Heliga resor till Peru

Res till självaste källan av traditionen på ditt livs resa till heliga Anderna, Q´ero nationen och paqosarnas hem. Vi välkomnar dig!

TRAVEL TO PERU WITH VICTOR FORSELIUS

MAY 18TH – JUNE 6TH | COLCA CANYON – LAKE TITICACA – APU ASUNGATE 

HEAL THE PAST & RECONNECT WITH THE FUTURE

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We are honored to invite you to a journey beyond words through the Inca shamanic tradition of wisdom, healing and profound personal development. Travel through the majestic canyons and meet the Andean Condor, step into ceremony in the sacred valley and the cradle of the Inca nation. Travel to the sacred temples, the dreamlike landscapes of the Q’ero nation to heal the past and to connect with the gifts of your becoming. Experience first hand the heart of the andes and live with the indigenous people of myth and legend in their villages for one week.

 

You will have plenty of Swedish friends to talk to but please note that the journey will be in English.

Description:

Through the mists and sacred landscapes of an ancient culture, the Q’ero Inca shamans (ie. paqos) will introduce and guide you through a healing journey of a lifetime.
Walk in apprenticeship alongside powerful medicine men and women to some of the most authentic and holiest temples in the mountains of the Andes. The Q’ero will share their most sacred traditions of healing and ceremony with you. Traditions that have been passed down through the generations of the Inca medicine people for over 5.000 years.

You now have the unique opportunity to train with the Paqo’s one on one in communion and in ceremony at the top of the world.

An Ancient people and sacred teachings hidden beyond the mountains

After the fall of the Inca empire more than 500 years ago there was a group of Inca people that fled into the mountains of the Andes to safeguard their ancient tradition of wisdom, healing and ceremony. They were isolated at 5000 meters high for 500 years and became the myth of native Incan descendants that disappeared during the siege of the Inca Empire by Spanish conquistadors.
Around 30 years ago these people, named Q’ero, listened to their ancient prophecies of the changes in the earth and the changes of growth within the western people. For the first time in 500 years they started to walk down from the mountains to be in service for their people in the cities and for the world once again.

Now you have the unique opportunity to follow us on a journey throughout the dreamlike landscapes of Peru. Follow us on a journey up to these remote villages of myth and legend. Meet the simplicity and purity of the indigenous people of the Andes. Partake in their way of living in sacred reciprocity with the universe and mother earth as my native friends and families welcomes us into their community. At this sacred place we partake in their ancient prophecies that have been withheld from the modern world since the fall of their ancient society.

Get a life changing experience connecting with places of beauty, power and sacred wisdom. Powerfully re-connect with Mother Earth as you travel ancient tamples of the Inca empire, the native people and sacred sights. Find yourself in the cradle of the lost empire and the sacred valley. Embark upon a spectacular and beyond imagination voyage through some of the most beautiful sights of Peru.

To get your itinerary in English please contact us at hello@qeromedicine.com

Join us for a journey of a lifetime!

You can also continue your journey with our jungle medicine retreat june 7 – 12 or just join us for that. Please contact us for more info in English at hello@qeromedicine.com

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ITINERARY

18.05.2024: ARRIVAL IN LIMA

You arrive at Lima Airport (El Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez), Peru. Here you change flights and fly directly to the ”white city” – Arequipa. You arrive in the evening and are welcomed by Victor and Karina.

*We also recommend that you can arrive in Arequipa a few days before the trip starts, to acclimatize and enjoy before the trip of a lifetime begins. If you do, you can contact Karina for assistance with booking your hotel.

Hotel: Hotel in Arequipa: Included
Meals: Not included
Flights: International flights to Lima: Not included
Flight: Lima to Arequipa: Not included

19.05.2024: DAY ONE
AREQUIPA – THE WHITE CITY

Arequpia is known as the White City because of the white volcanic stones that were used to build the ancient buildings and the great cathedral in the center of the city. The journey starts here so that we can acclimatize at the starting altitude of 2,200m. A day to land softly here in Peru and in your heart. It is a rest day to prepare physically and mentally for the journey ahead of you through the Andes. You can choose to relax in the garden or to walk around the markets and feel the Peruvian pulse. The White City is known for its gems and minerals and today is a day of rest, a day of preparing physically and verbally for the journey ahead. In the afternoon we will hold a ceremonial gathering with our paqo/shaman guides. Here we share details about the healing journey ahead of us. Our Q’ero paqos invite us to a Samin Chaqui ceremony to bring us together as a group. To create a reciprocity of light with life and all the holy spirits around us, who hold us. We will start and step into this journey through awareness, stillness, laughter and reciprocity. The rest of the day is free with free time to explore the beautiful city and get to know each other. Victor will show you to the famous market in the city center and the famous white cathedral. An option is also to see the old and famous monastery which is relatively close to our hotel.

 

Hotel: Hotel, Arequipa: Included
Meals: Breakfast is included, not lunch and dinner.
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included

20.05.2024: DAY TWO
AREQUIPA – COLCA CANYON – A SACRED JOURNEY OF HEALING AND CEREMONY BEGINS

This is the day that marks the beginning of our journey through these sacred landscapes. After breakfast we go towards Colca Canyon with our private bus that takes us directly to our beautiful 5 star hotel, Colca Lodge. The trip takes about 3 hours and once you arrive at our hotel you can continue to acclimatize to the altitude, wander around and enjoy a delicious lunch. During the afternoon you will be guided down to the Colca River in the valley, to a place where we will create an opening ceremony to mark the beginning of the journey. This journey is a personal and deep healing process and it is important to receive a cleansing healing of your physical, emotional and spiritual body before we begin the journey. By the river, our shamans give you a healing to help you let go of the heavy energy you may be carrying from your home, past, relationships, belief systems or everyday life. The Paqos will help you release the blockages that are holding you back from fully stepping into the possibilities of this journey and your future. We will create a despacho ceremony, gather around an open fire and meet an ancient part of this tradition. A ceremony where we meet and unite around the fire as our ancestors have done since the beginning of time. Later we have dinner and relax in the natural hot springs, next to the hotel. The luxurious Colca Lodge is well known for its delicious meals and healing hot springs. In the evening, we warm up in the water under the entire Andean starry sky that stretches above us like an umbrella of light and star constellations.

