Medicine Wheel

Mary Rutherford has studied shamanic traditions for over thirty years.  She has traveled to remote regions in the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Rainforest to learn directly from the indigenous shamans.  She was initiated by the Q’ero shamans of Peru, who are the direct descendants of the Incas.  The Q’ero people receded deep into the high Andes 500 years ago to preserve their body of knowledge and their culture.

Mary combines her expertise in anthropology, psychology, natural healing methods, and the workings of the human spirit to guide people to new vision and personal transformation.  Her passion for these healing traditions radiates through her daily life.  She has taught workshops across the United States, and regularly brings groups to Peru to study with the indigenous shamans.

All is a circle within me,
I am ten thousand winters old.
I am as young as a newborn flower.
I am a buffalo in its grave.
I am a tree in bloom
All is a circle within me.

I have seen the world through an eagle’s eyes.
I have seen it from a gopher’s hole.
I have seen the world on fire,
And the sky without a moon.
All is a circle within me.

I have gone into the earth and out again.
I have gone to the edge of the sky.
Now all is at peace within me.
Now all has a place to come home.