The 18-day Shipibo ayahuasca retreat offers a comprehensive plant medicine treatment under the guidance of a genuine curandero in the Amazon rainforest. Participants stay at the Ayahuasca Foundation’s Riosbo Research Center for 18 days, engaging in 9 ayahuasca ceremonies conducted by a Shipibo curandero and their assistant healers. Alongside these ceremonies, participants receive a variety of natural plant remedies aimed at cleansing the mind, body, and spirit, as well as treatments tailored to their specific needs.
This retreat is rooted in the Shipibo plant medicine tradition, empowering participants to gain greater control over their lives and health. The ayahuasca ceremonies provide a unique opportunity for participants to actively participate in their healing journey, confronting negativity, releasing past traumas, and addressing the root causes of their illnesses. Complementary plant treatments further enhance this process, focusing on boosting the immune system, balancing digestion, purifying the nervous system, cleansing the circulatory system, and healing the emotional body. The retreat is designed to be a complete and transformative experience, leading to lasting positive changes and guiding participants towards their path to health and happiness.
To complement the treatments, the retreat includes practices such as guided meditations, yoga, massage, breathwork, counseling, hiking, and swimming. These activities help participants deepen their connection with their consciousness, bodies, emotions, and true nature. This retreat is intended for individuals committed to their healing journey, seeking to go as far as possible to achieve the highest possible outcomes.
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 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.
Retreat Activities
9 ritual ceremonies of Ayahuasca.
1 welcome session to retreat.
7 baths of medicinal plants to cleanse the energetic body.
1 session of vapor, native Asháninka technique.
Massages
Reading your Power animal.
Tobacco cleaning during the ceremony.
Individual healing by the shaman during ceremonies.
Additional cures outside the ceremony if the participant requires it.
Shamanic diet supervised by the shaman.
Alternative therapies to stimulate extrasensory vision.
Assistance and personal conversations about the use and benefits of master plants and the teachings of teachers of various spiritual traditions.
Accommodation and transportation.
Retreat Location
USA – Oregon
Australia – Adelaide
Peru – Tarapoto
Costa Rica – Paya Blanca
New Zealand – Arapaoa Island
Canada – Vancouver Island
Netherland – Texel
Available 18 Days Ayahuasca Retreats
