Pachamama
An Animated Film Directed by Juan Antin
Written by Christophe Poujol and Juan Antin
A Doghouse Films Production © 2018
Set in 16th century South America, in the Andes Mountains of Peru, Pachamama is a colorful cg animated feature by Argentine director Juan Antín and produced by Didier Brunner (The Secret of Kells, Ernest and Celestine) through his Paris-based studio, Folivari. Determined to tell a story from an indigenous perspective, Antín harnessed pre-Columbian iconography, including repetitive geometrical patterns particular to the region’s clothing and art, as the basis for the film’s character and production design.
Pachamama places at the center of its narrative 10-year-old Tepulpaï, a vivacious young boy with aspirations of becoming a respected shaman. But as his community engages in a ceremonial offering to the great spirit of Pachamama, an Incan overloads disrupts their sacred time and confiscates the town’s highly symbolic golden statue, which connects them to the Earth. Using this as an opportunity to prove himself, Tepulpaï embarks on a journey to recover the invaluable icon alongside his friend Naira and her pet llama.
The film was nominated at the Cesar Awards, France’s highest film honors. Pachamama is available online.
The Shaman, Pollution, Tricksters And Witchcraft
A Teaching from a Shamans Directory Practitioners Gathering
With Dr. David Cumes, Sangoma (Shaman)
Approximately 1 hour 45 minutes
There are dark and light forces within and outside of us — forces separate from our physical human condition. Those on spiritual journeys acknowledge Monkey Mind, Shadow, and Ego as being impediments to enlightenment. However, while these are challenging, ancient wisdoms, indigenous communities, and shamans also appreciate the reality of tricksters and the dark occult that can sabotage our progress. Moreover, these forces are capable of exploiting our inner weaknesses. Being non-local in space and time, they know as much about us as our guides. If we are cognizant of this negative polarity, it can be countered by harnessing the forces of light with the help of our spiritual guides.
Shamans Directory Member Dr. David Cumes introduces the full spectrum of spiritual intrusions, from minor tricksters, like “mosquitoes at your picnic,” to rare but potent dark forces that aim to divert sincere practitioners from their path of enlightenment. Explore energetic pollution, tricksters & mid-level interference, witchcraft & heavy energies, dark forces on the path of light, and temptation as a tool of darkness, as David shares from lived experiences in South Africa, including encounters with witchcraft, lightning attacks, serpents sent as spiritual weapons, and lessons from elders about when to cleanse, when to engage, and when to stay away.
This session will be particularly helpful for practitioners engaged in healing, divination, soul retrieval, or cleansing, people who sense interference but don’t know how to name it, and anyone wanting to understand how dark forces operate — and how to remain empowered, protected, and aligned.
David Cumes, M.D. was born in South Africa. He is a Western-trained surgeon steeped in the conventional medicine paradigm. He was also initiated in Swaziland as a Sangoma (Zulu for shaman) in 2002. He is uniquely trained to access information from the Spirit world by a process of divination through the “Bones.” Healing is then dispensed through rituals using plant medicines. David is the author of eight books; including; Inner Passages Outer Journeys, The Spirit of Healing, Africa in my Bones, Messages from the Ancestors, Healing Trees and Plants of the Lowveld, and The Source: The Story of Establishing an Indigenous Healing Center in remote South Africa. He has a surgical as well as an indigenous practice in Santa Barbara, CA where he serves as a bridge between modern medicine and primal original wisdom.
Inner Space and More from the Merlyn Sessions
With Roel Crabbé and Patrik Niels
Shamans Directory Ambassador Roel Crabbé is a shamanic practitioner and teacher of shamanism who began his shamanic training in 1995 when he was just 17 years old, and he has been practicing under the guidance of traditional and Western teachers ever since. Founder of the Anam Cara Spiritual Center in Belgium, he has trained thousands in practical shamanism and healing since 2003.
Roel’s work is deeply authentic and touches the soul in a profound way. Apart from teaching, he is active as a sculptor, writer and painter. Over the years, his work with ancestral healing songs, which are often only sung once, has become an intrinsic part of his teaching and work. In January 2025, Roel visited his soul brother Patrik Niels, to record a few healing songs together in his beautiful center Merlyn.
These songs became a collection — each one an invitation to reconnect to the depth of your own being, and the timelessness of your soul. A space where you can recharge and find yourself again. These songs can be used for meditation, healing, or the inward journey. May they bring peace and beauty into your life.
Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing
A film by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo
Online by Donation
“When colonization hit Mother Earth, it changed all these different people simultaneously. It became a global family issue. We need a call for the global family to come together. This film, in an almost preverbal or preconscious way, is making that call.” — Pat McCabe
The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey across Indigenous lands around the world. Through powerful storytelling, it weaves together generations of wisdom and lived experience, revealing both the deep wounds of colonization and the enduring strength of ancestral memory.
This film invites us to witness intergenerational trauma and to rekindle our relationship with the Earth. It gently but powerfully calls us into a collective remembering — one that restores our sense of kinship, belonging, and reverence for all life.
