Ayahuasca Retreat Peru at the Flower of Life
We invite you to join a traditional Ayahuasca retreat of healing, transformation and spiritual growth in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
Ayahuasca Retreat Peru – What to Expect?
At the Flower of Life Ayahuasca and San Pedro Retreat Healing Center, your healing, health
On these sacred shamanic journeys, you can expect profound transformations of your spiritual, energetic and physical bodies, as you explore your inner depths
And the majority of participants report having interaction with the spirit of the plant, who is lovingly referred to as Mother Ayahuasca. Some see her, some hear her, and some report receiving messages in other more subtle ways, but consistently, she provides love and life advice, even if tough love is needed.
Accommodations
Our 8 day Ayahuasca retreats include transportation to and from our lodge, spacious cottages with private bathroom and shower, all meals, 4 Ayahuasca ceremonies, 1 San Pedro ceremony, personal consultation with healers and the facilitator, 4 floral baths, 4 vapor baths with medicinal plants in the sauna, plant remedies if prescribed by healers to work in combination with Ayahuasca, boat rides to the local village to look at arts and crafts, jungle walks and swims with pink dolphins!
Cleansing
Before your arrival, a more restricted diet must be followed for AT LEAST two weeks prior to the start of your program, and for AT LEAST two weeks after your last ceremony. This diet is according to traditional Shipibo traditions and is used to prepare oneself for working with Ayahuasca, as well as to show respect and commitment to the spirit of Ayahuasca prior to coming to the jungle.
The clearer a person is from the energies below, the more fully they will be able to receive the healing benefits of Ayahuasca, the easier it will be for that person to purge any energies that are no longer serving them, and the more deeply they will be able to integrate the healing work of the Maestro(a)s and the plants into their own being. Increasing the amount of time the diet is followed will only benefit a person’s experience with Ayahuasca (i.e., following this for three weeks prior to and after your program).
Our Healers
Our healers put their heart and soul into helping those who come for help. They share their extensive knowledge of the medicinal plants and their healings properties and share in ceremonies signing the beautiful icaros, sacred ayahuasca healing songs.
Master Lino is a native Kokama curandero, (native healer). He is an expert in medicinal plants and uses them to make specialty brews to help alleviate depression and anxiety disorders.
HOW DOES AYAHUASCA WORK?
Ayahuasca (pronounced ah-yah-WAH-ska) or Yagé (ya-HEY) are native Amazonian names for the jungle vine Banisteriopsis Caapi and the medicinal tea prepared from it and other plants. Ayahuasca derives from the Quechua words aya-spirit/dead, waska-vine/rope and can be translated as “vine of the dead.” Ayahuasca is used throughout the Upper Amazon and is traditionally combined with Chacruna (Psychotria viridis).
At Flower of Life, we only use the Ayahuasca vine and Chacruna leaf in our brew to ensure you are working with Ayahuasca in its truest sense. It had become an unfortunate practice at Ayahuasca centers to make brews with different admixtures to give people intense “Ayahuasca experiences” but this experience is not in the true nature of the medicine. Lakshmi’s Flower of Life retreats are not Ayahuasca tourism. As such, we provide the traditional brew that will enable access to the visionary world of the mother plant that provides deep personal insight and healing.
Ayahuasca can be a very powerful tool in a person’s healing journey, whether this be physical, mental, emotional or spiritual; however, each experience is completely singular to the person working with Ayahuasca. Individual circumstances can vary greatly and for this reason, there are no guarantees that any certain degree of healing will be achieved or any condition cured.