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Aya Healing Retreats

Ayahuasca Retreat

Find Deep Healing and step into the new you

How Aya Healing Retreats Works

Just one simple step and you are on the way to a life changing Ayahuasca Retreat

Preparing for your journey

What you need to know

Preparing for Ceremony

The Traditional Ayahuasca Dieta

It is essential to prepare your body and mind for a life changing spiritual transformation and deep healing. You must exercise the utmost respect for yourself – and let go of the habits that are no longer serving you in the weeks both before and after your Ayahuasca Retreat. Additionally, dietary restrictions are part of an ayahuasca retreat that is setup to optimally maximize the healing potential of each ceremony. Sacred plant medicines take in an intimate group setting, have the potential to profoundly change the quality of our human experience, long after we have left the fireside, but we must prepare ourselves correctly.

Before immersion into the Amazon – you’ll also need to clarify your main intention. This will help you use your ayahuasca journey to adopt a new lifestyle which will aid in spiritual growth. With clear intent, we give the universe permission to deliver to us. When we focus on what we don’t want, then we’ll likely end up with the same drugery. To learn more and find a list of questions to contemplate, view our ayahuasca intentions page.

Our Peruvian Shipibo healers find it much easier to work with individuals who have taken the time to define a clear intent and mental preparation. Another benefit would be to generally educate yourself about ayahuasca, such as how it works, how it is made, or the history of ayahuasca.

Our Healers

Our curanderos or healers are of the shipibo tribe, one of the largest within the Peruvian Amazon and highly experienced with traditional plant medicine. You’re in safe hands with the combined wisdom and expertise to guide you through a powerful healing experience. We’re honoured to have the ancient wisdom of these incredible maestros with us on our retreats.

Your retreat will also be accompanied by a highly trained facilitator who will provide you with individualized attention. The role of our facilitators, is to ensure your wellbeing and help you have a transformative experience with personal growth. Our facilitators will create a loving, compassionate space in which all participants feel safe, respected and free to express themselves authentically. You can find more information on our facilitators on about About Us page.

AYA Healing Retreats is committed to creating a more compassionate, safe and equal world. Which is why we are donating 10 percent of the profits of our sacred medicine retreat to two extraordinary humanitarian projects. 

Don Miguel

Shipibo Curandero

Maestra Juana

Shipibo Curandera

Elio Guesa

Founder, Lead Facilitator

Vocal Awakening Guide, Soulsong Revival

Sound Facilitator

Facilitator, Trauma Expert, Integration Support

Trauma Facilitator

Kara Cura

Facilitator, Sound Healer

Facilitator

Anna Keppen

Facilitator

Adelina Profile

Adelina Vaughn

Women’s Retreat Lead Facilitator

Facilitator

Marta

Facilitator, Yoga & Breathwork Teacher

Yoga Facilitator

Dee

GSD Facilitator

GSD Facilitator

Lulu

Administrative Assistant and Social Media Guru

Admin Assistant

Ready to Take the dive?

Safety

At Aya Healing Retreats, we have the highest level of safety standards in the industry. We are committed to providing the safest and most authentic sacred plant medicine healing modalities in the Peruvian Amazon. Together with the International Centre for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service (ICEERS) we have created the most comprehensive screening process available for our participants. Our dedication to creating the safest possible plant medicine journey ensures that each participant is given every opportunity to reach their true healing potential during their time with us. 

What may be included in your ayahuasca retreat?

Don Miguel with Pipe For Ayahuasca Apprenticeship

Mapacho

Mapacho (Nicotiana Tobacum) is a natural tobacco locally found in the Amazon rain forest. It is much more potent in terms of nicotine than commercialized cigarrettes, containing 15-20 times the nicotine and no tar. It is the tar and chemical additives which are so dangerous in western tobaccos. Although it is well known that nicotine has addictive properties, many shamans insist upon its profound spiritual and healing properties, with large doses creating trance-like states of consciousness.

