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Eleanora Amendolara shares an excerpt from her book Divine Embodiment: The Art & Practice of Chumpi Illumination. We discuss Eleanora’s many trips to Peru and the origins of her pioneering approach to healing and spiritual awakening.  

Our Guest

Eleanora is a master healer and teacher with a thriving healing practice in Brooklyn and in Warwick, New York. As the founder of the Sacred Center Mystery School and a certified Health Kinesiology practitioner, she has been training healers and individuals on the path to spiritual awakening for more than three decades.

Her signature healing system, Chumpi Illumination, weaves together the indigenous wisdom of the Andes, principles of sacred geometry, the science of muscle testing, and wisdom of the ancient mystery traditions. 

Get your copy of Divine Embodiment: The Art & Practice of Divine Embodiment.

Our Conversation

• How Eleanora received her first set of Chumpi stones: An origin story, which includes a woman’s quest, a wise guide, the great Incan myth of Pachacuti (“the world turned upside down), all aligned with the turning of the seasons.
• When Eleanora would ask the paqos, the medicine women of Cusco who could teach her about the Chumpi stones, they always told her to look to the mountains
• Our collaborative writing practice (I am a longtime student of the Sacred Center Mystery School, and have co-written two of Eleanora’s books).
• Connections across ancient cultures: Cusco as the sacred center of Peru, Uisneach as the sacred center of Ireland.
• Power of receiving and surrendering to a healing, rather expecting a healer to do something/produce something for you.
• Writing and creating from a place of “we don’t know what we don’t know.” When we can embrace uncertainty, the real mystical creation happens.
• What ritual with the indigenous Q’ero people really looks like (it’s not what the Western-programmed mind might expect) 

Our Music

Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com

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