Ways to Clear Yourself & Your Home

Below you'll find a few simple yet powerful practices, some drawn from the Andean Mystical Traditions, to help you release heavy energy and bring in more light.

Understanding Energy: Hucha and Sami
In Quechua, the language of the Andes:

  • Hucha is heavy or dense energy. It’s not “bad,” but it's slow-moving and can weigh down your energy, emotions, body and environment.

  • Sami is refined, light, living energy. You can clear and recharge yourself with sami, returning to your natural lightness.

Clearing Your Energy Body
Just like bathing daily, clearing your energy field keeps it flowing freely. Here are two core Andean practices you can use anytime.
1. Saminchakuay – Receiving Light Living Energy
Visualize and feel the sami—the luminous energy of the universe—pouring over and around your energy bubble (poqp’po).
Let it shower you like a waterfall of light, breaking up heavy energy and dissolving it into the Earth. Do this for a few minutes.
2. Saiwachakuy – Recieve Energy from Mother Earth/The Water
Reconnect with the Earth or Water and draw in empowering and strengthening energy of sami. Imagine this nourishing energy rising into your body.  Simply receive it with intention just awareness and presence.

Other Ways to Clear Your Energy

  • Salt + Baking Soda Baths: Add 1 cup each to a warm bath. Use oils like frankincense, rosemary, or lavender to clear and relax.

  • Essential Oil Sprays & Incense: Use spring water sprays with essential oils or burn copal, palo santo, or sage to shift and recharge yourself and your home's energy.

Clearing Your Home Space

  • Tidy Up: Begin with physical cleaning and clutter removal.

  • Set Intention: Speak your desire to release stagnant energy.

  • Open Up: Crack windows or doors to let energy flow out.

  • Clear the Space: Use smoke, spray, salt in corners and sound (drums, rattles, singing bowls, clapping).

  • Move with Intention: Start on the top floor and move counterclockwise room by room, then down to the next floor, releasing heavy energy.

Charging & Blessing Your Home
Once your space is clear, bring in light and intention.

  • Set a Positive Intention: Peace, joy, love—choose your frequency.

  • Walk Clockwise: Begin on the lower floor and move through each room.

  • Use Sound, Scent & Voice: Ring bells, sing, spray rose water, speak blessings aloud.

  • Claim the Energy: Say in each room whatever you want to bring in. For example: “I welcome joy and harmony into this space.” 

Empowering Commands
These statements align your energy and reclaim your vitality. Say each command three times, then snap or clap with:
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – NOW!"

  • “I command my spirit to release and clear anything that is not authentically me – NOW!”

  • “I command my spirit to bring ALL of me into me – NOW!”

  • “I command my spirit to bring more life-force energy into my body – NOW!”

In Closing
By incorporating just a few of these sacred practices, you create a space and energetic field that supports your well-being at any time but especially during the seasonal transition. Honor this time by clearing what no longer serves you and inviting in the light and energy you want to embody. 

Ashera Serfaty