8 Day Authentic Ayahuasca and Traditional Plant Medicine Retreat in Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
Sacred Earth Medicines Retreat Peru
This is one of the most popular yoga retreats offered in Peru.
The center Paojilhuasca has extensive experience with traditional jungle medicine, offering a deep cleansing process guided by shamans and facilitators. The journey begins with kambo and herbal steam baths for physical detoxification, followed by Ayahuasca and yopo to cleanse the mind and spirit. Integration activities such as mambe' talking circles, breathwork, Qigong, and dancing meditation will also support your transformation.
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- 7 days of activities
- Sacred healing, guided by the wisdom of the Amazon
- Sacred Ayahuasca ceremonies led by experienced shamans
- Kambo and yopo treatments to cleanse, purify, and energize the body
- Traditional master plant dietas, offering a direct connection with the spirits of the forest
- Floral bath and morning Qigong practice
- Breathwork sessions led by certified people
- 7 nights accommodation with two daily meals
Skill level
- Beginner
Yoga styles
7 days with instruction in English
Accommodation
At Paojilhuasca, they provide simple yet comfortable accommodations designed to support your healing journey. The spaces are immersed in the serenity of the Amazon rainforest, offering an environment that fosters peace, reflection, and connection with nature.
- 4 private houses with a bathroom: Each space is thoughtfully arranged to ensure privacy and tranquility.
- Private rooms with or without bathrooms
Natural comfort
Rooms are built with locally sourced materials, blending traditional aesthetics with modern comforts. Mosquito nets, clean bedding, and basic amenities will be provided.
Immersion in nature
Open-air designs and surrounding greenery will allow you to stay close to nature while maintaining a safe and peaceful retreat space.
Facilities
Clean, eco-friendly bathrooms and communal spaces encourage relaxation and connection with others.
The accommodations aim to support your journey by providing a nurturing and grounding space to rest, reflect, and integrate your experiences.
Program
Experience an authentic Ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon near Iquitos, Peru. There will be small groups and experienced shamans, as well as kambo, yopo, and master plant dietas in a safe, caring setting. This retreat will provide a holistic approach to healing, allowing you to reconnect with yourself and nature. With expert guidance and a safe setting, you’ll experience profound renewal, clarity, and balance on all levels.
Paojilhuasca Medicine Center rests deep within the Amazon, offering a sanctuary for healing, awakening, and authentic connection with sacred plants such as Ayahuasca, kambo, and master plant dietas. This is far from tourism. It is a return to origin, where nature, ancestral tradition, and spirit align to restore balance and open the way for true transformation.
At Paojilhuasca, guidance comes from a team unlike any other. Two master shamans, honoring both feminine and masculine traditions, hold the ceremonies with profound care. They are joined by a physician, a scientist, and experienced facilitators who bring depth, safety, and modern understanding.
Together, they create an environment wherein ancestral plant wisdom is honored, along with every detail of your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
The forest awaits your return
The Amazon is alive with voices unseen, a vast world where every leaf, river, and bird carries its own spirit. At Paojilhuasca Medicine Center, you will be welcomed into this living tapestry not as an observer, but as part of it.
Ceremonies with Ayahuasca, kambo, and master plant dietas will unfold in their natural rhythm, guided with reverence and held in a space of trust. The experience will not be about escaping daily life, but about remembering what life truly is when spirit and nature move together.
There, time slows. The forest teaches in silence as much as in song. You will begin to see yourself with new clarity, touched by the same essence that has sustained these traditions for generations.
Why go to the Amazon for healing?
The Amazon rainforest holds medicines that have guided human healing for centuries. To walk into this land will be to step into a living temple of wisdom, wherein every plant carries knowledge. Within Paojilhuasca Medicine Center in Iquitos, each retreat is rooted in devotion, carried with integrity, and guided by deep respect.
What you'll receive will be offered with intention:
- Sacred Ayahuasca ceremonies led by experienced shamans
- Kambo and yopo treatments to cleanse, purify, and energize the body
- Traditional master plant dietas, offering a direct connection with the spirits of the forest
Frequently asked questions
1. Is Ayahuasca safe?
Yes, when held in a traditional and professional setting. Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp provides health screenings, medical supervision, and safe ceremonial guidance.
2. Do I need prior experience?
No. Many of Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp's guests are first-time participants. They will prepare you step by step.
3. How long should I stay?
Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp recommends at least one week, though many choose longer retreats for deeper transformation.
4. What is kambo?
Kambo is a sacred frog medicine used for purification and cleansing, often at the beginning of the retreat.
5. How do I prepare for my retreat?
Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp will provide a complete preparation guide with diet, mindset, and lifestyle recommendations before arrival.
