Your three energy centers
The development of your love for life, your spiritual wisdom and the life of your soul path, which serves the well-being of all is based in the Andean shamanic tradition on the awakening of the three energy centers: heart, head and stomach.
Munay is Quechua and means “unconditional love”.
Yachay means “wisdom” but also “learning”.
Llánkay means “holy work” and means to be in the service of the world.
In addition to the seven chakras, the three main centers are the navel, the heart and the third eye. Your stomach connects you to the earth, your head to the cosmos and your heart is the bridge between the two. Each of them is carrying a seed of light that needs to be awakened.
As soon as this seed opens, we unfold our abilities that are connected to the respective center.
We begin to develop love and discover what brings us joy in life. We learn to clearly distinguish our intuition from our mind and we start drawing wisdom from a different source.
We also begin to adjust our actions “to the first two discoveries… so that we place ourselves into the service of life – we begin to use our greatest gifts and talents, giving the world the best we have to give.
Your three levels of perception
Your heart contains the power of Munay, the ability to love unconditionally.
Your head is the center for higher wisdom – Yachay – and your soul guided intuition.
Your belly is the physical center of power and seat of your actions – Llank’ay .
Your stomach connects you to the earth, your head to the cosmos and your heart represents the bridge between them.
All three centers differ from each other and have their own ways of perception.
Our perception channels are:
thinking and logic
feelings
body signals
The perception from the perspective of your navel is completely different from the perception of your head. Your navel speaks the language of your body through fine signals of body awareness. Your head speaks the language of thought and logic.
This is because your navel is connected to the earth and therefore to your body consciousness and your head center to your spiritual abilities. Your body perceives the world differently than your mind. You may know this from everyday life, when your body sends you signals, but your mind evaluates a situation completely differently or doesn’t even notice what your body is going through. Your tensions in the evening only let you guess what your body felt today.
Your heart speaks the language of feelings. Here feelings arise from your thoughts and here you also perceive the feelings of your surroundings. Your feelings can also evaluate a situation differently than your mind.
There is no logic in the emotional world or in the language of body signals.
Logic is a result of thinking.
Your heart perceives the world around you differently than your stomach or your mind.
On the shamanic path we learn to use all three channels of perception. In this way we can include all levels and let actions arise from a source of higher wisdom, which are filled with love, devotion and joy and are a real gift to the world. This is exactly the ability that we need so much in our society, because too often we implement ideas that are neither in the flow of love nor taken into account the well-being of all living beings and the earth.
Auf dem schamanischen Weg lernen wir alle drei Wahrnehmungskanäle zu benutzen. So können wir alle Ebenen einbeziehen und daraus Handlungen entstehen lassen, die aus einer höheren Weisheit schöpfen, die mit Liebe, Hingabe und Freude gefüllt sind und ein echtes Geschenk für die Welt sind.
Das ist genau die Fähigkeit, die wir in unserer Gesellschaft so sehr benötigen, denn wir setzen zu häufig Ideen um, die weder mit Liebe durchströmt sind, noch das Wohl aller Lebewesen und der Erde berücksichtigt.
We live in an AND-world
An important realization on the path of unfolding your three channels is that we say goodbye to an “either-or”.
Our mind keeps fooling us into believing that there can only be one truth. It forces us to choose between our thoughts and our feelings. It also pretends that either our thoughts are right or our gut feeling. But the truth is that all three perceptions have their place: thoughts, feelings and body signals.
It is not true that only one level can be true. I call this our AND-world.
When we become comfortable with the idea that we always have multiple perceptions, we can stop waging internal wars against ourselves. There may even be contradictions between the perceptions. Just because our thoughts pick up a different impulse than our body signals doesn’t mean that one of them has to be wrong.
Allowing yourself to walk with your own AND-world is a matter of practice. Your inner critic, who always wants to be in control, will try to get you to make a decision. But you are the space keeper, you are your own Pachamama and hold space for your three levels of perception.