Icaros

Ayahuasca Icaros are used to supoort communications with plant spirits and to call in strength, guidance, healing, and protection. A curandero will use different Icaros' depending on the situation. Often, the lyrics are kept secret and the curandero will only whistle the tune. Icaros will help you stay grounded throughout your life changing experience, and provide you with the courage you need to face your deepest fears

Plant Bath

Plant Baths

A plant bath involves immersing oneself in a bath tub filled with water and the plant ingredients that the curandero believes will be most beneficial to our healing process. Water is then poured over our heads and intentions are made for how we hope the purification process will positively transform us. These baths will normally take place on the side of the river, so as all the negative energy that is lifted from our bodies can be washed out and transmuted by the sea. Plants that may be chosen include Mocura, Piñon Colorado, and Baño de Florecimient, each with unique benefits.

FAQ

Our 11 day ayahuasca retreats include 5 ceremonies spread out every other day, and start at $3300. Your investment also includes a master plant dieta, a personalized consultation with Don Miguel, personalised treatments, plant vapour baths, transportation from Iquitos, accomodation, and much more. Some of our other retreats which include yoga classes or sound healing or if the retreat is outside of Peru or has additional ceremonies then the price will reflect our increased costs.

According to a survey from the Global Ayahuasca Project, 85% of people go on to make a profound life change after undergoing an ayahuasca ceremony. However, we believe in order to get the full benefit you must go into your ayahuasca experience with the right preparation, intention, and integration.

The Amazonian jungle is the most common place to take ayahuasca, the plant grows natively here, and has been consumed by local tribes for generations in sacred tradition.

There is definitely something to be said about being close to the home and origin of the medicine. Iquitos is probably the most popular hub, with many retreats located within short distance of the city. Other options in Peru include Puerto Maldonado, Pucallpa, and Tarapoto.

Whichever country or city you decide to endeavour in an ayahuasca retreat, be sure to do thorough research to find ethical providers with high safety standards and integration practices.

To read our full Frequently Asked Questions, please click the button below.

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Embark on your journey

Interested in flexible pricing options? Speak to our program coordinator today or email info@ayahealingretreats.com

11-Day Ayahuasca Retreat

New Offers Posted Monthly
$ 3300+
  • 11+ Life Changing Days
  • 5+ Ayahuasca Ceremonies
  • Plant Baths, Icaros, Sacred Tobacco, Sound Healing
  • World Class Safety Standards
  • Industry Leading Integration Practices

Integration

Integrating your Ayahuasca experiences into your daily life is how you create lasting profound changes, long after leaving the healing center. In order to help facilitate this, we offer a free integration support session 30-days after your retreat. Delivered by Atira Tan, who has over 13 years of experience in trauma recovery and working with transformative spiritual retreats. Atira will guide you using Somatic Experiencing principles to help you preserve the wisdom and healing you’ve gained from your journey and help you feel comfortable.

These sessions will offer you the opportunity to discuss your sacred medicine experiences, and to work through tangible solutions to any real-world problems you are facing that are preventing you from fully integrating this work. We also have a private facebook community where individuals help each other work through issues and creatively explore ideas related to their ayahuasca ceremonies in a wonderful online sharing circle. For more on ways to maxmize your growth post retreat, check out our integration suggestions.

Ready to journey with us?

Book a free skype session and ask questions, or start your medical screening questionnaire. Prepare to be profoundly changed.

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Prepare For Trip

  1. Book your insurance, and travel to your retreat destination, and any accomodation necessary. You may also require a visa. Remember to consider meals and personal expenses before we pick you up.
  2. We will pick you up from your hotel and transport you to our retreat facilities.
  3. Some of our retreats are located off road and require a short hike – wear appropriate shoes and bring a backpack not a suitcase.
  4. Retreat costs include accomodation and 3 meals per day. Refer to the individual retreat page for more information on what else is included.
  5.  Please keep the changing weather conditions in mind when packing your suitcase (rain, cool evenings). Additionally, we will provide you with a recommended list of items to pack. 

If your retreat is not located in Peru, please refer to the retreat page for more information.