Join Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp for a life-changing retreat that promises to rejuvenate your spirit and transform your perspective. Immerse yourself in a supportive environment wherein you can connect with like-minded individuals and explore new pathways to personal growth. Don’t miss this opportunity to embark on a journey of discovery and renewal. Your adventure in Peru awaits!
Activities:
2x Ayahuasca ceremonies
Ayahuasca ceremonies happen twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays. As Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp will have taken care to purify you well before the first intake, your first journey with the plant will take place in the best possible conditions.
1x kambo healing treatments
On your first day, Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp will recommend a round of kambo, the venom extracted from an Amazonian frog. Kambo purifies and heals the body through a deep cleansing. The indigenous people do not consider kambo as a ceremony but rather a healing treatment. You will have the ability to have more treatments on other days if you feel the call to it.
2x mambè talking circles
On the evening of the day after each Ayahuasca ceremony, Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp will hold a talking circle accompanied by mambé, a powdered coca leaf whose main virtue is to open the heart and free words. In this way, the circle will enable you to talk about, understand, and share what you experienced in the ceremony with the other participants, while strengthening your social ties.
Rapé (hapeh)
Rapé (Amazonian snuff) is a sacred shamanic medicine or tool, which has been used by tribes of the Amazon basin for thousands of years and is an essential part of their tribal culture and history. Rapé, like all the medicines, will be optional, but will be on offer for you to experience when you choose to.
1x yopo ceremony
Yopo is a powder made from the seeds of a Brazilian tree. Rich in DMT, you’ll experience a visionary journey lasting around one hour.
Welcoming floral bath
On the day of your arrival, you will have a floral bath with medicinal plants to welcome and settle you into the space, then a talking circle in the evening to connect with the community.
Medicine preparation
You will have the ability to learn and prepare your own Ayahuasca, collect your own kambo frogs at night, and learn the process of yopo.
Post-ceremony renewal
On the day after each ceremony, you will come together for energizing high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts, flushing out stagnant energy, and grounding the insights of the night before.
Morning Qigong
Each day will begin with movement, breath, and stillness. A centering practice will awaken your energy and prepare you for the deeper work ahead.
Direct shamanic guidance
Have a one-on-one connection with La Maestro and Don Gardel. This will be a chance to receive personal insight, support, and wisdom throughout your path.
Shipibo market
If the group size is large enough, a group of Shipibo women will go to the center to showcase their incredible handmade clothing, artwork, artisans, and talisman. You will also learn more about their culture.
Sananga
A liquid extracted from a Brazilian shrub that is applied to the eyes to encourage receptivity to the third eye, which you can use as you wish to.
Translation / guidance
You will receive full support and care throughout your stay in each and every avenue.
Kundalini dance meditation
The Kundalini meditation is a 60-minute practice with four different stages of 15 minutes each, accompanied by music that was originally composed for this meditation. The stages are shaking, dancing, standing or sitting in stillness, and relaxing. In the first stage, you will stand and shake your body for 15 minutes.
Yoga
Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp offers yoga Nidra right before ceremonies to calm the nervous system. They also offer Yin yoga on Thursdays.
Preparation and integration guided breathwork
Conscious breathing is a powerful tool for shamanic journeys, preparing mind and body for safe, grounded exploration of deeper awareness. Breathwork aids post-ceremony integration by releasing blockages, processing insights, and supporting emotional healing for greater clarity and connection. You can explore this technique further with a qualified practitioner during your stay and afterward if desired.
Master plant dietas
For clients who wish to work in depth on themselves, the diet is highly recommended, as it provides an opportunity for a real and powerful connection with oneself, while opening the way to the true richness of Amazonian medicine.
This is your invitation to reconnect with yourself, with nature, and with the timeless wisdom of the Amazon. Healing is waiting. The plants are waiting. Are you ready to answer the call? Book your Ayahuasca retreat in Iquitos now.
Included excursions
Jungle / river tours
As for the activities on offer, you’ll be treated to a boat trip and a tour of the jungle in the company of a certified guide who will show you the medicinal and master plants in their natural environment. The village also has a football pitch where the village children often play.
Instructors
Fabrizio Beverina
Fabrizio Beverina's background is in biomedical research. He was an expert in brain-computer interaction and emotional computing. He fled the scientific world and studied meditation in Asia. He spent 12 years in China and then travelled to Tibet and India to study with Tibetan Buddhist monks.He is currently conducting research on folk cures while maintaining a scientific perspective. He lived with several shamans in Colombia, Peru, and Brazil, where he learned a great deal about therapeutic herbs. Here, he also teaches meditation, chi-kung and helps make a variety of ancestral medicines.