Hotel: Hotel Colca lodge: Included
Hot springs: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, lunch and dinner not included
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Transport from Arequipa to Colca Lodge and guide: Included

21.05.2024: DAY THREE
COLCA LOGDE – COLCA CANYON AND CRUZ DEL CONDOR – OPENING UP OUR HEARTS WITH
THE CONDOR

After an early breakfast, we leave our hotel to travel into one of the most beautiful places: the Colca Canyon, which in some places is twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. We continue with our acclimatization while driving over mountain passes with outstanding views. The height at Colca Canyon is 3,800m and we make our way through the heart of the valley to the kingdom of the magnificent Andean condor. Bird watchers and photographers from all over the world come here to see this place with many rare and distinctive birds, including Andean condors, whose wingspan can extend more than 3 meters from wingtip to wingtip. Your guides Victor, Karina and Paqos know a lot about the condors and their habits, about nature, the stars and we are happy to share our knowledge about all this. Inca and even older ancestral terraces cover the mountain sides and support agricultural fields that have been cultivated for hundreds of years by the local population. You will see them wearing traditional, beautifully embroidered clothing and the distinctive hats that identify their villages. We will participate in a wonderful Condor Ceremony with our Q’ero teachers. Here we create a deep connection to the energy of the place and with the energy of the Condor to open the heart and create vision and clarity in our lives. The opportunity to work with the Condors through ceremony offers a deep spiritual experience and fellowship in a very special place. Here we dive through the earth’s deepest places and then climb to the highest expanses of freedom in the mountains. In the afternoon there will be time to relax and explore the area next to our beautiful hotel. Here you can walk to nearby and ancient ruins or search for beautiful stones and minerals such as the black obsidian. Perhaps you continue to soak in the riverside hot springs while gazing up at the Southern Hemisphere’s vast night sky. Here you will find stars you may never have seen before with the feeling of being able to touch the entire Milky Way with your hands.

Hotel: Hotel Colca Lodge: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, not lunch and dinner.
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Transport and guides: Included

22.05.2024: DAY FOUR
COLCA LODGE – LAKE TITIKA – THE ANCESTOR OF THE INCA PEOPLE AND THE CRADLE OF THE INCA EMPIRE

After breakfast we start hiking up towards the sacred ruins; Uyu Uyu which lies under the sacred mountain Apu Mismi. These ancient ruins are very close to our hotel. Here our Q’ero paqos will guide us through ceremony with this sacred mountain to continue opening and this time illuminating our hearts. Apu Mismi awakens our inner gifts and the seeds within us of possibilities that each one carries within his heart. The ceremony helps us create a deeper relationship with nature and brings our soul’s gifts into reality. Once back at the hotel, we prepare to continue the journey in the direction of Puno and the world’s highest lake: Lake Titikaka and the birthplace of the Inca Empire. The rest of the evening is free to explore the streets of Puno city

Hotel: Hotel Conde de Lemos, Puno: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, not lunch and dinner.
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Transport and guides: Included

23.05.2024: DAY FIVE
PUNO – THE FLOATING ISLANDS OF URO AND THE ISLAND OF LOVE AMANTANI – HOLY WATER AMONG THE plateaus OF THE WORLD

We get up early in the morning  and after breakfast we take a personal boat to Uro’s famous and floating islands. Here, natural people have lived on self-created islands of reeds in the middle of the lake since before the Inca Empire. We will see how they built these islands out of straw and how they live here, floating on the waters of Lake Titicaca. With a view of the great mountain Apu Illimani, we travel further out on the largest, highest lake in the world. We are here to explore the mythical story of the first Inca people to descend on two of the lake’s famous islands. The two who came to create the foundation of the entire Inca Empire; Inca Manko Kapaq and Mama Occleo. We go to the island of love; Amantani where we will visit two sacred temples on the island’s highest peaks. These temples are dedicated to Pachamama (Mother Earth) and Pachatata (Father Earth). Here we will step into the ceremony overlooking this magnificent lake that brings us together with the center of the earth. The balance of duality will ceremoniously merge with our collective mother, our planet – Earth. Being human is an extraordinary experience of being alive. We are the most evolved being on earth and here we will through ceremony reconnect with our true nature and consciously walk the journey as who we really are. During this ceremony and in this powerful place, you will receive your spiritual name. A name, given to you by the Q’ero paqos themselves that will name the energy of your soul’s mission and journey on earth. Your spiritual name connects you with your soul’s medicine and sacred path on earth. Your personal power, journey and energy medicine will truly be blessed and gilded by the energy of this place. From this day on, the place also holds you and your medicine as a sort of guide or godfather. In the evening we are invited to stay with the families who live here on the island. We stay here with them during the night in the energy of the day and the island of love.

Hotel: Stay with the families at Amantani: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, not lunch and dinner.
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Transport to the islands and guides: Included

24.05.2024: DAY SIX
PUNO – A MYTHICAL PLACE AND THE PORTAL TO OTHER DIMENSIONS

In the morning we leave the island in our private boat that takes us back to Puno. During the boat trip, our Q’ero mentors will share deeper information about our spiritual names and why we received them. This gives us a deeper relationship with the energy and medicine of the name. Once in Puna, we stop to have lunch and rest. Our private bus then takes us towards Bolivia, to visit an ancient temple located near Lake Titicaca. This is a very special and magical temple, older than we can date back to a known civilization in the area. This place is known as Amaru Murus, the portal of Amara Mara and is a doorway carved into a rock hill. This temple is linked to ancient civilizations such as Atlantis, Lemuria and is said to be a portal to other dimensions. Here you will meet, feel or see between the worlds with a direct link to your spirit guides. It’s an amazing place. This is also a temple connected to the feminine power of the Andean tradition; Nusta goddesses. It is a very high vibrating place that downloads and gives you lots of energy as well as wisdom. It maintains a perfect balance between masculine and feminine, dark and light, new and old. Through ceremony, new visions are opened within you, what you bring with you and give to the world. After spending our day in this magical place, we go back to Puno for a free evening to integrate what you experienced during the day.

