Tara Tao Center of Destiny
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PresentS:

Love Meets Legacy

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peru gathering 2027

the sacred valley

February 6–14, 2027

8 Nights between The Lunar New Year - Valentine’s Day

Munay Sonqo Retreat Center

Love. Lineage. Leadership. Legacy.

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welcome to love meets legacy.

This is a specially curated gathering designed to clarify, empower, and evolve some of the most meaningful aspects of our lives:

Love. Leadership. Lineage. Legacy.

A gathering where your deepest prayers are met by a council of resonant souls coming together at the commencement of the Fire Goat Year of 2027.

Together, we will begin the year inside a powerful field of prayer, ceremony, ancestral connection, psychospiritual education, nervous-system-rooted transformation, and community.

The Center of Destiny, Sacred Ancestry, and Marilu Shinn have come together to offer a profound threshold.

A space where love, partnership, family, purpose, leadership, and legacy are no longer experienced as separate domains of life, but as interconnected expressions of who you have come here to be.

Many people have been taught, explicitly or implicitly, that they must choose.

Between love and purpose.

Between partnership and freedom.

Between family and impact.

Love Meets Legacy is rooted in a different possibility.

The understanding that a deeply fulfilling partnership, meaningful contribution, healthy family system, and purpose-led mission are not competing desires, but reflections of personal choice and integration.

This retreat is for those who know, deep in their bones, that life is calling them into a greater chapter.

✦ Deep, aligned conscious partnership.

✦ Greater visibility.

✦ The next threshold of your embodied leadership.

✦ Wider impact.

A chapter where the decisions being made today have the power to shape the trajectory of relationships, family, ancestral lineage, community, culture, and our planetary futures.

Whether you are preparing for partnership, marriage, parenthood, a new level of purpose-led mission, or simply the next evolution of who you are becoming, this gathering is designed to support that transition with depth, spiritual resourcefulness, and the nervous-system foundations that allow lasting change to take root.

Love Meets Legacy is a bridge between the future you envision and the person leading your life today.

We believe that legacy is not only found in what we build.

It is found in who we are becoming in the process, and how much joy, love, and liberation we allow ourselves to experience along the way.

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Munay Sonqo

Retreat CenteR

Munay Sonqo Retreat & Yoga Center is an award-winning sanctuary in the heart of Peru’s Sacred Valley, surrounded by the sacred mountain spirits, the Apus.

‘Munay’ meaning “Loving Heart” in Quechua, Munay Sonqo is an intentional space where ancient Andean wisdom, regenerative design, and heart-led hospitality come together to support healing, renewal, and profound transformation.

Rooted in the principles of Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share, Munay Sonqo is committed to giving back through Sach'a Munay, while offering a powerful environment for spiritual growth, deep connection, and bringing your highest vision to life.

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A Sacred Gathering

for Those Ready to Meet Their Next Chapter of love and legacy.

Love Meets Legacy is a gathering for soul-led humans who are ready to be fully met in the depth of who they are, the magnitude of their calling, and the future that awaits them.

For those who sense that life is preparing to entrust them with more.

✦ A bigger love.

✦ Greater visibility.

✦ Wider leadership.

✦ Deeper service.

✦ Ecstatic alignment.

Perhaps you can feel that destiny is calling you toward your next threshold.

✦ A vision ready to be sanctified.

✦ A partnership ready to be received.

✦ A family ready for generational flourishing.

✦ A body of work waiting to be fully birthed.

And perhaps you know that the question is no longer whether this life is possible.

The question is whether your identity, nervous system, relationships, embodiment, and support structures are prepared to receive it, sustain it, and steward it well.

WHO THIS IS FOR

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For those holding a big prayer:

  • Aligned long-term partnership and God-led divine union

  • Family, motherhood, fatherhood

  • Generational healing, prosperity, and flourishing

  • Your next inspired body of work and creative legacy

  • Deeply aligned belonging, relationships, and community

  • A life oriented around your values, passion, gifts, and empowered expression

  • Vision, mission, brand scaling, embodied leadership

  • Visibility, transmission, and message for public figures

  • Nervous system support, structures, and strategy for the next chapter of your sacred work

  • The healing, mending, and evolution of human consciousness

  • Protecting land, preserving Indigenous wisdom, and regenerating resources for future generations

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You are emerging into or estabished:

  • Founder, entrepreneur, conscious business owner

  • Artist, creative, or cultural tastemaker

  • Practitioner, healer, therapist, or guide

  • Coach, educator, thought leader

  • Author, speaker, public figure

  • Doctor, naturopath, wellness professional

  • Facilitator, retreat leader, community connector

  • Creative director, multimedia producer, event producer

  • Curator and builder of meaningful projects, movements, or bodies of work with earth-led and heart-led impact

  • Conscious mother or father, or preparation for conscious conception

  • Land steward, herbalist, permaculturist, or guardian of the living world

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what feels expansive:

  • Receiving secret letters on your bed each day to spark insight, contemplation, clarity, and inspiration.

