This is an adventure that nobody regrets. It’s how your personal story is transformed into a mythic tale of courage, truth, and an honouring of the Self at the deepest level.
Becoming Luminous:
3-month inner journey of personal transformation through the teachings and energy practices of the Andean tradition
Who are we and what is truly possible when we liberate ourselves from the stories and the masks we’ve created in order to feel safe, loved, and accepted? What voice is longing to be heard, and what capacities are ready to be awakened? What happens when we connect with our own inner medicine and restore our wholeness from the inside out?
This 3-month journey of healing, discovery and empowerment takes us into the realm of the light body, spiralling into the heart of our humanness, where the luminous Self (our Inka seed) resides - always ready to be expressed through us. The program weaves together foundational teachings and energy practices from the Andean mystical tradition, powerful energy healing activations and a wealth of incredible, life-changing practices for you to experience, explore and integrate into your personal medicine toolkit.
This work is about becoming empowered as energy artists, visionaries and conscious co-creators so we can fully embody the most luminous version of ourselves.
If you are ready to take the next leap on your journey of personal evolution, and to experience the freedom and joy that comes when we are living in alignment with the heart of who we are, then this invitation is for you.
In the first half of the journey (Weeks 1-8), you will be guided and supported through a gentle but powerful process of recapitulation and personal alchemy, focusing on specific energy centres. Working with foundational practices from the Andean tradition, you will work towards transforming and releasing heavy or slow energy in your field and bringing your whole being into a state of coherence. Through guided liminal journeys, you will connect with your inner medicine and discover new perspectives about your life and to see where and how you give your power away, and be supported in holding a space of radical compassion for all you are. During this stage, we are invited to ‘make peace with our past’, working to release energetic cords that have disempowered and depleted us.
At the mid-way point (Week 9) we take time for deep rest, solitude, introspection, and integration. We create personal ritual to acknowledge the experiences of our life. We forge a new connection with our luminous Self. We make space for a new story to emerge.
The second half (Weeks 10-15) takes us through a process of deep nourishment and empowerment as we experience and work with the medicine of the awakened heart, weaving and embodying our luminous essence through the layers of the light body. We move through an energetic process of unfolding, allowing our gifts and capacities to be revealed to us as a new story begins to emerge effortlessly through us - a story aligned with the heart of who we are.
Finally, we celebrate. We come together in community to honour our journeys and each other. We offer the energy of our awakened hearts to the world. We set new intentions in ceremony and offer our gratitude for all we have received – preparing ourselves to welcome all that is yet to come.
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This program offers you an initiation into a truly beautiful, luminous path of personal conscious evolution. Whether you decide to devote yourself to the Andean path or not, the teachings offered will deepen your personal practice, support and complement other inner work and/or healing you might be doing, and provide you with a powerful toolkit for navigating the human experience. This program is about taking the next leap in your personal journey of conscious evolution and requires that you take personal responsibility for your journey.
There are no prerequisites or requirements, other than openness, curiosity and commitment. The more you put in, the more you will get out of what is being offered to you.
You will be introduced to, and guided in working with the core teachings and foundational energy practices of the Andean medicine tradition. This tradition has been passed down through lineages of Inca wisdomkeepers and master practitioners from the high mountains in Peru. I have been trained extensively to practice and teach this work by my primary teacher, Joan Parisi Wilcox, and my other teachers Don Juan Nunez del Prado and Don Ivan Nunez del Prado.
The practices you will work with are simple, practical - and above all, effective. There is little movement in this work - we will be mostly sitting / lying down in the sessions as they are more meditative in nature.
This is an intensive program that requires commitment and you will have practices to do at home each week that take you deeper into the work we do, while building your personal toolkit for self-healing. This is one of the most valuable aspects of the program - becoming empowered in your own self-healing / self-liberating practice. This is the process of awakening and deepening your inner medicine.
The first part of the journey invites you to take a deep dive into the ‘heart of your humanness’. This requires a willingness to confront, disrupt, and acknowledge the parts of ourselves that may feel uncomfortable. In our collective, shared space, you will be gently, guided, held and supported through this process. You will be witnessed as you release and transform these ‘heavy’ imprints.
The second part of the journey is all about working with our inner medicine - our luminous essence - weaving it through the layers of our light body. While this work is typically less confronting than the work of journeying inwards, we can nonetheless experience resistance and challenges, particularly if there are aspects of ourselves we have kept hidden as a result of traumatic experiences. Once again, you will be supported and guided through this process, but it is also important that you feel you have adequate support from family and/or friends to help integrate these changes into your life.
It is important that you discuss any health concerns/issues/condition with me before registering to make sure this is the right program for you.
Please also ensure you have read and understand the following disclaimer:
The work that I do, in all aspects, is considered an alternative and mostly an experimental approach to health and wellbeing. It is important for me [Alexandra Skye Gibson / Sowelu Soul Medicine] to be clear that I am not a medical professional, registered or otherwise, and I do not provide medical advice or give prescriptions. The energy healing work and guidance I offer is not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any illness, disease or condition and is not intended as a substitute for appropriate medical advice and/or intervention. If you have a health concern, it is always recommended that you seek appropriate medical or psychotherapeutic advice.
