Blue Morpho Tours

It is difficult to put into words what makes Blue Morpho so extraordinary, because what Maestro Hamilton and his team offer is much more than an ayahuasca retreat. It is an exceptionally thoughtful, deeply held container for healing, self-discovery, and remembering who you are underneath all of the fear, conditioning, pain, and stories that can accumulate over a lifetime.

I came to Blue Morpho with a genuine intention to heal, to understand myself more deeply, and to become more comfortable and confident in my own skin. What I experienced was a space in which I felt extraordinarily safe to do that work.

For anyone considering working with ayahuasca, I cannot overstate how important the quality of the container is. These medicines can bring you into incredibly vulnerable places, and there is an enormous difference between simply being somewhere that serves ayahuasca and being somewhere where the people holding the space have the experience, awareness, integrity, and presence to truly care for the human beings who have entrusted themselves to them.

That is what I experienced at Blue Morpho.

Maestro Hamilton is an extraordinary human being and healer. What has stayed with me most is how deeply and genuinely he seems to care about people—not about creating followers, not about telling people who they should become, but about helping people remember their own strength, their own center, and their own capacity to choose a happy life.

There is something very powerful about being in the presence of someone whose intention is not simply to help you feel better for a week, but to help you become more capable of meeting your own life. Again and again, I felt that the deeper teaching was about learning to maintain my center through whatever life brings and still being able to choose love, joy, and possibility.

That distinction matters tremendously to me.

The ceremonies themselves were beautiful. The icaros, prayer, medicine, silence, humor, and presence of the maestros created experiences that were at times profound, at times challenging, at times ecstatic, and at times wonderfully human. There were moments when I felt completely immersed in the mystery of the jungle and the medicine, and other moments when something as simple as laughter, birds calling from the trees, cacao, or another person’s presence brought me gently back into my body and into the room. All of it belonged.

I also deeply appreciated the team surrounding Maestro Hamilton. A safe ceremonial container does not happen accidentally. It takes an enormous amount of attention, experience, coordination, and care to hold a group of people moving through such deeply personal experiences. I continually felt that there were capable people around me paying attention, protecting the space, and allowing each person to have their own journey without unnecessary interference.

That balance—between being profoundly supported and still being allowed to have your own experience—is rare.

The jungle itself became part of the healing for me. Walking beneath the enormous trees, swimming in the lake, hearing the jungle come alive at night, seeing the stars overhead, and spending time surrounded by a living ecosystem so much larger than myself created a kind of perspective that is difficult to manufacture anywhere else. One of my most meaningful experiences of the week came through simply standing with a magnificent tree and feeling the message of strength, rootedness, expansiveness, and immovability that I needed in my own life.

Blue Morpho is not a luxury vacation disguised as spiritual work, and I personally would not want it to be. The value of this place is something much deeper. It is the opportunity to step outside your ordinary environment and encounter yourself very directly, while being held by people who have devoted an enormous part of their lives to understanding this medicine and how to work with human beings compassionately and responsibly.

I left with enormous gratitude for Maestro Hamilton, apprentices, facilitators, staff, and every person whose work contributes to creating this experience.

Most of all, I left feeling that the intention behind Blue Morpho is profoundly life-affirming. The message I received was not that someone else possesses the answer to my life. It was that my life is mine, that my happiness matters, that I have choices, and that I am capable of becoming grounded enough in myself that hardship does not have to take me away from who I am.

For me, that is real healing.

If you feel genuinely called to this work and are looking for a place where the medicine is approached with tremendous experience, respect, seriousness, humanity, and heart, I cannot recommend Blue Morpho highly enough. I am profoundly grateful that places like this exist, and profoundly grateful to Maestro Hamilton and his team for the care with which they hold the people who come through their doors.

My experience on my first Blue Morpho retreat was simply top-class, best-in-class. I had been on other similar retreats in the past, and while I appreciate them for what they were, Blue Morpho was just on a whole other level. The safety, support, and guidance I received in every aspect of the retreat was unparalleled, with the entire staff being professional and competent to a degree that really impressed me. I had known of Maestro Hamilton and his caliber for many years through articles, podcasts, books, and courses, so I admit my expectations were somewhat high, but he and the retreat honestly exceeded my expectations. As a business owner, his care, insight, and attention to detail were self-evident. As a ceremonial facilitator, his experience, knowledge, compassion, and abilities were... profound. For me, he embodies the term 'master' in terms of any trade. His ability to translate the traditional Amazonian practices and the ceremonial experience into terms accessible and understandable to Westerners is priceless, as are his contributions to evolving these practices. The group of participants Blue Morpho attracted was also magical and unforgettable and added even more quality to the experience. Although I take this work very seriously, and Blue Morpho certainly does as well, the retreat turned out, overall, to also be very much FUN. I consider it a genuine blessing to have been able to attend a Blue Morpho retreat and to have worked with Maestro Hamilton and his staff. It was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life, and my gratitude runs deep. I completely recommend them to anyone who is genuinely interested in this type of work, regardless of their experience level.

The best two weeks of my life, 10 out of 10. I truly cannot give a higher commendation to Blue Morpho, the teachings, the medicine, the ceremonies, the CARE. I felt not only welcomed ~ but honored ~ at both retreats I have attended. Honored as a being, a soul, deeply cared for and about. I feel liberated ~ from ancient traumas, abuses, mental and emotional anguish that have plagued my life from a young age, battling suicidal inclinations, questioning whether my life was even worth living. Decades of suffering has come to an end, and it is thanks to Maestro Hamilton and the Amazonian lineage he both embraced, and was embraced by. His passion, dedication, sincerity of heart, extensive knowledge and experience, and clear mastery of his medicine work, is evident in every ceremony, in each teaching. Attending these Blue Morpho retreats has been the absolute greatest gift I have ever given myself. Deep gratitude to both Maestro Hamilton, and the whole team.

I just went on another tour. The medicine is wonderful here. If you or anyone you know has addiction issues, mental health issues, even some physical issues this is the place to go. Got anxiety? Go here. You want spiritual growth? Go here. You choose to change.

I have been going to Blue Morpho since 2006. I went every year from 2006-2013. Then I had kids. I went back this October of 2022. All I can say is, “Wow!” The ayahuasca is amazing. The medicine is so pure and loving. It’s the real deal. I am so grateful for Blue Morpho. You will not be disappointed!

If you're looking for deep healing, divine knowledge and a deep communion with the All that is, look no further. Maestro Hamilton is a true Maestro, his relationship with everything is like no other. I had specific healing I was looking for and by the 3rd night, it was gone! Maestro Hamilton does not hold all the knowledge to himself, he's a teacher as well. I am forever grateful to have met him, choose your teachers wisely!