Join us for an Educational Immersion into the Spirit and Culture of Peru

May 15-28, 2024

Yoga Alliance Accredited
Continuing Education

We are celebrating our 45th year sharing yoga and our love for the power, beauty and wisdom of the Andes and her indigenous people. Once again, in May 2024, we will travel through the mountains of Peru gathering earth knowledge, strengthening our bodies through hiking and yoga, calming our minds in nature and meditation and connecting to pure simplicity of the heart, through the teachings of our Quechuan family and Q’ero Shaman friends.

Join us in their sweet message of caring for “Pacchamama” (Earth Mother), and each other as we experience the lessons of Ayni (reciprocity, interdependence and connectedness of all life). Participate in Despachos – the practice of prayerful ritual and ceremony to communicate and connect with the natural world and spirit.

Receive initiation into their earth based ceremony which has beautiful roots connecting to the ancient yogic teachings.

Experience spirituality, art, traditional weaving, music, food and lifestyle of the Quechua peoples through direct connection with lifelong family, friends, shamans, and artisans. A people and place that carries the prayer for global healing and personal health and transformation.

Explore some of our favorite Incan sites and villages in the Sacred Valley and Cuzco. Experience high Andean village life as we journey to Machu Picchu. Visit the magical ruins of Ollantaytambo, Pisac and the traditional weaving village of Chinchero; perched spectacularly atop the “AltiPlano”.

Experience the highest levels of Incan healers, seers and artisans.

Fresh in our memories and hearts is our most recent Yoga Adventure to Peru – incredibly fun, exhilarating, enlightening and rejuvenating.

Our Yoga Accommodations in the Sacred Valley are lovely, remote, and rural with beautiful flower gardens, gracious, kind staff, delicious, healthy meals and spectacular mountain views. Exquisitely created over the years into colorful, comfortable abodes where spirit of place and sacred space will allow you to feel immediately at home.

Traveling in the Andes brings us close to the lives of the people and to the rich and vibrant spirit of the Andes with the sounds of the river (Mayoc) rushing below and 6,000 meter glaciated peaks looming above. The Apus (or gods) of the mountains will grace us with their presence as we sleep in our sweet and comfortable accommodations and beneath the endless starry Andean sky.

Enjoy time at Machu Picchu to explore and immerse yourself in the ruins, stories, spirit and magic of this incredible and timeless place. The Peru Yoga Adventure is designed for travelers and yogis with moderate levels of hiking experience, and for an additional and more substantial trek.

Contact us if you have any concerns about the rigors of the trip.

The trip fee includes all land costs, transportation, and accommodations (which are based on double occupancy). Most meals are included. The fee does not include alcoholic beverages, laundry and room service, or airfare.

Price: TBA depending on number of partiipants

David and Deborah were among the first to explore the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu and the surrounding magical mountains. They climbed and skied Nevado Ausangate, the highest peak in Southern Peru. At 21,000′,  Ausangate is a predominant Apu (or mountain God) emitting a powerful presence and beauty.

45 years ago, they established pathways of travel during this time in Peru that have now become predominant tourist routes in Peru.

The friendships established during these adventures into remote areas of the high Andes remain at the heart of their travels to Peru. Their aim is to share this loving and spiritually infused land and people with those blessed to travel along with them on their journeys.

The days are full. Expect to walk a lot. Explore Cusco’s Incan streets, stairways, exquisite ruins, intricate and massive stonework and sacred sites.

Choosing to join Deborah and David in Peru is choosing to go right to the heartbeat of the Andean land and peoples. Each day is steeped in their knowledge of these amazing mountains and culture which make it such a special place.

~participant reflections~

The best bit for me about teaching yoga to the villagers was that it inspired me in seeing that yoga is for all.  You don’t have to be a certain shape or height or weight, it fits everyone.  I carried that home with me and made all my classes inclusive and that is what, I believe, made them such a success.

The ladies who weaved all day and worked so hard benefitted from a bunch of enthusiastic yoga teachers turning up, ready and willing to share their knowledge and skills with a little humour and a sprinkling of love.  It was a lovely day and after the big circle of yoga love we all settled down to extend the love through the magic of touch….a little hand and shoulder massage, a smile and a laugh can go a long way to break down the language barrier….there are no barriers in yoga.

Hope these reflections help Deborah, it was simply the best trip and I loved everything we did and everyone we met!

Much love
Paddy xx

Mariana De La Puente is Peruvian and lives with her husband and two delightful childsren right in the heart of the Sacred valley.

Mari loves being in contact with the natural and cyclical rhythms that we inhabit. She shares practices for listening to these rhythms through conscious movement, and living infusing her intuitive ways and sweetness into the meditation, pranayama and asana teachings. She truly embodies these teachings and is a real gem.

Mari participated in my yoga teacher training many years ago in Hawaii as well as travels to study in India and Italy the Iyengar tradition, Yin Yoga and Therapeutic applications of yoga!
Mari created “La ruta Numinosa” Which is a special program 1:1 in which she integrates Hormonal Nutrition, Meditation, yoga therapy and art Therapy And a therapeutic self care Circle, specially for motherhood.