The Chavín Renaissance: A Pilgrimage to the Awakened Heart of the Andes | Passage One
With Robin Flynn and Darcy Kopas
February 1 - 10, 2027
The Chavín Renaissance
A Pilgrimage to the Awakened Heart of the Andes
Communion with the master teacher plant Huachuma
at Chavín de Huántar, one of the oldest temples of the Americas.
Passage One · February 1 – 10, 2027
The Shape of the Journey
Ten days woven through the Cordillera Blanca: arrival and acclimation in Huaraz, a Huachuma Mesada at the ancient temple of Chavín, a second in the mysterious stone forest of Bosque de Rocas, the crowning mesada at Heaven’s Gate beneath Apu Huascarán, and the tender work of rest and integration between each, all held within a small and carefully tended circle.
Day 1: Arrival & Opening Circle in Huaraz
We land and gather in the mountain city of Huaraz, cradled by the Cordillera Blanca. In the evening we hold our opening circle at the hotel and share a celebratory dinner, then begin the gentle work of resting and acclimating to the mountains.
Day 2: Journey to Chavín & the Museum
We travel through the Cordillera to the sacred village of Chavín de Huántar. There we visit the famous Chavín museum, sitting with the carved faces and sacred iconography that carry the temple’s four thousand year transmission.
Day 3: Huachuma Mesada at the Ancient Temple
Our first communion: a Huachuma Mesada at the ancient temple itself, held with don Martín. An opening of the heart, a laying down of what we have carried, an initiation into the mystery in the very place where it was born.
Day 4: Rest, Renewal & Integration
A day of rest, renewal, and integration in Chavín, with an optional visit to the hot spring bathhouse to let the waters continue the medicine’s quiet work.
Day 5: Return to Huaraz
We travel back through the Cordillera to Huaraz, with an afternoon of personal exploration and quiet.
Day 6: Huachuma Mesada at Bosque de Rocas
We journey to the Bosque de Rocas, the epically beautiful and mysterious stone forest and ancient ancestral site, for our second Huachuma Mesada among the standing stones.
Day 7: Rest & Integration in Huaraz
A day of rest and integration, letting the teachings of the stone forest settle into the body.
Day 8: Heaven’s Gate: Apu Huascarán & Laguna Llanganuco
We journey to the most magnificent mountain of the range, Apu Huascarán, and the highland waters of Laguna Llanganuco, one of the most beautiful places on the planet. This is the place our first mentor, don Howard, called Heaven’s Gate. Here we hold our final Huachuma Mesada, the crowning communion of the pilgrimage.
Day 9: Rest, Integration & Closing the Container
We rest, we integrate, and we close the container together, naming what we have received and how we will carry it home in service to the awakening world.
Day 10: Blessed Farewell
A final group breakfast, and we release one another into the world, changed, bearers now of the Chavín Renaissance.
The full itinerary is refined with don Martín, our guide on the land, and shared with accepted pilgrims. The flow may shift in service to the medicine and the mountain.
Is This Journey Yours?
This is a lineage rooted ceremonial pilgrimage, not a wellness getaway. We hold it with care, and we ask the same care of those who join us.
This is for you if…
- You have built a life that looks, from the outside, complete, and you know there is a further room in you that has never been entered.
- You have sat in ceremony before. The medicine path is not a curiosity to you; it is a thread you have been following for years, and lately you feel it pulling taut.
- In the quiet hours you hear it plainly: this is not all I came here to do.
- You long for genuine initiation within an authentic, sanctioned lineage: the real thing, in the real place.
- You are ready to stop circling your own calling, and to be made useful to something vast.
- You are willing to be undone and remade in service of love.
This may not be your season if…
- You are seeking recreation or escape rather than transformation.
- You are currently struggling with significant mental health challenges, including acute anxiety, depression, psychosis, or unresolved psychiatric conditions. The medicine asks for steady inner ground, and we care for you too much to place you on this path when it could harm rather than heal. For some, this simply means not yet, and we will help you discern that with love.
- You are living with serious physical unwellness or mobility limitations. This pilgrimage moves through high altitude, long mountain travel days, and the uneven ancient stone of the temple itself, and it asks for a body that can carry you through it.
- You are unwilling to prepare, to follow ceremonial guidance, or to move at the pace of reverence.
- You want certainty and comfort more than mystery and initiation.
