Join Us on a 10-Day Retreat and Trip of a Lifetime!

With Andean Medicine Carrier
Puma Fredy Quispe Singona

Master Mingtong Gu, Dr. Marie Mbouni, Penelope Smith, Lindsey Wise, and Stephen Dinan

December 1-10, 2025
Urubamba, Sacred Valley & Cusco

Take a journey to the frontier of your consciousness, retreat in a natural mountain sanctuary, open your heart to new depths, and propel your life to new heights.

Earth is currently going through a shift into a new level of consciousness, according to Andean Medicine carrier and lead faculty Puma Fredy Quispe Singona, in which the old destructive patterns in our human story are reaching their conclusion and a new energetic template is being born.

This shift is happening through us. We’ve all endured traumas and hardships that may be perpetuating patterns that don’t serve us or the greater good. To emerge as conscious leaders for this new era, we need to clear space within ourselves and allow our heart to guide us forward.

It’s time to repair our personal history and reconnect our bodies, minds, and souls to the divine soul of the world.

This Sacred Journey to Peru is a unique opportunity to activate a new and awakened you .

Your 10-Day Program Includes:

• Guided visits to sacred sites, including Machu Picchu, Cusco, Qorikancha, Pisac, Chinchero, and Saqsaywaman
• Two nights of ceremony with Ayahuasca in a traditional context (optional)
• Two ceremonies with Huachuma (San Pedro) in a traditional context (optional)
• Ceremonies with non-psychoactive plants (Bobinsana and Cacao)
• Special welcome circle and closing night celebrations
• Sacred music and voice activation sessions throughout the retreat
• Condor Qigong practices to harmonize your energy
• Special Andean cultural experiences
• All food, lodging, and travel, from arrival in Cusco to departure
• Small-group integration sessions throughout the journey to develop intimacy, community, and mutual support
• Expert talks on the frontier of healing with sacred plants
• Online Community Connection video calls to meet fellow travelers
• 2 preparation and 3 post-retreat integration video sessions with facilitators
• Ongoing access to 2 of The Shift Network’s popular online courses with retreat faculty and a curated collection of powerful summit sessions:
  • Working With the Plant Spirits of Ayahuasca & Huachuma: Entering Botanical Portals to Higher Consciousness With Reverence, Respect & Right Relationship
  • 7-Module Video Course With Puma Fredy Quispe Singona
    Become an Animal Whisperer: Develop Telepathic Connections to Understand, Heal & Live in Deeper Harmony With Animals & Nature
  • 7-Module Video Course With Puma Fredy Quispe Singona
    10 Selected Shift Network Summit Sessions
  • Video Teachings From the Shamanic Wisdom Summit and the Psychedelic Healing Summit

WHO IS THIS RETREAT FOR?

This journey is for those with a courageous heart and strong mind, who are ready to delve into the core of their being to realize the truth of who they are with a community of fellow explorers in a magical land.

While it’s helpful if you have previous experience working with sacred plants in a ceremonial context, it’s not a requirement. All races, colors, genders, ages (over 18), and religious orientations are welcome.

This retreat is especially for you if:

• You’re ready to heed the “calling” to a more profound way of being
• You’ve felt called to explore sacred plant medicines in a safe, legal, and supportive context even if you’ve never done so before
• You’d like to experience and integrate the power of music and sound to heal
• You’ve had powerful experiences with psychedelics that provided a glimpse into their healing potential, and you’d like to go further
• Certain parts of your history are holding you back, and you desire healing so you can move forward in life
• You have a large vision for your business and want to clarify and commit to the path forward
• You feel like you’ve reached a plateau on your growth path and are curious how plant medicines might open you to another level
• You’re being intuitively guided to Peru

This journey is not for you if you have psychological or medical contraindications, or you’re not prepared to enter with a spirit of respect, reverence, and willingness to do the real work that’s often required for lasting results. We are requiring any applicants over 70 to have a special medical clearance to ensure that this is an appropriate next step for you.

Participants Share Their Experiences From the Sacred Journey to Peru

A PERSONAL INVITATION FROM STEPHEN DINAN
CO-FOUNDER & CEO OF THE SHIFT NETWORK

Dear Fellow Seeker,

What if you had an opportunity to take an epic transformational journey that would heal your heart and expand you into your highest potential while advancing your life mission in powerful ways — all while building a soul family for support and collaboration?

OurSacred Journey to Peru offers just that kind of magic — love, culture, adventure, and transformation.

Part of theSacred Journey to Peru includes the chance to work with psychedelic plant medicines in a traditional context. Working in this way is proving to be one of the fastest accelerators for those on the path of transformation, providing an opportunity to engage in rapid healing, the downloading of new roadmaps, and insight into core healing work.

More people are sharing their stories publicly as the path to legalization advances in the North. As the founding CEO of The Shift Network, I can attest that some of our most powerful and effective programs have come to me in crystal-clear ways during plant medicine ceremonies.

