Munay Sonqo, Peru

Munay Sonqo is a retreat center nestled in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Peru, that inspires guests to expand, heal, and transform. Our sanctuary is more than just a destination – it’s a sacred space where individuals can embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and personal growth.

We collaborate with yoga and mindfulness teachers, and facilitators of the healing arts to run retreats. Our on-site team provides comprehensive support, including retreat planning, logistics, coordination, transport, tours, extra activities, nourishment, and guest management. By taking care of the details and logistics, we enable retreat leaders to be fully present with their group, fostering an environment conducive to deep healing and transformation.

Johnson Chong is the best-selling and award-winning author of Sage Sapien: From Karma to Dharma. He is also a TedX Speaker of (“How to Deal with Toxic Family Relationships”), shaman and the founder of SAGE Journey where he trains aspiring meditation and shamanic breathwork teachers. Through the synthesis of the most applicable teachings of yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching and shamanic healing, his retreats are designed to help people quiet the mind, awaken the heart and free themselves of the roadblocks that keep them from living more authentically and joyfully. He has spoken and led workshops at companies like Unilever, Facebook, Nike, Macquarie, Insight Timer, UBS, UOB and more. Johnson is a native New Yorker, and has lived on 3 continents, currently based in Sydney, Australia

Saul was born in the rural community of Ccapacchapi in the district of Pitumarca, Canchis province in Peru. He is part of a long lineage of Pacha Illa (Light of the Universe) spiritual masters.

His lineage traces back to his maternal grandmother, of which the records of the Pacha Illa masters in his family have been lost. Through many years of teachings from his family, and also direct teachings by working with the Spirit of Mother Ayahuasca and Father Huachuma, he has become a master bridge between the invisible world of Spirit and the human world.

Since he was 18, he has been healing people from illnesses where the root cause was not visible to the Western scientific eye. Through the power of icaros, which are powerful healing songs channeled through the spirit of the plants and passed on through his lineage, he is able to use sound as a bridge to transform the density of all the issues that come before him.

As a Pacha Illa lineage holder, he walks the path of the Earthkeeper and holds all those who come before him as dear and sacred.

Justina Apaza is the son of the great Inka master Alejandro Apaza, and is a pampa mesayoq paqo – one who heals by working with energies and sacred spirits in nature. His family comes from the Q’ero nation, a tribe of approximately 1500 people who lived in the Andean highlands at altitudes above 15,000 feet in order to escape the conquistadors. They lived in isolation from the rest of the world, during the Spanish occupation for many centuries hiding in caves in high altitudes until their “discovery” in 1949.

Their ancestors prophesied for them to stay in hiding for about 500 years for fear of being punished for their “magical” knowledge. Today we have the privilege of receiving the unbroken wisdom from the lineage of these masters.

Justino Apaza and his siblings who are also healers work with the spirit of the coca leaf for divinations. They also perform offerings and ceremonies of gratitude to the Earth and various other Spirits like the Pleiades to bring harmony to the land and their local communities. One of the main healing techniques that are unique to his lineage is done through chumpis, or sacred medicine stones of alabaster and marble that have been blessed and activated for the purpose of energy healing.

As the eldest son of the Apaza lineage, he lovingly holds the responsibility of passing the wisdom as a lineage holder of the Q’ero pampa mesayoqs.