Over 13 days, you will usher in a transformation of spirit. You will embark on your own personal healing journey, guided by a community of healers, and immerse yourself in an authentic experience living among the Indigenous people of the Andes.
Tupaq, Carol and Amy have partnered to bring you a solid foundation and experiential immersion in Andean Energy Medicine of the Inkas. Under their expert guidance, and Tupaq’s spiritual community of the Ayllu K’anchaq Qollur, you will be initiated along your healing path. You’ll return home lighter, more connected to yourself, and in deeper connection with the natural world and the cosmic beings here to guide you.
Experience Peru as it was meant to be felt. You won’t be lost in a sea of tourists, but held in a sacred valley of healing.
This journey is like no other.
An Immersive Indigenous Healing Experience
You’ll initiate your healing journey, in Pisac where you’ll spend three days with Amy and Carol. They are a stellar team, with decades of experience to guide and support you in learning the foundational knowledge, practices, and rituals to help provide context for your healing work with the Paqos. You’ll have time to rest, and explore the village by foot, as you acclimate to the altitude. Here we will weave our energies, and create a cohesive SAPAN AYLLU, or healing community. Next…
We’ll spend 6 days at Túpaq’s family’s ancestral home of Pomaqanchi
Immersing ourselves in the healing practices of the Paqo Andino. You’ll have the rare opportunity to learn directly from the source: Andean healing masters who have learned their craft through generations of study and connection to their lineage of light, the Pachamama and Celestial Mountain Spirits that govern the Andean Cosmology.
From Tupaq and his community of Paqos (medicine people), you’ll clarify your body-mind, deepen your connection to yourself, experience ceremonies to help you actualize your relationship to the earth, the Pachamama and the Cosmic Beings here to support you in your spiritual evolution. Through individualized attention, you’ll receive gifts of personal practices, rituals, and healing ceremonies to guide you on your healing journey that you can practice even after you return home.
Together we’ll travel to sacred sites for cleansing and purification.
We’ll culminate our journey in a pilgrimage to a holy mountain, to camp for 3 nights. On the mountain, we’ll integrate our healing with the support of the Apus (mountain spirits).
After descending from the mountain, we’ll gather in Cusco and have a bit of time to explore this magnificent and historical INKA city, culminating in a final celebratory dinner together.
Carry Home A Personalized Healing Practice
This is a rare opportunity to deeply explore your own personal healing practices while being held in a safe container by masterful healers and teachers. You’ll be immersed in the Indigenous culture of Tupaq and his brothers, the Ayllu K’anchaq Qollur. We’ll stay within their ancestral home, share traditional meals, and experience personalized healing handed down from generations in this sacred village in the Andes.
Tupaq and his Allyu will begin with an assessment of your multidimensional health and wellbeing. They’ll gift you with personalized practices and teachings to create more balance, flow, and connection in your life. You’ll experience healing directly from the Paqos while in Peru, then return home with the tools to continue your journey at home.
Your personalized healing practices might include:
We’ll begin each day with morning meditations. In the afternoons, you’ll receive ceremonies and practices from the Ayllu and focus on your healing journey. Throughout our time in the valley, we’ll visit sacred sites and eventually make a pilgrimage to the holy mountain of Apu Suntur.
You’ll have an opportunity to nourish your body with delicious and healthy Peruvian meals, explore the city of Cusco, shop at Andean markets, and visit historical sites.
You’ll leave…
After January 15, all payments are non-refundable. Deposits and payments cannot be transferred to another participant. We cannot provide refunds or discounts for arriving late, leaving early, unexpected illness, or prohibitive weather conditions—no exceptions. Travel insurance is required, to protect you from unforeseen circumstances that may result in travel changes or cancellation.
Surcharges from payments made with credit cards, Paypal, or international bank transfers are the responsibility of the participant. In the event that we cancel the pilgrimage, all participants will receive a full refund for the cost of registration. Travel costs will not be refunded.
All payments and are non-refundable and non-transferable. Be sure to purchase travel insurance to cover any trip interruptions.
About Maiima
Maiima is a somatic psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, and teacher, specializing in complex relational trauma resolution, nervous system regulation, and Andean Indigenous Energy Medicine.
She's a bridge-synthesizing modern neurobiology and ancient wisdom for her clients to support them on their journey to full integration and healing of the multidimensional self.
She has studied and taught somatic, shamanic, and energetic modalities for over twenty years, and continues to be a dedicated student of soul-embodied healing and indigenous energy medicine, as a Hampi Paqo under the guidance and mentorship of Túpaq Ttito Kuntur.
Through one-on-one healing, classes, spiritual mentoring, sacred music, pilgrimages to the mountains, and healing intensive workshops, Amy helps you harness your inner healer-to heal yourself, so you can live in authentic alignment in service to others.
About Túpaq
Túpaq Ttito Kuntur was born in Pomaqanchi, Peru. His journey in Andean medicine began as a child under the guidance of his grandfather and parents who worked with plant medicines as pampamisayoqs.
