
Master Palero Ayahuasquero Toesero Sananguero and Huachumero shaman Don Armando ritually offering Mapacho smoke to a giant Suni ayahuasca vine growing wild in the jungle surrounding our centre, in the Peruvian Amazon, near Iquitos.
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Don Armando performing a shamanic ritual with the giant Lupuna blanca master tree, in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.
Ayahuasca, San Pedro, shamanic dieta and shamanic apprenticeship
Our Ayahuasca, San Pedro, shamanic plant dieta and shamanic apprenticeship retreat venue is fully immersed in 70 hectares (nearly 173 acres) of privately-owned Amazon rainforest, on the edges of the Allpahuayo Mishana Natural Reserve, near the jungle town of Iquitos (Peru). We offer international participants the opportunity to take part in ancestral indigenous shamanic practices, where one may experience – in a very friendly, safe, hospitable and supportive, family-like environment – several types of plant teachers-based shamanic retreats, all facilitated in English and Spanish by our invaluable friend Clever Hoyos Rengifo, who has actively co-operated with El Mundo Magico in Peru, since the year 2003.
The Ayahuasca retreat: what is this good for?
The Ayahuasca retreat in the jungle is indicated as an inner vision quest journey in the wilderness, to stimulate creativity and inner growth, to find one’s direction, path and purpose in life, to heal from trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction, bewilderment and the loss of a loved one. It is also indicated for shamanic journeying and as a soul retrieval therapy.
The Ayahuasca retreat. Explore more and see what is included here...
The Ayahuasca retreat may begin any day of the week. It can be 1 to 3 weeks in length (longer periods may be agreed upon, if necessary). It includes 5 Ayahuasca ceremonies (per week), 3 rituals with palos maestros and with a giant Suni ayahuasca vine growing wild in the jungle (per week), 2 rituals of spiritual purification (per week), 1 Toé dream journey (per week), and 1 Camalonga dream ritual (per week).
It has a flexible diet where fish, chicken, fruit, vegetables, potatoes, rice, salt and sugar are allowed. It includes 5 Ayahuasca ceremonies (per week), Toé rituals (once a week), cleansing ritual baths, rituals with master trees in the jungle (twice a week), smudging rituals for spiritual purification (twice a week), and Camalonga rituals (once a week). Choose any length of time between 1 week and 3 weeks/22 days. The Ayahuasca retreat is suitable for vegans, vegetarians and non-vegan/vegetarians alike. Please allow enough time to fit 5 Ayahuasca ceremonies, 1 Toé and 1 Camalonga dream rituals per week during your staying. A one week Ayahuasca retreat is made of 8 days/7 nights, and it completes on the morning of day 8, after breakfast.
Our Ayahuasca retreat, typically includes:
- Initial briefing and private consultation with the shaman.
- Ayahuasca diet (little to no salt, sugar, fat and oil; no chilli, spices, alcohol, pork, red meat or fried food are allowed; chicken, fish, eggs, onions, garlic, potatoes, carrots, vegetables, coconut water, salad and some fruits are allowed).
- 5 Ayahuasca ceremonies per week, at night, at 9 PM. On a voluntary basis of participation and subject to your health status.
- 1 Toé Dream ritual per week (ritually smoking with the shaman the dry, rolled leaves of the Brugmansia suaveolens plant), at night; (guests doing the 13 weeks/91 days shamanic apprenticeship may also take – subject to the shaman approval and supervision – the powerful freshly squeezed Toé juice in ceremony, once a month).
- Watch and learn how the Ayahuasca brew is prepared.
- Jungle hikes with the shaman and/or the jungle guide, to get to know the countless medicinal plants, teacher plants and master trees in the rainforest surrounding the centre.
- 2 rituals with palos maestros (master trees) and 1 ritual with an ancient, wild grandmother ayahuasca vine (per week), with the shaman, in the jungle.
- 2 cleansing ritual baths per week, with the leaves of different plant teachers like Albaquilla, Albaca, Canelilla, Oriso, Shinguri sacha, Lengua de perro, Planta del Iman, Shara masho, etc.
- 1 ritual flowering bath, towards the end of the retreat, traditionally prepared in the Peruvian Amazon to attract good luck, prosperity, love and friendship in one’s life.
- 2 rituals of spiritual purification, per week. The ritual includes smudging with Palo Santo (“Holy Wood”, botanical name “Bursera graveolens”, a mystical, wild tree related to Frankincense, Copal and Myrrh).
- 1 Camalonga dream ceremony per week, at 9 PM.
