Elizabeth B. Jenkins

Elizabeth B. Jenkins is an American author and teacher of the Inka Nature Wisdom tradition held by the Q'ero people of the Peruvian Andes. A spiritual experience in Peru in 1989 set the direction of her life; she went on to study the Andean path, including with the anthropologist Juan Núñez del Prado, while working for twenty years as a licensed marriage and family therapist. She began guiding individuals and small groups in 1992 and, after her book The Return of the Inka (first published as Initiation) appeared in 1997, taught widely in Europe and beyond.

She founded the Wiraqocha Foundation, now Nature Wisdom House, in 1996 to support the Q'ero and share their lineage, and in 2021 co-founded the Global Paqo School, an online programme in which Q'ero elders teach students directly through translation. Her teaching centres on reciprocity with nature: invocations and offerings to the nature beings, the Andean energy body and the move from fear towards personal responsibility. She also leads expeditions to Peru and teaches on The Shift Network. Her other books are Journey to Q'eros and The Fourth Level. She lives on an organic farm on Hawai'i Island.