Finding the Buddha Within

The people are Tantric Buddhists who also have a Shamanistic background called Bon – and a fantastic history filled with legends and mythology. In fact, one of the highlights of our spiritual journey is hiking to Tiger’s Nest where Guru Rinpoche flew to on the back of a flaming tigress! Indeed, the monasteries are magical and beautiful in ways that I cannot begin to describe.

Everyone who visits is touched in the most astonishing ways, by the landscape, the heart of the people, and their philosophies. By the time we leave, the experience will have opened your heart in a manner that that is totally unexpected. Author and Aikido master Wendy Palmer invites you to join her on this magical and sacred pilgrimage. Through meditation, chanting, prayer and ceremony we will expand our consciousness and cultivate the compassion of Buddha within.

Compassion & Blessings

Thankfully we’ll have the opportunity to spend a day at Bhutan’s National Day celebration at Changlingmithang National Stadium. There will a special procession, mask dances, cultural programs and folk dances and songs. We’ll also spend time visiting the very rare and endangered Black Necked Cranes in Phobjikha. And as a special gift, a Lama will be preparing a prayer and blessing ceremony for us. As service is an important part of our spiritual experience, you are welcome to bring children’s books, blankets or anything you would like to donate to the Bhutanese people during our visit.

Deepening our Wisdom and Compassion for Action

This trip is designed in the context of spiritual practice and our intent will be to strengthen our connection to wisdom, energy and compassion. Anyone with a committed and regular practice is welcome to participate. We will practice a Conscious Embodiment approach to meditation that works with a balance between concentration and awareness. Like most embodiment practices this approach to mindfulness seeks to recognize thoughts as habit and choose the openness of wisdom and compassion.

The Conscious Embodiment centering and partner exercises will be part of our daily ritual. These exercises will be designed to enhance our experience of the environment to allow for a strong somatic imprint so that inspiration can be accessible and transferable long after our trip is over. Each person will be asked to have a skill and a quality to work with in order to discover a deeper place of commitment and inspiration during our journey. You will receive more information about this process when you sign up.

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
~ Martin Buber

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Questions? Give us a ring at 727-421-0849 or email us – we can’t wait to hear from you! This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime journeys, and you will not come back the same person you were when you arrived. If there is any way that you can get way for this mystical journey, I encourage you to come! And don’t leave without watching the video on the right –>

• Purify your mind and Spirit in Mayan country for the Galactic Alignment of 12-2012?
• Deepen your yoga asana practice and enhance your meditation skills?
• Utilize the Mayan calendar as a daily oracle to align with the Universal energy?
• Practice the art of Dream yoga and develop techniques for lucidity?
• Participate in shamanic ceremonies in the power place of Lake Atitlan?

If so, please join us for 7 days of Transformation at the villa Sumaya at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Each day Skanda Yoga teachers Ken von Roenn III (ERYT 500) and Lina Vallejo will lead an inspiring, challenging, and informative asana classes. There will be meditation sessions and ceremonies to prepare for the most pivotal time in the history of humanity. You will leave feeling renewed and empowered with new skills to take your life and your community to the next level of possibility.

Skanda Yoga is the integration of many spiritual traditions. It is the co-creation of Lina and Ken after many years of exploration and navigation. Synchronicity revealed itself and they aligned with the guiding power of Grace. Lake Atitlan is the epicenter for 2012 and the Mirror of the Gods. It is the perfect setting to dive deep into yoga, Mayan calendar, and the spirit of rebirth.

Highlights Of Your Adventure:

• Deepen your yoga practice in a mystical setting
• Explore lake Atitlan and the neighboring villages
• Clean and energize yourself with healthy vegetarian food
• Align with heart energy to heal yourself and the planet
• Learn how to use the Dreamspell calendar and lucid dreaming to enhance all aspects of life
• Six wonderful nights at beautiful Villa Sumaya!
• Special Ayahuasca plant medicine ceremony

The Magic of Lake Atitlan!

Villa Sumaya’s intention is to create and support an atmosphere that allows our guests to seek and discover their deepest personal and spiritual wishes. From the smallest details in the rooms, gardens and temples to the haunting beauty of Lake Atitlan’s Volcanic landscape one can simply let go and be held in the arms of mother earth.

Want to Join Us?

Questions? Give us a ring at 727-421-0849 or email us – we can’t wait to hear from you!

• Let go of the old paradigms in your life that no longer serve you?
• Integrate the underworld of your psyche, middle kingdom of your life, and upper world of your divine consciousness?
• Celebrate the birth of a new world vision for 2012?
• Experience the powerful Mayan sacred sites of Palenque & Tonina?
• Connect with your instinctual Shamanic energies & totem animal spirit guides?

If so – join Toltec Shamans Fu-Ding Cheng and Linda Jacobson for a powerful spiritual journey to Chiapas, Mexico in the heart of the Mayan lands. Our journey is structured on the shamanic vision of the world of the Upper, Middle and Lower Kingdoms. Participants will have the opportunity to experience directly the power, healing and wisdom of each of these three worlds through specific Mayan sacred sites. Through ceremony, rituals, and shamanic exercises, these sites become portals allowing us to enter and tap into their power, for the purpose of healing, transformation, and self-empowerment.

This is especially timely with the advent of 2012, a most auspicious year of the Mayan calendar, and a time of major transformation not only for each of us personally, but also for society and the entire planet. We’ll feed our souls through the play of shamanic energy, the beauty of the architecture and symbology of the Mayan culture, and through the sublime beauty of nature as seen in the turquoise pools of Aqua Azul and the wild and lush jungles around us.

Highlights Of Your Adventure:

• Wonderful spiritual teachings, ceremonies, visualizations & meditations with Linda & Fu-Ding
• This power journey is structured on the shamanic vision of the world: The Lower, Middle and Upper Kingdoms
• Experience the energy at the Shamanic Church of San Juan Chamula (for the Middle Kingdom of Earth)
• Explore the Pyramid of Tonina and its powerful underworld mythology (for the Lower Kingdom)
• Swim in Aqua Azul’s cascading pools of brilliant turquoise (for the Upper Kingdom)
• Through ceremony, birth the new consciousness of 2012 at the sacred site of Palenque (for the integration of all three Kingdoms)
• 2 nights in the charming colonial town of San Cristobal de Casas
• 3 nights at the Hotel Nututun on the river in Palenque

San Juan Chamula

One of the special highlights of this week will be a visit to San Juan Chamula. This town is home to an amazing church which the people took back from the clergy and converted to a place of traditional shamanism and prayer. The energy here is very powerful and we will participate in a prayer circle for healing, compassion and unconditional love for the time leading up to 2012.

“Many believe that the dawning Age of Light or Age of Consciousness defines itself in relation to our capacity for unconditional love, our ability to transcend enemy patterning and victim consciousness while adopting unity consciousness that sees divinity in all things. From this standpoint, it might be said humans are evolving into a ‘biologically conscious’ species capable of holding and sharing the full light of unconditional love.”
~ Sol Luckman

Want to Join Us?

Questions? Give us a ring at 727-421-0849 or email us – we can’t wait to hear from you!