Túpaq Ttito Kuntur was born in Pomaqanchi, Peru. His journey in Andean medicine began as a child under the guidance of his grandfather and parents who worked with plant medicines as pampamisayoqs.

Túpaq has experienced many of the classic initiations for becoming a medicine person. He has been struck by lightning twice (as a child and an adult) and then as a teenager, he lost his grandfather and his father tragically soon. Sick with an incurable, mysterious illness, he left home to learn how to heal himself, and initiated his path as a paqo, first becoming a Pampamisayoq and then after many years of personal tests and training the Apus (the mountain spirits) gave him the Celestial Misha of High Misayoq, or Altomisayoq (Achiq Akulleq paqo).

In addition to being in service as High Misayoq, he has been called to become Willaq Uma a messenger and prophet of the ancestors and the spiritual cosmos, to continue with the prophecy that his Inka ancestors left, to gather and restore the spiritual power of the Tawantinsuyu of the Inkas, along with his brothers chosen for these times according to the Pachakutiq and the Inka prophecy.

Amy Maiima Nicholson integrates more than twenty years of experience and training in integrative mental health, bridging somatic therapies with Andean indigenous traditions of the Paqos. In her work with clients, Amy specializes in attachment disorders and complex trauma, offering somatic and transpersonal psychotherapy, nervous system coaching, spiritual mentoring, shamanic sound healing, and psychedelic integration. She also teaches somatic skills for mental wellness, facilitates spiritual embodiment retreats, and guides annual pilgrimages to Peru.

Amy's introduction to indigenous cosmologies began during her ethnobotanical studies at The Evergreen State College. She then embarked on a decade of intensive study with North and South American shamanic teachers. In 2007, she traveled to Peru and received her first initiation from the Q’ero elders. In 2009, she led her first group to Peru to work with the paqos, through Madison College, where she taught in the Center for International Education. In 2011, she met her mentor, Altomisayoq Paqo Túpaq Ttito Kuntur. This collaborative teaching and learning relationship has evolved to Amy and Túpaq co-leading annual pilgrimages in the high Andes, facilitating learning retreats in Wisconsin and North Carolina, as well as hosting community events in partnership University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Counselor Education Department, and Madison College, Center for International Education. In 2020, they co-founded Ayni Munay Ayllu, an online school offering donation-based classes, while directly supporting the impoverished elders, and children in Pomacanchi, Peru.