CoCreavatars New Moon
Message From the Elders #005:
Welcome Hampi Warmi
(Medicine Women)
Leticia Huanca Guevara
Welcome Dearest Readers to Our
Message From the Elders rising on the cusp of the New Moon
moving into the radiant energies of the Electric Deer Full Moon
*** As we make our way from birth of the New Moon into the Fullness of the season we continue on our journeys of collective remembering and awakening of our wildhearts. Sometimes the messages we need on our journey are reminders of the simplest things. Our beloved Medicine Women, Leticia reminds us of just that. Thank you dear Leticia for your message, thank you Caroline and all the young ones helping to carry the bundle.
Thank you wisdom keepers, thank you dear Elders,
Grandmothers and Grandfathers. Gratitude for you!
Write me with any comments, ideas or suggestions for Elders we should feature at
mikulenentine@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you dear ones.
With Love & Aloha,
for all of our Relations,
Miku
“The first step we can take is to raise our awareness and consciousness to understand the magnificence and the beauty that the earth has to offer all around us. This may sound simple, but it is so important. Nature maintains all of the elements in balance. Nature has all of the medicine we need to heal our bodies and heal our minds. Nature gives us fresh air. It gives us all the elements that we need. It is important for us to connect with the medicine of nature.”
The Wisdom is Simple:
Conversations with Hampi Warmi Leticia Huanca Guevara
By Leticia Huanca Guevara and Caroline Putnam
Translated from Spanish by Caroline Putnam
Edited by Miku Lenentine
Thank you to everyone who is reading this. I am happy to share my message with you. This is some of the wisdom I have gathered and gained in this life. One of my first recommendations is that it seems like the young people these days do not have a lot of interest in maintaining nature. The lifestyles they lead these days are not respecting nature. The first step we can take is to raise our awareness and consciousness to understand the magnificence and the beauty that the earth has to offer all around us. This may sound simple, but it is so important. Nature maintains all of the elements in balance. Nature has all of the medicine we need to heal our bodies and heal our minds. Nature gives us fresh air. It gives us all the elements that we need. It is important for us to connect with the medicine of nature.
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“Nature maintains all of the elements in balance. Nature has all of the medicine we need to heal our bodies and heal our minds. Nature gives us fresh air. It gives us all the elements that we need. It is important for us to connect with the medicine of nature.”
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In Peru we have clean air, we have wind. Around the world we have all of these elements that keep us in balance. We need to become stewards of the land once more. It is time to start cultivating the plants and return to cultivating our food. It is really important for the young people to know how to steward the planet and continue growing more for abundance, and it start right where they live in their local area with the relationship with plants.
Some of the elders are starting to recognize the impacts that the chemicals are having and they are recognizing the importance of organics and why we need to support them. Grow your own food, make your own medicine, come into relationship with the plant spirits, and if you can’t support those who do this work. Working with organic foods and knowing the medicine of this area is connected to our own health. When we eat organically, when we can know the medicines of our region, we can then have the right balance to stay in alignment with our organism and stay in balance with nature.
It is also important to begin activating in your community. For example, in our community we have formed a committee of ecological preservation. We have activated in our own community trash pickups, recycling areas, and identified the areas of priority. It is important not just to clean our inner environment but also our external environment. Activate your communities by organizing together and really addressing the issues, not waiting for someone else to do it, do it yourself. Be that pioneer that is activating that inspiration in your community.
If you are living in the city, it is important that you leave and reconnect with nature for at least some of the time. Life and health come from the environment. If you live in a place where you live wall to wall, where there isn’t a lot of green, it is important to come out of that place sometimes. It is good to go take visits often and reconnect with nature. In reconnecting with nature, you are reconnecting with your own vitality and health.
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“We can know that we will be healed before we take the medicine into our bodies; that is the most important part. That knowingness, that connection. It is the same with the planet, if the planet is in a state of needing healing, it is with our consciousness that it can be healed, not going into the fear and the doubt and the destruction. We are all fractals of each other,
and so in cultivating a knowingness around healing,
it is a very important to focus on our minds.
