Apapachoa: The Practice of Sacred Presence
A Practitioner Training in Relational Practice and Energetic Awareness, date tbd
Rooted in the Nahuatl understanding of apapachoa, to embrace at the soul level, Apapachoa is a philosophy and practice for how we meet, accompany, and hold space for another person.
For practitioners, it asks a question that lives beneath technique:
How am I meeting the person in front of me?
How do I listen when someone is vulnerable? How do I work with energetic awareness without imposing meaning? How do I recognize what belongs to me and what belongs to the person I am accompanying? How do I create conditions in which another person can remain in relationship with their own knowing?
This is not a technique-based training.
It is a process of becoming.
Becoming someone who can sit with tenderness without rushing it. Someone who can hold emotion without needing to fix it. Someone who can discern what is yours, what is another's, and what is asking for your attention.
Apapachoa does not teach you another modality. It changes your relationship with the practices you already hold.
What happens to your practice when you practice it through Apapachoa?
Apapachoa is not a modality-based training.
A Different Orientation to Practice
While many energy practices focus on technique, sequence, or what the practitioner does, this work centers the relational field as the place where change occurs.
You are not learning how to perform a session.
You are developing the capacity to perceive, respond, and remain present within what is unfolding between you and another.
This includes:
recognizing relational patterns as they arise in real time
working with the body, emotion, and subtle field as one integrated experience
allowing transformation to emerge through attunement rather than control
grounding your practice in lived experience, reflection, and discernment
This work cannot be reduced to steps.
It is cultivated through practice, presence, and the willingness to meet what is here.
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This Training Is for Those Who Feel...
This training is for practitioners who sense that technique alone is not enough and are ready to deepen into a more relational, embodied way of practicing.
You may feel:
there is more available within your sessions than what you have been taught to notice
called to trust your intuition alongside the protocols and practices you have learned
ready to deepen how you hold, listen, and relate within your work
you are already weaving together different modalities and want greater coherence in how you practice
a growing responsibility for the way you accompany and hold space for others
ready to move from focusing primarily on what you are doing toward becoming more aware of how you are in relationship
Apapachoa gives us a way to explore what becomes possible when technique, intuition, presence, and relationship are no longer separate parts of our practice.
The Work
Apapachoa takes shape through what has emerged in facilitating Love Limpias and trainings.
It draws from Curanderismo and relational healing practices, and reflects a grounded understanding of care.
Healing is not something we do to others. It is being a witness to what's unfolding.
Apapachoa brings together teachings and practices that have been developing across my work for many years.
During our weekend, we will draw from Ámate, Apapacharte, Claiming Joy, relational and energetic awareness practices, and practitioner frameworks developed through my years of holistic energy practice and facilitation.
These teachings come together not as a collection of techniques, but as different doorways into the same inquiry:
How do we remain in relationship with ourselves while being deeply present with another?
The Weekend Experience
Our time together moves from experiencing Apapachoa personally into understanding how its principles can inform the spaces you hold for others.
Friday Evening
Entering Apapachoa: Presence Before Practice
We begin by experiencing Apapachoa rather than simply defining it.
Through grounding, relational listening, energetic awareness, and reflection, we explore what changes when we release the expectation that we must immediately know, interpret, resolve, or respond.
The evening establishes one of the guiding principles of our weekend:
Presence is part of the practice.
Saturday
The Practitioner and the Relational Field
Saturday brings our attention to the practitioner.
We explore the sensations, impulses, assumptions, emotional responses, and energetic information that can arise while holding space for another person. You will practice distinguishing between what you perceive, what you interpret, what you assume, and what actually needs to be spoken or acted upon.
From there, we move into the relational field between practitioner and participant.
Through teachings and experiential practices, we explore listening, reciprocity, boundaries, consent, silence, pacing, energetic awareness, and ayni, the practice of right relationship.
We will also explore the felt difference between being managed, interpreted, witnessed, accompanied, and truly met.
Sunday
Integration, Application, and Stewardship
On Sunday, we bring Apapachoa into the practices and spaces you already hold.
