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EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Course

Emotional Freedom Technique, EFT (or often referred to as tapping) is an evidence based technique used to release physical pain, negative emotions, limiting beliefs, food cravings, fears, phobias, childhood traumas, anxiety, stress, and the list goes on!

The course will include the following:

  • Introduction to EFT: An overview of EFT, including what it is and how it works
  • Tapping basics: How to perform EFT tapping, including the tapping sequence and key points
  • Practitioner basics: How to apply EFT tapping as a practitioner
  • EFT energy: How EFT energy tapping works
  • Clinical applications: How to apply EFT tapping in a clinical setting
  • Evaluation: How to evaluate the effectiveness of EFT tapping
  • Client plans: How to create EFT tapping plans for clients

13th Rite of the womb / womb healing


There is a lineage of women who freed themselves from suffering. This lineage of women wants us to remember: The womb is not a place to store fear and pain; the womb is to create and give birth to life.


The Rite of the Womb was bestowed by the Spirit of the Amazon jungle to a lady shaman who would be responsible of sharing it. This gift of healing and life belongs to all women in the world. Together we are the lineage that remembers we did not come to suffer in this life, but to be creators of our deepest longings and destinies.


The Rite of the Womb is a very powerful and loving energy transmission that supports “Womb-Healing” and restores us back to natural health and balance. It is a blessing for the Womb, our sacred place of creation. This Rite is for both Women and Men!


There are many reasons why “Womb Healing” is needed by so many of us. We are “shaped” in the womb and whatever “fears and/or negative experiences” our Mother experienced and felt during pregnancy, we are holding in our energy bodies from that time. In addition to this and since birth, many have had negative sexual experiences, sexual abuse or violation, ailments, chronic illness and/or dis-ease, have menstrual pain or irregularities, experienced infertility, miscarriages, abortion, birth challenges, fibroid, endometriosis, etc. and/or had a hysterectomy. In later years, there is the menopause that many have difficulty with!


By receiving the Rite of the Womb – a divine energy available to us now, you allow yourself an opportunity to heal and restore your physical body, change the negative conditioning, belief systems and parent imprinting, alter the ancestral bloodline and face the many fears holding you back. This is a process of metamorphosis that allows for rebirth – an opportunity to galvanize a new way forward as you create what you want for your life with meaningful relationships and abundance and your own journey to self-love and self-empowerment.


Can men do this? Men can do the Rite of the Womb if they have to connect and learn from the Devine Mother and change a distorted mother blueprint.

Book with us to receive the rite of the womb or if you just need womb healing

Nusta Karpay – Seven goddess initiation rites

Welcome to the journey of completeness and unity which reconnects you to your own heart frequency and to our great Mother Earth, Pachamama. This life-changing journey enables you to return into unity and alignment with the primal source of our planet. In essence, we humans are the caretakers of the land and it is our birth-right and responsibility to fully return into balance with and optimally resonate with Pachamama and her primordial forces. When we are in harmony with the Pachamama our sense of self expands, and we find it easier to surf the rough waters we sometimes find in our lives.

The Nusta Karpay (pronounced nwee-sta kar-pie) are Quechua words meaning Goddess Initiations. These special, beautiful and authentic initiations have spread around the World. The Nustas are the Goddesses of the mountains (Apus) and waters along the highlands of Peru and Bolivia.  The Nusta Karpay are therefore the initiations of the Seven Andean Goddesses from the Incan shamanic tradition.

Handed Down

Recently, signs from the Apus and from ancestral prophecies handed down within the lineage of healer-mystics converged into a single message: It is time to share the ceremonies and teachings. Our survival as the human children of Pachamama depends upon restoring sacred reciprocity, ayni, and a living balance of the forces of life in our world.

The deceptively simple, yet immensely powerful practices of the Andes, transcend cultural differences between the Andean and Western worlds. As skills and abilities expand, we find a heart opening into an awareness of being part of the living universe, moving into a sense of alignment with the natural forces of earth. The practices preserved and kept alive in the remote villages now offer the possibility of transforming our relationship with ourselves, with each other and with the fast-paced modern world in which we live.

Sacred Princesses and Goddesses

In the Andean spiritual tradition, the Ñustas are the Princesses and Goddesses and Sacred Archetypal Feminine Energies of Nature, born of the great mountains (Apus) and sacred lakes along the highlands of Peru and Bolivia. They are also connected to other waters and mountains on our planet. In the Quechua language of the Andes, the word Karpay means a rite or ceremony of initiation. Thus, the Ñusta Karpay are the initiation rites of the Seven Andean Goddesses from the Incan shamanic tradition. These special, beautiful and authentic initiations are currently spreading around the world.

