In loving spirit of reciprocity, Stephen donates a percent of your payment to support the indigenous peoples who have shared their healing traditions with us.

While many charitable organizations mean well, sometimes more harm is done than good. After careful research, we have identified two organizations that are respectfully honoring the resources they receive. They strive to empower the indigenous peoples of the Andes and the Amazon rainforest in pursuing their own visions and providing their own needs.

Willka Yachay

Willka Yachay’s mission is to empower the next generation of the indigenous Q’eros Nation of Peru to become leaders who elevate their standard of living, guide their community toward sustainable modernity and revitalize their cultural identity. Working with the Q’eros people since 2010, Willka Yachay has founded, built the buildings for, and supports a preschool, a grade school and a high school with two dormitories, a health clinic, and a community center. Willka Yachay also implements adult education, post graduate career assistance, satellite internet connectivity, solar power and lighting, emergency medical care, a weaving cooperative, and music and cultural preservation projects.

Who are the Q’ero?

The Q’eros people are the wisdom keepers of the Andes. They are alpaca herders, potato farmers, weavers, musicians, and paqos (medicine carriers) who live among the clouds in remote villages at 14,500 feet in the snow-capped Andes of Southeastern Peru. Con-sidered to be the last Inkan community, the Q’eros strive to preserve their indigenous traditions.

Q'eros is the secret network of villages high on the slopes of Apu Huaman Lipa, the Protector Mountain, where the medicine men and women of the Andes disappeared and became lost to the world since the onslaught of the Spanish conquistadors arrived like a wave of death. They lived up there in isolation for over 500 years, forgotten to the world, until that harvest celebration day of June of 1959 when some of them came down, guided by Spirit, to invite the world to drink from the nectar of their ancient wisdom teachings.

Few have the opportunity to visit Q'eros. It is a remote and very private community of a wonderful, warm hearted people. Those who are invited, and travel to their out-of-this world beautiful home, bond with them and are changed forever.

Please join us if you want to support their sustainable development, seek a strong intercultural connection with them, and wish to learn from their teachings.  

This is where the medicine teachings you have been studying come from.

The Pachamama Alliance