The Hummingbird Healing Center provides a beautiful safe, and supportive environment for your personal journey with ayahuasca. Located near Iquitos, Peru, we offer ayahuasca retreats of different lengths to meet your personal needs. All of our retreats include at least one san pedro ceremony, the visionary cactus of the Andes that is very complementary with ayahuasca. Our longer stays include a master plant dieta with a plant selected by our shaman depending on what you are looking to heal, address or learn.
Our ayahuasca ceremonies are led by a maestro with over 43 years of experience, and include teachings on mindfulness and shifting our thought patterns. Located near Iquitos, Peru on 42 acres of beautiful and tranquil rainforest, the center provides an idylic environment for healing and personal transformation.
While our remote location is ideal for relaxation and transformation, it makes it difficult to contact us by phone. The signal strength at our ayahuasca retreat center is very poor, so email is the most reliable form of communication. If you need to speak with us by phone, please send an email and we will arrange a time to have a call on Skype.
For more information about booking your stay at the Hummingbird Ayahuasca Retreat Center, please visit our Reservations page.
Focused on growth and healing, our ayahuasca retreats also strive to empower people by helping them directly connect with the strength and beauty that lies within us all. Practical advice is given on how to deal with our unproductive thoughts and emotions. Our goal is that you not only benefit from the magic of these wonderful medicine plants, but also take home tools you can apply on a day to day basis.
Our retreats are limited to no more than 12 people and there are multiple caretakers in each ayahuasca ceremony who are not partaking of the medicine. Help is always available if you need it, and we encourage people to open up and talk about the struggles or frustrations they may have so we can coach them on how to transcend it with the help of ayahuasca and san pedro. We help people get clear on their intentions for each ceremony and can give practical advice on how to work with specific issues they may have.
The Hummingbird Center is dedicated to helping people find their own power, accept and like themselves, and help them learn to be themselves without concern of what other people think. We emphasize the commonality of all humanity, the enigma of while being so incredibly unique, we are also not very different from each other. When we accept ourselves, we naturally find acceptance and compassion for others.
Our methods combine proven shamanic techniques with the latest understanding of human consciousness and how our belief systems influence our lives. Unique to our retreats are two talks on how the conditioning we received as children shapes our perception of the world, how the programs stored in our subconscious mind predominantly determine our experience, and what we can do to change those programs. This directly complements ayahuasca's ability to reveal the subconscious helping us let go of limiting beliefs.' Our ayahuasca retreats put an emphasis on safety , and we carefully monitor all participants during ceremony, being close at hand to offer guidance and assistance if needed or desired.
The Hummingbird Center's approach uses a combination of traditional Amazonian shamanism, lifestyle coaching and compassionate and loving support throughout the healing and transformative process. The center is an environment of openness, authenticity and emotional safety where one can relax and be themselves. Jim the owner is the primary facilitator and this has been his daily work for the past 10 years, guiding over 1500 people through their ayahuasca retreat. Having gone through his own 30 year stuggle with depression and alcoholism, he deeply understands people's struggles and listens with compassion and empathy.
Jim has an extensive background with a variety of spiritual practices including Advaita Vedanta (teachings of Sri Ramana Mahashi), the Center for Spiritual Living and the teachings of Ernest Holmes, 12 Step Programs, Landmark Forum and a variety of other transformative workshops and processes. This experience informs and guides his coaching and enables him to provide simple and practicle guidance to help people understand themselves and move beyond the challenges in their lives. The information shared complements the lessons learned during ayahuasca ceremony deepening understanding and your ability to integrate and apply these lessons when you return to daily life.
Experience the deep healing and teaching of Peru’s two visionary medicine plants on a 9-day ayahuasca retreat at the Hummingbird Center.Experience the deep healing and teaching of Peru’s two visionary medicine plants on a 9-day ayahuasca retreat at the Hummingbird Center.
The Hummingbird Center offers personalized ayahuasca healing retreats from 2 to 4 weeks for those looking to go deeper the medicine or whose condition needs a longer treatment plan. This program includes at least one 8 day dieta with a master plant chosen by the shaman to help with your healing and learning.
Experience the deep healing and teaching of Peru’s two visionary medicine plants on a 12-day ayahuasca retreat at the Hummingbird Center. Allow both ayahuasca and san pedro get at to root or your problems, clearing energies, beliefs and thought patterns that keep you limited in your daily life.
My goal in meeting Mother Ayahuasca was to see if she would be able to help me overcome the effects of my combat P.T.S.D..
An experience that changed my life for the better. It is hard to describe something so magical but I will draw from it for the rest of my days.
The Hummingbird is truly magical. I'm so incredibly grateful to have been given this opportunity. All the lessons I have learned from the people and the plants have changed the course of my life. Don't take anything for granted here.
The Hummingbird Center... rest your mind, rest your body, open your heart, listen to the jungle, listen to the plants, listen to the animals, hear their stories.
How can I be more thankful to you all. Beautiful people in the garden of love, full of magic and answered dreams. I will never forget my healing at The Hummingbird. Arigato (thank you), ai shiteru (I love you), ma ta ne (see you again!)
Muchos gracias to all at The Hummingbird. Magical setting, much love, sweetness in abundance...
Love and gratitude to all who hold space at The Hummingbird, an oasis of beauty, mystery and enchantment. I had the most wonderful time being part of your dream.
My soul was hungry and you fed me, my mind was tired and you comforted me, my body just had FUN! Thank you. I will see you again.
What a healing experience this has been! The only emotions I wish to convey are gratitude and love.
I had a wonderful stay at The Hummingbird. It is a magical and peaceful place with great energy and I really appreciated your down-to-earth openness, friendliness and love.