Seeds of Light

Now is the time for great transformation and balance for humans to bring healing to Mother Earth (Pachamama). The Ñustas help immensely with this balance. The intent of the Ñusta Karpay is to soften the hearts of both men and women and to help empower women. The seven initiations transmit seeds of light to balance the feminine and masculine energies within oneself. As we heal and balance the Divine Feminine within ourselves, so do we help to heal Pachamama.

The rites are given as energetic seeds of the Feminine Goddess Archetypes and transmitted into our seven chakras and luminous energy fields. The chakras are like the organs of our luminous energy field, and hold all our histories, as well as our light and our shadow pieces. During initiation, we begin to stir the contents of our chakras, bringing to the surface parts of ourselves not yet healed or honored. We feel the impact of the Ñusta immediately, but as with the cycles of the moon and the cycles in nature, her alchemy works in cycles through us. The Ñustas have gentle yet powerful energy; to deeply heal and restore the balance of feminine within us.

The Ñusta Karpay are open to all and are available to everyone regardless of their spiritual orientation. They are not only for those who have apprenticed in the Andean or other ancient spiritual traditions. They are for those who wish to heal the Divine Feminine within themselves, and carry that healing into the world, and for those who wish to bring greater peace and unity to our planet.

Gift of the Q’ero

The Ñusta Karpay were gifted to us from the Andean Q’ero medicine women and men of Peru, via Don Mariano Quispe in 2010. The Q’ero medicine men and women understood that the surest way to bring harmony and balance back to Mother Earth, and to bring ourselves into Right Relationship with her and the sacred feminine was by gifting these ancient rites to re-introduce and elevate the Divine Feminine to her rightful place.

The rich array of practices that have been preserved and kept alive in the remote villages of the high mountains of the Andes offer the possibility of transforming our relationship with ourselves, with each other and with the fast-paced modern world in which we live.

You will notice that when you commit to the workshop, the Nusta begin to work within you.  Be alert to their conversation through your dreams, visions and experiences with nature. You may even notice that you receive a new spirit guide, to guide and assist you with this new leg of your journey.

The Goddesses and The Rites and Benefits

The following introduces each of the seven Goddesses and the benefits and energies associated with their rites.

Mama Ocllo

  • She is the daughter of Father Sun and Mother Earth and originates from Lake Titicaca.
  • She is the Earth Goddess
  • Great Mother of all Goddesses and
  • the Goddess of Wisdom.
  • The essence of Mama Ocllo is to ground us in our center and find our inner sanctity.
  • This rite heals our female power and restores balance.
  • This rite prepares us to receive the initiations from the other rites, as it opens our chakras and connects us with a luminous spiral of light from root to crown.
  • During this rite we receive the seeds of light in each of our chakras. These seeds are connected to the seven shamanic archetypes through seven stones.

Benefits: Increased vitality, passion and physical security. Helps overcome hostility, anxiety, depression and lack of confidence in one’s future.

Doña Mujia

  • The Goddess of Water. Mujia means mermaid and represents the spirit of the water.
  • Her energy is about letting go.
  • This initiation helps us release the negative aspects of our ego and opens you to the concept of selfless union with others.
  • It assists in releasing connections to roles while inviting us to transform roles into positive interactions.
  • This is a Flowering rite: the tools used for this initiation are flowers and water.

Benefits: Clears emotions and feelings, trusting, faith. Helps release jealousy, resentfulness, loneliness, and shyness.

Mama Simone

  • The Goddess of our ancestors.
  • Connecting with the ancient feminine lineage, the ancestors, connecting with our roots, coming home to find self.
  • This rite enables us to connect not only with Mother Earth, but also to achieve a deeper connection with ourselves and with the land we call home.

Benefits: Self-esteem, positive self-image, personal power, independence, happiness, in touch with one’s gift, alignment with cosmic personal path. Releases dependency, lack of confidence, self-condemnation, hostility, aggression.

Doña Teresa

  • She is the Goddess of harmony and softness, connected to our souls, associated with the heart shaped mountain near Apu Ausengate in Peru.
  • This rite opens our hearts to all that is.
  • It clears the energy around our hearts so that we may experience our emotions purely without judgment and see life with clarity through the eyes of our hearts.

Benefits: Loving, caring, generous, selfless, healing, nurturing, balanced, discerning; releasing indecision, paranoia, criticalness, manic depression, moodiness, co-dependency.

Maria Sakapana

  • Spiral of the Wind
  • She is the Goddess of Communication
  • She is associated with the two physical locations: Bolivia/Peru altiplano, near Lake Titicaca and a location between Q’eros Nation and Apu Asusungate. These are the places where the paqos (Inca shamans/priests) and others go to open up and clear their fifth chakra to speak their truth.
  • This rite invites us to release all that holds us back from speaking our truths and eases the way into our True Self. This is a deeply cleansing rite.

