9 Day Ayahuasca Retreats

A retreat at the Hummingbird is an opportunity to experience traditional plant spirit medicine under the guidance of a highly skilled and experienced curandero. Our curandero Manain, has over 45 years of healing experience and has worked with us for over 7 years. Ayahuasca heals and teaches us in a variety of ways. It cleanses and purifies the body, physically and energetically. It helps free us from limiting beliefs and patterns, partly by revealing them to us. It helps us clear blocked emotional energy through the purging process.

The experience of this cleansing process will different for everyone. What is truly amazing about working with ayahuasca, is the medicine spirits treat each person in a unique way. They truly know what is best for each individual, and takes them through a process which allows them to get the healing and growth they desire in the time the person has in the retreat. It is clear the medicine spirits want to help us. Our job is to allow them to, and we do this by trusting the medicine and surrendering to the experience.

A retreat at the Hummingbird Center is an intense journey into deep healing that helps clear the roots of emotional blocks and trauma, allowing you to live in a more authentic and natural way. Much of our experience of life is determined by limiting beliefs imprinted in the past. Ayahuasca shows us these old patterns, helping us release them and form new, healthy belief systems that shifts our daily experience of life in a more wholesome and open hearted direction.

The Hummingbird opened in 2010, strictly following the guidance of master ayahuasqueros. Since its inception our clients have received exceptional results following a traditional Amazonian plant medicine process.

While staying true to what has proven to work, our process has evolved into a highly effective program that includes teaching on the latest understanding of human consciousness and how shifting our thought patterns and beliefs can radically shift our experience of life.

In addition to ayahuasca ceremonies, all our retreats also include at least one ceremony with San Pedro, the visionary cactus of the Andes. Grandfather Huachuma is powerful, yet gentle healer and teacher, and a wonderful complement to the work of ayahuasca. Known as a heart opening medicine, huachuma is capable of deep cleansing of emotional energy we may have unknowingly been carrying for years.

Retreats at our ayahuasca center offers you a broad-ranging healing experience within a safe and supportive environment. Your safety, personal healing and personal/spiritual growth and transformation is our key focus. Emphasis is on time in ayahuasca ceremonies, balanced by insightful activities and periods of relaxation and rest so you’ll be well prepared for the next ceremony.

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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.

Integration is an important part of your journey of growth and change. To help you get the most from your time with these medicine plants, your Hummingbird retreat includes a pre and post integration session in the retreat price. These sessions are provided by Darlene Joy of Woman of the Medicines. Darlene is a clairvoyant and empath with extensive experience with both ayahuasca and huachuma, and a gifted healer in her own right.

At its most basic, the process of integration is practicing new behaviors, and ways of seeing self and others, until it becomes our automatic response to life’s signals. It becomes our default way of moving through life day to day. It becomes integrated.

Integration is important for a very simple reason. If we want our lives to be different and better, something within us needs to be different and better. Integration is fundamentally about a change in our behavior. This change may be a shift in our emotional and mental response to something that had previously annoyed us, or something more overt such as getting to the gym three times a week. The key is we are showing up in life in a different, more productive way. This process of change ideally begins before your ayahuasca retreat by getting clear on your intentions and commitment to change. Becoming increasingly self-aware, mindful, is an important part of the this process. Developing skill in intentionally managing and directing our thoughts and emotions is a key component of mastering our lives. Read More About Integration

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.

We’ll meet you at 10 AM outside Las Terrazas restaurant, a restaurant on the "Boulevard". There are a number of restaurants on the Boulevard which is a park fronting the river that’s a block away from the Plaza de Armas. From there you’ll be transported to the Hummingbird Center.

You’ll arrive at the ayahuasca center with enough time to get your room assigned, take some time out to relax and then have lunch. An orientation meeting will begin at 2 PM in the maloca, followed by a plant bath to prepare for your first ayahuasca ceremony.

We strongly recommend that you arrive in Iquitos the day before the program begins. This allows you to enter the healing journey well rested and relaxed.

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.