Pandorita

A transformative journey awaits at Pandorita, where I experienced profound healing of my inner child. The sacred ceremonies guided by experienced shamans provided a safe space for deep introspection and emotional release. Through this powerful medicine, I was able to confront and heal past wounds, nurturing and embracing my inner child with compassion and love. The supportive environment, coupled with the wisdom of the facilitators, fostered a profound sense of healing and renewal. My experience at Pandorita was nothing short of transformative, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to embark on this inner journey of healing and growth.

Love, Sinah

The Pandorita Retreat takes place in a very loving family environment.

From the cooks to the gardener and the support team to the mastero, everyone is very concerned about the well-being of the guests.

The support team was available to us as a 24/7 contact person

The resort is surrounded by nature. The grounds are very well maintained and border directly on the jungle. Dolphins occasionally swim in front of the sea wall and you may encounter many native animals on the resort grounds.

Because of the ayahuasca ceremonies, the food is strictly regulated according to a certain diet in order to enhance the effects of the medicine.

The ceremonies are led by indigenous masteros from Peru. For me, the work and experience of the masteros was a very beautiful and exciting experience.

They were tireless in their love and care for the participants.

I had read a lot about the work of the shamans. During the ceremonies, all my expectations were far exceeded.

The ceremonies focus on physical, spiritual and ancestral healing.

During the ceremonies, the two supervisors and helpers of the Mastero were always present and constantly concerned about the well-being of the participants.

I always felt well looked after and cared for. Everyone was noticed and professionally guided through the experience with the medicine by the helpers of the Masteros.

In my opinion, the retreat was worth every penny and I would love to travel to Pandorita again straight away to deepen my experience.

I would like to thank the team and the Masteros for everything!

I miss you very much and wish you much strength and joy in your work.

With love Tom

Pandorita was a very profound, healing experience for me, it touched me deeply – and I am still in inner contact with this special energy from this special, wonderful place. The place is located directly on the Pacific Ocean within a peninsula, the sea is very calm and peaceful, just like the whole place.

I felt wonderfully looked after, the treatments and activities were great, the food was just right, naturally fresh, made with love and with the consistency needed for a respectful implementation of such a power workshop.

Our group was the focus, it was all about us and our process. I particularly noticed how everyone stepped back to give us the best possible experience and healing. I already had experiences, but they are not comparable to my experiences here on Pandorita. A lot of healing happened to me here that I could not have imagined.

One of the best and most important times in my life so far. Thank you all 🙂

I, Bianca, was in the same workshop as the lady who wrote the review on April 24, 2024. When I read this, I felt the need to share my impressions of the encounter with her and also to clarify, how safe and professional this center is.

On the very first day, she told me and probably also some other guests that she had lied during the info pre-call with the Pandorita team. She had been rejected by several Ayahuasca centers and had therefore lied about her psychological state of health during the call in order to avoid being rejected again. In addition, the way she was acting during the first two days weren‘t really introspective, but more like she just wanted to „have a good time“. She also kept bringing up her desires for possible sexual encounters during the retreat, eventough this is a complete no-go whilst working with the medicine and participants are asked to adhere to this rule such as other safety precautions like not taking medications etc. She joked about starting an Ayahuasca Sex Cult there.. When her second ceremony didn‘t go like she wanted, she started blaming the shamans, that they are illiterate people and that they are no doctors.. Some of the things she said seemed quite racist to me.. I felt that she - eventough she wanted to try the medicine - was not ready to face the depths, shadows and fears the medicine can bring up and experienced a panic attack or just was in extreme fight- and flight-mode.

Also from my point of view, the facilitators took great care of her and did everything possible to make her feel safe, they tried to talk her down also the morning after, all whilst also being very considerate towards the rest of the group and asking us how we were doing after her outburst and making sure that we also felt safe and being cared for.

Her journey back was organized for her after having had mutiple discussions also with the professionally trained medical doctor of the retreat who was not on site but on call in Switzerland.

Once she left, the energy shifted and we all could dive deeper into our processes and just focus on what we came here for. Everything happens for a reason and I am sure Grandmother Ayahuasca had orchastrated this exact situation for all of us.

