Ray Crist,  is a visionary who offers his teachings from a deep well of knowledge of indigenous wisdom. He has been an apprentice and an initiate of the Q'ero Nations elders since 2006 and ever since has shared the ways of living with thousands of spiritual seekers. Ray has traveled the world and has spent the last three decades immersed in shamanism, various styles of yoga, Chinese medicine, and martial arts.  He has been offering workshops and trainings at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, NY Open Center, Yoga Journal, Blue Spirit, Bodhi Tree Yoga Resort, and other centers around the world. 

Ray was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2003 and was given 3 months to live. He left his home country of Greece and in 2005 had surgery at the National Institute of Health (NIH) where he gave up his right kidney.  After that, he ventured in search of indigenous healers. His path led him through Mexico and Peru. To his dismay, the shamans he met told him they could not heal him. Don Fransisco his beloved teacher said. "I can not heal you but I can train you to become a shaman and you can heal yourself."

Ray went on to become an apprentice of three shamans from lineages as old as the Inca civilization and the Amazon jungle shamans - traveling to Peru every year living with them as a family while learning, studying, and healing. He received several initiations until he arrived at the top level of the Q'ero lineage.  By the 12th year of his apprenticeship, Ray received the highest initiation, by his teacher Don Sebastian Pauccar Flores, as a Kuraq Akulleq. This Quechua(katwa) title translates to “seer” or “visionary” and comes with it a directive to share the Q'ero teachings with other nations as a planetary representative of the tribe's culture and medicine. This has become the mission of Ray’s life, and he founded The Jaguar Path in 2007 as the home base for that work. 

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