As the narrative unfolds, we see how modernity has severed our ties to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm, offering instead illusions of endless growth, consumption, and individual success. But through the voices and ceremonies of Indigenous communities, a sacred dance begins to stir. The eternal song of life itself rises — an invitation to return home.
The Eternal Song is available now to watch by donation. In the spirit of reciprocity, half of the film’s after-production harvest will be returned to the communities who shared their stories, nurturing their dreams, visions, and future generations.
We wish you all the best of the Season and invite you to enjoy this magical "Shamanic Art Video Journey" created by Imelda Almqvist, Author, Artist, Shaman and Teacher of the Seiðr Old Norse Traditions.
Join Shamans Directory Ambassador Imelda Almqvist on a magical, mythical, seasonal shamanic adventure to meet the Reindeer Mother. This Divine Animal Mother came to Imelda in Sweden during the Winter Solstice period of 2016, touching her soul and cracking her wide open. The Reindeer Mother took her on a journey that required her to release many previously beliefs that she had held about Divinity. Only later did she discover that the Indigenous peoples of Siberia know this Reindeer Mother very well!
If I you are drawn to watch this video, Imelda invites you to embark on your own journey to meet The Reindeer Mother, perhaps in a Birch Bark Boat.
A Documentary Film
By Elisabeth Möhlmann
Now Available Online
The award-winning documentary “Mama Irene: Healer of the Andes” offers an intimate glimpse into the life of Mama Irene, a revered Andean healer. The film reveals her secret Indigenous healing methods as she compassionately treats everyone who arrives at her door — from local women who travel for hours or even days across the rugged Andes, to a medical doctor from India seeking a cure for an illness where Western medicine has fallen short.
Viewers are taken on a journey through ancient spiritual ceremonies, such as the Snow Star Festival, where thousands of pilgrims gather each year in Sinakara Valley, high in the Peruvian Andes. More than just a record of endangered traditions, “Mama Irene” tells a story of female empowerment. Having been showcased at 25 film festivals worldwide and honored with numerous awards, the documentary recently won the Audience Award (Prix du Public) at the 6th Festival International du Film des Traditions Ancestrales et les Spiritualités Chamaniques in Sarlat, France.
Filmmaker Elisabeth Möhlmann and her entire team are deeply grateful for the heartfelt responses from audiences across the globe. “Mama Irene” continues to inspire, and the film is now available for purchase on their website, and we warmly invite you to experience her powerful story.
Ancient Prophecies of the Inka and their Message for Our Times
With Master Teachers of the Andean Tradition
Monday 15 July 2024
11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 8pm CET
Join Shamans Directory Ambassadors and Master Teachers of the Andean Tradition, Don Juan Nuñez Del Prado, Elizabeth B. Jenkins, Joan Parisi Wilcox and Ivan Nuñez Del Prado for this free webinar.
We are in a time of great metamorphosis on our planet. Changes in the climate, politics, and the environment all have an effect on us personally. Through the eyes of Andean Cosmovision, this is a time known as a “Pachakuti,” a universal turning over of space and time.
According to this ancient and still living tradition (which dates back in time to even before the Inkas), we are also in the time of the “Taripay Pacha,” the Golden Age of meeting ourselves again.
During this live webinar we will be discussing: Where are we, as a whole, in our level of consciousness right now? What do these changes mean for us as Paqos (Andean healers and teachers) for others outside of the tradition? How can we affect change with the practices of this rich tradition.
After weeks of profound grief following the loss of her young daughter, Sandra Corcoran found herself inexplicably at a life-changing workshop on indigenous teachings and energy healing. From the first glimpse of the light that called her to the workshop, she found herself at the beginning of a 30-year metaphysical journey within, initially to heal her grief and eventually leading her from the darkness into the light of her own soul’s evolution.
Sharing the core teachings of her many indigenous and esoteric mentors, including lessons in synchronicity, metaphysics, the extraordinary power of the heart, multi-dimensional realms, and energy healing, she takes readers on an adventure across continents through birth, death, ceremony, and ritual to renewal and the frontiers of expanded consciousness. She shows that no matter how far outside of the familiar we are led, we are guided back to ourselves and offered another opportunity to embrace our world and, ultimately, find our place in it.
Designated a 'dream decoder' by her North American teachers, Sandra's book is filled with dreams that foretold and informed her journey, and offers inspiration for anyone who wants to better understand how our dreams can support and guide us throughout our waking lives!
About Sandra
In addition to being the author of Shamanic Awakening, Sandra Corcoran, M.Ed., is a therapeutic Thoth Tarot Reader, a trained integrative coach, a cross-cultural metaphysical teacher, a designated dream decoder, and an ART™ facilitator (Alchemical Regression Therapy). Her greatest delight is to bring passionate learners on yearly pilgrimages to experience the magic of Egypt, the wisdom of Peru, and the Magdalen and Black Madonna mysteries of France.
