Ayahuasca is a powerful medicine that Amazonian traditions have known how to serve safely for centuries. What follows is not a list of features. It is the work of honoring tradition and building a container strong enough to hold what the tradition asks of us – and of you.
Every applicant goes through comprehensive medical and psychological screening. We review your full health history, medications, and mental health background. Not everyone can drink ayahuasca - it's important we care for your well-being.
Running ayahuasca retreats in the Amazon since 2007 has taught us what to prepare for. Our safety record speaks to the standard of care we insist on. This is serious work and you are held with deep care at every point in the process.
Our facilitators walk this path themselves - many for decades - and are an essential bridge between the Shipibo healers and guests. With unwavering serviceTemple facilitators are widely regarded as the best in the ayahuasca scene.
Every ceremony takes place in our maloka, open to the sounds of the rainforest. Four Onanyabo sing ikaros throughout - the heart of Shipibo healing. Supported by three facilitators. Each guest, each ceremony, healed, held and guided, the way the tradition asks.
We provide detailed guidance to every guest before they travel - diet, intentions, practices, what to expect. Each group meets online together with a Temple facilitator two weeks beforehand, and individual preparation sessions are available. Arriving prepared is part of arriving well.
An in-depth 3-month integration program is included for every guest, and an online global community of Temple alumni. What happens after the retreat matters as much as what happens during it. The healing is a catalyst; the responsibility for tending it now passes to you.
A maloka cradled by medicinal plants, trees, ayahuasca vines, and native flowers.
Twenty-four private tambos are spread across three hectares of Temple grounds - traditional jungle bungalows hand-crafted from local wood, screened with mosquito netting, and open to the sounds and rhythms of the forest.
Each tambo is a private sanctuary: a bed, a hammock, a desk, a chair, a sink, a shower, and a flushing toilet. Simple, rustic, and genuinely comfortable – everything you need and nothing you don’t.
At night, the tambos are lit by gas lamps. No electricity. No wifi. Just the forest, alive around you in the dark – crickets, frogs, nightbirds. A rare and genuine opportunity to unplug, to slow down, and to remember what it feels like to be part of the natural world.
Don’t come looking for a holiday. Do come looking for deep healing.
All healers at the Temple have undergone decades of extended master plant dietas, the heart of Shipibo shamanic apprenticeship. The full healing team carries over 200 years of combined experience.
Four Shipibo Onanyabo - two female and two male - run every ceremony. They provide traditional healing treatments during the day, with support from a herbalist.
One healer for every six guests to ensure each guest receives deep work. Tradition limits healers to eight patients per night.
This is not performance. This is healing.
The 8-day carries its own complete, coherent arc - a diagnostic opening, two deep healing ceremonies, and a closing Arkana to seal and protect the work. Each stage is deliberate. Nothing is truncated.
| 8-Day Retreat — Stepping into Alignment | 12-Day Retreat — Living in Alignment |
|---|---|
| 4 ayahuasca ceremonies | 6 ayahuasca ceremonies |
| Complete 8-day healing arc | Full 12-day healing arc |
| 6 days of traditional healing treatments | Full program of traditional healing treatments |
| 1 traditional fasting and integration day | 3 traditional fasting and integration days |
| Arkana on Day 6 (Ceremony 4) | Arkana closing ceremony |
| Medicinal plant walk | Permaculture walk, medicinal plant walk, Shipibo market & village visit |
| 1 integration workshop | 2 integration workshops |
| 7-night stay at the Temple | 11-night stay at the Temple |
| $2,960 USD | $4,440 USD |
97% of participants reported persistent benefits immediately after retreat
93.5% still reporting benefits at one year
91.7% reported lasting improvements in mental health, spiritual wellbeing, and personal growth at one year
One of the most significant findings across all three studies was a new relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions – the capacity to observe them without being overwhelmed by them. This remained strong at twelve months – and is one of the deepest changes traditional Shipibo healing can bring.
A structured path for carrying what you received in the Amazon back into your daily life, your relationships, and to support who you are in the world.
