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The Four Agreements: A Transformational Audio Journey

With Chakana Healing Space

This course is a freely retold exploration of Don Miguel Ruiz's Four Agreements, inspired by his teachings on Toltec wisdom. Through storytelling, humour, and relatable everyday moments, each lesson brings one agreement to life in a way that is both deeply meaningful and genuinely enjoyable to listen to. You will explore why our words carry more power than we realise, why we take things personally when we do not need to, how our assumptions quietly shape our entire reality, and what it truly means to always do your best. Content inspired by The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

Ancient Toltec wisdom retold through story, humour, and everyday life.

5 Days

56 students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

English

About this course

Inner Critic Reframing Practice

Direct Recognition

Values-Driven Action Practice

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Chakana Healing Space

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Lima, Peru

Born in the sacred city of Cusco, she carries within her the spirit of the Andes and the ancestral wisdom of her homeland. Growing up surrounded by the mountains and traditions of the Peruvian highlands, she learned to see life as a bridge between the ancient and the modern. Inspired by the teachings of local shamans and the sacred symbol of the Chakana, she has dedicated her work to sharing these treasures with a global community. Her audio journeys weave together Andean spirituality and contemporary practices for personal growth, creating a unique blend of ancient ritual and modern mindfulness. Through guided meditations and transformative teachings, she invites listeners to reconnect with their roots, release what no longer serves them, and open to new dimensions of clarity and inner strength. Her mission is to make the wisdom of her ancestors accessible and relevant to the challenges of today's world, offering a space where healing, balance, and awakening are possible for all who listen. Her course on the Four Agreements draws on her deep roots in shamanic tradition, bringing the timeless Toltec wisdom of Don Miguel Ruiz to life through story, humour, and the lived experience of everyday moments.

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5 Days

56 students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Introduction: The Game of Brahma

Before we explore the Four Agreements, we begin with a story. The story of a neurosurgeon who became a shaman, and an ancient Indian legend about a god who wanted to play a game. In this introduction, we discover why each of us carries a piece of something much larger inside us, why a stranger's eyes can sometimes feel unexpectedly familiar, and what any of this has to do with the way we live our everyday lives. This is the foundation for everything that follows.

Lesson 2

The First Agreement: Be Impeccable With Your Word

Words are one of the most powerful forces we possess, yet most of us use them without thinking. In this lesson, we explore how the words we hear in childhood quietly shape our entire inner world, including the inner judge and the inner victim we carry with us everywhere we go. Through storytelling and humour, we look at the impossible instructions parents give children, the mental playpen we build for ourselves as adults, and why the soul keeps whispering from somewhere beyond all of it. This lesson invites you to begin noticing the words you use, about others, and about yourself.

Lesson 3

The Second Agreement: Don't Take Anything Personally

Why do we collapse when someone criticises us, and why do we spend weeks replaying a single careless remark? In this lesson, we explore the system of emotional poison we unknowingly pass around every day, from the workplace all the way to the family dog. Through the story of a boy and his father's guitar, a little girl who stops singing, and the hidden mechanics of arguments, we discover how our unhealed wounds make us easy to manipulate and hard to forgive. This lesson invites you to consider what it might feel like to choose your own response, rather than react like a machine.

Lesson 4

The Third Agreement: Don't Make Assumptions

A friend's wife once drove past the same bridge she crosses every day and completely failed to see the largest white house on the street, because an assumption had quietly erased it from her view. In this lesson, we explore how assumptions shape everything from a simple phone call to the most intimate relationship in our lives. We look at the six people who are present in every couple, why we fall in love with an idea rather than a person, and where all that extraordinary energy of falling in love actually comes from. This lesson invites you to try the simplest and most terrifying thing: ask instead of assume.

Lesson 5

The Fourth Agreement: Always Do Your Best

This is the simplest agreement and, according to Don Miguel Ruiz, the one that alone can change everything. In this lesson, we explore what it actually means to do your best, not the best someone else expects, but the best you are capable of in this particular moment. Through the image of a child lost in play, the strange world of business cards and fashion police, and the extraordinary cooperation of 80 billion cells that keep us alive, we discover what happens when we stop pushing upward and start showing up fully. This lesson closes the course with an invitation to take one small moment of genuine effort and stretch it across your entire life.