What Is Included?
Off Iquitos
Includes
• Hotel pick-up (in Iquitos) and transfer to Ashi Meraya – OR – Airport pick-up (in Iquitos) and transfer to Ashi Meraya.
• Transfer Ashi Meraya-Hotel (in Iquitos) – OR – Ashi Meraya-Iquitos airport.
• Shipibo welcome ceremony.
• Amazonian-style (Shipibo-Ashaninka-Cashibo-Lakota) Sweat Lodge, led by the shaman.
• See and learn how the Ayahuasca brew is prepared.
• Personal consultation with the shaman.
• Up to FOUR Ayahuasca ceremonies per week (Ayahuasca retreat only), on a voluntary basis of participation.
Please Note: Guests doing the Shamanic Plant Diet/shamanic apprenticeship/shamanic initiation will have a different set-up (according to the length of their training and the type of plants used in their diet) with regard to participation to Ayahuasca ceremonies.
• A Toe’ ritual (Toe’ Dream Journey), on a voluntary basis of participation.
Please note that guests doing the shamanic plant diet may have a different set-up as for their participation to the Toe’ rituals, according to the plants of the diet itself and to the instructions of the shaman (all the more when Toe’ is effective part of the diet). The reason why we offer only one Toe’ ritual in the Ayahuasca retreat format is that the Toe’ is not only smoked but it might actually be taken as a tea as well (meaning: it’s stronger), and this would require a more strict dietary regimen than that of the Ayahuasca diet. It’s *always up to the shaman to decide* – on the spot, according to the energy of the day and the nature of the participants – whether to offer the Toe’ plant in smokable or drinkable form, or both.
• At least 1 cleansing ritual herbal bath – ”baño de limpieza” – prepared by the shaman.
Depending on the number of weeks guests are staying, the number of cleansing ritual baths will increase proportionally. For instance, in a 3 weeks retreat one may receive up to 9 ”baños de limpieza”.
• 1 rainforest clay bath (“baño de barro”), prepared by the shaman.
• At least 2 ritual flower baths (“baños de florecimiento”), prepared by the shaman, towards the end of your treatment.
• Rituals of spiritual purification (minimum staying: 2 weeks).
• Tatuajes: transferring symbols of Power. A practical ritual body painting session where the Shipibo family will draw your own spirit animal (in the form of an impermanent tattoo), according to the Arkana – or spiritual/energetic protection – laid by the shaman on you during the final Ayahuasca session.
• Full board (*) / Vegetarian meals available – and accommodation in private bungalow (or private rooms with en-suite facilities), in Ashi Meraya.
(*) No breakfast on arrival day + no breakfast on the day-s scheduled for the preparation of Ayahuasca with the shaman-s, when you will be taking part to the handling of the sacred ayahuasca vine and/or the preparation of the Ayahuasca brew itself. No dinner on the nights of the Ayahuasca sessions and of the Toe’ Dream Journey ritual.
• Courtesy laundry service in Ashi Meraya (once a week).
(When laundry is required more frequently than once a week, guests are expected to contribute with a small tip in local currency - i.e. Nuevos Soles – each time that this service is required).
• Shipibo surprise gifts, at the end of your retreat, during the Farewell ceremony (“Ceremonia de Despedida”).
Optional
• Shipibo-style holistic/relaxing daily massage sessions offered by the Shipiba Eunice in the centre. These sessions may be booked on the spot, and last 30 minutes.
PLEASE NOTE
To the ends of the retreat, a week is calculated as being made of 7 days and 6 nights and for longer staying please have in mind the following ”timetable”:
1 Week = 7 Days / 7 Afternoons/ 6 Nights
2 Weeks = 14 Days / 14 Afternoons/ 13 Nights
And so on….
The retreat will terminate in the afternoon of your last day (regardless of length of staying). Times are flexible and depend on your travel plan/flights, and – as indication only – please consider 5 pm as the latest time to travel back to Iquitos town or airport. In the jungle it gets dark already at 6 pm, and we do not recommend to travel at night.
