Ayahuasca and Plant Spirit Shamanism – Amazon Rainforest Retreat Peru

Ayahuasca & Plant Spirit Shamanism – Amazon Retreat

November 10th – 24th 2007 Optional Extension Week – Nov 25th – Dec 1st 2007

A dedicated programme in the Amazon rainforest, which is focussed on an middle and low self-exploration and confront with the energy of the rainforest. This is an tour in to the enchanting universe of the rainforest, and a transformative believe of the really old visionary rituals of the plant spirit medicines. This programme will take place in the Mishana Private Retreat Centre. We have 57 Hectares (140 acres) of land with a board in the Allpahuayo Mishana Nature reserve.

Our board is located but delay on the stream which is partial of a 58,070 hectare inlet reserve. Due to a multiple of geological factors and opposite dirt types, the haven supports a singular village of plant and animal species. It is the ‘jewel’ in the climax for bird-watchers and contains dozens of class which are singular to this area. The Reserve contains one of the top biodiversities well known in the Amazon basin. The Lodge is located but delay on the Rio Nanay which is a run of the Amazon River. Our board is situated in-between dual bends of the stream giving an unusual breathtaking view . We have our own vessel so trips can be finished to a little interesting, and unusually pleasing places along the river.

The board is a 2 hour stream tour from Iquitos by energy boat. We have the dedicated services of conductor medicine male Artidoro Aro Cardenas. Included in the program are particular personal healing or consultative sessions formed upon your personal needs by our shaman. The conductor will additionally yield experiential teachings about the erotically appealing medicinal and psycho-spiritual properties of the internal plants. Participants can select their plant medicine which will be finished uninformed for them. Our place to live is in gentle normal cabins or tambos (dieting huts), a root roof upheld by poles and with open sides (the most insinuate approach to nap in the jungle). The beds great from a gentle mattress and fly nets when necessary. The tambos are widespread out to assure remoteness and smallest reeling from others.

Participants have a preference of regulating possibly the cabins in the ‘Casa Grande’ apparatus or tambos for their retreat. During the day when there are no activities, there will be hammocks to relax in, and you can read, or ramble in to the forest, or float in the stream (there is a small sandy beach). Our ceremonies and assembly will be hold in possibly the Casa Grande with an open height on stilts but delay on the stream with a pretentious view of the rainforest and star filled sky. or our maloca (ceremonial temple), a large round tambo finished of healthy materials and made similar to a womb. We will eat our dishes in the lodge, the normal assembly place, where food is baked on a timber fire.

Single Accommodation
One of the singular characteristics of this programme is which we suggest singular place to live via both in the hotels in Lima, Iquitos, and at our Centre in Mishana. This ensures which participants can acquire the limit great from their confront with the plants. The Diet unequivocally needs to be taken in waste and personal retreat but distractions. This is a defining evil of this programme. Typically other programmes do not suggest this and college building / common place to live is customarily the rule. Our Tambos (individual place to live huts) are all opposite and are widespread out, a little with some-more siege than others and we additionally have particular place to live bedrooms in the wing of our Casa Grande for those who would cite being close to the main facilities.

There are photos on the web or I can send cinema on request. Our goal in this tour is to yield the conditions and course to capacitate participants to follow a correct diet, and for it to be as nearby as probable to what inland people have finished for thousands of years, (although we can equivocate nonessential hardship, in any box a diet is not a hearing of endurance). The diet is a tour of self-exploration and the conductor is there to give support, It is some-more critical which the medicine male is an developed and exquisite person, who will guide us to learn for ourselves and great from our practice in safety.

Participants will commence to ‘diet’ a plant for a full 6 to eight days, selecting their plant from a operation of options which will be explained by the conductor and rely on particular requirements. Some plants are great for specific ailments as, for e.g. Chuchahuasi for arthritis and other bone conditions, nonetheless there is regularly a enchanting universe non-stop up by the plant spirit. Other plants have specific spiritual benefits. Chirisanango and Ushpahuasanango, for example, open up the heart and are healing to emotions. Guayusa works really curiously on one’s dreams, affording an believe of being unwavering whilst in actuality defunct or dreaming.

The plants used will all be concordant with Ayahuasca so which we can great from the plant diet during Ayahuasca ceremonies. There will be a programme of talks, exercises, particular sessions and organisation meetings but prejudicing the spirit of the diet. This is a approach to learn from regard and insinuate hit with nature, unsentimental inventive exercises regulating internal materials. We will experience in the entertainment and credentials of Ayahuasca, a enlarged ritual in which energy is invoked from the planta maestra. We will learn about healing plants and how to find them.

The Shamans
We are really gay to have cumulative the services of a little of the most gifted shamans in the region, during our Retreats we will work with one of the following shamans;, Artidoro Aro Cardenas, Javier Arevalo and Leoncio Garcia.

Artidoro Aro Cardenas
We have worked with Maestro Artidoro on our prior Amazon Retreat, and again we were severely tender with his believe of medicinal and energy plants, and his care and await for the participants. Although Artidoro is Mestizo he has lived amongst the Ashaninka Indians for most years, and has schooled their languages which outcome in which most of his chants come from a accumulation of inland groups together with the Ashaninka, Cashibo, and Capanaua .He has proposed his own centre nearby Iquitos.

Javier Arevalo
We have worked with Javier most times on our Retreats, we additionally brought him to the UK for a special Amazonian Medicine stay in 2002. We are severely tender and changed by his dedication, and his joining to the perfectionist rigours of an Amazonian shaman.It is satisfactory to contend which everyone who has worked with Javier has been overwhelmed by his kindness, care , humour, and spirit

Leoncio Garcia
The Shipibo conductor is now in his midst 70’s with the coming of a male in his 50’s. He was innate in the Shipibo village of San Francisco by Yarina Cocha (an oxbow lake nearby Pucullpa). On a series of occasions he has worked with healing doctors in assorted cities in Peru. Don Leoncio additionally founded a healing centre nearby Nina Rumi on the Rio Nanay.

Benjamin Ochavano
Is a normal Shipibo (elder shaman). He is in his late seventies. His chants (icaros) sung in the Shipibo denunciation are extraordinary, pleasing and powerful.