Hear her interview Dream Time at the Solstice at our Shamans Directory Live Event, December 11th 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsuOrfav9z0
Shamanic earth-based wisdom reminds us of our interconnectedness with the earth and all the other living beings around us. We can discover ways to restore and strengthen these relationship through science as well. This podcast episode, from The Detour with Adams Davis, is called “Democracy of Species." It was recorded in May 2022, and explores the relationships between human beings and other beings, between humans and animals, humans and plants, and humans and the earth itself.
Robin Wall Kimmerer and Emma Marris pay careful attention to the interconnections between these beings. Whether they are looking at mosses or sweet grass, maples or wolves or humans, Robin and Emma are wonderful teachers, helping us to see our world and ourselves more fully, and challenging us to reconsider our role in this fluid and dynamic web of relationships and responsibilities.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned her wide acclaim. Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
Emma Marris is the author of Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World and Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. She also writes about the human and nonhuman worlds, and the enduringly complex relationships between them for National Geographic, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Wired, and other publications. She lives in Oregon with her husband—with whom she occasionally co-authors environmental philosophy papers—and their two children.
Filmmakers Bettina Ehrhardt & Elisabeth Möhlmann invite you on an incredible adventure with a wisdom keeper and beloved woman shaman, Mama Irene, Healer of the Andes. This film documents Mama Irene, a remarkable 84-year-old woman healer from Peru in her daily life, drawing upon indigenous knowledge and traditions in danger of being lost forever.
We have a rare opportunity to witness Mama Irene’s secret healing practices, highlighting her passion to serve each patient who knocks on her door. We meet local women who have traveled for hours or days by foot through the Andes to seek treatment, and a medical doctor from India seeking a cure for an illness that Western Medicine has failed to help. We also accompany Mama Irene on an ancient spiritual ceremony to the Snow Star Festival, where thousands of pilgrims gather in Sinakara Valley high in the Peruvian Andes to honor the local glacier.
The film is not only a vital document of endangered wisdom, it is the story of an extraordinary woman, empowerment, and how to live in harmony with Mother Earth. To see her powerful medicine wrapped in the landscape and wisdom traditions of the Andes will deepen your appreciation of the mystical gifts and incredible strength of women everywhere.
Language: Quechua, English, Spanish
Subtitles available: English, Spanish, French, German
In August of 2022 the Wircocha Foundation opened a permanent home for the descendants of the Inka in the heart of their Ancestral Inka Capital of Cosqo (Cuzco City, Peru); the first ever Hatun Q'eros Cultural Healing Center!
The Q'ero Cultural Center is housed at the Casona Corrales, a beautiful hotel owned by Aldo & Roger Corrales, sons of Paucartambo and friends of Wiraqocha Foundation & the Q'ero. Located just one half block off Cusi Pata Square (Plaza Regocijo) in the Heart of Cusco City, the Q'ero offer healing sessions and have a store where you can see demonstrations and purchase their ancestral weaving arts.
Begun in 1949 when the Q'ero were first recognized as descendants of the Inka, to the first academic expedition in 1955, to the granting of their homeland land-rights back to the Q'ero in the 1960's, to the 1980's designation of Cusco as a World Heritage site, to the 1990's when the very first workshops on the Inka Mystical Tradition were taught, to 2011 when the Q'ero Nation was recognized as "the last Inka Village on earth," a Cultural Patrimony of Peru, the Wiracocha Foundation and Friends have been fighting for decades for the rights of the Q'ero and this moment!
After more than half a century of being overlooked, the Q'ero now stand tall in their own healing and weaving house in the heart of Cusco. Please support this nonprofit, charitable organization who are dedicated to preserving and sharing the Sacred Nature Wisdom of the Q’ero people of the Andes by visiting them in person or connecting with them online.
About Elizabeth B. Jenkins
Wiraqocha Foundation founder, Elizabeth B. Jenkins is a mom, an organic farmer, an MA and MFT, and a 35 year student of Inka Nature Wisdom Traditions held by the Q'ero Nation of Peru. She is an international best-selling author of three books and the founder of the Wiraqocha Foundation (1996). The Wiraqocha Foundation serves as the US umbrella organization for Willka Yachay — most successful in creating schools in Hatun Q’eros, heart of the Q'ero Nation. In 2010, Elizabeth led a Discovery Channel film crew to capture never-before-seen rituals in the mountain temples of Hatun Q'eros. In January 2021, she founded the Global Paqo School to employ the Q’ero Masters and aspiring youth during the pandemic. She also co-founded the Q'ero Wayruroni Association in order to better serve the Q'ero communities in Peru. She resides with her yanantin (one of a complementary pair) Barney, on her organic coffee and macadamia nut farm on the Big Island of Hawai`i where she collaborates with Native Hawaiian elders and the magical Volcanic Island forces of Nature.
Hear her interview Hatun Q’eros - A Lifetime of Devotion at our Shamans Directory Live Event, September 24th 2022.
Visit her profile
https://shamansdirectory.com/directory/elizabeth-jenkins/
Learn more
https://wiraqochafoundation.org/
https://www.thefourthlevel.org/
https://www.elizabethbjenkins.com/
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