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The Path of the Ñusta Paqo ~ A Healing Pilgrimage to Peru
Cusco, Peru
Mar 20 - Apr 2, 2026
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Amy Nicholson, LLC
$4,295
Deposit: $795

About your trip

Join me in partnership with Túpaq Ttito Kuntur, and The Sacred Wisdom School of the Inkas for a spiritual healing pilgrimage to the Andes mountains of Peru.


Over 14 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, Amy and their ayllu of medicine people have partnered to bring you a solid foundation and experiential immersion in Andean Energy Medicine of the Inkas.  Under their guidance, within a sacred community of healers, 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.

Overview

An Immersive Indigenous Healing Experience 

You’ll initiate your healing journey, in Pisac where you’ll spend three days with Amy. She'll 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 life ways of the Andean Paqo tradition. 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 our community of paqo healers and teachers, 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 consciousness and relationship to the dimensions of being in relationship with the celestial forces, and engage in 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. 


You will begin your journey with a personalized divination reading (coca qhaway) of your multidimensional health and well being. You'll receive 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. This is an all levels journey. 


Your personalized healing practices might include: 

  • Divination ceremonies (coca-leaf readings) to understand the multidimensional aspects of your healing intention. For example, what the energetic, spiritual, and/or ancestral imbalances?  
  • One-on-one spiritual guidance
  • Personalized rituals and practices
  • Ceremonies and offerings specific to your healing path such as but not limited to:
    Ancestral healing, Andean Soul Retrievals, Personal initiation ceremonies in relationship with the mountain spirits, individual ceremonies for your medicine body, your mesa, or your altar.
  • Hands-on healing and energy medicine
  • Herbal detoxing, personalized medicinal herbal teas, and herbal baths
  • Personal fire ceremonies 

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 Ausgangate. 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. 

Benefits of the Healing Pilgrimage

You’ll leave…

  • Feeling clearer, calmer, and more connected to yourself, the earth, the Pachamama, and the celestial beings here to support you 
  • With personalized tools and practices to maintain that connection and develop it more profoundly when you go home 
  • With connections within a spiritual community of fellow travelers

Travel to Lima and Cusco


  • Flight details, and a copy of your valid passport, a copy of your travel insurance card, and the signed liability waiver are due no later than March 1st.
  • Plan to arrive to Pisac no later than 2 pm on March 20 -- Ideally, you'll arrive via red eye flight earlier in the morning. Your taxi will be waiting for you to take you to Pisac and rest. If you arrive a day early, you'll need to make your own hotel arrangements with Melissa Wasi.
  • You'll provide your flight itinerary travel information to Amy and she'll organize your transportation to Pisac.
  • You will need to have soles to pay the driver. More info on this to come.

Cancellation Policy

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. 

Your Guides


About Maiima


Maiima is a healer, teacher, and recording artist walking the sacred path of the paqo in the Inkan tradition. Her journey began in 2004, when the apus—mountain spirit beings—began to speak to her through dreams and song. In 2011, she received her first initiation from her teacher, Túpaq Ttito Kuntur, and continues to walk the path of the Ñusta Paqo under his guidance as a Hampiq Ñusta Yachachiq Paqo.

Her music is a natural outpouring of her spiritual practice—songs received in ceremony, pilgrimage, and moments of deep listening. Rooted in prayer, her voice carries a gentle frequency of remembrance and healing.

With more than two decades of experience in somatic, shamanic, and energetic healing, Maiima weaves her background as a psychotherapist with Andean energy medicine to support deep integration and soul embodiment. She offers one-on-one healing, group work, sacred music, and retreats as pathways for others to reconnect with the sacred and walk in alignment with their own truth.


  

About Túpaq


Túpaq Ttito Kuntur was born in Pomaqanchi, Peru, into a lineage of Andean medicine keepers. From a young age, he was guided by his grandfather and parents, both pampamisayoqs—keepers of the earth and carriers of plant wisdom. His early life was shaped by the living transmission of this ancestral path.

Marked by profound initiations, Túpaq has walked the path of the paqo with great sacrifice and devotion. He was struck by lightning twice—once as a child and again as an adult—and endured the sudden loss of both his grandfather and father during adolescence. In the wake of grief and an unexplainable illness, he set out alone to seek healing. This journey of self-initiation led him to become a Pampamisayoq, and through many years of rigorous training, initiations, and tests, the apus—sacred mountain spirits—bestowed upon him the Celestial Misha of Altomisayoq (Achiq Akulleq Paqo), a rare and sacred calling.

Beyond his role as a High Misayoq, Túpaq has also been called to walk the path of the Willaq Uma—a messenger and seer of the ancestral and cosmic realms. He carries forward the prophecy of the Inka, working to restore the spiritual power of the Tawantinsuyu, the fourfold sacred territory of the Inkan world, alongside others chosen for this time of great turning, as foretold in the Pachakutiq.

    

Health & Safety

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.

What's included

Meals

All inclusive meals (meals not included on travel days and days off in Cusco) You'll be given a specific itinerary for planning purposes.

Pre-departure Meeting

On Saturday, January 9:00-10:15 AM, We will gather for a logistics session, via Zoom . You'll receive a detailed itinerary and also have an opportunity to ask questions about the packing list.

