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Ayahuasca & Plant Medicine Treatment for Depression, PTSD, Trauma (1-3 months)

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Retreat Highlights

  • ✨ Personally designed and tailored healing process with Ayahuasca & Master Plants as is the traditional work of the Amazonian Curandero.
  • 🌿 We are the only master plant healing center in Europe (and one of the few in the world) truly directed by a Peruvian Maestro Curandero with the capacity and experience to offer immersion treatments to heal from afflictions, depression, traumas, and focus spiritual searches and real shamanic initiations - as is the traditional way of the medicine, as it always was in the jungle.
  • 🌺 A closely guided 1-1 process, accompanied by private consultations throughout your entire process with Maestro Sanango.
  • 🌸 Your treatment is personalized according to the healing relationship established together with the Maestro Curandero (Sanango) and the plants. All the work with Ayahuasca and master plant ceremonies, master plant dietas (shamanic healing process), master plant purges and cleanses is carefully selected for your individual situation by Maestro Sanango as needed for your process of healing and understanding.
  • 🌼 The process includes 3-6 Master Plant "Dietas" (shamanic healing process), depending on length of stay, with Master Plants such as Ajo Sacha, Bobinsana, Caapi, Guayusa, Chiric Sanango, Clavo Huasca, Tabaco, Palos and others.
  • 🌷 Extensive process of detoxification and cleansing with master plants using plant purges ("purgas"), plant baths, saunas, work with Kambo, Tabaco (Mapacho), Cactus, and other emetic and purgative master plants, as well as Ayurvedic tools and processes.
  • 🦋 Read more: www.sinchiruna.com/personal-treatments

About this Retreat

Details of this retreat

✨ REBIRTH BEYOND PAIN, DEPRESSION AND ADDICTION ✨

Our Personal Treatments with Master Plants seek to address and heal afflictions such as deep states of Depression, Trauma, Compulsion & Pain.

These are longer processes of typically lasting 1-3 months (or more), that aim to create a permanent and lasting change through directly addressing and releasing the root causes of afflictions and suffering.

The aim is a total reinvention of yourself - a rebirth into a new life beyond the pain. 

We are an intimate master plant healing center that has been operating for 14 years, providing a highly individualised level of care and guidance in your process, with a high level of expertise in our work. Maestro Sanango, who personally oversees and guides all treatments, has 30 years of experience in healing with Master Plants. 

At Sinchi Runa, it is our mission to provide a safe and sacred space in which you can experience genuine healing and awakening, and rediscover a life of fullness, purpose and joy.

✨  WHO WE CAN HELP  ✨

To us, all our afflictions, such as addiction, depression, the aftereffects of trauma, are symptoms of underlying conflicts that many modern treatments and pharmaceutical drugs do not address (and often only numb the symptom along with our vitality and joy for life, without offering long-term healing). Each of these symptoms and pains is also the body, mind and soul asking of us to address and understand the underlying conflict. 

With the help of Master Plants in a Personal Treatment, we seek to move beyond the symptoms of the affliction and heal the true cause, and thereby also rediscover a life of fullness beyond the compulsion, pain or trauma. This is highly individualised and intimately guided process that aims to reconnect you to your deepest essence and opening of the heart, bringing about deep personal transformation and healing, and a life beyond the pain.

We have extensive experience helping people with a variety of afflictions, from mild to severe:

▻ TRAUMA & POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS
▻ SEVERE STATES OF DEPRESSION, ANXIETY & FEAR, AND DIAGNOSES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA, PSYCHOSIS
▻ DISCONNECTION & DISSOCIATION
▻ COMPULSIVE & ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOUR (including substance abuse)
▻ CHRONIC PAIN
▻ AUTOIMMUNE ISSUES
▻ DETOXIFICATION FROM ALL TYPES OF DRUGS (LEGAL AND ILEGAL)

We aim to provide a real, viable alternative to healing these difficult states, by addressing these conflicts from the deepest space of the soul, so that a true and lasting transformation can take place.

