Ayahuasca Foundation, Iquitos, Peru
Up to 12 in group
February 23 - March 4, 2025
About this Retreat
Doña Angela is the sister of don Enrique and don Ronor. She studied in the same Shipibo healing tradition, based on relationships with five plant spirits: Noya Rao, Bobinsana, Chiric Sanango, Marusa, and Chullachaqui. She leads our shorter retreats at the Riosbo Retreat and Research Center. She's a mother and her caring spirit is felt in ceremony as well as during the treatments she provides. Doña Angela has a compassionate and caring energy and enjoys teaching and guiding program participants as well as our own facilitators. Her presence is enjoyed by everyone who comes in contact with her. It's a pleasure to offer programs with her and to know her.
Details of this retreat
HARMONIZE YOUR HEALTH
Our 10 day ayahuasca retreat provides a special opportunity to receive tremendous benefit in a short amount of time. Retreat participants spend 10 days at the Riosbo Ayahuasca Research Center where they will attend 5 ayahuasca ceremonies led by a Shipibo maestro and five assistant healers. To enhance the healing effect of the ayahuasca ceremonies, participants also receive numerous treatments with other plant medicines to cleanse and balance all of their systems. These plant medicines include personalized treatments specific to the needs of each retreat participant as well as integrative techniques that deepen the healing effect by addressing one's perceptions and reactions to experiences. By combining ancestral traditions of plant medicine, meditation, and yoga with new discoveries consciousness enhancement this retreat offers the optimal opportunity to achieve harmony in your body, mind and spirit.
Ayahuasca ceremonies are powerful awareness expanding experiences that amplify participants' senses. The effect of ayahuasca increases sensory perception beyond the normal biological limitations. Participants can see beyond the visible spectrum, hear beyond the audible spectrum, and feel beyond the spectrums of intuition. This experience of heightened awareness empowers ceremony participants to play an active role in your own healing process. By increasing the messaging we receive from our sense organs, including our gut, brain, and heart, we can better discover for ourselves the roots of our afflictions and the best way forward to regain harmony and balance in our lives. With expanded awareness, we can also connect more directly with the spiritual dimension, which exists in frequencies of energy that are normally beyond the spectrums of our perceptive abilities. The Shipibo curandero works within these spiritual realms to collaborate with plant spirits to assist in the healing process.
Each day during the retreat, participants receive medicinal plant treatments to detoxify, cleanse, and restore their natural health. Before each treatment, the facilitators describe its purpose and effect, and assist the curandero. They also lead complimentary activities like yoga, meditation, massage, and counseling. This retreat is much more than just attending ayahuasca ceremonies. All of the additional plant medicine treatments work together with the ceremonies to produce the highest possible outcome for health on every level. The complimentary practices not only deepen the healing experienced during the retreat, but also help to form healthy habits to continue after the retreat. Counseling sessions for preparation and integration are also included in the cost of the retreat.
Consciousness Enhancement
> Guided Meditation: one of the most effective methods for mental discipline and focus, meditation is a practice that demonstrates the true power of the consciousness and its influence on our lives. With guidance in particular thought paths and perspective, inner environments can be upgraded to nourish the healing process.
> Yoga: a well known practice for increasing flexibility and focus, calming the mind, and boosting the immune system, yoga has spread throughout the world due to its obvious and immediate benefits. Taught by a certified Iyengar yoga instructor, daily yoga is a perfect compliment to the healing plant tradition of ayahuasca.
> Life Coaching: creating intentional change in life helps with knowing who you are and discovering the fullest potential for yourself. Counseling helps to discover new perspectives about yourself, and design your own best ways of living. Facilitators assist with enhancing understanding of personal choices and life transitions.
This ayahuasca retreat has been developed for over a decade. Participants follow a healing process involving daily treatments and therapies, accompanied by integrative consciousness enhancement processes and counseling. After ten days in our jungle lodge, five ayahuasca ceremonies, and a progression of natural remedies and plant treatments, participants return to Iquitos feeling refreshed and ready to move forward with a system running smoothly. Once participants return to Iquitos, they will have time to decompress and process their experiences in the jungle, and to enjoy the beauty and culture of the Amazon Rainforest. Our staff will assist with travel plans, shopping trips, advice, and anything else we can provide to make the experience more beneficial. We continue to stay in contact with all of our retreat participants via email and social media to provide further support and guidance after the retreat.
The $3250 price includes:
TREATMENT
5 traditional Ayahuasca Ceremonies
Led by an indigenous curandero and the AF assistants
Guided Meditations
Enhance focus and mental discipline for healing
Private consultations with the curandero
Translated by the assistant healers
Daily Piñon Colorado brain/blood remedy
Taken three times a day for the duration of the retreat
Sangre de Grado digestive system cleanse
Reset digestive enzymes and enhance nutrient absorption
Vapor Baths with five medicinal plants
Sweat out toxins and replace them with healing medicine
Mucura sinus cleanse
cleanse the sinuses and boost immunity against allergies
Smoke Baths
Increase energetic defenses and protection from negativity
Chiric Sanango nervous system cleanse
Boost the immune system and release emotional blockages
Love Baths
For attracting positive energy, good luck, and love
Any additional treatments
Poultices, medicines, massage, or whatever is needed
ACCOMMODATION
Pre-program counseling session with AyaHelp.com
Gain insights into how best to prepare for the experience
Airport pickup
You'll be met at the Iquitos airport and brought to the hotel
Accommodations for two nights at a hotel in Iquitos
The nights before and after the retreat – hotel has wi-fi
Dinner in Iquitos before the retreat begins
The group will meet the night before the retreat begins
Accommodations for 9 nights at the Riosbo Center
Private rooms with en suite bathrooms and electricity
Transportation to and from the Riosbo Center
Air conditioned bus (1hr) and an amazing boat ride (1hr)
At least two meals a day, following a healing diet
Fruit, vegetables, quinoa, lentils, grilled fish, eggs, etc.
Translation of entire program when needed
Assistants also add their own experiences and teachings
Access to the Assistants for counseling/guidance
Five assistants will be available throughout the retreat
USB of retreat photos and ceremony recordings
Audio recordings of ceremonies and digital photos
Other gifts and educational items
You’ll receive other gifts and healing tools as well
Post-program counseling session with AyaHelp.com
Enhance the process of integration when you get home
Retreats are led by a Shipibo curandero assisted by two english speaking facilitators and two Peruvian apprentices. We take a maximum of 12 participants