Entering Peru - Where to Stay in Iquitos

We recommend arriving in Iquitos a day or two before the start of the retreat to acclimatize with the environment. If you arrive before the start of the retreat we highly recommend booking your room at:

 

Nativa Apartments Boutique Hotel
Calle Nanay 144, Iquitos 16002, Peru
+ 51 980 364 553
contact@nativaapartments.com

 

The owner speaks English and she will be supporting you and us during your stay before or after the retreat and she will organize the transportation from the Iquitos Airport to your accommodation in Iquitos. – Please Note, taxi from the airport to the accommodation comes on a small fee to be paid to the taxi driver in Peruvian soles. You can change your currency in Peruvian Soles at the airports.

Check out “Dawn at the Amazon cafe” or “Karma Cafe” for great food aligned with your dieta.

Don Miguel

Shipibo Curandero

AKA Senen Yoi - 'Speaking the Truth'

Don Miguel was born into a Shipibo community called Roaboya on the River Ucayali. When Don Miguel was a child, Angel Sanchez Vargas, his grandfather was the community’s curandero. Vargas was an expert in sacred plant medicines and was frequently called upon to heal and share his spiritual wisdom with members of Roaboya. The school built some years later was named after Vargas and Roaboya went on to be recognised as the first indigenous community 114 years ago. Don Miguel grew up surrounded by the Shipibo wisdom and possess intimate knowledge of the sacred plant medicines. At a very young age he began his apprenticeship as a curandero through plant dietas under the supportive guidance of his grandfather. Miguel is also a trained literature professor and thoroughly enjoys teaching the Shipibo language and culture. Since 2012, Don Miguel has spent the bulk of his time leading lectures, workshops, initiation courses and retreats. Don Miguel will lead our Ayahuasca ceremonies, circle discussions and be available for personal consultations whilst on retreat.

Maestra Juanita

also known as Isa Yaka- Little Bird

Maestra Juana was born into the Shipibo community of Pahoyan, one of the most powerful Shipibo healing lineages in the Peruvian Amazon. She is around 60 years old, however her exact age is unknown.She has been studying for more than 35 years under Maestra Manuela, Papa Gilberto and Papa Bejamin, who are all members of the highly-respected curandero family, the Mahua family. Juana began her dieta on the mythical Amazonian tree Noya Rao when she was just 20 years old and has dedicated her life to the path of healing ever since. Juana is also very learned in the workings of the human body, possessing an excellent knowledge of the bones and skeletal system. Juana specialises in bone massage and will be available on the Noya Rao retreat to provide our guests with this unique healing experience. We are delighted to have Juana’s expertise, depth of wisdom and fun loving spirit with us on the Noya Rao retreat.

Elio Geusa

Founder - Lead Facilitator

Elio Guesa

Elio Geusa is the founder of AYA Healing Retreats and is a qualified Social Worker with over thirteen years of experience working both on national and international humanitarian projects, supporting adults experiencing mental health and intellectual disabilities, and refugee populations throughout Asia, Europe, and Australia.

Elio believes that loving and inspired action can create meaningful change in the world.

Elio has been devoted to the path of plant medicine and Ayahuasca since 2009 and began an apprenticeship under the guidance of Maestro, Vegetalista Manaco Manai. In his long time in Peru, he has continued to deepen his knowledge, experience, and understanding of the workings of the sacred plant medicines, studying the Shipibo traditions under the revered Mahua family and has undertaken numerous Master Plant Dietas with well-respected curanderos in the Peruvian Amazon.

This immersion in the sacred plant medicines of the indigenous peoples of Peru enabled Elio to experience deep and profound healing. He has overcome crippling anxiety and anger as a result of traumatic childhood experiences and healing that trauma imprints that were not possible through the Western medical paradigm. His renewed sense of self-worth, love, compassion, and empathy for himself enables him to extend those same qualities to others.

Elio founded AYA Healing Retreats because he is convinced of the healing potentialities of sacred plant medicines. Not only does he hope to share the indigenous wisdom of the ancient traditions of the Indigenous people of the Amazon, but he also hopes to make a bigger difference by investing profits from AYA Healing Retreats into humanitarian projects that create a more compassionate world.