- Complimentary on-site facilitator & interpreter Spanish-English.
Programme may vary from case to case, according to the shaman’s assessment of your individual physical, mental, emotional and spiritual circumstances.

Ayahuasca preparation! Guest pounding Cielo ayahuasca vine cuts, supervised by Shipibo Maestro Ronel.
Several different types of plant teachers-based shamanic retreats
Choose to take part to:
- Our intensive Ayahuasca retreat: FIVE ceremonies per week with Ayahuasca, the visionary “Vine of the Soul”. Complemented by two dream rituals at night, with the magical Camalonga and the plant teacher Toé (Brugmansia sp.). And a lot more… The Ayahuasca retreat is usually 1-3 weeks long.

Harvesting Chagropanga (Diplopterys cabrerana) in the rainforest, in preparation of the Ayahuasca brew.
- Harvest Chagropanga leaves (also known as Huambisa chacruna, Chagro, or Chaliponga – Diplopterys cabrerana) in the jungle, the powerful companion ingredient to the Cielo ayahuasca vine cuts, in preparation of the Ayahuasca brew.
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- Prepare and pound the Cielo ayahuasca vine cuts, to be used in the making of the Ayahuasca concoction.

San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi) prepared by Don Armando, for the San Pedro ceremony at night.
- Optional ceremonies with San Pedro (Huachuma) the famed “Cactus of the Four Winds” (Echinopsis pachanoi), to complement your Ayahuasca, shamanic plant diet, or shamanic apprenticeship retreat. With Don Armando, or – if and when he is not available – with either Shipibo Maestra Celia, her brother Maestro Jorge Panduro, or Shipibo Maestro Ronel Chavez Isaman.
- In special circumstances, one might also choose to do the Ayahuasca retreat with Maestro Ronel, especially those who are keen to experience his “Miel de Ayahuasca” or “Ayahuasca honey”, which is way to prepare the medicine which makes it particularly concentrated and sweet…Even though we guarantee that you will find the Ayahuasca experience with Don Armando – our main shaman at the centre – pretty much profound and *very powerful*, especially when the brew will be prepared with the Puma chacruna plant teacher; his addition of the Cacao tree bark in the making of the medicine is also a welcome progress in the science of making a sweeter Ayahuasca! Don Armando can equally prepare a very concentrated Ayahuasca brew – in the guise of miel de Ayahuasca – but less sweet than the Ayahuasca honey as such. Strictly subject to availability and by advance booking only.
- Our intensive San Pedro retreat, with FOUR San Pedro rituals, TWO Ayahuasca ceremonies, ONE Camalonga (Thevetia peruviana) and ONE Toé (Brugmansia sp.) ritual (8 days/7 nights).

Slices of freshly cut San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi) being prepared to obtain the San Pedro brew to be drank during the Huachuma ceremony.
- The shamanic plant diet tester, or pre-dieta. With THREE Ayahuasca ceremonies, TWO Camalonga (Thevetia peruviana) and THREE Toé (Brugmansia sp.) ceremonies per week. (From 8 days, onward; exclusions apply depending on type of master plant one is dieting with).
- The shamanic diet with a single master plant, vine or tree, like Ayahuasca (11-91 days), Toé (11-61 days), Tobacco (8-16 days), Camalonga (31 days), or any individual master tree like Ayahuma, Chullachaqui caspi, Remocaspi, etc. (31 days each). With THREE Ayahuasca ceremonies, TWO Camalonga and THREE Toé rituals per week. PLEASE NOTE: The Ayahuasca, Tobacco, Coca, and Toé dietas have a different set-up than the diet with any other teacher plant, vine or master tree. The Ayahuasca diet or pre-dieta has only ONE Toé (Brugmansia sp.) ritual per week, for instance. Don Armando maintains that more Toé ceremonies may conflict with Ayahuasca and negatively affect one’s power of vision. Alongside the Toé you also take part to TWO Camalonga (Thevetia peruviana) rituals and THREE Ayahuasca ceremonies each week, in the short Ayahuasca pre-diet or in the long dieta. Please inquire for details.

Preparing black jungle tobacco to be ritually drank in the tobacco ceremony, part of the shamanic dieta and apprenticeship.
- The shamanic diet with Master trees (45 days), taking an ultra-concentrated brew prepared with thirty-five different varieties of master trees and vines, ALL at once.
