PACHAMAMA JOURNEYS

Step into the Amazon.
Learn from the people who call it home.

Pachamama Journeys invite you into a deeper relationship with the living world. Travel with purpose. Come home to a different way of seeing.

More than a trip. A different way of seeing the world.

Pachamama Journeys are immersive experiences into the Ecuadorian Amazon, created with and led by Indigenous communities who have stewarded the rainforest for generations.

Born out of an invitation from the Achuar people of Ecuador, each Journey is designed around deep cultural immersion, personal transformation, and travel that creates real, lasting benefit for the people and places you visit.

Whether you're seeking a first step into the Amazon or a deeper, slower immersion into ancestral wisdom, every Journey shares the same intention: to reconnect you with yourself, with nature, and with what it means to live in right relationship with the Earth.

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ARE YOU SEEKING...

A Deeper Connection to Place

You are curious to learn directly from Indigenous communities — their way of life, their knowledge, and their relationship with the forest. You approach new experiences with respect, openness, and humility.

ARE YOU SEEKING...

A Deeper Connection to Place

You are curious to learn directly from Indigenous communities — their way of life, their knowledge, and their relationship with the forest. You approach new experiences with respect, openness, and humility.

ARE YOU SEEKING...

A Deeper Connection to Place

You are curious to learn directly from Indigenous communities — their way of life, their knowledge, and their relationship with the forest. You approach new experiences with respect, openness, and humility.

ARE YOU SEEKING...

A Deeper Connection to Place

You are curious to learn directly from Indigenous communities — their way of life, their knowledge, and their relationship with the forest. You approach new experiences with respect, openness, and humility.

ARE YOU SEEKING...

A Deeper Connection to Place

You are curious to learn directly from Indigenous communities — their way of life, their knowledge, and their relationship with the forest. You approach new experiences with respect, openness, and humility.

A different way to travel

What if travel could change not only where you go, but how you see the world when you return?

Every Journey is designed to offer more than a destination. It brings together meaningful encounters, space for reflection, and a chance to participate in something larger than yourself.

Discover a Different Way of Life: A rare opportunity to go beyond simply visiting the Amazon and experience it through the knowledge, stories, and traditions of the Indigenous communities who have stewarded this living ecosystem for generations. Build meaningful relationships and gain a deeper understanding of the rainforest, its people, and the wisdom that sustains them.

Reconnect with Yourself: Step away from the pace and patterns of everyday life to reconnect with yourself, your wellbeing, and what matters most. Through experiences guided by skilled practitioners and time immersed in the natural world, create space for reflection, healing, and a shift in perspective that can stay with you long after you return home.

Create Positive Impact: Your Journey can be part of something bigger than your own experience. Your participation helps generate direct economic benefit for the Indigenous communities who steward the Amazon, while connecting you to a growing network of people committed to protecting this extraordinary place and creating a more regenerative future.

Themes

With nearly 30 years of partnership with Amazonian communities, Pachamama Journeys offer a rare opportunity to witness their work, support their vision for social and environmental stewardship, and become part of a global effort to protect the forest and its guardians.

THEME 1

Discovery

Discover The Amazon Rainforest: Explore Ecuador’s largest area of remote Amazon territory alongside the Achuar Indigenous people and guardians of the rainforest.

THEME 2

Immersion

Journey to The Source: Our deepest Amazonian immersion, learning from the ancestral wisdom, traditions and ceremonies of the Achuar and Sápara Indigenous cultures.

THEME 3

Family Travel

Make memories that last a lifetime—and discover a new way of seeing the world together, learning from the rainforest and the Achuar people who call it home.

2027 Journeys

Journeys you'll remember for a lifetime.

Pachamama Journeys are more than travel—they're invitations to immerse yourself in Indigenous culture, learn from ancestral knowledge, reconnect with nature, and find space for personal reflection and inspiration.

Participants embark on a transformative experience into the heart of the Amazon rainforest—one of the most biodiverse places on Earthrooted in relationship with the Indigenous communities who call it home.

More than a trip, it is a path of purpose, where authentic connection fosters new ways of understanding our relationship with the Earth and supports the preservation of some of the planet’s most vital ecosystems and cultures. 

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“The Journey was absolutely amazing—transformative in a cellular sense for which I am profoundly grateful. My sense of connection, and interconnection with our Earth, has been multiplied, deepened, expanded.”

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“This Journey was about rediscovering purpose, passion, and possibility in everyday life. I am re-inspired and recommitted to making a difference, and profoundly aware of how we are all connected in ways we cannot imagine.”

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Ready to Take the Next Step?

Every meaningful change begins somewhere. Creating a thriving future for Earth doesn't happen through any one project or organization. It happens when people develop the capacity to act—and help others do the same.

Catalyst can help turn what you care about into something you can do, with others, where you are. The call to protect what protects us doesn't belong to a few people. It belongs to all of us.

Whether there’s already a project in mind or simply a desire to do more, Catalyst can help identify the right path forward.

Learn through action. Lead through relationships. Create a future where all life can flourish.

Tell us a bit about yourself, and we'll send you full details on the training—including how to apply, enroll, and join an upcoming info session.