Transportation: Your journey begins with a warm welcome as we provide transportation to and from the airport, ensuring a seamless arrival and departure.

• Sacred Ceremonies: Explore the healing power of indigenous sacred plant medicine with up to 5 ceremonies, tailored to the group's unique needs, guided by experienced shamans.

• Nourishing Diet: Experience the benefits of a special diet carefully curated to complement your plant medicine journey, promoting physical and spiritual healing.

• Tambo Accommodation: Immerse yourself in the natural beauty of the Amazon by sleeping in traditional tambos, surrounded by the sounds of the jungle.

• Guidance: Connect personally with our guides, Maestro Guillermito and Maestra Claudia, receiving their wisdom and guidance throughout your retreat.

• Daily Support: Receive daily instructions and personalized guidance on your diet and healing journey, ensuring a safe and transformative experience.

• Exploration: Venture into the vibrant City of Iquitos and embark on an unforgettable Amazon River excursion, deepening your connection with the jungle's wonders.

Additional Activities (not included):

• Guided Meditation: Enhance your retreat with daily guided meditation sessions.

• Energy Healing:
chakra balancing sessions to align your energy and promote inner harmony.

• Relaxation: Treat yourself to a relaxing massage, further enhancing your physical and spiritual rejuvenation.

This retreat is a unique opportunity to explore the healing traditions of indigenous cultures and reconnect with the natural world. Please note that the additional activities mentioned above are not included in the retreat price.

Secure your spot today to embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and healing. Space is limited, and this retreat is in high demand.

To reserve your place or inquire further, please contact AwakenSleeper on WhatsApp

We look forward to sharing this extraordinary journey with you, surrounded by the beauty and wisdom of the Amazon rainforest.

Maestro Guillermito

We recommend that you begin the diet 2 weeks before the ceremony. In our experience this extra dedication will help you in having a deeper connection with the medicine.

Diet & preparation
The medicine will only do half of the work. The rest is up to you and if you want to prepare yourself in the most optimal way we recommend that you go on a diet. In our opinion this should not only be a diet of what you put in your mouth but also of what you put in your mind and do with your body. A good start would be to avoid Netflix, McDonalds and to little sleep and to instead read or watch some spiritually uplifting material, go for walks in nature, eat a clean diet and meditate daily for 5-30 minutes daily. For further diet tips. follow THIS link.

During our retreat we will serve a simple vegetarian diet with vegan options.

The Medicine
The medicine has been grown and cooked in accordance with traditional processes in Peru.

Purging
Purging can happen in many ways (crying, burping, hick-ups, toilet or bucket) and no two persons will have the same experience. Our friends that know of the medicine but haven't experienced themselves usually feel uncomfortable regarding the purging aspects of the medicine. This is a western construct and nothing to be afraid of. Usually it's connected with a deep sense of releasing negative energies so you will be very happy and relived when it happens.

Why Preparation is Important
Comprehensive preparation for working with ayahuasca and a resolute commitment to ongoing integration after your retreat is as important as the healing you will experience whilst at the Temple. You must commit at the deepest level possible to the advice contained in this document - before, during and after your retreat - to ensure your healing experience is positive, safe, and sustained over the long term.

Many people any people from the West who are new to ayahuasca come with a misconception of the way the medicine works. There is no "quick fix" when awakening to higher aspects of consciousness or alleviating long-term pain and suffering. We can never offer any guarantees regarding healing, but we do sincerely and wholeheartedly promise to always try our best.

Indigenous traditions have worked with ayahuasca for thousands of years and have never viewed it as a quick fix or a recreational experience. However, ayahuasca and the healing traditions of the Amazon are often able to offer a significant intervention into chronic emotional/psycho-spiritual imbalances and, sometimes, physical health conditions. It is fundamentally a transformational pathway to integrate and release the causes of pain and suffering.

Ayahuasca is a powerful cleansing and purifying medicine that can rid the body of physical impurities, the mind and body of emotional blockages and self-limiting fear-filled patterns that have accumulated over a lifetime, as well as retrieve fragmented aspects of one's soul due to past traumatic events. The medicine is also a teacher who initiates or accelerates us into a lifelong journey of continual self-discovery, deep personal transformation, and remembrance of the divine within us all.

The Temple's ayahuasca retreats are an opportunity to rebalance, cleanse, and learn about your true self. You will need personal integrity and courage as you will face the whole of yourself, including "shadow aspects." Although it is impossible to predict what you might experience with the medicine, it is essential to understand that ayahuasca brings the experiences of your inner world into your conscious awareness; this includes the "shadows" within that lie at the root of disorder, imbalance, suffering, and pain. We are deeply committed to providing a safe and caring environment to support you in anything that might arise.

