Shipibo Ayahuasca Retreat and Plant Dieta
Description
DEEP HEALING AND CONNECTION - $4250
Shipibo Ayahuasca Retreat and Plant Dieta
This 18-day Shipibo ayahuasca retreat offers an immersive plant medicine experience in the Amazon rainforest, guided by an authentic curandero. Guests stay at the Ayahuasca Foundation’s Riosbo Research Center and take part in 8 ayahuasca ceremonies led by a Shipibo healer. The retreat also includes a sacred plant dieta with either Noya Rao or Bobinsana, creating a direct and personal connection with a powerful plant teacher.
Throughout the program, participants receive natural remedies designed to cleanse and support the mind, body, and spirit according to individual needs. Rooted in the Shipibo healing tradition, this process encourages active participation in your own healing journey by facing negativity, releasing trauma, and addressing deeper causes of imbalance. The result is a holistic path toward meaningful and lasting change.
A Complete Holistic Healing Experience
The retreat is centered on transformative ayahuasca ceremonies and supported by treatments intended to remove the obstacles that interfere with the body’s natural ability to heal. Traditional Shipibo medicine focuses on cleansing and restoring balance across the body’s systems, helping to bring back harmony.
These ceremonies can also open the door to deep emotional healing, especially around long-held trauma, feelings of unworthiness, and patterns that affect relationships. By expanding awareness, they invite participants to let go of limiting interpretations of the past and reconnect with their true nature, which is worthy of love, joy, and happiness.
Designed for those fully committed to their healing process, this retreat and plant dieta calls for courage, dedication, and strength of will. Support is present throughout the journey, every step of the way.
Cleansing and Balancing:
- DIGESTIVE – Cleansing the digestive system supports nutrient absorption and helps balance gut bacteria, strengthening the immune system.
- CIRCULATORY – A daily remedy improves circulation and oxygenation, supporting brain function throughout the retreat.
- RESPIRATORY – Balancing mucus levels helps restore healthy breathing, improve sleep, and increase resilience to environmental stress.
- NERVOUS – Cleansing the nervous system can release stored emotions, improve communication within the body, and enhance immune response and sensory perception.
- IMMUNE – Daily remedies, a nourishing diet, rest, time in nature, reduced stress, and positive emotions help reduce inflammation and support the immune system throughout the retreat.
Return to a State of Balance and Harmony
The intention of this 18-day ayahuasca retreat and plant dieta is to restore your highest level of health and your most balanced state of being. Offered for more than a decade, the program has supported profound healing for hundreds of people — and it can for you as well.
The plant dieta offers a chance to connect with guiding wisdom that can inspire and energize your path toward health and happiness. By reconnecting with nature, you reconnect with yourself.
Traditional Shipibo Ayahuasca Ceremonies
Ayahuasca ceremonies can greatly heighten the senses, allowing participants to see, hear, and feel beyond ordinary perception. This expanded awareness may reveal the deeper roots of personal challenges and open a path toward balance and harmony. The ceremonies also support powerful spiritual connection by accessing energy frequencies that are usually beyond conscious awareness.
Plant Medicines and Additional Therapies
During the retreat, participants receive plant treatments aimed at reviving and restoring health. In addition to ayahuasca ceremonies, the Shipibo tradition is complemented by yoga, meditation, cacao ceremonies, breathwork, and art and music therapy. Facilitators explain each treatment and help create a well-rounded healing experience that supports well-being on every level.
Shipibo Plant Dieta with Noya Rao or Bobinsana
Sacred plant dietas in the Shipibo tradition open another dimension of healing. Through the dieta process, participants form a personal relationship with the spirit of either Noya Rao or Bobinsana. These plants are central to the indigenous healing tradition practiced at the retreat center and are regarded as powerful teachers and guides to deep inner wisdom.
A Truly Blissful Location in the Amazon rainforest
The retreat takes place at the Ayahuasca Foundation’s center in the Allpahuayo-Mishana national reserve. Surrounded by the harmony of countless plants and animals, participants stay in comfortable accommodations fully immersed in the wisdom and energy of the rainforest. Hiking, swimming, relaxing in hammocks, watching the river, and listening to birds are all part of the experience.
Cost of the 18 Day Ayahuasca Retreat: $4,250
The $4,250 (USD) price includes:
TREATMENT
- 8 traditional Ayahuasca ceremonies
- Guidance from an indigenous curandero and the AF assistants
- Plant dieta with either Noya Rao or Bobinsana
- Guided eight-day dieta to connect with a plant spirit
- Personal consultations and discussions with the curandero
- Translation by the assistant healers
- Remedies to improve circulation and reduce inflammation
- Taken three times daily for the full retreat
- Sangre de Grado digestive system cleanse
- Reset digestive enzymes and improve nutrient absorption
- Vapor baths with five medicinal plants
- Help release toxins and replace them with healing medicine
- Chiric Sanango nervous system cleanse
- Support the immune system and release emotional blockages
- Blood purification treatment
- Remove parasitic organisms and cleanse the blood
- Mucura sinus cleanse
- Cleanse the sinuses and support immunity against allergies
- Smoke baths
- Increase energetic protection and defense against negativity
- Love baths
- Attract positive energy, good luck, and love
- Cacao and breathwork ceremony
- Release deep-seated emotions and negativity
- Guided yoga and meditation sessions
- Led by the facilitation staff
- Additional treatments
- Poultices, medicines, massage, or other needed support
ACCOMMODATION
- Pre-program counseling session with AyaHelp.com
- Guidance on how best to prepare for the experience
- Preparation and travel guide
- Practical advice for travel and retreat preparation
- Airport pickup
- Meet at Iquitos airport and transfer to the hotel
- Two nights of hotel accommodation in Iquitos
- The nights before and after the retreat; hotel includes wi-fi
- 17 nights of accommodation at the Riosbo Center
- Private rooms with en suite bathrooms and electricity
- Transportation to and from the retreat center
- Air-conditioned bus ride (1 hour) and boat ride (1 hour)
- At least two meals a day, following a healing diet
- Fruit, vegetables, quinoa, lentils, grilled fish, eggs, and more
- Lectures on the dieta led by the Shipibo healer
- Lessons offered to deepen the dieta experience
- Translation of the full program when needed
- Assistants also share their own experiences and teachings
- Access to the assistants for help and guidance
- Five assistants available throughout the retreat
- Local artisans market with high-quality goods
- Opportunity to buy shamanic tools, gifts, and clothing at the center
- USB with retreat photos and ceremony recordings
- Audio recordings of ceremonies and digital photos
- Integration counseling session with AyaHelp.com
- Support to continue integration once you return home
- Integration resources to help carry the healing forward
- Guidance in finding the best path ahead in your transformation
SHARE A ROOM AND SAVE!