Hotel: Hotel Conde de Lemos, Puno: Included
Tickets to sacred sights on this day: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, not lunch and dinner.
Transport and guides: Included

25.05.2024: DAY SEVEN
THE TEMPLE OF CREATION AND THE SACRED VALLEY

After breakfast, we are picked up by our private bus and start an approximately 8-hour journey towards the center of the Inca Empire and the sacred valley. We leave the magical waters of Lake Titicaca and begin a beautiful journey where you will see how the surroundings and landscapes change beautifully with many contrasts. During the journey we will stop at the Temple of Creation, Wiracocha in Raqchi. Here in this powerful and sacred place we step into ceremony with all of creation. Through a ceremonial meditation, our paqos here will work with us, to create a strong connection between the universe and your essence. To awaken the creation within you and create a stronger connection to your spiritual name, personal medicine and gifts. This is a self-realization journey to also understand your dreams in life, your inner gifts and why you are here on earth this time. After we integrate the ceremony from this location, our journey continues by bus to the Sacred Valley and Karina’s own hotel and center in Ollantaytambo. The rest of the day is free for integration, exploring the surroundings or just resting in cozy rooms while listening to the sound of the river outside.

26.05.2024: DAY EIGHT
ILLIARI CHASKA LODGE – OFF-DAY IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF PISAC

We start this day with a good breakfast and a quiet morning. We hold a sharing to deepen our relationship as a group and community. You have a few options for this day off. What you will do depends entirely on your sense of what you need on this day. Here we live close to nature in a beautiful valley. It is located right next to the sacred river: Riti Mayo whose water comes from the sacred mountain Apu Waqaywillka/Veronica; the mountain of holy tears. Today you may want to book an individual session with our paqo’s or follow us to explore the town of Pisac. Here you can shop at the famous market in the center of this old town. There are plenty of shops selling incredible handmade items, such as ponchos or Inca textiles. There are also shops that sell shamanic or ancient tools for your healing work and for your mesa (medicine tool). In the afternoon or after dinner we go back to Karina’s wonderful center just outside the village of Ollantaytambo. Once back at Illari Chaska Lodge, you will have a sweet and peaceful evening that integrates the deep experience of this journey.

Hotel: Illiari Chaska Lodge: Included
Tickets to sacred sights on this day: Not included
Meals: Breakfast included, not lunch and dinner.
Personal healings, initiations, readings with Paqos: Not included
Transport and guides: Not included
Transport to and from the village of Pisac at designated times: Included

27.05.2024: DAY NINE
MAUKA W’AKA – AN ANCIENT AND CARVED STONE TEMPLE

We start the day here at Karina’s center – Illiari Chaska lodge. After breakfast we meet by the river to receive a healing cleansing with natural herbs or stones from the area. Through stillness and meditation we create a strong connection to this sacred river and its water that comes from the snow-capped mountain Waqaywillka. When we are ready, cleansed and at peace, we head to the sacred ruins
of Mauka Wa´ka. Our private bus will take us directly to this ancient temple. This temple, rarely visited by tourists, has a very powerful and mysterious energy. The local shamans come here to create ceremony especially in connection with the 24th of June and the Inti Raymi festival. It is a temple connected to the ancestors, to the Chakana (Inca Cross) and the four cardinal points. The temple also connects us with the 3 worlds that we traditionally work with; The upper world: Hanaq Pacha (future and superconscious), the middle world: Kay Pacha (present and conscious), the lower world: Uku Pacha (past and unconscious). This temple has a perfect energy that brings us together with the balance between the masculine and the feminine. They work here with the sun (Inti) as well as priestesses, goddesses (Nustas). Here we again step into ceremony and the creation of a powerful despacho ceremony. We create a deep relationship with this sacred place and the magnificently carved stone altars found here. Our Q’ero mentors will use this living prayer to initiate you with the energy of a brand new beginning. After our ceremony we will have lunch in Ollantaytambo and the rest of the afternoon is free.

Hotel: Illiari Chaska Lodge: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, not lunch and dinner.
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Transport and guides: Included

28.05.2024: DAY TEN
OLLANTAYTAMBO – A MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE COMPLEX – OPENING OUR HEARTS TO THE FUTURE AND THE TRUTH OF OUR SOUL

After breakfast, our private bus will pick us up and take us directly to this beautiful, ceremonial site and its temple. The journey takes about 20 minutes and when we arrive you will encounter an incredible landscape and the energy of the Inca culture. This ancient city and temple area reminds us of a magnificent realm and the powerful energy medicine that Q’ero paqos now shares with us. Together with paqos we will step into a ceremony at the temple of the condor and connect with the power of the highest vibrating bird in the Andean tradition. Here we will connect with its energy to open our hearts with a soulful name. We will also hike through the ruins up to the Temple of the Wind. Here we will together as a group purify and strengthen our communication. We illuminate our lungs and bring up our own voice, our soul’s own truth. This brings us together and helps us walk in safety and honesty as an Ayllu; a community. After a day of meditation here we hike down to have lunch in Ollantaytambo and the rest of the day is free.

Hotel: Illiari Chaska Lodge – Carina’s land: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, not lunch and dinner.
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Transport and guides: Included

29.05.2024: DAY ELEVEN
OLLANTAYTAMBO – AGUAS KALLIENTES – MACHU PICCHU – A sanctuary AMONG THE CLOUDS

This is a special day you’ve been waiting for! Early in the morning we travel from Ollantaytambo where we take the train through the jungle to Aguas Calientes near Machu Picchu.

We soon enter the gates of the crystal city of magic, mystery and myth and encounter one of the seven wonders of the world. We follow the Inca-built staircase through the ruins of this sanctuary among the clouds to the temple of Mother Earth. Through meditation we allow ourselves to meet the energies here to create a new and deep beginning in our soul. We will get to know Machu Picchu, its temples and sacred mountains around us. After a guided tour of the ceremonial complex, there will be free time to explore this stunning citadel high above the Whilka Mayo (Sacred River). Here you will be brought together with the mountain Machu Picchu which is the mountain of love and also deeply connected to the ancestors. Machu Picchu is a place to relive yourself. Here we get in touch with who we really are within ourselves and dream beyond who we already think we are.