Lindsey Wise

Vocal Awakening Guide, SoulSong Revival

Lindsey Wise

Lindsey has spent the last decade gathering people from all over the world to sing healing medicine songs and mantras. She’s the founder of Global Sisters Song Circle and Global Song Circle that gathers on new and full moons. She uses music and movement to break down the emotional and energetic barriers that keep women stifled.

Following the birth of her first child, Lindsey Wise bled to death. During this Near-Death Experience, she found herself surrounded by multitudes of light beings, who initiated her into the world of subtle energies and healing vibrations. At that moment, she realized that all beings create their own unique vibration—their soul song. Each person’s soul song makes up the great Choir of Life.

Lindsey’s work is to awaken humanity to the healing power of the voice. She has traveled the world and the astral realms, cultivating healing techniques to help people awaken to the power of their own voice and to the healer within. Lindsey is an E-RYT 500 certified yoga teacher. She blends yoga, breathwork, guided journeys, energetic healing, and community song to help people overcome fear and anxiety and to clear the energetic blocks that limit expression.

For more about Lindsey: www.lindseywise.com

Atira Tan

Trauma Specialist - Integration Support

Atira Tan Portrait Photo

Hailing from her native Singapore Atira Tan, now based in Melbourne Australia, has over 15 years experience healing trauma through yoga, mindfulness, art, and counseling. Atira has a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy from Latrobe University, Melbourne, she was featured on TED X, is the founder of Art to Healing and the annual international Yogathon event, Yoga for Freedom. Atira works extensively throughout Asia and Australia in various projects that are centered around healing and empowering women and girls who have been sexually abused and violated through the sex trafficking industry.

From 2004 onwards, Atira established numerous clinical art therapy and trauma recovery programs and has partnered with international organizations to bring art therapy, somatic therapies, yoga, mindfulness to the refugee camps of Burma, the war zones of Cambodia, the brothels of Kathmandu, regions devastated by earthquakes in Nepal and to remote Aboriginal communities in Australia. In addition to her not-for-profit work, Art to Healing, Atira works as a clinician and clinical supervisor in Australia and the Asia Pacific region and as an educator in Transpersonal Art Therapy. Like Elio, Atira is dedicated to creating the space for transformative experiences to occur for each participant. She is the head of our integration team and as well as teaching yoga on selected retreats, she will facilitate your post-retreat integration sessions via Skype.

More about Atira Tan: atiratan.com

“My mission is to inspire others to step into their TRUTH, to LOVE themselves wholeheartedly and to EMPOWER their unique EXPRESSION in the world.”

Kara Cura

Facilitator, Sound Healer

Kara Portrait

Kara has spent her life expanding her healing gifts, offering counsel to many, and building her career around the pillars of healing while offering services in many areas such as art and art therapy, music and sound healing, hands-on healing through Reiki and deep integrative trauma release bodywork and studying what draws her into deeper realms of healing through plant medicine, healing the body with food, and daily practices to keep the body and mind centered. Growing up with parents in the US that loved to travel, Kara realized at an early age that she loved traveling. Now spending the majority of her time in South and Central America, Peru and Guatemala have become her new homes.

In 2005 Kara met Ayahuasca and the introduction was life-changing for her. After moving into the work slowly – about 4 years only sitting once every two years – it wasn’t until she met her first teacher that she heard the calling to the medicine in a deeper way. After that calling, she began a serious 7-year study of this sacred plant medicine and found herself in Peru. Studying and learning from some of the most revered Shipibo’s curanderos in South America. Today she focuses most of her learning time with the Mahua family and the Gomez family in the Peruvian Amazon.

Her work with the Amazonian plants has deepened her own journey into facilitating retreats with her teacher(s), hosting her own retreats, and offering ceremonies. One of her main focuses in these spaces is integration. Kara believes the most important work comes during the time after the retreat – how we integrate the plants and their knowledge into our own daily lives is the key to successful plant medicine healing.