Don Gardel angulo vasquez
Don Gardel is from a family of curanderos: his grandfather was one, and his two brothers are shamans as well. He learned ayahuasca from a Shipibo woman (la maestra Alicia) deep down on the river Momon. Now it’s 40 years that Don Gardel has been practicing this medicine. When he was a young man, he had the chance to go to work near Brasil where the Matses people live. There he learned to use kambo. This in combination with his experience and studies as a nurse make of Gardel one of the most famous Kambo healer of Iquitos.
Maestra Alicia
he term "Maestra" (which in this context refers to the teacher) is used to refer to Alicia, who was once Gardel's teacher. Her grandfather was a "tabacchero," a type of curandero who specialized in using tobacco for medical purposes. She was initiated when she was quite young. She has a lot of allies from her years of long-term dieting and extensive knowledge with plant-based therapies. People from the neighbouring villages travel to her for traditional treatments. She is a strong, yet tender woman who acts as a big mama to all of the patients.
Dominic Maccini
Facilitator, Kambo Practitioner, Tarot Reader, Sound Healer & Yin Yoga Teacher
Retreat location
The retreat will take place in Iquitos, Maynas Province, Peru. On the River Itaya, close to the little village of Paraiso (paradise), the location of the center is very special. You can feel the jungle all around and the dolphins jumping at night.
Depending on the weather conditions, the Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp can be reached by boat from Iquitos (five hours), by motor taxi (one to two hours), or on foot (motor taxi to Kilometer 32 of the Iquitos-Nauta road, then a two-hour walk through the jungle). You will be in the jungle, so the Internet won't always be available.
Set in the cultural and spiritual heart of the Peruvian Amazon, Paojilhuasca Medicine Center welcomes you to a land where the jungle itself is medicine. Cradled by the Amazon, this is where tradition, nature, and spirit meet. It is a destination known for Ayahuasca, yet felt as a true homecoming to the soul.
Distances
- Iquitos - 5 hours by boat / one or two hours by motor taxi
Food
The meals at Paojilhuasca will be carefully crafted to support your healing journey and enhance the effects of the plant medicine. Paojilhuasca follows traditional Amazonian dietary guidelines, offering simple, nourishing, and wholesome food prepared with love and intention.
Ayahuasca diet-friendly
Meals are designed to align with the dietary restrictions of Ayahuasca ceremonies, avoiding salt, sugar, oils, spices, and fermented or processed foods. This helps to cleanse the body and mind, creating a receptive state for the medicine.
Locally sourced ingredients
Paojilhuasca uses fresh, locally sourced produce, including organic fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes, ensuring the highest quality and connection to the environment.
Balanced nutrition
While minimalist, the meals provide all the necessary nutrients to sustain you during your stay, offering a balance of energy and lightness to complement your journey.
Herbal teas and hydration
A selection of herbal teas and plenty of fresh water will be available to keep you hydrated and support the cleansing process.
Paojilhuasca food philosophy prioritizes simplicity and purity, helping you connect deeply with the healing experience while respecting the sacred traditions of the Amazon.
Organic meals
Meals will be prepared with fresh, local ingredients (all fruit sourced nearby). Meat, when served, will be organic and freshly caught or hunted within days. Superfoods like maca, chia, and specialty flours will enrich meals with vitamins and plant proteins. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options will be available.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Other dietary requirements on request
Things to do (optional)
Bufo ceremony (optional, additional cost of 70 USD)
The sacred toad medicine offers an intense and transcendental experience. It is available for those who feel drawn to its power.
What's included
- All ceremonies (Ayahuasca, kambo, yopo, different master plant dietas)
- Flower bath upon arrival
- Mambè talking circles (one welcoming circle, two integration circles after Ayahuasca)
- Daily wellness practices (Qigong, yoga Nidra, meditation, breathwork)
- Guided river and rainforest excursions
- A guided boat trip or jungle tour
- Pre-retreat preparation support
- Post-retreat integration guidance
- 7 nights accommodation
- 2 nourishing meals per day
What's not included
- Flights to Iquitos, Peru
- Local transport and personal purchases in the jungle
- Bufo ceremony (optional, additional 70 USD, offered only as a final ceremony if you feel called to it)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer available for additional US$ 20 per person
Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta International Airport
5 km away from your destination
Arrival by plane
Please book your flight to arrive at Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta International Airport (IQT). Transfer from and to this airport is available upon request. You can come by boat from Iquitos, by road (if it's not raining), or by walking in the jungle for 90 minutes.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 15% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on departure.
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