When it comes to my own experience on Pandorita, I had the most magical, healing and beautiful time ever. Not saying that it was not hard, but after having studied the information on the website and the information call with the kind hearted spirit that is Marco, I knew what I was letting myself in for and that this was the exact right place to heal and at the same time be surrounded by paradise. Before the first ceremony we were also thoroughly briefed on site. I knew about the symptoms to expect when taking MAO inhibitors, such as dizziness, agitation, hot or cold flashes, increased blood pressure or a pounding heart. In addition, after the first ceremony, the dose for the next ceremony was determined in consultation with each guest. The shamans were extremely powerful and highly skilled masters of the medicine and knew exactly how to treat each and every one of us.

I could not have had a more perfect first Ayahuasca Retreat and have to give it 5 stars plus!
The workshop was a deeply impactful experience and helped me a lot for my physical and mental health and also when it comes to my spiritual development. The ocean, the jungle and the wildlife are breathtaking, the Shipibo shamans are loving healing artists from an ancient tradition with magical icaros, and the facilitators are kind-hearted, devoted souls with a lot of experience. The massages, yoga sessions and food all complimented this amazing work with ayahuasca. It had inspired me to dive even deeper into the medicine that I ended up going to Peru and do a dieta and have ever since regularly partaken in more Ayahuasca ceremonies. Whenever I have the possibility again I will definitely come back to this beautiful sacred paradise!

Thank you for everything Pandorita!

July 2023, I left on Day 4 of my 11-day retreat after surviving the most frightening night of my life.

In the second ceremony, the Shaman doubled my dose from the night before. I knew I was in trouble because I heard my higher self clearly say, that if I didn’t get out, I would die. Physically I was having trouble breathing, I was too hot, my mouth was too dry. I was dehydrated. They told us to stop drinking at 3 pm and it was well past 8 pm, around 90 degrees with what felt like, 100% humidity.

I called Gigi over and told her I needed help getting out, but she tried to talk me into staying even though earlier they said we could leave. I knew I needed out, so I called Aum over. I couldn’t walk by myself.

He and someone else helped me out, I could barely walk and then collapsed outside the building. They surrounded me and I begged them to give me space, as I couldn’t breathe. They also blew essential oils in my face which I told them I didn’t consent to as I couldn’t breathe! I begged for a doctor, and they offered the sweet man who was a doctor in acupuncture, but I asked for a medical doctor. Pandorita is too remote and couldn’t get medical help for me. I begged them to call my emergency contact, which they didn’t because they didn’t have his number on file.

So I knelt in the grass, falling in and out of consciousness because they had given me too much of the “medicine.” I begged them to keep the ants from biting me because I couldn’t brush them off my body myself.

They didn’t give me first aid other than Aum checking my pulse. They didn’t offer coconut water to rehydrate me or even walk me to the showers to cool me down. I wanted an oxygen mask and a saline drip, and of course, they didn’t have that.

I was just there suffering, struggling to breathe, hoping I wouldn’t die.

5 am the next morning, not remembering how I got there, I woke up in my bed, alone, still high. I slowly struggled to get to the bathroom which was about 100 yards from the campsite. Then made my way down to the kitchen, through WIFI, and called my emergency contact. He coached me how to take care of myself. Get water. Find food to raise my blood sugar.

Afterward, I finally had the strength to make my way up the hill to where Gigi, Aum, and Montserrat slept. I was beyond angry. I wouldn’t go inside. I expected that I would be kept safe, not that I would have to beg for them to take care of me while they tried to intuit how to help.

Never ONCE did they think that I might be having a medical emergency. And they were high, too. Although Aum claimed he hadn’t partaken. Gigi admittedly did.

I never had asthma before, but I have had it ever since, and only recently when after months of having a cough that wouldn’t go away, I went to a specialist who confirmed that the ceremony with the ayahuasca plus tobacco was the initial triggering event.

My lungs may be forever damaged.

And never mind the mental damage of doing such strong psychedelics and then having to leave in the way I did without anyone to process it with me. I was so lost when I came back to the United States.

And Pandorita did not offer a refund. They paid for one night in a hotel in Santa Jimenez and the difference in changing my flights. Marco’s words still echo in my ears, “You were the one who wanted to do ayahuasca.” I was. I did, I had for years since I heard what a remarkable and healing experience it was. I did all my research much like anyone who is reading my review.

I expected that I would be safe and I was not. Nothing that I experienced was what I had read about. And I am sad about it all. I wanted it to be great, and I nearly lost my life.

Ayahuasca is unregulated. There is no legal recourse. There are no safety standards. And if you have a bad experience, there’s a lot of victim blaming and shame associated surrounding your negative experience. Everyone talks about their great experiences, but you’re pretty much shamed into silence if you don’t have a good one.