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THE MUNAY-KI FIRE CEREMONY
The transformational fire ceremony is a key
practice of the Munay Ki. Bringing in the light and warmth of the fire germinates the seeds that have been received
in the LEF (Luminous Energy Field).
1. Prepare a place that is quiet and calm and either place light a candle or candles
or prepare a bonfire by starting with sticks in the form of the southern cross and creating a “log cabin” with
kindling and any number of logs.
2. Open your personal sacred space by bringing your hands together over your head and
pulling them apart all around you as to create a protective bubble around you, and create the Sacred Space by calling in the
four directions, the earth, and the heavens.
See Creating Sacred Space and Prayer for Sacred Space.
3. Prepare yourself to do sacred work - take a few deep breaths to release the everyday
world and allow yourself to drop into the vibration of the sacred rite you have recieved.
4. Looking into the fire with a soft gaze, use your hands to draw the energy of the
flame into your body. Draw the energy of fire into your heart, your chakras, or any area of the body that is associated with
the rite you are working with.
5. Pause for a moment and allow the light and warmth of the fire to penetrate into your
being. Invite spirit to germinate the seeds to release their power and beauty. Spend the time that feels appropriate
to you.
6. Close the personal sacred space, and the directions, earth, and heavens using the
same prayer as the opening. 7. Put out the fire if you are working with a candle or candles, or
let the bonfire burn down naturally.
CREATING SACRED SPACE
Shamans always
begin healing ceremonies by opening sacred space. In this space we leave behind the affairs of ordinary life, the bustling
world of meetings and schedules, and prepare to meet the divine. Sacred space allows us to enter our quiet inner world where
healing takes place. Within sacred space our burdens become lighter, and we can be touched by the hand of Spirit. After we
finish our healing work, sacred space must be closed by again acknowledging the four directions, Heaven, and Earth.
Sacred space
is a healing sphere that is pure, holy and safe. I imagine it as a shimmering cupola above the area where I do my healing
work. Everyone within this space is protected. Sacred space creates an environment where our defenses can be lowered, where
we can explore our soft, tender underbelly. Sacred space also gives us access to the luminous healer-the medicine men and
women who assist us form the Spirit world.
You can create
sacred space and summon the healing power of nature anywhere on Earth. You can use it while your own prayer reveals itself
to you.
The shaman’s
covenant with Spirit is that when she calls, Spirit answers. Powerful medicine people from the Spirit world appear in the
form of luminous beings who assist us in our healing work.
You can employ
a smudge stick of sage or a little scented water if you like. Shamans throughout the Americas accompany their prayer by fanning
smoldering sage or incense with a feather in the appropriate direction they are addressing, or holding their hand up to the
sky and saluting each cardinal point. You will need to determine the points; ideally this is done with a compass, but a close
approximation based on your knowledge of the landscape is fine.
Begin by facing
South. Smudge or blow the scented water to the South, then hold up your hand, palm facing out. Recite the first verse, calling
upon serpent. Face each direction in turn as you repeat the process. Touch the Earth and look to the Heavens when directing
your prayers there. You close sacred space by thanking serpent, jaguar, hummingbird, and eagle. Release their energies and
allow them to return to the four corners of the Earth. To connect with the energy of one of the directions, do not close that
direction. Instead call on that archetype to enter you and accompany you on your path. (I do this by turning to the East,
for example, and instead of closing that direction I blow the spirit of that archetype into my client’s crown chakra.
I imagine the spirit of eagle entering them and informing their lives.) Then thank Mother Earth and Father Sky.
PRAYER FOR CREATING SACRED
SPACE
To the winds
of the South
Great serpent,
Wrap your coils of light around us,
Teach us to shed the past the way you shed your
skin,
To walk softly on the Earth. Teach us the Beauty Way.
To the winds
of the West
Mother jaguar,
Protect our medicine space.
Teach us the way of peace, to live impeccably
Show us
the way beyond death.
To the winds
of the North.
Hummingbird, Grandmothers and Grandfathers,
Ancient Ones
Come and warm your hands by our fires
Whisper
to us in the wind
We honor you who have come before us,
And you who will come after us, our children’s children.
To the winds
of the East.
Great eagle, condor
Come to us from the place of the rising Sun.
Keep us under your wing.
Show us
the mountains we only dare to dream of.
Teach us to fly wing to wing with the Great Spirit.
Mother Earth.
We’ve gathered for the healing of all your children.
The Stone People, the Plant People.
The four-legged,
the two-legged, the creepy crawlers.
The finned, the furred, and the winged ones.
All our relations.
Father Sun, Grandmother Moon, to the Star nations.
Great
Spirit, you who are known by a thousand names
And you who are the unnamable One.
Thank you for bringing us together
And allowing us to sing the Song of Life.
FEEDING THE BANDS
OF POWER
The Bands of Power require
very little maintenance or attention, but it can be helpful to remember them from time to time and strengthen them with your
intent and ritual. Hear is one suggestion:
When you are
working with earth, for example gardening or caring for your plants, or admiring mountains or buildings, imagine some of that
earth energy feeding your black band and you can use your hands to ritually draw the energy toward the band around your 1st
and 2nd chakras.
Do the same
for each band. When you are bathing or admiring an ocean, river, lake, snow or
rain, feed the red band around your 3rd chakra.
When you are
basking in the sun, draw some of the energy into the gold band around your 4th chakra.
When you are
feeling a breeze or wind, or admiring a silvery moonlit night, allow some of it to feed the silver band around your 5th
chakra.
When you are
in a spiritual place such a church, temple, ashram, or meditating in front of your own altar or in nature, allow some of that
pure spirit energy to feed the white band around your 6th chakra.
When you are full of laughter
and joy, allow some of that energy to feed the rainbow fountain that weaves all of the bands and threads together.
TIGHTENING THE BANDS OF POWER
There is a secret ritual
that allows us to tighten the bands of power so that they are completely impenetrable for 3 to 4 days making you invisible
to all energy, even death itself. This is an extreme measure that should be reserved
for truly significant and unavoidable battles and/or life or death situations. It
is not healthy in the long term, nor is it necessary under most circumstances, to be completely armored in this way for more
than a few days. The ceremony must be conducted by a fully initiated shaman with
all 13 stones in her/his mesa. Otherwise it must be conducted simultaneously
by enough shamans to total 13 stones in all of their mesa together. The ritual
ceremony is called the Kuti in Quechua and as with all shaman work, can be conducted non-locally.
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