If you have doubts or questions about your condition and whether the plants can help, then please reach out. In many cases the plants can provide relief. 

❤️ SUCCESS STORIES & HEALING TESTIMONIALS ❤️

We have successfully helped many people overcome severe states of affliction, depression, trauma and addiction and to discover lives of deep connection, meaning and purpose. We invite to read & watch our healing testimonials from our past participants, and to learn more about our Personal Treatments:

🦋 www.sinchiruna.com/personal-treaments

✨  SANANGO - PERUVIAN MAESTRO CURANDERO ✨

The Personal Treatment is led by Maestro Sanango, a Peruvian spiritual master and “vegetalista” with over thirty years of experience in the Amazonian shamanic tradition. Through thousands of ceremonies and many years of seclusion in the Amazon jungle, he has formed a deep relationship with the spirit of Mother Ayahuasca and a variety of Plant Teachers or “Plantas Maestras”.

Sanango has many success stories of helping individuals who struggled with difficult states of addiction, depression, trauma, and chronic pains to turn their lives around and discover joy and purpose beyond the pain.

Through his work with the plants, he seeks to serve those who come to him to heal from their afflictions, to find joy and purpose in an understanding of their true selves and the unconditional love of the divine.

✨ THE TRADITIONAL AMAZONIAN HEALING PROCESS ✨

The content, length and format of a Personal Treatment is always completely tailored to each individual – no two cases are the same. This process recovers the traditional work of the Amazonian doctor (curandero), in the 1:1 accompaniment of the person’s pains and suffering.

Through a Personal Treatment we work on multiple levels of the being with a variety of holistic tools and the use of master plants, such as detoxifying, emetic and purgative plants (‘Purgas’) and processes, Shamanic Master Plant Diets (‘Dietas’), Master Plant healing ceremonies, as well as  oriental consciousness techniques to awaken the heart. Each ceremony, master plant dieta (including the plant and length), purge or process that the participant does is prescribed according to their personal need by Maestro Sanango, the curandero overseeing the process.

Each step of the process is closely guided through personal consultations and guidance to unfold the delicate process of healing to help open as well as integrate the understanding into the heart. 

The length of stay usually starts from 1 month, but varies on a case-by-case basis, determined together through prior online consultation and preparation. In cases of substance abuse, a minimum stay of three months is considered necessary, and often more is advisable. 

During the healing process, the participant goes into a process of isolation from the world (speaking at the center, with facilitators, guides, and at times other participants is allowed). The process of isolation is a crucial aspect of the work, where we can begin to deeply review our habits, limiting beliefs and conditioning that ties us to our pains, and so begin understanding and releasing them. For processes longer than 3 months, some communication with the outside world can be established. 

✨ SIGN-UP PROCESS ✨

Each process is handled with individual attention, and we create a thorough preparation plan for you before arrival at our center, tailored completely to your situation.

The Sign-up Process has the following steps:

1. Register your interest through the form here, or on our website.

2. Individual Personal Assessment: health screening, motivation and assessment of fit for the Personal Treatment.

3. Online Consultation with Maestro Sanango, to diagnose your unique case and the personal approach to your treatment. This consultation has a deposit of €100, which is later discounted from the price of the process.

4. Preparatory guidelines to begin working immediately from home after the consultation until the arrival at our center, including dietary, detoxifying and supplementary regimens.

If you are taking any contraindicated medications, we will assist you with a plan and guidance for safely reducing and stopping the medication. 

The Personal Treatment is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself the ancient wisdom of Amazonian Shamanism and the loving guidance of the plant world; a place to rediscover your true self and inner strength, and be reborn aligned in love and purpose.

We will be honoured to share this magical process of healing and remembering with you and hope to serve you on your journey.

🌸 Learn More: www.sinchiruna.com/personal-treatments 

🌿 Terms & Conditions: www.sinchiruna.com/terms-conditions/ 

🌺 Contraindications with plant work: www.sinchiruna.com/contraindications/

🦋 Contact: info (at) sinchiruna.com 

Schedule

During your stay you will participate in daily spiritual practice (meditation, yoga), participate in activities around the center such as gardening or tending to the farm animals.

