Ayahuasca
What is Ayahuasca?
Technically:
This powerful medicine is a decoction created through the precise combination of two botanical components:
- Banisteriopsis caapi (Yagé or Ayahuasca): Contains harmine and tetrahydroharmine (THH), beta-carboline alkaloids that act as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), allowing the primary psychoactive compound, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), to become active.
- A second DMT-bearing plant: Usually Psychotria viridis (Chacruna) or also Diplopterys cabrerana (Chagropanga or Chaliponga).
Traditionally:
Ayahuasca is an infusion of two or more Amazonian plants that results in an intoxicating, magical drink. For millennia, this sacred brew has been used as an essential part of our culture in ancestral ceremonies and rituals.
Experientially…
"I discovered a light and so much love within myself that I thought I had lost."
— Sai Hindocha - Source: Google Reviews
"For my Ayahuasca experience, it went beyond what I could ask for. I found my source of inner love with the guidance of Alberto and Ola. I faced my greatest fear and heard Alberto's voice telling me 'with love' during the ceremony. I will remember that moment to help me stay centered when I face fear and anxiety in the future."
— Achara Kelley - Source Google Reviews
What can Ayahuasca support?
Experiential and Psychological Healing:
- It opens a door to self-knowledge and healing, offering a transformative and revealing experience.
- It provides deep introspection through visions that can be meaningful in everyday life.
Spiritual Growth
- It opens pathways to spiritual dimensions and offers a deeper understanding of the universe and your place within it, bringing you closer to a more conscious and connected way of living.
Physical Purification
- The purge that often accompanies ceremonies may help remove toxins from the body, bringing a profound sense of physical cleansing.
Therapeutic Potential for Common Illnesses and Addictions:
- Its therapeutic use has been studied in conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, depression, and psychiatric symptoms.
- It is highly effective in reducing the use of hard drugs such as cocaine and softer substances such as alcohol.
How are our Ayahuasca ceremonies experienced?
- The house opens at 13:00 so you can settle into your room.
- The teacher is available to speak with you, connect with your personal situation, and guide the ceremony with the right intention according to your purpose.
- The guide will explain the process in detail and let you know about the different symptoms and effects you may experience.
The ceremony begins at 17:00:
- We begin with a cleansing using floral waters and aromatic lotions, aligned with the intention, to start free of impurities.
- Next comes a tobacco soplo to protect the spiritual environment and encourage connection with the energetic body.
- You then take part in the consecration of the master plant Sananga to unlock perception and release negative energies.
- This is followed by the consecration of the medicine Rapé to quiet the mind, connect with the heart, and transmute energy.
- Finally, the sacred plant Ayahuasca is consecrated.
- The medicine is served.
- The shaman prays over the medicine to open the way for the good intentions you are seeking.
- You receive the medicine, pray over it with your own intentions, and drink it.
- You rest on a comfortable bed of mats and enter a 40–60 minute meditative state until the medicine begins to work.
- The teacher supports your journey with chants, tobacco, incense, prayers, and music.
- A WC and bucket are always available in case of purging.
- The ceremony closes once you have received the messages of the medicine.
- Your private room will be available for rest.
- When you wake, a buffet breakfast of organic, healthy products will be waiting for you, to enjoy outdoors or indoors with views of the majestic Inca Archaeological Center.
- Conversation with the shaman to share the experience.
- Farewell.
*The medicine works best in darkness. If for personal reasons you prefer to have an Ayahuasca ceremony during the day, you may consult the shaman directly.
How our guests experience it
- A visitor from Canada valued how the music, chants, and prayers supported a life-changing experience.
- Our guest from South Africa healed her heart with the help of the Master Plant.
- This American couple felt the plant’s potential to support healing on both a personal and relationship level.
What do you need to take Ayahuasca?
To feel the support of the master plant, you need to prepare your body:
