Rapa-Nui: Path of the Ancients
A Journey to Easter Island
Easter Island

A13-day healing journey on the magical Easter Island...

... a place full of mythology and mysterious legends and rare petroglifs...

with wise women Luzclara, Naomi Pakarati, a Rapa-Nui healer,
and Soco Astorga, an ecologist and ceremonialist...

This tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,
believed to be the "Navel of the World"...

a large statuary figure called a Moais (on left);
Luzclara and Naomi on the "birthing stone"...

Easter Island is "an open-air museum" surrounded
by scenery of incomparable beauty...

...Naomi, Soco and Luzclara performing healing ceremonies
in the ancient sites and caves of the ancestors....

...greeting each morning with a nice, gentle stretching
on the magical Easter Island...

photographs © march 1999