Retreats In Peru

The Ayahuasca Curandero Initiation Course is intended for
people who want to take their study of the Amazon healing
arts more seriously. Students will spend 40 days in the jungle
with the Shipibo curandero don Enrique and our team of
healers at the Ayahuasca Foundation’s remote Curandero
School, drinking ayahuasca in ceremony 18 times or more. At
the root of the course, students follow true plant diets with
one or two sacred and powerful plants. A major focus of the
course is the use of icaros, sung during healings and in
ceremonies.
Therefore, the Shipibo language is also a focus, as the icaros are sung in Shipibo. This course is
held at our Curandero School, located in a different part of the rainforest, and which requires
a bus ride and a 45 minute hike into the jungle.
Students follow an intense but abbreviated version of a traditional, authentic shipibo
initiation. The accommodations at the jungle curandero school have modern amenities like
running water, a gas stove, and limited electricity. There is also limited phone service at the
school, but no access to internet. The food will be prepared by our experienced staff,
adhering to the traditional diet food eaten during an authentic initiation. Students receive
initiate’s clothing made by the shipibo, also according to their tradition.