- The shamanic apprenticeship, dieting with sacred master trees and teacher plants. Includes – among many more things – THREE Ayahuasca rituals, TWO Camalonga and THREE Toé night ceremonies per week. (Minimum 13 weeks/91 days – Maximum 26 weeks/182 days). Sign-up to download the FREE PDF programme for 3 months/13 weeks “Shamanic plant diet apprenticeship” training, in Peru. See below what is included in the shamanic plant diet.
Learn more about the shamanic diet...
Choose the traditional style of shamanic training – dieting with one master tree at a time, for 1 month each – or follow the intensive style of diet with 35 master trees – plus 2 plant teachers – ALL at once, in cycles of 45 days each. This second style of the diet apprenticeship will accelerate dramatically one’s learning process. The palero shamans we work with maintain that by dieting with all the master trees at once, one may learn the equivalent of what otherwise would take twice as much time with the traditional diet (dieting a plant/master tree at a time). So, if one opts for the 45 days training, dieting with 35 palos maestros and vines at once, that would be the equivalent of dieting with 3 master trees for 3 months/91 days. Conversely, if one were to follow this dieta style for the 3 months apprenticeship, one would be learning the equivalent of what would otherwise take 6 months training, dieting with an individual master tree each month. This as far as the teachings of the master trees are concerned.

Ayahuasca ceremony with senior master shaman Don Armando (right), Shipibo Maestra Celia (centre) and Shipibo Maestro Jorge (left).
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All retreat types include – in different ways – the participation to Ayahuasca ceremonies, Toé and Camalonga dream rituals, under the expert guidance of Don Armando who now offers his healing services and amazing experience in our centre, assisted by our invaluable Clever Hoyos, who tirelessly acts as local facilitator and interpreter Spanish-English at the retreat. The San Pedro ceremonies and the San Pedro retreat will also be with Don Armando (or – when not available – with Shipibo Maestro Jorge, or Shipibo Maestro Ronel).
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Retreat price, reservation and bookings
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Accommodation
In our family-ran, ultra friendly space, international participants may relax in absolute safety and tranquillity, in comfortable, spacious (single, double, twin and triple bungalows), each approximately 30 to 36 square metres in size. No dormitory-style accommodation. Standing availability, individual participants may have a whole private bungalow for themselves, at no extra price, exception made for private retreats. Learn more about accommodation in our retreat centre here.
Couples, and couple of friends may share the same bungalow, sleeping in separate beds or – if required – in double beds. Each bungalow has an en-suite bathroom attached, with toilet, shower and washbasin.
Shamanic Retreats: Price, Reservation and Booking
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The San Pedro retreat
San Pedro – the renowned “cactus of the four winds” – is an ancient, most sacred plant in Peru. The experience of San Pedro – like the Ayahuasca one – is indicated as an inner vision quest journey, to stimulate creativity and inner growth, to seek answers, for one’s own personal healing and to find one’s direction, path and purpose in life. Like Ayahuasca, San Pedro can be very useful in treating depression, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and alcohol additions. Despite being very different from each other, San Pedro and Ayahuasca ceremonies are conducted in a very similar fashion in the Peruvian Amazon (even though it’s a completely different story in the Coast and Highlands of Peru).
Whilst Ayahuasca uproots and takes one to the remote corners of the galaxy, and illuminates one with the light of darkness, showing endless chains of polyhedric realities interweaving with each other, San Pedro has instead an earthly, masculine, grounding energy. With Ayahuasca one may journey to the most remote areas of the universe, witness worlds upon worlds and an unfolding cycle of never completely revealed mysteries, whilst San Pedro makes one vigilant, alert, conscious of the surroundings, and – in a status of enhanced perception – one may experience a profound connection with the jungle, the animals there, fellow humans, and the inter-connectedness of all living beings. Learn more on the San Pedro here.
