About Sacred Peru Retreats
Sacred Peru Retreats offers intimate, small-group experiences through the Peruvian Andes, combining living Andean traditions with authentic cultural immersion and space for personal reflection. Our experiences include time in the Sacred Valley, a journey to Rainbow Mountain, and a pilgrimage to Machu Picchu, each one honoring both the wisdom of the land and the traditions of its people.
Co-founded by Q'ero-initiated shaman Danny Rojas and Peruvian guide Gerson Barrios Zea, every experience is rooted in respect for Indigenous lineages and built on genuine relationships with local Andean communities. Through thoughtful preparation and experienced guidance, we help guests carry what they discover in Peru into their lives at home.
We believe the most meaningful travel is not a checklist of places. It is a journey that stays with you. Every experience we offer is intentionally designed as a complete path: arriving with intention, entering sacred places with reverence, and returning home with clarity, so that profound moments become lasting change.
Danny Rojas
Co-Founder · Lead Facilitator
After finding his shamanic path, Danny furthered his studies and deepened his practice. Upon arriving in Cusco, he felt something shift. The Apus, the mountain spirits of the Andes, are not metaphor. They are force.
What followed changed the direction of everything. Danny kept going back to learn from different teachers and to connect with the land. He did not leave Peru the same person. He left with a mandate.
Sacred Peru Retreats is the fruit of that. Danny built it to share Peru the way he came to know it: guided by the right people, in the right places, with time to be present.
He guides with the steadiness of someone who knows this land and what it can open in a person.
Gerson Zea
Co-Founder · Peru Expert Guide · Quechua Liaison
Born and raised in Peru with formal training in Tourism, Gerson is Sacred Peru Retreats' co-founder and your bridge between the modern traveler and the living traditions of the Andes. After years of guiding adventurers across the Inca Trail, the Sacred Valley, and Peru's most powerful sacred sites, and expanding his perspective through international work on cruise ships, he returned to do what he loves most: sharing the country he calls home.
Gerson's deepest gift is his fluency in Quechua, the ancestral language of the Inca. This rare skill allows him to communicate directly with the Quechua families and communities you'll meet on this journey opening doors to authentic cultural encounters that most travelers never experience.
His knowledge stretches across both traditional and alternative trekking routes through the Andes, paired with a profound understanding of Peruvian history, culture, and the natural intelligence of the land. With extensive first-aid training and the quiet professionalism that comes from years of doing this work, Gerson keeps every journey safe, smooth, and rich with meaning.
Genevieve Gonzalez
Holistic Psychotherapist
Genevieve brings something unusual to the Andes: the depth of a licensed clinician AND the lineage of a shamanic practitioner. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Board-Certified Hypnotherapist, and founder of Modern Mind Medicine, she has spent decades supporting people through trauma, heartbreak, and grief, and translating those breakthroughs into lasting nervous-system change.
Her credentials include a Master's in Social Work, a Bachelor's in Psychology, certifications in Rapid Resolution Therapy and Trauma-Resolution Hypnotherapy, and as a Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional. She has trained under Alberto Villoldo, Sandra Ingerman, Michael Harner, Grandmother Flordemayo, the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, and traditional Guatemalan Mayan elders.
On an Experience, Genevieve brings a trained and caring presence, helping guests reflect on what these sacred places stir in them and carry it home.