In the afternoon we meet in the village of Aguas Calientes for dinner. Afterwards we take the train back to our hotel in Cusco.

Hotel: Anahuarque Hotel Cusco: Included
Train tickets and tickets to Machu Picchu: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, not lunch and dinner.
Transport from the train station and guides: Included

18.05.2024: ARRIVAL IN LIMA

Today is a free day: you may want to schedule an individual session with Q´ero Paqo’s, (at your hotel or at a sacred site), explore the historic city or shop in the native marketplaces, the real shaman market or in elegant boutiques. Maybe you want to take an afternoon tour of the area. This may interest those visiting Cusco for the first time and those looking to reconnect with sacred sites they have visited before. If you prefer to wander on your own, Cusco is a wonderful city to explore, with many attractions within easy walking distance or a cheap taxi ride. For example, your hotel is a short walk from the famous Qorikancha – the Inca Empire’s (”Sun Temple”) From the center of this temple complex, the Earth’s energy lines still radiate outward, connecting sacred sites throughout the empire and far across the world. You can also prepare for the coming days of camping high in the mountains.

Hotel: Anahuarque Hotel Cusco: Included
Tickets to sacred sights on this day: Not included Meals: Breakfast included, not lunch and dinner.
Personal healings, initiations, readings with Paqos: Not included
Transport and guides: Not included

31.06.2024: DAY THIRTEEN
CUSCO – PILGRIMAGE TO APU AUSANGATE – THE ANDEAN HIGHLANDS OF SACRED GLACIERS.

Early in the morning we begin our journey by bus up through the highlands of the Andes, towards the sacred mountains of Ausangate and Colloriti. During our journey we pass steep mountains and slopes with green agricultural fields and terraces. You will see many small villages with shepherds guiding their herds of llamas and alpacas and experience how the indigenous people live in the mountains. Our professional guide will tell you about the life and traditions of the local people, as well as the features and landscapes you visit. If you want to ride a horse up into the mountains during the trip, this is possible, on request. The pilgrimage up this impressive mountain, Ausangate, is an initiation in itself. As we climb it, we will stop and receive a cleansing in the glacial lakes to let go of what holds us back, so that we can meet these mighty landscapes through presence. We will work with the healing, regenerative waters of one of the beautiful blue turquoise lagoons along the path. When you arrive at the foot of Ausangate, it’s time for a nice dinner and to let body and soul relax. You will have time to hike and explore the surroundings of this sacred mountain which is one of the ”holiest” and highest mountains in the Andes. During the night we will camp below this majestic mountain. Sleeping close to the ground will intensify your connection to Mother Earth (Pachamama) and Ausangate and will maximize your experience of its sacred nature. We will camp at 4,600 meters above sea level to get a strong connection with this mountain and landscape on a deep level. Paqo’s presence there with us will further deepen our experience and help support and guide our experience. They will also share their wisdom and stories with us about this unique place.

Accommodation: Camping in tents: Included
Mattress: Included but you can also bring your own
Sleeping bag: Not included
Meals: Breakfast at the hotel and lunch and dinner in the mountains are included
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Transport and guide: Included
Horses: Horses are not included and cost approximately $40 per day. If you choose to book a horse, you must pay for it for these 4 days in the mountains

01.06.2024: DAY FOURTEEN
APU AUSANGATE – AN INITIATION BEYOND TIME AND WORDS – ONE WITH THE INCAN LINEAGE OF MEDICINE MEN AND WOMEN.

After breakfast we will meet the shamans who will work individually with each of us and our sacred altar, our mesa. They will give you a personal reading of your medicine and the path ahead of you, giving you both clarity and knowledge about your inner and outer journey. We then hike higher and closer with views of this majestic mountain. In this place you will receive an initiation that will bring you together with medicine men and women. A family of healers who have walked the same healing journey we do. During initiation, you receive a ”Lineage Stone” from this highly vibrating place. A unique medicine stone connected to the powerful ancestors who lived here in the Andes, who fled the capital during the fall of the empire to maintain the ancient knowledge, wisdom and ceremonies. To cherish and keep a universal tradition that they inherited from their ancestors. The rest of the day is free to wander and connect with the landscape and the mountain in your own way. Integrating the wisdom and energy of today’s ceremonies.

Accommodation: Camping in tents: Included
Mattress: Included
Sleeping bag: Not included
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner in the mountains: Included
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Horsemen and guide: Included

02.06.2024: DAY FIFTEEN
APU AUSANGATE – RECEIVING THE GREATEST INITIATION OF RENEWAL

After breakfast we will do a morning meditation and meet with our paqos to create a ceremonial gift. Together we create a living prayer, a despacho in contact with us, the journey of our soul and the spirit of the mountain. We will be guided closer and up this mountain to transform through fire this gift. This ceremony lifts our prayers and dreams up to its snowy crown, connected to the universe.

We will work as a group to heal the stories and beliefs we have about ourselves and the world. To lift all imprints within us that limit our journey to our highest potential. We will bring them to awareness and then let the spirit of the mountain help us heal them. Our paqos invite us to ceremony and at the altar of the mountain will transmit the Mosoq Karpay, the great initiation and power of this mountain. A very high frequency will fill the energy field, our power centers and reconnect us to your future. This dissolves them and brings us together with our true essence. During this ceremony you will continue to work with your spiritual name through the power of the initiation and this powerful mountain. The rest of the day is free to connect with the landscape and the mountain in your own way. Integrating the high vibration that still shakes and holds your world from within. A place beyond time and space also now joins the name of your soul’s medicine and destiny.

Accommodation: Camping in tents: Included
Mattress: Included
Sleeping bags: Not included
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner in the mountains: Included
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Horsemen and guide: Included

03.06.2024: DAY SIXTEEN
APU AUSANGATE – CUSCO; THE CENTER & CAPITAL OF THE INCA EMPIRE – A NEW DAY, A NEW BEGINNING AND A NEW SUNRISE.

