• Cultural appropriation - learn indigenous ancestral knowledge taught by indigenous people from Peru. Meet our farmers and community behind this amazing ancient medicinal superfood.

  • A focus of health and wellness - We blend ancient knowledge with modern scientific bio-medical research. Understand the how's and why's behind maca and the special ways it works in our body.

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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome to our Maca Masterclass training course

    • Meet your teacher - Sally Huapaya

    • Preliminary Survey - Your Current Confidence With Maca

    • Welcome - what is maca?

    • Sally Huapaya - my journey with maca

    • Meet your teacher - Dr Corin Storkey

    • Dr Corin Storkey - overview what is maca

    • Meet your teacher - Pamela Chipana
  • 2

    Part 1 - The Ancient Traditions of Maca

    • The ancient traditions of maca - worksheet assessment

    • The story of maca continued

    • The story of maca

    • What does maca mean for you? - Pamela Chipana

    • How maca helped my mental health - Corin Storkey

    • Lesson 1 (Part A)

    • Initiation Ceremony

    • Lesson 1 (Part B)

    • Lesson 1 (Part C)

    • Lesson 1 (Part D)

    • Maca Harvesting - Demonstration

    • Pagapu Ceremony

    • Celebrating Maca - harvest festivities in Peru

    • Lesson 1 (Part E)

    • Cleaning and drying Maca - Demonstration

    • Maca Drying - Demonstration

    • Lesson 1 (Part F)

    • Lesson 1 (Part G)

    • Sally discusses the different colours of Maca

    • Preparation of a traditional Incan Tea with Pamela Chipana (Andean Teacher)
  • 3

    Part 2 - Maca Production and Preparations

    • Maca Production and Preparations - worksheet assessment

    • Lesson 2 (Part A)

    • Lesson 2 (Part B - i)

    • Maca seed production and planting - demonstration

    • Production and planting of maca seeds

    • The 3 colours of maca - demonstration

    • Lesson 2 (Part B - ii)

    • How does maca grow

    • Lesson 2 (Part B - iii)

    • Dry maca - demonstration

    • Lesson 2 (Part B - iv)

    • Why maca needs to be sun-dried and cooked before use - demonstration

    • Lesson 2 (Part C)

    • Farm to table maca production

    • Lesson 2 (Part D)

    • Activated Yellow Maca and Chocolate Maca

    • Maca for Women

    • Maca for Men

    • Lesson 2 (Part E)

    • Concentrated red maca

    • Concentrated black maca

    • Lesson 2 (Part F)

    • Meet our farmer - Florencio

    • Social Responsibility in Peru
  • 4

    Part 3 -The Science and Health Benefits of Maca

    • The Science and Health Benefits of Maca - worksheet assessment

    • Lesson 3 (Part A - i)

    • Lesson 3 (Part A - ii)

    • How does maca work in our brain - Macamides explained

    • Additional Reading

    • Lesson 3 (Part B)

    • Safety of maca additional reading

    • Lesson 3 (Part C)

    • Download our maca and cacao recipe booklet

    • Maca Recipe Videos - additional content

    • Lesson 3 (Part D)

    • AMAZING HEALTH BENEFITS OF MACA

    • Additional reading on treating different health conditions with maca

Instructor(s)

Andean Expert and Teacher

Sally Huapaya

Co-director Sally Huapaya is a native Peruvian of Andean descent, with a Bachelor in industrial engineering and ancestral knowledge of traditional Peruvian medicinal plants. She has a passion to bring the sacred plant knowledge of her people to the world and promoting respect and acknowledgement to the indigenous farmers and communities that produce them. In Peru, Sally and Seleno Health create authentic Organic Farm to Table Maca and Cacao directly with their local farmers following ancient ancestral traditions. Sally also manages the social responsibility program and Amazonian and Andean retreats in Peru. Sally is proudly the authentic life and soul of Seleno Health and brings her combination of industry experience, processes and production skills, cultural and ancestral knowledge to create authentic and high-vibrational specialised health-enhancing products for consumers around the world. She currently is training facilitators and healers in New Zealand and Australia to better connect to the indigenous plants of Peru and use them in ceremony or as healing modalities.

Biomedical Researcher

Dr Corin Storkey

New Zealand born co-founder and co-director – Dr Corin Storkey has over 15 years of academic and research experience, specialising in medicinal antioxidant chemistry, oxidative diseases, cellular protection and health. He holds a PhD in medicinal chemistry from the University of Melbourne, Australia and the Heart Research Institute – Sydney, Australia. He has previously struggled with and overcome chronic fatigue syndrome and believes that there is currently a lack of holistic management in the conventional Western medical approach to health. These experiences led him to establish Seleno Health as a means to provide people with education and tools to manage their own health more effectively. His area of expertise is stress disorders and non-specific inflammatory conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME), fibromyalgia, Crohn’s, Psoriasis, Alopecia, UC, IBS, Lyme disease and similar auto-immune issues. He currently leads the New Zealand based Maca and cacao research program that studies Andean and Amazonian plant medicines and substantiates their traditions through biochemical analysis. His latest projects include biochemical mapping of macamides in different cultivars of Peruvian Maca, comparisons of bioactives in different Maca preparations and substantiating traditional uses of ceremonial cacao by Peruvian shamans through biochemical mapping of active metabolites.

Andean Teacher

Pamela Chipana

Pamela Chipana is a Peruvian educator of Medicinal plants. She is part of the team of Seleno Health as their Workshop-Ceremonial facilitator - Culture and Brand Ambassador. Pamela has a family lineage of Chanka-Incan ancestors and wants to share the sacred traditions surrounding Peruvian master plants and inspire people to create a healing connection with them, connect to their roots, and give love and respect to Pachamama – the provider of all medicine.