Online Courses
Our transformative courses at Paititi Institute invite you to embark on a journey that unites ancient wisdom with modern stewardship, fostering deep personal transformation and ecological awareness.
Living Wisdom Courses
Self-paced home-study courses that bring the ancestral practices held at Paititi — breathwork, qigong, remembrance and contemplative inquiry — into everyday life. Begin any time; every enrollment helps sustain the Institute’s Indigenous education and conservation initiatives.
Your Evolutionary Blueprint
Online home study course · Five chapters · Sliding-scale contribution
The Institute’s flagship home-study course, facilitated by Roman Hanis and Cynthia Robinson. Across five chapters you map your own heroic journey through life — the call to evolve, crossing the line of no return, remembering the infinite, finding the way through the patterns of evolution, and emerging from the dark night of the soul. The curriculum draws intercultural bridges between Andean, Amazonian and Eastern perspectives and a Jungian transpersonal approach, working through shamanic dreamwork and sacred geometry as the archetypal language nature speaks in. Nine hours of video teaching sit alongside reading materials, reflection homework, guided meditation, Primordial Breathwork and Alchemy Qigong practice sessions, and a discussion forum you are invited into on completion. Ongoing and self-paced — begin any time.
Primordial Breathwork
Online home study course series · Sliding-scale contribution
Inspired by the tribal cultures of the Amazonian rainforest, Primordial Breathwork™ works directly with the breath to release what inhibits the organism and reconnect with the source of creative potential. This home-study series focuses on the first portion of the practice: five recorded practice sessions — over four hours of guided breathwork — together with talks on the theory and philosophy that root the practice in its Indigenous origins. The course is ongoing, so you can begin at any time and move at your own pace, returning to each session as the practice deepens.
Alchemy of Immortality Qigong — Andean Art of Being
Online home study course · Sliding-scale contribution
A meeting of Daoist energy cultivation and Andean wisdom teachings: movement, meditation and philosophical study woven into one practice of restoring vital life force. Across three progressive modules — more than three and a half hours of video teachings and active practice sessions — you learn to gather, circulate and settle energy in the body, and to carry the Andean art of being into ordinary daily activity. Self-paced and open-ended, with scholarship applications available so cost is never the barrier to practice.
Practical Alchemy Series
Online course · Free with a Beyond Ayahuasca book purchase
A living extension of the Beyond Ayahuasca book — a pathway where ancient wisdom becomes embodied truth. You’ll be guided through three core Indigenous practices rooted in the sacred traditions shared in the book: Primordial Breathwork, Alchemy of Immortality Qigong / Andean Art of Being, and Ancestral Remembrance Meditation. Where breathwork and qigong work through the body and its energy, remembrance turns attention to what has never been wounded — the original, uninhibited state of being that the ancestral lineages point to beneath every technique. Together they are portals into ancestral knowledge and deep inner transformation, turning the reading of the book into a daily, lived rite of passage.