12-Day Ayahuasca Retreat at the Hummingbird Center

An ayahuasca retreat at The Hummingbird Center is a profound opportunity to experience traditional plant spirit medicine under the guidance of Maestro Manain, a highly skilled curandero with over 45 years of sacred practice. For more than seven years, his healing gifts have blessed our guests, and his compassionate presence infuses each ceremony as he guides participants through the transformative power of this ancient tradition.

Ayahuasca works uniquely with every individual, offering deeply personal healing and growth. The wisdom of the medicine spirits meets each person exactly where they are, revealing the path they most need for liberation and renewal. Our role is simply to trust, surrender, and allow the process to unfold.

A retreat at The Hummingbird is an immersive journey into deep emotional and spiritual healing. By addressing the root causes of trauma and limiting beliefs, ayahuasca helps dissolve old patterns, replacing them with renewed clarity, authenticity, and an open heart. This shift can profoundly transform your daily life, bringing greater peace, connection, and purpose.

Since 2010, The Hummingbird Center has honored the sacred traditions of master ayahuasqueros, while integrating modern insights into consciousness and healing. Our proven approach blends time-honored Amazonian plant medicine with teachings on how shifting thought patterns can reshape our reality.

In addition to ayahuasca ceremonies, every retreat includes at least one sacred *San Pedro (Huachuma)* ceremony. Known as the visionary cactus of the Andes, Grandfather Huachuma is a gentle yet powerful heart-opening medicine. It works in harmony with ayahuasca, facilitating deep emotional cleansing and spiritual clarity.

At The Hummingbird, your safety, healing, and transformation are our highest priorities. Our retreats provide a balanced structure - sacred ceremonies, insightful integration practices, and ample rest - ensuring you are fully supported throughout your journey.

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We also have 7 Day and 9 Day stays available.

Meditation helps calm the mind and energetically prepare you for the ayahuasca ceremony.** About 45 minutes before each session, we gather for a guided meditation lasting approximately 25 minutes. These meditations gently invite participants into a state of presence, openness, and positive possibility. The style and focus shift from night to night and may include practices for emotional regulation, resting in stillness, sound healing with specific frequencies, or other supportive techniques designed to help you connect more deeply with yourself and the medicine.

Throughout the retreat, additional cleansing processes are scheduled to help you receive the greatest benefit from your work with the plant medicines. These activities support your healing journey and incorporate a variety of traditional healing practices.

All meals, lodging, and laundry services are included. You'll stay in a private room in our new guesthouse, which overlooks a serene lake—providing a peaceful environment for rest and reflection.

Throughout your retreat, our experienced facilitators are here to help you make sense of your experiences and integrate them into your life. They offer personalized support—not rigid formulas—because true healing honors each person’s unique path.

Our goal isn’t just profound experiences—it’s lasting change. We’ll gently challenge you to move beyond old limitations and cultivate new ways of being that align with your deepest self. This work unfolds with compassionate support as your self-awareness deepens.

Healing requires both expansion and stillness. We provide:

These group discussions often reveal how ayahuasca’s wisdom manifests differently for each person. By witnessing others’ journeys and honoring your own, you’ll discover fresh meaning in your experience—and the courage to embrace your authentic path forward.

For those seeking deeper healing or a more profound connection with the plant spirits, an optional 8-day master plant dieta can be added to your 12 Day Retreat. This traditional Amazonian practice involves working closely with a specific healing plant under the guidance of our curandero, following a set of disciplined restrictions designed to create a calm, energetically clean space for the plant’s subtle work to take effect.

Dieta is a powerful and often challenging process that requires dedication and a willingness to be still with oneself. The changes it brings are typically gentle and gradual, yet deeply transformative. The additional $200 fee reflects your commitment to the process more than its cost—serving as a symbolic gesture of motivation to continue even when the work becomes difficult.

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We’ll meet you at 10 AM outside Las Terrazas restaurant, which is a restaurant on the "Boulevard". There are a number of restaurants on the Boulevard which is a park fronting the river that’s a block away from the Plaza de Armas. From there you’ll be transported to the Hummingbird Center.

You’ll arrive at the ayahuasca center with enough time to get your room assigned, take some time out to relax and then have lunch. An orientation meeting will begin at 2 PM in the maloca, followed by a plant bath to prepare for your first ayahuasca ceremony.

We strongly recommend that you arrive in Iquitos the day before the program begins. This allows you to enter the healing journey well rested and relaxed.