Coming Back to Love - The Mystical Heart with the Crack in the Skull (Wachuma Retreat)

Coming Back to Love

This is not a retreat about fixing yourself. There is nothing broken.
Coming Back to Love is a return — to the root, to the body, to what your heart already knows but your life may have buried. Over ten days in the Andean highlands above Cusco, we sit with Wachuma (San Pedro), walk sacred ground, and do the quiet, sometimes uncomfortable work of getting into right relationship: with your experience, your history, and the life that is asking to be lived through you. We won't promise breakthroughs or final states. What we offer is a container — honest, careful, held by experienced hands — in which love can resurface. Not as sentiment, but as orientation.

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In right relationship

"Coming back to love" means reorienting toward right relationship with your own experience and existence. It rests on a simple recognition: life is not about adapting yourself to expectations. There is a specific uniqueness in your makeup that is needed now — if that were not so, you would not have won the game of being born. Your breathing on this planet has a purpose. The work of these ten days is to let that right relationship reveal the multiplicity of who you are, and uncover the vision of your heart. This is what the subtitle points to — the mystical heart with the crack in the skull.

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Who this retreat is for

This is for you if you feel a genuine call to sit with Grandfather San Pedro in a careful, experienced container; if you are willing to meet honesty, humility and discomfort as part of the work; and if you have a stable support network at home and can take responsibility for your own integration.
It is not for you if you are looking for a quick fix, a peak experience or a spiritual story to collect; if you are in acute psychological crisis or seeking a substitute for psychotherapy or medical treatment; or if you are not ready to be honest about your physical and mental health, your medications and your life circumstances.

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The container

We gather at Casa de la Gringa, Lesley Myburgh's retreat home in the hills near Cusco, close to the sacred sites of the Temple of the Moon. The circle is kept small — a maximum of fifteen participants — so the work stays personal and well-held.
The retreat is led by Turiyosho as facilitator and space holder, working closely with Kannon. Lesley Myburgh — "La Gringa," with over thirty years of experience — is the lead medicine carrier and host. The Peruvian shaman, anthropologist and archaeologist Dr. Rubén Orellana joins as special guest, with indigenous Q'ero support throughout. Sessions are held in English; German-language support is available where needed.

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A note on health and safety

This retreat is powerful and heart-opening, but it is not a substitute for psychotherapy or medical treatment. Participation requires an honest conversation about your physical and mental health, current medications and important life circumstances. We strongly recommend a stable support network at home and, where appropriate, a conversation with your doctor or therapist beforehand.

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Applying

Filling out the questionnaire is the first step — it is an application, not an instant booking. We will be in touch personally before confirming your place. This is how we make sure the container is right for everyone in it.