been to the Mountain, please wander the website. This is the home of magnificent ancient dwarf oaks. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Then go directly to the "Registration Portal". </b><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;">The event is listed as </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;">"Qollasuyu Gathering."</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span class="s1" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space" face=""new roman" , sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><span> </span>-Lodging at The Mountain is $210 for a shared cabin or Lodge double room. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">$310 for a single room subject to availability. 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<b>The site opens at 9:00 AM. </b>Arrive anytime in the morning, visit the museum, enjoy the Primitive Weapons and Tools event, explore the site on your own.<br />
<b>PICNIC at 12 noon.</b> Look for the diagonal rainbow striped Qollasuyu Flag. Bring your own lunch. <br />
Visit the museum, enjoy the event, tour the site as a group and walk the nature trail by the river.<br />
<b>DINNER - eat together at The City Cellar and Loft </b> followed by <b>The Torchlight Tour.</b><br />
<b><i>Drive to Roswell, GA in the morning.</i></b>/span><br />
<b>SUNDAY, APRIL 15 ~ Chattahoochee Nature Center, Roswell, GA</b><br />
The Center opens at 12 noon which gives everyone an opportunity to explore and enjoy the Center. Oscar and Cindy fly into Atlanta on Sunday. Between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM, we will have The Social Gathering at the Heron Pond Section of The Nature Center.</div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: medium;">Please email Janet Harvey at <a href="mailto:jknoxh@gmail.com"><span class="s3">charcaruna@earthlink.net or fill out the reservation form below</span></a> to let us know you plan to join us at Etowah. Let us know when you plan to arrive and If you want to join us for dinner. Also let us know if you plan to attend the Social Gathering on Sunday. </span><br />
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: normal;">Through Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Apprenticeships, Universal Shaman Courses, and workshops with don Oscar Miro-Quesada and other teachers, we have been introduced to many ceremonial, purification, healing, and ritual practices. Often times we engage with, or witness these, once or twice.Then we go home. With the assistance of long time practitioners of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, we will have the opportunity to come together in ceremony, practice the practices, visit sacred sites at The Mountain and enjoy one another’s company!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">”<i>Pause, feel…..</i>” How many times have we heard Oscar say this phrase </span>after we have intoned the directions or another intonation. We have the power to engage the environment, to shift the energies within and without. We have the practices that allow us to center, to listen, to connect, to shift….</div>
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<span class="s1">We invite you to enter into this time out of time within time to slow the pace and walk in rhythm with the mountain, to listen to your inner voice and the whispers of the trees, to sit on a rock and feel like a rock a upon a rock. </span></div>
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