ANCIENT INKA WISDOM COMES TO ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA 
LEARN WITH THE Q'ERO FACULTY OF THE GLOBAL PAQO SCHOOL
 AUGUST 15-20, 2024

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THESE BEAUTIFUL & RARE OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET IN PERSON WITH OUR Q'ERO TEACHERS AT KRIPALU

EVENT 1: AUGUST 9-11, 2024 |  Opening Ceremony: and Blessing for the land and the people of KRIPALU *see full description by clicking pink Event 1 button below

EVENT 2: August 11-14, 2024. Experiential Training with the Q'ero. Inka Practices for Healing and Evolution. *See full description by clicking Pink Event 2 button below

IN THESE TIMES OF EXTREME CHALLENGES DISCOVER EMOTIONAL STABILITY, UPLIFTING PURPOSE &  JOYOUS EMPOWERMENT
THROUGH THE POTENT WISDOM OF OUR Q'ERO MASTER TEACHERS

These descendants of the Inka who live high in the Andes of Peru are here to share their technology of how to re-sacralize our relationship with Mother Earth. They are experts in our Human/Nature relationship and are currently being called to leave their remote mountain villages in the clouds to share their ancestral practices with the world at this critical juncture.  Come learn to become a human bridge to Nature to help restore harmony in our lives and our world. Become part of the solution!  Sit in ceremony, learn simple practices to communicate directly with nature, find emotional and energetic stability, recharge your energy, and restore your purpose. We are all responsible for the condition of the earth and we can heal our human family through love of Nature with proactive practice. 
 *Note: Your Q'ero Teachers for each US seminar will include a selection of three or four GPS faculty dependent on availability*

AUGUST 9-14 , 2024

3 & 4-DAY EXPERIENTIAL TRAININGS

FOR ALL INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
PLEASE CLICK THE LINKS TO THE KRIPALU REGISTRATION WEBSITE!

*Homework: Upon Completion of your registration and tuition payment, you will be sent an instructional email explaining precisely how to locate your Nature Parents. Prior to Retreat please locate your Nature Parents: Mother Water (Paqarina) & Father Mountain (Itu Apu), and bring this vital information with you.



 

TRANSLATION
The teachings will be translated from Quechua and Spanish into English and from English into Spanish and Quechua.

CULTURAL BENEFIT & THE PROMISE OF AYNI--SACRED RECIPROCITY

Your retreat tuition covers the cost of travel for our teachers, translation, lodging, venue fee, and program materials. By participating in this retreat, you will also help to accomplish meaningful, essential projects for the Q’ero people as 25% of the proceeds from all retreats goes to the Wiraqocha Foundation, which directly funds projects to supprot the entire Hatun Q’eros community. The Q’ero villages are at a very high altitude near the sacred Wamanlipa mountain in Peru, and only within the past few years was a road opened to Hatun Q’eros. The community is not accessible by bus or train, and there are no stores, doctors, clinics or hospitals nearby. Our master Q’ero teachers travel 10-12 hours to Cusco to teach in the Global Paqo School. Their geographic isolation frames both their challenges, as well as their unique culture, which has survived for centuries due to the law of AYNI. While their isolation has acted to protect their traditions, it has also severely limited their access to opportunities, education, and services. Even today, the Q’ero face severe economic, social and cultural pressures. The Wiraqocha Foundation raises critical funds to support our Q'ero community.

MEET OUR FACULTY 
THE GLOBAL PAQO SCHOOL
TEQSE MUYU PAQO YACHAY WASI

The Karpay, or energetic empowerment, given by our Ñust'a Paqos and Apu Paqos, along with their insight, humor, warmth, and glorious wisdom of
the Inka lineage tradition is the perfect complementary knowleldge to all that the newest science is bringing to us--
the influence of HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS when merged with NATURE CONSCIOUSNESS. 

Papa Don Martin

Apu Paqo

 --Papa Don Martin Q'espi Machacca From Charqapata Says:
"NATURE SERVES AS TEACHER & GUIDE FOR THE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY"

Don Martin Q'espi Machacca is the undisputed head of our school, being one of the only remaining masters to have attained the Alto Misha and a student of the famed Don Manuel Q'espi.  Papa Don Martin has been nine times elected LLAQTA ALCHAQ PAQO--the priest in charge of overseeing the physical and spiritual well-being of the entire Hatun Q'eros Community. This job title is to preview and prevent traumatic and disturbing events from arriving to the Q'ero Community. 
Papa Don Martin is a co-founder of the Global Paqo School.

Doña Agustina

Ñust’a Paqo

---Doña Agustina Ccapa Champi from Qolpa Kucho

Our QOYA or eldest Ñust'a Paqo, Doña Agustina, is a highly trained Ñust’a Paqo in the lineage of Don Andres Espinoza. She is the widow of the reknown altomishayoq Don Mariano Apaza who died in 2004, and was fully trained by him working side by side for many years. She is always surprising us with knowledge from the ancient lineage of Pachacuti and lore about Miskayani--the Inkan metaphysical city of feminine power, lost in the amazon jungle. Agustina is a phenomenal weaver and has a huge, compassionate heart.