Today, like most days, we start with a sharing, to share our experience. After this, you have the opportunity to explore this place in conscious calm for a few hours. A day of integration and meditation to sacred wisdom within you. After lunch, the horsemen pack our belongings, tents and we continue our journey down the mountain with a view of Apu Kolloriti, a snow-clad mountain that is a very sacred place for ceremony during the Inca Empire. On the way down the mountain we will stop and create an Apacheta, a stone monument to anchor our prayers in our lives through ceremony and connect to our prayers. During this ceremony you will work with the energy of these days, your spiritual name and its sacred medicine. Here we build a new connection to our lives, visions and dreams to help you walk with greater ease and support the spiritual path of the Inca people. Once we are down in the horsemen’s home village, our bus will pick us up and drive us directly to our hotel in Cusco. Your bags and belongings have been stored here since we left. The rest of the evening is free for rest or to wander through this fantastic and ancient inca.

Hotel: Anahuarque Hotel Cusco: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, lunch and dinner not included
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Transport and guides: Included

04.06.2024: DAY SEVENTEEN
CUSCO- DAY OFF IN CUSCO

Today is a day off after our beautiful days at Mount Ausangate. A day of rest, integration and personal time. Perhaps you want to continue your personal work by booking a private healing session, initiation etc. with Q’ero paqos or just enjoy and integrate the mountain journey. Perhaps you prefer to wander on your own through Cusco and wander outside the city to Saxayhuaman’s many sights.

Hotel: Anahuarque Hotel Cusco: Included
Tickets to sacred sights on this day: Not included
Meals: Breakfast included, lunch and dinner not included
Personal healings, initiations, readings with Paqos: Not included
Transport and guides: Not included

05.06.2024: DAY EIGHTEEN
CUSCO – QUILLARUMIYOQ – TO BE BAPTIZED AND BORN AGAIN AT THE ANCIENT AND SACRED ALTAR OF THE MOON

After breakfast we leave our hotel and drive towards Quillarumiyoq. Overlooking beautiful scenery, our teachers, Paqos will guide us through a beautiful ceremony to work with this ancient and mysterious temple. It is a perfectly carved stone monument rarely visited by tourists. It is said to be a temple created before the time of the Inca Empire, made in connection with Atlantis and the universe. We will work with this power place and the lunar calendar here to bring clarity, strength and freedom into your whole essence. This day is a day of wisdom and healing. Paqos will share another traditional and sacred ceremony connected to this temple and the water from the spring here. You will traditionally be baptized with your spiritual name, holy medicine and reborn in holy water through ceremony. Here we will leave lifelessness that may have haunted you in life, so that you can now embrace and own life. You will reach into the energy of the future and then be initiated to walk from this new place in stability. This marks a new birth of life and creates a new journey in your life. After this powerful ceremony, there will be time for each person to meditate in this sacred place for further immersion and personal connection with the place and your inner self. This helps enable you to connect to your own truth, and to share or express that truth with all that you will meet. This is the deepest secret about yourself, which you can never explain to anyone else. This is the truth of who you really are; a place that can never be told, but can be felt and experienced. In the evening we will share our soulful moments of the trip during a closing dinner to celebrate our weeks together. A tribute to the new place this whole transformative journey has created within us. There is no good-bye, Tupananchiskama; until we meet again, as paqos always say.

Hotel: Anahuarque Hotel Cusco: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, not lunch and dinner
Ceremony and teaching with Paqos: Included
Transport and guides: Included

06.06.2024: DAY NINETEEN
CUSCO – FLY FROM CUSCO TO LIMA AND YOUR HOME COUNTRY OR STAY AT PLANT MEDICINE RETREAT JUNE 7 – 12th

Today, if you have not made further arrangements to stay a few extra days in Cusco or elsewhere in Peru, you can take a taxi from the hotel to the Cusco airport for your flight to Lima. In Lima you connect with your flight back to your home. OR: You are also welcome to stay another week to explore another family line that fled during the fall of the Inca Empire. Here you can meet the medicine men and women who have held and preserved the magic of the herbal medicine tradition deep in the jungle.

Meals: Breakfast at the hotel is included, not lunch and dinner
Transport and guides: Not included

You can work with Paqo’s on days off. You can have a coca reading, a healing session, initiation or something else. This can be at the hotel or going to a beautiful holy place. For this you will have plenty of time to talk with Victor and Karina during the trip.

Healing: $120
Healing & Reading: $210
Reading: $120
Initiation: $210

THIS is INCLUDED in this sacred journey:

• Hotel (double room), including breakfast (add $750 USD for a single room).
• Camping equipment: mattress and tent.
• All entrance fees to the sacred sites we visit from the program above.
• Private transport / bus / train tickets to Machu Picchu.
• Tour leaders, guides & translators.
• Meals (as described in the itinerary).
• Ceremonies with two Paqos, throughout the trip (depending on the number of participants).
• Food and accommodation for the journey in the mountains.
• (Emergency) oxygen tank for the trip in the mountains.
• Our own doctor during our trip in the mountains.
• Healing ceremonies and initiations (as described in the itinerary).
• Lectures and wisdom shared during the journey.
• Horses and horsemen to carry all camping equipment.

THIS IS NOT INCLUDED:

• Flights from your home country to Lima and from Lima to your home country.
• Domestic flights within Peru (Lima to Arequipa & Cusco to Lima).
• Personal horse during our mountain trip (4 days) $40 per day.
• Additional meals (lunch, dinner), as above.
• Supplement in a single room: $750 USD extra.
• Individual healings or initiations with paqos (on request).
• Flashlights.
• Travel insurance (including health insurance).
• Swimwear.
• Vaccinations (if you want or are advised to take them).
• Sleeping bag.
• Money to tip. Many peruvians live on getting tip so everyone goes out of their way to make your stay a magical and comfortable experience. In the past this has been collected at the end of the trip but THIS TIME: Bring $440 dollars extra for tip an give to Karina in the first few days: this includes tip for bus and boat drivers, local guides, tour guides, hotel receptionists, porters, sacred sights and their guards, etc. – giving tip for that kind of service is common in Peru and for the first time we’re doing it for you. However, remember if you do your own thing on your days off that, as explained, it is common to tip here and something many people live on.

