Pilgrimage Retreat 23-days – Following Wiracocha’s Footsteps, Peru 2026

Date 24 Apr 2026 until 16 May 2026

Start on first day at 00:00

Finish on last day at 00:00

Location
Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca

Country Peru

According to some myths:

In the beginning, all was darkness, and nothing existed. Wiracocha rose from the waters of Lake Titikaka and created the land, the Sun, the Moon and stars before returning to the lake. He taught people kindness and the art of living in harmony with nature. The story of Wiracocha is not just a myth but a profound spiritual teaching which we will explore during our Pilgrimage.
This is the essence of our Pilgrimage: To understand the Wiracocha’ Seed of Creation within us and learn how to nurture, sustain, and share its energy.

Purification & Healing  – Sacred Valley 12 days

• Cusco: To open up the Wiracocha’s Seed within us, we will first undergo a purification and healing journey in the Sacred Valley. We will start in Cusco, where we will adjust to the high altitude (3000 meters) and the Andean cosmology. We will go to the Wiracocha stone in the centre of Cusco to purify. Then, to clarify our intentions, we will explore some powerful sacred sites around the city, such as Saksaywaman and Q’Enqo.
• Taray: From there, we will travel to Taray, a one-hour drive from Cusco. We will stay at the Ayllu Centre, where our Medicine friend Alonso Del Rio will offer us three Ayahuasca ceremonies and one Temascal.  Between the ceremonies, our Curandero de Sonidos, Tito la Rosa, will offer a private healing sound ceremony.
  If possible, we will also meet our beautiful Andean healer, Vilma Penido, for a Coca Leaf reading.

Nurturing & Empowering – Lake Titikaka 11 days

• Lake Titikaka: After our purification and healing journey, we will embark on a pilgrimage to Lake Titikaka, the birthplace of Wiracocha and the precious Tiwanaku culture. We will visit several sacred sites such as Pucara and Cutimbo. Then, we will travel to Copacabana in Bolivia, stopping along the way at the powerful and sacred sites of Aramu Muru Gate and Inka Qamaña.
• Isla del Sol: From Copacabana, we will take a boat to Isla del Sol. We will stay at some of the local hotels and live a simple life in harmony with Pachamama (Mother Earth) and Inti (Father Sun). Our central sacred places will be Titikala Sacred Rock and Chincana, some pre-Inca sites built by the Tiwanaku culture. There, we will practice Healing and empowering methods, such as “Sun Drinking,” to awaken the male aspect of our Wiracocha Seed.
• Isla de la Luna: At some point, we will take the boat to the Isla de la Luna to honour the feminine aspect of our Wiracocha Seed at the Mamakuna Temple. After receiving this harmonisation, we will return to the mainland of Bolivia and travel to the Tiahuanaco village.
• Tiwanaku Temple: There we will bathe in the high vibration of Tiwanaku Temple. Here we will be at the Taypiqala, the Stone at the Centre. We will be immersed in the most ancient Sacred sites of the Andes. We will empower our Seed with the mysterious energy of Pumapunku, Kalasasaya, the Pyramid of Akapana, and the Sun Gate.
• La Paz: After being in the ancient world of Wiracocha, we will return to our present world by staying in La Paz. We will explore how to bring our Seed to joyfully blossom in our world!

What is a Pilgrimage Retreat?

This retreat is structured as a journey to some specific places in the world. The journey is explored as a pilgrimage, not to an outer place but to the often-forgotten inner place where our essential being awaits recognition and manifestation. Every step of the outer journey is utilised to travel into ourselves, to our own sacred place, where we pay homage to the being we are. In the process, we shake ourselves out of our comfort zone in every possible way, so we can revalue our connection to life and ourselves. We travel as a family, carrying only the essentials. We have a direction to go in, but we do not plan all the steps needed to get there. We move intuitively, a spontaneous intelligence guiding our steps. The whole process tremendously increases our presence in the moment, with great aliveness, creatively and consciously responding to all unpredictable situations. The challenges (there are many!) that such travelling provides stir up awareness, passion, and unexploited positive qualities and inner wisdom in us. This grounds us in our essence, at the source of consciousness, from which we can reshape our lives according to the principles of harmony unlocked by our inner pilgrimage.

• The main areas of exploration:
  – Coming out of our comfort zone
  – Re-connecting with our inner source
  – Developing presence in the moment
  – Letting go of prejudice
  – Revaluing our purpose in life

Some words from Pema:
“This retreat calls up the vibrant fire of the spiritual traveller in us. We are a traveler of this life journey, not fixed beings. We are in perpetual evolution; on a journey from one shore to another, exploring all the inner and outer mysterious aspects of life. We tend to forget about it because of our sedentary, materialistic lifestyle, which favours the outer world and denies the inner. This results in valuing things more than living beings. It makes us shut down the part of ourselves that feels the alive connectedness between everything and everyone; the part we may call our sense of sacredness, of oneness, of unity… It is a kind of sleep we indulge in, without even noticing it, as it feels comfortable and safe. But there comes a moment, to every sane person, when an unpleasant, confusing dissatisfaction from deep within surfaces. This reminds us to reconnect with the reality of life’s beauty, which in our sleepy state we have totally denied. The Pilgrimage Retreat offers this precious connection back to us…”

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