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San Pedro Ceremony & San Pedro Retreat: Price, Reservation and Booking
The 8 days/7 nights San Pedro retreat begins on Mondays and includes: 4 San Pedro ceremonies (either during daytime, or at night), 2 Ayahuasca ceremonies (at night), 3 rituals with palos maestros and with an ancient grandmother wild ayahuasca vine in the jungle (in the morning, or in the afternoon), 2 rituals of spiritual purification and smudging with Palo Santo(in the late afternoon/early evening), 1 Camalonga dream ritual (at night), and 1 Toé ritual (smoking in a pipe, in ceremony, the dry leaves of Toé plant mixed with jungle tobacco, by the shaman, at night). On the first and sixth retreat night there will be an Ayahuasca ceremony (on the nights of Day 1 and Day 6), in between the two Ayahuasca ceremonies there will be four San Pedro ceremonies (on the nights of Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5), whilst on the seventh night there will be a Camalonga dream ritual (first), followed by a Toé ritual (after). The San Pedro cactus we use at the retreat is freshly sourced from the Peruvian coast (not being a native plant of the Amazon), and air freighted to Iquitos. This retreat has a flexible diet where fish, chicken, fruit, vegetables, potatoes, rice, salt and sugar, and most food compatible with Ayahuasca will be allowed. The San Pedro retreat is suitable for vegans, vegetarians and non-vegan/non-vegetarians alike. Please allow enough time to fit in 4 San Pedro, 2 Ayahuasca, 1 Camalonga and 1 Toé night ceremonies during your 8 days staying. The San Pedro retreat ends on the morning of Day 8, after breakfast and the last sharing session with the shaman. _____________________________ The pre-Dieta (or plant diet tester) retreat starts from an absolute minimum of 8 days, is generally done for 2-3 weeks (depending on the type of plant teacher, vine or master tree one wishes to diet with), and begins on Mondays. It is pretty flexible in terms of food restrictions, and is suitable to everybody who can do an Ayahuasca retreat but would like to have a taste of the shamanic plant diet proper, in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle. _____________________________ Shamanic Plant Diet Retreat tester (pre-Dieta): Price, Reservation and Booking The pre-dieta (plant diet tester), typically includes: Programme may vary from case to case, according to the shaman’s assessment of your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual circumstances. The pre-dieta or diet tester is suitable for vegans, vegetarians, and non-vegetarians alike. Shamanic Plant Diet Retreat tester (pre-Dieta): Price, Reservation and Booking The second type of shamanic diet we offer is the 31 days Camalonga dieta. Daytime Camalonga ritual. Drinking a cup of Camalonga brew, next to a Chullachaqui caspi master tree, in the jungle. Photo © Trenton Doyle. _____________________________ The Camalonga brew for the shamanic diet has a pretty bitter taste and is prepared by Don Armando on the spot by first scraping only half of a Camalonga “macho” seed to remove the shell, then grinding the core of the stone and leaving it in half a cup of clean water (distilled water or better rainfall water from the rainforest) well mixed with a little tobacco juice left to boil for 10-15 seconds. The medicine is then left to cool, and after having been filtered it’s ready for the dietero (male dieter) or dietera (female dieter) to drink in ceremony (this lasts approximately two hours, and is always done at night, at 8 pm). No other ingredients are used by Don Armando in the making of Camalonga brew for those who follow the shamanic dieta. In terms of dietary prescriptions/requirements, these will be the same as the shamanic healing diet with Master trees, or the shamanic apprenticeship via the plant teachers diet. No dinner on the night of the ceremony and no breakfast the day after the ritual. Allowed food: roasted/grilled fish, roasted/grilled green plantains, unsweetened rice pudding, coconut water, porridge, vegetables and salad (all unseasoned, with no salt or oil). Please note that the fresh juice of the Toè plant teacher cannot be drunk when one is doing the Camalonga diet, it can only be smoked. ________ Camalonga brew in a jar, in sugar cane spirit infusion (centre), alongside Ayahuasca brew (right), and Palo Santo wood incense (left). ________ When the Camalonga is to be drank in a retreat context outside of the shamanic dieta (for instance, during the Ayahuasca, or San Pedro, retreat), Don Armando uses to scrap a whole male (macho) and female (hembra) Camalonga seed, mixed with Ajos (garlic, or sometimes Andean garlic, known as Ajos de la sierra), Cebolla (onion) and alcanfor (camphor), all left to macerate in a sugarcane alcohol (aguardiente) infusion. This second type of Camalonga brew is used by the shaman as personal aid in a diagnostics or a healing, to enhance the visionary and divinatory experience during an Ayahuasca ceremony. It is also served during the Camalonga ceremonies exclusively as part of the Ayahuasca or San Pedro retreat. The brew is left unfiltered, with all the ingredients left to rest in a glass bottle. Drinking the alcohol-based Camalonga brew does not require doing a particularly stringent dieta other than the Ayahuasca diet itself and can be drank 24 hours before or after an Ayahuasca ceremony. ________ ________ The Camalonga dieta retreat typically includes: The Camalonga dream ritual consists in drinking – either during a day-light ceremony, in front of a teacher