Kara offers facilitation and ceremonies that are built with the participants and their own intention. Holding a light to their goals and journey, Kara brings seven (+) years of study and practice to the circle, holding you with love, healing and humor, and with creative solutions and paradigms to help allow new information to integrate into your soul. Kara believes this is the best work we can offer to our own development. You can find more information about Kara’s offerings at www.karacura.com.

“The medicine path is what I know, and the calling is an honor. May my path always hold me in love and allow me to guide others along their own unique healing. May we all rise to our highest expressions of self and hold the light for our fellow brothers and sisters to do the same. Together we change the world.”

Anna Keppen

Facilitator

Anna Keppen Ayahuasca Facilitator Photo

Anna was born in the United States and is currently based in the Andes of Southern Peru. She is an alternative health advocate, healing is her passion. Anna has devoted her life to healing and continued health education. She offers her clients tools of self-realization and personal empowerment. Anna’s primary focus is on plant-based medicine, yoga, qigong, and music. From an early age, Anna gravitated toward the healing arts. She knew through her own healing and self-discovery that her life’s work and personal fulfillment would be helping others.In 2010 her eight-year path of holistic healing and alternative medicine began at the Ashland Institute of Massage. Soon after she began working with Native American teachers learning Shamanistic rituals; she built on her newfound knowledge through the study of the healing practices across the world; earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Education and Native American Studies from Southern Oregon University in 2014. In late 2014 Anna felt the pull to focus on the ancient rituals of the Amazon. Traveling to Peru in August she had her first introduction to the profound healing capabilities of Ayahuasca. While Peru would eventually become her home; Anna continued to travel extensively through North, Central, and South America on a journey to connect with as many ancient rituals and practices as possible. Along the way, she discovered a natural ability to bridge culture, backgrounds, and unique personalities with the healing powers of the Amazon. By maintaining a strong personal practice of daily meditation and yoga that she learned in India; Anna has also been fortunate enough to share her knowledge of yoga and qigong with others for the last seven years. The foundation of Anna’s life is love, joy, and balance. She has enjoyed the opportunity to collect many ancient healing songs from around the world and is looking forward to releasing her first healing album in the near future.

 

“The healing plants of the Amazon have opened up my life and expanded my mind to amazing possibilities and opportunities. It’s a joy that this path opened to me, and an honor that I can share this healing with others” 

Adelina Vaughn

Women’s retreat Lead Facilitator

Adelina Profile

Born in the United States, Adelina began her healing path at the young age of 5 with deep initiations through the womb. Modern-day medicine saved her life and would later unfold her dharma. Rooted in her Native American and Italian heritage, she began communing with the dreamworld and spirits in her early teens. She has always felt deeply guided by her ancestors. In 2011, Adelina graduated from university with a Bachelor’s in Human Behavior and Health Education, intending to attend medical school. She instead enrolled in Massage School and now specializes in modalities such as Polarity, Neuromuscular Therapy, and Trauma Bodywork. Shortly after, she was then guided to Peru and received her 200 RYT in the Sacred Valley in 2015. On this trip, she met the Ancient Mother, Ayahuasca, which changed the course of her life path.

She received many instructions from this plant teacher and shared deep prayers of gratitude. Following the call, Adelina traveled to the sacred lands of Mount Shasta to complete her facilitation certification in Clarity Breathwork. The sacred medicine continued to speak with her in dreams until she met with her again and full trust of this path was born. She has spent the past 3 years assisting in circles and helping in ceremonies. After holding space for so many, she began to realize the importance of grounded integration while working with such intelligent plant allies. This led to an in-depth focus on somatic studies, attachment theory, non-violent communication, and mind-body practices. Coming from a bloodline of addiction and sexual trauma, a lot came to surface while studying. She returned to the amazon to sit with Maestra Juanita and the Master Plant Noya Rao at AYA Healing Retreat Center in 2019 – where her respect for this path deepened even more.

