About Sacred Peru Retreats
Sacred Peru Retreats offers intimate, small-group healing journeys through Peru, combining traditional plant medicine ceremonies with authentic cultural immersion and guided integration. Our retreats include ayahuasca ceremonies in the Amazon, San Pedro (Huachuma) ceremonies in the Sacred Valley, and a culminating pilgrimage to Machu Picchu, creating a transformative experience that honors 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 Zea, each retreat is rooted in respect for Indigenous lineages and built around genuine relationships with local Andean and Amazonian communities. Through thoughtful preparation, experienced guidance, and ongoing integration support, we help participants carry the insights of ceremony into lasting personal transformation.
We believe healing is not a destination or a weekend retreat—it is a lifelong journey. Every experience we offer is intentionally designed as a complete path: preparing with purpose, participating in ceremony with reverence, and integrating with clarity so that profound moments become meaningful, lasting change.
Danny Rojas
Co-Founder · Lead Facilitator
After finding his shamanic path, Danny furthered his studies, deepening his practice and his relationship to the medicines. Upon arriving in Cusco, he felt something shift. The Apus, the mountain spirits of the Andes, are not metaphor. They are force.
What followed was the beginning of something that changed the direction of everything. Danny kept on going back for dietas, to sit with different teachers and to connect wit 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 not to offer a tour with ceremony attached, but to recreate the full arc of transformation he lived: held by the right people, in the right places, for those ready to receive it.
He holds space with the steadiness of someone who has sat in his own fire and knows what it takes to walk through.
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.