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Ten Day Women's Ayahuasca Retreat - $3450

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Ayahuasca Foundation, Iquitos, Peru
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Up to 12 in group
Date
June 7 - 16, 2026

Retreat Highlights

  • Five Ayahuasca Ceremonies led by a Shipibo curandero
  • Sangre de Grado purgative to cleanse the digestive system
  • Vapor baths to remove physical and emotional toxins
  • Mucura treatment to cleanse the respiratory system
  • Smoke baths to remove dark and negative energies
  • Chiric Sanango treatment to clean the central nervous system
  • Love baths to attract light and positive energies
  • Yoga, meditation, massage, and counseling

About this Retreat

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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

Getting Here

Location icon Ayahuasca Foundation, Ayahuasca Foundation, Iquitos, Peru

Directions

You must fly to Iquitos, Peru. The group gathers at a hotel in Iquitos the day before the retreat. The morning of the first day the group leaves at 10am on a bus to a village outside of Iquitos and then takes a boat for one hour up the Nanay river into the heart of a national reserve. The retreat center is located on the bank of the river inside the reserve.

Accommodation

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Venue & Amenities

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Towels icon Towels
Free Parking icon Free Parking
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Tour Assistance icon Tour Assistance
Hot Tub icon Hot Tub
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Fitness Center icon Fitness Center
Yoga Studio icon Yoga Studio
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Meals

Menu Types

We cater to all dietary requirements. Our diet begins with an organic vegan plan, with eggs and meat added separately.

What's Included

  • 5 traditional Ayahuasca Ceremonies
  • Guided Yoga and Meditation Sessions
  • Personal consultations with the curandero
  • Daily Piñon Colorado brain/blood remedy
  • Daily Turmeric remedy
  • Daily Tanti Rao remedy
  • Sangre de Grado digestive system cleanse
  • Vapor Baths with five medicinal plants
  • Mucura sinus cleanse
  • Smoke Baths
  • Chiric Sanango nervous system cleanse
  • Love Baths
  • Any additional treatments
  • Pre-program counseling session with AyaHelp.com
  • Airport pickup
  • Accommodations for two nights at a hotel in Iquitos
  • Dinner in Iquitos before the retreat
  • Accommodations for 9 nights at the Riosbo Center
  • Transportation to and from the Riosbo Center
  • At least two meals a day, following a healing diet
  • Translation of entire program when needed
  • Access to the Assistants for counseling/guidance
  • USB of retreat photos and ceremony recordings
  • Post-program counseling session with AyaHelp.com

What's Not Included

  • Airfare to Iquitos

Customer Reviews

4.87 out of 5.0 average rating

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A wonderful maestra
I'm so grateful for the skills of this talented maestra. I felt listened to and cared for. What a wonderful experience in her ten-day retreat. Thank you.

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Immersed in the sacred
What a wonderful experience of the sacredness of all of life. The relationship between the plant world and humans cannot be more appreciated than here. I found a lovely community of seekers being helped by a caring and careful staff. This was indeed a healing experience for the ages. I am so grateful for these ten days with other wonderful women.

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Retreat of May 25
I don’t have much to say about Doña Ángela—other than that she’s a great person and does her job at the highest possible level. She’s the GOAT.

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How my life has changed
It’s been over a year since I completed my initiation course and I’ve been reflecting on how much I’ve grown since this amazing experience, so it seems fitting to finally write my review.
The course itself was everything I expected it to be after reading the write up. It was like Jedi training boot camp.
Early mornings, late nights, so much to absorb and learn.
I definitely found some of my edges and expanded through them.
We were challenged and tested and pushed past our comfort zones.
Some handled it better than others and there was a bit of stuffy energy in the group towards the end but I didn’t let that ruin my experience.

I personally loved most of every moment I got to spend in the jungle, although with the amount of learning there was I would’ve loved a bit more down time to really drop in to my diets.
This was my first experience with plant dietas, and I can definitely say it’s not going to be my last.
When I look back at who I was when I started the course and how much I’ve grown in the past year it’s mind blowing.
I really found my voice in the jungle, before I could barely sing in front of people and judged myself so harshly and now I can confidently sing for hours, in Shipibo and I love what I’m hearing, and so does anyone who gets to witness me in ceremony.

I set the intention before the course to understand the energetics of ceremony and now I am blessed to understand the energetics of everything at a whole new level.

Receiving Enrique’s transmission has changed so much for me, I can feel him with me whenever I’m in ceremony, working with me, still teaching me things a year later. What an amazing gift.

The level of awareness that I have these days exceeds my wildest dreams, I feel like I’m in a beautiful calm ocean at all times, even with all the craziness of life that’s happening all around.

Some things I would suggest for peeps considering this course.
Get ready to grow and leave your comfort zone behind
Push through the learnings, the Icaros are challenging to learns but so magical when you get to use them.
Go in with an open mind and an open heart and remember when things get tough, you get to choose your attitude in handling them.
Always light a mosquito coil before sunset. They actually work, but when I left it too late they reminded me quickly that I’d forgotten.
And bring extra cash. There are so many beautiful things that you may want to buy.

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Retreat of May 25
Hey,

Although I’m super happy with the retreat, I do believe there’s room for improvement—of course, at the end of the day, it’s entirely up to you whether you’d like to consider these suggestions.

1. I only found out in Peru that other participants had 1-on-1 calls with Carlos, but I never received such an invitation.

2. There was a misunderstanding regarding the taxi from the hotel to the airport. I thought it was included, but it turned out I had to pay for it. I eventually sorted this out and transferred the fee to Brian—but it might be helpful to mention on the website that the airport transfer is not included. This was totally my fault, but it did create some inconvenience for Brian.

3. It might also be useful to share approximate food prices near the hotel, so those planning to stay in Iquitos a few extra days can better estimate their budget for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

4. On the second day, after the 1-on-1 consultation with Maestra, I was prescribed a fairly long list of plant-based medicines that was written on the board. However, I received only part of the medicine, and only for two days. If this isn’t included as a consistent part of the program, it may be worth clarifying that, as I assumed I would be taking the prescribed medicine throughout the retreat.

5. I found it difficult to regulate the ayahuasca dosage. I understand it’s a personal choice for each participant, but perhaps after each ceremony, the topic of dosage could be discussed with the facilitators to help determine the appropriate amount for the next session. This could increase participants’ confidence, set clearer expectations, and help them feel better prepared for the following ceremony. In my case, due to uncertainty about how much to take, I had only one great and one decent experience. It took me a while to figure out the right amount, even though Brian did provide guidance.

6. Last but not least, please avoid recommending LATAM Airlines to your future guests. I found out from Brian—only after I had already arrived in Iquitos—that this airline frequently has issues. Unfortunately, I experienced this firsthand on my way back home: my flight to Lima was canceled due to a technical issue with the aircraft, which forced me to reschedule three connecting flights. As a result, I returned to my home country with a one-day delay. LATAM has also rejected my reasonable request to reimburse the costs of the rescheduled flights, even though the disruption was clearly their fault. Moreover, I’m aware that at least two other people from the May 25 retreat also had issues with LATAM. For these reasons, I strongly recommend either not suggesting this airline at all, or clearly warning participants that they fly with LATAM at their own risk.

I’d also like to express my gratitude to Brian, Mariella, and the entire AF staff. They are truly the best at what they do. Most importantly, I feel much better after the retreat. I was in a very dark place before traveling to Peru, and the results of the retreat exceeded my expectations. The sun is shining right on my face now, and I’m excited about what life has to offer. Thank you!

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