Pachamama Sonqo
September 28 – October 11
2026
A Journey of
Return
Into Landscapes That Remember Who You Are, Even When You Have Forgotten.
Pachamama Sonqo
September 28 – October 11
2026
A Journey of
Return
Into Landscapes That Remember Who You Are, Even When You Have Forgotten.
Location
Sacred Valley, Peru
Dates
September 28 – October 11
2026
Nature
Pilgrimage Retreat
• The invitation •
Your yes to this pilgrimage reflects a willingness to pause… to listen.
Thank you for hearing the call to journey with us to the Andes and the Sacred Valley.
It takes courage to step away from the familiar and enter sacred landscapes with an open heart. We are honoured to walk alongside you in this unfolding, a journey where ancient wisdom and lived experience meet, inviting deep remembering, reconnection, and quiet transformation.
The Journey
A Deep Return
To The Heart
This pilgrimage weaves together embodiment practices, sacred ritual, and ancestral medicine to support a deep return to the heart.
Through prayerful walking, time in nature, and the master plant Wachuma, we create space to gently soften the layers that have formed around who we truly are.
The journey is held within community, where each person’s unfolding contributes to the field of shared learning, healing, and remembrance.
• Who This Pilgrimage Is For •
Those who feel called,
even if they can’t fully explain why
Thank you for hearing the call to journey with us to the Andes and the Sacred Valley.
It takes courage to step away from the familiar and enter sacred landscapes with an open heart. We are honoured to walk alongside you in this unfolding, a journey where ancient wisdom and lived experience meet, inviting deep remembering, reconnection, and quiet transformation.
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Those ready to explore or deepen their relationship with the master plant teacher Wachuma (San Pedro) in a prayerful, embodied, and well-held container.
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Individuals seeking to integrate their inner life into their everyday living, in service to themselves, their families, and the wider world. Your ready to be all of You.
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Therapists, coaches, facilitators, and healers who wish to step out of holding space for others and into tending their own depths. A Sacred Pilgramage for You and your inner world.
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Anyone called to courageous self-inquiry, ancestral healing, and a renewed sense of belonging within the web of life. This pilgramage journey is for you!
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Seekers drawn to prayer, ceremony, music, and embodiment as pathways to the sacred. Life as sacred. Breath as sacred. Nature, connection and community as sacred.
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• The Medicine •
Wachuma
(San Pedro)
Wachuma is a sacred cactus that has been used in Andean traditions for thousands of years as a medicine of the heart, known for its gentle yet profound nature, supporting a deepening of connection to the Earth, to spirit, and to the truth that lives within.
Mountain Ceremonies
The Andes offer a powerful setting for this work. Surrounded by the Apus — the sacred mountains — we enter into ceremony through prayer, stillness, walking, and quiet reflection. The landscape itself becomes part of the process, a mirror supporting a sense of belonging within the greater web of life.
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A Day of Communion
These ceremonial days unfold slowly, allowing space to listen, feel, and receive insight in a grounded and supported way. Rather than seeking peak experiences, we approach the medicine as a teacher — one that invites openness of heart, clarity, and a deeper relationship with nature.
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Throughout the journey, the emphasis remains on integration, bringing the wisdom received into lived experience, in ways that support meaningful and lasting change.
• What to expect •
Held within a tapestry of practices
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PREPARATION
Before the journey begins, you will receive guidance for working safely and respectfully with plant medicine. You’ll explore how to set clear intentions, how to pray, and how to enter into meaningful relationship with the more-than-human world — alongside practical tools for grounding into your body, breath, and the living forces of nature.
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CEREMONIES
Participate in Wachuma ceremonies held by deeply experienced lineage carriers in the Andean tradition. You’ll also engage in traditional despacho ceremony, water blessings, elemental altar building, and offerings to the land in reciprocity and reverence.
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EMBODIMENT & INTEGRATION
Each day is thoughtfully held within a tapestry of practices designed to root your experiences into the body. You’ll be nourished through authentic movement, creative expression, music, tea ceremonies, dance, nature-based journaling, and grounding foods — gentle yet potent invitations to weave the invisible into the visible.
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DAILY LIFE ON RETREAT
Daily life on pilgrimage moves with the rhythm of the land itself. Guided ceremonial hikes to sacred sites, transport to local villages, tea ceremonies, sharing circles, and movement practices offer moments of quiet presence and a deepening into the lessons retrieved.