The good news is that, in Peru, this work is already fully legal and builds off legacies and lineages that have been operating for hundreds of years. There’s a sacred culture of working with plant medicines for healing and for vision that weaves together beautiful music, shamanic healing, and vibrational medicine to help transform body, mind, and spirit.

We believe that this Sacred Journey to Peru may well be the best investment you can make in advancing your life work and in your awakening — with the goal being for you to experience profound openings, receive deep healings, and be blessed with fresh downloads that illuminate the path to a brighter future for you and your life’s work.

This will also be a special trip because we have the chance to learn from Penelope Smith, the grandmother of animal communication, who will help us attune to wisdom from the condor, hummingbird, and puma. We’ll also have the first offerings of Condor Qigong with Master Mingtong Gu.

In partnership,
Stephen Dinan

P.S. With a deep lineage rooted in the ancient traditions of the region, Puma brings not only years of experience but also a profound spiritual connection to the retreats he leads, making him the ideal guide for this journey of self-discovery and healing. Under his guidance, you'll experience the true essence of plant medicine healing in a way that's both authentic and deeply personal.

RETREAT FACULTY AND PARTICIPANTS SHARE THEIR GRATITUDE FOR THE SACRED JOURNEY TO PERU

Itinerary Overview

Bear in mind that this is the starting vision and that the cosmic plan will likely take over to make it even better!

• Day 1 — Arrive at Cusco airport and be transported to the beautiful Taypikala Valle Sagrado Retreat Center for our welcome circle and dinner
• Day 2 — Introductory talks, preparation with faculty, first group circles, and visit the Chinchero weaving co-op
• Day 3 — A full-day journey to visit the sacred site of Machu Picchu
• Day 4 — Huachuma ceremony, accompanied by Wiñaypaq Takin, and evening sound-healing ceremony with Tito La Rosa
• Day 5 — Morning faculty talks, group circles, Despacho ceremony with Andean elders, and evening Ayahuasca ceremony
• Day 6 — Personal time, faculty talks, group circles, and evening Ayahuasca ceremony
• Day 7 — Huachuma ceremony and a Creative Sharing Circle in the evening
• Day 8 — Expedition to the sacred site of Pisac
• Day 9 — Transfer hotels to Palacio del Inka, visit Saqsaywaman and Qorikancha, explore Cusco, and a final night celebration with music and dancing with Ñutu Runas
• Day 10 — Closing circle with a blessing ceremony to complete our journey

ABOUT THE PLANT MEDICINES

The following descriptions were developed by Puma and his team, who see these plant medicines primarily through a traditional healing lens. Note that it’s not required to work with these plant medicines during the trip. You’ll always have the choice and you can opt to commune directly with the healing spirits, as you’ll learn from Puma’s online program.

San Pedro (often called Huachuma) is a cactus that’s native to the Andes and known to have been used by pre-Inca civilizations for up to 4,000 years. The active component found in this medicine is mescaline, and the nature or personality of this plant is perceived by many as the masculine grandfather spirit. It’s often depicted as having the spirit of the hummingbird.

Used to help perceive our self-created barriers and limitations, this medicine greatly aids in opening and connecting with our hearts. Each ceremony is a meeting with ourselves, Mother Earth, and the Divine, serving as a medicinal mirror to help us see where we hold on to self-limiting beliefs and patterns, gently guiding us to release what no longer serves us. San Pedro ceremonies are performed with psychological preparation and physical cleansing.

Ayahuasca is an ancient visionary curative medicine that comes from the Amazon. It’s traditionally used in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil. Ayahuasca has two main components — the Ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and the chacruna leaves (Psychotria viridis). The spirit and character of Ayahuasca is divinely feminine, perceived as a woman or snake. This visionary plant medicine is often called “the purge,” as it helps us cleanse our physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual bodies through a powerful releasing process. This medicine moves through the body, activating and awakening our sleeping energies. When these energies are activated, they’re expressed in different ways and are ultimately removed from the body. The purge process can take innumerable forms, commonly through tremors, vomiting, diarrhea, strong emotions, tears, yawns, laughter, breath, and more.

Ceremonies that involve deep physical and energetic cleaning and cleansing often precede ceremonies with deep vision and light. The journey is often difficult to understand in the moment. However, with the benefit of hindsight and integration, the deep wisdom of the plants reveals itself in time. It’s commonly understood that the medicine will give you what you need and what you want.

Ayahuasca heals the spirit deeply and also teaches us what’s necessary for us to know, guiding us where it needs to guide us and helping us understand our spiritual world. Prior to the Ayahuasca sessions, it’s extremely important to participate in preparation and stimulation sessions that help us discern what we should learn and what we should ignore.

