Dr Alberto Villoldo and The Four Winds Society
Alberto Villoldo is a former professor of medical anthropology at San Francisco state university who traded his white coat for a pair of hiking boots and became the first white man to have extensive contact with the last surviving Peruvian Inka people, the Q’ero.
For ten years he studied their powerful energy medicine healing techniques, before founding The Four Winds Society – a bridge organisation to link Inca healing knowledge with modern medicine and psychology. The Four Winds Society now teaches others to heal the Inka way and organises expeditions to Inka sacred sites and to meet Inka master Shamans.
Dr Villoldo also founded the Mountain Medicine and the Clothe the Children projects. Funded by and through the efforts of The Four Winds Society, these projects deploy physicians, nurses and veterinarians to high mountain villages in the Andes, whose inhabitants have little or no recourse to medical assistance.
They have provided medical assistance to 600 villages in five communities and veterinary care to over 5,000 alpacas and llamas. They have also collected and transported on horseback clothing for hundreds of children living in villages in the Andes at 16,000 feet above sea level.
A prolific author, Dr. Villoldo’s best known books are Shaman, Healer, Sage, How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas (2000); Island of the Sun (with E. Jendresen, 1994) and Dance of the Four Winds, Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel (with E. Jendresen, 1994). He is a regular speaker and teacher on the renowned Alternatives programme at St James’s Church, Piccadilly