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.
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.
The Hummingbird Center also works with huachuma, the visionary and heart opening cactus of the Andes also known as san pedro. We have found ayahuasca and huachuma to be very complementary. Some individuals have a special affinity for one or the other of the medicines. Occasionally huachuma will clear blocks in an individual that ayahuasca does not seem to touch. We have seen a number of people have significant breakthroughs with san pedro, then move on to have wonderful and productive ceremonies with ayahuasca.
During the San Pedro ceremony many find their ayahausca experiences come into focus understanding the lessons in much deeper and meaningful way. A wonderful, gentle healer, grandfather San Pedro tends to bring very clear lessons and most enjoy the experience. After the first group San Pedro ceremony, if you prefer to work with it instead of ayahuasca you may do so. It is easy to arrange and we will work that out on a case by case basis. While the experience is very different than ayahuasca, it is a peer in its ability to heal and some get much more from working with this medicine that with ayahuasca.
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.
For more information about booking your stay at the Hummingbird Ayahuasca Retreat Center, please visit our Reservations page.
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 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.
Ayahuasca ceremonies at the Hummingbird are led by Manain Amacifen, a fourth generation ayahuasquero with over 43 years of experience. Our priority is to provide a safe and sacred space for healing where you can relax into the experience knowing you will be well cared for.
Ayahuasca is a powerful medicine and teacher plant that brings deep multi-level level healing physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. While a very large number of issues may be addressed with ayahuasca and other medicine plants, it is not a cure all or magic bullet.
In our early formative years we learn many ways of facing and coping with the world, that for a child is often a frightening, confusing and unfair place. Our minds learn a variety of mechanisms to defend and protect itself so the child can feel safe.
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.
The place is so beautiful and peaceful. Jim and his staff are really great. I felt very safe there and I am forever thankful. Having a real shaman made all the difference and Manain is a very powerful one.
This center is truly focused on healing. Working with these sacred plant medicines showed me how to continue to heal myself. Jim and the staff expressed compassion and sincerity. Jim is a wonderful man with expansive knowledge about life.
I stayed at the Hummingbird center for one month in August of 2015. Prior to my stay I went through many years of anxiety and depression. I lost my will to live.
First, I just want to say *thank you*. No email like this can do my gratitude justice.
As I returned home a truly changed person, it took a while to be able to begin to integrate the new concepts and changes into this urban busy life.