16 days Mystic Journeys to Peru

Machu Pichu, Sacred Valley & Pulcalpa / 3rd of July to the 18th of July 2008

The Retreat Centre was founded in 1997 by Sayre Tupac Wiracocha in order to create an opportunity for all kinds of people to receive the profound teachings of ancient cultures, while visiting some of the most powerful spots on the planet.
The Centre is located in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cusco, Peru. Machu Picchu, is the ideal environment to transmit these Teachings ? the Apus (mountain consciousness), power places and ruins emanating a great amount of primordial energy that ripens and enforces the innate wisdom in all of us.
The Centre is a place that offers the opportunity and guiding environment for deepening our understanding of the ancient cultures and the Teachings they offer. Here, surrounded by the immenseness of Environment (Pachamama), we can also learn from the various healing Power Plants used since pre-Incan times.
These Wisdom Plants, with their strong initiation power, are used to increase Awareness for the recognition of the nature of Mind itself, to perceive the primordial wisdom within ourselves and the Environment as one.
We are an international organization with active groups in many countries, concerned with preserving and spreading the importance of acknowledging the traditions of ancient cultures; specifically the ancient Andean Wisdom Traditions

GIRASOLES

For the Sacred Valley part of our mystic journey, we will be housed at the Hostal Girasoles. Located at the foot of the Cordillera Blanca this is a quaint rural type setting with open spaces and garden. The rooms are spacious and full of sun and sleeps 8 persons each, with sharing male and female bathrooms. There is a balcony with hammock to take in the views of the surrounding mountains and a fireplace to keep warm. All meals will be prepared in either the open classical Peruvian outside kitchen or in the communal kitchen with all the facilities. There is space downstairs to relax and where we can have our talks and also a fireplace outside to enjoy the colder evenings. There is also a natural sauna that can be used by the guests.A beautiful, family run business, this is a lovely place from which to explore the Valley.

INTI WASI

The 2 nights we will spend in Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu) will be at Inti Wasi, nestled into the mountainside next to the mighty river.This is a hostal all made of wood and with balconies overlooking the river and with a great view of the Yanantin, centered by Putucusi mountain.The rooms are sharing, from 3-6 persons and with a sharing bathroom.The hostal is a 5-minute walk away from the “town center” and a 10-minute walk away from the hot springs.

Your Guide for the first tour 3rd -18th around Machu Picchu

Sayre Tupac Wiracocha, is a direct descendant of one of the last Inca families of Peru, has worked and studied healing practices of the ancient Andean wisdom tradition for over thirty years. He guides people on journeys of self-discovery in the Sacred Valley and throughout the world. Sayre is an expert in medicinal plants and their curative properties and a master in martial arts. In addition he is an Economist and also a learned authority on the local geography, ecology, culture and politics in Peru.

In 1997 he founded the International Meditation and Retreat Center, two hours from Machu Picchu. Sayre established this center in order to create an opportunity for all kinds of people to receive the profound teachings of ancient cultures, while visiting some of the most powerful spots on the planet and having the experience of a lifetime.

Amongst the many different techniques introduced by Sayre, one of the ancient traditions that he teaches is singing native songs: the Ikaros, which have become an important tool in his therapeutic work as a means to pacify and align the mind. Another important aspect of Sayre's teachings is the different breathing techniques and mantras, which are all, used to awaken the mind.
Sayre's main concern is to teach his participants how to progress beyond the ordinary physical and mental states of Mind in order to reach a level of total Awareness.

One of the main concepts in Sayre's teaching is to show his students the history of the ancient Andean cultures, their connection with the Incas and the present indigenous culture of the Q'ero Indians. This approach allows his students to reflect upon the teachings of the ancients and understand the message ingrained in the weavings of the Q'ero Indians. Through these textiles the message of the Incas is preserved.
Before establishing the Retreat Center in Peru, Sayre spent two years in Nepal and India studying the Mahayana and Vajrayana paths of Tibetan Buddhism, with direct oral transmissions from highly recognized Lamas. This journey was a milestone marking a major development in Sayre's work. He merged this ancient culture with that of his ancestors and manifested a method in which he includes a variety of skillful methods, beginning with the Rainbow Light Meditation.

Sayre is especially interested in intertwining his teachings with the studies of the Western world. He introduces his work not only as a holistic approach to healing but also as the conventional method to healing explored in the fields of Psychology, Psychotherapy and all other fields of therapy. He fuses his explorations and work with the scientific studies of ethno botanic research in order to enhance the knowledge available about the various plants and herbal medicines used by the indigenous cultures of the Andean Mountains and the Amazon jungle. Sayre's interest also includes Anthropological studies, as he is deeply involved in researching and preserving the culture and mainly the weaving traditions of the Q'ero Indians.

The presentations of Sayre's workshops will not only be of interest to persons seeking the deeper truth and understanding of the Mind, Life and Environment, but also to scientists, therapists, medics, pharmacists, ethnologists, botanists, people struggling with addictions, related social workers, Buddhists, spiritual seekers, musicians, artists and generally people of all backgrounds and beliefs. Sayre's mission is to grasp the interest of a great many people from a broad spectrum of vocations who are interested in discovering in which direction the future of healing and awareness is going.

Sayre's main concern is to reveal to all people the importance of acknowledging and understanding the traditions of ancient cultures, which continue to be studied and practiced today. He wishes to set in motion a deeper understanding of everybody's search for that which is innate in all of us: the healing process leading to the higher awareness and the primordial wisdom within.