TOUR GUIDES

• Victor Forselius (Sweden) – Contact: Hello@Qeromedicine.com
• Paqos from the Q’ero villages.
• Karina Davalos Concha (Peru) Spiritofthecondor@hotmail.com

Tukuy Sonqoymanta (with all our hearts), Victor, Karina and the Paqo´s.

Total cost of the trip: $ 4440 USD

A deposit of $ 2000 dollars guarantees your spot (non-refundable). Registration deadline: May 1 2024. When you register, you will receive a form with all the exact information on how to pay and more information on the practicalities of your stay in Peru.

Tip: You can also visit a travel agency and let them help you book your ticket directly from the place you’re coming from to where you’re going. (e.g. Stockholm-Lima, Lima-Cuzco and Lima-Arequipa). We recommend that you book the ticket from your country to Lima as one ticket (eg KLM) and that you book domestic flights separately (eg Latam). If you book via KLM directly from Stockholm to Cusco (which is possible), you cannot make changes to your ticket later, if necessary. For registration and/or questions please email: Victor Forselius: Hello@qeromedicine.com / www.qeromedicine.com

Please note

* Although the journey is carefully anchored in an energetic ”template” as well as in detailed practical advance planning, this itinerary remains ”moldable to reality.” It is the nature of pilgrimage and apprenticeship that some things can change at the last minute. In our experience, the few changes that occurred on our previous trips often opened the door to unforeseen (and usually wonderful) opportunities. Thank you in advance for your flexibility and willingness to adapt, to take advantage of the ever-changing opportunities available in a fluid shamanic universe!
* For the individual healing or initiation sessions with paqos, make a reservation during the trip with Victor while in Peru. All of you will be able to work personally with the shamans.
* If you want to arrive earlier or stay longer please let us know in time. Karina can make extra reservations at the hotel you choose.
** It is not allowed to drink alcohol during the ceremony days and initiations, only on your free time! This is for your own and the group’s safety.
** We live and indeed have lived in transformative times. Covid19 shook the world and we are grateful that the restrictions are gone. Peru has been greatly affected by this. Vaccinated or not, you are most welcome to join us on this journey through the magical landscape of the Andes. You do not need to be vaccinated to come with us to the homeland of the tradition – Peru.

useful websites

KLM Airlines – Flyg från ditt hemland till Lima & Lima till hemlandet.
Latam Airlines – Inrikesflyg inom Peru (Lima till Cusco; Cusco till Lima)
Avianca Airlines – Inrikesflyg inom Peru (Lima till Cusco; Cusco till Lima)
Lima Airport Hotel – Lima Airport Hotel.
Google Maps – Användbart för att kartlägga din resa.

For registration and/or questions please email: Victor Forselius: hello@qeromedicine.com / www.qeromedicine.com

Tukuy Sonqoymanta (with all our hearts)
Victor, Karina and Paqo’s.

maj 2024
Inget evenemang hittades!
Inget evenemang hittades!

TRAVEL TO PERU WITH VICTOR FORSELIUS

JUNE 7TH – JUNE 12TH | JUNGLE MEDICINE – CEREMONIES – SACRED PLANTS

HEAL THE PAST & RECONNECT WITH THE FUTURE

option 1

There are two options to participate in this jungle medicine trip and retreat. This can be an extra trip added to the program after you have followed Victor’s journey through the Andes Mountains, Lake Titicaca, The Sacred Valley with the indigenous Q’eros. If so, you will go to Illiari Chaska Lodge with Victor Forselius from Cusco with the rest of the group on June 6th at 5 pm.

option 2

The second option is if you have not participated in the trip. In this case, you plan to arrive in Lima on June 5th and then arrive in Cusco in the evening. Here, Karina can help you book a nice hotel where the rest of the group is staying (in central Cusco) for only $ 60. On the 6th you have a free day in Cusco to acclimatize and rest. We then leave Cusco together at 5 pm to go to Carina’s wonderful center just outside the village of Ollantaytambo. Close to nature in a fantastic valley, we stop by the river and listen to the water flowing past us. This water comes from the sacred mountain Apu Whalkay Whilka/Veronica; The Mountain of Holy Tears.

We are honoured to invite you to a magical journey through the wisdom of another lineage of medicine women and men who fled the seage of the empire. Another family of this tradition who found their rest in the deep rainforests of the Amazon. Allow the knowledge of how to travel through the worlds and your inner dimensions to expand beyond visions of reality. Allow your souls eye and sensitivity in contact with the invisible dimensions of spirit to become a first-hand experience. Be able to experience a world of magic without the filters of reality.

 

You will have plenty of Swedish friends to talk to but please note that the journey will be in English.

Description:

Through the beautiful landscapes at the foothills of the sacred mountain Whalkaywhilka, the Ayahuasqeros (ie. Jungle shamans) will introduce and guide you through a healing journey in between the worlds.
Carina Davalos Concha have created a sacred paradise, an Eden for native people and ancient ceremony. The Illiari Chaska Wasi center is the house of Mercury. A very sacred star of illumination and new beginnings for the native people of the Andes. Held by the sacred waters of the snow caped mountain Veronica we will walk through the gardens of Eden, the paradise that we never left. Through jungle medicine we will connect with the feminine energy of our collective mother and with all of our senses. The Ayahuasqero shaman will guide us through cleansings and reawakening rites of passage into the depths of our being where journeying will be not just seen, but experienced first-hand. You are now invited to the other line of the Incas who didn’t flee the Spanish Conquistadors up into the mountains. We invite you to follow the footsteps of those who entered the jungle and they’ll share their most authentic and holiest tradition of herbal medicine, mystique and enlightenment.

Now you have the unique opportunity to meet a master of plant medicine who is safeguarding the shamanic traditions of her ancestor’s lineage of herbalists and shamans. Those who have lived in communion within the green lands of the great mother. They will travel to Ollantaytambo and the Illiari Chaska centre to guide us through 6 days of profound ceremony.

Reconnect with the truth of what’s your souls next step on the journey. Be able to talk to the depths of your own soul and be guided to hear the message of spirit. Allow what haven’t been seen to unfold and let the filters of reality fall aside as you cross the vail of the spiritrealm.

