Waltraud Hönes

“Curandera”, ceremonial artist and book author, is founder of the Wayna Fanes Tradition and the group “Dolomiten Ayllu”.

On completion of her Doctorate Degree in Psychology at Würzburg and Konstanz, Germany, she continued her studies in California, with leading representatives of Transpersonal Psychology including: Jeanne Achterberg, Angeles Arrien, Mel Bucholtz, Reinhard Flatischler und the Tai Ji master Chungliang Al Huang. In addition, she completed a four-year training in the Feldenkrais® Method in Boulder, Colorado.

On meeting Peruvian Master Ceremonialist and Curandero Don Oscar Miro-Quesada, founder of the cross-cultural Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, she immediately began a 10-year long apprenticeship with him and served as his authorized European representative and teacher of his tradition for many years. Several periods of intensive study in Peru, where she met and worked with other Curanderas and Curanderos in the Highlands, complimented her apprenticeship. In the year 2000, Waltraud founded the group “Dolomiten Ayllu” which she has been leading ever since.

The Wayna Fanes Tradition has developed out of her work in and with the sacred mountains of the Dolomites, in which the ancient shamanic lineage of Fanes, with its feminine tone and great world myth awakens to new life and (re)joins the Peruvian mother tradition.  

Waltraud teaches ceremonial workshops throughout Europe and leads pilgrimage seminars in the Dolomites, where she lives. Her special ability is bringing to life mythic themes of transformative potential for human consciousness in impressive group ceremonies for planetary healing. As a pilgrim for the renewal of our relationship with the Earth, together with the Dolomiten Ayllu, she cares for a network of over a hundred sacred sites, mostly artfully constructed stone shrines. Her deep love for the sacred mountains of the Dolomites is expressed in all her ceremonies and gives them a special power.

In 2013, her book “Seele der Landschaft – Landschaft der Seele” was published by Neue Erde- Verlag, Germany.
Her upcoming book, “Das neue Pilgern: Begegnung mit der lebendigen Erde“ was published in the Spring of 2022 by the same publisher.