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Are you ready to come home to yourself in one of the most sacred landscapes on Earth?
• What’s Included •
Everything you need to arrive fully
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One group preparation call before the pilgrimage
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All locally sourced, nourishing meals throughout your stay
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Accommodation at Melissa Wasi, Pisac
Our sacred home in the Sacred Valley
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Ecstatic dance and embodiment practices
With Phoenix Onesong
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Wachuma ceremonies guided
By Ruben and Nancy Quispe Pumayalli
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Traditional despacho offering and ceremony
With our Paq’o guides
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Qintu offerings to the land and ancestors
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Tea ceremonies and water blessings
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Guided ceremonial hikes to sacred Andean sites
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Transport to sacred sites and local villages
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A highly experienced, trauma-informed facilitation team
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Group integration calls after the retreat
Not included: Flights and transport to and from Peru.
Meet Your Guides
Walking alongside you
In this unfolding.
Brooke Lumsden
Founder, Pachamama Sonqo – Retreat Facilitator
Brooke Lumsden is a retreat facilitator devoted to guiding journeys of remembrance through the lands of the Peruvian Andes and Amazon.
Through Pachamama Sonqo, she collaborates with traditional lineages to offer immersive experiences that honour ancestral wisdom, personal responsibility, and deep relationship with all of life.
Her work supports those who find themselves at a threshold, ready to gently release what no longer feels true, and to reconnect with the deeper intelligence that lives beneath conditioning and expectation.
Ruben & Nancy Quispe Pumayalli
Paq’os – Andean Wisdom Keepers
Ruben Quispe Pumayalli is a respected Paq’o — an Andean spiritual guide who works in relationship with the Apus (sacred mountains), Pachamama (Mother Earth), and the living forces of nature.
Together with his wife Nancy, who also comes from a strong lineage of Paq’os, they share traditional rituals that honour reciprocity, balance, and the sacred principle of Ayni – right relationship with all of life.
Ruben and Nancy offer their work with humility, warmth, and deep respect for the teachings of their ancestors, creating a grounded and authentic space for participants to experience the living wisdom traditions of the Andes.
Phoenix Onesong Marolda
Translator, Embodiment Facilitator & Cultural Bridge
Phoenix is the director and lead teacher trainer of Dancing Freedom International, where she offers dance rituals and teaches embodiment and leadership classes, workshops, and retreats across the globe.
With over twenty years of experience walking alongside different lineages of ritual, plant medicine, and ceremony, Phoenix brings rare depth and cultural sensitivity to our journey.
Phoenix serves not only as a bridge between languages, but between cultures, traditions, and the sacred work we are undertaking together.
• Our Sacred Home •
Melissa Wasi, Pisac
Sacred Valley of the Incas
Nestled in the peaceful La Rinconada neighbourhood of Pisac, Melissa Wasi is our sanctuary for the duration of the pilgrimage, a living, breathing retreat set in the heart of the Sacred Valley.
Framed by Andean mountains, ancient eucalyptus trees, and lush gardens filled with birdsong and native plants, this place holds a quietness that invites you inward the moment you arrive.
More than a place to rest your head, Melissa Wasi has evolved over many years into a dedicated retreat centre, one that honours the spirit of ceremony, deep listening, and connection with the natural world.
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Rustic Bungalows
Warm accommodation — some with a fireplace and kitchenette — dressed in colourful traditional weaving and handcrafted textiles.
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Communal Nourishment
Each day begins with a nourishing communal breakfast, grounding us together before we step into the day’s unfolding.
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True Sanctuary
Set slightly apart from the town of Pisac yet easily reached on foot — a haven of peace within a landscape of great power.
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• Respect •
This pilgrimage takes place on the ancestral lands of the Q’ero people. We pay deep respect to their elders – past, present, and those yet to come – for their ongoing custodianship of these sacred lands, mountains, and waterways. We enter as guests, with gratitude and reciprocity in our hearts.
• Application •
Spaces are limited
& held with care.
Once we receive your application, we will invite you to a brief conversation via Zoom to ensure this journey is a genuine fit for you and the constellation that is gathering. Upon acceptance, a non-refundable deposit will be required to secure your place.
• Only 10 spaces available •
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Early Bird
$3000 usd
Available until 25th August
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Full Price
$3500 usd
Available from 26th August
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