Safe and Traditional
Ayahuasca Retreats
in the Peruvian Amazon
Ayahuasca Retreats
at The Temple of the Way of Light
The Temple of the Way of Light is a traditional plant-medicine shamanic healing center located in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest that offers intensive ayahuasca retreats with female and male Shipibo healers.
Ancient Medicine in a Modern World
We are dedicated to providing our guests with the opportunity to benefit from the ancient healing wisdom of the Shipibo people, and to helping this unique culture preserve its knowledge and identity in the 21st Century.
"After coming to the Peruvian Amazon for close to thirty years, I have never really seen a project or center quite like this"
Ayahuasca Retreats
at The Temple of the Way of Light
An ayahuasca retreat at The Temple offers our guests an opportunity to experience deep healing that reaches into the energetic roots of trauma, imbalance and disorder, as well as initiates a long-term journey of self-reflection, self-discovery, and spiritual transformation.
More about our Ayahuasca RetreatsIntegration Program and Online Community Space
Our Integration Program and Community Space cover the most critical aspects of ayahuasca integration and support you to maximize the opportunity for ongoing healing, self-transformation, and spiritual awakening. We offer you an integration roadmap, guidance, and an inspiring community space following a retreat at the Temple.
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Respecting Traditional Shipibo Plant-Spirit Healing Traditions
The foundation of our ayahuasca retreats is working exclusively with genuine advanced-level healers from the Shipibo-Conibo tradition. This vastly sophisticated, plant-spirit-based ethnomedical healthcare system draws on an ancient lineage of wisdom keepers who have mastered the safe and respectful use of plant medicines over hundreds, possibly thousands of years.
Why is it Important to Respect Tradition?Creating a Safe & Sacred Space to Heal since 2007
As one of the longest-running ayahuasca retreat centers in the Amazon, the Temple is well-known for providing a caring, highly professional, and supportive setting. Our priority is creating a safe, sacred space for our guests to heal and transform. This standard of care and the quality of healing we provide is unparalleled in the ayahuasca scene.
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Video Reviews
- “For those called to work with the plant, this is the place to do it, right at the source. No secondary reflection of it elsewhere can possibly match the authentic nature of the experience offered here at the Temple.”- Dr. Gabor Maté
- With deep care for our guests and overwhelming respect for the sophisticated Shipibo healing traditions, we offer traditional ayahuasca healing guided by authentic, highly trained shamanic healers - the true experts in 'psychedelic' healing.- Travis H
Our Healers
Experienced and compassionate healers dedicated to sharing their rich and complex medical tradition
José Lopéz Sanchez
Curandero
Laura Lopez Sanchez
Curandera
Teresa Rojas Toesta
Curandera
Jorge Vasquez Barbaran
Curandero
Luisa Sanchez Catalina
Curandera
Edith Burga Ochavano
Curandera
“I had the most profound five days as I can identify at this point of any time in my life.”
Traditional Shipibo Plant
Spirit Shamanism
An ancient yet pioneering path to health and wholeness
We work with some of the most respected and powerful healers (Onanyabo) from the Shipibo tribe. They are highly experienced, gentle, caring, and deeply dedicated to healing and embodying the wisdom and sincerity of their people. The healing traditions of the Shipibo people offer an ancient path to well-being, re-discovering our true nature and re-awakening to our true purpose.
We honor ancient practices
We deeply respect and honor the ancient practices of the Shipibo-Conibo Onanyabo, masters of ayahuasca healing and plant-spirit shamanism of the Amazon. They bring a rich cultural and medicinal legacy to the healing process: time-honored rituals, intricate practices, an expansive cosmology, an encyclopedic knowledge of medicinal plants of the Amazon, and a far-reaching ancestral lineage.
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Our work is not based on religion, concept, or belief. It stems from direct experience of spiritual dimensions and a wisdom tradition that has evolved over countless generations.
We are at the source of ayahuasca - the Amazon Rainforest
The Temple is blessed to be located in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, the birthplace and source of the medicine.
More about Ayahuasca Retreats in Peru
Coming to an ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon, being supported by the energies, elements, forces, and spirits of the jungle, and guided by the indigenous wisdom keepers of these powerful ethno-medical traditions, is the most effective and deepest way to work with ayahuasca.
We are deeply committed to your healing
The foundation of the Temple’s work is facilitating profound healing in a safe, compassionate, and supportive setting.
More about Shadow Work and Ayahuasca Healing
We work only with highly trained Shipibo healers and experienced western facilitators. The cornerstones of our ayahuasca retreats in Peru are deep shadow work and soul integration providing powerful shamanic healing on all levels: physical, emotional, psychological, psychic, energetic, and spiritual.
“This place is a beacon of true healing and service to people, and of total integrity”
Why Us
Setting and Safety
Your safety is our priority: comprehensive screening and support for a safe ayahuasca healing experience
The safety of our guests is paramount. We are constantly working to offer the safest container and most effective ayahuasca healing experience in the Amazon. We have developed the most stringent health and safety protocols available on any ayahuasca retreats in Peru. The Temple’s 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, both in and out of ceremony.
More about Setting & SafetyReciprocity in the Amazon
Honoring the critical importance of reciprocity, since 2010 we have been actively supporting people and communities of the Amazon
According to indigenous Amazonian wisdom, sharing is the key to maintaining a healthy, balanced life for all. Native people consider protection and preservation of the rainforest sacred duties. Yet, with the ever increasing popularity of ayahuasca shamanism, we are concerned that the spirit of sharing and protection is being lost. We promote and foster ways to honor and work in reciprocity with the world’s most bio-diverse ecosystem, its people and their traditions.
More about Reciprocity to the AmazonCompassionate Environment
A supportive, safe and deeply caring environment to experience ayahuasca and Amazonian plant spirit healing
The Temple was founded on the philosophy that an atmosphere of genuine care and compassion provides the optimum conditions for healing. Over many years, we have become well known for the sensitive style of our facilitation and the level of support offered to guests by our entire team. A compassionate healing environment is a sometimes overlooked component of what constitutes safety. The non-judgmental setting we provide allows guests to be vulnerable and open, both necessary states for deep healing, while undergoing your ayahuasca experience.
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“I’m blown away by the love, care and kindness. The Temple is a magical place”
Medical Research
Scientifically Validated Healing Outcomes
Between 2015 and 2019, a long-term, observational research study took place at the Temple, conducted by ICEERS and the Beckley Foundation. The study is unprecedented and the results demonstrate that ayahuasca healing at the Temple provides highly significant improvements in long term well-being and quality of life, as well as in anxiety, depression, grief, and PTSD.
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