9-Day Ayahuasca Retreats

Our ayahuasca retreats are developed in close co-operation with the Shipibo healers on our team, as far as possible in accordance with their traditional use of the medicinal plants of the Amazon. Our approach to healing, our staff and overall facilitation has evolved since 2007 and into this highly effective healing program.

An ayahuasca retreat at the Temple offers our guests an opportunity to experience deep healing which reaches to the energetic roots of trauma, imbalance, and disorder, as well as initiates a long term journey of self-reflection, self-discovery, and spiritual transformation. The foundation of our retreats is traditional Amazonian plant-spirit healing complemented with progressive therapeutic and eastern psycho-spiritual practices to ensure effective and long lasting integration.

We are committed not only to providing the safest and deepest ayahuasca healing and plant spirit shamanism experience in the Amazon, but also of equal importance, ensuring that you are able to sustain, cultivate, and integrate your healing experiences back in day-to-day life after your retreat.

We constantly strive to create the optimal conditions and orientation on our retreats to work with ayahuasca and since 2007 have been passionately dedicated to providing a caring, professional, and supportive setting – always ensuring a safe, sacred space for our guests to heal, integrate, and transform.

The Temple is open to anyone* who is seriously committed to healing their body, mind, emotions, and spirit, and who is looking for a deeper understanding of themselves and the spirit world that surrounds us all.

*Please note that ayahuasca is not suitable for everybody. There are some exceptions where we are not able to accept a booking due to certain psychological and physical conditions or potential medical contraindications. All applicants will complete a comprehensive medical screening and a psychological questionnaire to screen for any potential complications upon registration.

We deeply honor and respect indigenous healing traditions of the Amazon that have evolved over thousands of years and offer the most effective ayahuasca healing experience. We work with some of the most respected, kind-hearted, and powerful healers (Onanya) from the Shipibo tribe who are experts in ayahuasca healing and plant-spirit shamanism of the Amazon.

Our team of healers has been carefully selected over many years to work at the Temple. They bring a rich cultural and medicinal legacy, time honored rituals, intricate practices, an expansive cosmology, an encyclopedic knowledge of medicinal plants of the Amazon, and a far reaching ancestral lineage to the healing process.

In the Shipibo tradition, the healing process is very much focused on cleansing and purifying the energy field which surrounds us, niwe in their language, which can pick up toxic energies from our environment and traumatic issues of our past. Their encyclopedic knowledge of medicinal plants (rao) of the Amazon Rainforest allows them to heal a huge range of psycho-spiritual, emotional and sometimes physical conditions. They do this through ancient healing practices involving incredibly beautiful ikaros (songs of the plants), intense perfumes, individually prescribed plant remedies, and powerful energetic work.

The Shipibo tradition is a system of plant-spirit shamanism that facilitates healing from a vast number of different plant and tree-spirits, who transmit healing energies through the ikaros sung by the healers in ceremonies. The Onanya see ayahuasca as a nexus to the plant spirit worlds, and is not the only plant spirit they work with. The key to the depth and efficacy of this ancient healing system is by calling in and working with a plethora of other plant spirits in each ceremony that work alongside ayahuasca to affect deep healing. Without bringing together a team of plant-spirits, the healing work of ayahuasca alone would be more limited. To be clear, the only plant that you imbibe in ceremony is ayahuasca, although you will receive energetic healing from many different plants spirits in every ceremony.

We provide potent and visionary ayahuasca sourced from deep in the rainforest in the Shipibo territories. Our ayahuasca is made from cielo (sky / heaven) ayahuasca and chacruna leaf with no admixtures. The ceremonies led by our healers offer the highest levels of shamanic mastery available in the Peruvian Amazon combined with an exemplary track record in terms of safety, protection, care for, and support of our guests.

Our experienced facilitators carry out an important role acting as bridges / translators between our healers and guests, and also critically by holding space, listening, guiding, or inspiring guests throughout workshops, with all communication in English. We help our guests to understand how to work with ayahuasca; how to process difficult emotions, how to reclaim their projections, how to surrender, how to manage expectations, how to face challenges, how to overcome fears, how to embody teachings from the plants, how to incorporate visionary experiences, and how to move from the head to the heart.

Our facilitators have many years of personal experience with ayahuasca and “walk their talk;” through having faced and integrated their own pain and challenges and transitioned from self to service, they are able to share from a place of personal experience, helping to guide others through the same process. We also guide guests on how to sustain the breakthroughs, insights, and revelations gained during the healing experience, and how to integrate them over the long term back in day-to-day life.

We are deeply committed to our guests’ healing journeys and are passionate about our work ensuring every person who comes to the Temple has an extremely high level of attention, experienced counsel (when desired / necessary), and is held in a compassionate and caring environment throughout the healing process.

Our facilitators offer a substantial amount of integration support during the retreat in order to assist you to process your healing experience after every ceremony. We also offer instruction on how to sustain and cultivate any breakthroughs and insights received during your retreat and how to ground transformative healing experiences into day-to-day life.

The healing you will receive from the Onanya and ayahuasca will cleanse a tremendous amount of dense energies that have accumulated in your system as well as bring up many fragmented aspects of your past that have been buried into your subconscious, both during the ceremonies, and often for days, weeks, and months after a retreat. It is important to understand that ayahuasca and the plant-spirits will continue to work with you after a retreat. The more self-reflection, courage, responsibility, and awareness you bring to the process post-retreat, the more benefits you will gain.

Ayahuasca helps to dissolve the illusory self and significantly increase your awareness of your own self-constructed boundaries, and guides you to release fear-filled and self-limiting beliefs. Ayahuasca initiates a long term healing journey that supports your overall liberation from the hypnosis of your conditions; shining a light into your shadow, and helping you to become aware of negative patterns. You then need, over the longer term, to become intimate with your fears, embrace your shadow, and consciously parent yourself back to wholeness. This is the slow path towards freedom from fear, resulting in increasingly feeling lighter, brighter, more vital, more compassionate, and more in touch with yourself and the world around you. Ayahuasca will be there supporting you throughout your process for many months and even years after your retreat.

Through regular group discussions and instruction throughout the workshop, we will support you significantly with your overall integration process, which is as important as the treatment you receive during the retreat.

The Main Ceremonial Space – the Temple Maloka

Availability and Booking

Please choose your preferred retreat date below and fill in the necessary information on the following pages in order to make your booking.
All registrations must be made from a computer as we do not have mobile capability for our medical forms at this time.

Once you have completed your booking and your medical information has been reviewed by our team, we will be in touch with you to confirm your booking.

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]

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 workshop.