Inti Raymi Journey

June 23rd - 30th in the Ecuadorian Andes

A sacred week where you will connect with an inspiring global community, offer your gratitude to the sun, celebrate life through the traditions of the Andes, connect with the power of Apu Imbabura, the surrounding mountains and plant the seeds for the continued evolution of our collective consciousness.

We’ll gather in the heart of the Andes for a journey of soul evolution and transformation. For 5 days, we’ll dance with the wind, fire, and the Apus (spirit of the mountains). Apu Imbabura is an energetic center on the planet that gives us healing power and unconditional love, ready to guide us on our paths of expansion.

Each person who will be on this journey has received many gifts on their path from the creator and Mother Earth, so we will be gathering as a collective to share our gratitude for all that we’ve received.

During the Inti Raymi Journey, we’ll visit 4 specific places to dance, stomp, and sweat, as the highest expression of our gratitude. We’ll trek into the mountains to receive sacred messages for our souls. Each point we’ll visit is a specific energetic center that will activate the sacred Andean cross, the Chakana. 

Inti Raymi Journey is unlike any gathering in the world. Through connecting to the spirit of the Apus, Taitas and Mamitas, we will feel the true wisdom and power of the Andes. In these sacred mountains, in the equator of the world, we will offer our gratitude to the sun. Through song, dance, ritual, and offerings, we’ll unite as a collective to share a sacred exchange between the members of the journey and the local community of Imbabura. Each one of us is a sun, a star, carrying our own unique mission and gifts. In the Inti Raymi Journey, we’ll pause our daily lives to create a new constellation of gratitude, exchange and evolution.

What is Inti Raymi?

Inti Raymi is the celebration of the Sun that coincides with the summer solstice and is one of the most traditional festival celebrations in the Ecuadorian Andes.

It aligns with the end of harvest season and the Inti Raymi festivities are a way of giving thanks to the sun and pachamama for the harvest and abundance.

Each community has it’s own unique way of celebrating Inti Raymi, filled with music, dance, offerings, traditional food, and connecting with mother earth.

Why Apu Imbabura?

Taita Imbabura is in the center of the Ecuadorian Andes. This powerful mountain carries both the father and mother energy and millennial wisdom.

So many people are heading to places like Bali or Tulum to gather in community and access their spiritual portal.

Imbabura and Ecuador are calling people in from around the world to receive the wisdom of the mountains, to feel the powerful vortex of this portal in the equator of the world, and to connect with the ancient and modern rituals of the Andean culture. It is where you can integrate the masculine and feminine to find your true center.

The details:

  • 7-day journey (June 23 - 30): 1 night in Quito, 5 nights in Imbabura (Andes mountains), final integration night in Quito

  • Traditional Inti Raymi celebrations with the local Andean community (pachamanka, music, dance and more)

  • Gathering of likeminded people from around the world ready to give thanks and celebrate life and the sun

  • All inclusive experience, meals, accommodations, transportation, rituals, ceremonies

  • Highly curated one of a kind local experience

Schedule & Accommodations

Day 1: Arrive to Quito, meet the group, welcome dinner

Day 2 - 6: Inti Raymi celebrations & rituals in 4 Andean communities: Cotacachi, San Clemente, Cochas, Chota. We’ll spend a day in each community celebrating their Inti Raymi local traditions and create our own unique rituals in the group. Over the course of the 5 days, we’ll share in cultural exchange, participate in rituals and activities like the pachamanka, zapateo, ritual baths, temazcal, offerings, power walks in the mountains, artesanias with the local women, voice activations, singing & music, and more. This journey is an exchange & sharing of experience and wisdom between our group and the local communities. This is not a typical retreat where you will be only receiving the experiences as a participant, it will be a space where you will also be invited to share your gifts with the group and communities, making it a true exchange.

Day 6: Return to Quito, closing circle

Day 7: Travel home

Note: more details on the specific celebrations, communities and activities will be released in the coming weeks.

Accommodations: We will be staying inside of the communities that we’ll be visiting to create a true circular economy and cultural exchange. This will be a mixture of home stays, local tourism accommodations, and we’ll have the opportunity for camping for those who are up for it! Most of lodging will be shared accommodations with another member of the group, but if it’s important for you to have your own room, please write that on your application and we will do our best to accomodate.

