Why Choose the Hummingbird Healing Center

The Hummingbird Healing Center offers a unique approach to the ayahuasca healing and transformative process with excellent outcomes for our clients.

We are an ayahuasca retreat and healing center focused on what each individual needs to receive the healing they come for. We follow a very traditional process because it works, and have intentionally resisted adding many of the diversions that are becoming increasingly popular. This is a center for growth, healing and transformation where we encourage people to disconnect from the outside world, dive into nature and let these wonderful medicine plants work their magic.

We have a long history of excellent results and since 2010 have helped people with diabetes, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibro myalgia, arthritis, depersonalization disorder, depression, anxiety, irritable bowel syndrome, drug addiction and others. Many come just to improve their personal and spiritual lives, and most have left saying they received more than they thought was possible.

The Hummingbird Ayahuasca Retreat Center provides a safe, caring environment for clients to open up and face their issues, to discuss them with others, and be able to process them in whatever method is appropriate. This helps a person deal with what comes up from their ayahuasca ceremonies. Believing it is an integral part of healing, we encourage people to feel what ever comes up as deeply and completely as they can, and assure them they will be fully supported during their emotional release, however it manifests.

Don Manain, our curandero, is a Master Ayahuasquero with over 45 years of experience and began learning this natural science at the age of 16. Manain is also an oracionista, a prayer healer, with profound faith in God.

At the Hummingbird, the primary facilitator is the owner of the center, Jim Davis. Since 2010, guiding people people through this plant medicine healing tradition has been his daily work, couching over 1400 people through this journey. His 12 master plant dietas and facilitation of over 1000 ayahuasca ceremonies have imprinted a depth of experience helping people through this process that few can match.

His own healing and spiritual journey and vast experience with ayahuasca allow him to understand people on a deep level and help them tap into their own inner wisdom. His focus is on empowering people to trust their hearts and intuition and to know that they can be in control of their lives.

Two talks are given about how our beliefs determine our experience of life and how the programming of our subconscious mind in childhood is the source of many of our struggles. Included in these talks are techniques on how to effectively and rapidly change this programming. We learn about the incredible power of this part of our mind and how we can harness it. If we change our thoughts and beliefs, we change our experience of life.

Our clients have found these talks very beneficial in understanding how they came to have the troubles in their lives and how they can change the unproductive patterns of thought and behavior.

We have received outstanding feedback about these talks. People say they get a clear understanding of the tricks their minds play, why they get stuck in unproductive patterns, how those patterns developed in their lives, and most importantly how to change them. If we change our thoughts and beliefs, we change our experience of life!

We see healing as a process, so we provide the support for people to do this process as easily and effectively as possible. It is not just about drinking ayahuasca. It is also about what happens for a person before and after ayahuasca ceremony. Support for a person at the Hummingbird Ayahuasca Retreat Center includes:

All of our ayahuasca retreats also include at least one San Pedro ceremony (aka Huachuma) to help people connect with themselves and the physical world in a more harmonious way. San Pedro is known as a heart opening medicine, and it is very good at helping us release any accumulated emotional baggage.

We have found that, for many people, San Pedro has cleared certain blocks that subsequently opened up their ayahuasca ceremonies. Ayahuasca and San Pedro are very complementary and the combination has resulted in major shifts for some clients that may not have occurred with ayahuasca alone.

The variety of methods we use also makes healing an interesting journey. Our clients acquire a lot of knowledge about the spiritual and energetic realms and how to maintain their health moving forward. This process yields excellent results. Our clients leave healed and transformed with new tools and information to keep their lives on track.

Since 2016 two world class shamanic teachers have been bringing their students to the Hummingbird to receive profound healing and cleansing, and to connect with their spirit guides in a deeper and more present way. Stacy Keast from the United Kingdom, and Orion from Australia, first came to the Hummingbird in 2012, then returned in 2014. After twice witnessing the integrity and skill of our work, they began bringing their students, and have returned every two years since.

Orion has taken three of his students through their final initiation process at our center. Beginning 2024, we have held private retreats for both Stacy and Orion, limited to mostly their students and alumni. Each plan on returning with their students every couple of years. Come journey with us and learn why Stacy and Orion trust the Hummingbird Center with the growth and healing of their students!