tree in the jungle, or else, during a night ceremony, with the shaman (starting around 8:00 PM) – an infusion of the seeds of the Camalonga tree, to stimulate lucid dreaming, enhance the power of divination and knowledge, and favour mental clarity. _____________________________ During the gentle intoxication with Camalonga one may feel more relaxed, receive visions, answers and messages from the Spirit world which may continue in dreaming, after going to bed, when the actual ceremony is finished. The experience is milder than the Ayahuasca one and – when the ceremony is held at night – the settings are very much similar to those of the Ayahuasca ceremony, with the shaman singing his icaros and calling the spirits, in almost complete darkness. We now offer Camalonga rituals during all types of retreats, being these Ayahuasca, pre-diet/plant diet testers, Camalonga, shamanic healing diet, or shamanic apprenticeship retreats. No special diet provisions for the Camalonga ritual will be required from participants who are already following the shamanic diet. Please allow enough time for your staying, to accommodate 5 Ayahuasca ceremonies per week, the Toé ritual-s, and the Camalonga session-s. Generally speaking, one may take part to one Camalonga dream ceremony per week in the course of the Ayahuasca retreat, and to two Camalonga rituals per week during different types of plant diet retreats. _____________________________ ______ The third type of shamanic plant diet retreat we offer is the Shamanic Diet with Master trees. This is done in cycles of 45 days each and one will have the magical and unique opportunity of dieting with 35 different types of Master trees and vines, as well as Coca leaves, black jungle tobacco and Cacao bark, ALL together. This ultra-concentrated, powerful master trees brew is be drank only once, at the beginning (or once a month, if doing 2 cycles of 45 days each). In the shamanic diet with Don Armando one may have different types of chargrilled Amazonian fish, chargrilled green plantains, rice, rice pudding (unsweetened/unsalted), oat, porridge (unsweetened/unsalted), plus water and (occasionally) coconut water to drink. Learn more about the diet food allowed with Don Armando here. Celibacy is required throughout the training (and for a certain period of time, also afterwards). Personal perfumes and deodorants should be avoided. Should one have special dietary requirements – and is for instance vegan or 100% vegetarian (who cannot eat fish) – we can provided a more flexible diet as an optional extra and one may have also salad, vegetables and certain fruit. One should concentrate on their shamanic training and avoid going to town during this dieta (unless for a real emergency). 45 Days Shamanic Diet with Master Trees Retreat: Price, Reservation and Booking Don Armando maintains that it takes double efforts and double work to accommodate vegans and 100% vegetarians, as neither salad, nor vegetables, or fruit are otherwise allowed in the shamanic dieta and all non-customary food needs to be “cured” with icaros before being served. Following the strict traditional shamanic dieta with master trees one should only have chargrilled Amazonian fish and chargrilled green plantains to eat (three courses a day, except when there are night ceremonies involving the drinking of plant teachers or master trees), and water to drink. So you get as bonus oat, porridge (unsweetened/unsalted), rice and rice pudding (unsweetened/unsalted). Don Armando maintains that the traditional shamanic dieta with master trees needs necessarily to be strict in order to be successful, and for one to make the most of it, by creating a spiritual link with the energy and power of the genios of the master trees. This is true when dieting with a single master tree at once, but much more so when dieting with 35 master trees and vines, plus tobacco, Coca leaves and Cacao bark ALL together. Amazonian fish is an essential food staple in the shamanic diet, however, Don Armando may also cater for the special needs of vegans and 100% vegetarians (who do not eat fish), who are called to do the shamanic apprenticeship or the shamanic dieta with master trees. In this case, extra food (which would otherwise not be allowed) like salad, vegetables, vegetables soup, and certain fruits will be included to compensate for the lack of fish. We do ask for a contribution of £ 240 GBP extra for the 45 days shamanic dieta, when participants are vegans or 100% vegetarians who do require a more flexible diet and do not eat fish. Don Armando maintains that in order to break the traditional rules and allow food not otherwise permitted in the shamanic dieta it will demand lot of more work on his side, to “cure”with his protective icaros the food served to our vegan/vegetarian guests and make sure that one’s progress won’t be hindered by the flexible food staple introduced. This special arrangement is only possible with Don Armando. And we warmly invite our vegan and vegetarian friends to meditate on the fact that dietary indications on what is traditionally allowed or not in a shamanic diet with master trees originate from the plant spirits themselves, as revelations to the shamans who simply comply with the indications received from the realm of plant spirit medicine. ________ ________ This shamanic diet also includes Ayahuasca ceremonies, learning how to conduct and be protected during the Ayahuasca ceremonies, learning the practice of icaros (shamanic magical melodies and secret medicine songs), 2 Camalonga rituals (per week), 3 Toé rituals (per