About Sacred Peru Retreats
Sacred Peru Retreats is a small-group plant medicine retreat company based in Peru, guiding modern seekers through traditional ayahuasca ceremony in the Amazon and San Pedro (Huachuma) ceremony in the Sacred Valley, culminating in a sacred pilgrimage to Machu Picchu. Co-founded by Q'ero-initiated Shaman Danny Rojas and Peruvian guide Gerson Zea, our retreats blend lineage-honoring indigenous ceremony with trauma-informed integration support and Quechua-language access to authentic Andean and Amazonian communities.
We believe healing is not a weekend — it is a path. Every journey we lead, from the rivers of Iquitos to the high stones of Machu Picchu, is designed as a complete arc: thoughtful preparation, ceremony rooted in indigenous tradition, and meaningful integration that turns insight into lasting change.
Danny Rojas
Co-Founder · Lead Facilitator
Danny's path to Peru began with a calling and an unexpected turn. After a divorce, the collapse of his businesses, and a long descent into pain that no substance could numb, he saw a documentary about plant medicine and made a quiet intention: he would travel to Peru to heal. He began saving for the journey. But the medicine met him where he stood. A shaman appeared in California, and within weeks Danny was sitting in his first ceremony crying by the fire, releasing years of trauma and generational pain, remembering himself.
Since that night, Danny has facilitated hundreds of ceremonies and was initiated as a Shaman through the Q'ero lineage of the Andes in Peru the same lineage that has carried this work through the high Andes for centuries. Returning to Peru with seekers is a homecoming as much as a service.
He leads with humility, strength, and compassion, holding space for participants to walk through the same gates that gave him his life back.
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 · Integration Lead
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 retreat, Genevieve is the bridge between the ceremony and the integration the trained presence who helps participants make sense of what the medicine reveals, and turn it into a life.