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.
• Four Ayahuasca ceremonies per week (minimum staying: 2 weeks), on a voluntary basis of participation.
Guests staying for 1 week may take part to three Ayahuasca ceremonies and a jungle hike at night with the shaman. However, if four Ayahuasca ceremonies are required, this may also be done, without the jungle hike at night. Please let us know at the time of your booking what your preferences are.
Guests staying for 10 days, may take part to five Ayahuasca ceremonies during their staying.
Guests doing the Shamanic Plant Diet will have a different set-up (according to the length of their apprenticeship).
• A Toe’ ritual, on a voluntary basis of participation.
Please note that guests doing the shamanic plant diet may have a different set-up as for 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 now offer only one Toe’ ritual for all Ayahuasca retreats of any length is that the Toe’ is not only smoked but actually taken as a tea as well (meaning: it’s much stronger), and this requires a more strict dietary regimen than that of the Ayahuasca diet.
• At least two cleansing ritual herbal baths – ”baños 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 you will receive 9 ”baños de limpieza” !
• One rainforest clay bath (baño de barro), prepared by the shaman.
• At least two ritual flower baths (baños de florecimiento), prepared by the shaman, towards the end of your treatment.
• Rituals of spiritual purification (minimum staying: 2 weeks).
Depending on the number of weeks one is staying (2 weeks minimum), guests may take part to at least 7 spiritual purification rituals and more.
• 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, in Ashi Meraya.
(*) No breakfast on the day-s scheduled for the preparation of the Ayahuasca with the shaman, 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 will be served on the nights of the Ayahuasca sessions and of the Toe’ ritual (which involves drinking a Toe’ infusion).
• Courtesy laundry service in Ashi Meraya (once a week).
If laundry is required more frequently, please be prepared to pay a small tip each time, in local currency (Nuevos Soles), as contribution.
• Shipibo surprise gifts, at the end of your retreat, during the Farewell ceremony (Ceremonia de Despedida).
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 / 6 Nights
2 Weeks = 14 Days / 13 Nights
3 Weeks = 21 Days / 20 Nights
4 Weeks = 28 Days / 27 Nights
5 Weeks = 35 Days / 34 Nights
6 Weeks = 42 Days / 41 Nights
7 Weeks = 49 Days / 48 Nights
8 Weeks = 56 Days / 55 Nights
9 Weeks = 63 Days / 62 Nights
10 Weeks = 70 Days / 69 Nights
11 Weeks = 77 Days / 76 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.
Optional
• Huachuma ceremony – guided by a maestro Sanpedrista – with the famed sacred San Pedro visionary cactus. Subject to availability and strictly advance booking only.
• Shipibo-style daily massage sessions offered by the Shipiba Eunice in the centre. These sessions may be booked on the spot, and last between 30 to 60 minutes.
Off Lima
Includes
As for ”Off Iquitos” above, plus:
• Detailed, personalized Travel Plan
• 2 Nights (one on arrival in Peru + one on the return trip) in the amazing Hotel Nuevo Mundo – or equivalent 4 star Hotel – in the exclusive areas of Miraflores or San Isidro, in Lima
• 1 Night (on the return, after the retreat in Ashi Meraya) in the 5 star Hotel El Dorado Plaza, in Iquitos
• All airport pick-ups and transfers in Lima (Hotel/airport and airport/Hotel, both on arrival and on the return)
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 / 6 Nights
2 Weeks = 14 Days / 13 Nights
3 Weeks = 21 Days / 20 Nights
4 Weeks = 28 Days / 27 Nights
5 Weeks = 35 Days / 34 Nights
6 Weeks = 42 Days / 41 Nights
7 Weeks = 49 Days / 48 Nights
8 Weeks = 56 Days / 55 Nights
9 Weeks = 63 Days / 62 Nights
10 Weeks = 70 Days / 69 Nights
11 Weeks = 77 Days / 76 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.
Optional
• Huachuma ceremony – guided by a maestro Sampedrista – with the famed sacred San Pedro visionary cactus.
• Shipibo-style daily massage sessions offered by the Shipiba Eunice in the centre. These sessions may be booked on the spot, and last between 30 to 60 minutes.