Papa Don Humberto

Apu Paqo

—Papa Don Humberto Soncco Q'espi from Charqapata

Don Humberto Soncco Q'espi's name tells the story of who he is-- it means "crystal heart".  Together with Papa Don Martin, Don Humberto is our most senior Apu Paqo with more than 60 years working as a paqo around the world. Don Humberto is known for his laughter, humor, generous heartedness and clear perception. Don Humberto and his late wife, Doña Bernardina, worked as a sacred healing couple for over 55 years, starting from when they were 14 and 15 years old, and  following in the footsteps of their grandparents who were reknown Q'ero healers.

Doña Monica 

Ñust’a Paqo

—Doña Monica Q'espi Flores

Doña Monica is a famous talent, known for the beauty of her weavings in the Q'ero Community. She became a healer to cure herself from her own illness and "found her Paqo star," the guide for her healing work.  She is a well trained Ñust'a Paqo and the great neice of the most famous Paqo of the 21st century Don Manuel Q'espi.

Don Francisco

Apu Paqo

—Don Francisco Apaza Flores from Qolpa Kucho, Hatun Q'eros

Don Francisco is the eldest son of Don Mariano Apaza and was fully trained by his father along with his two brothers, Ricardo and Juan. The brothers retain the Misha of their father, enshrined in their Q'ero home of Qolpa Kucho, and have built a Yachay Wasi (wisdom house) where they plan to teach their ancestral wisdom to future travelers. Francisco has practiced Coca Leaf reading for over 25 years and is an acknowledged master at Coca Divination as well as healing. Francisco embodies the calming presence and patience of a mountain. 

Doña Zenobia 

Ñust’a Paqo

—Doña Zenovia Cruz Condori from Ch'eqa Pampa, Ausangate

Zenobia is known for her powerful WAHARIQUY (invocation) of the Nature Beings and her bubbly personality. Zenobia was raised on Ausangate Mountain, and trained by her grandmother, an exceptional reservoir of Ñust’a Paqo knowledge, who died at the ripe old age of about 120.  Zenovia carries on her grandmothers traditions, and is an amazing weaver with a creative flair for innovative apparel, incorporating ancient designs.

Don Ricardo 

Apu Paqo

—Don Ricardo Apaza Flores from Qolpa Kucho, Hatun Q'eros

Don Ricardo Apaza Flores is the youngest son of the late Don Mariano Apaza and is known for his enormous heart and gentleness. Ricardo received his first initiation at only 8 years-old at the Andean Mecca of Q'ollorit'i, and has been on the Paqo path ever since. Trained by his father and immersed in the tradition, Ricardo is one of the most sincere people you could ever meet. He works as a ceremonial Paqo, Healer, and Coca Leaf reader together with his two brothers.

Doña Marcosa

Ñust’a Paqo

—Doña Marcosa Flores Pauqar from the Q'ero village of Charqapata

Doña Marcosa is the daughter-in-law of Don Humberto Soncco and the late Doña Bernardina fully trained by her as a Ñust'a Paqo. A respected community leader, she delights in sharing her knowledge and initiations in the tradition with all of her students. Marcosa is acknowledged as possessing one of the most potent invocations for Pichay (cleansing) and is an expert in traditional knowledge, cleansings, healings, and offerings, as well as being a supremely gifted weaver.

Don Juan

Apu Paqo

—Don Juan Apaza Flores from Qolpa Kucho

Don Juan is a lot of fun! Juan is the middle son of the late Don Mariano Apaza and is a clown and a character. Don Juan is also, as in his family tradition, a highly skilled and expert Coca Leaf Reader, healer, and ceremonial artist. Juan is the most extroverted of the Apaza brothers and loves to joke and play.

Elizabeth 

Ñust’a Paqo

—Elizabeth B. Jenkins born in Manhattan, New York

Elizabeth B. Jenkins MA, MFT is a Mom, Organic Farmer, 35 year student of Inka Nature Wisdom held by the Q'ero Nation of Peru, and international best-selling author of three books on Inka Nature Wisdom. She founded Wiraqocha Foundation in 1996. In January, 2021 she founded the Global Paqo School to employ the Q’ero Masters during the pandemic, and also co-founded Q'ero Wayruroni Association, to better serve the Q'ero communities in Peru. She resides with her yanantin Barney, on her organic coffee and macadamia nut farm on the Big Island of Hawai`i where she collaborates with Native Hawaiian elders and the magical Volcanic Island forces of Nature.

Fredy 

Paqo

—Fredy Conde Huallpa from Rosas Pata Community of Lares

Fredy Conde Huallpa is a Native Quechua speaker and extraordinary Quechua to English translator,  inexhaustible mountain trekker, and the very first Mystical Tour Guide authorized by the Peruvian Tourism Authority. Fredy trains other tours guides in the traditions of his Inka ancestors and has worked with Wiraqocha Foundation for over 20 years. Fredy is currently co-manager of the Hatun Q'eros Cultural Center in Cusco, and helps administer WF aid projects in the Hatun Q'eros Community. Fredy is a marvel and a gem, worth his weight in Inka gold.

Karina

Ñust’a Paqo

—Karina Quipse Calcina from Challma Chimpana, Hatun Q'eros

At only 22 years old, Karina is one of our youngest Ñust'a Paqos from the Community of Challma Chimpana. She currently works at the Hatun Q'eros Cultual Center in Cusco and will travel outside the US for the first time to help translate for our Q'ero Faculty at our Costa Rica Retreat.

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