Chaka​

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Chaka is a quechua word meaning 'bridge'. But the Q'ero's, who still speak the Inka language in one of it's purest forms, don't see the construction we see in our mind's eye when this word is spoken. They immediately add: sonqo a sonqo ; 'from heart to heart'. This is only just one of the many examples of why their language is so difficult to translate into our logical western languages.

When asking Don Alejandro to teach us the most basic and original teachings of his lineage, the Inka priests of the high Andes, he did not hesitate; That would be the initiation of the Rainbow path. This is a teaching that all young people of their tradition receive and which is repeated every time someone 'strays from the straight path' through their own acts or through circumstances in their life. In it, we are taught to walk the seven paths of the seven colours of the rainbow, each one raising in vibration, each one a healing in itself and each one  establishing a profound connection with it's ruling element. This teaching, in all it's pure but intense simplicity, creates a beautiful energetic bridge between us and the elements, the cosmos, and our divine Mother and Father. 

It prepares us to walk the Rainbow path and eventually 'cross the Rainbow bridge' that will bring us back to our origins, our cosmic roots. 
Seven colours, seven paths, seven levels of healing and awareness. Don Alejandro tought us and his daughter Doña Marquesa the knowledge as it was passed to him by his father  Don Santos Apaza, though small in stature a great Paqo, contemporary, friend and tutor to many of the first Paqos to make contact with the western world.