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14 days ayahuasca retreat and workshops in the Amazon rainforest
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7 days ayahuasca retreat and workshops in the Amazon rainforest
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12 days ayahuasca retreat and ‘fast-track apprenticeship’ into Amazonian medicine and shamanic healing
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14 days San Pedro retreat and workshops in the Andes mountains
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The Magical Earth is a 14-day excursion to the Amazon Rainforest to experience ayahuasca, the legendary vine of souls, and learn from the shamanic wisdom-keepers of the sacred forest.
The event is focussed on healing and self-exploration through a unique encounter with the magical powers of nature and the ancient rituals of the Amazonian plant shaman, providing you with an experience that others have found transformative.
The two weeks were beyond my expectations and I am recommending it to many people. How rare to have our expectations exceeded in so many ways! Thank You to Ross, the shamans, and of course the plants themselves. It was a truly life-changing two weeks in so many ways
I am the happiest man I know. The Jungle did wonders for me!I asked for love, I have received it. I can't see these feelings abating. I learnt so much. I am using much of what I learnt and experienced in my current life. You can't start to imagine how Peru has changed the person I am or brought out the real me. I feel extremely privileged to have met such a wonderful group of people
People ask, How was the trip? - and what do you answer? No words can do it justice. There are too many experiences to mention and none would give light on my true feeling and so I stay quiet and allow the knowledge of the journey to sit like a lovely blossoming flower that I know I just need to return to whenever I feel the strains of life. How can I say what really sits inside me or communicate my feelings from the trip... No way! The stillness I feel and the lack of rush is incredible. What we experienced was something so special and life just keeps getting better.
The adventure takes place at our dedicated shamanic healing centre in the jungles off Iquitos. Here, we provide the orientation, conditions, and support for your experience of authentic jungle medicine through the healing and insights available from ayahuasca, the legendary vine of souls, and the teachings of master shamans, the mystics of the emerald forest.
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There are seven ayahuasca ceremonies, jungle walks to meet the spirits of the plants, the opportunity to diet particular plants and absorb their curative powers, seminars and workshops on plant spirit shamanism, excursions into the jungle, and one-to-one healing consultations with the ayahuasceros and curanderos of the plant spirit tradition.
We provide transportation in Peru to the retreat Centre, accommodation and food while there, translation services, ceremonies, shamans, workshops, and plant spirit medicines. All you need do is be open to this magical event and the changes it might bring to your life!
Your accommodation is natural, comfortable, and features no mod cons like TVs, computers or stereos! This makes your experience as real and authentic as possible and also assists the diet. You can feel the jungle around you, with no distractions to get in the way of your spiritual journey: a true retreat.
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On this 7-day workshop we explore our connection to nature and the folkways, medicines and wisdom of our ancestors as we restore balance to our souls through the healing and visionary powers of ayahuasca, one of the world’s greatest teacher plants, aid to be “born of a snake”.
Participants learn the fundamental practices of plant spirit shamanism, including methods for connecting to and working with guides and allies, how to recognise and prepare healing plants, give and receive blessings from nature, and aspects of soul healing and retrieval using plants and flowers.
A minimum of three ayahuasca ceremonies are provided which we prepare for by following the shaman’s diet, just as it has been practiced for thousands of years by plant spirit shamans and ayahuasceros.
We also purify ourselves with limpia: cleansing baths using flowers and herbs to refresh body and soul, change luck, confer spiritual blessings and open ourselves to the healing that the vine of souls can bring.
Alongside the vine we also diet native plant mixtures for lucid dreaming, so we are better prepared for, and more receptive to, the spirit of the vine.
Shamanic practices, exercises and attunements are used to deepen our connection to our enlightened ancestors and the natural world, and during our ceremonies, icaros - sacred chants of the Amazonian shamans - will guide our journeys and call the spirits of healing and vision.
A mind blowing, profound and deeply spiritual experience. Deep thanks for the amazing journey you took us on and for all your guidance and the exercises that took the journey on a much deeper level. I went on the retreat with the intention of gaining more knowledge of ayahuasca ritual practice and to receive more healing.... I gained so much more!!! I cried the whole flight home. This journey went so much deeper than I ever could have imagined. We really did something amazing there!
So much clarity! Everything made so much sense! I saw and more importantly felt so much. After years of reading, years of theory, it was always the feeling that was missing... the feeling of what is inappropriately referred to as ‘love’. I understand now that this feeling is the only point of our existence.
After experiencing ayawaska I know that it is a natural high that also heals! 10 years of therapy in one night! An illness that would require invasive surgery cured in one night! Ayawaska is without doubt the mother healer. She gave me so much clarity by simply showing me the truth, a connection that has opened me to possibility and confirmed that true understanding comes not from the mind but from the spirit. It cannot be taught from a book, a priest, a guru, or a politician, it can only be understood in an altered state of awareness, where true spirit dwells! I consider myself very lucky to have experienced this. A great workshop! I appreciated every moment and I wish you only the best.
The sharing and honesty by the group was inspirational and it was amazing to see the advances made by everyone in such a short period of time, and of course the event was so powerfully and skilfully led. I am now nurturing and consolidating the wonderful insights and energies that we were blessed with during the event.
It’s been about a week now since arriving back in Manchester, it feels a lot longer, maybe because I’ve changed so much and all it took was one night with ayawaska. My friends say I even sound different, more chilled and many of them want to try it. I can actually say that I am not depressed anymore and I can finally eat. I’ve had IBS for years, I was so afraid of food because of the pain it caused me, but the Saturday when I got back I went out to a restaurant to celebrate with my son and enjoyed every bite and there was no pain. My eternal thanks for providing the possibility of deep change on such a profound level. It surpassed my wildest dreams.
