The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Teachers that are listed below have been personally sanctioned by the Lineage and by don Oscar Miro-Quesada to teach the Five-Part Apprenticeship Series.

If you are interested in attending or sponsoring a PMT Apprenticeship Series, please contact a PMT Sanctioned Teacher below.

Phyllis L. Clay, Ph.D.

New Mexico
Phyllis has studied with don Oscar Miro Quesada since 2003, completing the basic series, the 5-part healing series, a 4-year advanced/extended training. She has served as a mentor in his 6-month weekly on-line advanced apprenticeship program with the Shift Network.

Phyllis is a Transformational Coach, accompanying individuals and groups as they focus on both difficult and inviting aspects of their lives using various forms of expressive arts (collage, paint, mandalas, clay, drawing, movement, costume). She invites her clients and participants with into their own deep purpose and into the joy of growth and expansion. She accompanies groups on Journeys to Self in magical settings like Florence, Italy, the megalithic sites in Ireland, and the depth of spirit in Assisi, Italy. Upcoming Journeys to Self include the wonders of Hawaii, the mystery of Ireland, and a return Journey to the beauty of Florence.
Email: synthesisintl@aol.com
Phone: 505-918-4388

Jnana Gowan

Albany, California
​Through divine alignment, Jnana was ‘called’ to the Apu’s (mountain deities) which began her apprenticeship with don Oscar Miro-Quesada. Jnana has envisioned and created numerous programs which combine her depth of knowledge and lived experience in yoga, ritual, ceremony, healing and transformational work for both adults and children. She leads ritual and ceremony within her regional community, hosts guests wisdom-teachers and is avidly involved in her local community as an events organizer. Her calling to shamanism began in 1995 and since then has taught Hatha Yoga, completed the five-part Pachakuti Mesa Tradition apprenticeship, twice, with Judy Hoaglund, and has worked closely with Mateo Magee, author of “Peruvian Shamanism – The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition.” Jnana feels strongly that a strong spiritual community has the potential to change the world one person at a time.
Email: Powerhed@gmail.com
Facebook: facebook.com/jnanagowan

Judy Hoaglund

Santa Rosa, California
Since 1990, Judy Hoaglund has been studying and practicing shamanic arts with indigenous teachers in North, Central and South America. She has been in intensive apprenticeship with don Oscar since 2002, and a PMT Apprenticeship teacher since 2009. Judy uses her training and experience in science, nature, mysticism, spirituality, shamanism and ceremony to bring the mesa teachings to her students in clear and understandable language. She serves as guide, teacher, mentor, minister and friend to her local mesa community. Judy readily shares her knowledge with humor and devotion with all sincere seekers. She incorporates the PMT, Reiki, bioenergetics, hypnotherapy, shamanic breathwork and more into her private healing practice and medicine lodge in Santa Rosa, CA.
Email: jhoaglund@earthlink.net
Website: www.ShamanicAlchemy.net

Anna Maria Lopez

Fresno, California
Rev. Anna is a founding minister at New Thought Community Church, and at the healing center, Centre for Harmony. Her shamanic path has taken her down many roads of Sacred Self awareness. She is a Reiki Master, Karuna Reiki Master, Pranic Healer, Akashic Records Reader, Drummer & Crystal Bowl Sound healer, Aleya Dao 7 Gateways Teacher, Science of Mind Teacher, Practitioner & Ordained Minister, and gratefully, a Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Sanctioned Teacher. She once said, “I couldn’t put anything more on my plate” – yet, she realized that the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition is her plate! Don Oscar has brought into her life a self-awareness that is immeasurable and life changing. Her heart breathes to share this Joy!
Email: rainbowwolfmother@gmail.com

​Valerie de Magdalena

Mt. Shasta, California
Since Valerie’s first initiations in 1998, the shamanic and yogic traditions have been at the heart of her personal transformation, her therapeutic work with others, and her relationship with life. Initially a student of Shadow yoga, core shamanism and the Huna tradition of Hawaii, Valerie began her apprenticeship in the Peruvian paqokuna tradition in 2004 and shortly thereafter in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition. She is a student of don Oscar Miro-Quesada, don Mariano Quispe Flores, teacher, healer and ceremonialist of the Andean Paqokuna tradition, and an apprentice to her beloved Pachakuti Mesa. She teaches yoga, facilitates workshops on Peruvian Shamanism and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, and works with individuals in her healing practice. In service to the light of consciousness and to the Great Mystery that permeates all things, her classes, workshops and one-on-one work reflect her dedication to supporting individuals on their pathway to healing and consciousness.
Email: valerie.de.magdalena@gmail.com
Website: www.pathwaystowholeness.net

Ray Nobriga

Mt. Shasta, California
Through his extensive apprenticeship with don Oscar Miro-Quesada, supplemented by his numerous journeys to Peru to study with the indigenous healers and ceremonialists of the highland regions, and previous training in the Mazatec tradition, Ray offers to others the wisdom teachings he has received and the rich and varied experiences gained through his service to the natural and spiritual worlds. As Ray has experienced the extraordinarily transformative power of this tradition, he has committed himself to serving others in their process of transformation. As such, Ray maintains a healing, teaching and ceremonial practice incorporating his many years of training and experience. Ray is the founder of The Sanctuary at Mt. Shasta, a retreat and healing center in Mt. Shasta, California.
Email: rnobriga@gmail.com
Website: www.thesanctuaryatmtshasta.com

Michelle Pauls

Fresno, California
Michelle began her spiritual journey at an early age. Her search took her along many spiritual paths. When she found the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition founded by don Oscar Miro-Quesada she knew she was home. She has completed the five part Pachakuti Mesa Traditon apprenticeship twice with her teacher Judy Hoagland. Michelle leads ceremony in her local community and is available to all of those in her local hoop. She is a Usui and a Karuna Reiki Master. She teaches Reiki and holds bi-weekly Reiki Shares.

As a Science of Mind Practitioner Intern she leads a weekly healing circle at New Thought Community Center. Michelle has a great love and reverence for Pachamama and is honored to teach this earth honoring tradition.
Email: michellesfaces@sbcglobal.net
Phone: 559-545-5412

Heather Weingartner

Chico, California
Heather’s soul-infused service is deeply rooted in the transformative power of love and a reverence for the profound medicine of beauty.  She is a certified massage therapist and a Pachakuti Mesa Tradition teacher, ceremonialist and shamanic practitioner.  After graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, her vocational journey led her to study a variety of healing arts including massage, hydrotherapy, herbology, counseling, Bach flower remedies and aromatherapy.  In 2011 she was introduced to the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross-Cultural Shamanism and in 2016 she became a sanctioned teacher.   By facilitating earth-honoring ceremonies, workshops and healing rituals, Heather strives to contribute to the restoration of balance and wholeness in others and on this precious planet.
Email: heather@earthflowerwisdom.com
Website: www.earthflowerwisdom.com