Energy medicine/healing is a collective term used to describe a broad field of different modalities, the goal of which is to assist people in correcting energetic imbalances in the biofield to support the body’s innate healing ability. It a non-invasive, therapeutic approach to health, healing and balance. The theory of energy medicine is that the flow and balance of the body’s electromagnetic and more subtle energies are important for physical, spiritual, and emotional health and for fostering wellbeing. The teachings and guidance I offer are educational and spiritual in nature and come from a range of wisdom traditions and from Indigenous knowledge that has been shared with me by mentors and teachers of those traditions, as well as through my own private study of different energy healing modalities and through extensive personal experience and intuitive capacities.
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All in-person sessions will be held at The Yoga Loft, Launceston.
The program commences on Friday, May 1st with an initial 3-hour session that includes a welcome ceremony, an introduction to the program, setting intentions, and an introduction to our first energy practice, as well as some time for refreshments and meeting one another.
The remainder of the program (13 x weekly sessions) will run on Thursday evenings, 5.45pm-7.45pm, except for the final session (August 6th), which will be an extended 3hr session that includes our concluding ceremony / celebration.
The week of June 25th will be a mid-program pause. You will have completed the first part of the journey (Weeks 1-8) and will take time for integration with at-home practices during the Winter Solstice. It is very important to ensure that you create some time for yourself during this period.
Each week, you will be given recordings and/or resources to support you with at-home practices.
You will also have access to a community group via WhattsApp so that we can check-in with one another and share experiences.
You will have access to optional coaching sessions at a discounted cost. These will be offered online via Zoom.
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30 hours of in-person sessions in an intimate group setting (12 × 2hr sessions, 2 × 3hr sessions)
A curation of beautiful guided journeys and practices for you to work with at home during the program and to integrate into your personal practice - these will be given each week and will support the specific work we are doing
Access to discounted 1:1 mentoring sessions (online, AUD55, 45 mins) for the duration of the program and for 3 months following completion of the program, to support you in your integration
Access to a private WhattsApp community for the duration of the program to ask questions about practices, share progress, and feel connected with the community of participants
A welcome gift from my heart to yours - to be given at the welcome ceremony as you embark on this journey
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Week 1 | Friday May 1 - 5.45-8.45pm - includes welcome ceremony
Week 2 | Thurs May 7 - 5.45-745pm
Week 3 | Thurs May 14 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 4 | Thurs May 21 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 5 | Thurs May 28 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 6 | Thurs June 4 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 7 | Thurs June 11 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 8 | Thurs June 18 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 9 | Thurs June 25 - BREAK & INTEGRATION
Week 10 | Thurs July 2 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 11 | Thurs July 9 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 12 | Thurs July 16 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 13 | Thurs July 23 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 14 | Thurs July 30 - 5.45-7.45pm
Week 15 | Thurs Aug 6 - 5.45-8.45pm - includes concluding ceremony / celebration.
It is ideal for you to be able to attend all sessions as we are working through a step by step process and also building a community together.
I also know that life can be unpredictable and that it’s not always easy to make longer term commitments.
If for some reason you are unable to attend (unforeseen circumstances or another significant commitment conflict), it is possible to catch up on the missed session via a recording, which will contain an abbreviated / adapted form of the session for you to do at home. You would need to do this before attending the following session, ideally with some days in between.
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This in-person program is limited to 10 participants. To register, please complete the form below and I will respond within 24 hours with and details of how to secure your place with an initial (non-refundable) deposit, as well as an invoice for the full amount, to be paid in full by the dates below.
Early Bird - until March 15
AUD880
Full price
AUD 1110
A non-refundable deposit of AUD220 is required to secure your place.
Final remaining payment for Early Bird pricing is required by March 15th, or participants will be required to pay the full price.
For full-paying participants, remaining payment (after initial deposit) is due no later than April 30th.
Payment plans are available if you are not able to meet the above - please let me know when you register your interest and I will provide you with the options.
The program is non-refundable once full payment is complete.
It is really important to understand that there is an expected commitment to the program. These are not drop-in sessions and it is ideal that you are able to attend in-person for the whole program. We will be working through a deep process step by step, and also building a community between us.
If for some reason you are unable to attend a session, it is possible to do a catch-up session as a 1:1 and I would offer this at a discounted rate. I am also able to record an adapted version of the session that you can watch/listen to - this will not include all of the elements but will have the core practices and teachings. It is essential to do this before moving on to the next session.
Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions about payment and commitment.
This 3-month immersion will be offered to the international community as an online program from September-December 2026, allowing for greater flexibility with being able to join either live or via a livestream recording. Please contact me to register your interest. This will place you on a waitlist and ensure that you receive future updates about the online program.
Please note: Registering your interest does not require any financial commitment or secure your place. Formal registration for the online version of this program will open mid-year when promotions commence. I will be offering places to all who are on the waitlist before opening up registration to the wider international community.