If you are traveling with a friend, family member, or partner, each of you can save $450 by sharing a room. Rooms include two beds, a fan, desk, closet, meditation suite, and a full bathroom. To receive the discount, simply note on your registration forms that you will be sharing a room and include the other person’s name. The discount will be applied to the remaining balance after the deposit.
Please review the Medical Guidelines. Some medical conditions may make it unsafe to join an ayahuasca healing program, and guidance is available to help you make the best decision for your health.
18 Day Ayahuasca Retreat and Plant Dieta Schedule
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Dates
October 11 - 28, 2026
Available spots: 0
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Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve
Iquitos, Peru
Example Itinerary for the Retreat:
Day 0 - Saturday
Arrive at any time and you will be met at Iquitos airport and taken to the hotel, where all participants spend the night before the retreat. In the afternoon, join a meeting to meet the group and review the itinerary and details.
Day 1 - Sunday
Travel by air-conditioned bus for one hour to Nina Rumi village along the Nanay river, then continue by boat for one hour into the national reserve. Settle into the retreat center, have lunch, attend a meeting about the first ceremony, and take part in AYAHUASCA CEREMONY #1.
Day 2 - Monday
Wake early for Sangre de Grado, a purgative that cleanses the digestive system. Meet privately with the curandero, with translation from the facilitators, to discuss your personalized treatment plan. Begin three key plant remedies to support circulation, reduce inflammation, and strengthen immunity.
Day 3 - Tuesday
Morning yoga takes place every other morning. Begin personalized plant treatments, continue plant remedies and vapor baths, attend a workshop on mapacho and agua florida, and close the day with guided meditation before AYAHUASCA CEREMONY #2.
Day 4 - Wednesday
Plant remedies and vapor baths continue. Join a sharing circle to reflect on the ceremony and deepen healing. Take Chiric Sanango for nervous system cleansing, with additional individual treatments in the afternoon if needed.
Day 5 - Thursday
Start with morning yoga. Continue plant remedies, vapor baths, and personal treatments. Use Mucura to cleanse the sinus system, take a guided plant walk to learn about local plants, and end with guided meditation before AYAHUASCA CEREMONY #3.
Day 6 - Friday
Take Ojé to cleanse the lower intestine and purify the blood. Receive the final vapor bath, attend a workshop on icaros, and begin learning a Shipibo icaro while
Event Schedule
Oct 11-29, 2026
19 day event
Daily Schedule:
Accommodation Options
Student Tambo (Jungle Hut)
The Kesten Rono Plant Medicine School features a mini village in a remote part of the rainforest, consisting of small collections of huts spread over a cleared expanse of jungle terrain. Every student is assigned a tambo, or jungle hut, on the property. These huts and the other buildings like the dining room, vapor bath hut, and ceremony maloca, come together to form a peaceful little village for the students, surrounded by the energies of the plants. The student huts provide the basics in accommodations, a bed, a hammock, a desk, and a closet. Each hut also has a bathroom with running water. The simplicity of the rooms resembles an authentic indigenous hut, with some added improvements in comfort. The plant medicine school features is a mini village in a remote part of the rainforest, consisting of small collections of huts spread over a cleared expanse of jungle terrain. Each student hut, or tambo, has a private bathroom with running water. Rooms are furnished with a bed with bedding and mosquito net, a desk and chair, a closet, and a hammock. There are outlets and lights but there is only electricity for a few hours each day. On-site, all ayahuasca preparation, plant baths, vapor baths, and other remedies are crafted with care, strengthening the connection to the healing plants. While accommodations are simple, the profound beauty, power, and peace of the rainforest are ever-present in this extraordinary and sacred place. Kesten Rono School offers an authentic jungle living experience, far away from the hustle and noise of modern life. It was designed specifically for the Shipibo Curandero Initiation Course. This location has tremendous energy due to the quality and integrity of plant dietas being done here by students of the Noya Rao tradition. It is more rustic than the our other center, but you will feel an amazing connection with the plants instantly upon arrival. Kesten Rono is a place for deep immersion into the world of spirit plant healing. Students quickly recognize that the school and the entire experience during courses is authentic to the indigenous tradition being taught. This is as real a place as it gets.
Teachers
Don Rono
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