Benefits: Good communication and expression; creativity, inspiration, contentedness, living in the present; harmonious, intuition, vision, clarity of thoughts and emotions, releasing poor communication, inability to express thoughts, fear, and timidity.

Huana Huaman Tikkla

  • Connection to the Falcon Temple/the Temple of Clear Vision. This is the journey we take to gain clarity and to do our deep visionary work.
  • With this rite we are connected to the spirits of the Falcon, Hawk, Eagle, Owl and Condor to assist us in understanding life with clarity and with a higher perspective. All of these are considered feminine characteristics.
  • This rite is an energetic transmission for the opening of our third eye, inner vision, and the way to connect with the spirit realm.
  • The tool for this rite is one of your favourite items that symbolize vision, perspective and seeing’.

Benefits: Integrated life, light energy, higher consciousness knowledge, connection to source, grounded in life’s purpose, releasing confusion and fogginess, reconnection to or lessening feelings of disconnection.

Tomasa Huaman Tikkla

  • Sister of Huana Huaman Tikkla, they reside together.
  • The Goddess of Freedom.
  • This is the rite of transformation; it opens your crown chakra connecting you to your True Self.

Benefits: This rite is the integration of all the foregoing Ñustas and their blessings, connecting us to the seven sisters, the seven stars of the Pleiades.

Adapted from the teachings of don Mariano Quispe Flores

Book now to receive your Nusta Karpay shamanic rites:

The 9 rites of the Munay-ki shamanism

Based on initiatory practices of the shamans of the Andes and the Amazon, the Munay-Ki is made up of nine rites of initiation to become a person of wisdom and power. They are energetic transmissions that heal the wounds of the past—the genetic and karmic inheritance we are born with. They transform and upgrade the luminous energy field and re-inform our DNA, enabling us to grow a new body that ages, heals, and dies differently.

The Nine Rites:

The Munay-Ki Initiation consists of 3 different types of Rites, the Foundation Rites, the Lineage Rites and the Rites to come.

The Founders Rites consist of:

  1. The healer’s rite.
  2. Bands of power rite.
  3. Harmony rite.
  4. Seer’s rite.

The Lineage Rites consists of:

  1. Daykeeper’s rite.
  2. Wisdomkeepers’s rite.
  3. Earthkeeper’s rite.

The Rites to Come consists of:

  1. Starkeeper’s rite.
  2. Creator’s rite.

We at Ad Astra healing can perform these initiations and since it is energetic transmissions, you can receive them here at our premises or in the comfort of your own home.

All you need if you are requiring an online initiation is a quiet space and internet connection.

You can book the course on our website

You are also welcome to contact Elsonia on 066 229 9666

Surgery and chemist

Sangoma surgery, chemist and training facility.

Welcome to our world of sangomas. We offer a safe space for you to experience the world of spiritual healing in the true traditional african style.

Aya has been a spiritual healer and teacher for many years. Due to her interactions with over a 1000 customers, she realized that there is a need for spiritual people to be able to follow their calling with a flexible time schedule. We are mothers, fathers and we need to be able to do our full time job.

TDR Gogo Elsonia would love to welcome you into her wonderful Indumba.

We offer a number of services. Our chemist is stocked with wonderful freshly milled muthi for easy use. We have over a hundred different muthi’s to choose from.

We offer the following services:

  • Ditaola Reading
  • Consultation
  • Water rituals
  • Mountain rituals
  • Futa
  • Femba
  • Bath rituals
  • Steam rituals
  • Smoke rituals
  • Training
  • Aything else you may require

Book a remote healing session

Remote Sessions Available

Many people world- wide who do not have physical access to holistic healing.

We are able to perform a range of remote healing and counselling services to assist with wellness and help alleviate anxiety, depression and the stresses of isolation and loneliness, as well as from being confined with people for long periods.

We have provided successful phone, Whatsapp and Skype sessions for remote customers, locally as well as overseas.

Energy is everywhere. This means we can send energy anywhere. It is always great and easier when a person is here with us, but we are able to feel the energy of anybody anywhere. We can check your chakras, send healing and work on any emotional issues you might have. With the emotional issues, all we need is interaction with you. You will need to perform certain actions on your own body during the session, as we can’t physically touch you.

We have also done remote regressions successfully.

All you need:

  1. Your Phone,
    Whatsapp or Skype
  2. You need to be comfortable. When we
    do healing and regressions, you need to lie down in a quiet place where you
    will not be disturbed.

If you wish to book a remote session, please go to our remote session page select the option and indicate what you need from the session.

Reiki for Stroke Patients

How Can Reiki Help?

Reiki may be helpful to stroke patients in a variety of ways. Some of the potential benefits of Reiki treatments for stroke patients include:

Reduced Anxiety and Stress

Strokes are a life-changing experience. In the aftermath of this distressing event, people often feel overwhelmed and anxious. Not only do they worry that they may experience another stroke in the future, but they also feel stressed and inpatient as they face months or even years of recovery. Reiki can reduce these negative feelings, allowing the client to relax and focus more energy on recovery.

