THE MYSTERIUM—THE HOMECOMING
The Rootstock Of Modern Psychology Comes From The Uncredited And Erased Cultures Of Your Own People
A five-day residential training intensive with
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes
Dates: July 14-19, 2026
Sunrise Ranch, Loveland, CO
Tuition: $2175 (does not include housing or meals)
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The Homecoming
”In this training, I’ll begin by warmly saying to your heart from my diamond dust heart: to your beautiful heart: ‘Welcome Home.’”
“For 56 years of practice, now at the age of 81, I have sat in the quiet rooms of clinics, in villages, on the backs of pick up trucks, and listened to people pour out their heart. I have sat in the deep silence of research on worldwide indigenous tribal groups listening to the psychological echoes of a history that was supposed to be erased. Yours. Mine.
I have seen how base or overly ambitious forces of the overculture have tried to turn our ancestral treasures into symptoms, and our bravery into disorders. I have seen how much has become misnamed, and/or the original persons who practiced effective healing, rarely mentioned in modern works from the late 1800s forward.
I’ve seen the errors and biases of modern psychology and those true hearts left out and left behind, including the truly sacred enactors of your people ,my people—not just those who used holy words as a signal instead of as the sacred.
But today, any set aside, any erasure of the true roots of psychology—ends here.
We will not be learning/teaching how to ‘help’ self or others within a broken system. Those who choose to take up this work are The Rememberers, The Divers into the Wreck—to bring back the Treasures of ancient psychology that came from your ancestors and mine—the people we are in direct lineage to and with.
You are the higher-consciousness architects who will finally put the ‘Historical Rootstock’ back into the book of Modern Psychology.
We will gather to remember what we were never supposed to remember so as to re-attach the roots of our most venerable treasures, the wisdoms and actions and attitudes of our ancianos, who often were tread upon, diminished, not cited and taken from, then not mentioned again.
The treasure they carried is still alive in you, in your incandescent soul, your Santo Cuerpo, Saint Body, your mind, you heart and your Child Spirit. Though some know the travails and torments of their ancestors, often modern psychology gives short shrift to taking back and reattaching the treasures our people carried and that we carry also.
The retrieval will begin very soon.
Beyond Cultural Competency — A Return to the Rootstock
Some may have degrees. Or licenses. Perhaps years of experience. And yet, you may have also sensed a persistent small voice as you looked over your own life and/or the lives of others you come to as helper healer, family member, friend. You may sense a silence in yourself or others that no traditional modern psychology can touch... the "not yet good enough" wound, the remain small and silent wound, the that no mental validation can heal.
The reason is simple regarding modern psychology: You were taught the branch, but the Actual ancestral rootstock was left out, or renamed, or used in severance from its life force- the group of souls who practiced these..
Modern psychology' has sometimes claimed to have ‘discovered’ the secrets of the human mind in the last century. But for those of us who come from displaced peoples from centuries and millennia past—whether from the rancherías of Tejas and north America, the villages of Africa, the outer reaches of Australia, or Central and South America, or the pre-colonial forests and tundra of Europe—we know a deeper truth.
Our people were the original psychologists.
Our ancestors were masters of the communal mind, the somatic body, and the spiritual psyche long before these concepts were preempted, sometimes badly translated, and sold back to us as "evidence-based practice." Many groups were overrun by "unskilled and base" forces who could not replicate the wisdom of the tribes, villages, groups, and many chose to erase the heart source instead.
Why This Training?
This is not a course in ‘Cultural Competency.’ This is a course in Historical Integrity for the ser humano, the true human being to reclaim what is yours, has always been yours, the knowledge of psyche and soma, the mind and body, heart and soul and child Spirit-- a place and space for Greater no matter what form that may take.
In this training, we will stop treating certain histories of mayhem and plunder and displacement that caused the hypervigilance, the shame, the ancestral silence of souls and their descendants —as personal failures, being 'confused’ or as ‘disorders.’ We will begin to see them for what they truly are: our Ancestral Survival Strategies handed down for eons.
We Will Explore:
The Historical Rootstock; The treasure each group carried for eons in science, arts, medicine, engaging soul and psych.
The Thefts: The documented theft of land, language, and life (from the Texas Rangers to global colonial extractions) that created the modern "Somatic Echo" wherein we can sommetimes feel 'unknown' unease in our bodies about certain matters.
The Extraction Wound: How to recognize when a client’s "imposter syndrome" is actually the ghost of a colonizer telling them they don't belong on their own land.
The Medicine of Return: How to restore the "True Names" of your people's wisdom and bring tribal technology back into the psychology of our times with honor instead of erasure.
You are the Gatherers of the Treasures
You are not only helper/ healer/. You are a diver, an archeologist, an expert in finding your ways through two worlds. And if you aren’t yet, you will be from your leaning into learning. . You are building a causeway from this century to past centuries, restoring, re-STORYING.
You are the one who gathers the scattered pieces of our people's brilliance and puts them back together in beautiful and sensible ways
Let us move forward with the real and ancient roots of shadow, anima, animus, Self, Dream analyses, Complexes by restoring the Historical ancestral knowings we are still the guardians of, and for good.
It will take a strong center to do this work, there is great pride to be taken, and also sadness, as well as the triumph of the four ways for remembering the Treasures in a brilliant and effective psychology that came from our own people.
If you can join us, I say now at the beginning: 'Welcome Home.’"
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There will be a short assignment for each learner before we convene. It will be easy to do and in depth. there is no need for a degree or being statistician. The only aptitude we will need is tender heart toward our farback people.
SCHEDULE
July 14 - 19
Sunrise Ranch, Loveland, CO
TUESDAY | July 14
2:00—5:00pm Registration and orientation at Sunrise Ranch
6:00 & 6:15pm Dinner served
7:00—9:00pm Meet with Dr. Estés Réyes
WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY | July 15-18
7:30am Breakfast
9:30am—12:00pm Meet with Dr. Estés Réyes
12:00 & 12:15pm Lunch
2:30—5:00pm Meet with Dr.Estés Réyes
6:00 & 6:15pm Dinner
7:00—9:00pm Meet with Dr. Estés Réyes
SUNDAY | July 19
7:30am Breakfast
9:30am—12:00pm Meet with Dr. Estés Réyes and evaluations
12:00 & 12:15pm Lunch
12:30pm Departure
Please arrange your travel so you can attend every meeting with Dr. Estés Réyes, July 14-19. This is a prerequisite for enrollment in this training.