11-Day Pilgrimage and Initiation in the Incas Andean Tradition
July 28 – August 7, 2025
It is a great honor and the manifestation of a special dream for the Casa Del Sol family to introduce our tribe to the opportunity to connect and learn from the finest and most special masters that we have encountered throughout our long journey.
THE PROPHECY & THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN
In the oral transmission of peoples and ancestral traditions around the world, there is a story of a mythical prophecy that speaks of the arrival of the Great Transition—symbolized by the union of the condor’s and the eagle’s flight. In the Andean world, this is known as the Pachacutik era, in which human beings return to a great awakening of consciousness in times of profound confusion, gathering the threads of the vast tapestry of memory. These threads are the legacy our grandfathers and grandmothers preserved so that, in the future times of need they foresaw, this wisdom could be revealed.
Thus, the solar tradition of the so-called “Children of the Sun”—guardians of this sacred knowledge—retreated to the highest Andean mountains to protect their practices, rituals, and understandings for several centuries. They remained untouched by the imposition of the Catholic religion brought by the Spanish conquerors. These guardians, the Children of the Sun, are known as the Q’ero nation.
A TIME TO RECONNECT WITH PACHAMAMA
Around sixty years ago, the Q’ero people began to descend from their mountain homes and share their knowledge and ritual practices. They recognized that the time had come for humanity to turn its gaze and efforts toward reconnecting with the primordial forces that make life possible for us and to reintegrate into the harmonious flow of nature from which modern life has become so deeply uprooted.
Pachamama is a living, high consciousness perceived as the Great Nurturing Mother. Her body encompasses the entire planet, and her backbone is the Andes Mountains. It is here that various powerful energy centers converge and concentrate—identified by our elders as Sacred Sanctuaries. In these Sanctuaries, they built Temples to honor and connect with each channel’s unique energy. This knowledge is vast and deep; by analogy, our own bodies replicate this cosmic design. By connecting with and activating these energy centers, we align ourselves with our own transcendental cosmic nature.
THE SACRED CALL
Thus, each being walks their own legend, in their free will and in the possibilities that arise from their soul. The paths are living threads, strands woven beyond time into a mysterious warp. As we recognize and remember ourselves, we gather fragments of our being in our process of returning to oneness with the Divine.
We live in prophetic times, in which many lineages have opened their books, and many reckless people have mixed different “recipes,” generating confusion. We humbly recognize the sacred privilege of accessing practices that have remained pure since their origins, and the sanctuaries that are well-guarded, serving as living sources of memory, strength, and vitality.
This call is for the brave spirits and seekers who are ready to connect with these Primordial Forces—sources of memory and wisdom—to present our hearts in reverence and receive the protection of these ancestral lineages, their guidance, and their generous willingness to share their teachings with us.
TWO POWERFUL ANCESTRAL TOOLS
This year, we have prepared—very carefully—the opportunity to bring our tribe two powerful ancestral tools:
Oracular Reading
Through the reading of “las Mancias,” the Turpo lineage will teach us to connect with extrasensory vision. By interpreting certain ritual elements, we open the subtle field of oracular reading.The Rainbow Ceremony
This ritual is among the most hidden and powerful in the Andean world, as it involves the wildest essence of nature, the feminine principle. It is believed that there are seven female guardians watching over each path of the seven colors. This practice is profoundly beautiful—a magnetic alignment that attunes your steps to the transcendental purpose your incarnation has come to embody in this human form. It is a deeply mysterious harmonization that, according to the masters, opens you to become a chasqui messenger, like a hummingbird.
Alejandro Apaza & Family
Q’ero Nation
At the beginning of the 20th century, Santos Apaza was one of the last “Paqos” (high priests) of the Andean Tradition. He was a renowned Inca healer and one of the last connoisseurs of K’uychi (rainbow) healing. Father of María Apaza, the only Altomisayoq woman (maximum human potential for wisdom) and of Alejandro Apaza, who is in charge of sustaining the healing line of the lineage based on the wisdom of natural and supernatural tissues to open dimensional portals to connect other Pachas ( different space-times) and to make the invocations and empowerments of the Kuntur Mallku (initiation of the condor), of the K’uychi (rainbow), of the Siwar and Q’omer Q’enti (hummingbird on the left and on the right), Amaru (Andean dragon), Uturunku (jaguar), Mama Ccoto (the 7 Pleiades), etc.
Alejandro is also an extraordinary singer, his voice makes the mountains dance and his spirit possesses extraordinary strength endowed with a very deep humility.
With him and his family we will have the absolute privilege of being initiated into this magical and luminous lineage.
On this occasion, we will visit the Sacred Temple of Waqra Pukara alongside the Q’ero masters. This emblematic place of the Andean world is home to vicuñas and condors, pure spirits of nature.
In this sacred environment, and with the blessing of the Apu, we will receive the transmission of one of the most secret and important ceremonies of this lineage: the invocation of the 7 feminine forces in the Rainbow Ritual.
This is a profound and auspicious ceremony that fills the heart with joy, opening the path of the hummingbird messenger.
Rufino Turpo & Family
Turpo Lineage
The Turpo lineage has been settled on the slopes of the Great Apu Ausangate since very remote times and the transmission of leadership passes through generations through the touch of 3 rays. Rufino Turpo is the current heir to this sacred relationship and guardian of the Mamacocha, Sonq’ococha, Yanacocha lagoons, the temple of Lightning, the old altar in the center of the lagoon, the stone of the codices and the magical relics of his father and grandparents. His father Nazario Turpo and his grandfather Mariano Turpo were legendary healers and very important activist leaders defending ancestral wisdom. Both played a very important role in the fight against the slavery that landowners inflicted on the indigenous population in their territory. Nazario curated the Andes exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC, with the Washington Post publishing an extensive article about him in August 2003. Rufino learned from them, especially from his grandfather Mariano, who turned into a mountain looking at the Apu Ausangate when he died.