Psychoactive Masters of the Plant Spirit Kingdom

SACRED SITES VISITS

Machu Picchu is a citadel built on top of the mountains right above the Willka Mayu or Willka Nota River, where the altar of Apu Salkantay, the most important mountain spirit god of the Inca people, resides. Built with white granite in the shape of the condor, and known as the crystal condor, the myth and legend is that the crystal condor carries the soul of the people of this Earth to the sun of divine origins. In Machu Picchu, you can connect with your original soul purpose and learn what you need to manifest in this lifetime, to leave as an offering and a legacy for generations to come. Machu Picchu is the temple of liberation, self-realization, and enlightenment, and honors the most important constellation of the Inca people — the southern cross constellation — also known as the heart of the Milky Way.

Qorikancha, the “Temple of the Sun,” is the center of centers of the Inca civilization. Completely adorned in gold, silver, and precious stones, with life-sized sacred spiritual symbols, it represents the cosmovision. This land is known as a vortex, where many ley lines converge. It was believed that the disc representing the sun was in this temple — made of crystals and precious stones (some believe from materials not of this Earth!). Top chiefs, governors, military and religious leaders, and high priests and priestesses came to this sacred temple to ask the oracle questions and make important decisions for the Inca civilization. The people of the community were only allowed outside the temple walls to pray to their ancestors, the sun disc, and the Divine… for enlightenment, self-realization, and illumination.

Saqsaywaman, the “Temple of the Enlightened,” is also known as “satisfied hawk” or “great head of the puma.” This temple was for the head of administration, top military, government, and religious leaders. The enlightened head of the puma is a terrace in the shape of lightning with lithic pieces and stones brought from a quarry 25 km southeast of Cusco, weighing approximately 120 tons. At this temple, you can connect with the power of leadership, the enlightened mind, and enlightened consciousness. Here, the Andean people give homage to Father Sun and Mother Earth and keep ancestral ceremonies, rituals, and offerings of gratitude alive.

Chinchero, the “Land of the Rainbow,” was derived from the word Sincheraq — the people of highly evolved souls who discovered and offered their gifts from an early age to the family and community through the Tawantinsuyu (the four regions of the sun). In ancient times, this was a university where young people were trained in the arts of weaving, architecture, engineering, astronomy, and military. Today, Chinchero is an amazing altar for the sunset. It’s believed that these altars facing the west are meant to honor the ancestors, leaders, and high priests and priestesses, who have set with the sun and, with their light, are still guarding us to be in service… for our evolution and self-realization. Chinchero is also known as the land of the rainbow and is the temple of the seven rays, which are the most important lineages and traditions of the world.

Pisac is a testament to the majestic beauty and rich history of the Inca civilization. This ancient site, with its intricate agricultural terraces, celestial observatories, and imposing temples, offers more than a trip into Peru's past; it invites you to dive into a world where every stone tells a story of spiritual meaning, astronomical precision, and community harmony. Pisac comes from the Quechua "Pisaq,” which means to leave and to transcend. It’s the flight of the condor in a spiral as it takes all the souls of this plane to the realms of the Gods. It’s a powerful place to connect with our ancestors and receive their blessings. This is why it is built in the shape of a flying Condor towards the North portal of the Cosmos. The Inca architects designed the whole site so that when you are on its mountain tops you can have the view of the Condor as it soars the highest skies.

Lead Faculty
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Puma Fredy Quispe Singona Paqo, Andean Medicine Carrier

Puma Fredy Quispe Singona began training with his grandfather, the late Don Maximo, after being struck by lightning at the age of six — learning and mastering the Andean traditions and rituals of the Rainbow Lineage from the Inca people of Chinchero. He has studied the direct lineages of the Huachuma plant from the coast of Peru and with Ayahuasca, the sacred plant of the Amazonian Shipibo people. Puma conveys a profound respect for Pachamama (Mother Earth) and ancestral plant medicine. He facilitates ceremonies to support our global consciousness awakening and has been featured in books and films about the Andean medicine path. Read full bio...

CO-FACULTY & FACILITATORS
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Stephen Dinan CEO & Co-Founder of The Shift Network

Dr. Marie Mbouni Trauma-Informed Ceremonies and Integration Facilitator, Spiritual Guide, Coach

Master Mingtong Gu Qigong Master Teacher

Penelope Smith Pioneering Grandmother of Interspecies Telepathic Communication

Lindsey Wise Ceremonial Energy Medicine, Music & Plant Medicine Facilitator

Lola Young Retreat Manager & Facilitator

Special Musicians
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Tito La Rosa Flute Healing & Ceremonial Music

Ñutu Runas Celebratory, Fusion Folkloric Music

Wiñaypaq Takin Ceremonial Music

Music Medicine

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT PUMA

Preparation & Integration Sessions

• Preparation for your journey — dates and times to be announced closer to the trip
• Integration sessions to turn your journey into new opportunities for your life — dates to be announced

