Ayahuasca Shaman Training – 40 Days

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Malacatos, Loja, Ecuador
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Up to 8 in group
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Retreat Highlights

  • Return to the heart of mother earth

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Ayahuasca, the Grandmother Spirit, is one of the most powerful and sacred medicines on Earth. If you feel her calling, this program is a doorway into her world of wisdom and vision.

You will learn:

How to cook the brew and understand the lunar phases that affect the medicine

Sacred tools: drums, maracas, tobacco, and aromatic plant work

How to lead and support night and day ceremonies

How to hold space for individual and group healing

Understanding ceremonial flow, integration, and energy management

This path is for those who wish to serve the light of the Grandmother and bring her love to others.

2-Month Intensive Medicine Immersion – $8,800 USD
AYAHUASCA AND HUACHUMA TRAINING PROGRAM

An in-depth, immersive experience for those ready to deepen their relationship with the plants and themselves. This is a personal initiation, requiring courage, openness, and dedication.

Includes:

2 to 3 ceremonies per week with Ayahuasca, San Pedro, and Wilka

A 5-day/4-night solo fire vigil with Grandfather Fire

A 9-day Novenary ritual with the medicine (3 ceremonies per week, in isolation)

Vision quest tailored to your personal capacity

Study of medicine songs (icaros) — how to receive them, sing them, and use them for healing

Training in energy cleansing, with and without plants

Walks to sacred rivers, waterfalls, and mountains

Students live independently in a private house with electricity, water, Wi-Fi, swimming pool, Turkish bath, and sauna. Meals are not included — students buy and cook their own food, learning self-reliance alongside spiritual discipline.


SHAMANIC TRAINING
The Call of the Sacred Plants
Walking the Path of Healing, Wisdom and Love
Corazón de Pachamama

For many years, I have walked the path of the sacred — in deep communion with Grandfather San Pedro, Grandmother Ayahuasca, Grandfather Tobacco, and Mama Huilka. These ancient medicines have opened my heart to the profound Love of Mother Earth. Through visions, ceremony, silence, fire, rivers, and prayer, I have come into direct contact with the guardian spirits of these plants and of the sacred objects we use in ceremony.

With humility and gratitude, I received a clear message:
“Share what you have learned. Keep learning every day. Guide those who are ready. Heal those who are suffering.”

This is how the Plants of Power speak. Not in words, but in presence. In dreams. In the wind that moves the leaves. In the song of the fire. In the tears of those who remember who they are.

I have accepted this calling, not as a teacher or a master, but as a brother on the path, a guardian of space, a servant of the spirit. It is my joy and honor to walk alongside those who feel called to awaken, to cleanse, to learn, and to reconnect with the living intelligence of nature.

This work is not for everyone — it is for the courageous of heart. For those who hear the call in the silence of the night. For those tired of the illusions of the modern world. For those who carry within them the longing for something true, sacred, and eternal.

Through the Plants of Power, we return to the Source — the one that lives within us and all around us. The Source of unconditional love, from which all healing flows.

In the darkness of trauma, addiction, loneliness, fear, or spiritual crisis, there is a light — and that light is love. The more of us who answer this call, the more hearts we can help illuminate.

Let us walk this path together —
with reverence, with devotion, with humility,
in service of healing, truth, and love.

— Mukipa Ayllu
Founder, Corazón de Pachamama



Shamanic Training Programs
4-Year Shamanic Training Program
Limited students per year – Entry by interview only

This is a profound, long-term initiation into the sacred medicine path. Over four years, you will spend three months per year in person, receiving direct transmissions from the spirits of the plants and the land.

You will participate in

3 ceremonies per week (with Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Wilka, and Tobacco)

Traditional and visionary teachings with experienced shamans and elders

Rituals such as Temazcal (sweat lodges), limpias (cleansings), and sacred song work

Spiritual pilgrimages to sacred sites in the Andes and Amazon

Personalized mentoring, integration support, and deep inner work

This program is for those ready to walk the medicine path with full commitment, step by step, year by year, with the support of lineage and nature.

Wilka Shaman Training – 16 Days – $5,200 USD
Mama Wilka (Anadenanthera colubrina) is a rare and powerful ancestral medicine, once used by the Mayo-Chinchipe culture, potentially the spiritual ancestors of the Inca.

