Ayahuasca Foundation

It is too resent because my retreat ended yesterday but i can say that i feel relax and centered. It was a combination of hard/harsh work and pleasure. I was very afraid of mother Ayahuasca but following Mariela’s advise i asked Mother Ayahuasca to be gentle with me and she did, therefore my ceremonies were soft and pleasured despite of the vomiting and going to the bathroom.

Maestra Angela, Mariela, Pancho, Clove, Sergio and Brian are wonderful human beings full of knowledge and compassion, exactly what we need when we are so vulnerable with an open heart, soul and body.

The rest of the personal are also wonderful human beings who assisted us in our daily needs always with a big smiles in their faces. Special thanks to Jose, our chef who prepare our delicious meals. He managed to make our food to taste great without salt or oil, how can he do it i do not know but he does!

Thank you VERY MUCH everybody, love, Liliana

Profound experience in the Ayahuasca world, hard and mind-blowing.
The beginning was the hardest part, then slowly finding out what suited me best.

Though the 28 day retreat is not for the faint hearted, everyone in my group had very strong characters and guts. It takes a serious type of person to undertake this retreat. We made deep and meaningful friendships. I had some powerful, and in some ways, transformative spiritual experiences, which continue, weeks later, being a reference for my ongoing spiritual seeking and growth.

The program is run incredibly professionally. The participants are taken extremely good care of. No detail is missed.

What Carlos and his backers and colleagues have put together and operate is a world-class institution.

It is worth it in spades!

I waited 5 months to write my review—more accurately put is to shout praises—for the miraculous healing I received from the plant medicines and the amazing people who devote their lives to the healing mission at Ayahuasca Foundation.
Five years ago I went from my morning workout to going home from a hospital a couple weeks later in a wheelchair, unable to speak properly or hold my head up on the day I was released.
My diagnosis was functional neurological disorder (FND). I had no damage or injury to my brain, yet it continued to intermittently and randomly lose connectivity with other parts of my body. The apparent cause was PTSD which didn’t ring true with me at the time.
Intensive occupational, physical, speech and psychotherapy followed and I learned to live with and manage symptom the best I could. I did pretty well for a short time — till memories from childhood abuse and a rape years later surfaced.
Despite all the techniques I’d learned in therapy, my episodes of debilitating symptoms quickly resurfaced, triggered by environmental factors like light, noise and commotion —even in my own home.
No one in the “medical community” knew how to help me, so I continued on max doses of muscle relaxers, anti-inflammatories, and anti depressants.
By 2025, I still minded many environmental triggers, had frequent problems recognizing my right hand as MY hand, and when I looked in the mirror I only recognized half of my face. The side I could identify with was my right side which often looked like I’d had a stroke —the “messed up” side was me.
Finally, I find myself at the Ayahuasca Foundation, sure that no matter what happened there, I’d leave in a better head space than in what I arrived.
Here’s my miracle—five YEARS of FND, and the crushing weight of abuse and rape in my past—all healed during my 10-day retreat.
It took only one ayahuasca ceremony for my brain to fully recognize my right hand again.
Then, the night following our cocoa ceremony and breath work (the night before our 5th ayahuasca ceremony), as I looked in the mirror to wash my face before bed, I saw someone new in the mirror.
I realized I wasn’t only unable to recognize the left side of my face all these years. What I saw in right side of my face was not me, either!
I was looking at the real me in the mirror, for perhaps the first time in my life!
I’m in tears of gratitude as I write of this moment.
Make no mistake, this retreat was not easy. I felt sick for more than 7 full days as all of the various plant medicines tended to my wounds.
These were clearly also the BEST 10 days of my life, and 5 months later I remain remarkably transformed.

The lodge is quite secluded, a long way out from Iquitos. Situated right next to a small village of maybe a couple hundred residents. There is no electricity other than solar panels. The lodge is rustic but comfortable and well made. The staff are friendly, dependable and honest. I had no concerns about my things. The food is simple but healthy and tasty. The facilitators are friendly, knowledgeable and caring, they listen readily. Situated right on the river, swimming is readily available. The healing modalities are well thought out. It is worth visiting for an extended period just to unplug and unwind. No internet, no phone service other than the retreat's emergency satellite phone.