The Evolution of Consciousness

A Journey Into the Heart of Peruvian Shamanism

12 Days - 5 Sacred Ceremonies - May 30th to June 9th, 2026

Join us on a sacred voyage through the heart of Peruvian shamanic culture. This 10-day passage is designed to expand your consciousness, awaken the heart, and reconnect you with the sacred intelligence of the natural world. It takes us back over 3,000 years to ancient temples and natural energy centers that were used to activate higher states of consciousness and receive deep wisdom.

This is an authentic and deeply penetrating experience that offers the opportunity to experience some of world's most powerful and influencial shamanic locations. You’ll walk the same sacred grounds where ancient shamans converged for ceremony, travel to places where the energies of heaven merge with earth, and connect with practices that have been honored for thousands of years, experiencing firsthand the power of heart-centered shamanism and true spiritual evolution.

A unique element of this journey is how we integrate an evolutionary understanding of consciousness, along with an intentional mindset, into the entire process. This supports a safe and healthy space for transformation which allows for stronger personal growth that will remain with you long after the pilgrimage ends.

This 12-day journey takes place across both coastal and Andean Peruvian cultures, and includes 5 traditional Mesa ceremonies guided by master Huachumero Don Martin. Space is limited to 12 participants.

“The perception that everything is conscious and composed of energy is probably the oldest spiritual concept there is, predating religion by thousands of years.”

- Don Howard Lawlyer

Your Guides

Merging the worlds of shamanism, spirituality and peak-state experience.

Meet Don Martín

Your Shamanic Guide

Don Martín is a true maestro of the Huachuma path, carrying a lineage rooted in humility, devotion, and deep reverence for the medicine. He apprenticed under the late Don Howard, one of the most respected Huachumeros of our time, and continues to honor that tradition with every ceremony he holds.

Born and raised in Chavín de Huántar, the cradle of Huachuma, where the most ancient temple still stands. For 24 years, he lived inside the temple itself, where his sacred Huachuma plant "El Guardián del Templo" still grows after 38 years.

Before stepping fully into the role of Huachumero, he worked as a local guide, introducing travelers from around the world to the history and sacred geography of his homeland. For more than two decades now, Don Martín has walked this very pilgrimage many times, leading seekers through the ancient sites and power places of northern and central Peru.

Meet Brian & Alecia

Your Hosts

Together, we’ve spent over nine years guiding transformational workshops, certifying practitioners, and facilitating peak-state experiences to thousands of people.

For Brian, Peru has been a spiritual home since the turn of the century, returning several times to study and work closely with shamans - continuing to develop his comprehensive understanding of energy, consciousness and spirituality. Alecia brings deep expertise in psychology, mindfulness, and somatic healing, along with the role of a mother. This dynamic duo represents a balance of masculine and feminine energy that grounds this journey in wisdom, care and opportunity.

What sets us apart is our deep understanding of human consciousness—what holds us back, and what allows us to fully unlock our human potential. Our sole intention is to give you the clearest, safest, and most powerful experience, to receive its gifts, and carry them into your life long after the journey ends.

A Peruvian Shamanic Pilgrimage

May 29th to June 9th, 2026 • 12 Days • 5 Ceremonies • Coast to Andes
*Itinerary may be subject to change

Day 1: Arrival & Grounding - May 29th - Arrive in Chiclayo by 2pm. Group introduction and preparation for the journey ahead. Outdoor evening breathwork.

🌵 Day 2: Blue Moon Ceremony - May 30th Bosque de Pómac Opening ceremony under the rare Blue Full Moon among ancient pyramids and thousand-year-old trees. Begin at noon and journey deep into the mystical night hours. Releasing, grounding, and setting intention are key to this initiation into the sacred mystery that lies ahead.

Day 3: Integration & Cultural Immersion - May 31st - Chiclayo → Huanchaco Morning integration breathwork. Visit The Temple of Sipan along with the El Brujo Shamanic Market. End that night at an ocean side hotel. Breathwork on the beach.

