Ever find yourself whispering to the wind “What has the world come to, what legacy are we leaving?”

Do you yearn for balance between your head and your heart in this modern world;

Wishing for ancient wisdom and connection with the Earth again?

Medicine Heart is a sanctuary for nature-lovers, 

seekers of truth and meaning

and courageous pioneers,

who want to evolve into a ‘new human’

for the collective vision of the future of all Earth’s inhabitants.

I am Karen Weinman – known by my teachers as Misk’i Karen, which means sweet and tender from the seed of the heart.

These days my medicine specialises in supporting participants to journey from the head to the heart.

This ancient impulse is the gift of the Q’eros, the descendants of the Inka. From their home high in the Andes mountains, they have safeguarded this profound Earth-based medicine, that addresses every layer of who we are: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, energetic, and soul. Foreseeing a time when the modern world would need to remember this healing power, to heal both people and planet.

Their teachings remind us of what our Western conditioning often obscures:

  • We are not separate from nature; we are a part of it.
  • Our hearts hold the key to living authentically and abundantly.
  • Healing the Earth begins with healing ourselves.

This medicine invites us to transform from within, restore balance, and become whole again by living in harmony with nature and our true selves.

What Medicine Heart Offers:

Through workshops, ceremonies, and transformative experiences, I invite you to:

  • Reconnect with Nature: Learn to tune into Nature’s presence and wisdom, beyond appearances- and ground deeply.
  • Live from Your Heart: Discover tools and practices that balance the dominance of your mind, empowering your heart and soul to guide you.
  • Develop your feminine strengths: from within- and with Nature Being’s guidance
  • Awaken Your Indigenous Soul: Participate in sacred practices, rituals and ceremonies that build a foundation for life-long connection with the Earth.
  • Transform Into a Sacred Activist: Act courageously in the world by healing from within, revitalizing your unique life force, and embodying a paradigm-shifting way of being.

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A Collective Vision for the Future

Healing yourself is not just a personal journey—it’s a contribution to a collective awakening. By transforming your relationship with the Earth and embracing your authentic power, you help create a ripple effect for generations to come.

This is a chance to move beyond helplessness and despair into hope, empowerment, and action.

Ready to Begin?

Sacred Nature Retreat

1st January 2025

The Earth Within

28th January 2025

Solstice Ceremony

21st December 2024

How does this work?

In the English and western languages of our modern civilization, we literally do not have the vocabulary for the HOW we engage and comunicate with these Nature beings. And this is the ancient language we need to remember, and what we learn here at Medicine Heart. 

Every aspect of Nature, whether the Wind, a Tree, a Jaguar or the Earth is a Nature being. Like us – they are both a physical and energetic being. Nature is both outside of us, AND interacts with us from within. And until you know how to ‘speak this language’, this is my role as your Pampamesayoq, the medicine woman to hold the ‘voice’ for nature, and expresses it where an individual or group may need healing or guidance.

Medicine Heart workshops are designed to gently and respectfully teach you how to remember this ancient language within you.

In the process of learning, this brings deep healing and much wisdom. Because Nature holds a very fine energy, a high level of consciousness that when it touches us, releases the old heavy energies you carry, while at the same time opens doors to your own inner wisdom, to hear your heart and soul from within. It is all connected. 

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Your Facilitator…

I am born in Zimbabwe, with Scottish and English family, so home is a blend of Southern Africa, the Cairngorm Mountains and the Andes, Peru family. I’m a big mountain lover (and pilgrim). Nowadays I like to say ‘I co-facilitate together with Pachamama’ – Mother Earth. I asked her 15 years ago, how I could be of service? She then initiated me in 3 ways:

  1. By mountain spirits – yes the Mountains called me through one of the last Q’ero Altomesayoqs (converses with the Mountain Spirits) to Peru
  2. Later back home, I was struck by lightning, and thereby formally initiated by Mother Earth.
  3. Given a lineage initiation by my Q’ero Master.

Integrating these sacred arts into my life has transformed me personally. As trauma and grief, moving continents away from home-land, serious illness and other challenges have come my way, I have seriously put this medicine to the test, and come out on my feet. Through this unexpected alchemical, nature-l and mystical inner process, these powerful life-style medicines developed into these offerings, which I now share with you.

Some Testimonials…

I signed up just knowing that I needed to change. I felt that the workshops could just possibly help me. It was not a logical decision, and I found the workshops game changing!

I was in a position of deteriorating pain, with an inability to do much about it. I am now largely on top of my pain and can face life looking forward to my future.

Is this change due to the workshops and what I learnt? I believe it is. The processes I went though and the practices I leant have made all the difference. However, I got much more than this!

I am far more content with where I fit in life and that I am still growing, moving forward, and contributing. Do I understand it all? – not by a long shot, but I am learning to trust the process and not try to solve everything myself.

I can highly recommend the series of workshops to anyone. Just trust that it will work for you and that it will be life changing.

PS. and Karen is a great facilitator!

Mike, Participant of 'Heart of Nature' Programme

Working with Karen and Pachamama has deeply shifted my worldview, and aided in a transformation I didn’t expect!This powerful work travels right into the roots, and has exposed my patterns. This is the real work of raising consciousness and far surpasses any other spiritual system I’ve tried.

Karen transmits the purity of Andean medicine so beautifully and humbly. She has helped me to understand that everything I’ve always known intuitively and believed in secretly, is real and reaches out to me. – I’m not the only one who believes in angels and talks to rocks.

It has been so empowering to learn how to manage my energy, and to have the ultimate therapist – Pachamama! To allow nature into every aspect of my life and to be able to take full responsibility for my healing journey. I now have a spiritual anchor, which is grounded and practical yet mystical.

Karen is a grounded, firm and loving teacher who truly wants to see her students grow and transform.I have full trust in this path and can’t imagine my life without these ancient sacred practices.

Emmaleen Tomalin, Ñusta Karpay and 'Heart of Nature' Programme Participant

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