Your process with plants is defined personally for you, and will typically include working with purgative/emetic plants, plant medicine ceremonies, private consultations, integration & sharing circles with Maestro Sanango, and 1-1 private consultations with Maestro Sanango.
There is no 'time' on retreats, to invite you to enter a space of silence and being with nature and introspection, as this is a fundamental part of the healing process.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

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Directions

We are located in the Spanish region of Andalucia, close to the border of Portugal and about 1 hour from Seville or Faro airport. The closest big city to us is Huelva from where a transfer will pick you up and take you to our retreat center. There are daily connections from both Seville and Faro to Huelva. Further details will be shared with you upon registration.

Accommodation

You will stay in a private, spacious and comfortable bell tent, immersed in nature. Each tent is set in the countryside's natural beauty and view, with conditions conducive to connecting with nature, oneself and with the spirits of the plants.

This the initial cost of application for the process (later discounted from your process), which includes an extensive medical screening, and an initial online consultation with Maestro Sanango to diagnose your case (including personalized preparation regimen before arrival, definition of length of your process, and cost).

Venue & Amenities

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We are located in the beautiful and quiet countryside about 1 hour from both Seville and Faro Airport (Portugal) in the Spanish region of Andalucia.
Our retreat venue is immersed in nature, in a forest garden bordering a nature reserve. You wake up to the sound of the wind and the birds, sleeping in tents interspersed between the trees.

Meals

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Menu Types

Our delightful home cooked meals are vegetarian and low-sodium in accordance with the preparatory guidelines for Ayahuasca and Master Plant work.

What's Included

  • ✨ Personally designed and tailored healing process with Ayahuasca & Master Plants as is the traditional work of the Amazonian Curandero.
  • 🌿 We are the only master plant healing center in Europe (and one of the few in the world) truly directed by a Peruvian Maestro Curandero with the capacity and experience to offer immersion treatments to heal from afflictions, depression, traumas, and focus spiritual searches and real shamanic initiations - as is the traditional way of the medicine, as it always was in the jungle.
  • 🌺 A closely guided 1-1 process, accompanied by private consultations throughout your entire process with Maestro Sanango.
  • 🌸 Your treatment is personalized according to the healing relationship established together with the Maestro Curandero (Sanango) and the plants. All the work with Ayahuasca and master plant ceremonies, master plant dietas (shamanic healing process), master plant purges and cleanses is carefully selected for your individual situation by Maestro Sanango as needed for your process of healing and understanding.
  • 🌼 The process includes 3-6 Master Plant "Dietas" (shamanic healing process), depending on length of stay, with Master Plants such as Ajo Sacha, Bobinsana, Caapi, Guayusa, Chiric Sanango, Clavo Huasca, Tabaco, Palos and others.
  • 🌷 Extensive process of detoxification and cleansing with master plants using plant purges ("purgas"), plant baths, saunas, work with Kambo, Tabaco (Mapacho), Cactus, and other emetic and purgative master plants, as well as Ayurvedic tools and processes.
  • 🦋 Read more: www.sinchiruna.com/personal-treatments

What's Not Included

  • Airfaire and transport to the pick-up location is not included.

Customer Reviews

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My Sinchi Runa Ayahuasca Experience: A journey of Discovery, Healing and Stillness
I entered the ayahuasca retreat with the weight of unresolved issues—family wounds, fears, regrets, and guilt. One of my core intentions was to explore my relationship with my son. I wanted to break the generational cycle of trauma passed down from my parents and theirs, and make sure I wasn’t repeating the same patterns.

Over the course of three ceremonies, the experience unfolded in three distinct phases: discovery, healing, and stillness.

