Ayahuasca Retreats
Each ayahuasca retreat at the Temple of the Way of Light features a balance of female and male healers from the indigenous Shipibo tribe. This incredible team of healers is highly experienced in practicing the ancient art of ayahuasca shamanism. Their ayahuasca ceremonies are supported by highly trained and knowledgeable Western facilitators, who act as a critical cultural bridge between the healers and our guests. Through meticulous planning and experience with thousands of guests, the Temple has developed a range of ayahuasca retreat programs in our beautiful jungle environment, about two hours by boat and trek from the Peruvian city of Iquitos.
Living In Alignment: Ayahuasca Healing Retreat
This retreat offers an immersion in traditional Shipibo plant-spirit healing, complemented with yoga classes and an ontological system of self-inquiry. We share unique distinctions and practices that empower you to take full responsibility for and agency over your life. The alchemy of these systems offers an opportunity for powerful healing that reaches into the roots of trauma and provides highly effective integration guidance to bring profound and lasting transformation into your life.
The program consists of six ceremonies with four Shipibo healers and three experienced facilitators over the course of 12 days, including regular periods of honoring the ancient practice of ayuno – a process of fasting ayahuasca and the ikaros after each ceremony, which enables deeper healing and stronger protections.
| Dates | Status | Register |
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| September 25 - October 6, 2021 | A few spaces left | Register Now |
| October 9 - 20, 2021 | Full (wait list) | Join waiting list |
| October 24 - November 4, 2021 | Full (wait list) | Join waiting list |
| November 8 - 19, 2021 | Full (wait list) | Join waiting list |
| November 22 - December 3, 2021 | Open | Register Now |
| December 7 - 18, 2021 | Open | Register Now |
| December 22, 2021 - January 2, 2022 | Open | Register Now |
| January 5 - 16, 2022 | Open | Register Now |
| January 20 - 31, 2022 | Open | Register Now |
| February 4 - 15, 2022 | Open | Join waiting list |
| February 18 - March 1, 2022 | Open | Join waiting list |
| March 20 - 31, 2022 | Open | Register Now |
| April 18 - 29, 2022 | Open | Join waiting list |
| May 3 - 14, 2022 | Open | Join waiting list |
| May 17 - 28, 2022 | Open | Register Now |
| June 1 - 12, 2022 | Open | Register Now |
| June 16 - 27, 2022 | Open | Register Now |
Changemakers Alignment Intensive Ayahuasca Retreat
The Changemakers Alignment Intensive is a truly groundbreaking program of deep healing, individual transformation, personal mastery, and leadership development – a powerful synthesis of ancient Amazon healing traditions with pioneering ontological inquiry and alignment work. Temple founder, Matthew Watherston, will be collaborating with Richard Condon, a “maestro” of ontological inquiry, and a team of six highly experienced Shipibo healers to bring high-level processes, conversations, and ceremonies that will provide the conditions for you to significantly elevate your life, and through self-transformation, for you to become a powerful embodiment of your higher potential in serving the greater good.
This unique program is designed for people who already have or show clear potential to have a widespread positive impact in the world – visionaries, entrepreneurs, leaders, and innovators working specifically in the fields of individual and social transformation.
**This retreat is by application only**
| Dates | Status | Register |
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| August 26 - September 6, 2021 | Open | Register Now |
LGBTQ+ Ayahuasca and Compassionate Inquiry Retreat
This special LGBTQ+ retreat will provide a safe, welcoming, and compassionate environment where participants can feel comfortable being who they are, and within that, experience deep healing and individual transformation that reaches into the roots of trauma through the powerful synthesis of ancient Amazon healing traditions and Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry methodology. This retreat offers an immersion in traditional Shipibo plant-spirit healing and includes highly effective integration guidance to bring profound and lasting transformation into your life.
The program consists of six ceremonies with four Shipibo healers and three experienced facilitators over the course of 12 days, including regular periods of honoring the ancient practice of ayuno – a process of fasting ayahuasca and the ikaros after each ceremony, which enables deeper healing and stronger protections.
| Dates | Status | Register |
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| September 10 - 21, 2021 | A few spaces left | Register Now |
Traditional Plant Dietas at Niwe Rao Xobo
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We are excited to be collaborating with Maestra Ynes and her family as they offer traditional plant dietas at their center in San Francisco, Peru, near Pucallpa, on the Ucayali river. For generations, the family of Ynez Sanchez –with her son, Jose, and daughters, Laura and Lila– has been carrying and practicing the medicine and wisdom of their ancestors. These dietas will also include the added service of our highly skilled and bilingual facilitators to bridge the linguistic and cultural gaps, provide additional tools for processing and integration, and create a synergistic space to maximize the benefits of your traditional Shipibo plant dieta.
**Prior experience with ayahuasca is strictly required.**
