This isn’t just a retreat. It’s an initiation into a deeper way of being.
Journey with a traditional Andean medicine family, rooted in Andean and Amazonian lineages, into the living presence of sacred sites, ancestral rites, and sacred plant wisdom — through ceremonies approached with reverence, preparation, and integration — guiding you into deeper remembrance of who you are and why you are here.
Over 10 days in the heart of the Andes, within a natural mountain sanctuary, you’ll step into a more luminous expression of your life’s purpose.
Awakening to your true self is an ongoing journey — one that calls for courage, humility, and purposeful guidance and support.
This Sacred Journey to Peru is an invitation to rediscover the essence of your authentic self. For 10 days in the Peruvian Andes, you’ll commune with the land, the ancestors, sacred plants, and a living lineage, held in ceremonial contexts that have been carefully stewarded for generations.
This living field of consciousness supports deep inner guidance, the release of long-held patterns, and a renewed sense of clarity, courage, and connection to your life’s calling.
This journey offers a unique opportunity to be personally guided by Puma Fredy Quispe Singona and his family, lineage carriers of traditional Andean medicine. Their work arises from a way of life that honors Pachamama (Mother Earth), the ancestors, and the unseen forces that guide our evolution. With great care and integrity, they hold a ceremonial container that supports deep reconnection to your own inner wisdom and your place within the larger web of life.
This retreat is an initiation into a sacred way of living — transmitted through interacting with ceremonial plant medicines and sounds, honoring an ancient healing lineage, and spending time in communion with the land itself. Guided by an Andean medicine family, the container is held with humility, prayer, and deep respect for the intelligence of the plants and the unseen forces that guide our evolution.
Participation unfolds within a carefully held ceremonial field, with preparation, guidance, and support that honor each individual’s readiness and process.
This way of life holds the following as true:
Throughout the journey, sacred sites such as Machu Picchu, Qorikancha, and the Sacred Valley are approached as living teachers. Ceremony, music, prayer, and shared experience unfold within a supportive community, allowing insight and healing to arise naturally and fostering deep integration.
At its heart, this sacred journey is an invitation to release what no longer serves you, awaken what is ready to emerge, and step forward with greater alignment, belonging, and purpose — enabling you to carry the wisdom of the Andes back home with you.
Puma Fredy Quispe Singona, the steward of this sacred retreat, is an Andean Medicine Carrier (Paqo) of the Rainbow Lineage.
Puma began his training at the age of six with his grandfather, the late Don Maximo, after being struck by lightning — an event recognized in Andean culture as a call to the medicine path.
He carries the Rainbow Lineage of the Peruvian Inca people of Chinchero and has studied the direct lineages of the Huachuma plant (“San Pedro”) from the coastal Andes and of Ayahuasca, the sacred plant of the Amazonian Shipibo people.
Puma’s work is grounded in reverence for Pachamama, ancestral stewardship, and the healing of humanity’s relationship with the Earth. His family plays an integral role in holding the ceremonial and cultural container for this journey.
In addition to support from Puma’s family during your retreat, you’ll engage with powerful medicine music lineages and receive the gifts of divine ceremonial blessings and music from the premiere sound healer of Peru, Tito La Rosa.
We will also have the honor of being joined by a number of special wisdom carriers whose offerings are woven in service to the lineage and the journey itself — contributing wisdom, music, and presence that supports the ceremonial and integrative flow of the experience.
Complementing the power of these Peruvian masters, we have a team of global spiritual teachers joining us for this retreat, including Master Mingtong Gu and Dr. Marie Mbouni, as well as the ceremonial music and healing support of facilitator Lindsey Wise.
This integrated healing retreat also includes pre-journey support and onsite facilitation informed by modern psychology and medicine, so that the experience can be embodied as a catalyst for individual and collective healing and transformation.
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Ongoing Learning & Integration Resources
Embody your true essence within a community of fellow explorers in a magical land, and emerge more grounded and empowered — with greater clarity and an expanded vision for your life and your work on this planet.
If you have specific questions about the retreat or would like to schedule a one-on-one information session, please fill out this Retreat Interest Form and the Retreat Manager will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.
This journey is for seekers who are ready to awaken their deeper purpose within a supportive, like-hearted community in a magical land.
While previous experience working with sacred plants in a ceremonial context would be helpful, it’s not a requirement. You must be over 18+ to attend the retreat unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.
This retreat is especially for you if:
This journey is not for you if you have psychological or medical contraindications, or are not prepared to enter with reverence, respect, and a willingness to engage in deep inner work. Applicants over the age of 70 are required to provide medical clearance to ensure this journey is appropriate. A medical doctor will be on site to support participants throughout the retreat.
Participants Share Their Experiences From the Sacred Journey to Peru
Puma and Stephen Dinan, President and CEO of The Shift Network, talk about the unique authenticity of Puma’s lineage and how it supports our modern spiritual pathway with deep integrity and wisdom
In this trip of a lifetime, you will experience ancestral traditions that have been kept alive for thousands of years.
— Puma Fredy Quispe Singona
— Heather, Sacred Journey to Peru, December, 2024
The most powerful thing is ... the remembrance that we are all pollinators of consciousness and love... If you have the call, show up to it; you’ll never regret it.