And a word for the one standing in the doorway. Perhaps your life is not all together right now. Perhaps a great chapter of your life is closing, a marriage or a career, a home or an identity, and you cannot yet see what waits on the other side. Know this: pilgrimage has always belonged to the ones between stories. The temple has been receiving people standing exactly where you stand for four thousand years. If your ground is steady but your future is unwritten, this threshold may be precisely the place where the next chapter is meant to be given to you: not figured out, but received.
And know this: we would rather walk with twelve who are truly called than fill every seat. Each year we lovingly decline sincere, wonderful people because the timing, the health, or the readiness is not right, and we count that discernment among our most sacred duties to the circle. If we sense this journey is not yours, or not yours yet, we will tell you so directly and with love. That is our promise to you, and to everyone who walks beside you.
The Investment
$3,777 USD
The ten day land pilgrimage begins at $3,777 USD in shared accommodation. Single occupancy and further options are shared upon acceptance. For our Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist apprentices, the investment is $3,333 USD.
This rate is for apprentices currently enrolled in the Soul Power Medicine Apprenticeship with Visionary Hearts. It does not apply to Plant Spirit Medicine or Pachakuti Mesa Tradition apprentices or practitioners.
Included: lodging, ground transportation within Peru, all ceremonies and guidance with Robin, Darcy, and don Martín, temple and site access, select meals, and the full arc of the container: a personal intake call with Robin and Darcy, group preparation calls before we travel, and group integration calls after you return home.
Not included: international airfare, most meals, travel insurance, and gratuities. A complete breakdown is provided with acceptance.
Payment plans are available. Simply ask.
Retreat Cancellation, Payment, and Refund Policies:
All cancellations must be made in writing to starteam@starriversanctuary.com, including your passage dates and the date of cancellation.
Payment schedule: a $500 USD deposit is due at registration. 50% of the pilgrimage fee is due by November 1, 2026, and the remainder is due by January 1, 2027.
Your $500 USD deposit is non-refundable and non-transferable.
- Cancellation 60 days or more before your passage begins: a full refund, minus the $500 USD deposit.
- Cancellation 45 to 59 days before your passage begins: a 50% refund.
- Cancellation 44 days or less before your passage begins: no refund or credit.
No refund or credit will be offered for no show, late arrival, early departure, personal injury or illness, weather, travel delays, flight interruptions or schedule conflicts. There are no exceptions to this policy. We strongly recommend comprehensive travel insurance.
By registering for this event, you will agree to these terms.
Payment Options
Option 1: Pay your $500 USD deposit in cash directly to Robin and Darcy. Please email <starteam@starriversanctuary.com> after registering to let us know.
Option 2: Send funds through Wise.com. Canadian residents, please include 5% GST, for a total of $525 USD. Residents of all other countries, please send $500 USD.
Option 3: Send funds through PayPal to <starteam@starriversanctuary.com>.
Option 4: Request an invoice to pay by credit card. Email Jacqui at <starteam@starriversanctuary.com> and she will send you an invoice. A 3% processing fee is added. Canadian residents: $540 USD including GST and the processing fee. Residents of all other countries: $515 USD.
Your 50% payment (due November 1, 2026) and final payment (due January 1, 2027) can be made the same ways. Jacqui will send you a reminder and the exact amounts.
Next Steps to Register
Step 1: Click “Register Now” on this event page. Fill out your information and click “Register Now”
Step 2: Arrange for your program deposit through one of four payment methods above.
Our Program Coordinator will follow up with you within 3 days if we do not see your deposit or an email come through regarding your chosen payment method.
Step 3: Celebrate! You are officially journeying with us to Chavín! We will be in touch with the next steps and future payments as we draw closer.
About the Leaders
Robin Flynn
Kamasqa Curandera- Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist- Visionary Creatrix ~ New Earth Mystic International Mentor, Guide, and Retreat Leader Co-founder of Star River Sanctuary & the "Empowerment & Resource Model" of Healing Co-founder of the Way of Sovereignty - Shamanic Tools for Spiritual Warriorship Robin is one of the only a few fully trained western Kamasqueras […]
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Darcy Kopas
International Mentor, Guide, and Retreat Leader Co-founder of Star River Sanctuary & the "Empowerment & Resource Model" of Healing Co-founder of the Way of Sovereignty - Shamanic Tools for Spiritual Warriorship Darcy is a gifted and highly trained plant spirit medicine Kamaska Curandero who specializes in sacred plant spirit medicine ceremonies and distance energy medicine. […]
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