Ayahuasca Retreats
Retreats and Workshops for self-transformation and awakening in Peruvian Amazon and Andes
Open the mind and heart through the direct experience
A journey that inspires to know an inner peace
With the guidance of Ayahuasca - a mother teacher plant from the Amazon rainforest
With the help of San Pedro (Wachuma) - a teacher plant from the Andes
Together with the members of our community from the Sacred Valley
Guided by the medicine men from Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu
With healers from the Northern part of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest
Look for the answers to the most important questions in your life
Retreat and workshop experience
The retreats of Peruvian teacher plants Ayahuasca and San Pedro offer a perfect setting for revealing the potential for emotional revival and inner awakening. In an authentic environment, together with the team of practitioners dedicated to the research of sacred plants and medicinal plants, explore the important questions of your life.
Ayahuasca Prajna blends together the ancient traditions of trans-personal exploration (
shamanism) with the practices and teachings for awakening into one’s nature.
Ayahuasca and San Pedro ceremonies guide into the deepest, heart (emotional) understanding of all our experience. A single ceremony is one step forward on the spiritual journey. It empowers the direction that we already have taken and sheds the light on the whole spectrum of possibilities available within and around. Through a series of experiences facilitated during the Ayahuasca retreats and workshops one takes on a deeper journey showing one layer after another of our human make-up, showing clearly the constructs, our collection of ideas and the freedom that comes from knowing the one’s whole story. These journeys emphasize group experience, with exploration, practice and sharing in an imitate, family-like environment.
Each retreat and workshop consist of the experiential part and the excursions’ part, or the inner and outer experience. Even though they are seemingly separate elements of the journey, we see them as integral part of the same adventure – a search for the answers on the most important questions that everybody has.
The main difference between the Retreats and Workshops is in proportion of time dedicated to excursions and for deepening the experiences with meditation practices, with Retreats emphasize more group interaction and possibly deeper experience, whereas the Workshops have more individual space and time for exploration of local sites and connection with native people.
About us
Ayahuasca Prajna represents an approach of learning with entheogens – master or teacher plants. As prajñā means wisdom, awareness that cuts through conceptual understanding, Ayahuasca Prajna is about taking the Ayahuasca as the teaching or guiding experience into a process of transformation that goes beyond ideology, not clinging to a specific set of beliefs.
Teacher plants like Ayahuasca have the potential to give a glimpse of awakening, an inspiration of change, to initiate the processes that eventually may lead to internal transformation, showing us the possibilities for a different way of approaching and living the life. Read more
Teacher plants – Ayahuasca and San Pedro
Ayahuasca and San Pedro have been the principal Teacher plants of Peruvian and other South American (mainly Brasil, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia) native shamanic traditions since thousands of years.
Ayahuasca is the principal medicine plant for the indigenous population of Amazon jungle, whereas San Pedro or Wachuma is the foremost sacred plant in the Andean shamanic tradition. Both merit highest respect amongst Peruvian native populations and are seen as teacher plants for the kind of experience they lead into.
Ayahuasca and San Pedro plant ceremonies have always been the traditional setting in which the people approached these teacher or master plants. Ayahuasca and San Pedro experiences guide into deepest corners of one’s mind, heart and subconscious, allowing to explore oneself and gain insights that may grow into more harmonious ways of living and relating to the world.
Ayahuasca is a shamanic tea, a decoction made from two medicinal plants –
Ayahuasca vine (
Banisteriopsis Caapi) and
Chacruna (
Psychotria Viridis) leaves.
Ayahuasca brew is probably the closest
teacher plant to the human biochemistry, giving an experience of strong cleansing, though literally
traceless on a physical level and profoundly awakening on the emotional and spiritual realm. This ancient, sacred shamanic brew, usually taken in the night within a ritual context (a ceremony), may give different kinds of visual and emetic effects, insights and provides a deeper knowledge about oneself. Through the visions and insights, in one’s inner experience of amplified perception and vivid awareness, a person may attain clearer understanding or knowing of one’s own inner world or psyche.
Ayahuasca experience represents the feminine (Mother) aspect of the
shamanic medicine, giving a very dynamic
experience of a divine dance into one’s personal experience,
teaching the acceptance, surrendering and letting go.
San Pedro is a preparation of a cactii of the Andean origin (
Trichocereus pachanoi and
T. Peruvianus) taken usually in a daytime ritual setting, though the night rituals are not uncommon. Similarly to
Ayahuasca, the participant of a ritual gets into a high sensitivity and subtle perception of the energy, wether of inner or outer origin. Through this experience a person opens up the possibilities to directly connect to one’s own body, emotions, to see and understand deeply the origins of one’s pain and suffering, as well as to become aware of the surrounding nature and of the magical nature of life.
San Pedro experience represents the masculine (Father) aspect of the shamanic medicine, teaching us our natural state of spaciousness and great natural peace that we carry through all of our life.
San Pedro reminds us, wakes us up to our still nature as a mountain lake in which awareness takes place instantly at every moment.
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Ayahuasca – shamanic healing brew
In the territories of Amazon rainforest, from Brazil to Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, Ayahuasca has been known for the centuries if not millennia. The indigenous people of local tribes, especially the healers and shamans, have been exploring hundreds of medicinal and teacher plants, growing in the jungle, and the main, most respected teacher plant for them was and still is the Ayahuasca brew. Read more on Ayahuasca shamanic healing brew
Preparation for Ayahuasca experience
What does a preparation for an Ayahuasca experience means and what purpose does it serve? What really (directly) affects the Ayahuasca experience? We can say for certain that Ayahuasca is a quiet demanding teacher plant, in a sense that to avoid unwanted effects and to get the most out of this experience, we need to follow some very precise indications and to consider different factors that affect the experience in its whole. Read more on Preparation for Ayahuasca experience
Learning with Ayahuasca
Being prepared for Ayahuasca and San Pedro means to be open, available to discover new questions and living up to the answers. This is a second stage in approaching Ayahuasca (after the basic preparation). What renders a possibility for an inner journey, that sometimes is a mere shock, sometimes seemingly a beginning for an inner revolution, to become a cause for self-transformation? By learning here is meant that the experience unfolds as an ongoing process. Insights become an understanding in-depth and teachings result in inner changes that manifest in daily life. Read more on Learning with Ayahuasca
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