Improved Balance of the Mind and Emotions

Stroke patients may experience strong emotions during recovery, both as a result of the trauma they have experienced, as well as any damage that was done to the brain’s limbic system during the stroke. Receiving regular Reiki treatments can help to balance the patient’s emotions and reduce mood swings.

Faster, More Complete Recovery

Reiki may boost the client’s immune system and natural ability to heal. This may speed a stroke patient’s recovery and improve the effectiveness of other treatments, such as physical therapy.

Decreased Sensations of Pain

Rehabilitation and physical therapy can be painful for stroke patients. Muscles can become sore and tired, causing patients to feel discouraged. Reiki may help to reduce the pain experienced by patients in therapy, which leads to improved patient comfort and better compliance with the physical therapist’s instructions.

Better Patient Outlook

As Reiki restores a client’s emotional balance, reduces stress and boosts the immune system, the patient’s outlook on his or her future may also improve.

Is Reiki Safe for Stroke Patients?

Reiki is a non-invasive treatment that involves no tissue manipulation, tools or pressure on the client’s body. Because it can be performed with only light touch or no physical contact at all, Reiki is generally considered safe for stroke patients, even immediately after the stroke has occurred. In fact, some Reiki practitioners believe that Reiki will be more effective for clients who have suffered strokes if they begin treatment as soon as possible after the event. Nonetheless, stroke patients should talk to their doctor before beginning Reiki treatments to discuss if they should or can be included in their healing plan.

Patient Stories

At the time of publication, there haven’t been many research studies conducted with the goal of exploring the relationship between Reiki and stroke patient recovery. However, many stroke patients who have undergone Reiki sessions have reported that they found the treatment helpful. For example, one stroke patient reported that, after a stroke left her paralyzed on the left side of her body, a single Reiki treatment administered in the hospital helped her to move the fingers on her left hand for the first time since coming to the emergency room. The patient was impressed with the results of the treatment, so she continued Reiki sessions after returning home. She believes that these sessions, along with traditional rehab, led to a complete physical recovery.

Another stroke patient reported that Reiki was a helpful addition to her treatment regimen even years after her stroke. Prior to beginning Reiki sessions, the patient had participated in many other types of therapy, but she had never fully recovered from the effects of her stroke. After participating in only a few Reiki sessions, the patient reported feeling more balanced, energized and coordinated than she had since the event occurred.

Reiki and Stroke Prevention

In addition to helping stroke patients recover, Reiki may also be helpful in preventing strokes among people who are at high risk for developing blood clots. According to the CDC, the blood clots that cause strokes are more likely to occur among patients with heart disease, high cholesterol or diabetes. Because Reiki promotes the body’s own ability to heal itself, it may aid in the treatment of some of the conditions that can lead to a stroke. Furthermore, since high blood pressure is another known contributor to the development of strokes, Reiki may also help prevent this condition by reducing stress levels and lowering a client’s blood pressure.

Cancer and Reiki

How can Reiki help cancer patients

Reiki, a stress reduction and relaxation technique, has become a subject of curiosity for cancer patients everywhere. Studies and anecdotal evidence has shown that, in addition to promoting relaxation among patients, Reiki can also be used to encourage healing and provide other benefits. In fact, some studies have even explored the effect of Reiki on patients who are undergoing cancer treatment concurrently. These studies have found that, although Reiki is not a substitute for other cancer treatments, it may enhance these treatments and offer a number of benefits to patients as they deal with the symptoms and stresses of cancer.

People who practice Reiki understand that pain and illness in the body are exemplified by blocked energy pathways. The goal of Reiki treatments is to strengthen the flow of energy through these blocked or disturbed pathways, thus decreasing pain and enhancing the body’s natural ability to fight illnesses and heal itself.

For cancer patients, Reiki may be able to help reduce pain associated with the progression of the disease. It can also reduce some of the uncomfortable symptoms patients commonly experience during cancer treatment, such as anxiety, weakness and nausea. Furthermore, Reiki can also improve the patient’s emotional health and outlook, which may increase the patient’s ability and willingness to comply with physician’s instructions and adhere to treatment protocols.

Reiki changes your life with love

Reiki changes your life with Love.
Reiki profoundly changes your life. Not only have I experienced the wonderful events brought on by the unconditional love of the universe in myself, but I have witnessed it in others too. No one will deny the humbling power of the universal energy that celebrates our connection to everything around us, however too often we impose crippling restrictions and limitations onto ourselves due to our fears; of failure, abandonment, pain or even success. Reiki can diminish and destroy these fears. It can highlight our connection and our love to ourselves, our planet and our universe.