  • Immersing yourself in ancient wisdom traditions, authentic culture, shamanic fields, land connection, and meaningful human connection.

  • Healing ancestral and relational patterns that shape how you experience love, partnership, belonging, family, and community.

  • Expanding your capacity to be fully seen, felt expressed, and supported in your sacred work.

  • Transforming unconscious patterns that keep us disconnected from highest fulfillment, life direction, embodied leadership, and strategic action that feels good.

  • Fully inhabiting your body and your one-of-its-kind frequency to confidently walk your God-led path.

Meet the Team

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    TARA TAO

    Tara Tao is the founder of The Center of Destiny, a transformational ecosystem devoted to the evolution of love, leadership, lineage, and legacy.

    Through its branches, The Center of Destiny is an expanding body of work that includes high-level coaching, global retreats, conscious dating experiences, multimedia storytelling projects, thought leadership, and an embodiment and marketing agency supporting founders, practitioners, artists, public figures, and change agents in bringing their deepest work into the world.

    Tara weaves together a decade of study, client work, and facilitation spanning digital marketing and advertising, trauma-informed and somatic-based transformation, Internal Family Systems, ancestral healing, VITA™ relationship coaching, tantric arts, and earth-based wisdom traditions.

    Over the last four years, she has curated and hosted transformational retreats around the world, creating spaces where soul-led humans gather to deepen their relationship with animate life, ancestors, creative potential, embodied leadership, and aligned connections.

    Her work is rooted in regenerative, relational, decolonial, and matriarchal principles that honor both personal transformation and collective flourishing.

    Drawing inspiration from Taoist philosophy, Tibetan Buddhism, and Q'ero cosmovision of the Andes, Tara helps individuals and communities translate profound soul-led dharma into rooted, practical, and embodied implementation.

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    TORIE FELDMAN

    FOUNDER OF SACRED ANCESTRY

    Torie Feldman is the Founder of Sacred Ancestry. A global movement of people connecting to their ancestors and healing their lineages.

    With over a decade of experience in the arts of healing, facilitation, and priestesshood, Torie weaves together spirituality, shamanism, mysticism, womb wisdom, and ongoing study of Mystery Schools and cultures all over the world.

    She specializes in the intersection of ancestral healing, earth-based wisdom, and spiritual studies — helping people connect to their ancestors, trust their magic, and reclaim their spiritual gifts in a deeply grounded and embodied way.

    Her degree in Cultural Anthropology, alongside her year spent working on cultural revitalization projects on a reservation, deeply informs her work — grounding the esoteric into practical wisdom and ancestral healing practices. 

Torie offers Ancestral Healing Sessions and leads group courses online year-round, including The Honeyed Womb, Lineage of Love, Sacred Transitions, Way of the Healer, and the Ancestral Healing Certification Program.

    She is honored to be woven here into this web of Love Meets Legacy alongside Tara and Marilu.

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    MARILU SHINN

    Q’ERO TRADITION SPIRITUAL TEACHER

    Marilu Shinn is a Medicine Woman trained and initiated in the Inca, Q'ero Tradition. 

    She is a weaver of meaningful women's retreats and gatherings, a steward of the Earth and a whisperer of ancestral wisdom.

    She has walked the Qapac Nan (The Andean path) for over 2 decades and works in close proximity with the Q'ero Elders.

    She teaches earth based courses informed by the Andean chakana and cosmovision.

    Her work, passion and purpose in the world is to anchor the prophecies of the Ancient Future.

    Marilu's work is at the intersection of social and Earth justice, truth and reclamation of an ancient, reciprocal way of being.

    She is excited to share and join the Center of Destiny team in Peru. 

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    María Apaza & Q'ero Elders

    One of the great honors of Love Meets Legacy is the opportunity to welcome María Apaza and members of her family to share their despacho ceremonies, blessings, and transmissions.

    This experience is being made possible through our dear friend Lu, who will be supporting translation and helping bridge this sacred exchange between our guests and one of the most revered wisdom keepers of the Andes.

