The Condor's Prayer Our center is located in the Sacred Valley in Cusco where we share our various workshops, therapies, traditional ceremonies and rituals. Any of our ceremonies can be done anywhere - natural or archaeological site - in Lima or Cusco any day of the week. Nuna Ayni demonstrative center has as its main goal to be a model space aimed towards learning and replicating selfsustainable community life systems, based in the 4 areas that we propose.
For some time we have been raising the Condor's Prayer in Peru and the United States. This is a way to share some of the traditions and ways of praying from the Andean Cosmovision. This prayer is achieved through a 3-day retreat in which we share a sacred ceremony of offering to the Earth, in the traditional way of the Q'ero nation of Cusco, a medicine ceremony of Wachuma, a sacred plant in Peru and a final integration work with the concepts of the Andean Cosmovision with the ones we will work during all the ceremonies.
We offer a variety of activities at our center. You can find information on our website. We do not have a fixed program. Here are some examples. For any contact or more information please contact us at least five days prior to a visit at info@nunaayni.org.
Ceremony of Offering to Mother Earth The ceremony of "Offering to Mother Earth" or "Despacho" is a traditional ceremony of thanksgiving and prayer. There are many ways and means to perform this ceremony where the Q'ero nation, as one of the oldest communities in our Andes in Cusco, keeps the knowledge of it. We share one of these traditional forms by trying to make it resemble as much as possible what our ancestors did when there weren’t plastic and other items that are used today. In this ceremony, the sacred Coca Leaf is the key as a messenger of all our prayers.