week), rituals with master trees and a giant Suni ayahuasca vine growing wild in the rainforest (three times a week), rituals of spiritual purification (twice a week, in the afternoon) and cleansing ritual baths with fresh and cooked teacher plants. Some of the rituals with Master trees will take place in the jungle of our Pumasacha rainforest reserve where even more and bigger Master trees are to be found. The Lupuna blanca and the Puka lupuna master trees – reputed by Don Armando to be the most shamanically important trees of the Amazon rainforest – are encountered in another rainforest area, located nearly 40 km away, where we have full access. The visit to this reserve to perform shamanic rituals with the Lupuna trees will be at cost price, and one is kindly expected to contribute towards the cost of the taxi or motokar, to get there and back on the same day (6 hours trip, including hiking in the rainforest and travel times). The 45 days shamanic diet with master trees is indicated for a vast array of purposes. As initial (self-contained, independent) stage of a rigorous shamanic apprenticeship, for cleansing of the energetical and physical body, to eliminate brujeria (black magic) and spirit possession, to treat saladera, to strengthen one’s healing energy and capabilities (particularly if one is already a practitioner of holistic medicine and therapies), to protect one’s own energy field with arkanas (energetic protections from the spirit world), as shamanic healing treatment to address serious health issues (including drug addiction) and psychological conditions (like depression, stress, family and/or relationship problems). ________ The most essential aspect of the shamanic healing diet – whether done for cycles of 45 days, 3 months, or more – is that the master trees will teach one (in dreaming and with visions) medicine and icaros (magical songs from the spirit world), will empower one’s life, and give strength and wisdom. The spirits of the master trees may appear in form of animals, men, women, spirit beings, elderly men or women, or “abuelo/abuela” grandfather/grandmother spirits (like the Lupuna blanca, or Ceiba tree, the “abuelo” grandfather of the forest). ________ Please note: Perspective participants taking antidepressants or other incompatible medication, and/or suffering from incompatible conditions, may not take Ayahuasca, Camalonga, or Toé, but may nevertheless join the Ayahuasca rituals with the shaman, which remain essential for diagnostics and evaluate the progress of a therapy. _____________________________ ________ Begins on Mondays. Cycles of 45 days each. Up to 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies (per week), 2 rituals with Palos Maestros (per week), 1 shamanic ritual in front of ancient grandmother Suni ayahuasca vines growing wild in the jungle (per week), 2 rituals of spiritual purification, with smudging (per week), 3 Toé dream journeys (per week), and 2 Camalonga dream rituals (per week). 45 days shamanic diet with Master trees typically includes: Programme may vary from case to case, according to the shaman you may do the retreat with and in line with your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual conditions. 45 Days Shamanic diet with Master trees retreat: Price, Reservation and Booking Chaliponga (Diplopterys cabrerana) leaves freshly harvested by Don Armando in preparation of the Ayahuasca brew. ________ Download our FREE PDF Programmes for the: • “SHAMANIC PLANT DIETA APPRENTICESHIP” retreat (3 Months/91 Days) • “SHAMANIC DIETA WITH MASTER TREES” (45 Days) • “SHAMANIC PLANT DIETA WITH TOÈ” (31 Days) ________ The fourth and last type of diet we offer is the shamanic apprenticeship dieta with sacred master plants and trees, which is specifically designed for those wishing to commit to the shamanic apprenticeship. This has an initial length of 13 weeks (3 months/91 days), which may be extended to a maximum of 26 weeks (6 months) continuously, for the more experienced who have already been exposed to the long shamanic diet in the jungle. We offer two different styles of shamanic dieta apprenticeship: 1. Diet with thirty-five different types of master trees and vines ALL AT ONCE, together with organic black jungle tobacco (Mapacho), Coca leaves and Cacao bark. 2. Diet with an individual master tree at a time, drinking a brew prepared with 1 teacher tree twice a month, for a month each. Register to receive the FREE PDF programme for 3 months/13 weeks “Shamanic plant diet apprenticeship” training, in Peru, for a full daily programme outline of the shamanic retreat. The ultra-concentrated brew made with the bark of 35 different types of master trees and vines is prepared by Don Armando in a similar fashion to the Ayahuasca brew, boiling over a wooden fire for about 8-10 hours the bark of the teacher trees until the original 50 litres of water are reduced to just about a couple of litres, then filtering the decoction, and let it to rest. Have a look here to get to know the master trees which make up the concentrated brew to drink. The way the master trees brew is prepared (for the apprentice dietero/a to drink during the shamanic diet) is intended to give one a powerful, concentrated and very intensive, long lasting learning experience and differs from the conventional way of drinking the bark of single trees, one by one, for a certain period of time, left simply in infusion. Because of the nature and intensity of the training, and the vast number of ceremonies with plant teachers one will take part to, this is the type of shamanic dieta