Recorded video teachings, somatic practices, masterclasses, and integration sessions led by our most experienced facilitators – available to draw on whenever you need them.
Weekly practices and reflective exercises to keep you grounded, focused, and committed to your intentions.
A facilitated space to gather with other Temple guests walking the same path – to share what is emerging, to ask the questions that arise long after the retreat ends.
A worldwide community of Temple alumni and facilitators, held in a private space – somewhere to belong away from the noise of modern life.
For deeper support, our team of integration specialists – all senior Temple retreat facilitators – is available throughout, and beyond, the three-month integration program.
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You are collected from your hotel in Iquitos at 9am and travel by road and boat to the Temple, arriving in the late morning. After settling into your tambo, the first plant baths of the retreat begin – your introduction to the medicine of the forest. The afternoon is for orientation, meeting the team, and resting before what lies ahead.
The day opens with vapor baths, then breakfast, followed by a group meeting with the healers – an introduction to the Onanyabo and a chance to ask questions before the work begins. Group consultations with the facilitators take place in the afternoon, plant baths and flower baths in the early evening, and Yin Yoga to prepare your body and mind. At 8pm, the first ceremony begins. The healers sing to the whole circle – a diagnostic ceremony, where they see your pain, your grief, your wounds, scanning and singing throughout the biography of your life, and start their healing process with you.
After vapor baths and breakfast, individual physical consultations with the healers begin – the first time the Onanyabo will work with each guest one-to-one in the daytime. The afternoon continues with further consultations with the facilitators in a group setting, plant baths, and Yin Yoga before the second ceremony at 8pm. In this ceremony, the healers begin the deeper work – singing to you individually with long, sustained ikaros – the heart of Shipibo healing.
The morning is held in silence until 10am – a traditional practice of integration and rest after two ceremonies. Vapor baths open the day quietly. In the afternoon, a group meeting introduces the plant remedies and the ayuno – the traditional dietary and energetic restrictions that deepen the healing work. Plant remedies are administered for the first time: individually prescribed by the healers, each one chosen for what the physical consultation and diagnostic ceremony revealed. This is a day without ceremony: yet the healing continues whilst you rest, a necessary pause for you in the arc.
Energetic healing massages for those prescribed and plant remedies open the morning – hands-on treatment that works directly with the body, moving and clearing stuck energies. The afternoon is for rest and reflection. Plant baths and flower baths follow in the early evening, Yin Yoga before dark, and at 8pm, the third ceremony begins. The healers continue their individual work, reaching into the tap roots of the difficulties you have brought with you to the Amazon.
The morning is held in silence and ayuno until noon. A second round of energetic massages takes place if prescribed, plant remedies are administered, and for 8-day guests, the afternoon includes an explanation of the Arkana – what it is, what it means, and how to receive it. Flower baths in the early evening, Yin Yoga before dark. At 8pm, the fourth and final ceremony begins. The healers sing an Arkana to each 8-day guest: sealing the healing work, weaving protective ikaros, aligning the treatments received and sowing seeds that will grow long after you leave the forest.
A gentler day. The morning brings the Shipibo market – an opportunity to meet artisans from the local community and take something of the forest home with you. For 8-day guests, the final group share and integration talk takes place mid-morning: a chance to begin the work of understanding what has happened, and what to carry forward. In the evening, a final dinner together.
After breakfast, 8-day guests make their way back to Iquitos. The retreat is complete. The work of integration – and of living what you have received – now begins.
A portion of the income from our ayahuasca retreats funds projects on environmental justice, regenerative agriculture, and intercultural education run by our Peruvian sister NGO, the Chaikuni Institute (established 2012), collaborating with indigenous people and communities in the Amazon.
Upon Application: $300 USD deposit by credit card. Refunded in full if the application cannot be approved.
Upon Application Approval: the $300 deposit becomes non-refundable. The remaining 50% must be paid within 24 hours to confirm your booking.
6 weeks Prior to Retreat Start: Your final balance is due.