151 West 30th Street, New York, NY, USA
September 13, 2026
About this Retreat
Roman Hanis
Roman Hanis is an international bestselling author, healer, educator, and co-founder of Paititi Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to Indigenous cultural preservation, healing, education, and ecological stewardship.
Since arriving in the Peruvian Amazon in 2001, Roman has spent decades studying, practicing, and collaborating with Indigenous knowledge holders of the Amazon and Andes. His path has included long-term apprenticeship and relationship with Yahua, Huitoto, Ashuar, Shipibo and other Amazonian traditions, alongside ongoing study and practice within Andean lineages. In 2004, following several years of apprenticeship in the Amazon, he was formally recognized as a curandero by Yahua elders, a responsibility he continues to honor through healing work, cultural exchange, education, and community initiatives.
Roman is the author of Beyond Ayahuasca: Unlocking the Evolutionary Science of Indigenous Amazonian Wisdom to Access Your Highest Potential, published by Hay House. Drawing upon more than two decades of lived experience in the Amazon, the book brings ancestral approaches to healing into dialogue with Jungian psychology, trauma resolution, Eastern medicine, and contemplative practice. 100% of Roman’s author proceeds from the book support the development of the Yahua Ancestral School and Cultural Heritage Center in the Peruvian Amazon.
As co-founder of Paititi Institute, Roman has helped develop intercultural healing retreats, Indigenous community health and cultural exchange initiatives, educational programs, and ecological conservation projects in Peru and internationally. The Institute also stewards a 1,516-hectare biocultural reserve spanning Andean foothills and cloud rainforest near Manu National Park, protecting a landscape where biological and cultural diversity remain deeply interconnected.
Alongside his Amazonian and Andean apprenticeships, Roman has spent decades studying and practicing Jungian psychology, Tibetan Buddhist and Bön traditions, Daoist internal arts, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. His work explores the resonances between these distinct traditions without reducing their differences, bringing their practical methods into an experiential approach to healing, self-knowledge, and the realization of our intrinsic relationship with the living world.
Roman’s own recovery from a severe, life-threatening period of Crohn’s disease in 2002 became an important turning point in this path. Today, his work is centered on creating experiential bridges through which ancestral knowledge can remain a living transmission while supporting both individual transformation and the communities and ecosystems from which these traditions arise.
Geordie Numata is a New York–based Reiki Master Teacher, astrologer, intuitive, and spiritual life coach with approximately two decades of professional healing experience. He has trained more than 500 Reiki students and has offered charitable healing work in New York City, Guatemala, and Peru. His own passage through addiction and recovery became an entry into spiritual practice, healing, and a life devoted to service.
Details of this retreat
WHEN THE PROPHECIES AWAKEN
The Great Mother, Human Innocence & Our Critical Moment
A Public Dialogue and Experiential Evening with Roman Hanis and Geordie Numata
We are living through a period of profound instability, when humanity’s extraordinary creative power is developing faster than the wisdom required to guide it. Ancient prophecies from many parts of the world speak of such a time, not simply as a prediction of catastrophe, but as a threshold at which human beings must remember their relationship with the living Earth, awaken from collective patterns of separation, and consciously participate in the future we are creating.
Join Roman Hanis and Geordie Numata for a two-hour public dialogue exploring enlightenment, the Great Mother, ancestral prophecy, and the healing of humanity’s original innocence. Drawing from distinct yet resonant paths, they will examine what awakening means when it is brought out of abstraction and into the realities of our bodies, relationships, communities, and historical moment.
The Great Mother will be approached not only as an archetype or ancient divinity, but as the living intelligence through which all existence is conceived, nourished, transformed, and returned to its source. From this perspective, healing innocence does not mean returning to naïveté. It means releasing the conditioning that separates us from our innate capacity to perceive life directly, participate in its intelligence, and respond without being governed by fear, fragmentation, or inherited trauma.
Roman and Geordie will draw parallels between Amazonian and Andean ancestral traditions, Tibetan Buddhism, Daoist practice, Reiki, astrology, and their own decades of healing work. Together, they will explore how different traditions understand enlightenment and energetic transformation, where their languages genuinely converge, and why their differences must also be honored.
The dialogue will explore:
What ancient prophecies may reveal about humanity’s present turning point
The Great Mother as archetype, living Earth, and primordial matrix of consciousness
Enlightenment as embodied participation rather than spiritual escape
The difference between original innocence and psychological naïveté
How personal healing relates to collective transformation
The role of crisis, initiation, and remembrance in evolutionary change
Parallels between Reiki, Daoist cultivation, Amazonian and Andean healing, and Tibetan approaches to awakening
How ancestral wisdom can inform contemporary life without being removed from its cultural roots
This will not be only an intellectual conversation. The evening will include direct practices through which participants can experience some of the principles being discussed.
Around the midpoint, Roman will guide an Amazonian-based Primordial Breathwork practice, engaging breath, rhythm, sound, and awareness as a communal field of remembrance.
Geordie will share a breathing practice rooted in the Daoist tradition, opening another experiential doorway into the cultivation and circulation of life energy.
The evening will conclude with approximately twenty minutes of Reiki channeling led by Geordie, allowing the dialogue and practices to settle into the body through stillness, receptivity, and energetic integration.
About Roman Hanis
Roman Hanis is the co-founder of Paititi Institute and author of Beyond Ayahuasca: Unlocking the Evolutionary Science of Indigenous Amazonian Wisdom to Access Your Highest Potential. For more than twenty-five years, his path has woven together direct apprenticeship within Amazonian and Andean living wisdom traditions, Tibetan Buddhist and Bön practice, Jungian psychology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and trauma integration. His work centers on restoring the inseparable relationship between personal healing, cultural continuity, and the protection of the living Earth.
About Geordie Numata
Geordie Numata is a New York–based Reiki Master Teacher, astrologer, intuitive, and spiritual life coach with approximately two decades of professional healing experience. He has trained more than 500 Reiki students and has offered charitable healing work in New York City, Guatemala, and Peru. His own passage through addiction and recovery became an entry into spiritual practice, healing, and a life devoted to service.
Who This Evening Is For
This gathering is for those who sense that the crises of our time cannot be addressed only through political, technological, or psychological solutions, because they also arise from a deeper rupture in humanity’s relationship with consciousness, nature, and the sacred.
No previous experience with Reiki, breathwork, meditation, or Indigenous traditions is required.
Space is limited. Advance registration is recommended.
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