with more stringent restrictions on food allowed, consisting in chargrilled Amazonian fish, chargrilled green plantains, oat, porridge, rice porridge, water and – occasionally coconut water. All food needs to be unsweetened, unsalted, and unseasoned. Learn more about the diet food allowed with Don Armando here. 3 Months Shamanic Plant Diet Apprenticeship Retreat: Price, Reservation and Booking ________ It starts from 3 months/13 weeks/91 days, as initial cycle/foundation course. Both shamanic diet apprenticeship styles include Ayahuasca ceremonies, learning how to conduct and be protected during the Ayahuasca ceremonies (also fending off bad spirits), practice of icaros (shamanic magical melodies and secret medicine songs), Camalonga dream rituals (twice a week), Toé rituals (three times a week), rituals with master trees and giant wild black ayahuasca vines in the rainforest (thrice a week). They also include shamanic talks, sharing sessions with the shaman (every morning, following the ceremonies with plant teachers, including Ayahuasca), cleansing and flourishing ritual baths with fresh and cooked teacher plants, master trees, colognes and essences. Most of the rituals with Master trees will take place in the jungle, in the neighbouring Pumasacha rainforest reserve compound. The Lupuna blanca and the Puka lupuna master trees (reputed by Don Armando to be the most shamanically important trees of the Amazon rainforest), however, are only found in another rainforest area, located nearly 40 km away. The visit to this other reserve to perform shamanic rituals with the Lupuna trees will be at cost price, and one will only be expected to contribute towards transportation costs (by either taxi or motokar), to get there and back on the same day (6 hours trip, including hiking in the rainforest and travel times). The main objective of this diet is, let’s not forget it, to prepare one to enter the path of Amazonian shamanism, the world of healers and master plants, and give one the essential tools to begin to operate in the real world as an advanced student of Amazonian entheogenic shamanism. The shamanic plant dieta with Master trees may not be suitable for vegans or for 100% vegetarians, as Amazonian fish will be served as an essential part of the menu. However, as with the 45 days shamanic diet with master trees, with Don Armando is will also be possible to accommodate vegans and vegetarians (who don’t eat fish) alike and have a more flexible food regimen, like salad, soup, vegetable soup, vegetables, and certain fruits, otherwise not allowed in the shamanic dieta. Because of the extra shamanic work involved, we ask for a contribution of £ 400 GBP extra for the 3 months/13 weeks shamanic dieta, when participants are vegans, or 100% vegetarians, do not eat fish, and do require a more flexible diet. Don Armando maintains that in order to break the traditional rules and allow food not otherwise permitted in the shamanic dieta will require more work on his side, He will need to constantly “cure”with his protective icaros the food served to our vegan/vegetarian guests and make sure that one’s progress won’t be hindered by the introduction of flexible diet food in the strict shamanic dieta. This special arrangement is only possible with Don Armando. Once again, we warmly invite our vegan and vegetarian friends to meditate on the fact that traditional dietary indications on what is allowed (or else not) in the shamanic dieta with master trees originate directly from the plant spirits themselves, as revelations to the shamans who simply comply with the indications received from the realm of plant spirit medicine. If you are unsure on whether you can commit to the rigours of the shamanic/healing diet, or to the longer shamanic apprenticeship, you should opt for a shorter, exploratory, introductory “Pre-diet” (plant diet testers, anything from 2 weeks onward), or else, go for the Ayahuasca retreat instead. Or else more, go for the less demanding but still powerful and intense 45 days shamanic dieta with master trees. 3 Months Shamanic Plant Diet Apprenticeship Retreat: Price, Reservation and Booking _____________________________ _____________________________ In a nutshell: it lasts 13 weeks/91 days. Begins on Mondays. Choose to diet with 1 to 35 different types of master trees and vines (mixed with black jungle tobacco, Coca leaves and Cacao bark) AT ONCE, take part to 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies (per week), 3 shamanic rituals with master trees and with wild black ayahuasca vines in the jungle (per week), 3 Toé Dream journeys (per week), 2 Camalonga dream rituals (per week). It also include one tobacco ceremony at night, ritually drinking a strong brew prepared with organic black jungle tobacco, and drinking in ceremony the powerful juice of the Toé plant (Brugmansia suaveolens), once a month. _____________________________ Download our FREE PDF Programmes for the “Shamanic Plant Dieta Apprenticeship” retreat (3 Months/91 Days) or else, please open the link below. _____________________________ _____________________________ 13 weeks shamanic plant diet apprenticeship, typically includes: Programme may vary from case to case, according to the shaman’s assessment of your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual circumstances. 3 Months Shamanic Plant Diet Apprenticeship Retreat: Price, Reservation and Booking _____________________________ Retreats are facilitated in Spanish and English, as a courtesy to all our guests.San Pedro retreat. Explore more and see what is included here...
