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PAKARINKA USHAY is an Andean ceremonial and cultural education center in the rural Indigenous community of Agato, Otavalo at the foot of Tayta Imbabura mountain, only a 15-minute drive from the cities of Cotacachi or Otavalo in Ecuador.
Our English-speaking multilingual Indigenous "shaman" yachak Tayta Willak leads retreats and workshops sharing his ancestral knowledge about Andean spirituality, holistic health in harmony with nature, medicinal plants, sound healing, spiritual energy shifting and more for English speakers here in Otavalo.
Tayta Willak also offers private consultations, courses, healing ceremonies, and counseling sessions online. He performs spiritual energy cleansings (limpiezas), house blessings, and plant medicine ceremonies incuding ayahuasca.
This seventh-generation yachak has over 30 years of training, teaching, and ceremonial experience. He has extensive in-depth knowledge to share with us about pre-Incan as well as modern Andean Indigenous spiritual beliefs and traditions.
Tayta Willak also collaborates with Indigenous shamans all over the world, and has been authorized by them to share their ceremonial traditions.
He is happy to counsel English and Spanish speakers as well as his own Indigenous people about ancestral paths to a more wholesome, balanced, healthy, and happy life in this complex modern world. He guides people interested in becoming shamanic practitioners on the ancient path called Kapak Ñan.
The beautiful Pakarinka Ushay center overlooking the city of Otavalo is open to the public. Visitors are welcome to tour the grounds and small Andean museum, and to have your questions about Andean culture and spirituality answered by the yachak and his family. Guests are also welcome to attend our center's educational and spiritual retreats, or arrange private retreats on our grounds.
Tayta Willak and his family created the first Pakarinka building over twenty years ago after completing nine years of shamanic training with Hatun Tayta Alberto Taxo. Here and around the world, he has led thousands of ceremonies, healings, counseling sessions, and spiritual energy cleansings.
The current Pakarinka Ushay education program was created in 2024 to bring more balance to the world by helping people learn how to connect with nature using the ancestral wisdom of the Andean people.
Tayta Willak speaks Kichwa, Spanish, English, French, and Italian.
Read more about Tayta Willka Willak Guillermo Santillán in RECOMMENDATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS, and his BIOGRAPHY.
