Martin Prechtel

Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, author Martn Prechtel, trained in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, gives an engaging, surprisingly humorous series of 20 short teachings on the relationship between grief and praise in our culture—how the inability that many of us have to grieve and weep properly for

Martín Prechtel, of Swiss father and Huron mother, drawn by his dreams, settled into the lakeside Mayan village of Santiago Atitlán from the time he was 20 until he was 33.

This stand-alone memoir continues Martín Prechtel’s story and explores—rich with the subtle intelligence and sophistication of Mayan culture—the Tzutujil Mayan concept of initiation and its relevance to our contemporary world.

Martín Prechtel, mestizo Mayan shaman of Swiss and Canadian parents, grew up in a little village in