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The mind also is very powerful. When we work with plant healers and plant medicines just taking the medicine could have some effect, but it is about linking the mind to the medicine as well, to the plant being. If we come into our breath, slowly inhaling and exhaling three times deeply … and pause … and really find our deep center point, we can know that we will be healed before we take the medicine into our bodies; that is the most important part. That knowingness, that connection. It is the same with the planet if the planet is in a state of needing healing, it is with our consciousness that it can be healed, not going into the fear and the doubt and the destruction. We are all fractals of each other, and so in cultivating a knowingness around healing, it is very important to focus on our minds.
We need to stay positive with our hearts and minds. Positivity is one of the best medicines that we can give in our time. It is the best way we can heal ourselves. The metabolism of the planet is released and works through positivity. The function of plant medicine is slower. It is not a magic step. But it is short. Steady and short, and it won’t affect other organs.
Chemical medicine has its benefits, but there is a but, even though it is quick and it affects the outcome quickly it is affecting a different part of the organism. The quick fix isn’t always the way, because even though we are taking it, for one thing, it may be impacting or hurting another part of the system. With the plant though, the plants are wholistic. They are not meanwhile draining another part of the system. So, plant medicine is slow and steady. We can also extend this philosophy to projects and other areas we want to create and do in life… the medicine is slow and steady, and stable and sure, rather than the quick fix that gets it done. Slow and steady and short is the traditional way, this is the way we can approach all things.
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“We need to stay positive with our hearts and minds. Positivity is one of the best medicines that we can give in our time. It is the best way we can heal ourselves. The metabolism of the planet is released and works through positivity.
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[Question:] Is it even possible to heal Pachamama?
Si! One of the important things we can do in this time is to stop buying things that come with trash. If it doesn’t decompose and go back to the earth than say no. Choose a different option. Our mother is alive. She is a living mother and we need to give thanks to her, not only in the way that we pray and give thanks to her but also in the physical connection. What is our action actually saying if every time we buy organic food we are using plastic? It is creating a disturbance in the energy field. She continues to give us food and continues to give us water, and plants and ways to heal. We really need to awaken a new consciousness, both adults and children. What is it we are giving back? Can we decide to go without the trash and things that are not going to be digested by the earth? This wisdom is really simple. It is really about deciding how we want to live. How we want to be global citizens, stepping out of the industrial age into the ecological era. How to become one world people, tenders of the mother, living with each breath and each act with the integrated wisdom that all life is sacred.
Each of us has a role to play in this. The plants and the foods give us very specific information, transmissions, and communication of the earth specifically for where we are. Learn these ways. Find someone in your area who knows the plants. Connect with nature. Come into a relationship with it. This is our birthright and our sovereignty to do this. Know the herbs in your area. It is your birthright, your heritage, and your inheritance to pass that on to the next generation. Whether you have children or just know children in your neighborhood, it is important to pass this on.
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“Our mother is alive. She is a living mother and we need to give thanks to her, not only in the way that we pray and give thanks to her but also in the physical connection. What is our action actually saying if every time we buy organic food we are using plastic?”
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Us healing ourselves is also the healing of the planet. The fires in the amazon, the different disasters, natural and unnatural disasters happening around the world are showing us it is time to check out our long shadows. It is time do the inner work. It is time to know the nature around you and support your organic farmers. Make the choice. The more that we choose it the more it becomes convenient. We have seen it here in a small village, go from two organic farmers to eight organic farmers. We keep seeing the demand rising. Know that your choice really does matter. We can pray and we can make offerings, and we can make ceremonies and those feed the spirit of Pachamama. We need to be tangibly feeding Pachamama, if you are not growing your own food please support your organic farmers and if you are growing your own food please make sure you are doing it organically, and find information about herbs.
When we are in connection with ourselves, with our planet and not getting into the fear, this is the way. Not inundating our brains with news, media, negative messages. Inundate yourself with the positive, the inspiring, amazing information and stories to share. Choose what you are saying on Facebook, choose what you are saying on Instagram and social media outlets. Be conscious of what you are bringing into the world. Stay in positivity. We are putting ourselves in a pressure cooker right now. The shadows are being brought to the surface to be seen, and not to be overlooked. Make the choice. This wisdom is really simple. It is about deciding how we want to live.
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To study in person with Leticia Huanca Guevara and Caroline Putnam along with other Quechua indigenous wisdomkeepers, join Reviveolution in Perú this December 29- Jan 6, or visit them with one of their other offerings below!
