At Sapan Inka, our work is driven by the deepest intention to accompany you with the utmost integrity in your process of psychological and spiritual healing and growth. Our retreats seamlessly blend a profound respect for the traditional Amazonian use of Ayahuasca medicine with an ethical transpersonal psychological accompaniment, ideally suited for the integration of expanded states of consciousness.
Ceremonies typically last approximately three hours but can extend longer if participants require additional support to fully complete their process. Throughout the entire retreat, we prioritize your safety and well-being.
Our Ayahuasca retreats are founded on a philosophy of minimal interference. This unique approach merges the traditional shamanic use of Ayahuasca with deep respect for your individual process, empowering your journey of healing and transformation. By honoring the ancestral use and ritual process of Ayahuasca, our ceremonies allow the master plant to organically guide you into the depths of the soul's reality.
We have consciously adopted this philosophy because we believe in your inherent capacity to heal and find your own answers. By participating in the Ayahuasca ceremonies at our retreats, we accompany you inward, helping you discover your internal resources and connect with your deepest self. The result is a journey of self-knowledge and a process of healing and growth that can extend long after the retreat concludes.
Our guides' adherence to minimal interference does not imply an absence of support. On the contrary, we offer a specific type of assistance that prioritizes the participant's internal process, aligning with the profound and often non-verbal nature of the experience. This approach facilitates healing that transcends the rational barrier, allowing for the deep release of emotional and energetic blockages that are often inaccessible through conscious or rational means.
During the ceremonies, the support provided is energetic and shamanic, especially crucial when experiencing non-ordinary states of consciousness. We utilize traditional tools such as:
Ícaros: Sacred chants that not only harmonize the environment but also act directly upon your energetic field, guiding the journey, cleansing dense energies, protecting, grounding, or elevating your vibration.
Sopladas: With sacred perfumes (such as agua florida or agua de cananga) or the smoke of mapacho (sacred tobacco), these are energetic cleansing and protection techniques that help dissipate confusion, release tensions, or protect from unwanted influences.
Traditional Instruments: Drums and maracas, which contribute to modulating the state of consciousness and maintaining a rhythm that facilitates immersion or grounding.
The effectiveness of minimal interference during the ceremony lies in reserving emotional, verbal, and deep psychological containment for the subsequent integration phase. This occurs once the participant is in a state of sobriety and tranquility, typically a day after the Ayahuasca ceremony, when a one-on-one interview is held with the transpersonal therapist who helps you work safely and effectively to verbalize, analyze, and make sense of the visions, emotions, and sensations experienced, anchoring them into conscious life.
Unlike many other centers, Sapan Inka does not merely offer Ayahuasca ceremony experiences but provides a robust post-Ayahuasca integration program. This program is grounded in Transpersonal Psychology as its main framework, complemented by the profound insights of C.G. Jung's Analytical (or Complex) Psychology, particularly concerning the reality of the soul, archetypes, the manifestation of the Self, and transformative processes.
This comprehensive approach enables participants to decode the symbolic messages of Ayahuasca, integrate aspects of their "shadow," transmute challenging experiences into growth, and journey toward individuation and wholeness of being. It forms a solid bridge connecting the spiritual experience with daily life.
Our retreats are conducted with a maximum of eight participants. This limited group size is a conscious decision that guarantees:
Individualized Attention: Each person receives personalized attention and accompaniment, which is fundamental for a successful and safe therapeutic experience.
Enhanced Safety and Containment: A smaller group facilitates stricter control of the sacred space and a quicker, more efficient response to any individual need or challenge that may arise. Guides can more easily perceive individual dynamics.
Personalized Integration: Post-ceremony integration sessions are much more detailed, allowing ample time to explore each person's visions, emotions, sensations, and insights.
Atmosphere of Trust: An intimate and trusting bond is fostered among participants and with the guides, enriching both the collective and individual process.
At Sapan Inka, we go beyond offering an "experience" with Ayahuasca. Our objective is profound healing at the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels, striving for lasting transformation and personal growth, recontextualizing even challenging experiences as valuable opportunities for release and learning.
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