“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.“

Lao Tzu

RETREATS IN COLOMBIA & PERU

OUR MAGICAL AYAHUASCA AND PLANT DIETA/SHAMANIC APPRENTICESHIP RETREATS IN PERU & YAGÉ RETREATS IN COLOMBIA WILL RESUME IN NOVEMBER 2020. More specifically, we shall take new reservations from 01 November, 2020 in PERU, and from 21 November, 2020 in COLOMBIA. All travel advice and resources info for travel to Peru and Colombia have now been moved at this link here. We do hope that after these exceptionally trying times, we may all “take time to be a butterfly”, to say it with Julian Duce!

Ayahuasca and Palero master shaman Don Guido, paying homage to the Remocaspi master tree, in the jungle surrounding our centre, in the Amazon rainforest of Peru, near Iquitos.

In Peru, we offer…

Intensive Ayahuasca retreat, shamanic healing plant diet and shamanic dieta apprenticeship, under the expert guidance of our Palero master shamans, in our private rainforest, near the Allpahuayo Mishana natural reserve (close to Iquitos), in the heart of the PERUVIAN AMAZON. Our centre is open – with retreats usually ongoing – ALL year round, including the Easter, Christmas and New Year period. We also offer private shamanic dieta retreats, as well as private Ayahuasca and San Pedro retreats, subject to availability.

Fully immerse yourself in the magical world of Ayahuasca, Camalonga (Thevetia peruviana, traditionally used by Vegetalistas and Curanderos in Peru, for divination), and other Amazonian shamanic plant medicine like Toé (Brugmansia sp., mainly used by shamans to dramatically enhance the power of vision and divination), Mapacho (Nicotiana sp., for cleansing and protection), and nearly thirty different varieties of powerful Master Trees (Palos Maestros).

You may also integrate your Ayahuasca and shamanic plant diet retreat with a San Pedro (Huachuma) ceremony, the legendary “cactus of the Four Winds“, or book a full San Pedro retreat with Shipibo Maestra Celia Panduro, most renowned for her exquisitely beautiful icaros. Harvest the powerful Chaliponga (Diplopterys cabrerana) in the rainforest surrounding our centre and learn how to prepare the Ayahuasca brew with the shaman. Take part to the Fire meditation ritual (as part of the shamanic diet)…and much more!

No other retreat venue in the Peruvian Amazon offers the wealth of ceremonies with plant teachers one may experience in our Ayahuasca retreat, and nowhere else one may do the shamanic apprenticeship via the plant teachers diet (dieta), taking an ultra-concentrated brew prepared with twenty-eight different types of powerful “palos maestros”.

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In a nutshell, you may choose to take part to a: Ayahuasca retreat: Very intensive, 8-22 days (7-21 nights) long. FIVE Ayahuasca ceremonies, one Toé (Brugmansia sp.) and one Camalonga (Thevetia peruviana) ceremony, per week.

Very intensive, 8-22 days (7-21 nights) long. FIVE Ayahuasca ceremonies, one Toé (Brugmansia sp.) and one Camalonga (Thevetia peruviana) ceremony, per week. San Pedro (Huachuma) ceremony , to complement your shamanic retreat with us – whether Ayahuasca, plant dieta, or shamanic apprenticeship retreat (San Pedro ceremonies are led by Shipibo Maestra Celia and her assistant – or by Shipibo Maestro Ronel and his wife – and are subject to availability).

, to complement your shamanic retreat with us – whether Ayahuasca, plant dieta, or shamanic apprenticeship retreat (San Pedro ceremonies are led by Shipibo Maestra Celia and her assistant – or by Shipibo Maestro Ronel and his wife – and are subject to availability). San Pedro retreat: 8 days/7 nights long. FOUR San Pedro, two Ayahuasca, one Camalonga and one Toé ceremonies (San Pedro ceremonies are led by Shipibo Maestra Celia and her assistant – or by Shipibo Maestro Ronel and his wife – and are subject to availability).

8 days/7 nights long. FOUR San Pedro, two Ayahuasca, one Camalonga and one Toé ceremonies (San Pedro ceremonies are led by Shipibo Maestra Celia and her assistant – or by Shipibo Maestro Ronel and his wife – and are subject to availability). Shamanic plant diet tester/pre-dieta retreat: 8+ days; typically THREE Ayahuasca ceremonies, three Toé and two Camalonga dream rituals, per week.

8+ days; typically THREE Ayahuasca ceremonies, three Toé and two Camalonga dream rituals, per week. Shamanic dieta with the magical Toé (Brugmansia) plant teacher : 10-60 days long (the standard programme is made of 31 days).