Túpaq has experienced many of the classic initiations for becoming a medicine person. He has been struck by lightning twice (as a child and an adult) and then as a teenager, he lost his grandfather and his father tragically soon. Sick with an incurable, mysterious illness, he left home to learn how to heal himself, and initiated his path as a paqo, first becoming a Pampamisayoq and then after many years of personal tests and training the Apus (the mountain spirits) gave him the Celestial Misha of High Misayoq, or Altomisayoq (Achiq Akulleq paqo).
In addition to being in service as High Misayoq, he has been called to become Willaq Uma a messenger and prophet of the ancestors and the spiritual cosmos, to continue with the prophecy that his Inka ancestors left, to gather and restore the spiritual power of the Tawantinsuyu of the Inkas, along with his brothers chosen for these times according to the Pachakutiq and the Inka prophecy.
About Carol:
After extensive training with indigenous teachers and the School of Lost Borders, Carol Parker has been leading vision quests in Death Valley and Canyon de Chelly since 2005. Starting in 2007 she began leading pilgrimages in the Peruvian Andes with traditional Paqos (high mountain shamans). She founded the Eco Psychology program at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM as one way to bring these teachings to her students. In addition, with the blessings of her North and South American indigenous elders, she incorporates wisdom teachings, ceremonies, and healing techniques into her work as a psychotherapist and graduate school professor.
Trip guides have taken all precautions to ensure and safe and healthy experience for all. Pilgrimage participants are expected to comply with all related COVID-19 requirements in the destination country as well as home county. Please check the CDC Guidelines for questions or concerns.
Hiking at high altitudes is part of this experience. Participants should plan to be physically fit for daily walking, hiking over uneven surfaces at high altitudes.
Please talk to Amy if you have concerns about this, or if think you might need horse for the camping portion of the trek.
We will provide you with a detailed packing list of what to bring by January 20th.
We will gather for a mandatory logistics session, via Zoom sometime mid-Febray. You'll also have an opportunity to ask questions about the packing list.
All inclusive meals: May 20 - June 2, 2024 (meals not included on travel days and days off in Cusco)
10 nights of Double Occupancy Lodging with private-shared bathrooms, in PIsac, Pomacanchi and Cusco - Check in to Melissa Wasi on May 20 and depart Cusco, Check out is on June 2nd, before 11 am
3 nights camping accommodations in the mountains. We will provide the tents. You will need to bring a warm sleeping bag and pad. We will give you more info about this at the meeting
We will begin our pilgrimage with three days of foundational teachings, practices and rituals to prepare for our time with the Paqos. Amy and Carol will guide this experiential learning in Pisac.
6 days of personal healings, ceremonies and divinations with the paqos
Payment to Túpaq’s team: Tupaq & Paqos, drivers, cooks, assistants.
Translator
US domestic, international, or flights within Peru
Tips for kitchen staff, paqos, drivers, cleaning staff (est. $400 or the week)
Travel medical insurance and trip cancellation insurance is required for this trip
2 night trip to Machu Picchu. Please inquire about this opportunity
Meals on travel days, and 2 additional meals on your own at a local restaurant
made necessary by airline schedule changes, or other factors.
This is a remote, mountain property. We invite participants to embrace this rare opportunity for a digital detox. WIFI will be available in Pisac and Cusco cafes and the hotels but is not reliable.
To and From the airport. Amy will arrange this for you, but you'll need to have soles to pay the driver.
Bienvenidos a Perú!
Arrive in Cusco by 2 p.m. on April 8th.
Travel to Pisac. Rest and acclimate.
Our program will begin, with a celebratory dinner together.
You’ll spend three days in Pisac with Amy, preparing for our work with the Paqos. This will set the tone for our journey and get to know one another. You’ll meet the other members of your spiritual community.
We’ll travel to the Sacred Valley of Pomaqanchi Wasi, the ancestral home of the Kuntur Brothers, Túpaq, T’tio and Claudio.
We’ll start each day with meditation and ceremonies.
Then in the afternoon, you’ll receive personal healing practices from the Ayllu.
We’ll travel to sacred sites, share traditional Indigenous meals, and revel in the peaceful beauty of the Andes mountains.
This is a rare opportunity to deeply explore your own personal healing practices while being held in a safe container by masterful healers and teachers. You’ll be immersed in the Indigenous culture of Tupaq and his brothers, the Ayllu K’anchaq Qollur. We’ll stay within their ancestral home, share traditional meals, and experience personalized healing handed down from generations in this sacred village in the Andes.
Tupaq and his Allyu will begin with an assessment of your multidimensional health and wellbeing. They’ll gift you with personalized practices and teachings to create more balance, flow, and connection in your life. You’ll experience healing directly from the Paqos while in Peru, then return home with the tools to continue your journey at home.
We’ll make a 3-day pilgrimage to the sacred mountains. On this holy walk, you’ll prepare to receive your healing medicine and commune with the guiding spirits. We’ll camp under the stars.
We’ll return to Cusco after lunch on May 31st, to rest and integrate from our sacred work with the Apus, the holy mountain spirits.
Free time and dinner on your own on the 31st.
On our final days in Peru, you’ll have an opportunity to explore the historical sites and visit local markets before returning home.
We’ll gather for a final celebratory dinner at a local restaurant with the Paqos and the Ayllu on the 19th.
We’ll say our final goodbyes and part ways!
You’ll carry all of your spiritual growth and teachings home with you to implement into your daily life.
