• $1,550.00 – Program Price (discounted from $1775)

A deposit of 30% is due in full at the time of registration. If we are not able to accept you into the retreat, the deposit will be refunded. Please review the Info & Prep document document for more information on our refund policy. Contribution includes all food, instruction, guidance & personal support, ceremonies, plant medicines, the stay on a pristine land, and transportation from and back to the Sacred Valley during this 33 day retreat. Any profits are devoted to the continuation of this worthy cause for the benefit of all beings.

Date & Time Details: Participants should fly into Cusco, Peru on DECEMBER 16th or earlier, to acclimatize and give time for potential travel delays and departing no earlier than midday on JANUARY 3rd. We will be meeting late morning on DECEMBER 18th to begin our journey and will return to the Sacred Valley in the late afternoon/evening on JANUARY 2nd. 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 available HERE before applying.

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16-day Embodying True Nature Consciousness Transformation Retreat

Facilitated by Roman Hanis and Cynthia Robinson

December 18, 2018 - January 2, 2019

We have shortened this retreat to a 16 day format instead of our originally scheduled 33 days, in order to honor the request/needs of our extended community at this time. We will be offering the full transmission of our longer retreat in this more intensive format and will still be holding it at our remote and magical center Larapata, where the Andes meet the Amazon cloud forest.

Join us at our enchanted sanctuary imbued with ancestral spirit for a hero’s journey of self discovery into the infinite human potential. Together we will transcend the layers of our individual and collective conditioning in order to know and trust our eternally brilliant and indestructible true nature. In this process we immerse into the magnificent realm of Mother Nature through the native indigenous foundational practices of remembrance, initiation rites and sacred plant ceremonies while establishing intercultural bridges of seeing the emergence of awakened consciousness in all beings everywhere. Our purpose is to create a space where all participants, including ourselves, can continually discover and implement ways for a life of greatest purpose and deepest meaning.

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

This retreat brings about a profound consciousness transformation and involves a serious self-realization process. The process includes physical, mental, spiritual and emotional detoxification. The participants should be willing and able to face without compromise, personal inhibitions, repressed emotions, fears, habitual patterns and other obscurations of consciousness that often accumulate in the human sub-consciousness for many years because of the conditioning of modern society.

Indigenous sacred ceremonies of Ayahuasca, San Pedro and Coca will take place every few days for healing, spiritual insight and unraveling the divine intelligence of nature in one’s being.

The retreat schedule will depend on the individual process of each participant. The days around the ceremonies will be dedicated to creating a deeper understanding of Mother Nature’s language with the help of different modalities, such as:

  • Remembering *foundation – Release of personal history – an energetic remembering, dissolution of subconscious limitation and letting-go of emotional tensions held in one’s past.
  • Transformational breathwork *foundation – Amazonian tribal activation of cellular memory and a Tibetan modality based on the Heart drops of Dharmakaya practices that bring about a cathartic release of deeply-seated emotional obscurations.
  • Individual and collective shamanic transpersonal dreamwork *foundation – Working with the Ashuar tribal and Jungian transpersonal approach towards recognizing the universal, associative and symbolic communication of human sub-consciousness relating to spiritual evolution of one’s being.
  • Symptomatic Dance *foundation – Communication with the symptomatic language of the organism for the recognition and resolution of the dis-ease origin.
  • Sacred geometry *foundation – Deepening our archetypal relationship with Nature and the universal flow of energy.
  • Individual plant medicine diets – The participants will be given specific medicinal plants that help to cultivate essential natural qualities.
  • Sharing circles – Relating to the universal process of consciousness transformation, expressing itself uniquely through each participant.
  • Qigong, Yoga, eastern meditation practices – Activating deeper vitality and a realignment of energetic channels of the organism.
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine – Complementary support for the deeper realignment of energetic meridians and healing on all levels.
  • Permaculture introduction – Balancing inner and outer landscapes by connecting to nature through meditative gardening.
  • Processing, reflecting and integrating – Getting to know the self through the process of being with one’s self immersed in nature.

* notates foundational practices

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

The retreat is specifically developed and intended for the participants to face and challenge themselves in the most direct and harmonious way, as observed in many ancient cultures and indigenous spiritual traditions around the world. This approach helps us to become a human being in a human body while recognizing, transforming and letting go of stale concepts, habitual patterns, repressed emotions, inhibitions, fears, traumas and all other energetic limitations on the way to becoming a totally free luminous being overflowing with universal love and compassion.

Read the Info Package for Additional Details Before Registering >>
*please note this info doc was written for the 33 day format. The same information applies for the 16 day retreat.

Retreat Requirements

We ask that anyone applying for this retreat be prepared to face new and unexpected challenges. We are specifically seeking participants who are inspired to approach all situations with a solutions-based attitude grounded in personal responsibility. It is important to be aware that you will have to hike into and out of the land which takes 2-8 hours one-way (depending on the fitness and experience level of each participant). The hike although very beautiful can also be challenging and you will need to carry your own pack on your back. Elders or people who may have some physical challenges (please let us know ahead of time) may be able to pack personal belongings on mules. With this said, it is a beautiful journey and everyone has been able to make it with a wide range of fitness and age levels taking it slow.

Given the circumstances at the center at this time, we can only accept participants who are in stable and good health. This specific retreat is only for individuals who are healthy. It may be possible to join us with minor health conditions if in overall good physical shape – please inquire with us before applying.  Read more about our programs for those with more serious/chronic health conditions HERE.

Given the remote nature of our center the infrastructure is simple. Participants should be comfortable living in a tent, taking cold showers, living with no electricity, embracing unexpected challenges, and hiking steep terrain. All of these factors are beautiful complements towards the healing and transformation journey. Please be sure to read the Info and Preparation Package before applying for this retreat to ensure you are prepared for the journey.

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

Contribution

  • $1,550.00 – Program Price (discounted from $1775)

A deposit of 30% is due in full at the time of registration. If we are not able to accept you into the retreat, the deposit will be refunded. Please review the Info & Prep document document for more information on our refund policy. Contribution includes all food, instruction, guidance & personal support, ceremonies, plant medicines, the stay on a pristine land, and transportation from and back to the Sacred Valley during this 33 day retreat. Any profits are devoted to the continuation of this worthy cause for the benefit of all beings.

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Facilitators

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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Cynthia Robinson
Since childhood, Cynthia Robinson has had a deep love for nature and natural healing. She always knew she would devote her life in service to the healing of people and the planet. Cynthia got her BA at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design with a focus in Design, Communication and Creative Problem Solving. After graduation, she pursued her passion to bring deeper values for nature and humanity…
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