Adelina is now focused on supporting people as they move through their traumas, addictions, ancestral conditions, and unaligned habits. She travels creating sacred spaces through sound healing, dance, breath-work, and somatic body awareness to help reprogram the subconscious. She is fully committed to helping people prepare and integrate their experiences with these ancient plants. Forever a student, she bows in deep gratitude to these sacred medicines and the lineages that hold them in protection.

For more about Adelina:  www.adelinavaughn.com

“Through the heart, all can be healed” 

Chloe

Integration support

Chloe is an Integrative and Transpersonal Psychotherapist and Counsellor. She is dedicated to a path of learning and integration into health and wellbeing systems. 

She has immersed herself in the study of numerous different modalities. She is particularly interested in how diverse cultures view and approach healing and what we can respectfully learn and integrate from them into our own lives and communities.

 

Chloe holds a Bachelor of Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (IKON Institute of Australia), an Advanced Diploma of Transpersonal Counselling (IKON Institute of Australia), and a Certificate of Gestalt Therapy (Gestalt Therapy Brisbane) and a psychology major in her first degree (The University of Sydney).

 

For two years, she lived and worked as a group facilitator in the Amazon Jungle of Peru at the Temple of the Way of Light: a traditional plant medicine healing center that works primarily with Ayahuasca and indigenous Shipibo Maestros. There, she was dedicated to integrating plant medicine work with other practices such as yoga, meditation, and psychotherapeutic self-inquiry and embodiment processes. 

 

Chloe is wholeheartedly committed to the integration of mind, body, spirit, and soul: where we become progressively more aligned in our authentic sense of self, our somatic intelligence, our passion, our wisdom, and our actions. Her work involves supporting people to develop the tools and awareness necessary to form an empowered relationship with their wounds, uncover their unique path in life, become anchored in their soul purpose, and awaken their innate, life-affirming creativity. 

 

She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, and offers one-on-one psychotherapy and integration sessions, both online and in person.

Warren

Medical Doctor, Cardiologist, Facilitator

Ayahuasca doctor

Warren is a trained medical doctor who became a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology. At the beginning of his medical career, he was introduced to Ayurveda – the traditional Indian art of healing. Fascinated by this holistic approach, he participated in a whole array of training courses and retreats, learning and exploring holistic methods and wisdom from all over the world.

Especially in the last years, he regularly visited the Amazon jungle to train under the guidance of the Shipibo indigenous people and received different Plant Dietas. Those Dietas clarified his understanding of Naturopathy and how to face medical issues holistically.

Warren is also a passionate musician. With the Dietas, he connects deeply with the amazon tradition of singing Icaros, the traditional healing songs of the Shipibo community. He delights the groups with his wonderful music and guitar playing while in service as a Facilitator.

With great enthusiasm, he is now working as a holistic consultant focusing on solution-based approaches that support health in a humble, intuitive, and natural way.

For more about Warren: www.warrenashley.com

Lulu

Administrative Assistant and Social Media Guru

She’s the one who has the answers to all your questions. But please allow at least 24 hours.

Graduated in Linguistic Mediation, she speaks English, Spanish and Italian.

Beautiful on the inside as much as on the outside, she radiates a loving feminine presence. She puts love and magic in everything she does. Old-soul piscean, compassionate, open-hearted, rock-n-roll mom. Lulu is the proud mother of the cutest red haired little girl named Ginni.

She’s spiritually aware and a kindness advocate. Interested in Yogic and Tantric studies, Human Psychology and Astrology. She believes in the naturally ecstatic and blissful essence of humanity.

Safety

Each retreat group consists of a maximum of 12-15 participants. Small numbers ensure that we can adequately guarantee everyone’s safety during their time with us. Your curandero or curandera of the Shipibo tradition, two English speaking facilitators and one ceremonial assistant will be present at each plant medicine ritual to fully supervise and support guests through the healing process.