Detailed Packing Guide

We will provide you with a detailed packing list of what to bring, and what not to bring.

Double Occupancy Lodging

10 nights of Double Occupancy Lodging with private-shared bathrooms, in PIsac, Pomacanchi and Cusco - Check in to Melissa Wasi on April 8, and depart Cusco, Check out is on April 20th at 11 am.

3 Nights Camping

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

Foundational Teachings

We will begin our pilgrimage with three days of foundational teachings, practices and rituals to prepare for our time with the Paqos. Amy will guide this experiential learning in Pisac.

Personal Healings

6 days of personal healings, ceremonies and divinations with the paqos

Paqo Team

Payment to Túpaq’s team: Tupaq & Paqos, drivers, cooks, assistants.

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What's not included

All Flights

US domestic, international, or flights within Peru

Baggage Fees

Gratuities

Tips for kitchen staff, paqos, drivers, cleaning staff (est. $400 or the week)

Travel Insurance

Travel medical insurance and trip cancellation insurance is required for this trip

Machu Picchu

2 night trip to Machu Picchu. Please inquire about this opportunity

Meals on Travel Days

Meals on travel days, and 2 additional meals on your own at a local restaurant

Additional hotel nights

made necessary by airline schedule changes, or other factors.

Consistent WIFI

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.

Transportation Fee

To and From the airport. Amy will arrange this for you, but you'll need to have soles to pay the driver.

Arrive and Settle

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March 20-22

Bienvenidos a Perú!

Arrival & Acclimation in Pisac

Please plan to arrive in Cusco by 2:00 p.m. on March 20th. From there, you'll travel approximately 45 minutes by private car to our beautiful home base, Melissa Wasi, nestled in the Sacred Valley.

We’ll begin our pilgrimage with a celebratory welcome dinner, followed by an opening circle to ground, connect, and set our intentions for the journey ahead.

You’ll spend the next three days in Pisac with Maiima, gently acclimating to the altitude and preparing for our sacred work with the Paqos.

This time will support you in gently landing in your body, attuning to the spirit of the Andes, and forming meaningful connections with the others in your spiritual community. You’ll also have the opportunity to explore the vibrant village of Pisac—its colorful markets, local artisans, and sacred landscapes—to begin immersing yourself in the beauty and richness of Andean culture.

Travel to Pomacanchi

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MARCH 23-28 | Immersion at Pomaqanchi Wasi


An Indigenous Healing Immersion in the Ancestral Home of the Kuntur Family

We’ll journey deeper into the heart of the Andes, traveling to Pomaqanchi Wasi, the ancestral home of Túpaq and his brothers Willka Picchu and T’ito Qoñispa. Here, you’ll be warmly welcomed into the Ayllu—their sacred community. Surrounded by the majestic mountains and lagoons of Pomacanchi, this is where your personal healing path begins.

Each morning, we will rise with the sun and begin the day with meditation and ceremonial practices, gently aligning body, mind, and spirit with the energies and rhythms of the land. In the afternoons, you’ll receive personalized healing and individual sessions with Maiima and the Ayllu K’anchaq Qollur, guided by the profound wisdom of the Andean lineage.


Throughout our time together, we’ll visit sacred sites, sing together, share traditional Indigenous meals, and be held in the quiet majesty of the Apus—the revered mountain spirits who watch over this holy land.


Holy Mountain Pilgrimage

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MARCH 29-April 1


We’ll embark on a three-day pilgrimage into the heart of the sacred mountains. On this holy walk, you’ll be invited to deepen your communion with the guiding spirits and prepare to receive your personal healing medicine. Each step becomes a prayer, each breath a conversation with the unseen. We’ll camp under the stars, surrounded by the silence and wisdom of the Apus.


After lunch on April 1st, we’ll return to Cusco to rest, reflect, and begin integrating the sacred work we’ve done in the mountains.


The evening of the 1st is yours to enjoy. Dinner is on your own, and you’ll have free time to wander, rest, or explore the city’s ancient magic at your own pace.

Explore Cusco

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April 1-2 | Integration & Celebration

In our final days together, you’ll have time to explore Cusco’s historical sites, visit local markets, and take in the vibrant culture of this ancient city. It’s a spacious time to reflect, integrate, and honor all you’ve received.

On the evening of April 2nd, we’ll gather for a final celebratory dinner at a beloved local restaurant—joined by the Paqos and the Ayllu—to share stories, blessings, and gratitude as we prepare to return home.

Travel Home

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April 3 | Departure

We’ll say our final goodbyes and begin the journey home—each of us carrying the wisdom, healing, and spiritual growth received during our time in the Andes.

May the teachings, blessings, and connections you’ve gathered continue to unfold and integrate into your daily life, guiding you with clarity, strength, and reverence as you return to your world.

About your organizer

Hi! I’m Amy, your partner in healing. Together, we will heal your trauma, nourish your nervous system, and open the door to full embodied presence so that you can live your life fully expressed, offering your unique gifts to the world. Bridging modern neurobiology, and ancient shamanic healing wisdom, I guide my clients in the process, and practice of self-healing. I teach my clients to cultivate habitual, spiritual presence, to experience a deeper connection to themselves, their families, their communities & the earth.

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