— Andrea, Sacred Journey to Peru 2024
I experienced and saw the matrix that connects all life and everything in the cosmos. It’s a miraculous experience.
— Sally, Georgia, Sacred Journey to Peru, October 2022
It was so encouraging to watch the synchronicities of life unfold before my eyes on this journey. Every conversation, every meeting, every interaction, every ceremony, every moment in nature observing the elements and the creatures seemed so perfectly aligned from beginning to end. Absolutely amazing!
— Sarah, Sacred Journey to Peru, December 2023
I actually received a new energetic heart and was cleared of old patterns of carrying the unnecessary suffering, grief, and sadness of my paternal lineage.
— Corrina, Oregon, Sacred Journey to Peru, October 2022
My mother and I did this retreat together, and what a beautiful, loving, transformational journey it was. We already had a close relationship, but being in Peru with Puma, his family, and the beautiful Shift team deepened it in a way that is truly impossible to describe. If anything in your heart is saying to go, listen! This is a trip of a lifetime.
— Ryan, Sacred Journey to Peru, August 2023
The huachuma ceremonies were most helpful for me in working with forgiveness and healing family and ancestral trauma. The ayahuasca ceremony taught me how blessed I am with abilities of insight and knowingness without the need for plant medicines. I came to love and accept my “normal” state of consciousness as a blessed state and to not take it for granted.
— Anonymous, Sacred Journey to Peru, August 2023
I experienced a shift in awareness and presence; more ease with what is, including moments when shadow is passing through. I experienced more being in the present; increased moments of simple joy — catching myself and shifting to joy and gratitude.
— Judah, Sacred Journey to Peru, December 2023
During my journey I was able to release so much pain and grief over an extremely toxic relationship. I have felt a tremendous amount of peace since returning.
— Kim, Texas, Sacred Journey to Peru, October 2022
— Dennis, California, Sacred Journey to Peru, October 2022
— Retreat Faculty Anodea Judith: “It Felt Like Everyone Was Lit Up and Coming Into Their Truest Self”
— Retreat Faculty Master Mingtong Gu: “This Journey in Peru Has Been a Cosmic Feast”
— Terry N.: “It Was an Indigenous Cultural Homecoming to Aspects of Myself I Hadn’t Discovered”
— Andrea S.: “It’s a Joy to Consider All the Ways We Can Pollinate This Magic”
— Lloyd M.: “Shifting From Doing to Being Is a Very Deep Shift”
Bear in mind that this is the starting vision and that the cosmic plan will likely take over to make it even better!
If you have specific questions about the retreat or would like to schedule a one-on-one information session, please fill out this Retreat Interest Form and the Retreat Manager will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.
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
If you have specific questions about the retreat or would like to schedule a one-on-one information session, please fill out this Retreat Interest Form and the Retreat Manager will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.
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.
Quillarumiyoq is a sacred place of ceremony and sharing in communion with nature and the Apus (powerful mountain spirits), and serves as a portal to connect with Mother Earth and the Divine Feminine, fertility, and rebirth. Archeologists just recently discovered these sacred caves, altars, and ceremonial platforms in 2005, and they remain relatively lesser known.
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...
Dr. Marie Mbouni Trauma-Informed Ceremonies and Integration Facilitator, Spiritual Guide, Coach
Stephen Dinan CEO of The Shift Network, Author & Member of the Transformational Leadership Council
Lindsey Wise Ceremonial Energy Medicine, Music & Plant Medicine Facilitator
Lola Young Retreat Manager & Facilitator
Master Mingtong Gu Qigong Master Teacher
Tito La Rosa Flute Healing & Ceremonial Music
Ñutu Runas Celebratory, Fusion Folkloric Music
Wiñaypaq Takin Ceremonial Music
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Integration: Bring Your Alchemical Treasures Home to Share
As of today, available accommodations include:
6 double rooms and 8 triple rooms.
Because no single rooms are currently available, you may secure your spot by booking a double or triple occupancy room and request to be added to the single room waitlist. If you do book a double or triple room but don’t already have a travel companion, no worries — at your request, we’ll thoughtfully pair you with others who are also coming solo.
Munay Sonqo (Sacred Valley)
Munay Sonqo is a retreat center nestled in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Peru, and a nurturing sanctuary for profound journeys of self-discovery and personal growth. Embraced by the majestic Andes mountains and their guardians, the Apus, the center embraces the energy of the land and the wisdom of the ancient Incan culture permeate every aspect of Munay Sonqo, creating a powerful and transformative atmosphere. Expect to be greeted with family values and embodied love.
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.
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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.
If this journey is calling you, trust that nudge and act now. Once rooms are filled, registration will close.
If you have specific questions about the retreat or would like to schedule a one-on-one information session, please fill out this Retreat Interest Form and the Retreat Manager will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.
Payment Plans
To provide you with greater financial flexibility, a multi-pay option spreads your payments over several months. The earlier you register, the more months you can spread your payments over. See the payment boxes below for more information.
Cancellation & Refund Policy
Upon registration, you’ll be directed to complete a health application intake form. Should your health application be declined, all deposits, payments, and fees will be 100% refunded.
*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.
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