🌵 Day 4: "El Brujo" Ceremony: The Fall from Grace - June 1st - Huaca del Brujo Ceremony at the powerful site of the Lady of Cao. Witness humanity's separation from wholeness into fragmentation through the need for power and control.

Day 5: Journey to the Andes - June 2nd - Huanchaco → Huaraz Scenic 8-hour drive through Peru's dramatic diversity of landscape and culture. We will ascend over 10,000 ft above the sea and into the mountains. Acclimatization is essential.

Day 6: The Heart of Shamanism - June 3rd - Huaraz → Chavín de Huántar Travel to the cradle of Andean civilization, explore the town of Chavin. Integration, breathwork and mindset practices.

🌵 Day 7: The Healing of the Heart - June 4th - Chavín de Huántar Ceremony at the axis mundi. Experience the perfect balance of masculine and feminine energies.

Day 8: Rest & Integration - June 5th - Chavín Museum Visit Deep integration day. Visit National Museum. Process the heart opening, breathwork meditation.

🌵 Day 9: Ancient Wisdom Keepers - June 6th - Bosque de Rocas Ceremony among 10,000-year-old stone formations. Petroglyphs and cosmic consciousness.

Day 10: Purification - June 7th - Natural Hot Springs Healing waters and sauna caves. Nervous system reset and purification.

🌵 Day 11: Portal to the Infinite - June 8th - Puerta al Cielo (Heaven's Gate) Final ceremony at the high mountain portal where earth meets sky.

Day 12: Return - June 9th - Huaraz → Lima Morning closing ceremony. Breathwork, integration, seal in the journey ceremony. Flight to Lima or other locations. Journey complete.

5 Sacred Ceremonial Sites

Bosque de Pómac (Batan Grande) - The Mesa of Initiation, "Blue Moon" Ceremony

There isn’t a more ideal way to begin our sacred journey than under the mysterious lure of a full "Blue Moon," a rare cosmic occurrence that represents alignment with spiritual energy and intention towards personal growth. Here, at Bosque de Pómac, is where the ancient Sicán culture built their sacred pyramids and communed with the afterlife. This is our initiation into the mystery, where our 3D world can begin to take a back seat to the sacred journey that lies ahead.

This is home to the Millennium Tree, believed to be over 1,000 years old. It stands as a symbol of resilience and ancient wisdom, its roots drinking from the same waters that nourished shamanic visions for thousands of years.

Beneath the Blue Moon's luminous glow and the power of the mesa ceremony, we will ground deep into Pachamama, feeling the pulse of ancestral wisdom flowing through the surrounding ancient burial grounds. The power of this place will help you root into the present and the eternal. This is where we honor where we've come from, yet set intention and focus on what's to come. The lunar energy will only amplify the feeling of initiation, providing the perfect portal into the profound work of our shamanic voyage.

El Brujo – The Mesa of Power & The Fall from Grace

El Brujo represents one of the most profound teachings of our journey- humanity’s tragic shift from wholeness into fragmentation, from tribal alignment with divine order into the civilized need for ownership, power, and control. Here the shamans once offered sacrifice for the good of the people, and as a way of maintaining balance with the forces of nature. But over time, this became unbalanced, the shaman started sacrificing for their own gain and eventually the civilization crumbled.

This site represents the story of humanity’s fall. The Moche, caught between fierce floods and droughts, turned more and more to blood sacrifice to force the hand of the creator. What began as partnership with the divine became domination, as fear replaced trust. Here we see the ancient turning point: from the feminine way of tribal balance to the masculine drive of centralized control.

El Brujo holds up a mirror. It asks us, where have we sacrificed our connection to wholeness through feeding the illusion of ownership, power, control, and the ego?

Chavín de Huántar – The Heart of Peruvian Shamanism

Chavín de Huántar, cradle of Andean civilization and home to where humanity perfected the art of merging heaven and earth through sacred Huachuma ceremony. This temple embodies a perfect balance between the four directions of masculine and feminine, earth and sky. The Lanzón, Estela Raimondi, and other stone carvings blow the observers mind, as they represent codes of transformation, symbols for awakening and the shamanic passage from the finite to the infinite.

