AMAZON TO THE ANDES 12 DAYS


Our 3-day Ayahuasca retreat in Peru, Into the Manu National Park located in Cusco’s Amazon rainforest ; the indigenous peoples are still practicing this sacred ancestral medicine of the Incas. Make your Ayahuasca retreat; in a magical, immersive, safe, authentic and unforgettable place.
Ayahuasca is a powerful indigenous alternative medicine that is helping many people to find their inner being and their divinity. The mother plant Ayahuasca grows in the Amazon jungle of South America and therefore the best place to perform an Ayahuasca ceremony is in the jungle.
We have developed a unique Ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon jungle of Cusco very close to Machu Picchu. The family hacienda that we have in the jungle of Cusco, is a magical and perfect place for a genuine Ayahuasca retreat. Make your healing with Ayahuasca; in a magical, immersive, safe, authentic and unforgettable place.
In these 3 days of Ayahuasca trip, we only do 1 Ayahuasca ceremony, because only 1 ceremony that lasts 5 to 6 hours brings a gigantic accumulation of varied visions; which need to be processed and interpreted correctly by our shamans in the following days. Doing more than 1 ceremony in a short period of days is overload yourself with visions; and therefore they cannot be processed or interpreted correctly. However, in the event that someone needs or wants a second Ayahuasca ceremony, the second day at night. It is possible to do it, with the previous analysis and approval of our shaman.
Family Home Stay: 02 nights
Our Ayahuasca retreat itinerary includes two nights in rooms shared by two people; if you want a private room (you must add $ 100 for a private room for 2 nights). We have 5 bathrooms which are shared by all Ayahuasca lovers. The bathrooms are constantly cleaned and disinfected.
This incredible Ayahuasca Experience in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, will start with your pick up from your hotel at 5:00 am. we will be driven for 2 hours to the start point of the mountain biking. Before biking from the highlands to the Amazon jungle for 2 hours, we will have a delicious organic vegetarian breakfast. The biking stretch is full of fantastic views of the Andean foothills and the Peruvian cloud forest (optional activity lead by a tour guide). Once we arrive to the hamlet of San Pedro, we will board the van again to be driven for 1 hour to our family lodge.
Upon arrival to our family house, we will show you your rooms and then will have a delicious organic diet. After lunch we will take a refreshing soak in the crystalline temperate rivers we have. Then in the afternoon we will walk for 10 minutes to a beautiful spot of the estate, to do meditation in the river bank. This meditation activity with the sounds of water, will help you in your purification, renewal, liberation, fertility and abundance; and therefore it will prepare you in a better way to receive the sacred drink of Ayahuasca. Then we return to the estate, to ride horses under the sunset and twilight; You will have a moment of your own to reflect and connect with our main star.
After the horse ride, we will have a meeting with our healer or shaman to talk about the intentions and desires we seek when doing Ayahuasca and how she will work with us; You will then have your own time and space for you to write those intentions and wishes on a piece of paper. Then, you will have your free time of 1 hour, so that you can meditate by yourself anywhere on the farm you consider that is best spot and prepare yourself to receive the sacred medicinal drink of Ayahuasca. The Ayahuasca spiritual ceremony lasts around 4 to 5 hours and will take place from 8 pm. until approximately 1:00 am.
** Drinking Ayahuasca in the Amazon rainforest is the best place to have a deep connection with nature and the universe. The sounds of animals at night, the music of the river and the forest create a magical atmosphere of energetic frequencies.
Around 8:30 am in the morning, we will have a nutritious breakfast to charge energy for the post Ayahuasca activities. After your delicious meal, we will get inside the Maloca, which is the adequate spot to interpret your Ayahuasca visions; we will do it, with the help of your shaman and the guide interpreter. The participants will have around 3 hours to perform the interpretation of the Ayahuasca visions. The next days are filled with contemplation, this meeting with your shaman will allow you to get some deeper understanding into your experience. Then a ceremony of physical and spiritual cleansing will take place. This flowering bath ceremony in the river will help you to close a bad stage and begin a new harmonic stage in your life.
After a delicious and organic lunch, we will be driven for 40 minutes to a wild animal rescue center to observe macaws, peccaries, tapirs, monkeys, toucans and more. In the late afternoon, we will climb for 5 minutes to a watch tower built on a tree to observe flocks of birds and the vast amazon jungle under a perfect sunset and twilight (you will have your free time to meditate in this wonderful place). At night and during dinner, we will share interesting jungle tales about Ayahuasca.
** This is a very important day, because our shaman will interpret your Ayahuasca visions; and reveal hidden truths that you seek to know, as well as paths of healing.
After woken you up with a cold fruit smoothie, you will get ready to enjoy an organic breakfast; and to do a MUNAY meditation under a sunrise in the middle of the forest and the lead of your tour guide interpreter. Then we will walk around 10 minutes to the forest to you plant a tree or an Ayahuasca vine that would be yours forever; we will take care of your plant and year by year we will send you photos about its annual growth. This activity will also help to reforest many parts of the Cultural Zone of the Manu National Park.
