Ayahuasca Retreat

Ayahuasca Intensive Retreats, Toè Rituals, Plant Teachers Diet (Dieta) and Entheogenic Shamanism in Ashi Meraya, North-West Peruvian Amazon Rain Forest.

Ayahuasca ritual in Ashi Meraya
Photo Credit: Heberto H. Garcia Ramirez

In this page you will find all you need to know re. our Ayahuasca retreats in a nutshell….To know more specifically on the Ayahuasca ceremonies, visit our Ayahuasca journey page, integral part of our ONGOING Ayahuasca retreats.

The Ayahuasca Retreat in a Nutshell

Amazonian Sweat ritual with Shipibo shaman Doña Ercilia
Photo Courtesy: Heberto H. Garcia Ramirez

• On the first night of your staying you may take part to a Sweat Lodge cleansing ritual, led by our Shipibo shamans. Read more…
  Watch here our YouTube video on the Shipibo Sweat Lodge ritual in Ashi Meraya!

Guest pounding Ayahuasca vine cuts

Photo Credit: Stephen Witte

• Learn how the sacred Ayahuasca brew is prepared.
• Take part to up to FIVE Ayahuasca ceremonies on your first week, and to FOUR Ayahuasca rituals each week thereafter.
• Join our Toè Dream Journey (opt in or opt out, in your first week, in place of an extra Ayahuasca ritual)
• Be exposed to the ancestral Shipibo Ritual of Spiritual Purification (minimum 2 weeks staying).
• Take part to a practical shamanic tattoo session, Tatuajes: Transferring Symbols of Power.

Learn how to prepare the sacred Ayahuasca brew…
Photo Courtesy: Isabel Grau

• Take part to ritual cleansing herbal and clay baths + flourishing, luck-bringing ritual flower baths (traditionally used for wealth, prosperity, love and friendship).
• Enjoy day jungle hikes along the beautiful ethnobotanical garden circuit of Ashi Meraya (where the shaman will show you the many plant teachers of the centre, explaining their properties and traditional medicinal and shamanic uses).
• Enjoy a night jungle hike with the shaman – when you may be able to see the magical glowing of the area below palos maestros (teacher trees) like the Chullachaki-caspi (Remijia peruviana) and the Remocaspi (Aspidosperma excelsum), in total darkness.
• For those of you wishing to tune-in more in depth with this shamanic adventure, we offer the traditional Amazonian shamanic initiation through a rigorous, traditional plant dieta. (Available only to those reserving their place for the shamanic plant diet, minimum 2 weeks, maximum 24 weeks).
• Chill out, read, write, meditate or simply relax in the newly built Communal bungalow for dieteros!!
• Sit around a bonfire at night, grilling home-made unleavened flat-bread (subject to weather conditions).
• Enjoy great food, with fresh Amazonian fish excellently cooked every day….
  (Vegetarian/vegan food available. Guests doing the shamanic Plant Diet shall stay on a stricter food regimen, different from the more flexible Ayahuasca retreat diet).

  Ayahuasca ceremony with Shipibo maestra Doña Ercilia
  
  Photo Courtesy: Isabel Grau
  

• Help the Shipibo community by also buying their ethnic artifacts and textiles.
• Take part to a final Farewell ceremony, with Shipibo surprise gifts…

  Pre-Arkana ritual with Encantos right before the Ayahuasca ceremony, with Shipibo maestro Heberto
  
  Photo Credit: Alfredo Chavez
  

• By taking part to this special journey in Ashi Meraya you will have a direct, hands-on exposure to traditional Amazonian shamanic culture, practices and entheogenic plant medicine. Yet, without sacrificing comfort and tranquillity in the process. You will also benefit our indigenous Shipibo shamans and partners to maintain their traditional way of life, increasingly threatened by impending modernization, globalization and acculturation. Book Your Place Now, Be A Seed For Change!!