For thousands of years, Huachuma (San Pedro cactus) has bridged worlds here, opening the heart, expanding vision, and reconnecting the soul to the universe. Pilgrims from coast, jungle, and mountain came to Chavín seeking alignment, healing, and visionary insight. This is your chance to live it... In ceremony we breathe the same air, walk the same corridors, and enter the same ceremonial spaces where humanity once reached the pinnacle of shamanism.

Chavín is the doorway to the unified field of consciousness, a cultural blueprint for wholeness, reminding us that The Evolution of Consciousness is about bridging the human with the divine through the unifying energy of Love. It is the heart of our pilgrimage, holding the memory of what has been lost and the key to what we must now regain... that wholeness is our authentic nature.

Bosque de Rocas – The Ancient Wisdom Keepers

Amid geological formations over 10,000 years old, we step into the realm of deep time, where stone itself remembers. Petroglyphs carved into the rock whisper of initiation, dream-travel, and communion with unseen realms. These were not mere markings, but consciousness technologies, cosmic maps for navigating both the heavens above and the cosmos within.

Here, the stones are seen as Wisdom Keepers; they watch, they teach, they listen. This forest of rock hums with a quiet intelligence, a stillness so complete it sharpens perception and opens the heart. The veil between worlds grows thin in this place. Every boulder becomes an altar, each one carrying the energetic residue of ceremonies performed for thousands of years.

In this sacred landscape, vision arises not by force but by presence. The teachings of our journey begin to take root here, sinking beyond thought into the body itself. The ancient symbols etched into stone awaken in us, integrating into cellular memory. This is where we remember that consciousness is vast, alive, and far greater than ordinary perception allows—and where the wisdom of the ancients still waits, patient and eternal, for those willing to listen.

Puerta al Cielo (Heaven's Gate) - The Portal to the Infinite

Our pilgrimage finalizes at Heaven's Gate, where earth literally meets sky and the self merges with infinite possibility. Surrounded by high-altitude lakes and towering mountain spirits, this place has long been honored as a threshold between realms.

The site lies between Mount Huandoy (feminine) and Mount Huascarán (masculine), creating a perfect harmony of dual forces.

This is the portal to the divine - the access point where individual consciousness merges with cosmic consciousness. Heaven's Gate serves as the Mesada of Creativity and Eternal Life, marking the culmination of the pilgrimage where the arc of transformation reaches its spiritual fulfillment. Here, at the roof of the world, we step through the doorway into infinite possibility, carrying the wisdom of our entire journey into the vast expanse of our unlimited human potential.

Cost:

Before January 1st, 2026

$3000 Per Person - Double Occupancy

After January 1st, 2026

$3500 Per Person, Double Occupancy

*Add $500 for single occupancy

Email us directly if interested: info@breatheandbelieve.com

Includes

Pre-retreat preparation, 3 Calls = 1 Personal + 2 Group.
Mindset preparation & daily breathwork practices
5 Huachuma ceremonies at sacred sites
Hotel accommodations during the pilgrimage
Transportation throughout the journey, including airport pick up (Chiclayo) and drop off (Huarez)
Entrance fees for sacred sites and museums
Integration circles & personal support
Post-retreat integration support, 3 Calls = 1 Private + 2 Group

Does Not Include

International flights to Lima, Peru
Domestic flight from Lima to Chiclayo (+- $50 on Latam Airlines)*
Domestic flight from Huarez to Lima (+- $50 on Latam Airlines)*
Hotel accommodations in Lima (before and after the pilgrimage)
All meals, snacks & drinks, etc...
Optional personal purchases: souvenirs, additional services, tips

* You can travel any way you wish to Chiclayo and from Huarez. Easiest alternative is to fly from Lima

**We recommend staying in Mira Flores in Lima.

Prior to January 1st Discount Rates

Prices increase $500 on January 1st, 2026

Limited Number of Spots Available

No Refunds After May 1st, 2026

3 Month Payment Plan

$1000

Per Payment

One-Payment

$3000