    María Apaza is an Altomisayoq prietess of the Q’ero Nation, a title given to master spiritual elders within the Andean tradition.

    Traditionally, this path is not chosen through study alone, but through a lifetime of initiation, devotion, service, and sacred calling.

    Born in the high Andes nearly a century ago, María is a lineage priestess having influenced many reflections of Q’ero wisdom in the western world.

    She is widely regarded as one of the last remaining female elders carrying this level of traditional Andean spiritual authority and has dedicated her life to living the ways of the Q’ero cosmovision.

    Beyond the teachings themselves, there is something profound about being in the presence of a human being who has spent nearly a century in relationship with the mountains, the land, ceremony, and the living traditions of her ancestors.

Imagine…

Imagine arriving in the Sacred Valley of Peru, one of the most spiritually potent and energetically preserved places on Earth.

Imagine...

✦ Resting into eight nights of deep nourishment at a world-class retreat center, surrounded by a carefully curated circle of extraordinary humans committed to truth, healing, purpose, depth, and service.

✦ Landing in a circle of aligned humans where your gifts, expression, and vision are not merely understood, but deeply seen, prayed over, and amplified.

✦ Receiving a secret letter on your bed each morning, inviting you into deeper reflection, insight, inspiration, and clarity.

✦ Tea ceremonies, ancestral traditions, movement and embodiment practices, transformational teachings, shamanic journeys, temazcal, cultural excursions, full spa amenities, and meaningful connection with extraordinary humans.

✦ Sharing your calling, gifts, and dharma with aligned souls who see the greatness within you and encourage its fullest expression.

✦ Surrounding yourself with the Indigenous wisdom tradition of the Q’ero people of the High Andes, and allowing your life to be reorganized by a powerful cosmovision and life-changing initiations.

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Rooms + Pricing

A cozy bedroom with a large window revealing mountain scenery, wooden furniture including wardrobe, table, and chair, a white armchair with colorful pillow, and a bed with a beige quilt, decorated with red flowers on the table.
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DELUXE PRIVATE ROOM

Deluxe Private Room with King Size Bed & Private Bathroom

Single Price

Standard: $6,200

Early bird: $5,900

Shared Bed (Couple) Price

Regular: $11,000

Early bird: $10,500

✦ Pricing is all-inclusive

✦ Early Bird pricing is available for the first 10 enrolled guests through August 1, 2026.

Payment Options

Pay in Full

Guests who pay in full upon enrollment will receive two complimentary gifts during their stay at Munay Sonqo Retreat Center:

• A 90-minute massage with your choice of Deep Tissue, Relaxation, Shiatsu, Thai, or Hot Stone Massage

• A private Coca Leaf Reading offering spiritual insight, personalized guidance, and connection to a sacred Andean wisdom tradition

Payment Plan

Reserve your spot with a non-refundable $1,000 deposit. Your remaining balance will be divided into automatic monthly payments and must be paid in full by January 6, 2027.

All payments are processed securely through Stripe. Applicable processing fees (currently 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction) will be reflected at checkout.

Debit and credit cards accepted.

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A rustic bedroom with a lofted bed, wooden beams on the ceiling, and a staircase with open risers leading up to the loft area. The bed has colorful, patterned pillows and a quilt with orange and patterned accents. There is a small wooden nightstand beside the bed and natural light coming from a skylight.

DOUBLE ROOM

Shared Double Room with Two Double Beds & Private Bathroom

Price Per Person

Standard: $4,200

Early Bird: $4,000

✦ Pricing is all-inclusive

✦ Early Bird pricing is available for the first 10 enrolled guests through August 1, 2026.

Payment Options

Pay in Full

Guests who pay in full upon enrollment will receive two complimentary gifts during their stay at Munay Sonqo Retreat Center:

• A 90-minute massage with your choice of Deep Tissue, Relaxation, Shiatsu, Thai, or Hot Stone Massage

• A private Coca Leaf Reading offering spiritual insight, personalized guidance, and connection to a sacred Andean wisdom tradition

Payment Plan

Reserve your spot with a non-refundable $1,000 deposit. Your remaining balance will be divided into automatic monthly payments and must be paid in full by January 6, 2027.

All payments are processed securely through Stripe. Applicable processing fees (currently 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction) will be reflected at checkout.

Debit and credit cards accepted.

