Peru & Andes
Peru has something that cannot be explained. Not with photos, not with reports. Most people who have made this journey say the same: they did not know exactly why they went — but they know very exactly what they left there. That is not advertising.
In Andean cosmology there is the concept of the chakras of the earth — energy centers that shift. At present, in this time, the most active of these centers are located in the Andes of Peru. That is not a mystical construct. It is what the tradition describes and what confirms itself palpably in the work there.
The portals in the Andes are not all the same. Each has a different frequency. One heals the feminine energy. Another activates the inner energy centers — what is called chakras in the West, but which has a much older root in the Andean tradition.
Yet another releases foreign energy, occupations, bonds that one has brought along. What that means one usually notices only there. Not beforehand. ## What Actually Happens on Such a Journey We meet in Cusco — at about 3,000 meters. Then the hike begins.
Outwardly through the mountains, inwardly through what comes up. The first place we visit is a Moon Temple. Not a built temple — a natural one. There is a small waterfall there, and the water has a quality I know nowhere else.
It penetrates deep into the feminine energy. For women it heals wounds of the womb, of the feminine ancestral line. For men it is the access to one's own mother, to the feminine line from which every person comes. That sounds abstract.
It is very concrete when one stands there. Then we go higher. 4,000, sometimes 5,000 meters. The air grows thinner. The body notices that.
And at the same time we notice something else: that certain things one carries with oneself can no longer hold up there. The heavy needs more energy than one has. It flows. ## The Spirits and the Signs On the last journey we had a situation I do not forget. We were in the mountains, had completed our ceremony, were in the huts.
Then a storm came — a tornado-like wind that moved directly toward us. And just before, it turned away. Went to the town. Not to us.
Something like this I have experienced twice. These are not coincidences one has to explain. Condors that appear when the group falls silent. Two, sometimes three rainbows directly after an intense cleansing.
Wild animals that show themselves when no one expects them. The spirits of the mountains answer what the group brings — and what it lets go. ## Who Accompanies the Journey? I belong to the tradition of the Lupaca — one of the cultures of the Peruvian Andes. Through my grandparents and my spiritual teachers I learned how to work with these portals.
How to ask before entering. How to bring the ceremony the place needs — not the one one imagines. We are also accompanied by brothers from the Q'ero region, among them Ricardo, and by Huica Picchu from another culture. Each carries his own medicine, his own kind of knowledge.
The wisdom they pass on is not written. It is lived — daily, on the same paths we then walk together. ## What This Journey Changes Eight days that often feel like three months. Not because time goes slowly — because one lives in a different rhythm. Not clock, not calendar.
Biological rhythm, cosmic rhythm. Processes that take years at home shorten there into weeks. I do not say this to create expectations. I say it because I have seen it — in people who come back and are no longer the person who left.
Some things are ended there. Others are activated. And some that was on its way concludes itself. That is a hike — inward and outward.
Whoever comes back sees the same everyday life. But he sees it with different eyes. If you know this call — this curiosity that cannot be logically explained — you will find all the information about the next journey on the Peru journey page.