Internal Arts & Mountain Training Ecuador
This is where condors circle and history lies beneath your feet. Here, on paths over 10,000 years old, in a landscape that challenges your body while touching your soul at its deepest level.
This is not spiritual tourism. This is transformation through fire.
Training on the Paths of the Ancestors
My routes follow the historic Qhapaq Ñan network – a living UNESCO World Heritage site. Before the Incas, the Cañaris walked here, and before them others whose names are forgotten but whose traces remain palpable in every step.
These aren't museum ruins. This is lived history where every trail has been passed down generation to generation, refined, loved. When you train on these routes, you become part of a continuous movement through time and space.
Your Day in the Rhythm of the Mountains
Zhang Zhuang standing meditation among the sacred lagoons while mist lifts from ancient peaks. Holistic Calisthenics that help your body remember its original wisdom. Mountain training on paths where generations before you sought their own transformation.
From 2,350 to 4,200 meters: Cerro Mauta as base camp, páramo highlands where condors fly, cloud forests that challenge your coordination, summit challenges that open the heart.
The elements are your training partners. They give you exactly what you're ready to receive – no more, but also no less.
Real Life, No Bubble
You train in the heart of authentic Andean community life. Here, where people have lived the rhythm of the mountains for generations – unforced, real.
Morning you might see a woman in traditional dress leading sheep to pasture while her grandchild plays with a smartphone. Evening you hear church bells mixed with wind in eucalyptus trees. This is the context for your transformation.
Programs
Intensive (7 Days)
Framework introduction, first transformation. You leave with tools that translate directly into your daily life.
Transformation (14 Days)
Cultural immersion, sustainable change. Deep enough to shift patterns that have held you back for years.
Deep Dive (21+ Days)
Living with the community, complete integration. For those ready to let go of everything that keeps them small.
What You Bring
Readiness for daily 5-20km mountain walking. Emotional stability. Real willingness to work. Maximum 4 participants – this isn't a workshop, it's transformation.
Your body cannot lie at this altitude. In the thin air, every weakness shows immediately. Every strength becomes clear. What works here at 2,350 meters works in your life.
Not Suitable If
You're seeking vacation and relaxation. You avoid physical exertion. You're not ready to question familiar patterns about yourself.
This is intensive development for those ready to do the work.
The First Step
We discuss details and investment individually, depending on duration and your specific needs. Included are daily training, traditional accommodation, locally-sourced meals, and transportation to all training sites.
1-2 months preparation time has proven effective. Training happens in German, English, or Spanish – whatever serves you best.
Every program begins with an extensive conversation. I want to understand your goals, background, and readiness. You need to know exactly what you're committing to.
This transformation doesn't happen through me. It emerges through you, through the mountains, through the millennia-old wisdom stored in this landscape.
I create the framework and hold the space – like riverbanks that enable water to find its way.
Why It Works
Thirty years of Internal Arts laid the foundation. Twelve years in Ecuador have shown what actually works under extreme conditions. This isn't theory from books but what has passed the test of reality.
The integration of ancestral wisdom with lived experience, connection to places like Tres Lagunas at 3,500 meters altitude – all this forms a framework where genuine change becomes possible.
Ready?
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step..."
The path is open. If something guided you here, trust that.