A cozy bedroom with three single beds, orange throw blankets, and matching orange pillows, wooden floors, large windows with mountain views, beige walls, and rustic wooden ceiling beams.
Living room with high wooden ceiling, large stone fireplace with driftwood, beige walls, wooden flooring, and a small wooden table with a silver electric kettle. There's a beige chair with a red pillow, a bouquet of red flowers, and a doorway with a wooden door.

TRIPLE ROOM

3 Single Beds with Private Bathroom

Price Per Person

Standard: $3,700

Early Bird: $3,500

✦ Pricing is all-inclusive

✦ Early Bird pricing is available for the first 10 enrolled guests through August 1, 2026.

Payment Options

Pay in Full

Guests who pay in full upon enrollment will receive two complimentary gifts during their stay at Munay Sonqo Retreat Center:

• A 90-minute massage with your choice of Deep Tissue, Relaxation, Shiatsu, Thai, or Hot Stone Massage

• A private Coca Leaf Reading offering spiritual insight, personalized guidance, and connection to a sacred Andean wisdom tradition

Payment Plan

Reserve your spot with a non-refundable $1,000 deposit. Your remaining balance will be divided into automatic monthly payments and must be paid in full by January 6, 2027.

All payments are processed securely through Stripe. Applicable processing fees (currently 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction) will be reflected at checkout.

Debit and credit cards accepted.

What You Will Experience

TESTIMONIALS

TESTIMONIALS

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Center of Destiny Movie

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From the founder

Love Meets Legacy exists because this land changed my life.

The Andes, the Q'ero people, their cosmovision, the Chakana, the teachings of Ayni, and the initiations of Munay Ki have profoundly shaped the way I understand love, healing, leadership, reciprocity, community, and what it means to live in right relationship with life itself.

One of the greatest gifts Peru has given me is the experience of being met.

Met by the mountains. Met by the purity of spirit. Met by rites and ceremony. Met by the animate world. Met by the unseen. Met by a living and intact wisdom tradition.

My relationship with Peru is not something I leave behind when I board a plane home.

There is a spirit bridge between my heart and these mountains that continues to resource me wherever I am in the world.

Whether I am living in Boulder, Colorado, or traveling elsewhere, this bridge reminds me that I am loved, held, guided, and connected to something far greater than myself. It feels like a part of me. And when I lose touch with it, it can feel as though I am missing certain limbs of my own being.

I believe the Q'ero cosmovision, and the sacred technologies preserved by these wisdom keepers, including my Q’ero teacher, Marilu Shinn, who will be joining us at Love Meets Legacy, hold profound medicine for our modern world.

The teachings of Ayni, sacred reciprocity, help us mend our relationship with ourselves, one another, Spirit, and the living Earth. They remind us that life is relational, that healing is relational, and that we belong to something far greater than our individual stories.

My deepest hope is that you do not simply visit the Sacred Valley, but enter into relationship with it.

That you experience the profound remembrance so many have found here.

A homecoming into a way that integrates ancient and future. .

And the realization that love, purpose, leadership, community, and legacy are not separate paths, but one coherent expression of who came here to be.

Love & Devotion,

Tara Tao

WHERE LOVE MEETS LEGACY

At certain stages of growth, the challenge is no longer a lack of information.

Your vision may already be clear.

Your gifts may already be developed.

Your path in love, family, leadership, and contribution may already be strong.

Love Meets Legacy is a vehicle for landing into a greater capacity and deeper coherence, not only with what we are creating, but with how we are creating it.

This is about how well, resourced, and supported we feel in the journey.

Through the unique design of Love Meets Legacy, each day is devoted to cultivating greater clarity, deeper self-love, embodied leadership, and an expanded sense of what is possible for your life, your relationships, and your God-led legacy.

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Munay Sonqo Retreat Center

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Our Promise of Generative Reciprocity

Every offering is rooted in reciprocity.

Your investment not only supports your own healing, growth, and transformation, it also circulates outward to nourish the communities, wisdom keepers, and living traditions that make experiences like Love Meets Legacy possible.

A portion of the proceeds from this gathering will be given directly to Q’ero lineage wisdom keepers, families, and children, as well as local community initiatives in the Sacred Valley that can benefit from Love Meets Legacy having taken place on this land.

Our intention is that this gathering creates value far beyond those in attendance, contributing to a larger cycle of reciprocity, stewardship, cultural preservation, and collective flourishing.

Frequently Asked Questions

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JOIN US IN PERU

The Center of Destiny Presents:

Love Meets Legacy

February 6 - February 14, 2027

8 Nights at Munay Sonqo Retreat Center