Programs and courses rooted in living indigenous traditions — taught with, and led by, the communities whose knowledge they carry.
See upcoming programsFor the Awajún, Asháninka, Matsigenka, and Quechua peoples, knowledge is not stored in books. It is carried in language, ceremony, plant relationships, weaving, agriculture, song, and the day-to-day rhythms of communal life.
Ayni's education programs are pathways into that knowledge — taught in partnership with elders and knowledge-keepers, in formats designed to honour how the teaching is meant to move. Not extraction. Transmission with consent, in reciprocity.
Multi-day learning held on community territory in Peru, with elders and practitioners as teachers. Small numbers, set dates, opened in alignment with seasonal and ceremonial cycles.
Self-paced online programs co-created with community teachers — accessible from anywhere, structured around video, audio, written material, and live monthly circle calls.
A starter set — the programs we offer today, with more in development. Each one is co-created with the communities whose knowledge it carries.
An eight-week journey through the Andean cosmovision — Ayni, Yanantin & Masintin, Minka, Ayllu, Sumaq Kawsay — guided by Quechua and Andean teachers. Weekly video lessons, written material, and live monthly group circles.
Ten days in the VRAEM region with Asháninka and Matsigenka teachers — learning the agroforestry, ceremonial, and ecological knowledge that holds native cacao genetics inside a living forest.
A six-week online course on plant relationship in the Andean and Amazonian traditions — coca, cacao, ayahuasca, the household chacra. Taught with knowledge-keepers; foundational, not advanced; reverent, not exotic.
Five days with Quechua weaving collectives in the Sacred Valley — pattern, plant dye, story, and the cosmological grammar inside the textiles. Hands-on; accommodation and meals on community land.
Every program is co-designed with elders, knowledge-keepers, and community leaders from the host nation. Their names, their voices, and their authority sit at the centre of the work. Ayni is a bridge, never an interpreter who replaces the source.
Tell us which program speaks to you and where you are in your own work. We respond personally — not with automated pipelines.