Pilgrimage to Tepoznieves
TBD in 2022
Join your guides Lety and Tamarack on a 10-day adventure off the beaten track through central Mexico. Explore the portal between life and death. Witness the interweaving of dream and waking life. Experience deep-rooted connection between people and land. See reflections of your own roots, relationships, and cultural heritage. Taste the sacred.
Where: Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Amatlán de Quetzalcóatl, Tepoztlán, and—the premier ice cream parlor of the galaxy—Tepoznieves.
When: January 26 – February 4, 2021
How Much: TBD March 2020. Cost to include all meals, lodging, entry fees, and ground transportation.
For Whom: You, the pilgrim.
Itinerary: TBD March 2020.
Organizers: Lety Seibel and Tamarack Song of the Healing Nature Center, Three Lakes WI.
A pilgrimage is defined as a journey to a sacred place. Beginning and ending in Mexico City, this journey winds first through the City of Eternal Spring: Cuernavaca. Dripping with flowers year-round, the city supports a vibrant art and performance colony. The Castle of Cortez, once the seat of government for New Spain, anchors the central square.
Sacred steps lead onward to Amatlán, the birthplace of the winged serpent-warrior Quetzalcóatl, who brought the vision of a new life to the people of central Mexico. Tepoztlán awaits; it is the spiritual epicenter of central Mexico. In this village nestled amongst legend-steeped mountains, the dead are served at the dinner table; and the wild, indigenous past continues to blossom. A taste of Tepoznieves, Tepoztlán’s fabled ice cream parlor, puts the cherry on top.
Depth of experience
Your guides, Lety and Tamarack, work as cultural mediums who take you deep into the marrow of a people, their relationship with place, and their place with the Ancestors. They lead you to see from your heart. Lety and Tamarack’s narration, grounded in local knowledge, keeps you mindfully immersed in the world you have entered. Throughout the Pilgrimage, they conduct conscious breathing and movement exercises that enrich your experience by keening your senses, enlivening your mind, and expanding possibilities.
Meet Your Guides
Lety Seibel and Tamarack Song are a couple who bring a multi-cultural perspective to this pilgrimage. Lety grew up in central Mexico and spent years living in Cuernavaca, where her mother and sister still reside. Lety carries Mayan, Cantonese, Spanish, and West African lineages; and Tamarack brings Mountain Israelite, Baltic, Venetian, and Black Forest traditions. Lety, who was trained by her revered Mayan Curandera grandmother, has a presence that alone can open the portal to the Original Instructions. Tamarack has published a dozen books that unwrap our primal culture.
Make Your Reservation
Call the Healing Nature Center at 715-546-8080 or e-mail healingnaturetrail@gmail.com for more information.
The story of a pilgrim:
Read this story from someone who recently accompanied Lety and Tamarack on the pilgrimage. Please note that others have narratives different from this one, and you would also if you were to walk in their footsteps.