Rufino and his wife Julia Condori (teacher weaver) will introduce us to the magic of the Apu Ausangate, connecting us with the family of mountains and ñustas that surround the great Apu Mayor. We will receive our sacred name in the oracle of the lagoon and we will receive the Misha (the Andean altar) with the empowerment of the energy of the Apu and Mamacocha. They will offer us an energetic cleanse at the altar of lightning and they will teach us how to invoke the flower garden that lives inside the lagoon.
This year, the Turpo lineage will generously share with us the knowledge of “Mancias” oracular readings, an ancestral technique that opens access to the invisible language of the oracular field. They will also guide us through the initiation ceremony to access these subtle fields of interpretation. It is a highly useful tool to integrate into our service practice.
Apu Ausangate
The Apu Ausangate is the main mountain of the Andean world. He is the great Father who brings the family together. Everything revolves around the mystique and sponsorship of him. There resides an energy called Rual, which is the soul of everything created. My teachers told me that there are two slopes that derive from its center. The lloque path (left) and the paña path (right). The route of the Q’eros is the right path, and the Turpo lineage is the left current.
We have the vision and the purpose of starting together an initiatory path in this knowledge and power transmissions in both lineages (Turpo and Q’ero) since both sources are very pure and complementary.
We are called to be the bridges of this ancient wisdom to spread the seed of hope through our conscious walk. The path we are about to take will make us Pampamisayoq, man/woman-bridge (Mediator between the human world and the spiritual world).
We will learn to awaken and deepen our connection with the living forces of nature and the cosmos and learn the fascinating practices of wisdom that the teachers have to share (chumpis, coca leaf oracle, the call of the soul, dispatches, Jaiwaricu, etc) Through the sublime understanding of walking with respect, gratitude, integrity and above all – the noblest quality of this path- an enormous sweetness and full of joy, celebrating each step, offering each day in a life in love. The masters understand that in this Pachacutik all the understandings, all the forms and all the bloods converge in the center. Thus each race brings its medicine to integrate in complementarity and interdependence. And they say that what the South has to offer is the medicine of the sweetness of the Heart so if you feel the call: Welcome to the magic of Love!
Pilgrimage & Initiation in the Major Andean Altars
PROGRAM
DAY 1 – July 28
- Meeting in Cusco
- Transfer to the Hanaq Pacha Retreat Center in Calca
- Introduction Circle – Welcome
- Interviews and oracular reading
DAY 2 – July 29
- Departure to Waqra Pukara with the Q’ero Masters
- Hike
- Permission Ceremony at the temple’s main Altar
DAY 3 – July 30
- Energetic cleansing at the Waterfall
- Distribution of ritual materials
- Hatun Karpay (Great Initiation) in the Primordial Forces of the 7 Ñustas
- Master Class
DAY 4 – July 31
- Hike to connect with the area’s energy centers
- Return to Calca
DAY 5 – August 1
- Breakfast
- Closing Circle
- Rest/Integration
DAY 6 – August 2
- Transfer to Pacchanta
- Traditional Mama Coca Reading (personalized)
- Permission Offering to ascend to the Higher Altars of the mountain
DAY 7 – August 3
- Journey to Mamacocha (3 hours)
- Ascent to the Sacred Place of Apu Mariano Ausangate
- Ceremony for the bestowal of spiritual names and connection stone with the lineage
DAY 8 – August 4
- Energetic cleansing at the Altar of Lightning
- Offering and ritual bath in the Mother Lagoon: Mamacocha
DAY 9 – August 5
- Distribution of materials for the oracle
- Empowerment in the Ñawicocha and Yamichu lagoons
- Master Class and practices
- Return to Pacchanta
DAY 10 – August 6
- Chumpi healings (an ancestral Andean technique for harmonizing the chakras) – Extra and optional
- Return to Calca
DAY 11 – August 7
- Rest / Integration
- Farewell
Sacred Initiation in the Peruvian Andean Tradition
Duration: from July 28 – August 07, 2025
In the Sacred Valley, Cuzco, Peru.
Requirements:
- Good physical condition. The program will take place in the foothills of snowy mountains of the Sacred Valley of Cuzco. There will be a walk of aprox. 3 hours to the sacred places where we will receive the initiations. We will be around 5000 meters above sea level, in ascents and descents. Good physical conditioning preparation is required.
- Not having had any surgical intervention in a period of three months before the event.
- Do not suffer from heart disease or others that make it difficult to resist high altitude and cold.
- It is suggested to arrive a couple of days before Cuzco to adapt to the altitude.
- It is necessary to have high mountain clothing: thermal polo shirt, down jacket, heater for under pants, gloves, boots with water protection, thermal socks for trekking, wool hat, rain poncho, sunscreen, bottle of water . All these implements can be obtained in the city of Cuzco but it is preferable to arrive already prepared.
It includes:
- Lodging from July 28th to the morning of August 7th with all meals included.
- All transfers of the activities included in the program.
- All the equipment required for the days of camping in the foothills of the snow (tent, mats, blanket, thermal sleeping bag, etc).
- Initiation objects, cleaning materials, offerings and ceremonies.
Does not include:
- Airfare.
- Lodging or food the days before and after the program.
- Airport transfers.
- Medicines or extra food.