Shanmanisn Connection

The founder of the Bay Area Center for Wellness, Walter Marker, PhD, is a scientist currently working at NASA. He first became interested in Peruvian shamanism after talking to a colleague who was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah, who is currently working with chaos theory and computer modeling. This Professor was also very fluent in Spanish language and was asked to travel to Peru to accompany some Anthropology professors from the University of Utah who were studying the Shaman of Peru. Dr. Marker was amazed that when his friend related his experience in Peru. He described the Shaman using breathing and attention focusing exercises that were very similar to those used in Japanese Martial Arts, Yoga and NLP. This started Dr. Marker on a journey that has continued to this day. By chance, an old friend of Dr. Marker, Lynn Backemeyer, currently living in Indiana, had studied extensively about Peruvian Shamanism with the Four Winds Society. Lynn has guided Dr. Marker through the Four Winds Society's curriculum and he can teach introductory material. For more advanced local training, Lynn has agreed to come to Houston to teach seminars, when we can assembly a small group that is interested in the training.

For self instruction, Dr Marker highly recommends the books of the founder of the Four Winds Society, Alberto Villoldo.