Coming back to love
The mystical heart with the crack in the Skull
July 30. - August 10. / 2025
Cusco, Peru
Coming Back to Love
The Mystical Heart with the Crack in the Skull
“Come back to love, my dear, come back to love!”
We invite you to a 12-day psychedelic retreat designed to guide you in returning to love — a journey back to our most essential root. Here, in a safe and supportive container, we’ll explore the visceral experience of love: how it feels, how the body responds, and how, given the right environment, love can flourish again like the branches, leaves, and crown of a deeply rooted tree. This retreat offers a powerful reorientation, bringing life into alignment with the heart's truth. The Core inquiry is about getting into the right relationship.
Pillars of the Journey
At the heart of this experience is Wachuma (San Pedro), a sacred Andean medicine known for its ability to open the heart and facilitate deep personal insight. Alongside the plant medicine, we’ll engage in meditative therapies that integrate Eastern wisdom, Andean and eastern shamanism, psychology, and philosophy. These practices are carefully chosen to help you access and nurture profound inner knowing and clarity.
Nestled within the serene Mountain House Retreat, this journey invites you to open to life with a renewed sense of wonder. Here, we will shed judgments, lean into life’s full splendor, and reconnect with our truest selves. Through immersive experiences and the sacred setting, we’ll awaken from mechanical existence and reconnect with our authentic nature.
The Temple of the Moon
The Temple complex offers a profound ceremonial journey that mirrors our transformative process. Beginning at the ancient Frog Temple for purification, we move through the Temple of the Moon - a sacred cave sanctuary where moonlight illuminates ancient stone carvings of the serpent, condor, and puma. These symbols represent the three worlds of Incan cosmology: Hanan Pacha (upper world), Kay Pacha (middle world), and Ukju Pacha (lower world).
Our journey culminates at the impressive San Pedro Temple, where a monolithic phallic structure rises from the earth, creating a perfect balance with the feminine moon energies. This unique arrangement of sacred spaces creates an ideal container for our work with the Huachuma medicine. The temple complex's connection to Qapac Ñan (the ancient Incan road network) and its proximity to other sacred sites like Sacsayhuaman adds to its spiritual significance. Here, the ancient wisdom encoded in stone meets our modern quest for healing and transformation.
The Significance of Nowruz and Its Connection to Our Retreat
Nowruz, meaning "new day" in Persian, is a centuries-old celebration that welcomes spring and the renewal of life. Rooted in the cultural traditions of Iran and Central Asia, it embodies rebirth, the triumph of light over darkness, and the chance to reflect, release, and set intentions for the year ahead. While our retreat unfolds in the heart of Peru, far from the traditional festivities of Nowruz, its essence—a universal call to embrace transformation—resonates deeply with our purpose here.
At its core, Nowruz is about reconnecting with nature’s rhythms and honoring the potential for new beginnings. These themes mirror the heart of our retreat, where we invite you to step into your own “new day” through sacred plant medicine ceremonies, meditative practices, and the profound energy of Andean landscapes. Just as Nowruz celebrates the balance of light and dark, our journey together offers a space to shed the old, nurture the spirit, and plant seeds for personal growth.
This retreat weaves the timeless spirit of Nowruz with the rich traditions of the Andes, creating a unique fusion that honors both. From the Persian reverence for spring’s renewal to the Andean devotion to Pachamama, we celebrate the shared human longing to return to love—within ourselves and with the world around us. Through this blend of wisdom, we craft an experience that transcends borders, inviting you to reflect, renew, and rebirth in harmony with the cycles of life.
Together, we’ll embrace this powerful moment of transformation, stepping into a space where all spiritual paths converge in the pursuit of light and connection.
Four Weeks of Preparation and Integration
To support a meaningful transformation, this journey begins long before you arrive and continues well after you leave. Included in the retreat are four weeks of guided preparation, where we will provide practices, readings, and reflective exercises to help you connect deeply to your intentions. After our time in Peru, you’ll also receive four weeks of integration support, offering guidance to embody and carry forward the insights gained.
Activities Include:
Three Sacred San Pedro Journeys: Guided by experienced practitioners, these ceremonies serve as profound experiences for exploring love and opening to healing.
Guided Visits to the Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu: Journey to ancient sites that hold deep energetic resonance and offer profound moments for reflection.
Shamanic Rituals and Celebrations: Experience blessings and ceremonies that honor Andean traditions as well as eastern shamanic roots, creating a sacred space for renewal.
Meditative Practices and Self-Inquiry Sessions: Explore practices that help connect with love’s true nature through meditation and guided inquiry.