The best way to approach ayahuasca is to develop a relationship with the medicine and not seek to simply take the medicine. When working with ayahuasca in a healthy manner, you enter into a relationship of reciprocity-receiving the healing and teachings, and giving back through taking responsibility for your "shadow," a long-term commitment to change, courage to face your fears, and a willingness to find and offer your gifts to the world.

How to Prepare for Healing with Ayahuasca

Our healing work at the Temple is to clean, clear, and transform trapped energies that hold you back in life, cause emotional distress, and create perpetual discomfort that often manifests as "disease." Surrendering to the healing process is essential to cleansing and integrating painful memories, deeply embedded emotional blockages, energetic imprints, and self-limiting patterns. It is the accumulation of suppressed memories, blocked emotions, and energetic imprints that prevent us from re-discovering our "true selves" and living a life filled with joy, abundance, and inner peace.

During and after the process, perseverance, courage, a strong will, and patience all significantly facilitate the healing journey. The results are highly beneficial with the end goal of coming back into alignment with our true nature, finding a balance between our heart and mind, the balance between our sub-conscious, conscious, and super-conscious selves, and re-awaken self-respect, self-worth, and self-love.

How to Prepare for Healing with Ayahuasca transformation, personal growth, and evolution are marked by gradual and grounded changes requiring sustained conscious awareness and actualization.

Working with ayahuasca can be a highly beneficial spiritual practice that activates evolutionary healing, provided your intent and approach are sincere. The ceremonial experience itself is only one component of the healing experience, no matter how powerful or profound. Comprehensive preparation and total dedication to the integration period afterward are as equally important as the healing experienced during the ceremony.

Preparing to Face Your Shadow

Workshops at the Temple can be intense and often one of the most challenging yet ultimately rewarding experiences of your life. An ayahuasca retreat can be considered "boot camp" healing - it takes courage to face your shadow.

Our shadow is everything inside us that we have disowned, avoided, and kept in the dark. We all turn away from pain at some stage in our lives, especially during our childhoods, yet whatever we have not processed gets relegated and hidden in our shadows. Our shadow is where our life force gets trapped and is no longer available to us. It is energy that is not integrated with the rest of our being, akin to pieces of us that have become compartmentalized, pushed aside, and treated as unwanted children. Shadow work is counter-habitual: we turn towards pain, not away from pain. We access that place of pain within us and slowly bring it into the open, become acquainted, and then intimate with it, until the estranged pain is not a dreaded "it," but a reclaimed "us".

There is a well-known Sufi story about Mullah Nasr Id'n, out at night under a street lamp on his hands and knees, frantically searching. A friend comes along and asks: "What are you doing?" The Mullah replies: "I am searching for my keys." His friend asks: "You lost them under the light?" The Mullah looks up, grinning, and replies: "No, actually, I lost them over in those dark bushes by the door, but the light here is so much better for seeing."

Ayahuasca healing is a journey to the heart of what really matters - an opportunity to face and integrate our shadow, transmuting trapped energies and making them available for life-affirming purposes. The medicine helps us search for the keys where they have been lost: in the darkness. True healing with ayahuasca can be very hard work, requiring courage, determination and commitment to your healing journey.

Ayahuasca is also an amplifier that will bring to the surface patterns and programs that do not serve you. Ayahuasca is not a recreational "drug" taken for entertainment, relaxation, or escapism. The medicine does not allow us to suppress issues and escape reality. In fact, quite the opposite is typically the case. Ayahuasca compels us to face, resolve, and release issues that have been buried throughout our lives.

1. Intention

Consider: Why are you seeking this medicine? Your intention is your mantra, focus, and thread to the material realm. It can help you keep focus while engaged with this deep work and is the most important first step of integration. Of course, your intention may change, but it is the initial work in a meaningful, empowered, and transformational encounter with this sacred plant medicine.

Ayahuasca will show you many things, but you can also ask her what to show you. Further, when trying to understand and make meaning of your experience with this medicine, you will find your original intention a helpful reference. If you simply ask the medicine "teach me," you may get a confusing - albeit potent-lesson, so it is best to ask for something more specific so the lesson can be translated with more clarity.

2. Developing and Fine-tuning Your Intention

Consider: What do you need? Where are you stuck? What do you want to know about yourself? Are you in a relationship that is causing you to suffer? Are you looking for a resolution to something? Do you need clarity? Do you want to believe in something bigger or love yourself more?

Whatever your questions, find the ones that are the most deeply present for you and write them down. Let them sit for a few days, perhaps on your altar, and begin to feel their potency. If you have a meditation practice, perhaps use some of your sitting time to reflect on your list of intentions.

3. Intention Object

Power stick, power object, wand, crystals, photos: Bringing something powerful with you to the Temple from home that you make while considering your intention can be useful to keep your intention alive. After finding your intention for this work, see what objects call you, or what creations you feel compelled to craft/make, to concretize your intention into something tangible that you can carry with you as a reminder, or a tether, to yourself as you are now.

