Juan Ñuñez del Prado and his son Ivan are Master teachers of Andean Cosmology. Juan is an Anthropologist and with his father, discovered the long lost Qero civilization in the 1950’s. Juan studied directly with the Qero, and he is one of the few living keepers of this ancient wisdom. Both father and son are passionate about teaching people to live more empowered lives. Their teachings are directly from direct experience with the Andean wisdom keepers.

We will have a free meet and greet evening so that you can get to know these wonderful teachers. This is a free event. Please bring food to share for a potluck dinner. Bring all your questions about their lineage, knowledge and about the Andean path. It’s a wonderful time to get to know these wonderful master teachers of the Andean lineage.

I will provide drinks, silverware, plates and cups. Please bring food to share that corresponds to your last name:

A-J Main Dish

K-R Salad or Vegetable Dish

S-Z Dessert

Where: at my home 2175 Elkhorn Rd. Castroville, CA 95012

Call with questions 831-206-9291

Enjoy Spring full moon, and celebrate the Spring equinox with a special Andean Despacho Ceremony. We will gather under the energy of the full moon to put in our wishes and desires for the upcoming year. and connect with Mama Killa ( the moon) and each other in ceremony. This full moon kicks off both Spring and the Equinox season. It’s a potent time to do ceremony together, as in a group we bring in more energy for change. This full moon is also about our relationships. Are all your relationships with others in harmony? Let’s sit in ceremony together and bring Ayni ( sacred reciprocity) to ourselves and others in our lives.

All are welcome , so feel free to invite anyone who may benefit.

Donation event for supplies.

Text me for directions ahead of time 831-206-9291

Equinox ceremony is at my home: 2175 Elkhorn Rd. Castroville, CA 95012

Come and celebrate the full moon with an Andean Fire Ceremony. Fire is a great way to gather and connect with Mama Killa ( the moon) and each other in ceremony. We will be outside. It gets cold at night. Bring lots of layers and a drum or rattle.

All are welcome at the fire, so feel free to invite anyone who may benefit.

Free event. Rain will cancel

Text me for directions ahead of time 831-206-9291

Fire ceremony is at 2175 Elkhorn Rd. Castroville, CA 95012

For this winter solstice, I would be honored if you would join me in a haywayrikay ( despacho ceremony).

Despachos are a beautiful way of setting the tone for what it is that we want for the upcoming year. In the act of honoring all that is part of the Kawsay ( living energy), we bring our world into a place of blessings and harmony.

This year I want to bring an open heart to our work together. Build community together. As we build community we are also building a Spiritual family together where we can support each other, and be supported by the biggest Spirit - the Pachamama ( Mother Earth. I would be honored if you can be a part of this family.

This ceremony is appropriate for everyone. After the ceremony we will have a healthy potluck . Please bring healthy food to share.

Afterwards we will have an impromptu fire ceremony to burn the despacho offering.

Donation event.

Ancestors live within us and our DNA. They have influenced us and informed us, even if we aren't conscious of their presence. When we honor them and honor how they lived on this Earth, they stop being able to live inside us. This frees us up to live the life of our own choosing. Plase join me in honoring our ancestors, both living and dead, by decorating sugar skulls. 

After the decorating, we will sit in ceremony together. Honoring the ancestors as a group. 

I'll supply the paint, and the skulls. I ask for a $10 donation for supplies. Please bring a favorite food of your ancestors to share with both them and for the group, or bring flowers, or other objects your ancestors would like.

Once we finish our skulls, we will have a little ceremony to Honor the Day of the Dead.. RSVP to Lorraine Stern via text 831-206-9291.

This is a kid friendly and family event. If the weather permits, we will also have a fire ceremony for the Full moon Eclipse. In this way we will let go of any denseness from our ancestry and from ourselves. It has been getting cold outside, so bring warm layers, if you’d like to have fire ceremony. Those just coming to the fire ceremony, we will start at 7:15 roughly.

The Wild Woman Circle is for women to come together in ritual, ceremony and dance to express the wild part of each of us that is connected to all things in nature including our own bodies..

Each of us has that native, embodied wisdom—a wild, untamed, undomesticated body-mind and heart that knows what is true for us. Each looks and feels different for each woman, and no two are ever alike.

Many of us yearn to be more full, more embodied, more connected to ourselves and to others.

Through exercises, movement, dance and connection you will discover how you want to express and experience a deepening of your relationship to yourself and those around you.

For this first gathering, we will meet for tea, movement, and heart work. Free event for women only.

Please join in a relaxing evening of sound bath healing.The sound of the singing bowls and tuning forks will bring you into a deep relaxed state and facilitate altered states of consciousness. Allowing one to access information within their body and subconscious. 

Simmy will be your guide. She has been playing her singing bowls for 9 years. Come for a relaxing evening of healing and rejuvenation.

