Inner Tracking
Inner Tracking
Sept 7-15 2024
the process of studying our patterns of behavior to find out who we are, what we are doing, and where we are going in our time and space continuum. This self-induced awareness and personal quest for self-identity helps us figure out who we want to be and what part of ourselves needs more attention and understanding. studying our patterns of behavior helps us identify and discard some of the coping mechanisms that we have used to deal with the trauma of our lives. These coping mechanisms may have helped us before, but may no longer be of any use. By creating new pathways of connection to self, connection to place, connection to community and connection to our ancestry, we cultivate the behaviors that we want to encourage for continued growth and maturity, this process in turn helps us confront our deepest fears and challenges.
Through readings, assignments, reflections, ceremonies and rites of passage we go deep into ourselves to find the roots of our behaviors and coping mechanisms. Sometimes this opens up old wounds and trauma so we must be willing to heal and grow. We use parallel exercises and activities to keep us grounded during and after the discovery process.
I started my inner tracking journey after the civil war in El Salvador ended. In the fall of 2000 I received a scholarship to attend Manchester College in northern Indiana. This change of political context and socio-cultural environment helped me kickstart a personal healing process and a new search for my self-identity as a native of this continent. In 2006 I attended a ceremony in South Dakota Called the Sundance at the Wild Horse Sanctuary in the sacred Paha Sapa mountains. This experience changed my life. I continued attending the ceremony run by the Afraid of Bear and American Horse families as a supporter and I have danced since 2011.
This spiritual practice is a very important but humble prayer and is just one of many important native rituals, similar to those practiced by the Maya, Lenca, and Pipil in Mesoamerica. One of such ceremonies is the Inipi/ Temazcal or purification ceremony, which takes place within a covered dome that is heated by pouring water on heated stones to make a steam bath. Another is the Vision Quest. These rituals are part of my spiritual life and practice and they are always accompanied by recurrent inner tracking and personal healing work.
Inner Tracking
Sept 7-15 2024
the process of studying our patterns of behavior to find out who we are, what we are doing, and where we are going in our time and space continuum. This self-induced awareness and personal quest for self-identity helps us figure out who we want to be and what part of ourselves needs more attention and understanding. studying our patterns of behavior helps us identify and discard some of the coping mechanisms that we have used to deal with the trauma of our lives. These coping mechanisms may have helped us before, but may no longer be of any use. By creating new pathways of connection to self, connection to place, connection to community and connection to our ancestry, we cultivate the behaviors that we want to encourage for continued growth and maturity, this process in turn helps us confront our deepest fears and challenges.
Through readings, assignments, reflections, ceremonies and rites of passage we go deep into ourselves to find the roots of our behaviors and coping mechanisms. Sometimes this opens up old wounds and trauma so we must be willing to heal and grow. We use parallel exercises and activities to keep us grounded during and after the discovery process.
I started my inner tracking journey after the civil war in El Salvador ended. In the fall of 2000 I received a scholarship to attend Manchester College in northern Indiana. This change of political context and socio-cultural environment helped me kickstart a personal healing process and a new search for my self-identity as a native of this continent. In 2006 I attended a ceremony in South Dakota Called the Sundance at the Wild Horse Sanctuary in the sacred Paha Sapa mountains. This experience changed my life. I continued attending the ceremony run by the Afraid of Bear and American Horse families as a supporter and I have danced since 2011.
This spiritual practice is a very important but humble prayer and is just one of many important native rituals, similar to those practiced by the Maya, Lenca, and Pipil in Mesoamerica. One of such ceremonies is the Inipi/ Temazcal or purification ceremony, which takes place within a covered dome that is heated by pouring water on heated stones to make a steam bath. Another is the Vision Quest. These rituals are part of my spiritual life and practice and they are always accompanied by recurrent inner tracking and personal healing work.
Inner Tracking
Sept 7-15 2024
the process of studying our patterns of behavior to find out who we are, what we are doing, and where we are going in our time and space continuum. This self-induced awareness and personal quest for self-identity helps us figure out who we want to be and what part of ourselves needs more attention and understanding. studying our patterns of behavior helps us identify and discard some of the coping mechanisms that we have used to deal with the trauma of our lives. These coping mechanisms may have helped us before, but may no longer be of any use. By creating new pathways of connection to self, connection to place, connection to community and connection to our ancestry, we cultivate the behaviors that we want to encourage for continued growth and maturity, this process in turn helps us confront our deepest fears and challenges.
Through readings, assignments, reflections, ceremonies and rites of passage we go deep into ourselves to find the roots of our behaviors and coping mechanisms. Sometimes this opens up old wounds and trauma so we must be willing to heal and grow. We use parallel exercises and activities to keep us grounded during and after the discovery process.
I started my inner tracking journey after the civil war in El Salvador ended. In the fall of 2000 I received a scholarship to attend Manchester College in northern Indiana. This change of political context and socio-cultural environment helped me kickstart a personal healing process and a new search for my self-identity as a native of this continent. In 2006 I attended a ceremony in South Dakota Called the Sundance at the Wild Horse Sanctuary in the sacred Paha Sapa mountains. This experience changed my life. I continued attending the ceremony run by the Afraid of Bear and American Horse families as a supporter and I have danced since 2011.
This spiritual practice is a very important but humble prayer and is just one of many important native rituals, similar to those practiced by the Maya, Lenca, and Pipil in Mesoamerica. One of such ceremonies is the Inipi/ Temazcal or purification ceremony, which takes place within a covered dome that is heated by pouring water on heated stones to make a steam bath. Another is the Vision Quest. These rituals are part of my spiritual life and practice and they are always accompanied by recurrent inner tracking and personal healing work.