As an essential part of my shamanic work, starting 2022 I am proud to be part of the training team of the Inca Energy Medicine School in Romania, alongside the founders of the school, Miruna and Radu Nagy, as well as Florentina Popovici and Iulia Barbu.
The Wheel connects us with Nature and the Elements; we train working in the Luminous Energy Field and stepping in mythical realms through shamanic journeys. People get knowledge and methods as tools to improve daily life, through personal practice.
The Inca Energy Medicine School (www.medicinaenergeticainca.ro) was born from the desire to bring in Romania the teachings of the Inca people, the Children of the Sun, the culture that developed a body of practices that reconnects the human being with the Earth, the place of its roots, and with the Sky, the unlimited source of life.
The School’s goal is to teach these methods for healing and reintegration, in order to give access to a vast reservoir of resources to create our highest destiny.
The basis of these teachings is the Medicine Wheel: 4 modules conveying the sum of initiations and shamanic healing techniques from the Inca tradition.
What is the Medicine Wheel?
In North America, from Canada to Wyoming, USA, we can see actual and physical medicine wheels – they are circular stone formations dedicated to the representation of the Sun. They could be compared to megalithic structures like Stonehenge, except that they are not at all megaliths, but small stones that do not radically modify the landscape. Sometimes they are not even easy to observe.
They were dated thousands of years before our era and are assumed to have acted more as guides for ritual dances, traditionally linked to spiritual restoration, healing and/or medicine.
These stone circles look like ancient and concrete equivalents of The Medicine Wheel. In our century, Alberto Villoldo (https://monikapuiu.ro/ro/samanism/alberto-villoldo/), psychologist, anthropologist and initiated shaman, coined The Medicine Wheel using archetypes related to South American shamanism.
The two Wheels (the concrete Wheel practice dated several thousand years ago in North America and the experiential Wheel of the andean shamanic practices) shared a common goal: restoration of integrity of people as beings of the infinite. It could be also seen as the equivalent of the process of individuation described by Carl Gustav Jung.
Jung´s cuaternion parallels the quaternary structure of the microgplyphs wheels throughout North America and also the four stages of the Medicine Wheel as described by Villoldo.
Here are the quaternary landmarks of the Medicine Wheel as indicated by Alberto Villoldo:
Snake – south – renewal – beauty – just as the snake sheds its old skin for a new and radiant life, so too does man need to leave behind everything that has little to do with his present being, in order to be in his authenticity here and now
Jaguar – west – the black cat with black spots – the courage to journey into personal darkness – how to live fearlessly in the world of fear and the domination of death. “The goal of shamanic medicine is to escape this life alive,” says Villoldo.
Hummingbird – north – how to be calm in the midst of the greatest dynamism. Here you only gather the nectar of joy – you accept and embrace your own light and you already know that you are a being on a spiritual path from which there is no turning back
The Eagle – Sunrise – visionary
The Eagle knows no obstacles, it always rises higher – that is why it is the experience of our divine nature
The entire process that Jung calls individuation was seen by ancient peoples as healing, because the integration of a new stage takes place following a disturbance appearing as an illness.
In this context of individuation, the Medicine Wheel comes with a circular and repetitive character of the process. Since time is circular, this process does not have an ˝end˝. Like the process of healing, the process of “individuation” does not represent something acquired once and for all.
Collected and arranged by the Alberto Villoldo, these teachings were spread to the 4 corners of the world. They arrived in Romania in 2009.
For us, teamwork within the Inca Energy Medicine School is a vital factor in maintaining the cohesion of the shamanic community through mentoring, introductions to shamanism, workshops and ceremonies.
We schedule the 4 modules of the Wheel over the course of a year. The Wheel is based on the following pillars: theory, practice and ceremonies.
Read more in an interview with Miruna and Radu Nagy here: https://wayra-astrae.ro/terapie-shamanica/roata-medicine/
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