We have taken additional precautions to guarantee the safety of our guests through:

  • Equipping the camp with a superior grade first aid kit
  • Offering 24-hour emergency transport to a local medical clinic
  • Emergency outside assistance from medical staff in Iquitos
  • Rigorous medical screening for all guests
  • Ensuring an after-ceremony sitter is available to care for and watch over participants until 4am in the morning following all ceremonies
  • A Skype session 1 month following retreat with our qualified Somatic Experiencing™ therapist *
  • Facilitation by expertly trained and extensively experienced staff

Noya Rao Icaro

Watch Don Miguel sing the Noya Rao Icaro underneath a beautiful Noya Rao tree in the jungles of Peru. During the song the spirit of the tree is called upon to provide guidance and protection.

Integration Tips

  • Take place in our 1 month post retreat free integration session
  • Follow the dietary restrictions for two weeks post retreat
  • Continue a daily meditation, yoga, or other mindfulness practice
  • Connect with your tribe on our Facebook Group
  • Spend Time in Nature
  • Look After Your Body

Application

Our comprehensive screening questionnaire has been developed in partnership with the International Centre for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service (ICEERS). Please take your time to answer it as honestly and with as much detail as possible. This information will remain strictly confidential and will only be used to assess your suitability for a place on retreat with AYA Healing Retreats and keep you safe

Please remember that the purpose of this screening questionnaire is to determine whether plant medicine healing is suitable for you…not whether you are suitable for plant medicine healing. Plant medicines are tools, like any other healing modality and like other tools for healing experiencing them entails certain risks. We need to make sure that our plant medicines will not compromise your wellbeing or harm you in any way before we allow you to begin your healing journey with us. In short, we care about your safety and we need to do what we can to ensure that during your time with us you are not at risk of harm. Plant medicines can be dangerous if the plants are not the right fit for the individual. Your answers to this questionnaire will help us to determine whether the plants we intend to use are going to help, rather than harm you

Improvements, Pricing Changes, and What’s On The Horizon For AYA Healing Retreats

While living mindfully in the present, we are always excited for the future and we have much in store for the coming year. Among other upgrades to better serve our guests, we will be:

  • adding new staff at the center that offer even better cleaning and laundry services
  • increasing the breadth and depth of training undertaken by our facilitators
  • offering more in-depth one-on-one preparation sessions to all of our guests, in addition to integration sessions
  • implementing a new water filtration for healthy, alkaline, antioxidant drinking water rich in minerals and purged of impurities.
  • purchasing additional medical equipment and continued medical training of staff for the safety of all, both here and in our community

Part of our improvement plans include raising our prices starting in 2024 to support our continuing efforts in improving everything that we do. With that said, we will always do our best to keep our prices attainable and within reach for as many people as possible, and we will also offer the possibility of discounts in a few different ways:

  • Earlybird discounts when you book your retreat in advance
  • Deep discounts for return attendees
  • Deep discounts for residents of Central and South America

We will continue to provide payment plans for all of our retreats, please contact us at info@ayahealingretreats.com to discuss options.

We are committed to prioritizing the quality of our retreats, giving you the most personalized and authentic experience possible, and caring for the health, safety, comfort and well-being of everyone who comes to AYA Healing Retreats.

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Critical Considerations When Choosing An Ayahuasca Retreat

No matter where you end up for your ayahuasca retreat, we want only the best for you. So here’s a little something to help you decide: Check these four necessary boxes before you make your final decision to ensure the best journey possible.

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Application

Our comprehensive screening questionnaire has been developed in partnership with the International Centre for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service (ICEERS). Please take your time to answer it as honestly and with as much detail as possible. This information will remain strictly confidential and will only be used to assess your suitability for a place on retreat with AYA Healing Retreats and keep you safe

Please remember that the purpose of this screening questionnaire is to determine whether plant medicine healing is suitable for you…not whether you are suitable for plant medicine healing. Plant medicines are tools, like any other healing modality and like other tools for healing experiencing them entails certain risks. We need to make sure that our plant medicines will not compromise your wellbeing or harm you in any way before we allow you to begin your healing journey with us. In short, we care about your safety and we need to do what we can to ensure that during your time with us you are not at risk of harm. Plant medicines can be dangerous if the plants are not the right fit for the individual. Your answers to this questionnaire will help us to determine whether the plants we intend to use are going to help, rather than harm you