Join us for a very special evening as we celebrate both Earth Day and the annual “cross-quarter day” of Beltane with a special Andean ritual called Despacho.

[Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival, marking the beginning of summer. It is traditionally held on May 1, or about midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. ]

Special guest Shari Parslow, a shamanic healing practitioner, will lead us in this traditional Andean Ceremony.

Please join us in co-creating a despacho as a gift for Mother Earth ( Pachamama). The despacho is an Andean ceremony where offerings are woven into a bundle of beauty, imbued with our prayers. It is an act of love– a deep expression of gratitude for the abundant gifts we receive, and the connections we share in unity with all living energies.
The despacho will then be offered to the sacred fire to feed our Mother and carry our prayers to Spirit.

The despacho is a gift—a giving back of what we receive everyday in our lives. We seek, through the despacho ceremony, to bridge the ordinary and non-ordinary realms; to establish new patterns of relationship and possibility. The despacho places us in right relationship, right ayni, with the Pachamama”
-Q’ero Elder Don Manuel Q’espi

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Shari Parslow is a shamanic healing practitioner, intuitive channel, mentor and lic. massage therapist with over 30 years of integrative bodywork and energy medicine.

She has been trained and initiated by many esteemed healers from the Andes to Tibet. As a mesa carrier for many moons, she was certified in the ancient wisdom teachings through Alberto Villoldo’s Healing the Light Body and Master programs. Some beloved teachers include Rinpoche Lama Lhanang, yachak Don Alverto Taxo, and Brooks Greene Barton with whom she certified in The Art Of God program.

Shari strives to live each day as a ceremony in gratitude. Her intention is to honor your divine uniqueness as you open into the unlimited possibilities of who you are.
Please feel free to contact Shari with any questions : shariluminous@ gmail.com. 518-879-9365