A despacho is a colorful prayer made out of material objects, blessed and infused with your wishes and intentions. Despachos can be made to honor new beginnings as well as endings, to bring new love or new work as well as balance and joy to existing relationships and jobs.  One can be built to honor a wedding, a death, health, children, a birthday, a new year, abundance – any time you want to realign yourself with the energies of the cosmos or give gratitude.

You will have an opportunity to put in your hopes, dreams, intentions and gratitudes.  These will be blown into materials from nature and other symbolic objects.  This bundle will later be burned – releasing your prayers and gratitude to the cosmos.

Building a despacho is a practice based on tradition from the Andes – offering gratitude to the mountains, the great mother (Pachamama) and other nature spirits.  It brings focus and reminds us of our connection to all living energy.  This is a ceremony created with love – which brings us in alignment with our goals and intentions returning us to harmony and balance.  It is done as a form of Ayni or reciprocity.

You bring good dark chocolate and a little burnable cash to put in the despacho. Cherry-Lee will provide all the other goodies and later burn it in sacred space releasing your vision to the cosmos.  The cash is gratitude for your prayers already answered.

Come and experience this sacred and joy-filled ceremony!