All perceptions have their right to exist, no matter how contradictory they are. They simply illuminate a situation from different perspectives. If you would like to train your AND-world more, please take a look at my webinar offers. There I can offer you help to strengthen your space keeper, so that you can draw on the full knowledge of your perception for your life decisions.
Awakening the three centers with the Hatun Karpay
The Andean tradition holds a powerful form of energy transmissions for us. These are called “Karpay” in Quechua. There are many different Karpays. Individual Karpay, Karpay rows and the Hatun Karpay in which the three centers are awakened.
- Munay Karpay – the initiation of the heart center
- Yachay Karpay – the initiation of the head center (3rd Eye)
- Ll’ankay Karpay – the initiation of the abdominal center (navel)
The Hatun Karpays are transmitted in individual sessions and last from two to two and a half hours. In Peru, the Paqos often make pilgrimages to a mountain and the reception of the Hatun Karpays is prepared with a despacho ceremony. Here in Europe we are used to working in a practice.
Usually you run through the Hatun Karpay when you start creating your own mesa. All participants of the Mesa School go through the Hatun Karpay. The order of the three initiations begins with the heart, then follows the head and lastly the belly (navel). There should be at least six months to a year between the Karpays.
The term “great initiation” beautifully describes the awakening process of this sacred work. During a Hatun Karpay many cosmic energies such as the power of the four elements, energy lines of sacred temples and mountains, the light of the stars and the power of the archetypes are transferred into the three energy centers. Each Hatun Karpay contains other forces that help us to cleanse our centers, harmonize them and activate our light seeds for each center. The energy work of the Andes can often be felt physically and triggers cold, warmth, pain, inner images, relief, tears and many other emotions in us. We often sink into a kind of wake-sleep in which our mind comes to rest. A Hatun Karpay starts a gentle growth process that leads us through cognitive processes, clarity and changes over months. A Hatun Karpay unfolds slowly and gently, like a flower carefully blossoming. These growth and healing processes are connected to the respective qualities of the respective centers.
Munay – awakening your love and joie de vivre
The Munay Karpay is the initiation of the heart center. It balances our heart temples, our stored feelings, our ability to feel and heals injuries and deposits in the heart space. After a Munay Karpay, those issues and blockages that have to do with our heart, our emotions and our ability to love ourselves begin to move. Gentleness and acceptance can grow within us, allowing us to see the world and ourselves with compassion.
Yachay – awakening your wisdom and intuition
Yachay is the Quechua word for wisdom and learning. The Yachay Karpay harmonizes our head center and brings us clarity. It clears the clouds of ego that cloud our third eye.
In this second Karpay, luminous energies of the cosmos and your soul are transmitted, which not only help you to draw from the experiences of your mind, but also from your spiritual experiences. In the Andean tradition, the condor stands for the ability to take a higher perspective. In the subsequent integration process, we become aware of patterns and thoughts from our past, which we place in front of our third eye like filters. We grow into deep wisdom and open ourselves to the many levels that lie hidden in our existence as beings of light.
Ll’ankay – awakening your soul path
The Ll’ankay Karpay is the initiation of the abdominal center and the last initiation in the line of the Hatun Karpay. Ll’ankay is the Quechua word for “holy work” and “service”. Serving here does not mean altruistic self-abandonment, but rather the living of our task, our gifts and talents. The more we develop our abilities, the more we can be of service to others and the world with our work. This initiation works with our power of action. It is also called the initiation of action.
I have often experienced that participants of the Mesa School had a blockage in their power of implementation and after this initiation they reorganized their entire life.
This initiation entails special challenges, since our entire behavior of daily action is put to the test here. The LL’ankay Karpay transmits those light sources that help us find our way on Pachamama. This path does not have to be the path of a healer – it is about your path.
The Ll’ankay Karpay once again strengthens the two previous Karpays and harmonizes our actions. It enables our ability to act in daily life and empowering us in harmony with mental clarity, unconditional love and self-love.
