• $1,111.00 – Transformation Track Work Study Service 7 Week Program Contribution

A deposit of 30% is due in full at the time of registration in order to hold your space. If we are not able to accept you into the program, the deposit will be refunded. Please review the Info & Preparation Package for more details on our refund policy. Some scholarships are available for local Peruvians and others from developing countries with financial limitations.

Date & Time Details: Participants should plan to arrive in Cuzco by DECEMBER 1st. Departing flights should be scheduled no earlier than midday on JANUARY 25th. We will be meeting in the Sacred Valley on the morning of December 2nd to begin our journey and will return to the Sacred Valley in the late afternoon/evening on January 24th. Please do NOT book your travel until you have received confirmation from us that your application has been accepted.

Location: Paititi Institute, Peru

Address: Mapacho Valley

Info & Preparation Package: Please carefully review the Info & Preparation Package before applying.

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Transformation Track Work Study Service

Facilitated by Anthony Bossler, Elton Lee Abela, Stella Maillot and Roman Hanis

December 2, 2017 - January 24, 2018

This is a special service opportunity for a small handful of people that have an inspiration toward consciousness transformation work. Participants will have the opportunity to be present and support in the transformation process during our Embodying True Nature Retreat.

During this time, the first priority of all service participants will be to support the needs of the retreat. This includes but is not limited to, working in the kitchen, cleaning, and being available to support facilitators’ and retreat participants’ needs. Service participants will have the opportunity to be in the energy field of the retreat group and will be included in an introduction to many of the different practices that we will be working with, including most lectures given during the retreat, some Primordial Breathwork and dreamwork sessions, and some ceremonies. Read more about the Embodying True Nature retreat participants will be supporting >>

Image shows the Peruvian Andes on the way to the ayahuasca and huachuma centre, a shipibo elder healer with Roman, a sharing circle after ayahuasca ceremony

When not needed to support the retreat group, participants will also have the opportunity to work on permaculture and infrastructure projects on the land.

Participation Requirements

  • It is required to join for the full program. Participants may not have the opportunity to leave the site during this time except in the case of an emergency and should arrange their personal affairs so that it will not be necessary to leave.
  • Participants should be healthy and in good physical shape. During this program you will be on your feet all day and will do a lot of walking in the mountains. At this time, while the road is still being built, there is a 2+ hour hike into the property. In addition, many tasks on the property itself involve steep ascents and descents.
  • Because participants will be supporting a sensitive transformation process, we are seeking service participants who have a foundation in personal self cultivation and spiritual practice.
  • There are many unknown elements as we embrace this early phase of establishing roots at the new land. We will be working with simple and young infrastructure. Those who join should be willing and able to embrace this with a positive, solutions-oriented attitude. Participants should be comfortable living in a tent, taking cold showers, living with minimal solar electricity, solving unexpected challenges, and hiking steep terrain.
  • Work study service participants must be minimum 21 years old. Younger participants may be accepted with letters of recommendation. Contact us to discuss.
  • All work study service participants must be physically and mentally healthy and stable. If you have a chronic and or debilitating health condition this program is not appropriate for you at this time. Instead we are happy to work with you as a patient where we can offer the proper support in your healing process. Read more about working with us as a patient >>
  • Travel Insurance with minimum of 100K of emergency evacuation coverage (more details on page 11 of this document).

Image shows permaculture garden, organic home cooked meal, community ceremony temple space and view from the top of our ayahuasca center mountain top

Sacred Plant Medicine Ceremonies & Transformation Practices

All participants will receive an initiation, which includes an Ayahuasca ceremony, integration day and a Huachuma (San Pedro) ceremony. In addition to the initiation round of ceremonies, all service participants will have the opportunity to join for 2 additional ceremonies (either 2 ayahuasca ceremonies, or 1 ayahuasca and 1 san pedro ceremony). Additional ceremonies may be possible.

At key moments during the retreat, we will offer a traditional Andean Coca initiation and ceremonies. Service participants will be invited to join for many of these ceremonies.

In addition to the ceremonies, service participants will have the opportunity to rotate through other retreat sessions including:

  • Introductory lectures (these will also be recorded for those who are not able to join)
  • Some Primordial Breathwork sessions
  • Some dreamwork sessions; and
  • Join in a number of morning practice sessions (practices will include mainly Shaolin health movement, Yoga and Qigong.)

Read the Info Package for Additional Details Before Registering >>

Image shows sacred plant retreat service team feasting after ayahuasca and huachama ceremonies are complete, ceremony temple, permaculture kitchen and garden at Paititi

Contribution

  • $1,111.00 – Transformation Track Work Study Service 7 Week Program Contribution

A deposit of 30% is due in full at the time of registration in order to hold your space. If we are not able to accept you into the program, the deposit will be refunded. Please review the Info & Preparation Package for more details on our refund policy. Some scholarships are available for local Peruvians and others from developing countries with financial limitations.

 

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Facilitators

Anthony Bossler
Anthony Bossler grew up in the Midwest and has always had an affinity for nature. Anthony received a BS degree in Acting/Directing for Theatre and Film. It was during his studies that he began to discover more about the unseen spiritual world and our relationship to it as human beings. After graduating, he entered the world of broadcast news for a short time but realized his path ultimately led elsewhere.…
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Elton Lee Abela
Born on the historical island of Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean. At the age of eight he started studying Music and was playing the Baritone and Violin. Although he studied classical music he appreciates all sorts of music and you can find him mostly on a psychedelic trance dance floor in the flow. In 1998 was awarded First Prize by the Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce in…
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Stella Maillot
Stella is a relaxed and outgoing girl from Montreal in Canada. As a child she traveled extensively with her family, living the gypsy life, and learning to appreciate the beauty of Nature from her artist father. Stella is a dancer, actor, dreamer, and creator of all sorts, but what she loves most in the world is to sing with her drum in hand. Following school she completed formal studies in…
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Roman Hanis
Roman Hanis has been working closely with the indigenous Peruvian cultures in the Amazonian rainforest and Andean mountains since 2001. During this time he has devoted this life to learning the ancient healing ways of these cultures while seeking possibilities for creating ecological sources of sustenance for local populations and working to preserve the rainforest and its spiritual heritage of sacred medicinal plants. Seeing the vital role that ancient cultural…
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