Workshops and Dialogues on Spirituality, Mysticism, Psychology & Philosophy:
Through interactive discussions and teachings, we’ll explore questions about love, meaning, and consciousness.Preparation & Integration:
Ceremonial work and life itself flourish with intentionality and mindful reintegration. To support this journey, we offer a comprehensive preparation phase to align with your intentions and needs, as well as a thorough integration process to help you ground and embody the insights gained during the retreat. This ensures that your experience becomes a meaningful and transformative part of your ongoing life journey. The Wisdom Traditions have a saying: “Integration is the time between the ceremonies!”
Your Facilitators:
Turiyosho, born in Germany with Yugoslavian roots, is an experienced guide in the realms of personal transformation, plant medicine, and embodiment practices. With over a decade of training in diverse modalities such as meditation, breathwork, family constellation, and shadow work, his journey has been marked by profound spiritual insights and a commitment to integration.
Carrying the wisdom of both ancient traditions and modern science, Turiyosho combines his training in psychotherapy, epigenetics, and natural hygiene with extensive experience working with San Pedro (Huachuma) and other sacred medicines. His unique approach bridges Eastern philosophies, embodied practice, and Zoroastrian principles, helping participants navigate their journeys with clarity, intentionality, and grounded presence.
As a father, entrepreneur, and dedicated seeker, Turiyosho embodies a life of balance between profound inner work and active engagement with the world. His retreats are designed to create a space for deep exploration, healing, and "coming back to love," ensuring that every participant feels supported before, during, and after their journey.
Kannon, born in the Dominican Republic, was immersed in spiritual and mystical traditions from an early age, influenced by voodoo and shamanism. His journey began with a deep connection to yoga, which he started practicing as a child. As he grew, Kannon expanded his studies, engaging with esoteric and hermetic traditions, including affiliations with Gnostic groups, while also exploring Okinawan karate, music, and the arts.
At the age of 20, Kannon moved to Europe, where he became deeply involved in the Sufi tradition, embracing practices such as whirling dervish meditation. These diverse paths have culminated in Kannon embodying the essence of a Yogi and Shaman—roles he attributes not to formal teaching but to an innate remembrance deeply rooted in his being since childhood.
Kannon's unique connection to life and death has been profoundly shaped by his own near-death experiences, which have deepened his understanding of existence and spirituality. Today, he resides in a quiet flat in Ladbroke Grove, London, where he continues to live a life of introspection and devotion, sharing his gifts with those seeking transformation and connection.
Lesley Myburgh, widely known as "La Gringa," is a South African-born medicine woman specializing in plant medicine, particularly San Pedro, since her first visit to Peru in 1991. She relocated to Cusco in the late 1990s, where she apprenticed for 2½ years under a respected teacher and later learned from renowned spiritual leaders, including Credo Mutwa, Don Ruben, and Don Ignacio.
With over 20 years of experience, Lesley has guided thousands of individuals worldwide in healing and spiritual exploration through plant medicine and other techniques. Her work has been featured in books such as The Hummingbird's Journey to God and San Pedro – Cactus of Vision. Lesley also owns "La Casa de la Gringa," a highly regarded retreat in Cusco.
Special Guests
Dr. Rubén Orellana, a Peruvian-born shaman, anthropologist, and archaeologist, blends science and spirituality to preserve and share Andean traditions. Beginning his shamanic path at age nine, Rubén’s career as an archaeologist included serving as Head of Archaeology at Machu Picchu, where he discovered 44 new sites, including the North Inca Trail. His work earned him recognition, including a feature on the cover of Time Magazine in South America.
As Director of the Institute of Inka Research (Inika), Rubén has dedicated his life to valuing and translating Andean culture for Western audiences. Since 1976, he has led ceremonial tours of Peru and brewed for notable psychonauts, including Terence McKenna. Rubén has been featured in books such as Cactus of Mystery and The Hummingbird’s Journey to God, as well as documentaries on Discovery Channel and Gaia TV.
Known as the "Maestro of San Pedro," Rubén bridges the wisdom of indigenous Ayahuasqueros and Curanderos with modern society, combining his scientific expertise and shamanic training to guide others with subtlety and divine power.
Location
Set near Cusco, Peru, the Mountain House Retreat is a peaceful sanctuary close to the Temple of the Moon, a sacred site imbued with ancient energy that complements our journey. Our days here will be balanced between time spent in nature, sacred explorations, and quiet moments for personal reflection. (click on the picture to get more impressions of the venue)
Investment
Your investment covers accommodations, breakfast, dinner, and all travel arrangements within Peru, ceremonies and transformative processes (flights to Cusco are excluded).
The Retreat is designed for 8-17 Participants.
Ticket price: 4000€
Reserve Your Place
Spaces are limited to maintain a personal and supportive environment. Reserve your spot below to begin this profound journey back to love.