Ceremony One: Discovery

The first ceremony was powerful. Almost immediately after the journey began, I felt something shift. Without any intention or prompting, I just knew—I no longer needed alcohol or recreational drugs. I realized this was the experience I’d been chasing all my life. That need for excess, the constant search for highs—it all fell away. Since that night, I haven’t touched a drink, nor felt the urge.

The experience was emotional in every sense. I moved through shame, joy, sorrow, fear, compassion—every feeling, every nuance. I relived moments with my son—times I could have responded with more love but chose frustration or anger instead. I cried deeply. I also experienced pure joy.

For the first time, I truly forgave my parents. I had been trying to do this for years. But in that moment, it finally released. What I learned was simple but life-changing: all I need is to create space—space to respond with compassion, space to be present. That is my truest self.

After the ceremony, walking back to my tent, I felt so light I was almost skipping. Then I burst into laughter—uncontrollable, hysterical laughter—at the absurdity of my old ways. I realized how exhausted I was from constantly leading, deciding, performing. I just wanted to be, to rest. And for the first time in a long while, that felt okay.

Ceremony Two: Healing

Going into the second ceremony, I was apprehensive. The first one had been so intense, and I didn’t know if I was ready for more. But what I received was very different—gentle, powerful healing.

As the medicine took hold, I saw something at the edge of my vision—geometric patterns, colors, dimensions. When I finally turned my attention to it, we locked eyes. It was her—Mother Ayahuasca, or maybe Mother Nature, or God—however you want to define it. She knew I needed healing. She wrapped herself around me, held me, protected me, and told me: Even if you can’t see me, I’m always here. And when you need me, return to nature.

Through that ceremony, I practiced going in and out of deep meditation. Every time I dropped back in, she returned with another message. At one point, I felt like a little boy again—laughing, crying, wanting to be taken care of. That’s what I needed. To just be loved. And that’s exactly what I received.

Ceremony Three: Stillness

My intention for the third ceremony was clear: stillness. I wanted to stay in deep meditation and silence.

And I did. For the first time in my life, my mind was quiet. Truly quiet. I was at peace—completely, effortlessly. No fear. No stress. No noise. Just pure stillness and an overwhelming sense of love emanating from within.

I was honestly shocked by how peaceful I could feel. That this kind of inner calm was even possible—especially considering how fast-paced and demanding my life is. And it came from within me. That was the most profound realization.

Integration: Carrying It Forward

Coming back into the real world, I felt fragile—open, vulnerable. I worried about slipping back into old patterns. But I’ve been using the tools I brought back: the music, the chants, daily meditation. Even if I’m stuck in traffic or standing in a queue, I’ll put on the playlist, breathe, and recenter.

One of the biggest lessons came from that second night—the experimentation. It showed me that staying in this state of peace takes work. Practice. Intention. Stillness. The truth is, all the answers are already within me. They always have been. But accessing them requires quieting the noise of the world, again and again.

Ayahuasca didn’t give me anything I didn’t already have. It just reminded me of who I am—and who I’ve always been beneath the noise. A man capable of love, of compassion, of peace. A man healing for himself, and for his son.

