About Luis
Luis Rietti is the founder and executive director of The Open Sun Foundation. He was born and raised in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in a culture that prized family and community but left little room for the inner life he most cared about. From his earliest memory he carried a paradox — shy and uncertain on the outside, yet drawn toward a direct, unmediated relationship with God. He prayed, pored over scripture, and longed for a Presence the surrounding world had no language for.
He moved to the United States as a young man to study business and built a long career in investment finance. The outer life flourished. The inner one quieted. By his thirties, the success that had once seemed to promise everything began to feel like a kind of forgetting.
In 2016, what began as a meditation practice to ease stress opened, unexpectedly, into something far larger. Over the following years Luis encountered teachings and experiences that reorganized everything he believed about consciousness, the self, and the nature of reality — including a sustained awakening intense enough that it took several years of patient integration to ground. He immersed himself in the wisdom traditions that helped him make sense of what he was living through, among them the Law of One, Jungian psychology, Vedic and Yogic wisdom, Kabbalah, Christian mysticism, ThetaHealing, and Internal Family Systems.
What emerged was not a new identity but a clearer one — and a calling. In late 2025, Luis stepped away from his business career to give himself fully to service. The Open Sun Foundation was the form that calling took.
Today he offers individual sessions that combine spiritual counsel with meditative reading and the facilitation of healing and energetic balancing. He develops educational content and is completing his first book, Disarming the Mind: A Guide to Liberation from Mental Suffering, which synthesizes the traditions above into an original framework for understanding the architecture of mind, the nature of mental suffering, and the paths by which it can be brought to peace. His approach is universal and non-dogmatic: drawing from many sources, beholden to none, and centered on helping people reconnect with the wisdom that was always their own.
He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.
About The Open Sun Foundation
The Open Sun Foundation, Inc. was formed in October 2025 and is recognized as a non-profit charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is registered in the State of Texas, with its principal office in Austin.
The foundation's formal mission, as filed in its bylaws, is to promote personal and collective well-being through education in mindfulness, holistic health, and spiritual development. In plainer language: to make sustained spiritual work accessible — and to help people meet themselves more honestly, suffer less unnecessarily, and find their own way forward.
What the foundation does
The foundation's programmatic work is organized around five areas, with current activity concentrated in the first three.
Individual sessions and mentoring. One-to-one work with clients navigating significant life transitions or deepening an established spiritual practice. Sessions are offered on a sliding scale, with subsidies available through donor support for those in financial hardship. These sessions are educational and spiritual in nature and are not a substitute for medical or psychological care.
Educational programs and retreats. Online and in-person offerings — including longer-form programs, group teachings, and eventual residential retreats — that make this work accessible to those for whom one-to-one sessions are not the right fit.
Publications and written work. Books, guides, and digital materials that carry the teachings beyond the session room. The foundation's first publication, Disarming the Mind: A Guide to Liberation from Mental Suffering, is currently in preparation. Proceeds from publication sales return to the foundation's programs.
Training and engagement of additional teachers. Over time, the foundation plans to engage qualified practitioners to expand the work beyond a single teacher's capacity — initially as contractors, eventually as staff, and where appropriate through an internal training process.
Community partnerships. Collaborations with other non-profits, educational institutions, and community organizations to extend access to those who would not otherwise encounter this work.
Governance. The foundation operates under bylaws and is governed by a board of directors that meets at least annually.
Where things stand
The foundation is in its first chapter. The current work — individual sessions, the book in preparation, the foundation's early structure — is the beginning of a longer arc. The vision over the coming years includes expanded programs, group retreats, additional teachers, accessible educational content, and eventually a dedicated space for teaching and community. Each step depends on the support of those who find the work valuable: clients, readers, donors, and collaborators.