10-60 days long (the standard programme is made of 31 days). Shamanic diet with the plant teacher Camalonga: 30-90 days long; THREE Ayahuasca, three Toé and two Camalonga dream rituals, per week.

30-90 days long; THREE Ayahuasca, three Toé and two Camalonga dream rituals, per week. Shamanic diet with Master trees: Cycles of 45 days each; THREE Ayahuasca ceremonies, three Toé and two Camalonga rituals, per week. Drink ceremonially a special, ultra-concentrated, powerful brew prepared by our Palero shaman with twenty-eight different varieties of powerful Master trees.

Cycles of 45 days each; THREE Ayahuasca ceremonies, three Toé and two Camalonga rituals, per week. Drink ceremonially a special, ultra-concentrated, powerful brew prepared by our Palero shaman with twenty-eight different varieties of powerful Master trees. Shamanic apprenticeship via the plant teachers diet/dieta: Cycles of 13 weeks each; THREE Ayahuasca ceremonies, three Toé and two Camalonga rituals per week. Drink ceremonially, every 45 days, an ultra-concentrated, powerful, brew prepared by our master palero shaman with twenty-eight types of sacred Master trees. All the above also include: Shamanic rituals with a giant grandmother ayahuasca vine , growing wild in the rainforest surrounding our centre.

, growing wild in the rainforest surrounding our centre. Shamanic rituals with sacred master trees , in the jungle.

, in the jungle. Private consultation with the shaman .

. Rituals of spiritual purification (include smudging with Palo Santo, the Holy Tree) .

. Shamanic cleansing and flourishing baths with plant teachers .

. Courtesy interpreter/facilitator English-Spanish. Complement your Ayahuasca retreat in Peru with private Amazon river boat trips and jungle trips, visiting local Yagua and Bora native communities, seeing the giant Lupuna master tree (the master of all master plants and trees), in the primary rainforest of the Yanamono reserve and a lot more… Please contact us for more info re. dates and availability. Allow 1-2 extra days – to be done at the beginning – to fit-in the jungle trips as well, if doing any type of plant teachers diet. No price difference for the different types of retreat we offer. For prices and payment, please go here. To book your place, follow this link. Or else, learn more here… Please kindly note that at the present moment we do not offer: One off Ayahuasca/Yagé or San Pedro ceremonies on their own , outside the context of the retreat.



, outside the context of the retreat. Ayahuasca, San Pedro or plant diet retreats shorter than 8 days in length. Distant consultations with the shaman in Peru will resume starting from 01 November 2020.

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In Colombia…

In the COLOMBIAN AMAZON we offer incomparable and very intensive Yagé (Ayahuasca) retreats, 8 days to 4 weeks in length – with four all-night Yagé rituals per week – with Taita Bonifacio Gabino Garreta (who belongs to the lineage of Taita Querubin Queta Alvarado, highest spiritual authority of the Kofán people), from the Inga indigenous group of Putumayo. Our Spirit of Yagé retreats are ongoing, all year round (subject to availability), open to individual participants, couples, or small groups, whether absolute beginners, senior apprentices, or accomplished shamanic healers alike! Taita Bonifacio is one of the few shamans who still prepares a very concentrated, powerful, cream-like Ayahuasca, known in Spanish as “Miel de Yagé” (Ayahuasca honey), cooked over a traditional wood-fire, continuously for over 35 hours.

Contact us specifying the precise range of dates you would like to do your Yagé retreat in Colombia, and the number of participants in your party. We now offer the assistance of a full time Spanish-English-Italian facilitator/interpreter, included in the retreat fees.

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Participants must be in good physical, mental and emotional conditions suitable to the activities contemplated in the Yagé retreat. Please familiarize yourself with our Ayahuasca & health and safety information page and carefully read the information provided here, before contacting us. Minimum 30 days advance booking. Private retreat options available. Distant consultations with Taita Bonifacio in Colombia will resume from 21 November 2020. Minimum advance booking: 30 days, for retreats of 1-5 participants (Yagé retreat with Taita Bonifacio Gabino) 50 days, for groups of 6-11 participants, members of the same party (Yagé retreat with Taita Bonifacio Gabino).

SHAMANIC PLANT DIETA PROGRAMMES IN PERU: FREE PDFs DOWNLOADS

Download our FREE PDFs for the shamanic dieta programmes (in the Peruvian Amazon):

• “SHAMANIC PLANT DIETA APPRENTICESHIP” retreat (3 Months/91 Days)

• “SHAMANIC DIETA WITH MASTER TREES” (45 Days)

• “SHAMANIC PLANT DIETA WITH TOÈ” (31 Days)

To finish – quoting Confucius – we may say that at the end of this all:

“THE JOURNEY IS THE REWARD“