After, we will do tubing in a pristine river for around 45 minutes; this activity is 100% secure and will be supervised by an expert local guide. After lunch, we will good bye our hosts and we´ll also have the chance to buy Ayahuasca souvenirs from the Peruvian Amazon jungle. Then, we will be driven for 5 hours back to Cusco, where we arrive around 7 pm.
** Our service of Ayahuasca Retreat in the Peruvian Jungle service, is door to door.
Ayahuasca is becoming well known, and Ayahuasca tourism to South America for ayahuasca ceremonies has doubled in the past couple of years. Everyone wants to attain a higher consciousness and peek into the vast unknown universe within.
Ayahuasca is called by some the Spirit Molecule, and by others the God Molecule. It helps people discover the divine within us all. DMT has been the spiritual medicine of indigenous tribes in South America, particularly in Peru and Ecuador. It is a medicine of the jungle. It is a combination of several ingredients, all plants that grow in the jungle, and DMT ayahuasca is a brew of this combination of plants. Spirit vine contains DMT, the God Molecule, or the Spirit Molecule because it puts a person in an altered state of consciousness, a hallucinogenic entheogen.
Many people tout the healing effects of DMT ayahuasca, from the physical level, the emotional level, the mental level, and most importantly the spiritual level, where all illness starts from. If the illness is addressed from within, deep within, the physical manifestation of illness often disappears. If old resentment and anger is let go, health in mind, body and spirit takes its place.
Everyone is different, and the plant medicine reacts differently in each person’s chemistry, mental constructs, and emotional environment. What can you expect? It is a very individualized experience for each person.
There are as many paths to God as there are individuals on the planet; likewise, there are just as many possibilities for an Ayahuasca experience as there are individuals on the planet. Your experience with Ayahuasca will be unique and will be your own. Just as with meditation, some people are very visual types of people (clairvoyant) and will see colors, patterns, and visions.
Some people are sensing types and will feel emotional and mental changes, or will sense magnetic forces; they seem to “know” (clairsentient). Some people “hear” voices, explanations or sounds (clairaudient). For yet others, it is a combination of all of these. All report feeling physical changes, and this is to be expected when you ask, “what can I expect?” Ayahuasca spirit and all plant medicines are healing vessels and each individual perceives what they do with different senses.
Ayahuasca is used extensively for healing and religious ceremonies. In recent decades, there is a growing interest in the said substance due to its potential in treating mental disorders like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.
Some felt that they were lost, but came to their senses again after using Ayahuasca. Others felt that they were too consumed with their personal issues, but Ayahuasca awakened them to feel alive again. In most ayahuasca ceremonies, nausea and vomiting are a common side effect. Some even experience diarrhea. Aside from these, there are obvious physical side effects. Some ayahuasca users experience profuse sweating and shivering. Their heart rate and blood pressure rise. These ayahuasca effects, which are likely due to DMT intoxication, subject one to risks of hypertension, agitations, dizziness and muscular incoordination.
Ayahuasca may also affect one’s emotional state. As some put it, ayahuasca makes one reflect on his experiences and loosen up from his normal way of thinking. It gives one the strength to think about his traumatic past and confront those things that he usually pushes out of his conscious mind. It can stir up your traumatic past and result in distress. It may also heighten one’s fears and result in anxiety and paranoia.
In preparation for your ayahuasca ceremony, it is suggested that you adhere to ayahuasca diet guidelines. It is not required to be on the ayahuasca diet to have a good experience but it helps to prepare your body to receive ayahuasca. It depends on how clean you already eat and how healthy you are. If you are already a healthy eater, you will probably be fine and have a good experience. The ayahuasca diet is simply a suggestion to prepare for ayahuasca ceremony.
There is a specific way an ayahuasca shaman suggests preparing for ayahuasca ceremony. Shamans suggests that, if possible, using the ayahuasca diet for 2-4 weeks prior to your ayahuasca ceremony. If you don’t have 2-4 weeks to prepare, try to be disciplined for 2-3 days before the ayahuasca ceremony.
These plant medicines seem to “know” when you’ve been bad or good in your diet, and your experience will reflect what is in your body. Make sure your body is a clean vessel in which this medicine can function the way it is intended to. For the most part, the ayahuasca diet is like an alkaline diet, which excludes acidic foods.
PRE-RETREAT REQUIRE RESTRICTIONS
TWO WEEK PRIOR, ABSTAIN FROM:
ONE WEEK PRIOR, ABSTAIN FROM:
ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS:
We require that you NEVER enter an ayahuasca ceremony combined with any recreational substance, pharmaceutical drugs, nor health herbal formulations that can affect the physical body in any way, including seemingly non-impacting vitamins or herbs.
All that is being required is three days before the start of shamanic ceremonies you go all natural and have your body in its unadulterated state so you can truly connect with these plant medicine spiritual experiences. Ayahuasca must be used alone, by itself, and never combined with other medicines, stimulants or depressants. There shouldn’t be any chemical altering of your body or brain even if seemingly for something minor.