The message that he wishes to extend to all sentient beings is the importance of cultivating the feeling and understanding of love, kindness and compassion so that we all become one with the environment and spread this message through out the world, because we don't know how long the conditions will last for us to realize the true nature of the mind.All the places where we stay are with friends and people that have journeyed with us in one or other way.

That is because we prefer to steer clear of the more commercialized institutions and be with people that are like-minded in our search for the understanding mind.

For more information about the Shipibo and the work Sayre is doing with them see http://web.iapicc.org/ and http://www.weaversofwisdom.org/index.php?id1=projects&id2=shipibo

Shaman from Iquitos, Second tour, 7 days 6 nights, 27th July to the 2nd of August

Investment $780. Deposit is 25% of $780 = $195 deposit. Payable asap

We will be going to see Percy Garcia. He´s been working with medicinal plants since he was 12 years old, has excellent ayahuasca and he´s a very very humble man. He has private cabins as well as his maloca, everything is screened in. The maloca was built over a small river, really nice. He´s about 48 kilometers outside of Iquitos. We should get 2 or 3 ayahuasca sessions in, in that time.

Percy Garcia Lozano

ABOUT PERCY (IN HIS OWN WORDS):
My name is Percy Garcia Lozano. I was born on the 7th of September 1973 in the community of Aucayo, located 2 hours away from the Port of Mazusa in the city of Iquitos, navigating through the waters of the most plentiful river in the world, the Amazon River.

From the age of 10, I learned my knowledge in Curanderismo from my grandfather and teacher Enrique Garcia Mozombite, inheriting his knowledge and tradition. With Ayahuasca ceremonies and the use of natural medicine, using medicinal plants properly harvested in my personal botanical garden, I am a naturist doctor who masters this science and knows the secrets of the mysterious jungle. Since the beginning of my journey, I have respected very strictly my diets and my ethics as a healer, and with many sacrifices I have been able to make a direct connection with the Mother Spirit of different plants; my spiritual doctors. My code of ethics towards my participants and in my life is very strict; the rules are very delicate and very straight. My work as Curandero can be summarized in 3 points: 1.- Respect for the participant. 2.- Respect to God, to Mother Ayahuasca and to Mother Nature. 3.- Respect to the diets.

Nowadays, I’m fulfilling a very important role: to transmit my experience and knowledge of traditional natural medicine that I have learnt. I also dedicate myself to heal people who come with different types of illnesses: alcoholism, drug addiction, psychological traumas, cancer among others, etc. with much humbleness, devotion and dedication. Because all my efforts and strict diets I am able to act as a guide for people to find health in the spiritual world. My role in healing is to be an intermediary of a Divine healing: God, Mother Ayahuasca/Nature and my Spiritual Doctors are the healers that are expressed through my humble work.

The focus and intention of my work is HEALING and the integration of the participant with the spiritual world. My medicine Ayahuasca has been made with different forces of plants to treat several illnesses under the direct supervision and request of my Spiritual Doctors. My work is not focused only to produce visions but to help the participant to find health, peace and harmony in her/his life. In the Spiritual Healing Center Dios-Ayahuasca-Sanaciones I work in this context to help each participant to achieve what they need.

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Ayahuasca Workshop

Teachings of Life, Death and Rebirth After the Teachings of San Pedro and its Motivation, namely: The Breathings, Exercising, Awakening and Alignment of the Chakras, Pin Pointing Mind, Chanting, Dance and Meditation for the benefit of all the Sentient Beings, it is that we are ready for the Ayahuaska Initiation.

Ayahuaska literally means: Aya = The Dead Waska = The Cord or Rope.
Together means “The rope of the Dead”.

When we did San Pedro we prepared our Mind to perceive the “Vortex” (tunnel). By the use of the Llanantin we Pin Pointed the Mind and we said that it was the entrance to the “cord”. Now this is the subject matter of the Workshop, and we will learn to travel safe in the cord that take us to innumerable spaces in our Mind and in the Universal Consciousness.

There is always a question to be answered; and the Question is not; “What are we doing?” but “Why are we doing it?”
The answer is that the basic understanding of the Ayahuaska teachings is to realize the different stages or gaps that Mind perceives during Death, and the importance to travel “light” with an empty back pack. Getting rid of clinging and cravings to worldly attachments. Giving us the teachings of Life, so we can flow smoothly in every state of the dissolution process.

The states we are referring to are the dissolution of the elements within, such as we did with the Rainbow meditation. First we experience Earth element dissolving and its relation to the stiffness of the body. Then the Water element by feeling the dryness, thirdly the Fire with the loss of temperature, and so on. Understanding and recognizing every worldly state of Mind related to each dissolution until we finally experience consciousness in the clear and profound Space of Mind, bliss and recognizing the Nature of Mind Within, Inti’Kahuarina achieving the state of Rickchary (Awaken).

All this learning to unlearn will permit us to achieve a peaceful state of mind that will give a direct impression to us. The Mind will recognize it after the moment of death. This remembering will contribute for our rebirth because Cause and Effect will always remain; therefore we will be directly working to achieve a better rebirth. When we talk about a better rebirth we are saying this because we relate all to Causal relations. If we die in peace and a happy state of mind we will achieve a rebirth of the same nature. And that is one of the reasons why we take the Plants, especially Ayahuaska:
To Master Life, Death and Rebirth Now!!

Ayahuasca Tourism in South America

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