Hola, I’m Rossanita.
I was born in Lima, Peru, and raised by my grandmother on the old ways and prayer. At nine, New York. I got the career, the title, the promotion, and I learned to be the one who was always fine.
In my early twenties, I fell into the darkest stretch of my life. It lasted four years. I asked for help, and some of it worked for a while. None of it reached the root.
Then, one Sunday afternoon, a tree told me to go outside. I know how that sounds. It was the first thing I’d felt in four years, and it set me on the road back to Peru, into the Sacred Valley.
For more than thirteen years now, I’ve trained with Shipibo elders and sat in ceremony with Q’ero and Quechua wisdom keepers. What finally reached the root for me was sound. A slow voice. Live instruments. Ceremony at night. Today, thousands of people come to my retreats in the Sacred Valley, and the meditations are the most powerful part of what they experience.
I don’t write these meditations. I receive them, from this land, the way I was taught. I recorded them over real ceremonies, with the elders’ blessing, so that anyone, anywhere, can receive the same signal from their own bed.
The first night only asks you to stop. I made this for the woman I was.
Rossanita