This program offers a rare opportunity to:

Work with a medicine of 4,000+ years of history

Prepare and receive Wilka in a sacred, ceremonial way

Heal from deep-rooted traumas, addictions, and spiritual blockages

Enter altered states of consciousness to access the golden treasures of spirit

Be initiated into the ancient Huaca lineage of the Andes

Only for those truly called — the spirit of Wilka does not open her doors easily.



San Pedro Shaman Training – 40 Days – $6,900 USD
San Pedro (Huachuma) is a gentle yet powerful grandfather spirit. This training is for those who feel the call to work with his light.

You will learn:

How to harvest and prepare San Pedro, honoring lunar cycles and ceremony timing

Sacred instruments: drum, maraca, perfumes, and tobacco

Ceremony facilitation during both day and night

Cleansing techniques and ceremonial structure

Songs, prayers, and ways of holding space for others

Connecting with the elemental spirits and sacred sites

This program opens the door to a deep, lifelong relationship with Huachuma.



Start Your Journey

If you feel called, write to us. Every participant must first schedule a video interview to ensure alignment and readiness. We welcome all sincere seekers from all paths, cultures, and walks of life.

Corazón de Pachamama is more than a retreat — it is a portal, a school of life, and a home for the spirit.

Come with humility.
Come with courage.
Come ready to remember who you truly are.

Volunteering with Corazón de Pachamama

Occasionally, we welcome volunteers who wish to support others on their healing journey while learning more about plant medicine.

Requirements:

Must complete a minimum 4-day retreat with us

Contribution varies depending on time and participation

Tasks include assisting guests, helping with logistics, and learning from experience

This is a beautiful way to walk the path in service, humility, and gratitude.

ON LINE COURSES
Introducction to the Shamanism

We are offering a rare opportunity to learn directly from a shamanic healer with 27 years of experience healing with plant medicines. Here you will learn about the spiritual beliefs and shamanic practices of his beautiful country.

5 classes course

Learn about:

The shamanic cosmovision of the Andes and jungle of southern Ecuador

The chakana / Andean cross

The apus, spirits of the rivers, waterfalls, lagoons, mountains

How to connect with friendly spirits / communication with spirits

The 4 elements and their guardian spirits

Huacas

Healing ceremonies

Plant medicines - Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Wilka, Tobacco

Energetic cleansings - perfumes, prayers, tools

Instruments and healing songs/ikaros

Rituals in class

The start dates of our courses will be published on our Facebook and Instagram pages

The classes will take place over zoom and are 1.5 hours a class each week

Price: $500 USD

Course of Limpias (Energetic Cleansings)

3 weeks course

Learn about:

What is a limpia, how work the limpia in the life of the persons

Different kinds of limpias

Tools for limpias

Limpias to children, animals and houses

Protections for bad energies

Importance of the moon in different rituals and ceremonies

Baths

Florecimientos

Rituals in class

The start dates of our courses will be published on our Facebook and Instagram pages

The classes will take place over zoom and are 1. hour a class each week

Price: $350 USD

Icaros Course

We are very pleased to share with you the magic of the sacred songs of medicine, understand their meaning, their importance, know when in the rituals they should be used, what they are for, understand their vibration and know the effect they produce when they are used.

We invite you brothers and sisters to participate in this wonderful course that will open a door to the fantastic world of the magic of power songs.

4 Weeks course

Learn

4 Icaros, song of power

1H15 Hour class each week

The start dates of our courses will be published on our Facebook and Instagram pages

Price 450 USD

Personal Coaching

If you are starting to work with power plants, you have any questions regarding certain events before, during and/or after the ceremonies, we offer you personalized advice, do not hesitate to contact us, we are waiting to help you.

Getting Here

Location icon Corazon de Pachamama, Malacatos, Loja, Ecuador

Directions

You can fly to Loja from the Quito airport, or take a bus to Loja from Quito or Guayaquil, which are the international airports.

Accommodation

We offer private rooms and sharing rooms

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Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
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Free Wifi icon Free Wifi
Spa icon Spa
Sauna icon Sauna
Pool icon Pool
Towels icon Towels
Free Parking icon Free Parking
Kitchen icon Kitchen
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Hot Tub icon Hot Tub
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Yoga Studio icon Yoga Studio
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Private room

Meals

Menu

Menu Types

Food is for us a sacred medicine that is organized and prepared with a lot of love.

What's Included

  • All accommodation and food for 8 days
  • 15 Ayahuasca ceremonies
  • Energetic cleansings
  • Consultation with shaman

What's Not Included

  • Flights to Ecuador

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