Donation event. Suggested donation $30-40

Space is limited to 10 people. Reserve a spot by texting or calling Lorraine at 831-206-9291

A despacho is a mandala that honors all of life. In the Andes there are hundreds of different types of despachos. No matter what type, they all are messengers of prayers to Spirit. In this class you will learn how to honor all aspects of life, and send prayers fir harmony in your life, and the life of your family and community. Juan and Ivan will teach you the basic Andean despacho format to bring change and connection into your life.

Cost for this class is $40. Includes all the ingredients needed for ceremony

Our hearts are beautiful things. We all need love. It’s sometimes hard to be in our hearts and not our heads when life gets difficult.

Cacao is a beautiful way to bring us all into our hearts and center us in love. It is a very heart opening substance.. Please join me for an evening of ceremony.

We will begin with a cacao ceremony and meditation. Once in our hearts, we will create a mandala to honor our hearts, ourselves and all of life. Together.

Please join me for this event to celebrate love and the light that is always there in our hearts. This is close to the solstice, and as we bring in the light of love into our hearts we will celebrate the return of the sun.

Cost of event $50/person or $75/couple ( 2 people)

For this months community event, it’s time to dance! Ecstatic dance helps us all to get out of our over-stressed heads, and into our bodies, where ease, grace and flow life. It’s also the Equinox, and a time where day and night are equal.

Many of you have meet my current helper Simmy. What most don’t know is that she was a big part of London’s music scene as a DJ and assisted in running the YouTube Channel ‘Deeper Vibrations’ which mainly focused on promoting bass music. She has put together a pre-recorded set that will get us all moving and connecting with ourselves. Although this set is prerecorded, Simmy has put a lot of time and effort into taking us all on a journey through music to connect with our bodies in a new way. Please arrive no later that 6pm for the dancing.

Please feel free to bring food to share. There will be plenty of strawberries and cheese! This event is suitable for all ages. All donations will go directly to Simmy to help her further her interest in Permaculture and the Pachamama.

Sacred Play in Quechua is Puklley. Traditionally the Andeans of Peru gather representations of what they would like to manifest. For example, if they wanted a new car, then they would either make, or bring a miniature car to the sacred play. Then with the miniature figurines, you would begin to pretend, just like we did when we were kids. This kind of pretending in sacred space, does lead to manifestation, in a really fun way!

We are going to combine this sacred play with music. We’ll have an ecstatic dance and ceremony to bring this new energy we want into our bodies. In addition we will also have live music to enhance our creativity and mood.. Let’s all manifest together in a sacred way!

Donation event. Snacks will be served. This is a kid friendly event.

Lunar Eclipses help us to look at those aspects of our lives that are in shadow. This particular eclipse will help us look at those areas. To help move and shift the energy we will dance first. Dancing is one of my favorite ways to get into my body, and it’s so much fun!

Once we shift the energy we’ll come inside to have an ayni despacho. Ayni is sacred reciprocity, and we will bring that in by honoring all of the Pachamama ( Mother Earth)

Then once the sun goes down we will finish off the day with a full moon fire ceremony to bring an alchemical change to our days gathering.

This is a donation event. Suggested donations re $20-$40.

All are welcome. Feel free to invite a friend or two.Snacks will be provided.

Please bring layers of clothing and a rattle or drum for the fire.

Come for one part or all 3

Dancing 5-7pm

Despacho ceremony 7-8pm

Fire ceremony 8-9:30pm

The equinox is a time of light and dark being equals. It’s a time for balance of inner and outer. Where the divine feminine and divine masculine within us can also balance. These opposites, light and dark, inner and outer, masculine and feminine create what is known as a Yanantin in Quechuan. Yanantin is an energy that is represented by harmonizing opposites. You can also think of it as Ying/Yang. They exist together, one inside another in harmony.

The moon is our connection to the divine feminine and who we are on the inside. When the moon is full it sheds a light on what is in the dark, Coupled with an equinox that is about balance, leads to an auspicious time to gather together for ceremony. Bringing harmony to our world, inside and out.

When we bring the light of the fire into our bodies, it gives us the energy to carry us forward. It’s an energy that is needed at this time.

Please dress warm, bring a rattle or drum if you have one. All are welcome. This is a free event, please do bring food to share for later.

2175 Elkhorn Rd Castroville, CA 95012

My driveway is a farm road. It is directly across from Russo Rd, and marked by 2 palm trees. Follow the driveway until you see the gathering of people near the fire pit. Call if you get lost. 831-206-9291

Saturday March 13th marks the return of our women’s circles.

We’ll begin with a tea social to reconnect again. Followed by some formal women’s practices like we’ve done together in the past.

RSVP by calling me/texting at 831-206-9291

At my home 2175 Elkhorn Rd. Castroville. Call if you need directions 831-206-9291. Adult Women of all ages are welcome. Class size is limited.

Circle is by donation $10-$30 suggested.

Love- We all need it. Especially in the last 2 years, as we have been more isolated from each other. Many of us haven’t spent much time in public or in groups. Humans are mammals, and we are wired for human connection.

