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.
The Onanya, Ayahuasca, and the Master Plants
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.
Workshop Facilitators
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.
The Journey Back to Wholeness
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
Our 9-Day Retreats are developed in close co-operation with the Shipibo healers themselves, as far as possible in accordance with their traditional use of the medicinal plants, blending ancient plant spirit shamanism of the Amazon with eastern and modern practices to encourage self-reflection, contemplation, and integration. Our approach to healing, our staff, and our overall facilitation has evolved since 2007 into this highly effective healing program.
Please note – We recommend that people who are struggling with chronic / intense psycho-spiritual and emotional issues to consider our 12-Day Ayahuasca Retreat.
What’s Included:
- A high ratio of healers to guests – 5 healers per retreat
- Group size limited to 23 people
- 5 ayahuasca ceremonies over the 9 days
- Experienced team of facilitators to guide guests throughout the retreat with processing and integrating the healing experiences
- A cleansing steam bath on the first day of the retreat
- Flower baths (Jain Póiti) for cleansing, purifying, and strengthening
- Vomitivos (stomach cleansing) to rid the stomach of some toxins
- All food and drink included – a deliciously simple diet suitable for working with ayahuasca
- To explore the jungle and see native medicinal plants
- Individual consultations with your facilitators
- Group processing and integration meetings
- Completely private and individual accommodation in comfortable tambos (bungalows) spread out throughout the Temple grounds (fully protected with mosquito netting, hammocks for relaxing, with toilets and some with verandas)
- Laundry service
- Translation from Shipibo and Spanish into English
- All workshops facilitated in English
- Porters to carry your luggage in and out of the Temple from the pickup/dropoff location
- All transportation to / from the Temple from the pickup/dropoff location
What’s Not Included:
- Airfares (International and National)
- Transportation to / from Lima airport
- Travel Insurance
- Accommodation in Iquitos
- Peruvian Visa costs for non EEC or USA nationals
- Personal expenses (meals and drinks in Iquitos, etc.)
Day One
01:00 pm | Arrive at the Temple, floral baths and lunch |
03:30 pm | Group meeting – orientation and introduction to the staff |
04:00 pm | Steam baths with the Maestras |
05:00 pm | Time to relax and move into tambos |
06:00 pm | Dinner |
Day Two
07:00 am | Vomitivo at Maestras Casa |
09:00 am | Breakfast |
10:00 am | Group meeting – Discussion about ayahuasca, ceremonies, and intentions |
01:00 pm | Lunch |
02:00 pm | Group consultations with facilitators |
05:00 pm | Floral baths |
06:30 pm | Pre-ceremony Yin Yoga / meditation in the Maloka |
08:00 pm | 1st Ceremony |
Day Three
09:00 am | Breakfast |
10:00 am | Group meeting – discussion about processing and integration |
01:00 pm | Lunch |
02:00 pm | Individual Physical consultations with facilitators |
02:00 pm | Time for self-reflection, integration and meditation |
05:00 pm | Floral baths |
07:00 pm | Pre ceremony Yin Yoga / meditation in the Maloka |
08:00 pm | 2nd Ceremony |
Day Four
09:00 am | Breakfast |
10:00 am | Group meeting – discussions on ceremony from the previous night |
01:00 pm | Lunch |
02:00 pm | Time for self-reflection, integration, and meditation |
05:00 pm | Plant remedies begin |
06:00 pm | Dinner |
Day Five
08:00 am | Morning Plant remedies |
09:00 am | Breakfast |
01:00 pm | Lunch |
02:00 pm | Time for self-reflection, integration, and meditation |
05:00 pm | Floral baths |
07:00 pm | Pre ceremony meditation in the Maloka |
08:00 pm | 3rd Ceremony |
Day Six
08:00 am | Morning Plant remedies |
09:00 am | Breakfast |
01:00 pm | Lunch |
05:00 pm | Floral baths |
07:00 pm | Pre ceremony meditation in the Maloka |
08:00 pm | 4th Ceremony |
Day Seven
08:00 am | Morning Plant remedies |
09:00 am | Breakfast |
10:00 am | Jungle walk with Maestras and Maestros |
12:00 pm | Floral baths |
01:00 pm | Lunch |
02:00 pm | Group Meeting – The importance of integration |
05:00 pm | Floral baths |
07:00 pm | Pre ceremony Yin Yoga / meditation in the Maloka |
08:00 pm | 5th (Arkana) and final Ceremony |
Day Eight
09:00 am | Breakfast |
10:00 pm | Shipibo Market |
12:00 pm | Floral Baths |
01:00 pm | Lunch |
02:00 pm | Group Photos at Maloka with Maestras and Maestros |
03:00 pm | Final Group Meeting – discussion of the vision and mission of the Temple |
06:00 pm | Farewell Dinner |
Day Nine
08:00 am | Breakfast |
09:00 am | Meet at Maloka |
09:30 am | Leave for Iquitos |
12:00 pm | Arrive in Iquitos |
Cost
9 Day Ayahuasca Retreat | US$ 2,100 |
A portion of the income from our ayahuasca retreats funds critical projects on environmental justice, sustainable development and intercultural education run by our Peruvian NGO, The Chaikuni Institute, partnering with Indigenous People in the Amazon.
Payment Terms
Deposit | US$ 1050 |
Final Installment | US$ 1050 Due 6 weeks before the retreat starts |
Paying your program cost in installments is for your convenience only. If you prefer, you may pay in full upon booking.
Terms and Advice
- We accept payments via credit card and PayPal. Credit card payments are made during the online booking process. If you select to pay via PayPal, we will issue you an invoice after your medical questionnaire has been approved. If you have made a credit card payment and later learn that you are not cleared to come for a workshop per your medical history, your payment will be fully refunded.
- We offer you the option of paying a deposit of at least 50% of the program cost to confirm your reservation. You can also pay the full workshop cost when booking.
- Your balance must be paid in full at least 6 weeks prior to the start of the workshop to guarantee your reservation. If you made a deposit with a credit card, we will charge that card automatically for the outstanding balance 6 weeks prior to the start of the workshop.
- Payments are only refundable provided we have a minimum of 8 weeks notice prior to the start of a workshop. Any refunds given will occur a USD 100.- administration fee. You may change your workshop reservation to another date at no cost or transfer your payment(s) to another participant, provided said participant has been approved to attend a workshop and that it is a minimum of 8 weeks prior to the start of the workshop.
- If original payment was made with a credit card, any refund will be credited back to the card originally charged. We are only able to refund via PayPal for other forms of payment.
- For cancellations within 8 weeks of the start of a workshop, payments will only be refunded, credited to a future date, or transferred to another participant if we can fill your place in the workshop. We will try our best to do so.
- We strongly recommend that you take out adequate travel insurance for any cancellations due to unforeseen circumstances. Squaremouth is an insurance service we can suggest that can cover not only retreat costs but the possibility to recover airfare costs too.
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.
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