The ancient legends tell about the extraordinary life accounts that the travelers experienced during their stay in these lands. Due to these diverse, sacred sites they possess the energy to cure the body, clarify the mind, increase creativity, develop psychic abilities, and the energy to wake the soul in order to know its true purpose in life. Although contemporary science can't explain the apparently miraculous phenomenon that occur in these holy sites, they continue being visited and venerated by thousands of pilgrims from all over the world.

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Dr. Orellana is an external consultant to The National Institute of Culture in Cusco, Peru, and Director of "Andean Shamanic Journeys." Born in Cusco, Ruben's life has been filled with the archaeological sites that surround the capital of the Inkan Empire. Dr Orellana's career as an archaeologist culminated with being named Head of Archaeology at Machu Picchu, discovering 44 new sites surrounding this crystal city including the North Inka Trail for which he appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in USA. He has done extensive research into the mystical aspects of various sites, uncovering the true usage of many temples in the empire. He has worked with the healing techniques of the Andes for twenty-five years, researching the concepts of subtle energy and how these concepts influenced aspects of life and healing for the Inkan people. He combines his experience with his excitement for his work into a vision of how life was in the various cities where the remains echo another reality.
Dr. Orellana has worked with curative techniques from the Andes for more than twenty five years. He started with Andean Shamanism nine years ago, focusing particularly in the use of sacred plants and their uses in energy manipulation. He investigated how this influenced aspects of Imperial Incan life, culture and health.
Dr. Orellana combines his experience and enthusiasm for his work in order to give us a vision of what one of the greatest civilizations of all time was like in manifest acts with the remains of another reality.

Dra. Sánchez
Vamos al Cuzco hosts shamans from North and South America to facilitate local workshop and apprenticeship programs for those interested in learning shamanic techniques of healing and personal development. Dra Sanchez, also facilitate expeditions to South America to train with shamans in sites of ceremony and power.
Dra Sanchez founded Vamos al Cuzco Expeditions after both had been apprenticing in South American shamanic practices, primarily in the jungle and Andean traditions of Peru. Vamos al Cuzco has become a means through which those who are interested in pursuing serious study and training into shamanic traditions are able to do so with gifted teachers and facilitators of change
Doctor Sanchez is the director of Vamos al Cuzco Expeditions. Her successful trips to the jungle, Machu Picchu and all through the enriched, blest and hospitable Peruvian land together with hundreds of passengers that have shared these travels have made her a shaman adventurer that Peru has never seen the likes of.
The programs that Vamos al Cuzco offers include workshops, seminars of Andean Shaman apprenticeships and expeditions for visiting, learning, working, and meditating with indigenous professors. These aforementioned visits accentuate the mystical aspects of the culture in these sacred Incan sites, honoring the energies that these places contain.
Through ten years of Shamanism study and placement as an apprentice directly under Dr. Orellana, Dr. Sanchez offers to her passengers all the knowledge and the magic that only could have been inherited from the ancient inhabitants of the sacred Empire. Dr. Sanchez together with the Shamans, guides, cooks and helpers that will accompany you on the journey, will make it the trip of your life.

Dr.Paredes, PhD is an anthropologist who consults with indigenous cultures world-wide to maintain sustainable communities. Having grown up in Cuzco, Dr. Paredes has always had contact with the native peoples of Peru; since he was 11 years old, he has been intimately involved with communities still relatively isolated from modernism. He has studied Andean healing techniques for over twenty-five years, emphasizing native use of sacred plants and practices of managing energy. Dr. Paredes was called to the Andean healing path in the traditional way; he has twice been struck by lightning and survived. His extensive knowledge of the myths and the world-view of the Inkans combine to form the perspective of a different kind of society. Dr. Paredes approaches archaeological sites of the Inkan culture with a deep understanding of the purposes for which these energetic centers were created, passed down to him from the ancient masters.
Dr. Paredes is the Founding Director of a unique training center on the outskirts of Cuzco, Peru, called the Poqen Kanchay which, in Quechua (the language of the Inka) translates as "Where Light Germinates." The Centers' goal is to rescue, research, and teach the ancient knowledge of managing energy in order to make living an art. The programs offered are led by archaeologists, anthropologists, and curanderos (native healers) and all emphasize the mystical aspects of the Inkan sacred sites. In the healing traditions of Peru, the world of spirits and energy combine to heal, harmonize, and balance individuals. Throughout the Inkan empire there are archaeological sites built to concentrate energy and honor the spirit of this energy. These sites are doorways into a different reality through which one can meet allies and awaken consciousness.

Pedro Shamán He belongs to the community of the Q’ers, a place that lies three days from the city of Cuzco. It is considered to be the living museum of the “incanato” due to the fact that Q’ero is an admirable tribe and a testimony of prehistoric Peru. It was recognized July 1955 by a scientific mission hosted by the University of Cuzco.
He possesses an ancestral knowledge of payments to the land, the flowering and the reading of coca leaves.
Shaman Pedro is a connoisseur of the mystical forces and energies that the APUS, sacred mountains, divinely provides. He is part of the whole and moderates the frequency to achieve the connection necessary for his ceremonies.
The APUS are entities of great scope in the domain of harnessing energy, retrieving their curative knowledge and future projection - the four principle components of shamanism.
The Andes have been recognized by many, including the Dali Lama, as the new spiritual center of the energy of our planet.