Heart Mountain Wellness

As we close out the Paititi Institute Tour, we want to share some heartfelt gratitude to the people and spaces who helped make this journey possible.

Thank you Gisela & Timothy of Earth School Shamanism for your love, friendship, and support. From the Morning Urban Retreats to evening Dreamwork and everyday in between, thank you for showing up so fully. It truly takes a village.

Thank you to Nadim at Nomadic Vintage Rugs for hosting our first Beyond Ayahuasca book talk in such a beautiful & enchanting space. Surrounded by rugs, tapestries, Turkish coffee, and community, it was a magical way to begin the tour.

Thank you to Earl & Claire at New Renaissance Bookshop for hosting the final book talk. It was a full house, they SOLD OUT of books, and are ordering more! Independent bookstores are sacred community hubs.

Thank you to Leigh at Pacha Collective for welcoming us into your beautiful space for Qi Gong and Breathwork.

Thank you to Joanna & John at Heart Mountain Wellness for helping organize, host, and weave together the PNW tour. We are grateful to be creating spaces where healing, Indigenous wisdom, art, and human connection can weave together.

Thank you to Michael from Pachamama Productions for helping everyday with setup, tech support, and daily acts of generosity and openness to learn in retreat school 😁.

A special thank you to RD "Papa," Roman's dad, for joining every gathering, cooking and cleaning, stories, and bringing so much heart to the journey.

We also want to thank our sponsors, Nature's Path Wellness & Portland Psychedelic Society, for supporting this series.

Most of all, thank you to everyone who attended. Friends traveled from across the PNW, states, and Canada to come together. Bringing Roman from Peru into our community creates opportunities for hearts, cultures, and wisdom traditions to connect across generations and the world.

The full gratitude letter is in today's email newsletter and on Substack, where we deeply honor everyone who helped make this tour possible.

With gratitude,

Joanna & John, Roman, Michael, Papa & the Paititi Institute Team

June Strawberry Full Moon

A Soul Ascension Studio Community Event
Join us for a heart-centered evening beneath June’s Strawberry Full Moon as we gather in community to honor Kuan Yin, Goddess of Compassion.

This evening is an invitation to soften, reconnect, and tend the heart. Together we will hold space for compassion toward ourselves, one another, and the world around us.

Kuan Yin is the embodiment of tenderness, mercy, and unconditional compassion. Under the Strawberry Full Moon… a moon traditionally connected to sweetness, ripening, and the opening of the heart. We gather to gently tend the grief, tenderness, and emotional heaviness many have been carrying. This is a space for softening, for being witnessed, and for remembering that compassion itself can be medicine.

Through ritual, intention, embodied practices, and community connection, we will invite in the healing presence of Kuan Yinand her offering sweetness to the heart, spirit, and compassion to the places within us that most need care.

A community altar for Kuan Yin will be lovingly prepared in the space, and guests are invited to bring a small offering for the altar if they feel called. Together we will deepen the evening through ritual, reflection, connection, and shared presence beneath the full moon.

The evening will include:
• Compassion inquiry
• Breathwork
• Embodied movement
• Ritual and altar offerings
• Community connection under the full moon

We are honored to share this evening with you and invite you to come exactly as you are.

We are honored to share this experience with you and looking forward to being in our sacred circle. All genders are welcome.
Soul Ascension Studio
June 29th • 7:00 PM
Facilitated by Practitioner’s: Joanna Wiley and Rachellee Sigler
Weaving community events, our passions and healing arts into HEART EMBERS: with Rooted Embers & Heart Mountain Wellness

Tomorrow evening, join Roman Hanis from the Paititi Institute for a special book talk and conversation on Beyond Ayahuasca at Nadim’s shop Nomadic Vintage Rugs.

These woven textiles carry stories, prayers, symbols, and lineages from many lands. In the same way, our work through the Paititi Institute is about weaving together the wisdom of the Andes, the Amazon, the Himalayas, and ancestral traditions across the Earth.