No documentation or scientific study has been done to examine any substance in combination with Ayahuasca, so no one really knows what would be safe. Therefore, it is safe to say that abstaining from everything for the three days before the ceremony would be the best avenue. That includes your normal medications as well. (Always consult with your doctor about this.)
One reason why there have been complications for some people with ayahuasca ceremonies, is that some shamans mix other substances into their medicine, like datura (which can give nightmarish experiences and cause death) or high quantities of nicotine (to open the body more to medicine), or other substances that change the nature of the medicine somewhat.
By contract with our shamans, we do not allow our shamans to mix anything into the medicine that is not part of the traditional ingredients. Our shamans practice the utmost of safety when it comes to making sure our medicines are pure and unadulterated. When deaths are connected to Ayahuasca, it is normally the person who ingests the ayahuasca has mixed with other substances.
No deaths from Ayahuasca DMT, Ayahuasca, or the Spirit Molecule / God Molecule are known, unless pharmaceutical or recreational drugs are mixed, or serious health issues are aggravated, like respiratory illnesses or heart diseases. Blood pressure can rise too. However, death has not been associated with DMT ayahuasca no matter what the dose.
If you are considering partaking in such a journey, prepare to encounter the divine, the infinite, the mystery—whatever you choose to call it—that which is beyond the limited perspective of your mind. You must also be willing to accept that the divine/infinite/mystery cannot be experienced in a way that will make sense to your brain. The infinite is infinite, while your brain is still finite.
The icaros, sung by a Shaman, are an integral part of the ceremony. It is through these songs that your mareación (the visionary effects of Ayahuasca) is enhanced. It is also quite likely that you will gain a greater appreciation of the power of music through the icaros.
Be wary that you might not necessarily like the information that the divine/infinite/mystery chooses to share with you. In the documentary Vine of the Soul: Encounters With Ayahuasca, one user reported that the horror she experienced was truly indescribable and that she thought she was going to die. But another participant in the ceremony said that Ayahuasca opened her heart in a way it had never been opened before.
Ayahuasca is always referred to in the feminine because users have said that the voice of higher intelligence that they’ll hear during the ceremony is female. She (meaning the plant) speaks to you directly and tells you what you need to work on in your life.
The experience will be ineffable, beyond language, and you will likely find that trying to put it into words after the ceremony has ended will be daunting if not impossible. “Ten years of therapy downloaded in a night,” seems to be a fairly universal analogy to convey the possible take-away from a ceremony. Another possible outcome of an Ayahuasca ceremony is that you will realize that everything perceived through your five senses and assimilated by your mind is contrived or false.
Returning ceremonial participants should also be aware that each time you experience the divine/infinite/mystery, it will be different. Each experience is akin to just a small drop in the ocean.
If you do not adhere to the recommended dieta (diet) before the ceremony, then the plants will assist your body in ridding itself of the chemicals—salt, sugar, alcohol, caffeine, etc., by fleshing out the toxins and impurities that you have crammed into it over the years. This is commonly known as purging, which translates to literally just that. You’ll probably vomit profusely, but purge buckets will be provided. But fear not, if your body (including the subtle energy body) is clean, then there will be nothing to purge.
It is possible that plant medicine allows the subjective self to temporarily shed and merge with the infinite “other.” After a ceremonial night of purging, you might find that you gain a fresh new outlook on what was once a seemingly mundane reality.
Ayahuasca does not cause hallucinations, but rather takes you on a journey into the unconscious.
Due to its chemical composition, ayahuasca is considered an entheogenic and non-hallucinogenic substance, which means that the altered state of consciousness it produces connects us with our most spiritual part. Etymologically, “entheogen” means “being inspired by the gods”. That is why it is usually taken to connect with sleeping or blocked parts of our unconscious or to connect with the sacred in the world.
It is not the ayahuasca that produces the “journey”.
The psychoactive substance that modifies our state of consciousness is DMT and it is not found in the ayahuasca rope, but in the leaves of a low jungle bush called chakruna. Our body (which by itself secretes DMT in very small quantities, for example when we are newly born) has the ability to neutralize the effect of the psychoactive substance. That is to say: the chakruna by itself cannot cause us anything. Ayahuasca is the one that has the ability to block the enzymes of our liver so that DMT is successfully metabolized.
The curious thing is that ayahuasca is the only plant in the jungle (among millions of species) capable of blocking these enzymes in our body. How did the shamans know?
The shaman is the mediator between the visible world of things and the invisible world of energies and spirits. No matter what you ask a shaman, he will always end up answering whatever he wants. We, the outsiders, come with such a desire to know everything, to know what is in that other invisible world that is there but that we can barely touch, that we do not stop launching questions like arrows. However, shamans know that each one must find their own answers and they practice their role as guide very well.
The mission of the shaman is to direct the ceremony, that is, to call the spirits (especially the spirit of Mother Ayahuasca) so that they heal us with their wisdom and show us what we have to see.
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