Fear also takes us away from our hearts, and puts us in a place of not being able to connect

with others. This in turn affects our nervous systems and our whole bodies.

It’s time to come back down into our hearts and our bodies.

Please join me for a despacho ceremony with Karina Conchas Davalos to bring our hearts fully online in a loving way. The focus on this despacho will be to open up our hearts fully and invite love in. There will also be prayers added for rain. This will be over Zoom.

For a link please contact me at 831-206-9291 with your name and the event you’d like to attend.

Happy New Year!

2022 is a New Year and filled with infinite possibilities. When we gather in ceremony together and set intentions we bring those possibilities into manifestation.

Setting an intention is easy. It can be declaring how you want to feel in 6 months to a year. It is all about how you want to create your future in 2022.

When we gather together, we create intentions that are more powerful. and more profound. On Friday 7th of January at 6pm we will have a despacho ceremony for manifestation with Karina Davelos Concha. With the help of Karina we will blow those intentions into prayer leaves called Kintus. These prayer leaves will be nestled in a mandala to honor all of life on this Earth (including our guides and helpers). Once the mandala is made it is despached to Spirit by being burned in a fire.

Karina has been conducting rain ceremonies for California. Since we are in a rain cycle, it’s time to look within to what will bring us the most joy in 2022. To join me, send me a text or email, and I will send you the Zoom link,

831-206-9291

sternlorraine@gmail.com

This isa donation event. All proceeds go directly to Karina and the Qero community that she supports.

The weather has been beautiful lately, and although our last Zoom ceremony to bring in the rain was very successful, the water levels in the streams are still very low and our water table still needs more rain. I want to keep the energy going, and bring our underground water tables up to healthy levels.

In 2015-16, I invited 2 Paqos to perform ceremonies to bring the rain to our region. I remember…they arrived in November of 2015, every time they worked on a client, the rains started. I also noticed that they could do the same in ceremony.

One of those 2 women Paqos is no longer with us on this Earth, but Karina Davalos Concha is alive and well in Cusco Peru. She has agreed to lead us in another ceremony to bring rain to our area over Zoom.

Karina was born in Cusco and spent her early years living with her grand[parents and learning the traditional Quechuan ways. When she returned to Cusco, Karina began her training as a Paqo (ceremonialist) with kuraq Akuraks ( wisdom keepers) Don Manuel Quispe, Don Mariano Apaza, Don Umberto and Dona Bernardina.

Please join myself and Paqo Karina Davelos Concha as we call in the rain together over Zoom..

November 12th

Friday 6-7:30pm

Please send me a text at 831-206-9291 or an email sternlorraine@gmail.com for the link

This is a donation event, where all the proceeds go directly to Karina and the indigenous Qero that she assists.

Many of us are getting stuck in fear, or grief from these crazy times.

How do we navigate this with grace and ease? The only way I can begin to navigate all that is going on in the world is to come down into my heart. Once I come down into my own heart, I can come down into the stillness of my heart, and I can find peace within myself. From this place of peace I can navigate the world from a calm and centered place.

My wish for you today is the gift of stillness.  We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us so that they may see, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

Sometimes it helps to have a guide to find quiet in the eye of a storm.

Journeying is the way home to your heart, to stillness, to the happiness and infinite that resides within.

No matter what is happening in the world around us, we can reign the chaos into calm, the anxiety into joy, and the fear into love. 

Everyone has their own map, their own set of keys to the sacred, and it may not always be the same. Sometimes we need a locksmith to help us get through the door of our heart. 

Spend time with me in person or over Zoom, learning how to journey into the temples of the heart.and to the place of stillness that resides within all of us.

Cost $20

Contact me at 831-206-9291 to register. In person classes are limited to 6 people total.

This weeks class will be about moving to what we are feeling. We’ll connect with all our emotions and how they are reflected in our bodies, Moving to whatever we are feeling- or not feeling. The last half of the class will be about resetting our bodies with love, and bring self love into our lives.

Releasing old patterns of tension, gives room for the body to be able to manifest new possibilities.

By connecting with what is going on internally, the NLMM helps us to move out old patterns, and release them through the body. IT helps us become current with out emotions and what is going on in our lives. We are able to connect with the innate wisdom of our bodies.

NLMM helps to smooth out our nervous system and unwinds mental loops, and body tension, which in turn calms the nervous system and lowers stress.

As patterns are released, the mind relaxes and emotions have a pathway to come to the surface and be released.

Trauma and old patterns sometimes get “frozen” in the body, and this method helps to unfreeze the old patterns of tension, so the trauma can gently be relaxed and the body can relax and recalibrate.

Over time the body gets to be more sensitized which leads to greater sensations, sexual energy and body wisdom.

What to bring to the Zoom class:

Wear comfortable clothes, and have a towel, blanket or yoga mat handy. It’s helpful to have a water bottle, and tissues available.

Please register and pay below

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The link will be emailed out to you on Friday evening. I manually do this so, please do contact me if you haven’t received confirmation. 831-206-9291

Cost $10