Pacha Inti
Foundation for the Preservation of Indigenous Culture and Wisdom
Honoring the Ancient
to Illuminate Tomorrow
The Pacha Inti Foundation preserves living indigenous wisdom traditions including languages, ecological knowledge, ceremonies, and arts so future generations inherit a world rich with ancestral understanding.
We are entering a new age. Something ancient is stirring… a rebirth of consciousness, a collective turning toward depth, meaning, and the sacred. People everywhere are awakening to the understanding that the answers they have been searching for cannot be found in the direction the modern world has been moving. They must be found by turning back toward what has always been true.
For thousands of years, indigenous peoples have tended that truth. They have kept alive the ceremonies, the healing knowledge, the cosmologies and ways of living that hold human beings in right relationship with each other, with the earth, and with the sacred. This wisdom was never lost. It was protected, often at great personal cost, by communities who refused to let the fire go out even when the world pressured them to abandon it.
Pacha Inti Foundation exists to honor that devotion. We support and protect the spiritual traditions of indigenous cultures so that the transmission continues… from elder to apprentice, from ancestor to descendant, from ancient knowing to contemporary need.
Supporting this work is an act of gratitude. It is a recognition that indigenous wisdom keepers have been holding something precious on behalf of all of humanity, and that they deserve our reverence, our resources, and our solidarity in return.
I invite you to stand with us.
In reverence,
David Sunshine
Executive Director of Pachi Inti
Four Pillars of Sacred Work
We believe ancient wisdom is a living transmission. Our work creates the conditions for that transmission to flow unbroken, and for its healing gifts to reach those who need them most.
Our desire is to support indigenous culture and wisdom.
Pacha Inti Foundation exists to protect and perpetuate the sacred spiritual traditions of indigenous cultures, honoring the elders, ceremonies, communities, and living relationships through which ancient wisdom is transmitted from one generation to the next.
We believe the modern world’s deepest crises of disconnection, despair, and spiritual rootlessness which cannot be healed without the profound gifts that indigenous cosmologies, healing arts, and ceremonial life have carried across millennia. Our work creates the conditions for that transmission to flow freely, on its own terms, guided always by the communities who hold it.
We serve as a bridge between ancestral wisdom and contemporary need, so that the healing humanity is searching for can be received with integrity, reverence, and gratitude.
Ceremony and Ritual
Supporting the living transmission of sacred ceremonies, rites of passage, seasonal practices, and healing rituals — ensuring these acts of collective devotion continue to be led by those initiated to carry them.
Cosmology & Spiritual Teachings
Honoring the profound cosmological frameworks — creation stories, star knowledge, spiritual philosophies — that indigenous traditions offer as maps of consciousness, meaning, and our place within the living whole.
Plant Medicine and Healing
Preserving millennia of plant-based healing knowledge held by curanderos, herbalists, and medicine people — protecting both the sacred relationships between healers and plants, and the ethical integrity of their use.
Wisdom for Modern Transformation
Bridging ancestral insight and contemporary need — supporting elders and practitioners in sharing their teachings with a world in search of grounded, compassionate, and deeply rooted ways of healing and belonging.
Help Tend the Sacred Fire
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The healing the modern world is searching for has been held across millennia in ceremony, in relationship with the land, and in the living wisdom of indigenous elders and communities. Pacha Inti Foundation exists to protect that transmission so it can flow freely, on its own terms, to those who need it most.
We maintain a Charity Navigator 4-Star rating and full GuideStar Platinum transparency. Our EIN is 83-1247690. Annual reports and Form 990 are available on our website.
Sacred Medicine
We are living at a remarkable moment. The old structures are giving way and a collective awakening is underway. People everywhere are feeling the call to remember something deeper, a truer relationship with themselves, with one another, and with the living earth beneath their feet. The answers humanity is searching for will not be found by moving further into the direction the modern world has been heading. They will be found by turning toward what has always been true.
Indigenous wisdom has never stopped being true. For thousands of years, across every continent and culture, indigenous peoples have tended the sacred fire of their traditions: the ceremonies, the healing knowledge, the cosmologies, the ways of living that hold human beings in right relationship with the earth and with the divine. This wisdom was not lost. It was protected, often at tremendous cost, by communities who refused to let it die even as the forces of colonization pressed hard against them.
What they protected is medicine. Not metaphorically, but literally. The healing arts, the plant knowledge, the ceremonial practices, the spiritual teachings carried within indigenous traditions are among the most sophisticated and effective systems of human healing ever developed. They address not just the body but the soul. Not just the individual but the community. Not just the present moment but the long arc of ancestral time.
Rooted in relationship and shaped by community, Pacha Inti Foundation exists to protect the conditions in which this transmission can continue. We honor the elders who carry it. We sustain the ceremonies through which it is practiced. We support the communities in which it lives and breathes. And we serve as a bridge between ancient knowing and contemporary need, so that the healing the modern world is so desperately searching for can be received with the integrity, reverence, and gratitude it deserves.
This is sacred work. It belongs to all of us.
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