Integration: Bring Your Alchemical Treasures Home to Share

Ongoing Access to 3 Free Online Study Resources Included in This Journey (Valued at $1,100)

• Working With the Plant Spirits of Ayahuasca and Huachuma: Entering Botanical Portals to Higher Consciousness With Reverence, Respect & Right Relationship
  7-Module Online Video Course With Puma Fredy Quispe Singona
  • Immerse yourself in this dynamic 7-week journey of powerful personal transformation and healing through the ancient teachings, powerful practices, and ceremony. You’ll be working with two sacred ancestral plant medicines — Ayahuasca and Huachuma — to help you evolve humanity, heal our planet, and meet your soul’s purpose.
• Become an Animal Whisperer: Develop Telepathic Connections to Understand, Heal & Live in Deeper Harmony With Animals & Nature
  7-Module Video Course With Penelope Smith, Pioneering Grandmother of Interspecies Telepathic Communication
  • Learn how to telepathically communicate with your pets by shifting your consciousness — with time-tested methods and real-time practices designed to bring peace, harmony, and joy into your own life. Penelope shares new wisdom teachings and practical exercises so you can practice embracing your innate interspecies communication skills and receive immediate feedback and validation. As you develop your own style, you’ll help your animal friends heal from their issues — and your relationships with them and other species around you will deepen and grow.
• 10 Curated Summit Sessions
  Video Teachings From the Shamanic Wisdom Summit and Psychedelic Healing Summit
  • The Shift Network summits are online conferences or events that gather wise and renowned voices who share their wisdom about the current trends in a particular topic area. The teachings from the Shamanic Wisdom Summit offer potent practices and rituals to guide you through a process of rediscovery. These sessions will help you renew, reactivate, re-empower, and uplevel your mind, body, and spirit — on behalf of yourself, your community, and the planet. The teachings from the Psychedelic Healing Summit will help you learn about sacred plant medicine, Indigenous beliefs and traditions, and the latest psychedelic research, so you can safely explore techniques and practices designed to offer deep healing and expansion of your consciousness.

Hotels & Accommodations

Taypikala (Sacred Valley)
Urubamba, the original Quechua name, means “prairies of light.” This beautiful hotel is surrounded by the majestic Andes. The weather conditions of this valley are ideal to acclimate and begin your journey. Situated between the mountains and the Urubamba River, you’ll feel an immediate sense of comfort and relaxation, surrounded by large gardens and outdoor spaces with megalithic stones and monoliths that adorn the natural-cultural landscape.

Palacio del Inka (Cusco)
Considered a historic landmark, Palacio del Inka is a 5-centuries-old mansion located in the heart of downtown Cusco. The luxury hotel’s unique and captivating design embraces historical aspects of Peruvian culture while maintaining world-class luxury and modern conveniences. You’ll find stone archways, authentic Hispanic art, and ornate gilded antiques. Join a delectable meal at Inti Raymi, the hotel’s on-site restaurant serving an array of epicurean cuisine, and enjoy a selection of wines. Harmonize your body and soul with a signature treatment or massage at the luxurious Andes Spirit Spa. Directly across from Koricancha, the “Temple of the Sun,” this luxury hotel is just minutes from the shops and museums in the main square.

Local Immersion & Accommodations

APPLY & INVEST IN YOUR GROWTH

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Price is per person; airfare not included

Reserve your spot with a $500 application fee and deposit. Upon registration, you’ll be directed to a health application intake form to complete. Should your health application be declined, all deposits, payments, and fees will be refunded in full. See details below.

CANCELLATION & REFUND POLICY

• Upon registration, you’ll be directed to a health application intake form to complete. Should your health application be declined, all deposits, payments, and fees will be 640 refunded.
• In the last year, there has been some instability in Peru which appears to be over. Rest assured, if The Shift Network needs to cancel the retreat in the event of a recurrence, all payments and fees will be refunded in full.*
• In the highly unlikely event that the retreat is canceled by The Shift Network, all deposits, payments, and fees will be refunded in full.*
• Once your health application intake form is accepted, the following refund policy applies:*
  • Until July 31, 2025: All deposits, payments, and fees are fully refundable, less a $500 USD application and processing fee.
  • August 1, 2025 to September 15, 2025: All deposits, payments, and fees are 50% refundable.
  • As of September 16, 2025: No refunds.
• Deposits, payments, and fees must be paid in full prior to attending the retreat.
• Deposits, payments, and fees are listed in USD. You are responsible for any additional fees you may be charged by your financial institution such as foreign currency exchange fees if paying from a non-U.S. account. Contact Customer Support if you require assistance with your payment.

*Please note that this refund policy pertains to the payments and fees you have paid to The Shift Network for the event as described above, and does not apply to your airfare and any miscellaneous costs, which are not included with your registration.