7 Day Ayahuasca Retreats

A retreat at the Hummingbird Center offers you the opportunity to experience traditional plant spirit medicine under the expert guidance of a highly skilled curandero. Our lead curandero, Manain, brings over 45 years of dedicated healing experience and has been working closely with us for over seven years.

Ayahuasca offers profound healing and teachings in diverse and individualized ways. It cleanses and purifies the body both physically and energetically, helping to release limiting beliefs and habitual patterns by bringing them clearly into our awareness. The medicine facilitates emotional release and healing through a cleansing purging process.

This cleansing experience is unique for each participant. A truly remarkable aspect of working with ayahuasca is the personalized care provided by the medicine spirits. They intuitively understand each individual's needs, guiding you through a deeply personal process that aligns with your intentions, available time, and healing goals. Our role is simply to allow this transformative process to unfold, surrendering and trusting fully in the medicine.

A retreat at the Hummingbird Center is an intense yet profoundly rewarding journey toward deep emotional healing and self-discovery. It addresses and clears deeply rooted emotional blocks and past traumas, enabling you to reconnect with your authentic self and live more naturally and freely. Our daily experiences are often shaped by unconscious limiting beliefs from our past. Ayahuasca brings these patterns to light, helping us let go of them and build healthier, more empowering belief systems that foster a more fulfilling and open-hearted life.

Established in 2010, the Hummingbird Center closely follows the wisdom and guidance of master ayahuasqueros, consistently delivering exceptional results through traditional Amazonian plant medicine. Over the years, we've refined and expanded our approach, incorporating contemporary teachings about human consciousness, thought patterns, and belief systems. This integrated method significantly enhances personal transformation and life-changing experiences.

In addition to ayahuasca ceremonies, each retreat also features at least one ceremony with San Pedro, the visionary cactus native to the Andes. Known affectionately as Grandfather Huachuma, San Pedro is a powerful yet gentle healer that beautifully complements ayahuasca’s work. Renowned for its heart-opening qualities, Huachuma facilitates the gentle yet deep cleansing of emotional burdens we may unknowingly carry.

At the Hummingbird Center, retreats offer a comprehensive healing experience within a secure, nurturing, and supportive environment. Your safety, personal healing journey, spiritual growth, and transformation are our primary focus. We thoughtfully balance powerful ayahuasca ceremonies with insightful activities and ample opportunities for rest and reflection, ensuring you are fully prepared and rejuvenated for each subsequent ceremony.

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We also have 9 Day and 12 Day stays available.

You'll be immersed in nature within a traditional South American jungle setting, thoughtfully modernized to provide the familiar comforts of daily life. At our ayahuasca center, we honor traditional practices known for delivering profound healing and supporting the growth and transformation you seek.

Each ayahuasca ceremony is guided by master curandero Don Manain Amacifen, who brings more than 45 years of experience working deeply with ayahuasca's healing energies. His powerful icaros (sacred healing songs), prayers, and focused energetic work cleanse and rejuvenate the body, mind, and spirit. During personalized healings, participants often distinctly sense Don Manain drawing negative energy out and infusing their bodies with revitalizing, positive energy.

Depending on your specific healing needs, Don Manain may recommend additional plant medicines. Typically prepared as teas from plant leaves, bark, or sap, these medicines are usually taken for three consecutive days, though some may require only a single dose.

Meditation is an excellent way to clear the mind and prepare yourself mentally and energetically for your ayahuasca ceremony. Approximately 45 minutes before each ceremony, we offer a guided meditation specifically designed to optimize your state of consciousness. The guided portion lasts around 8 minutes and gently leads you into a state of positive openness. Afterward, you'll enjoy relaxing and mystical music featuring sitars, composed specifically to deepen your meditation experience.

Throughout your retreat, additional cleansing activities will be thoughtfully organized to enhance your experience with the medicinal plants. These traditional healing practices are carefully selected to support and facilitate your healing journey. Your retreat package includes all meals, lodging, and laundry services. You'll stay comfortably in a private room within our newly built guest house, beautifully situated overlooking a serene lake.

Throughout your retreat, our experienced facilitators will be readily available to support you in understanding and integrating your journeys. They provide compassionate coaching and personalized guidance, recognizing the uniqueness of each person's healing process.

Our core focus is on facilitating your healing journey. We encourage you to gently push beyond your comfort zone, stepping into new, positive behaviors and transformative ways of thinking about yourself and your relationships with others.

This retreat is designed to help you relax and rejuvenate. Time spent alone for reflection and integration is essential to your healing process. Journaling, artistic expression, and exploring your creativity are strongly encouraged, with materials provided to facilitate these practices.

Each morning following an ayahuasca ceremony, we hold group circle meetings where you can openly discuss your experiences with our curandero and facilitators. These meetings offer valuable opportunities to ask questions, gain deeper insights into your personal journey, and learn more about how ayahuasca uniquely interacts with each individual.

By hearing the stories of others, you'll gain appreciation for the diverse ways ayahuasca facilitates healing and growth. This process fosters a deeper respect for your personal journey, empowering you to authentically express your experiences without comparison.

We’ll meet you at 10 AM at Las Terrazas restaurant, 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.