Fall Equinox Beach Despacho

Name: Fall Equinox Beach Despacho
Start: 2025-09-22T17:30:00-07:00
Location: Ocean Beach Espl, Sunshine Coast, BC V0N, Canada

Schedule

Mon, 22 Sep, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Ocean Beach Espl, Sunshine Coast, BC V0N, Canada | Gibsons, BC

Come join us for a special event where we gather to express our gratitude and create a beautiful Despacho Offering, aligned with both the lunar and solar energies. It's both a New Moon and the Autumnal Equinox. It's a potent time for setting intentions, not only for the month ahead, but for the next 6 month cycle.
At all despacho ceremonies, we focus on giving thanks for all that we have, harness the power of the moon to release that which no longer serves us, and open the way for even more love, goodness, and abundance to come our way by getting clear about our intentions. It is a powerful way to offer our love and gratitude to all of creation - made even more powerful with the rising tide and the setting sun! Join us for a dance with the elemental energies as we weave a powerful ceremonial container and create a joyful community ritual!
What is a Despacho?
A Despacho (from the Spanish, meaning to dispatch) is a beautiful ceremony of making a mandala-like offering from natural materials. Coming together in community and ritually assembling flowers, seeds and other objects is an Andean practice of gratitude and sacred reciprocity (ayni) that helps align us to the cycles of the earth, connect with our own hearts, and strengthen our connections to all of creation. Making these offerings can help us restore love, balance, and harmony in our own lives, and in our relationship with Mother Earth and all the beings of nature. After the creation of the despacho, it is bundled up and ritually released into a sacred fire. If there is a fire ban, we will be releasing the despacho into the ocean.
Ayni (Sacred Reciprocity) and Registration
We gratefully accept donations, either via Eventbrite or cash.
Suggested donation: $20-40. This helps us cover the supplies and the considerable amount of time it takes to prepare for and facilitate these ceremonies.
Eventbrite link: https://FallEquinox2025Despacho.eventbrite.ca
No one will be refused for lack of funds! There are opportunities for volunteering - please let us know if you have capacity to help out.
Please email us at [email protected] to register so that we can send out any updates on location, or changes in case of inclement weather.
Location
The Beach Despacho will take place about midway along Ocean Beach Esplanade in Bonniebrook near the Christopher W. Memorial Statue.
Look for stairs leading down to the beach.
(This is opposite house number 1868 Ocean Beach Esplanade).
What to bring
If so inspired, please bring flowers, feathers, dried plants, or any other natural objects that you feel comfortable leaving as an offering.
We encourage you to bring a snack to share with others and your own cup. We will provide tea. You may also wish to bring your own camp chair or blanket to sit on.
About Us
Juan and Luna Rojas are apprentices in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross-cultural Shamanism, originating in the North Coast and Andes of Peru. Both have extensive experience with their own paths of healing and awakening, and a strong commitment to supporting personal and planetary healing. Emissaries of the Golden Age is our shared initiative of helping seed and spark the movement toward a more beautiful world through our ceremonial offerings, story-telling, and teaching endeavours.
Dana Wilson is a certified Biofield Tuning practitioner with a background in Kinesiology and over 15 years of training in holistic healing. She blends sound therapy, energy medicine, and shamanic practices to support deep energetic alignment and emotional clarity.
Our lineage
The teachings this ceremony is based on originates from our apprenticeships with the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition through The Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School and Visionary Hearts.
Other upcoming events
Interested in more?
We are offering a half-day Ritual Cosmos: Introduction to the Pachakuti Mesa workshop, Sunday, Sept 28 at Chaster House. Find out more: https://ritualcosmosgibsons.eventbrite.com/