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Online & In-Person Q'ero Medicine Wheel Initiation
The Medicine Wheel Shamanic Training is an extensive initiatory path designed to progressively initiate practitioners into the archetypal currents that govern the continuous cycles of death, rebirth and transformation throughout nature and human consciousness. Rather than simply teaching shamanic techniques, each direction places you into relationship with a distinct initiatory intelligence that continues working long after the retreat itself has ended, gradually reshaping your relationship with yourself, the spirit world and reality itself. Throughout the training, you will receive initiations into multiple shamanic traditions, undertake profound processes of healing and psychological transformation, and learn an extensive body of advanced healing practices that enable you to work safely, confidently and effectively with others. As the initiations deepen, the Medicine Wheel gradually becomes more than a system of training; it becomes the underlying architecture of your own spiritual development, providing a lifelong framework through which your path continues to evolve long after the final direction has been completed. This is a serious initiatory process that extends over multiple years.
What Does Shamanic Training Involve?
Shamanic training of this nature is not your average course, nor is it simply another qualification to add to your bow. It is a deep initiatory process that gradually aligns you with your authentic nature whilst initiating you into Shamanism as a way of life. Spanning multiple years, this training is designed for those seeking a profound exploration of the shamanic path and the integration of the Shadow.
Throughout the Medicine Wheel, you will progressively embody the archetypal energies of the four directions, each carrying its own medicine and initiatory process. As these currents unfold within you, your perception of yourself, the spirit world and reality itself naturally begins to expand, whilst old patterns and conditioned identities are gradually brought into awareness to be healed and released.
By the completion of the training, you will not only possess the knowledge and practical skills to work safely as a Shamanic Practitioner or mentor, but you will also have undergone a profound process of personal transformation. For this reason, the Medicine Wheel is intended for those who are genuinely committed to the initiatory path, rather than those simply seeking a practitioner qualification.
The Journey Around The Medicine Wheel
The Medicine Wheel is present throughout many indigenous traditions across the world and represents the continuous cycle of life, death, rebirth and transformation. Throughout this training, you will journey through the four directions of the Q'ero Medicine Wheel, meeting the archetypal intelligences of each direction and progressively embodying the unique medicine they carry. Each direction serves a distinct initiatory purpose, preparing the foundations for the next.
South (Serpent Medicine) – The journey begins in the South, where you will meet the great Serpent (Sachamama). Serpent teaches the principles of non-attachment, non-judgement and non-suffering, guiding you through the gradual process of shedding emotional conditioning, inherited stories and outdated identities, just as the serpent sheds its skin. This direction establishes the foundations for the entire initiatory path.
West (Jaguar Medicine) – In the West, Jaguar (Otorongo) initiates you into the path of the Shadow. Here you will confront the hidden aspects of yourself, develop a healthy relationship with power, and undergo the symbolic deaths required for genuine transformation. Jaguar teaches you to walk fearlessly through darkness, allowing what has been outgrown to pass so that a more authentic self can emerge.
North (Hummingbird Medicine) – The North is the direction of Hummingbird and marks one of the deepest stages of the initiatory journey. Rather than teaching you to become more, Hummingbird teaches the wisdom of letting go, dissolving rigid identities, spiritual certainty and limiting narratives that no longer serve your growth. It is through this paradoxical process that greater humility, freedom and infinite possibility begin to emerge.
East (Eagle Medicine) – Having journeyed through healing, Shadow integration and the wisdom of Hummingbird, you finally meet the great Eagle. The East is the direction of transcendence, vision and conscious creation, where you learn to embody the Creator within and step fully into your place of becoming. Eagle teaches you to rise above limitation, perceive life from a higher perspective and fly wing to wing with Great Spirit as you begin a new cycle of the Wheel.
Structure Of The Training
The Medicine Wheel Initiation is undertaken one direction at a time, allowing you to fully embody the medicine of each archetype before progressing to the next. Following each 4–5 day training intensive, you will enter an extensive integration period, during which the initiatory process continues to unfold through your everyday life. Only once this process has matured will you move into the next direction, ensuring that your transformation is embodied rather than rushed.
The training is available in two formats:
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Online 1:1 Mentoring – Personalised training with individual guidance throughout the integration process.
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In-Person Group Training – Small group intensives combined with ongoing guidance.
Both formats include 4–5 day immersive training intensives for each direction, followed by months of guided integration before progressing to the next stage.
South Direction – Serpent Medicine
The South establishes the foundations of the Medicine Wheel by teaching you to shed old conditioning and reconnect with your authentic nature. Here you will learn to work with Serpent as your co-creator whilst beginning the lifelong process of healing and decoding.
Core areas of training include:
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The Nine Rites of the Munay-Ki (Rites of Passage)
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The principles of non-attachment, non-judgement and non-suffering
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Deep trauma healing and emotional integration
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Karma Purification
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Inner child work
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Tracking unintegrated traumas
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Energy anatomy and the luminous energy field
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Illumination and energetic cleansing
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Mesa creation and medicine stones
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Foundational shamanic journeying
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Building a relationship with Serpent and the spirit world
West Direction – Jaguar Medicine
The West is the direction of Shadow, symbolic death and personal power. Here you learn to walk fearlessly through your inner darkness, transforming fear into wisdom and allowing outdated identities to die so that something more authentic can emerge.
Core areas of training include:
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Shadow integration
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Death and rebirth initiations
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Right relationship with power
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Discernment and energetic boundaries
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Past life healing
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Ancestral healing
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Extraction and curse removal
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Death energy transmissions
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Giving the death rites
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Underworld journeying
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Advanced shamanic healing practices
North Direction – Hummingbird Medicine
The North represents one of the deepest stages of the initiatory path. Rather than accumulating more knowledge, you begin dissolving rigid identities, assumptions and certainty itself, opening the way to greater humility, freedom and infinite potential.
Core areas of training include:
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The philosophy and medicine of Hummingbird
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Dissolution and alchemical transformation
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Deconditioning the psyche
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Void initiation
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Identity, belief and perception
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The psychology of the ego and self
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Future causality and nonlinear perception
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Wyrd and the architecture of reality
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Occult initiatory processes
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Master-level shamanic healing practices
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Transformation with the Runes
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The power of paradox
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Deep Ancestor work
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Vision Quest
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Ginnungagap and the unmanifest field
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Advanced initiatory practices
East Direction – Eagle Medicine
The East is the direction of transcendence, vision and conscious creation. Having completed the previous directions, you learn to embody the Creator within, step fully into your destiny and begin a new cycle of the Medicine Wheel from an entirely different level of consciousness.
Core areas of training include:
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Eagle medicine and the Way of the Visionary
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Transcendence and conscious creation
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Advanced divination and visionary perception
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Quantum leaping
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Future alignment and destiny work
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Symbolic death & rebirth ceremony
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Advanced ceremony and leadership
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Integration as a practising practitioner and mentor
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Completing the Wheel and beginning the next cycle
Cost for each direction (1-2-1 & as a Group): £1,500
Upcoming Group Training:
The South Direction: 13th - 17th January 2027 - Norfolk, United Kingdom
The West Direction: 13th - 17th October 2027 - Norfolk, United Kingdom