9 Day Ayahuasca Retreats

A 9-day ayahuasca retreat offers more space—space to settle into the work, to go deeper across ceremonies, and to integrate what arises along the way rather than moving quickly from one experience to the next.

At the Hummingbird Healing Center, the 9-day retreat is designed for people who feel called to sustained inner work over a longer arc of time. The retreat includes multiple ayahuasca ceremonies, rest days between ceremonies, structured preparation, and guided integration, all held within a calm and supportive environment. The extended length allows insights and emotional processes to unfold gradually, with more room for reflection and stabilization.

We are a small, long-established center (founded in 2010) working in the traditional Amazonian lineage with a highly experienced curandero. Groups are intentionally kept small, screening is thorough, and the pace of the retreat prioritizes safety, depth, and individual process rather than intensity or volume.

The 9-day retreat is often chosen by people who want more time than a single week allows—whether they are new to ayahuasca and wish to move slowly, or returning to continue work already begun. Below, you’ll find details on the retreat structure, ceremonies, and how different retreat lengths support different needs and intentions.

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We also have 7 Day and 12 Day stays available.

You will be staying close to nature in a typical South American jungle setting that has been modernized to include the comforts of daily life that you are used to. Our ayahuasca center follows traditional practices that have proven to bring healing results and the growth and change you are looking for in your life.

Each ayahuasca ceremony is led by master curandero Don Manain Amacifen, who has over 45 years of experience working with the healing powers of ayahuasca. His powerful icaros, prayers and energy purify and heal the body and mind. During the individual healings each person receives, people typically feel Manain's work pulling negative energy from their body and filling their body with positive energy.

Depending on your specific needs, our Don Manain may prescribe additional plant medicines. These are usually served as a tea made from the leaves, bark or sap of the plant. Typically the medicine will be drank three days is a row, but some may be drank only once.

Throughout your retreat our expert facilitators will be available to help you understand your journeys and assist you in integrating your experience. They will provide coaching and guidance on how to navigate the process, recognizing that everyone's healing journey is unique.

Our focus is always on healing and we will encourage you to push your comfort zone and step into new productive behaviors and patterns of thinking about yourself and those around you.

On this program we encourage you to relax. Time alone to reflect and integrate your work with ayahuasca is an important part of the healing process. Journaling and the expression of your visions and creativity through art are also recommended and materials are provided for you.

On the mornings following ayahuasca ceremonies, circle meetings are held so you can discuss your experience with the shaman and facilitator and ask questions to get deeper insight into your journey. These meetings are an excellent place to learn more about how ayahuasca works, as everyone's journey is different and variety of explanations and teachings are offered in response.

Through other people's stories you will clearly see the incredible variety in how ayahuasca works and be encouraged to honor and value your own experience, to tell your story honestly without need for it to be like anyone else's.

While we do occasionally have just 9 Day Retreats, most of our retreat dates are for 9 or 12 day retreats where you have the option of either a 9 or 12 day stay. In those retreats we follow the daily schedule of our 12 day retreats.