About Casa del Sol Vilcabamba

Upcoming Retreats at Casa del Sol Vilcabamba

Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
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We are devoted to creating an immersive healing process with ancestral plant medicines, rituals and workshops. The Casa del Sol environment was intentionally nurtured for spiritual exploration, self-growth, and reflection. Our retreats are for those on a journey of personal growth, clarity in their life purpose, emotional and physical healing. Through the indigenous teachings, we help our family to develop a stronger spiritual connection to the world around them.

Meals

Menu Types

We are very flexible in our kitchen, cooking vegan, vegetarian and carnivore using organic chicken from Vilcabamba and organic eggs from wild chicken of our neighbor.

Getting Here

Location icon Casa del Sol Vilcabamba, Via a Sacapo San Pedro, Vilcabamba, 110119, Ecuador

Directions

Casa del Sol Retreat Center is located in the beautiful Sacred Valley of San Pedro in Vilcabamba. The closest airport is the Catamayo (Loja Airport, LOH). The best travel itinerary is to book your flight to Quito (UIO), as flights to Loja are currently only departing from Quito. Once in Quito, please book a flight to Loja Airport (LOH) through Aeroregional or LATAM. Please note that flights to Loja Airport are currently available everyday. Make sure you check their website for any updates in the days available. After you land at the Loja ‘Catamayo’ Airport (LOH), you can take a taxi directly to our Center. We can organize taxi direct transfers from Loja airport to Casa del Sol. Please let us know your arrival and departure flights and times in case you would like us to coordinate this for you. The taxi ride is a 60-minute drive through beautiful Andean valley and costs $35.

Customer Reviews

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5.0
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Great experience
Thank you so much Casa Del Sol! When I first arrived I had so much emotional baggage, from my time in service to family and relationship unbalanced. Moreover, I was dealing with a relationship breakup and was looking for clarity. I instantly felt like home, Ximena and Santiago were so welcoming with their compassion and open hearts. Everyday was planned with either plant medicine ceremony to rest days. The food was all veggies/ vegan and tasted amazing. Surrounded by mountains, river and all types of birds.. really felt disconnected from my everyday reality. After a few day I started to get clarity about life and felt less anxious. There was a lot of internal reflection I did and most importantly forgiveness. The group I started with ended becoming family, such a perfect integration. In the end I learned to love myself, to be gentle and to move forward. Again, thank you Casa adel Sol for welcoming and letting me part of your family.

Overall, I traveled from GYE to Quito on airplane, landed in Loja and casa del sol arranged a pick up from the airport to my hostal. Everything was secured and I did not experience and crime. In the Vilcabamba town there was plenty of security and was able to walk around at night. The local people were so friendly and welcoming and guided me when I had questions.

I will come back to visit and I encourage who ever is ready to take their journey on healing, to chose Casa Del Sol.

Best,

Jesse

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Strongly recommend Casa Del Sol
This was my second time at Casa Del Sol. I came about a year and a half ago for one of the women retreats and again for the San Pedro and Ayahuasca retreat and this time I brought my niece who is a young adult. This is the perfect place for first time plant medicine participants as well as experienced participants. The groups are a lot smaller than a lot of other places I’ve been to so it was nice to be able to really get to know my fellow group members. It truly became a family within the week and a half there. I feel completely safe and supported by the facilitators. Santiago and Ximena are truly one of a kind healers as well as everyone that is there for support. I have been able to process a lot in the ceremonies and have deep healing and gain deeper insight for myself and my life. Casa Del Sol is truly a magical place surrounded by the beautiful San Pedro cactuses and a river. 10/10 and I strongly recommend for anyone and everyone. I can’t wait to come back and will always recommend Casa Del Sol to all my friends and family.

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Much gratitude in the heart
I will always remember my time at Casa Del Sol. Ximena and Santiago are wonderful souls who do their work wholeheartedly, as does the entire Casa Del Sol team. Ximena and Santiago are very dedicated to their work and have extensive knowledge and wisdom about sacred teachings, rituals and ancestral traditions. Their home, retreat place and nature around is absolutely delightful. When I arrived at Casa Del Sol I felt like home and great peace and security. The food at the retreat was also really delicious.

The retreat program was well planned and Ximena and Santiago's San Pedro ceremonies are the best I have been to. The Ayahuasca ceremonies were also really beautiful and well kept. At the retreat, in addition to the actual program, it was also possible to take other treatments that support well-being and healing, such as lymphatic massage, abdominal massage, full body massage and neuro-emotional technology. I personally got a lot of benefit and support from these, along with the plant medicines, because the process can be demanding and my health was not at its best when I arrived.

I’m happy to say that I left the retreat in better condition than when I arrived there, I got a stronger connection with myself and clarity in my life. I am super grateful for all the support I received while at the retreat, without it I wouldn't have done such a great process. Casa Del Sol is a beautiful place to come back to yourself and heal and strengthens spiritual connection with oneself, others, nature, spirits and world and universe.

It is also safe to travel to Ecuador during these times. Cuenca and Vilcabamba, for example, are peaceful destinations where as a woman traveling alone I did not feel unsafe.

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Transformative
This was exactly what I needed. Before the retreat I was feeling so stuck and struggling to deal with all my past and current traumas. I really didn’t know where to turn. I had tried so many different types of therapy and healing and still I was stuck.
Throughout the retreat I was able to find peace within, joy, and a new love for myself. I hadn’t felt much of any of those in many years.
Ximena and Santiago are truly amazing people and healers and the medicine was powerful and made with love. You can feel their dedication to the practice and to each individual participant. They made us feel held and supported every step of the way.
The land and space was absolutely gorgeous! Clean and tidy inside with all the amenities you need. The meals prepared for us each day were delicious and clean. Nourishing to the body and soul. Thank you Nati! The landscape was nestled between mountain ranges with so much lush greenery everywhere you turned.
If you are looking for a change in your life or to become more connected to your spirit and the spirit of the land, this is the place to go.
I am beyond grateful for this family and will most certainly be coming back.

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The best place closer to the Sun
Casa del Sol has been the best experience I have had with plant medicine and retreats. I have been looking for a while and experienced quite a few other places but nothing can compare to Ximena’s and Santiago’s energy and synergy. They planned and strategically hired the best people to be under their beautiful home to host us and helped us along the way. It was an intense and very rewarding experience. I highly recommend it.

Mission & Vision

Our mission is to facilitate the space so that each person can connect and develop from their own heart their relationship with the creative SPIRIT and return to their nature, to their home, to the Sacred relationship with Mother Earth that here we call Pachamama.

Our purpose is to foster and live within a deep, healing relationship with divine creation. In the mirror of these times, what we are experiencing as a society reflects the tremendous imbalance that we have generated with nature. This healing process is not just a personal experience, it is in BEING TOGETHER where the power of the miracle that our united hearts needs and enables. For that reason the medicine of Casa del Sol is the family, the tribe, the spiritual communion.