Traditional Andean Offering 🍃 Despacho – Payment to the Earth

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Valle Sagrado, Peru
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Up to 12 in group
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Flexible Dates

Retreat Highlights

  • Traditional Andean Despacho ceremony
  • Sacred offering to Pachamama (Mother Earth)
  • Guided ritual with ancestral elements
  • Connection with the Apus (Andean mountain spirits)
  • Prayer, gratitude and intention setting
  • Energetic cleansing and blessings
  • Ceremony held in nature or sacred space
  • Facilitated by experienced ceremonial practitioner
  • Earth offering (burned despacho)

About this Retreat

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DESPACHO – PAYMENT TO THE EARTH

Offerings to Mother Earth are among the most ancient spiritual practices found across many cultures of the world. In different traditions, human beings have developed their own ways of honoring the Earth and symbolically returning a small part of what she generously gives to us.

In the Andean tradition, this sacred ritual is known as a Despacho, a ceremonial offering made with natural elements that represent gratitude, intention, and prayer.

Beyond being a gesture of gratitude to Pachamama (Mother Earth), this ritual is also considered a form of communication with the spirits of nature and higher realms of consciousness. Through the offering, intentions and prayers are symbolically delivered to these forces.

Despacho ceremonies can be performed to:
Give thanks for the blessings of life
Ask for protection and guidance
Cleanse negative energies
Invite harmony and positive energy
Request blessings from the Apus (mountain spirits)


This ceremony is facilitated by Kunti Trejo Duarte, also known on the Red Path as Tezca Citlalnihuatl. She is originally from Mexico and has dedicated her path to studying ancestral traditions, particularly those from North and South America, Northern Europe, and Hindu/Vedic traditions where sacred fire offerings are also practiced.

The ceremony offered follows the traditional Andean despacho practice, which may be burned or buried, depending on the prayer and intention. The offering includes traditional elements transmitted through years of learning with teachers from the Q’ero Nation of the Andes.

Possible Intentions for the Ceremony

This offering can be performed for individuals, couples, or groups and may serve many purposes, such as:

Opening a retreat or medicine work
Requesting permission and blessings from the Apus
Union or marriage blessings
Baptism or initiation blessings
Farewell ceremonies for a loved one
Prosperity prayers
Blessing a home or land
Anniversary celebrations
Or simply expressing gratitude to Pachamama


Ceremonies may take place:
At retreat centers
In the facilitator’s consultory in Arin
In nature, in the mountains or other appropriate sacred spaces

Schedule

The ceremony lasts approximately 3 to 5 hours, depending on the size of the group, and continues until the offering is completed and burned.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Location icon Prana Verein, Valle Sagrado, Peru

Directions

» IMPORTANT « Before booking, please write an email to check if the desired dates are available at info@pranafoundation.org

Accommodation

Personal or couple offering
Group offering (5–10 people)
Group of 15 people
Group of 20 people

Venue & Amenities

Ceremonies may take place:
At retreat centers
In the facilitator’s consultory in Arin mountain
In nature, in the mountains or other appropriate sacred spaces

What's Included

  • The cost includes all ceremonial elements and materials required for the despacho offering.

What's Not Included

  • Airplane tickets,
  • Transportation,
  • Extra therapies

Customer Reviews

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An amazing and transformative experience.
A huge thank you to the whole team for making this retreat a wonderful experience. The guidance and support I received before, throughout and after the retreat, as well as during the ceremonies themselves, has really helped me to integrate the experience and is already creating a positive shift in my life. Not to mention, the food was delicious and the venue was beautiful!! I would highly recommend Devi Chandra Ma and her team to anyone drawn to the plant medicine path.

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