Welcome to be touched and healed by the mythic realm of the universe. Travel through your being, through time and space in a way that your inner being hasn’t been touched before. Meet the next step and guidance of your spiritual development. Come and meet one of mother earth greatest gifts in first hand.
Take a giant leap into who you were born to become, be nudged into becoming your destiny.

 

Join us for a journey

of a lifetime!

 

itinerary

The first option if this is is your continued Peru trip with us.

06.06.2024: DAY SEVENTEEN
CUSCO – DAY OF REST AND PREPARATION FOR our plant MEDICINE RETREAT

After a good breakfast at the hotel, maybe some people in your group will go home to their home country. You can just relax and have a rest day in Cusco to prepare for another week of shamanic initiations. In the afternoon at 17.00 you go with Victor and Carina from Cusco to Ollantaytambo and Illiari Chaska Lodge. Since you participated in the first part of the trip, we have a surprise for you. We offer this day between the trip and the retreat. The night at Karina’s center is included for you. You will be guided to your room and have a nice quiet evening here.

Meals: Breakfast at the hotel is included, not lunch and dinner
Transport to Illiari Chaska Lodge: Included
Hotel: Illiari Chaska Lodge: Included

Second option if you start your trip with us at this retreat.

05.06.2023: ARRIVAL IN LIMA

After arriving in Lima, the journey continues with a final flight to Cusco where you land in the evening. Here, Karina can help you book a nice hotel where the rest of the group is staying (in central Cusco) for only $60. On the 6th you have a free day in Cusco to acclimatize and rest. We then leave Cusco together at 17:00 to go to Carina’s wonderful center just outside the village of Ollantaytambo. Close to nature in a fantastic valley, we stop by the river and listen to the water flowing past us. This water comes from the sacred mountain Apu Whalkay Whilka/Veronica; The Mountain of Holy Tears. If you arrive in Lima on the 5th and need to stay in a hotel for one night, you can easily find the airport hotel ”Costa Del Sol”. A wonderful hotel where you can spend a night without leaving the airport.

Hotel: Anahuarque Hotel in Cusco on June 5: Not included
Meals: Not included
Flights: International flights (domestic to Lima, Peru): Not included
Flight: Lima to Cusco: Not included
Transport to Illiari Chaska Lodge on June 6th: Included
Hotel: Iliari Chaska Lodge on June 6: Not included

07.06.2024: DAY ONE
OLLANTAYTAMBO & ILLIARI CHASKA LODGE – WELCOME TO SACRED LANDSCAPES AND MEET TWO BRANCHES OF THE INCA NATURAL PEOPLE; JUNGLE SHAMANS AND THE PAQOS/MYSTICS OF THE ANDeS

Welcome to a magical place. Here we will spend six days of deep and beautiful personal and spiritual development. A journey of self-realization is just around the corner. A journey where you are held by the beautiful mountains in the valley and the clear waters of the river. Water coming from the highly vibrating glaciers of the sacred mountain Apu Whalkay Whilka/Apu Veronica. She is the protector of the crystal city of Machu Picchu and is called the mountain of sacred tears. She will hold you through an inner journey, through layers of truth and awareness. Illiari Chaska Lodge is a natural garden where we experience in presence the paradise that we never left. Here we will spend six magical days held by sacred mountains and two lineages of different shamans who gather for healing and ceremony. Here we will come into contact with an ancient herbal medicine, plant medicine that Ayahuasqeros from the jungle brought to us. We will work with this sacred feminine medicine, connecting with the power of our collective mother with all our senses. Q’ero Paqos join our side through healing and ceremony – the masters of the living energy. They are our pillars of healing, support and grounding in the days ahead. They prepare various healing purification ceremonies for us as a group. They gently guide us through our powerful insights, healing and closure. In the afternoon we meet at the temple to create an opening ceremony followed by a sharing so that together we create an Ayllu: a family or ”community” together. You will receive a cleansing to release things that are holding you back from fully stepping into this powerful experience.

Hotel: Illiari Chaska Lodge: Included
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Included (all inclusive).
Ceremony and teaching with Ayahuasqero and Paqos: Included Transport and guides: Included

08.06.2024: DAY TWO
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PREPARATION –
OPENING UP TO THE SACRED MEDICINE THAT AWAITS US

During the morning you will have plenty of rest before breakfast and a sharing session to connect with our newfound friends. During the day we will connect with the shamans who will guide us through the steps of the upcoming ceremonies that now await us. We will be guided by stories, sounds and meditations to connect with the purity of our soul, Pachamama (mother earth) and nature’s plant medicine. In the afternoon we will be guided through our first jungle, plant medicine ceremony. This will continue for the next 5-8 hours before we rest and digest/integrate our experience.

Hotel: Illiari Chaska Lodge: Included
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Included (all inclusive)
Ceremony and teaching with Ayahuasqero and Paqos: Included
Guides and translators: Included

09.06.2024: DAY THREE
CLARITY, INTEGRATION AND OUR SECOND GROWTH CEREMONY

After our first ceremony, we will start the day either with breakfast or at lunch. We will create a ceremonial sharing about your experience from last night’s plant medicine session. Later that day you will have a personal coaching session with our Shaman mentors who will take you on a journey through guidance and clarity. They will explain, listen and give us clarity on what happened to us yesterday while we were floating high in the spirit of the universe. Tonight you will dive into your second ceremonial opportunity with the mother plant depending on your feeling since yesterday. Either you open up to a new experience with the Shaman and the group, or you continue to rest and integrate yesterday’s deep experience. Once again, you can meet the mother herb that helps you through your deep processes to create clarity and vision in your path.

Hotel: Illiari Chaska Lodge: Included
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Included (all inclusive).
Ceremony and teaching with Ayahuasqero and Paqos: Included
Guides and translators: Included

10.06.2024: DAY FOUR
CLARITY, INTEGRATION AND OUR THIRD PLANT CEREMONY

After our second ceremony, we will start the day either with breakfast or at lunch. We will create a ceremonial sharing about the experience from last night’s plant medicine session. Later that day, our Shaman mentors take us on a personal journey of guidance. They will explain, listen and give us clarity on what happened to us yesterday during our second experience. Tonight you will dive into the final ceremony depending on your feeling since yesterday. Either you open up to a new experience with the shaman and the group, or you continue to rest and integrate yesterday’s deep experience. Once again, you can meet the mother plant that helps you through your deep processes to create clarity and vision in your path.

