12/16/2025
In and around the city of Cuzco, the sacred center of the Inka empire, ancient wisdom for everyday life continues to thrive.
It’s woven throughout daily life in the respectful way people treat one another. And it contributes to a sense of palpable peacefulness and natural flow that’s hard to come by in most modern cities.
The Quechua language and people preserve a practical spiritual wisdom, that helps keep the world in balance amidst inevitable conflict and challenges.
Much of their wisdom revolves around harmony and reciprocity, and taking personal responsibility for all of our words, decisions, and actions.
Simple habits like asking permission before taking something of the earth, and then returning thanks to the earth, were evident in many natural areas and sacred sites we visited. There were coca leaf offerings, coins, and evidence of pagos or despachos (offerings of items imbued with prayers and gratitude)...
Last Thanksgiving I returned to the Peruvian Andes with my family, to share the sacred sites, rituals, phenomenal food, and cultural wisdom with my husband and sons. The spiritual lineage of the Q&…
