An Ayahuasca retreat is a transformative program that blends traditional Amazonian healing practices with psychedelic medicine and transpersonal psychotherapy. The core focus of an Ayahuasca retreat is to facilitate a profound healing experience through exploration of expanded states of consciousness.
During your retreat, you'll participate in Ayahuasca ceremonies designed to cleanse you physically, energetically, and spiritually. This powerful process of catharsis, purging, and purification is supported by the use of shamanic techniques. A dedicated transpersonal psychotherapist will be present to guide you through your experience and help you integrate it into your daily life.
Throughout the retreat, you'll receive ongoing support from your transpersonal therapist. This personalized guidance fosters a transformative and healing journey. The Ayahuasca experience can facilitate a powerful connection with your Higher Self or guide you through explorations of the spiritual world.
The retreat also offers an opportunity to address past wounds or traumas, reconnect with your inner child, and integrate shadow aspects of your personality. Ayahuasca serves as a potent tool for self-discovery.
Beyond the transformative power of the medicine, you'll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the magic of the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Embark on a profound journey into the ayahuasca spiritual world. Explore the vast landscapes of your psyche and connect with the spiritual dimension. This transformative experience fosters self-discovery, unlocking your inner potential for healing, growth, and evolution.
The retreat unfolds over five, six, seven or eight days, incorporating two or three Ayahuasca sessions with a maximum of eight participants per ceremony.
This retreat offers a unique opportunity for deep personal transformation. You'll have the chance to release emotional burdens, connect with your inner wisdom, and unlock energetic and spiritual innate healing abilities. By exploring the spiritual dimension and gaining profound insights from your soul, you'll embark on a journey of self-discovery and connect with a wider spectrum of consciousness. The spectrum of ayahuasca experiences, from luminous to dark, can be a catalyst for significant personal growth and healing.
It is important to know that an ayahuasca experience can be very intense and challenging. One can undergo a transformative journey by participating in an ayahuasca retreat, but a transformative process often involves confronting the shadow and the dark side of our soul. Sometimes, the transformative process requires going through a kind of dark passage before seeing the light, a sort of ego death, a passage through darkness and death, and a dissolution of reality similar to a psychotic experience, which could induce fear and terror. It is very important to be willing to face this kind of experience, especially if one seeks healing through a transformative experience.
Embarking on a healing and growth journey through Ayahuasca can involve confronting painful and challenging experiences that require gradual processing, and not all individuals possess the willingness to face these experiences with courage and resolve. Nevertheless, we are committed to providing steadfast support to all participants in the ceremonies, guiding and accompanying them on their transformative path, drawing upon our experience and training in the Amazonian shamanic tradition and our knowledge of the psyche's anatomy and transpersonal psychotherapeutic processes.
It’s true that many Ayahuasca experiences are profoundly beautiful, offering stunning visions, opening the heart to sublime emotions, expanding consciousness to encompass deeper wisdom, and fostering a connection with the essence of nature. Some experiences involve visits to other worlds or encounters with higher beings. Many create feelings of peace, fulfillment, understanding, and are truly transformative.
However, it is crucial to understand that Ayahuasca unlocks access to alternative realities, spiritual realms, and the depths of the psyche, and that an Ayahuasca experience is a voyage through these realms inhabited by numinous forces and powers that transcend rational comprehension. We urge those considering this healing ritual to reflect deeply on the profound depth and significance of this process. The decision to participate must be made with maturity and responsibility. We consider our center a healing sanctuary where we operate with love, dedication, responsibility, and authenticity.
There are many divergent opinions regarding the correct diet before taking ayahuasca. There are different recommendations and a wide variety of information about what is the most appropriate diet, which often creates confusion for those interested in participating in an ayahuasca retreat. With years of experience guiding Ayahuasca journeys, we understand the confusion surrounding preparation. The traditional wisdom of Amazonian shamans is invaluable, but our modern lifestyles require a slightly different approach. Here's how we bridge the gap:
While we honor the wisdom of indigenous peoples and their recommendations regarding what a preparation diet should be, we recognize the distinct needs of individuals from urban environments. Their motivations for Ayahuasca often differ, and their bodies may react differently due to dietary and lifestyle factors. The lifestyle and diet of a person living in a city is definitely very different from the lifestyle of a native person from the Amazon rainforest.
In that sense, it is recommended for people living in cities who want to participate in ayahuasca ceremonies to focus on detoxification through a vegetarian, low-fat, and sugar-free diet. It is possible to eat fish and eggs as part of the preparation diet. It is suggested to avoid processed foods, fatty foods or fast food. Eat clean and healthy.
For millennia, the indigenous peoples of the Amazon forest have revered Ayahuasca as a sacred medicine. This potent brew has been used for a variety of purposes, including healing physical illneses and emotional disorders. It has also been employed to prepare individuals for hunting, warfare, and spiritual ceremonies. Ayahuasca has always been part of differente rituals of passage.
Beyond its traditional applications, Ayahuasca has been recognized as a powerful tool for accessing amplified states of consciousness. It allows individuals to dive into the depths of psychic reality, explore the mysteries of nature, and connect with the higher Self.
Today, this ancient wisdom continues to offer valuable insights to modern seekers. Our retreat centers integrate the Amazonian medicinal system with transpersonal psychotherapy to provide a holistic approach to healing and personal growth.
The Sapan Inka Retreat Center participated in a scientific research entitled: "Psychedelic experiences of people who participated in sessions of ayahuasca therapy". The interviews used as a source of data for the research were conducted at the Sapan Inka Center for a period of 5 years. It is a qualitative research that aimed to describe and interpret the various psychological effects that participants lived during and after their experiences, in the short and long term. It is an important research in which it was concluded that the way in which people perceive and interpret their experiences is very important; because it depends on the depth and duration of the impact experienced, which occurs at different levels; encompassing the instinctive, the emotional, various cognitive processes, and the spiritual.
It is true it is possible to learn a lot about Ayahuasca by surffing the internet, but sometimes it becomes difficult to know how to filter the relevant information that we are needing to make a decision.
That’s the reason we have decided to share some information about ayahuasca that we think it might be helpful for you.
If you are interested to learn a little bit more about this, you can visit our blog
Request information
An opportunity to overcome existential conflicts and to solve psychological and emocional issues 
