5-Day Integration Extension – April 11th to 16th

What is the most important aspect of any transformational healing experience, like working with ayahuasca?

For most people, we have found that the following points are really the essence of integration and transformation:

• The ability to embody what you have learned about yourself (whilst working with ayahuasca) and how to incorporate and fully commit to new ways of being after you go back into the world and return to your “normal” life.
• To consistently experience the simplicity and ease of an unburdened and unencumbered self and life, without being constantly plagued by judgement (of self and others), inner struggles, doubts, and fears.
• To feel supported, safe, seen, and to continue this work as part of a loving community (that will inevitably become a group of close friends for long after your time in the Amazon).

We offer a specific integration program that has been designed to provide you with the very best support we know to help you to integrate the ikaros and medicines of our Shipibo healers.

After having been focused on your ayahuasca experience during the retreat, the extension offers you the chance to ground the healing you have experienced; to physically connect with this sacred, ancestral land, to take part in regenerative agroforestry and permaculture projects, and to plant ayahuasca and chacruna yourself.

You will have the opportunity to learn how the Shipibo prepare traditional plant and vapor baths with classes on the plants and preparations that they use for this sacred healing work. You can then take back these practices and adopt them using medicinal plants that are growing in your home environment.

We also offer a variety of classes sharing different practices held over the 5 days designed specifically to support integration of ayahuasca healing, including yoga, self-inquiry and breathwork.

Nourishing food will be prepared using local, organic ingredients (where possible) that are grown on our land by the Chaikuni Institute team, of whom you would get to meet and also have the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with. There is nothing better than getting your hands stuck into the soil following deep working with ayahuasca!

You will leave the Integration Extension:

• With a new community of close friends
• Empowered to a variety of powerful tools and practices that will support your ongoing process of integration
• With a new understanding of the ways that you suppress or sacrifice yourself
• Inspired to approach your life in new, inspired and creative ways

What’s Included

During the Integration Extension Retreat, you will:

1. Experience daily yoga, breathwork and meditation classes – to support you with new tools and together create a simple set of daily practices that will inspire you to continue to embrace your integration process when you are back home. Integration can continue for up to a year after a retreat at the Temple!

2. Learn from a Shipibo healer how to prepare your own medical plant bath and also receive other special treatments from the Shipibo Maestros. In essence, we can say that ayahuasca is about cleaning and clearing not just the physical body, but fundamentally all that exists on an energetic and mental level; blocked, heavy energies, negative thought patterns, limited self-beliefs, and traumas.

However, these shadow elements, old energies and negative patterns often continue to be dislodged, released and come to the surface for 1 to 2 weeks post-retreat. Continuing the process of cleaning your energetic field with plant baths is one way to maintain the work done by the Shipibo healers. It is a very important practice in this tradition!

3. Collaborate with the Permaculture team from the Chaikuni Institute – get your hands dirty, give back to the (spirit of the) land, and support us and leave a piece of your energy at the Temple through planting medicinal plants including ayahuasca.

Working with your hands (when for many people, day-to-day life is often limited to working on a computer, in an office, surrounded by concrete and tarmac, immersed in a virtual, artificial and technological environment) can be a powerful way to still the mind and to generate positive energy that you then offer to gentle, spiritual action; reciprocating to the local environment, and cultivating the teachings, insights, and revelations in an embodied way.

4. Experience Art and Movement as medicine – explore different ways to express yourself and feel more deeply into what is arising within as the shamanic healing begins to settle, leaning into and developing more profound levels of trust in the plants, in yourself, and in Source.

Surrendering further to the process, patiently allowing whatever it is that is emerging, and having the space to truly listen deeply and hear what comes up can be challenging in the hustle and bustle of daily life.

5. Engage with Offerings and Gratitude Rituals – giving back to the spirits of nature and the Earth herself. We can often default to focusing on what we are getting, what we think we need, what we think we want, as opposed to Being in a state of acceptance and flow. Yet the more we focus on getting and doing, the more we reinforce a sense of lack, or not having enough. We will use the practice of offering, orienting to ‘what I can give’ instead of ‘what I can get’ as a powerful way to understand and appreciate our interconnectedness with everything and everyone and learn how to dissolve our limited and separate sense of self.

6. Experience Sharing Circles focused on exploring ways to integrate your experience with ayahuasca and the powerful shamanic healing work of the Shipibo. We support you with how to get clear about ‘what’ you are integrating, what themes you are working with, and what may be in the way still. What is self-love and how can we cultivate it? How can we forgive ourselves and others, letting go of the stories and pain of the past? How do we create a consistent sense of presence?

We will explore these themes, share new tools and practices, and support you in pro-deepening ways you may already have to focus on your integration process. We are also aware of how much we can learn from other people’s experiences, and the sharing circles offer the opportunity for everyone to share and support each other as a small community.

7. Receive regular one-on-one support from a highly experienced facilitator/integrator and a Shipibo healer. This will also be your chance to ask your questions!

And the basics:

• The group size is limited to 10.
• All food and drink – a deliciously simple diet suitable for working with medicinal plants and ayahuasca.
• Walks to explore the jungle and visit medicinal plants in their natural environment.
• Individual accommodation.
• Laundry service.
• Translation from Shipibo and Spanish into English
• Porters to carry your luggage in and out of the Temple from the pickup/drop-off location
• All transportation to and from the Temple

What’s not included:

• Airfares (international and national)
• Airport transportation
• Travel insurance
• Accommodation in Iquitos
• Peruvian visa costs for non EEC or USA nationals
• Personal expenses (meals and drinks in Iquitos, etc.)

Cost

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

Transferring your payment in installments is for your convenience only. It is possible to pay the retreat cost in one full amount if you prefer.

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 you are not approved to attend the retreat, your payment will be fully refunded immediately.
• We offer you the option of paying a minimum 50% deposit of your program cost to confirm your reservation. You may also pay the full retreat cost when booking.
• Your balance must be paid in full at least 6 weeks prior to the start of the retreat to guarantee your space. 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 retreat.
• Payments are only refundable provided we have a minimum of 8 weeks notice prior to the start of the retreat. Any refunds given will occur a USD $100 cancellation fee. You may transfer to a different retreat at no cost or transfer your payment(s) to another participant, provided said participant has been approved to attend a retreat and it is a minimum of 8 weeks prior to the start of your retreat.
• If the original payment was made with a credit card, any refund will be credited back to the card that was 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 retreat. 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.