Ray Crist

Ray Crist  is a world renowned visionary who offers his teachings from his deep well of knowledge on indigenous wisdom. He has been an apprentice of the Q’ero Nations elders since 2006 and through the last 15 years has shared this way with thousands of spiritual seekers. Ray has traveled the world and has spent the last three decades immersed in shamanism, various styles of yoga, Chinese medicine, and martial arts.  He has been offering workshops and trainings at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, NY Open Center, Yoga Journal, Blue Spirit, Bodhi Tree Yoga Resort, and many other centers around the world.Ray founded the Jaguar Path School of Shamanism and shares trainings that focus on how to use shamanic tools and ancient movement practices as technologies that assist in reaching an optimal state of being in order to live a more balanced, empowered and extraordinary life. Ray was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2003 and was given 3 months to live. He left his home country of Greece and in 2005 had a surgery in the National Institute of Health (NIH) where he let go of his right kidney. After that he ventured in search of indigenous healers. His path led him through Mexico and Peru. To his surprise, the shamans he met told him that they couldn’t heal him … but that they could train him to become a shaman and heal himself.Ray went on to become an apprentice of three shamans from lineages as old as the Inca civilization and the Amazon jungle shamans – spending several months of each year living with them as family, learning, studying, and healing. He received several initiations until he climbed to the top level of the Q’ero lineage and by the 12th year of his apprenticeship was initiated by his teachers Don Sebastian Pauccar Flores as a Kuraq Akulleq. This Quechua title translates to “seer” or “visionary” and comes with it a directive to share the Q’ero teachings to other nations as a planetary representative of the tribe’s culture and medicine. This has become the mission of Ray’s life, and he founded The Jaguar Path in 2007 as the home base for that work. Ray is honored to share these teachings that he holds so close to his heart. He is known for focusing on affection and humor in his delivery, softening and opening the hearts of his students to receive the accelerated healing that these teachings can offer. Ray bows to the unfathomable power of this work and to the unlimited potential of each member of the ever-growing international Jaguar Path Tribe.