Hotel: Illiari Chaska Lodge: Included
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Included (all inclusive)
Ceremony and teaching with Ayahuasqero and Paqos: Included
Guides and translators: Included

11.06.2024: DAY FIVE
ILLIARI CHASKA CENTRE: REST DAY AND PERSONAL HEALING SESSIONS

This is a rest day in the center to filter your process, meet the group for a sharing, followed by a personal coaching conversation with our Shaman Lordes. Today we help each other understand and integrate the gifts of these days of life-changing ceremony. Today you will also have the opportunity to book personal healing sessions, readings and initiations with the Shamans/Paqos if you wish. It is beautiful to bring all your insights to a place where your shaman holds you in a sacred space. To integrate the new ”life map of insights” and at the same time be held while letting go of the things that are not in service to you. In the evening we will travel to Cusco for a final night at our hotel. Here we will share our soulful moments from those days during a closing dinner to celebrate the completion of our transformative journey together at Illiari Chaska Lodge. A tribute to the new place that the whole journey has created within us. There is no goodbye, Tupananchiskama, until we meet again, as the paqos always say.

Hotel: Anahuarque Hotel Cusco: Included
Meals: Breakfast & lunch included. Dinner in Cusco not included
Ceremony and teaching with Ayahuasqeros and Paqos: Included
Guides and translators: Included
Personal healings, initiations, readings with Paqos: Not included

12.06.2024: DAY SIX
ILLIARI CHASKA CENTER – CUSCO OR THE HOMELAND

Today, if you have not made arrangements to stay extra days in Cusco or elsewhere in Peru – you will be assisted in arranging personal transportation to take you to the airport for your return flight to Lima. In Lima you connect with your flight back to your home country.

Hotel: Morning at Anahuarque Hotel Cusco: Included
Meals: Breakfast included, lunch and dinner not included
Transport and guides: Not included

You can work with Paqo’s on days off. You can book a coca reading, a healing session, initiation or something else. This will be held at Illiari Chaska lodge.

Healing: $120
Healing & Reading: $210
Reading: $120
Initiation: $210

THIS IS INCLUDED IN THIS SACRED JOURNEY:

• Hotel (double room), including breakfast, lunch and dinner. Add $200 if you want a single room or $360 if you want a room with a jacuzzi.
• Private transport/bus to Illiari Chaska Center and to Cusco on June 11th.
• Tour leaders, guides and translators.
• Meals (all inclusive: breakfast, lunch and dinner) except dinner on the last day.
• All ceremonies and teachings with Ayahuasqero Shaman and Paqo mystics, throughout the retreat.
• Our own doctor close at hand at the centre.

THIS IS NOT INCLUDED

• Flights from your home country to Lima and from Lima to your home country.
• Domestic flights within Peru (Lima to Cusco; Cusco to Lima)
• Additional meals (lunch, dinner), as above.
• Supplement in SGL room $200 USD extra or $360 if you want a room with a jacuzzi.
• Individual healings or initiations with paqos (on request).
• Flashlights.
• Travel insurance (including health insurance).
• Swimsuit.
• Vaccinations (if you want or are recommended to).
• Money to tip (many peruvians live on tip so everyone goes out of their way to make your stay a magical and comfortable experience – against any tip collected at the end of the trip)

TOUR GUIDES

• Victor Forselius (Sweden) – Contact: Hello@Qeromedicine.com
• Paqos from the Q’ero villages.
• Karina Davalos Concha (Peru) Spiritofthecondor@hotmail.com

Tukuy Sonqoymanta (with all our hearts), Victor, Karina and Paqo´s.

Total cost FOR the retreat: $2100 USD

A deposit of $900 secures your space (non-refundable). Registration deadline: May 30, 2024. If you register, you will receive a form with all the exact information on how to pay and more information on the practicalities of your stay in Peru.

Tip: You can also visit a travel agency and let them help you book your ticket directly from the place you’re coming from to where you’re going. (e.g. Stockholm-Cuzco and back). For registration and/or questions please email: Victor Forselius: Hello@qeromedicine.com / www.Qeromedicine.com

Please note

* Although the journey is carefully anchored in an energetic ”template” as well as in detailed practical advance planning, this itinerary remains ”moldable to reality.” It is the nature of pilgrimage and apprenticeship that some things can change at the last minute. In our experience, the few changes that occurred on our previous trips often opened the door to unforeseen (and usually wonderful) opportunities. Thank you in advance for your flexibility and willingness to adapt, to take advantage of the ever-changing opportunities available in a fluid shamanic universe!
* For the individual healing or initiation sessions with paqos, make a reservation during the trip with Victor while in Peru. All of you will be able to work personally with the Shamans.
* If you want to arrive earlier or stay longer please let us know in time. Karina can make extra reservations at the hotel you choose.
** It is not allowed to drink alcohol during the ceremony days and initiations, only at your free time! This is for your own and the group’s safety.
** We live and indeed have lived in transformative times. Covid19 has shaken the world and we are grateful that the restrictions are gone. Peru has been greatly affected by this period. Vaccinated or not, you are most welcome to join us on this journey through the magical landscape of the Andes. You do not need to be vaccinated to come with us to the homeland of the tradition – Peru.

useful websites

KLM Airlines – Flights from your home country to Lima & Lima to your home country.
Latam Airlines – Domestic flights within Peru (Lima to Cusco; Cusco to Lima)
Avianca Airlines – Domestic flights within Peru (Lima to Cusco; Cusco to Lima)
Lima Airport Hotel – Lima Airport Hotel.
Google Maps – Useful for mapping out your trip.

For registration and/or questions please email: Victor Forselius: hello@qeromedicine.com / www.qeromedicine.com

Tukuy Sonqoymanta (with all our hearts)
Victor, Karina and Paqo’s.

Inget evenemang hittades!