4. Meditation Practice and the Preparation Dieta

For at least two weeks prior to ceremony, it is vital to clear the mind and body of as many impurities, poisons, and intrusions as possible, so you may approach this deep work with your energy intact and strong. In addition, this will help your endurance for the long nights in meditation with the medicine.

If you are a seasoned meditator, sit for your longest sustainable time, every day leading up to your arrival at the Temple. If you are a beginner, or new to meditation, try sitting for 10 minutes a day and working up to a half hour over the two weeks. The Temple has clearly outlined the dieta in this document and elsewhere. It is to be taken seriously and followed to the absolute best of your ability - especially regarding medicines and supplements.

5. Take Care of Business or TCB!

Before leaving for your time at the Temple, take care of as much business as you can, ideally leaving a solid two-week window for preparation without business chaos interfering. Before your two-week final preparation, take care of all those lingering details, such as finances, emails, bills, washing the car, making arrangements with the cat-sitter, etc.

Before you depart, clean your home or your room, so that when you return there isn't a pile of dirty clothes on your bed and a stack of overdue bills on your table. You are preparing now for your return, so create a soft, safe, and clear space for when you land. As you will notice, what is without is also reflected within, so a clean space will provide a sense of inner calm that allows you to focus your energies on integration when you get home.

6. Community

Begin thinking about your community: Do you have allies to share this work with? Do you have a psychotherapist who is friendly with this type of work? Are your family and friends sympathetic to your spiritual process? If so, let those closest to you know that you are embarking on this venture into the Amazon and into yourself. Ask them to hold you in their heart and/or to pray for you (or however you choose to express these requests). This work is deep and it requires support, as does all deep psycho-spiritual work. Letting your loved ones know about your work provides them with an opportunity to help you prepare and deepen your support network for when you return and integrate.

7. Nature

This point is so important it should be mandatory: If possible, spend time in nature. If you live in a city where nature is hard to find, research botanical gardens, greenhouses, and Zen gardens in your area. Take long walks in the woods, on the beach, or whatever landscape calls you. This will provide your body and mind an opportunity to relax and help to establish a deeper connection to yourself, outside of the noise and movement of life. All of which is vital to setting your intentions and all aspects of preparation.

8. Post-Workshop Planning

In planning your trip, realize that you will be extremely open and sensitive in the days immediately following your retreat. Joining a raucous group tour or immediately diving back into your hectic schedule are probably not ideal situations. Try to build in some quiet time in a beautiful location -- a few days in Iquitos (although it's not everyone's idea of beautiful), a jungle retreat (sans further ayahuasca ceremonies), or some time in Peru's Sacred Valley outside Cusco.

If your home base supports serenity, head back there after a few days, and keep your schedule light for as long as possible. Time in nature, deep connection with understanding loved ones, and quiet time for reflection are the kinds of things you'll be craving. Supportive practices like yoga and meditation will be very welcome in the integration process.

The Dieta

One of the most important aspects of working with ayahuasca is adhering to an honored tradition of following a special diet in order to prepare not just the body, but also the mind and soul to incorporate the healing energy of ayahuasca. This diet also shows the spirit of ayahuasca your intention and is a test of discipline and commitment.

The central aspects of the diet we follow at the Temple are common to the teachings of all Ayahuasquero/as across the Peruvian Amazon. In the case of some of the food restrictions, there is also definitive scientific evidence that they are essential for safety. On a physical level, ayahuasca inhibits the action of the enzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO) in the body. While MAO is inhibited, compounds that the enzyme would normally break down could accumulate in the body to toxic levels, causing headaches and other medical issues. Foods containing these compounds are to be avoided.

You should begin the diet at least two weeks before the retreat and continue the diet for at least two weeks after the last ceremony. It is essential to continue the diet to ensure the Ikaros you have received and any possible plant remedies you are prescribed, are given sufficient time to integrate.

Maestra Claudia

What is Ayahuasca?
Here is a video which gives a quick explanation of what Ayahuasca does physically and mentally.

Should you drink Ayahuasca?
It is important to take personal responsibility and educate yourself to answer this question. Good reasons NOT to drink the medicine are related to health risks connected to heart conditions or other medications (MAO inhibiting medications, SSRIs and or antidepressants) that can be dangerous to combine with ayahuasca. Before participating in our ceremonies you will be asked to fill out a medical questionnaire which is our main tool in keeping you safe during the ritual.

I don't speak Spanish. Will someone translate?
There will be facilitators present that can help in any translation.

Who will direct the ceremony?
The ceremony is directerd by our shaman who has many years of experience of conducting medicine work for other in addition to years of dietas with the plant teachers of the Amazon. He will also be travelling with apprenticicies whom will act as support together with our own staff in the event that you feel the need for support during the ceremonies.