THE QOLLASUYU COUNCIL INVITES YOU
TO OUR ANNUAL SEPTEMBER GATHERING
“Continuing the Conversation: Destination Manifestation”
PLEASE REGISTER ON THE FORM BELOW. Registration is complete when we have received your form and confirmation of payment from The Mountain.
As we move through challenging times,
You Are Invited by the Qollasuyu Council
to a Weekend of Grace and Ease
embraced by Pachamama, cleansed by her waters,
illumined by the light of INTI, Mamakilla and the Chaskamayu
amid the ancient MALKIs to Renew Your Spirit and Recharge Your Soul.
You Are Invited by the Qollasuyu Council
to a Weekend of Grace and Ease
embraced by Pachamama, cleansed by her waters,
illumined by the light of INTI, Mamakilla and the Chaskamayu
amid the ancient MALKIs to Renew Your Spirit and Recharge Your Soul.
Join Us for Gathering of Pachakuti Mesa Carriers
from the Southeast Suyu and Beyond!
From early recorded history throughout the Americas, we know inhabitants have been coming together to share and celebrate. Continuing a long-held tradition, Native American tribes still conduct “powwows”, “circles” and the like. French trappers were known for their “rendezvous”. All traded goods, passed on remedies, swapped stories, sang songs and danced in celebration. These get-togethers often occurred in late summer. Participants departed with a renewed sense of community and perhaps new knowledge that would help sustain them during the long winters. Often, too, small bands would cross paths while hunting, fishing and trapping throughout the year. They would ‘sit down a spell’ to share a meal and warmth of a fire.
This year’s September Gathering of the Qollasuyu Ayllu embodies the spirit of these assemblages. From Friday Evening, September 7th through Midday, Sunday, September 9th. We welcome mesa carriers from the many ayllus of the southeast region as well as mesa carriers from other Suyus to come together to share our tradition in similar fashion.
We invite you to join us
- in ceremony as we gather our mesas around the Qollasuyu mesa providing an “arte rendezvous” as our mesas and artes commune on Friday night,
- move into individual and collective remembering of what sustains us through sound and medicine songs, our personal healing artes,
- share images and stories of our sacred places,
- hike to a secret place Saturday afternoon
- followed by a fire ceremony Saturday night
- weave a personal and collective vision on Sunday to carry us into and through the next year.
As Pachakuti Mesa Carriers we will fully engage one another, sometimes with a Yanantin or in small group – trading a ritually activated arte, sharing medicine, swapping stories; other times in full circle – connecting with nature, singing, dancing and being in silence around a sacred fire.
We will identify sacred places throughout our Sacred Suyu where we can meet or pilgrimage during the year. We will make plans to renew our spirit, show gratitude to mother earth and each other and practice ceremonial healing for these troubled times. There will also be time to speak our truths and reveal our dreams in intimate settings with one another at the Mountain.
COST OF THE GATHERING: (More information below)
$211.37 for two nights lodging and meals from dinner on Friday through lunch on Sunday.
Register with The Mountain at: https://themountainrlc.org/
$50 registration fee payable upon arrival Friday.
PREPARATION: Participants are to spend time in preparation for the weekend by:
- Take time to inventory and make some notes on the medicines that sustain you as you travel your spiritual path, such as: what moves you, inspires you, grounds you, renews you, motivates you, energizes you, soothes you, comforts you, reminds you, and humbles you.
- Reflect on an experience that holds significant meaning for you along your spiritual and life’s path. As you reflect use all your senses, smell, touch, sounds, visual, kinesthetic.
WHAT TO BRING:
To have us gather with utmost sharing and celebration, you are also asked to bring the following:
- Basic mesa with primary artes (and any other artes that insist on coming)
- Consecration materials
- Your Noqani Enqa (I AM khuya most often a stone having magnetic properties) and Sumaq Quispe (a beautiful clear crystal). Also, your Siwar Q'enti Hummingbird arte.
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REVISED!!! MOST IMPORTANT! Please bring a small arte that can fit in your hand or pocket that can carry the medicine of your intent and assist you in your manifestation. This arte will be activated to serve you. This arte will have/has the ability to shape shift and to connect with/bridge to any piece on the mesa at your direction. Please take time to choose carefully.
- An arte/khuya stone/medicine piece you feel compelled to give to another in the spirit of Ayni and what healing power/story it has held for you.
- A quote, writing or excerpt from a book that has inspires you on your journey (up to a page in length).
- A photo,picture or a drawing of a sacred site tin the Qollasuyu (or your suyu area)
- Musical instruments
None of this should take long to prepare. As you can tell from this list, the gathering is focused on full participation in sharing and celebration. We are intent on garnering our community’s energy to elevate our sense of spirit and gratitude. We will invoke the power of ayni, ritual, story, song and dance and then embody these practices pouring out this medicine to our precious mother Earth.
While our physical needs may not be so precarious as our ancestors’, our emotional and spiritual selves require sustenance and renewal.could not be more in need of sustenance.
Let this year’s September Gathering renew your sense of spiritual community and energize you as you continue along your healing path.
TO REGISTER
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LOCATION:
The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center
in Highlands, North Carolina
COST: Your Meals and Lodging at The Mountain and a registration fee of $50.00.
1. Lodging and Meals fees are to be paid directly to The Mountain (See below)
2. The registration fee will be collected when you arrive at the Gathering.
PLEASE REGISTER ONLINE WITH THE MOUNTAIN by August 15 to secure your lodging and meals. The event is listed as "Qollasuyu Gathering." Cancellations will follow the policy of The Mountain.
- Lodging at The Mountain is $198 ($211.37 with tax) for a shared cabin or Lodge double room. For a single room there is an additional fee and subject to availability.
- The Mountain offers a full range of food options to accommodate most dietary needs. Please make any special dietary requests when you register at The Mountain.
The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center
in Highlands, North Carolina
COST: Your Meals and Lodging at The Mountain and a registration fee of $50.00.
1. Lodging and Meals fees are to be paid directly to The Mountain (See below)
2. The registration fee will be collected when you arrive at the Gathering.
PLEASE REGISTER ONLINE WITH THE MOUNTAIN by August 15 to secure your lodging and meals. The event is listed as "Qollasuyu Gathering." Cancellations will follow the policy of The Mountain.
- Lodging at The Mountain is $198 ($211.37 with tax) for a shared cabin or Lodge double room. For a single room there is an additional fee and subject to availability.
- The Mountain offers a full range of food options to accommodate most dietary needs. Please make any special dietary requests when you register at The Mountain.
REGISTRATION FORM