Sapan Inka: Ayahuasca, San Pedro & Machu Picchu Retreats in Cusco, Peru

Experience the ultimate path to transpersonal healing with our extended 8-Day Ayahuasca and San Pedro Retreat in Cusco. Designed for those seeking a deeper, more intense, and comprehensive experience, this journey expertly fuses ancient Amazonian wisdom with the majestic energy of the Andes, culminating in a spectacular visit to Machu Picchu.

With three traditional Ayahuasca ceremonies and one powerful San Pedro (Huachuma) ceremony, you receive the ideal ceremonial balance for profound introspection and lasting transformation. The longer 8-day format provides vital extra time for integration, rest, and reflection, ensuring you anchor the lessons learned before celebrating your journey at the sacred citadel.

The Sapan Inka Difference: Professionalism and Comprehensive Method

Our method is a unique blend of ancestral tradition and transpersonal psychotherapy. Healing is a structured, ethical, and highly professional process:

Ayahuasca Ceremonies: Held in a sacred and safe space, following the traditional Amazonian-Shipibo style. We deeply respect your inner process, ensuring complete focus by avoiding unnecessary physical contact or conversation during the ceremonies.

San Pedro (Huachuma): This heart-opening medicine guides a deep connection with nature. It includes a traditional Offering to Pachamama (Despacho) led by an authentic Q'ero Andean Priest (Pampamisayoq), and a powerful healing sound session for energetic harmonization.

Optional Pandora Star Light: Enhance your mind's receptivity. This sophisticated light device is optionally used before the ceremony to stimulate the pineal gland, sensitizing your system for a deeper assimilation of the Ayahuasca medicine. It is a preparation tool, not part of the ceremony itself.

Integration, Accompaniment, and Cultural Immersion

True healing extends beyond the temple. We provide comprehensive, continuous support:

Preparation & Integration: Your journey includes a pre-retreat online session to set intentions and a crucial post-ceremony integration session to help you process revelations and apply your wisdom to daily life.

Constant Support: Your well-being is our priority. Experienced guides are attentive and available 24/7, checking in after each ceremony and remaining close by your rooms throughout the night to ensure you are never alone during the stabilization and recovery phase.

Included
Itinerary
Available dates

What is included in the 8-day Machu Picchu Retreat

Participate in 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies in a retreat house, close to a sacred mountain in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. In the house there is a space specially designed for the ayahuasca ceremonies, which is a quiet place ideal for the ceremony.
Participate in one preparation session ONLINE (Vía Meet) any time prior to the retreat to help you in physical, emotional, mental and spiritual preparation.
Participate in a San Pedro ceremony, which includes an ancient and traditional ceremony of offering to the mother earth, this ceremony is known as "Despacho", and it is guided by an Andean priest of Q'eros. During the experience with San Pedro we will visit a natural environment, where it will be possible to connect with the nature of the environment and your inner side.
During the San Pedro ceremony you will participate in a Healing Sounds Therapy
Experience the legendary Sacred Citadel of Machu Picchu with all details covered. This full-day service includes all transportation (train and bus), entrance fees, a private professional guide, and lunch.
A visit to Moray (Incan agriculture laboratory) and the mine of salt of Maras.
Participate in a session of Pandora Star hypnagogic light, it is a flickering light which stimulates your pineal gland to produce DMT to help you to experience inner visions and non ordinary states of consciousness.
Participate in Reintegration Therapies and re-elaboration of the contents of the experiences. The next day, after each ceremony, there is a personal and private conversation to discuss the contents emerged during the ceremony with the intention of finding a way to integrate the process into daily life.
Special foods for each day of the retreat. The food is vegan, with organic vegetables. All meals are prepared according to the diet and use of teacher plants.
Accommodation during the days of Ayahuasca Retreat in our Retreat House in comfortable rooms with private bathroom and hot water.
Private transportation on the first day of the retreat from Cusco to the retreat house and the last day of the retreat back to Cusco. The first day of the retreat we will coordinate with a private vehicle to pick you up from your accommodation in Cusco and take you to our retreat house. The last day of the retreat there will be transportation to take you back to Cusco.
Participate in 1 Ayahuasca Integration session (Via Meet), any time after the retreat.
Laundry service is available upon request for an extra charge.

What is not included

Any international or national flight
Fees associated with money transfers for the payment of reservations.
Travel and health insurance
Personal expenses
Accommodations in Cusco outside the dates of the program

We recommend to bring with you

Comfortable and warm clothes for ceremonies
Sunscreen
Rain coat (Between October and April)
A notebook to write about your experience
Hiking shoes
A bottle for water
A flashlight
All the necessary clothes for the days of retreat. There is no laundry service.

First day

15:00 We'll pick you up directly from the airport or your hotel in Cusco, at your most convenient time, to take you by car to our retreat house in the Sacred Valley.
17:00 Once at the retreat, you'll have a private, individual conversation to prepare you before the first Ayahuasca ceremony, tailored just for you.
21:00 First Ayahuasca Ceremony

Second day

09:00 Vegetarian breakfast
10:00 Personal conversation with you
17:00 A session with Pandora Star hypnagogic light machine
21:00 Second Ayahuasca ceremony

Third day

09:00 Vegetarian breakfast
10:00 Conversation for interpretation and integration of the Ayahuasca experience
14:00 Vegetarian lunch
19:00 Dinner

Fourth day

09:00 Vegetarian breakfast
02:00 Vegetarian lunch
20:00 Third Ayahuasca ceremony

Fifth day

08:00 Vegetarian breakfast
10:00 Conversation for interpretation and integration of the Ayahuasca experience
13:00 Vegetarian lunch
14:00 Tour to Maras salt mine and to Moray inca temple.
20:00 Dinner

Sixth day

9:00 am: Offering to Mother Earth & San Pedro Ceremony
11:00 am: To walk close to the a sacred mountain
4:00 pm: To participate in a Healing Sound Session
6:00 pm: To close the San Pedro ceremony

Seventh day

5:00 am Departure from retreat house to the train station
7:00 am Departure by train from Ollantaytambo to Machu Picchu
9:00 am Arrival to Machu Picchu town (Aguas Calientes). Meeting with the private guide
10:00 am Visit to Machu Picchu citadel
2:00 pm Lunch at Aguas Calientes
5:00 pm Departure by train from Machu Picchu town
8:00 pm Arrival to Sapan Inka retreat house
8:30 pm Dinner

Eight day

8:00 am: Special Vegetarian Breakfast
9:00 am: Special conversation to close the retreat and to give the personal diet and information to work in the reintegration of the experiences with the medicine.
11:00 am: To take you back to Cusco in a private car

	Start	End	Availability	Price per person USD
1	Monday, 05 January 2026	Monday, 12 January 2026	Open	1600.00
2	Thursday, 26 February 2026	Wednesday, 04 March 2026	Open	1600.00
3	Friday, 20 March 2026	Friday, 27 March 2026	Open	1600.00
4	Thursday, 09 April 2026	Wednesday, 15 April 2026	Open	1600.00
5	Friday, 24 April 2026	Friday, 01 May 2026	Open	1600.00
6	Sunday, 24 May 2026	Sunday, 31 May 2026	Open	1600.00