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Meet Your Guide: Sol Garzon

Personal note from Sol:

I received the spiritual name, Inti Warmi, “the Sun Woman” during my years of learning from the Andean communities in Imbabura. The Inti Raymi Journey that you will experience is really the Inti Warmi Journey, a curated 7-day gathering that shares the essence of my personal path of the last 10 years working closely with the Andean communities, the spirit of the plants, Apu Imbabura and Apu Cotacachi.

After years of experiencing the magic of Apu Imbabura and the communities on my own, I received the call to create this global gathering of gratitude and exchange with the sacred mountains and local communities in one of the most sacred times of the year, the Inti Raymi.

This first Inti Raymi Journey is the birth of a new spirit and each person who answers the call and joins us will be a doula for this beautiful gathering.

Sol is an Ecuadorian medicine woman who supports people to reconnect to their source, their light, and unique purpose through her hands, voice, and connection with the divine.

Sol guides her clients through a process of personal evolution using the powerful tools of ritual baths, channeling the Akashic Records, voice activations and working with the spirit of the plants.

Sol guides transformation and healing journeys for groups, families and individuals in the Imbabura mountain in the Ecuadorian Andes.

Sol has trained under the Andean & Amazonian Cosmovisions.

Who it’s for:

Inti Raymi Journey is a global gathering for the dreamers, for those who know they are here for a reason, for those committed to sharing their light and gifts with the world. For those who know the deep value in giving thanks to the creator, to the sun, and to each other for all of the abundance that exists in our life. To those who know that singing, dancing, sharing in rituals and planting seeds is an essential part of life. To those who want to be part of the first gathering of it’s kind, creating a new constellation of light around the world. This is a journey for the Warmi Kuna, the women & conscious men who honor their own sacred feminine and are ready to greet the sun, kiss the Earth, and love thy neighbor.

Financial Exchange

The financial exchange for the 7-day gathering is $5,000 USD.

This investment will include everything! Transportation to and from the airport, all accommodations, 3 meals a day, celebrations, rituals and more.

Not included: flights to and from Quito, souvenirs, alcohol

Payment plans are available.

Come offer your gratitude for the sun, the harvest of your life and share your gifts with an amazing constellation of beings

What people are saying about working with Sol…

“Sol’s work has helped me immensely in finding clarity and direction on my path. The container she creates is truly life changing. Many of the messages that have come through the baths that Sol facilitated were exactly what I needed to make the changes necessary in my life and at the perfect time. I am incredibly grateful for such potent medicine Sol is bringing to the world.” - Florencia Fridman

“Opening my records and receiving a ritual bath with Sol was one of the most healing experiences I’ve had!” - Tatiana

“Thank you Sol for the reading and ritual bath. I am feeling very rejuvenated and I let everything go that I needed to in the plant bath cleanse. I feel more confidence to do what I’m here to do and be a part of the collective healing” - Shayla

“It was such a refreshing and heart opening experience! The whole setting (and background music) of the session is just magical! Sol’s guidance is gentle yet firm with a beautiful rhythm to it. I love that she chooses things that resonate with me from the smell of the incense to the herbal recipe for the bath and to every other small details. It was a soothing and safe space she held for me which I appreciate very much. After the session I felt really grounded and rejuvenated.” - Cindy

QUESTIONS THAT MIGHT HAVE COME UP FOR YOU

  • This is an application-only journey and we don’t enroll everyone who applies. It’s important for us to make sure everyone is a great fit — we want to cultivate an amazing group of people who are equally invested in this experience. That’s why we have you fill out an application first before inviting you to enroll.

  • The Inti Raymi Journey encompasses all aspects of life and kids are a big part of that! This year, this will likely be an adult only journey, but kids will definitely be welcome in future years of the Inti Raymi Journey. If you have a child that you’d like to bring to this trip, please put that on your application and we’ll see if it’s a right fit for this year.

  • From the moment you arrive at the Quito airport, the journey begins and it is an all inclusive experience. All transportation, meals, accommodations and activities are included.

    Not included: souvenirs, alcohol

  • Of course! Our team can provide suggestions for other experiences in Ecuador.

  • Please check with your local embassy. For US citizens, no visa is required if you’ve spent less than 90 days in Ecuador over the year.

  • We hope that once you register for the Journey, you will join us, but we understand that circumstances arise that may lead to a change in plans. If you cancel before June 1st, we will refund your payment minus a $500 non-refundable deposit. After June 1st, there are no refunds, but you will receive a credit that you can apply to an online program with Sol or next year’s Inti Raymi Journey. This credit will be valid for 1 year. The credit total will be whatever you’ve paid towards the journey minus a $500 non-refundable deposit.