Mgr. Jitka Wakanu Mandalam is an instructor of the Pathways of Transformation by John Hawken. She graduated from Palacký University with a focus on EDUCATION IN NATURE and has been a teacher of EXPERIENTIAL PEDAGOGY for 25 years. Since 2019, she has also been teaching year-long tantric trainings titled Sacred Body, Passionate Spirit and year-long shamanic training programs such as The Medical Path. She is a Dancechief (leading shaman healer) of regular SHAMANIC CLINICS, where anyone from the public can join the ten shamans for shamanic healing (natural medicine). She is also the keeper and guide of SHAMANIC LODGES.

Starting in 2023, she created a year-long Tantra training for women called Fire Medicine. Additionally, she practices Chinese healing massage (Tuina) and conscious touch, a practice she has been engaged in since 2013 at the UN headquarters in Vienna. Since 2019, she has been organizing regular courses for individuals and couples focused on sensual touch in Taoist Sensual Massage, and she developed the therapeutic massage system called Shamanic Elemental Massage for Tantra Massages Prague. She also leads shamanic and tantric wedding ceremonies, as well as the Stone People Ceremony, which heals all relationships.

My life path led me to successfully graduate from Palacký University in Olomouc, specializing in experiential pedagogy. From a young age, I have always loved nature, a passion passed down from my parents. This is why my specialization focused on education in nature. My motto has always been and still remains: "Nature is the greatest teacher of humankind." During my time at university, I was also captivated by yoga, which led me to choose a more medically focused topic for my thesis: "How yoga poses (asanas) influence the autonomic nervous system." The results were fascinating, and so I continued practicing and studying yoga with a master from Rajasthan, Swami Mahéšvarānanda. His system of Yoga in Daily Life (JDŽ) is comprehensive and all-encompassing—a great guide for life.

This teaching somewhat fulfilled my Native American inclinations and my ideal of a person—someone who lives in harmony with nature and their own body, understands themselves, and is in balance with everything around them. I traveled and spent time in nature as well as among Native Americans, and I naturally brought these experiences into raising my three children. I started painting mandalas, and because painting circles brought me peace and beauty, I named my business Mandalam—as a symbol of completeness, harmony, peace, and the beauty of my journey.

It was not by chance that this path led me to John Hawken, his transformative journeys, and his teaching on medicinal circles—similar to mandalas of the art of life.

In 2023, together with the Shamanic Lodge, we reopened the Shamanic Clinic, allowing people to enter the circle of shamans with a clear intention of healing and restoration. I organize the Stone People Ceremonies (Native American sauna) and lead shamanic and tantric wedding ceremonies. Currently, I also practice massage—working at the Vienna International Center (VIC) and teaching massage as well.

Awakening the Song

On my journeys, I didn't see the Native Americans as I had imagined; they were drunk and hidden in a casino. Those I did see were singing old songs with me, inhaling hashish smoke. I was a girl searching for real treasures, someone who saw wisdom flowing from their bones like an immortal song. It was the Whale's song from the depths. I caught it.

I sing of the scarf with the face of a Native American. Torn into rags and tied to a piece of driftwood, smoothed by the sea and washed up on the shore. On the Pacific coast, at the tiny village of La Push, a place as short as a kiss.

Everything undergoes fragmentation in order to penetrate the rough world, to slip through space and time.

Something dies, something is born. For me, the Native Americans have died here.

Yet their song will never perish. The song will find another heart to sing it, just as the soul is immortal, sailing through the universe between worlds, between lives, knowing no limits, wearing the coats of our bodies.

Today, where people have filled their minds and bodies with wealth, there begins to sing, anxiously and painfully in the heart, the Whale. As if from the depths, a tone starts to sound, growing louder, sweetly painful. It beckons for deeper dives.

The Whale is Anup. A guide between worlds. When it is dark, it is hard to tell where the ocean ends and the sky of the Universe begins. Where stars are only reflections and where they truly shine.

Those who have seen through their material wealth and realized they are not happy... have heard the song. They swim with the Whale. They swim to the worlds "BEYOND," to the worlds of the true essence of what only appears, what is changeable, unstable, and unreal. To the worlds of truth, where the stars truly shine and are not just illusions on a cold surface.

Try for a moment to dive into your own Universe. Try to find the rhythm of your heart, your drummer. You may hear your song, and its message will be a reliable guide to the depths of your soul, to the true light and source of energy.

The Native Americans said you begin to cultivate your Orenda, your inner strength, your Medicine.

From the strength of your Orenda flows what you attract into the space around you, into your circle, into your life. It is your magical medicine, and you are your own healers, magicians, and restorers, the creators of your own happiness.

Songs within us, vibrating Orenda, can heal not only ourselves but also other living beings and our entire planet, our existence.

The Song Awakes.

Mgr. Jitka Wakanu Mandalam

Healer (vaidya), Teacher (deshi), Guide (kaya) - Shaman

VAIDESHKAYA

Medical Name: Wakanu

Graduated from the following schools:

• Palacký University Olomouc
• John Hawken's Pathways of Transformation
• Tuina - Andao Institute Prague
• Yoga-JDŽ Střílky
• Bach Flower Therapy - Dr. Bach Institute, England