Hampi Warmi (Medicine Woman) Leticia Huanca Guevara is from the Quechua Nation of Perú. She is a medicine woman by birth, trained by her parents how to identify plants and make remedies since her youth. She is also a trained medical nurse who decided to renounce the profession when she saw that pharmaceuticals can do more harm to parts of the organism while trying to cure something else. Hampi Warmi Leticia is now a holistic therapist in her village, a powerhouse mother, and a medicine woman carrying forward the wisdom of nature curing patients and teaching students who like to learn.
About Caroline Putnam
Carolina Putnam is a Louisiana native who now lives full time in the Sacred Valley of Peru with her partner Julian Apaza Cruz of the Q’ero Nation. Together with her inter-cultural family, she has dedicated the last 6.5 years to sculpting a middle path between ancestral wisdom and modern innovation. Through sharing experiential education in retreats and courses, serving by her maestro / father-in-law’s side in traditional ceremony around the world, and sharing Earth stewardship practices through ancestral arts & native nutrition, her work aims to create a bridge between cultural paradigms to support individuals and communities in healing and purposeful living.
Support Hampi Warmi Leticia Huanca Guevara, and learn more about her work with Reviveolution
Upcoming Offerings in Peru!
The Awaya Ancestral Arts Retreat brings together the richly colored threads of intercultural diversity to inspire women & their communities to weave a regenerative and thriving world. Awaya means “weaving” in Quechua.
This immersion into the Cultural Practices and Ancestral Arts of the Andes is based on the notion that creativity and mindfulness stem from a deep and reverent relationship with our living environment. Through the captivating storytelling & demonstrations by master weavers, we will witness how art is one of the most vibrant depictions of culture, history, and our relationship to the environment in the symbols & colors represented in weavings (Peru’s indigenous written language). We will look through the lens of Andean Cosmovision (a way of seeing and interacting with a living world) to ignite our own creative expression and shed light on the close connection between women, art, ceremony, and the environment.
Throughout these 8 days in the gorgeous Andes mountains, we will have an opportunity to slow down and understand ourselves more intimately through indigenous ceremony, expand our collaborative network of women through intercultural dialogue, and discover the intrinsic connection between our inner and outer ecology through the art of weaving the back-strap loom.
When practiced & integrated, these ancestral practices have the ability to settle our minds and steep us in calm creative focus- becoming valuable tools that can benefit every aspect of our lives.
The Ecology of Kinship retreat is rooted in the dream to nourish a resilient and interconnected global community that works together to actively pave the way to a regenerative future. This is an opportunity for you to connect deeply with the sacredness of nature to inspire your leadership in creating a thriving world that benefits the whole of life.
We will sit in intimate sharing circles with indigenous wisdom-keepers of the Q’ero Nation to learn how to make offerings, give thanks, cleanse our energy, and become self sufficient in ancient practices that feed our own vitality and keep the Earth in balance. We will intentionally reset our bodies to come back in-tune with nature by eating all organic meals and understanding a roadmap for flourishing health through Andean wildcrafting. As we learn hands-on Permaculture practices to build thriving organic gardens- we too will come back to our True Human Nature steeping our hands deep into the soil.
The gorgeous land which we will be our greatest teacher is a budding ECO-SANCTUARY in the village of Huaran, in which the gardens we leave behind are inspiring indigenous farmers to return to organic regenerative agriculture (instead of chemicals). So as you learn and grow, you are rippling the benefit to others.
About the CoCreavatars New Moon Messages from the Elders Series
Every New Moon we will share messages from our precious elders, featuring their work, and helping to bring forth their bundles of wisdom into the world to invite a deepening shift in the field, to attune to the frequency of the one world tree and to begin to realize the time of prophecy we are living in. A return to the sacred, a remembering of the ancient ways. Gratitude for these amazing wisdom keepers!
If you would like to feature an elder in your community, please write Miku at mikulenentine@gmail.com with your ideas 3 weeks prior to the next New Moon. Submissions must be sent by 1 week prior in order to be published for the upcoming issue. Also, we would love talk with you about any Elders you would like us to reach out to. Call Miku at (+1) 206.403.8134 any time!
Dr. Miku has her Doctora de Mas Grandes Spirituales and a Ph.D. in Environmental Social Psychology / Communication from the University of Washington. She is passionate about mindfulness, social permaculture and is one of the founders of The Way of Vibrantly, a non-profit wellness organization and school, dedicated to supporting Vibrancy, Authentic Beingness, and a Thriving World
