Ayahuasca Retreats
at The Temple

  • Living in Alignment: Ayahuasca Healing Retreat

    The backbone of our work and regular retreat offering, providing an immersion in traditional Shipibo plant-spirit healing complemented with yoga classes, individual and group support, and powerful methods of self-inquiry.

  • Ayahuasca Healing Retreat + 5-Day Integration Retreat

    NEW OFFERING – a 12-Day ‘Living in Alignment’ Ayahuasca Healing Retreat with the opportunity to stay on at the Temple for a 5-day Integration Extension Retreat. Available in April, July, and October 2024.

  • Women’s Ayahuasca Healing Retreat

    For this retreat we will be working exclusively with female facilitators and female support staff. There is something very special that happens when a group of women come together to heal! To be held from April 16th to 27th, 2024 and November 26th to December 7th, 2024.

  • Queer Ayahuasca Retreat

    This special queer retreat will provide a safe, welcoming, and caring environment where participants can feel comfortable being who they are. Shipibo healing will be complemented with Compassionate Inquiry sessions. To be held from October 25th to November 5th, 2024.

  • Residency Program

    The Temple’s Residency Program is an opportunity for previous Temple guests who are looking to continue their healing work with ayahuasca, would like to spend a longer period of time at the Temple, and have a strong calling to be in service and support our mission

  • Traditional Plant Dietas at Shipibo Rao

    We are honored to support Maestro José Lopéz Sanchez and his healing center Shipibo Rao, located near Pucallpa, in the Ucayali region. The next level in deep healing, plant-spirit dietas are only available, and safe, for people with prior experience with ayahuasca.

Temple of the Way of Light

Why Our Ayahuasca Retreats

  • Female and Male Shipibo Healers

    All ayahuasca retreats at the Temple are led by four Shipibo healers (two female and two male) who are supported by a female herbalist, three westerner facilitators, and a large staff of over 50 local people. Our Shipibo healers are masters of ayahuasca healing who safely, responsibly and expertly guide our guests' experiences throughout each retreat.

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  • Safe Ayahuasca Retreats

    The safety of our guests is paramount. We offer the safest ayahuasca healing experience in the Amazon. We have developed the most stringent health and safety protocols available on any ayahuasca retreat in Peru. Our commitment to guests begins with in-depth medical and psychological screening during our booking procedure and continues after the retreat through our integration support. Guiding you safely through deep personal healing and growth is our priority.

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  • Preparation

    All guests are sent a guidebook with extensive advice on how best to prepare for ayahuasca retreats at the Temple. We also offer one on one preparation sessions with one of our integration specialists. Due to the non-linear nature of plant-spirit healing, your healing process actually begins the moment you commit to coming to the Temple.

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  • Facilities and Accommodation

    We are located in an extraordinarily beautiful jungle setting, two hours from Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon. All guest accommodation is in comfortable private bungalows spread throughout our extensive grounds, surrounded by medicinal plants, trees, ayahuasca vines, native flowers, and ornamentals, as well as permaculture projects, fish farms, demonstration agroforestry plots, and our own food production sites.

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  • Integration

    The medicine does not stop working when the ceremony ends or when the retreat is over. Ayahuasca initiates an ongoing process of healing and increasing awareness that rises over time, often taking months or years. The goal of integration is to maximize that healing process.

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  • FAQs

    It is very common to have many questions before deciding to come to our ayahuasca retreats. Here we answer to the most frequent questions that people usually asks us. If you can’t find yours, please contact us.

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Ayahuasca Retreats Peru - Safe and Traditional Ayahuasca Healing

“This is the highest standard for deep Shipibo, amazonian indigenous ayahuasca healing retreats”

Gabriel Amezcua

Getting to The Temple

The Temple of the Way of Light is located in the Amazon basin, in the Loreto region of Peru, a few hours journey by bus, boat, and hike from the city of Iquitos.
How to get here

Getting Here

The Temple of the Way of Light is located in the Amazon basin, in the Loreto region of Peru, a few hours journey by bus, boat, and hike from the city of Iquitos.
In order to come to the Temple you would need to fly into Iquitos International Airport in Iquitos, Peru. All flights to Iquitos are via Lima, Peru. We recommend booking your flights for one day before and after the start and end date of your retreat to first allow yourself time to acclimatize to the environment and then allow yourself ample travel time and time to reintegrate into the “mainstream” world once the retreat has ended.

**Please do not book flights or make any travel arrangements until your registration and medical information has been reviewed and you have been approved to attend a retreat.**

Each retreat group will be picked up on the first morning of the retreat at a designated pickup location in central Iquitos by one of our staff members and then travel to the Temple together from there. The group will be brought back into Iquitos after breakfast on the last morning of the retreat and will arrive in town by early afternoon (usually 2pm at the latest).

The price of a Temple retreat includes transportation from the group pickup place in Iquitos to the Temple on the first morning of the retreat and transportation back to Iquitos on the last morning of the retreat. The price does not include any flights, hotel costs, or transportation to the group pickup on the first morning
By Dates
By Program
  • 12 Days
    6 Ceremonies
    |
    $ 3,900

    Living in Alignment: Ayahuasca Healing Retreat

    The backbone of our work and regular retreat offering, providing an immersion in traditional Shipibo plant-spirit healing complemented with yoga classes, individual and group support, and powerful methods of self-inquiry.
  • 12 Days + 5 Days
    6 Ceremonies
    |
    $ 5,100

    Ayahuasca Healing Retreat + 5-Day Integration Retreat

    NEW OFFERING – a 12-Day ‘Living in Alignment’ Ayahuasca Healing Retreat with the opportunity to stay on at the Temple for a 5-day Integration Extension Retreat. Available in April, July, and October 2024.
  • 12 Days
    6 Ceremonies
    |
    $ 3,900

    Women’s Ayahuasca Healing Retreat

    For this retreat we will be working exclusively with female facilitators and female support staff. There is something very special that happens when a group of women come together to heal! To be held from April 16th to 27th, 2024 and November 26th to December 7th, 2024.
  • 12 Days
    6 Ceremonies
    |
    $ 3,900

    Queer Ayahuasca Retreat

    This special queer retreat will provide a safe, welcoming, and caring environment where participants can feel comfortable being who they are. Shipibo healing will be complemented with Compassionate Inquiry sessions. To be held from October 25th to November 5th, 2024.
  • 14 Days
    5 Ceremonies
    |
    $ 2,000

    Traditional Plant Dietas at Shipibo Rao

    We are honored to support Maestro Jose Lopez Sanchez and his healing center, Shipibo Rao. Maestro Jose runs 14-day dietas working in the Shipibo tradition.
    Visit Shipiborao's website to book
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