This is more than a book talk. It is part of a global initiative to reconnect the children and elders of the world through living wisdom, cultural preservation, and ancestral schools being developed in the Amazon rainforest, the Andes, and the Himalayas.

Come gather with us in this beautiful and unexpected space filled with texture, history, and living artistry.

Thursday, May 28
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Nomadic Vintage Rugs

You can explore more about the Paititi Institute, our nonprofit initiatives, retreats, and global projects through our website and social media channels.

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We loved hearing Gisela of Earth School Shamanism and Roman from the Paititi Institute share about their two special Morning Urban Retreats at Pacha Collective. Together they will guide a nourishing morning of Elemental Yoga and Andean Daoist Qigong.

Morning Urban Retreats

Dates: Thursday, May 28 and Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Times: 9:30 AM • Elemental Yoga with Gisela
11:00 AM • Qigong with Roman Hanis

Location: Pacha Collective, 202 E McLoughlin Blvd, Vancouver, WA 98663

We are inspired to share these practices and look forward to sharing these special classes with you!

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Beyond Ayahuasca books are now in stock at New Renaissance Bookshop in Portland.

We have heard that ordering online is taking a while, so if you are planning to come to one of Roman Hanis' book talks or any of the Paititi Living Wisdom Series events and would like a copy, you can stop by New Renaissance and grab one ahead of time. We also know life gets busy, so if you would like Joanna to pick up a copy for you, send her a DM and she can pick up one Wednesday morning for you!

Paititi team has been working on improving some of the registration forms and making the backend easier and smoother for everyone. You do not need to register in advance... Just come and we will get you registered in person and make it easy. Please reach out to me or anyone on the Paititi team if you need help getting organized. We are happy to help.

Looking forward to seeing everyone Thursday morning at PACHA Urban Retreat: Gisela’s Elemental Yoga and Roman’s Qigong. Then gathering again Thursday evening for Roman's book talk at Nomadic Vintage Rugs in Portland.

See you soon!!! Joanna, Roman and Paititi Team

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Well-Cared Woman meets Wild Woman
This morning when I woke up, I had a message come through in meditation: The Well-Cared Woman.
I started asking myself, what does that actually mean? To me, a well-cared woman is someone who nourishes herself deeply. She eats well, takes care of herself, carves out time for her own healing and self-care, and honors herself enough to receive support.
So I listened.
I chose myself today and went to Gisela’s beautiful Elemental Yoga class and Earth School, where I also got to step into partner breathwork teacher training with Allie. I spent nearly four hours in self-care, healing, connection, and being held.
And somewhere in the middle of it all, there we were… Gisela, Shelly, Chelsea, and I and our wild morning hair. The Well-Cared Woman meeting the Wild Woman. It felt like these archetypes weaving together… grounded care and primal force. I absolutely adore being in these medicine spaces with my sisters.
I feel so happy and incredibly lucky that I get to spend time with beautiful women doing deep healing work while also learning how to truly take care of myself. For probably the first time in my life, I feel our community safe container and trust that the people around me genuinely have me held, so sweetly and with such care.
Deep gratitude to Gisela for creating these sacred spaces for us to gather, heal, connect, and remember that we were never meant to do this alone. So grateful for you SiStar 🤍

"In this tradition, it's considered that the life energy gets stuck in different places in our organism, mainly the joints first, like pebbles get stuck on the bends of a river."

Join Roman Hanis for a special live experience of Alchemy of Immortality Daoist QiGong / Andean Art of Being.

Beginning barefoot to activate connection with the Earth's bioelectromagnetic frequency and awaken vitality within the organism, we gently open the joints through movement and breath, helping release stagnant energy and restore the natural flow of life force.

These practices open the energy channels of the organism, allowing for a deeper connection with the vital power of organic intelligence inside and out. Through movement, breath, and presence, we begin bringing Body, Mind, Emotions, and Spirit into a focal point, remembering our greatest natural potential.

Thursday, May 28 & Tuesday, June 2, 2026
11:00am–12:30pm
Collective

Facilitated by Roman Hanis, a special visit from Peru

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