The Mayan spiritual guides and teachers have maintained their ceremonial initiations through a series of individual sacred Mayan Fire Ceremonies. This initiation is dedicated to the preservation of our ceremonial life, to be shared with initiates from All of our Peoples. The Mayan Fire Ceremony, led by a trained Mayan Aj Q’ij (Daykeeper, or spiritual leader) is a way of creating a portal into the Spirit world, where we can receive healings and offer prayers. We have been asked to share the fire in this way so that we can create powerful, lasting spiritual alliances and work toward the preservation of our Mother Earth and all our Relations by sharing sacred ways that individuals can use for their own healing and empowerment.  This process does not make anyone a shaman, an Aj Q’ij , or ceremonial leader, nor does it give anyone permission to lead these ceremonies for others. The teachings of this process are to be used only for your personal benefit.

The nine ceremonial fires are designed to introduce the individual into sacred rites and to learn about the sacred Mayan Fire Ceremony. This is an experiential teaching. Specifically, it is designed to create conditions to facilitate incredible healing and to reach greater depths of the Spirit and psyche, by bringing great spiritual moments of connectedness with the Spirit and deep truth. The Nine Fires are designed to heal, purify, empower, and teach. The fires can give an overview of different experiences that can be supernatural and allow in incredible powers that will help us through our lives. These fires are transformative by nature, and often challenges come in to test the endurance, commitment, and beliefs of the individual in relationship to Creator, the elements, and all life. Like life itself, this process takes us through all emotions and experiences, and the commitment is to be flexible: stay present with what comes up, observe it, and let it go, so that by the time we complete the ninth fire, we are ready to birth into a new way of being. These are the sacred Mystery Schools of the Maya. The training at this time for us is to focus on personal healing, self-empowerment and to open spiritual doors that can guide us for the rest of our lives.

We will be holding a ceremonial retreat at the Deer Mountain Sanctuary (north of Mt Shasta, CA) from July 30th - August 11, 2021 for participants and supporters, where we will move through the experience of all 9 fires, along with sweatlodges and other ceremonies to support this process. This process is part of the Medicine Wheel of the Sacred Teachings. During 9 months of preparation, we will connect twice a month on live zooms and receive sacred teachings about Shamanic Spiritual Training, the Mayan Daylords, the Mesa/Altar, the ceremonial materials used in the Mayan Fires (how and why they are used), and more.  

Through the preparations, you are also creating a community of those who will be walking this journey together, thus acknowledging a commitment to each other’s well being in this process and beyond. Through the 13 day retreat process of the Nine Fires, we will learn how to lay the fire, to call in the powers of the Daylords and their vibrations to create the matrix through which our prayers are manifested, and begin to develop a mirror relationship with the fire to gain a better understanding of ourselves, the natural forces, and our healing processes.

For more information, contact spiritjaguar.info@gmail.com.