The Andean tradition
The tradition that I work with is from the high south-central Andes Mountains in Peru. Perhaps lesser known than other great wisdom traditions, it nonetheless stands alongside them in its breadth and completeness.
I have been very fortunate to have been initiated as a mesa carrier (‘medicine’ carrier) by my primary teacher and mentor, Joan Parisi Wilcox, into the living lineages of three highly esteemed master paqos (healers/mystics) of the last generation: don Benito Qoriwaman (Cusco lineage), don Andres Espinosa (Q’ero lineage), and don Melchor Desa (Cusco lineage). Joan has been a practitioner of the tradition for 30 years and a teacher since 2015. She has worked closely with the Andean paqos, particularly in the process of writing Masters of the Living Energy, a book that anyone interested in this path should read. The teachings of these lineages have been passed down through families and widsdomkeepers and has roots that trace back roughly 1000 years to the time of the Inca Empire. The living lineages are the understood to be the direct descendents of the Incas. The teachings continue to be lovingly preserved in more recent times through teachers like don Juan Nuñez del Prado and his son, don Ivan, as well as my primary teacher, Joan - and also through people like me.
At its heart, the Andean tradition is a grounded and embodied spirituality that enables us to integrate spirit, body, earth and purpose without bypassing the human experience. Joan Parisi Wilcox says that on this path our goal is not to escape or transcend our humanness, but to “live more fully, naturally, and joyously as whole and healed human beings”. Practising the tradition does not mean that our lives become free of challenges, disruption or struggle. Rather, it allows us to welcome these experiences with an open heart - to greet them no differently than we might do with experiences of ease and joy. It is a path towards being in love with all of life, of descending into the heart of our humanness, where our Inka Seed, our drop of the mystery lives and pulses within us - ready to be expressed through us.
The Andean tradition is framed by its own cosmovision - a highly comprehensive understanding of the cosmos that shapes and frames how we interpret, and interact with the universe, nature, and humanity - the world of living energy. Its underlying principles are about the interconnectedness between the physical, spiritual, and natural worlds. It is a mystical tradition, emphasising the importance of our direct personal experience, rather than simply being about following a system or rules imposed on us. Indeed, one of the foundational aspects of the path is the personal relationships we cultivate and nurture with the teqse apukuna (universal spirit beings) - Sun, Moon, Wind/Air, Earth, and Water, as well as all the other nature beings. These powerful beings serve as important guides and allies in our work and assist us on our path of conscious evolution and in the awakening and deepening of our personal medicine.
Practicing this tradition provides us with a truly beautiful way of coming to know ourselves as whole beings, denying no aspect of who we are - what I like to call ‘holding the paradox of everything all at once’. In working with the practices and following the teachings, we are working towards releasing our heaviness, integrating all our experiences, and empowering our energy body so that we can fully embody our luminosity. This is the realisation of our true potential as spiritual beings in human form.
Walking this path is often referred to as sumaq kawsay - which means ‘to live a good (or beautiful) life’. One of the things I love most about the path of a paqo is that it’s about embodying joyousness and being at play in the world of living energy. Its essence is so much about lightheartedness, even though it is also deeply serious, reverent work. The sacred practices of the tradition are called pukllay, which means ‘play’ in the native Quechua language.
The energy practices we do are simple, practical and above all (speaking from experience) very effective. Part of the nature of the tradition is to be able to do the practices in our ordinary daily life and in an ordinary state of consciousness. We view our human life as our spiritual life and as our greatest teacher, with every moment an opportunity to learn and grow.
I truly hope you will join me on this incredible 3-month journey to see for yourself the gifts of walking this path.
Integrity
One of the most important things to me as an initiate, practitioner and teacher of the Andean tradition is upholding integrity and having pure intentions around how I share the knowledge and wisdom I have received.
Seeking integrity led me to work with Joan Wilcox, my primary teacher and mentor. Joan has dedicated much of her life to preserving the teachings of this tradition, just as her teacher, don Juan Nuñez del Prado - and his son don Ivan, have done. As far as I know, there are no better teachers of this tradition for those of us learning the tradition outside of the Andes. They have served lovingly, respectfully, and honourably as chakarunas (bridges), sharing the incredible wealth of these teachings with other initiates of this path like myself.
My ‘medicine’ is unique - just as yours is, and everybody else’s is. I do not believe that any two people ever offer the same ‘medicine’. My ‘medicine’ is a culmination of everything in my life that has led me here - my personal experiences and depth of personal healing, my training and personal practice, and my continued journey of learning and growth. The teachings and practices of the Andean tradition are a significant part of what I offer but not in any its entirety. What I offer is a ‘weaving’ of these sacred teachings and practices into my own energy artistry and other practices that I have learned or created and developed over many years of doing this kind of work and walking this path.
In order to uphold the integrity of the teachings, I do my absolute best to be as clear as possible about what I share and offer - i.e. what is ‘my’ medicine, and what has been shared with me as a direct teaching or practice that has been passed down through the lineages.