Plant Diet testers, or Pre-Dieta.
The pre-Dieta retreat. Explore more and see what is included here...
Camalonga diet (31 days) and types of Camalonga brews
The Camalonga diet. Explore more and see what is included here...
The Camalonga Dream ritual
The Camalonga dream ritual. Explore more here...
Shamanic Healing Diet with Master trees (cycles of 45 days each)
The 45 days shamanic diet. Explore more here...
Shamanic Apprenticeship Diet retreat
The traditional shamanic apprenticeship. Explore more here...
Shamanic Apprenticeship Diet retreat: What is included?
The shamanic diet apprenticeship with master plants. What does it include?
Interpreter Spanish-English
FREE onsite interpreting Spanish-English and English-Spanish
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Amazon jungle trips and river excursions in private speedboat
Ayahuasca, San Pedro and pre-dieta retreats may be combined with our Yanamono and Four Rivers jungle excursion programmes, visiting native Bora and Yagua communities, watching Amazon pink dolphins, visiting the alligators and Arapaima fish farm of Barrio Florido and exploring the primary rainforest of the Yanamono reserve to see the magical giant Lupuna blanca, the sequoia of the Amazon. All included of private speedboat and personal bilingual guide Spanish-English (different from the English-speaking facilitator at the retreat).
“Yanamono” and “Four Rivers” Amazon Jungle and River Trips: Price, Reservation and Booking
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Cost, Payment, Reservation & Booking
All retreat prices are in GBP (UK Pounds) and are published at the relevant cost page at the link here. You may initiate your reservation process by sending the correspondent payment for your staying first, and then filling-in and submitting the Online Booking Form.
Cost, Reservation & Booking. Explore more here...
Retreat prices are published here. Initial deposit of £ 400 GBP p.p. must be paid upfront contextually to your reservation, to hold your spot for the dates of your retreat. The deposit may be redeemable against the final balance, unless cancellations on your side. You may also pay the full price in one go, as you see fit. Final balance is due, respectively, 30 days (for Ayahuasca and San Pedro retreats) or 50 days ahead (for all types of plant diet retreats: pre-diet, Camalonga diet, Toé diet, 45 days master tree diet, 13-26 weeks shamanic plant diet apprenticeship, etc) ahead of your reserved retreat’s start date. You may pay by wire transfer, or with your credit/debit card via PayPal (4.5% flat fee for PayPal payments, worldwide), using the correspondent payment buttons and selecting your preferred payment option at Checkout, after registering your details. Upon receipt of your initial deposit or full payment (whichever comes first) and booking form, you will be sent (by email) the PDF agreement of participation, which includes a detailed medical questionnaire, to fill-in, date, sign and return (by email), alongside copy of your valid passport (only the page-s with your photo & personal details). Please make sure you won’t be taking any medication and don’t have any (physical or mental) health condition incompatible with Ayahuasca, before booking your place at the retreat. Should you have an incompatible condition and/or are taking incompatible medication and still wish to come, you might still be accepted at the retreat but may not take Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Camalonga, Tobacco, or Toé during your staying. In this last case scenario, you may still participate to all ceremonies with the shaman, but without actually drinking any plant brew.
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FURTHER INSIGHTS INTO THE SHAMANIC PLANT DIET
The Shamanic Apprenticeship and the Shamanic Plant Diet. Explore more here...
What Is The Shamanic Plant Dieta?
Shamanic Plant Diet Apprenticeship: The Way of Wisdom
The Master trees and Plant Teachers of the Shamanic Diet
Shamanic Plant Diet and Ayahuasca
The Shamanic Plant Diet: Restrictions, Food and Plant Teachers
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Meditation in front of a giant Soliman ayahuasca vine, growing wild in the jungle surrounding our retreat centre.
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Download our FREE PDF Programmes for the:
• “SHAMANIC PLANT DIETA APPRENTICESHIP” retreat (3 Months/91 Days)
• “SHAMANIC DIETA WITH MASTER TREES” (45 Days)
• “SHAMANIC PLANT DIETA WITH TOÈ” (31 Days)
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