Rather than teaching an "Apapachoa session," we ask:
What happens to my practice when I practice it through Apapachoa?
We explore real practitioner situations and consider how Apapachoa can inform the way you listen, respond, facilitate, and accompany another person.
We close with stewardship: how we complete an encounter, release responsibility for another person's process, tend ourselves after holding space, and practice care without becoming responsible for everyone around us.
Who This Training Is For
This weekend is for people who regularly hold space for others, professionally or within their communities.
You may be a holistic energy practitioner, Reiki practitioner, sound facilitator, coach, bodyworker, spiritual practitioner, educator, caregiver, social worker, community facilitator, or someone whose role regularly asks you to accompany people through meaningful experiences.
You do not need to practice a particular modality.
What matters is your desire to become more intentional about how you meet, accompany, and hold space for another person.
What You Will Carry Into Your Practice
You will leave the weekend with a deeper understanding of relational presence and practical ways of bringing it into the work you already do.
You will have explored how to listen without immediately interpreting, distinguish perception from assumption, recognize your own energetic and relational responses, honor pacing and consent, support another person's agency, and discern when intervention is useful and when presence itself is enough.
But Apapachoa is not meant to remain inside the practitioner room.
A Way of Inhabiting the World
The qualities we cultivate through Apapachoa begin to influence how we listen to a friend, move through conflict, accompany someone we love, recognize our own limits, honor another person's timing, and meet the ordinary moments of our lives.
This is where Apapachoa becomes more than something we offer.
Apapachoa becomes a way of inhabiting the world.
Before Apapachoa becomes something we bring into our practice, it becomes something we practice becoming.
Weekend Training
Friday Evening
Opening + Entering Apapachoa
Saturday
Full-Day Training + Experiential Practice
Sunday
Half-Day Training + Integration + Closing
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Relationship to Other Trainings
Apapachoa training emerges from years of working with energy, ceremony, and practitioners.
It is distinct from S.E.R., and sits alongside offerings like Sound as Ceremony.
For practitioners who feel called to integrate presence, energy, and sound into their work, this becomes a natural expansion.
The Experience
This will be the first offering of Apapachoa. The cohort will be intentionally small to be a guided training space.
You will move through:
experiential practice
reflection
integration
group learning
receive the 10 rites offered in S.E.R.
There is room for your process, questions, and for making this work your own.
Training Details
A weekend immersive for practitioners and space holders
Friday evening opening session, full-day Saturday training, and half-day Sunday integration
Live teachings, guided practices, partner experiences, and opportunities to apply Apapachoa within your existing practice
Exploration of relational listening, energetic awareness, discernment, boundaries, consent, pacing, ayni, and practitioner stewardship
Practices drawn from Ámate, Apapacharte, Claiming Joy, and practitioner frameworks developed through years of holistic energy practice
Integration resources and access to the support portal following the training
Certificate of Completion provided
Tuition
Early Enrollment: $650
Standard Investment: $800
Apapachoa is a practitioner-level training designed for those already in relationship with their work and ready to deepen their practice within the relational field.
This is a sustained, high-touch container. You are invited to choose the pathway that allows you to participate with presence and steadiness.
Payment Plans
Payment plans are available to support you in entering this work with care and consistency.
Community-Supported Spaces
A small number of community-supported spaces are available.
4 spaces are offered at $500, reflecting a reduction from the early enrollment rate.
These spaces are held for practitioners who feel a clear call to this work and are seeking a more accessible price point. Email me to enroll at this rate: lovecoach@healingqueen.org
You already carry practices, experience, and ways of knowing.
Apapachoa invites you to deepen how you listen, how you relate, and how you hold space for others while remaining in relationship with yourself.
This is the practice of sacred presence. This is Apapachoa.
Join the Apapachoa Weekend Training at the Early Enrollment rate, join the waitlist for a future training, or schedule a complimentary discovery call if you have questions about whether this experience is right for you.
Waitlist for Apapachoa
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early enrollment access
coupons for additional discounts
behind-the-scenes teachings and philosophy
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It is the beginning of the work