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Multumesc Sinchi Runa
A few years ago, the solid ground on which i believed i was standing, shattered. I didn't knew anymore what was real and what was fantasy. A frantic search for understanding begun, but more importantly, it was a search for meaning, a search for filling the hole i felt in my chest, a search for love.
One day i was crying uncontrollably in my car, driving back from work, thinking that i can not live this life anymore, but feeling completely trapped, in an unfulfilling job, in an unhappy marriage, living a fake life, feeling fake myself and wanting to run away from it all.
At the same time, i was spending all my free time trying to make sense of it all, reading and researching on all topics that had to do with the nature of existence, from philosophy to physics, to psychology, from aliens to conspiracy theories to channeling to spirituality to psychedelics.
I felt i had a better mental understanding of the world i was living in, but at the same time, that hole, that emptiness i felt inside myself was still there. Covering it up with addictions was not working anymore, not when i knew , theoretically at least at that point, that there is something else out there, a different way of being, a different way of feeling, a different way of thinking.
That led me to the point of this story, my first visit to Sinchi Runa for a 3 week long Ayahuasca retreat. This was happening about 4 years ago, in Autumn, in Portugal.
I still remember my first Ayahuasca ceremony, which was and still is, the most intense, the most unbelievable, the most beautiful experience i ever had in this life. I remember the disbelief, i could not believe that such a thing was possible.
I was crying tears of joy the entire time. I remember after it was finished, i was thinking, if i would have to give everything i own to have this experience, i would do it and it would be worth it.
That first experience and that place i was in, that place of love and acceptance felt more real than anything in this life, more than this, it felt familiar, it felt like i was there before, it felt like home.
Over the years i found that place again, it's always accessible, by opening my heart, so i want to thank Master Sanango for giving me the tool to do that, that tool being sound, mantras, icaros, music that raises my frequency and connects me to divinity and to my own divinity.
Thank you also, Master Sanango, for everything you do during the ceremonies, for showing us the path with the chanting, for the beautiful smells, for your care of each of us when we are having a hard time. Multumesc Master Sanango.
After that first experience there were many others, during the 3 retreats i had at Sinchi Runa, some were beautiful, some were funny, some were hard to go through, but they were always useful and always what i needed.
Ayahuasca will always show me where the trouble is and how to fix it, but it will not fix it for me, that i had and i have to do myself.
It is hard, painful sometimes, frustrating some others, having to face my fears, to start being truthful to myself, to keep my word to myself, to quit my addictions one by one, to stop judging people, to stop worrying about anything and everything.
It is hard, but the payoff is unbelievable, to be at peace, to see the beauty and the love that is all around, to cry of joy, to feel that emptiness being slowly filled with love, love for everyone and for everything, to be silently aware. Silence is happiness.
Lastly i would like to thank all of you there who were my teachers.
Thank you Arjuna, the statue :), it was a joy chanting with you, thank you for the socks, they kept me warm, even though i put them through war, they acquired some holes :). I hope you will get to see India soon, i think you will love it there.
Thank you Madhava, you were my teacher through your actions, you gave us what we needed, according to our behavior, i had this thought, Kambo is the price we have to pay for Ayahuasca :). Thank you for the beautiful homa fire and for your energy, your presence always makes me smile.
Thank you Ananda, thank you for the discomfort, you helped me learn a very important lesson, the one about chasing pleasure and running away from pain. They are the two faces of the same coin. Thank you for the silence.
To end this, thank all of you at Sinchi Runa, you are family.
Multumesc

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Peter
Hello👋.
My name is Peter. I came back home from this resort last week.
I highly recommend Sinchi Runa center. An amazing experience, great team, very good service and a high class shaman with a lot of experience👍👍. I felt safe and looked after there. I will definitely go back there next year.
Thank you very much to the whole Sinchi runa crew - You are doing a great thing🙏🙏❤️

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NYE 2025 Retreat @ Sinchi Runa
What an incredible, somewhat indescribable experience the New Years Eve Retreat @ Sinchi Runa (Spain) was. The setting within itself was beautiful and extremely serene being that it was a silent retreat. The amenities were clearly described and extremely well put.

The staff are all brilliant, shining human beings. From the Maestro himself, Mr Sanango's humour and ease of presence. To Ananda the 2nd hand man.. to Arjuna, Paul, Helge, Mikeala and Andrea... each of them brought a special energy and aura to our special retreat.

Words can't thank you all enough for this life-changing retreat. It certainly won't be the last time we cross paths.

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Great experience, expertly held
My experience at Sinchi Runa was beautiful. It challenged me - as meaningful experiences that require one to turn inwards often do - and the retreat team was there throughout to hold the process with care, skill and consistency. For a week, I felt that I was transported into a timeless place where I could bring myself deeper and deeper into the practice of presence. Several weeks afterwards, I can still feel its effects, and I'm now doing the work needed to bring my insights into daily life. I hope to return to Sinchi Runa for a longer period in the years to come. Thank you to the team!

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