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This 12-day programme is a fast-track apprenticeship into Amazonian medicine and shamanic healing.
Most shamans take years to develop their skills and understand methods of spirit-healing because their training takes place ‘on the job' as assistants to elder shamans and through rigorous diets where they spend weeks or months in the jungle learning from the spirit of the plants.
On this unique course, however, we are able to short-cut some of this prolonged apprenticeship by teaching you what the elder shamans know. Workshops and seminars give you the principles of plant spirit shamanism. Tuition and exercises in healing, soul retrieval, spirit extraction and the use of medicine tools introduce you to the practical skills. Work with ayahuasca and other plant medicines helps you develop your own connection to spirit.
The word “initiation” means “a beginning ” so we cannot - and do not - promise to make you an “Amazon shaman” or ayahuascero on this course. But we do promise this: at the end of it you will...
· Understand how plant spirit shamanism works
· Have developed connections to guiding spirits and allies
· Know the shaman's map of illness and the most important ways of healing, including soul retrieval and spirit extraction
· Have practiced healing and worked with some of the core medicine tools of Amazonian shamanism: floral baths, the chacapa, icaros, the plant diet and others
· Be familiar with the worlds of ayahuasca and know how to prepare the brew for yourself
You can then take this knowledge home with you and apply it to your daily life and healing practice so that your true apprenticeship to the spirits can begin.
There is no other programme like this in either the Amazon or the Western world. It provides an exceptional grounding for those who would like to work with the spirits as healers or return to our Centre to follow a longer plant dieta and discover more about curanderismo – and themselves.
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A 14-day spiritual excursion to the Andes to work with San Pedro, the cactus of vision, and learn from the healers, curanderos, and wisdom-keepers of this ancient shamanic tradition.
This is an event focussed on healing and self-exploration, and a transformative encounter with the magical powers of Nature through the ancient rituals of the plant shaman. We believe it is the fullest and best value-for-money programme of its kind.
San Pedro (Trichocereus pachanoi) is one of our most ancient and magical teacher plants. Its name refers to Saint Peter, who holds the keys to Heaven, and alludes to its ability to open the gates for us into a divine world where God is found and we can come to know ourselves and our sacred purpose.
The ethnobotanist, Richard Evans Schultes, wrote of San Pedro in his book, Plants of the Gods, that it is “always in tune with the powers of animals and beings that have supernatural powers… Participants [in San Pedro ceremonies] are set free from matter and engage in flight through cosmic regions… transported across time and distance in a rapid and safe fashion”.
He quotes an Andean shaman who describes some of the effects of this plant:
First, a dreamy state… then great visions, a clearing of all the faculties… and then detachment, a type of visual force inclusive of the sixth sense, the telepathic state of transmitting oneself across time and matter, like a removal of thoughts to a distant dimension
The oldest archaeological evidence so far discovered for the use of San Pedro as a healer and sacrament is a stone carving in a temple in northern Peru, which is almost 3,500 years old (although San Pedro use is probably much older than this).
Some of the reasons that a ceremony may be held (just as always) is to cure illness of a spiritual, emotional, mental, or physical nature; to know the future; to overcome sorcery or saladera (bad luck); to ensure success in one’s ventures; to rekindle love and enthusiasm for life; to explore one’s destiny; and to experience the world as divine.
In a typical ceremony, the shaman first sets up his mesa (altar). This contains power objects and healing items called artes, which create a channel to the divine forces of the cosmos.
The shaman then prays, chants, or sings to call in the San Pedro spirits. Participants may also offer prayers. The sacrament is then taken and visionary brew is drunk.
Our ceremonies take place in the beautiful walled garden of a private dwelling in the hills above Cusco. Close by is the Temple of the Moon, a magical place of power with several caves and ancient rock carvings, which you are free to explore with our guide.
The Temple of the Moon gets its name from the way moonlight radiates into the caves. In the centre of one there is a throne carved from the rock and, beside it, steps that lead deeper into the Earth: a place of true mystery.
As well as Pedro ceremonies you also have the opportunity to work with other fascinating aspects of Andean healing, magic, and ceremony: limpia, coca divination, and the pago offerenda.
is an intriguing healing method where the shaman cleanses and rebalances the energy body so that unhelpful energies are removed and the patient is restored to power and his luck can change, bringing greater health and stability.
uses the leaves of the coca plant (sacred in Andean medicine and culture) to produce a picture of a person’s life – and sometimes past lives. The leaves are thrown by the diviner and the patterns they create give insight into the challenges facing the client, the ‘karma’ she holds, or her best course of action for the future. Each divination is unique.
is an offering to the spirits of the land and a blessing for those who take part. The shaman prepares a special packet of gifts for the Earth, which may include candies, coca, coins, sea shells, small religious statues or lithographs, and so on. This is then burned or buried in an attitude of prayerful gratitude – the intention being to thank the Earth for what is already yours. That is: no matter what you wish for, in the spiritual dimension, you already have it, and to manifest it physically, you simply need to acknowledge that, give thanks for it, and allow it into your life. We return to the Temple of the Moon to perform this ceremony and, in these beautiful and mystical surroundings, give our thanks and call for our prayers to be answered.
In addition to these programme features, regular circle meetings are held to discuss your San Pedro insights, and talks are offered by Ross and the shamans to provide you with background to Andean healing and enhance your understanding and experience of this tradition.
Our excursions also include visits to the sacred city of Machu Picchu, to Pisac and to the Temple of the Moon. One ayahuasca ceremony is also included.
