Juan Ruiz Naupari is the founder and International Director of Pneuma Institute which has its international headquarters located in Mount Shasta, California, U.S. and various delegations throughout the three Americas, Europe and India.

Juan Ruiz Naupari is the creator of Pneuma Transpersonal Training & Pneuma Breathwork, a new and complete perspective of transpersonal psychology. It is based on the comparative study of the wisdom from the ancient spiritual and philosophical traditions, as well as the expansion of consciousness through the practice of Pneuma Breathwork. His research is applied to the field of psychotherapy with a focus on the psychological and spiritual progression of the human being.

Juan Ruiz Naupari participates in conferences, gives lectures and supports the inner process of his students internationally. Currently he offers both online and classroom training in different countries. This training is endorsed by the European Transpersonal Psychology Association (ETPA), by Gaden Shartse Tibetan Monastic University in India and by the Romanian Association of Psychologists.

In 2004, Juan Ruiz Naupari organized the visit of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to Puerto Rico and sponsored the Buddha Maitreya Initiation given by His Holiness for the first time in India in 2011. Since 1992 he has developed two solidarity projects: The Buddha Maitreya Project, a program focused on the reconstruction of the Gaden Shartse Monastery and education of its monks and the Inkarri Project, created for the conservation of the values of the Great Q’ero Nation of Peru.

He is currently coordinating, together with Gaden Shartse Monastery, the commemoration of the 600 years of the ascension to Parinirvana of the Great Lama Tsongkhapa, creator of the Geluk lineage. It will be celebrated in India in December 2019 with the support of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

All his work is inspired by the Archetype-Master of the Golden Eagle.