12 Day Ayahuasca Retreat

5.005 reviews
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Varillal, Peru
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Up to 11 in group
Date
April 15 - 26, 2025

Retreat Highlights

  • Ceremonies led by expert curandero having over 45 years experience with ayahuasca
  • Expert facilitator that has over 15 years experience helping people with their healing process
  • A beautiful and peaceful facility in Amazon jungle
  • Profound transformation that works at the root of our troubles

About this Retreat

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Details of this retreat

An ayahuasca retreat at the Hummingbird is an opportunity to experience traditional plant spirit medicine under the guidance of a highly skilled and experienced curandero. Our curandero Manain, has over 45 years of healing experience and has worked with us for over 7 years. Ayahuasca heals and teaches us in a variety of ways. It cleanses and purifies the body, physically and energetically. It helps free us from limiting beliefs and patterns, partly by revealing them to us. It helps us clear blocked emotional energy through the purging process.

In addition to ayahuasca ceremonies, all our retreats also include at least one ceremony with San Pedro, the visionary cactus of the Andes. Grandfather Huachuma is powerful, yet gentle healer and teacher, and a wonderful complement to the work of ayahuasca. Known as a heart opening medicine, huachuma is capable of deep cleansing of emotional energy we may have unknowingly been carrying for years.

Retreats at our ayahuasca center offers you a broad-ranging healing experience within a safe and supportive environment. Your safety, personal healing and personal/spiritual growth and transformation is our key focus. Emphasis is on time in ayahuasca ceremony, balanced by insightful activities and periods of relaxation and rest so you’ll be well prepared for the next ceremony.

Our mission is to empower each guest to reconnect with their mind, body, emotions and spirit, learning to live in self-awareness so they may more freely and truly express their authentic selves. Under the guidance maestro Don Fernando Laiche, an traditional healer with over 38 years of experience, we combine plant medicine ceremonies and dietas with regular integration sessions, and lessons on mindfulness and examining our thought patterns and belief systems. This process provides tools for each guest to apply on a daily basis so they can take charge of their own growth and healing over the long term. Read More

Schedule

Plant bath available at 3 pm
Meditation before ceremony at 6 pm
Ayahuasca ceremony beginning at 6:45 pm
Breakfast 8 am
Post ceremony integration meeting at 9:30 am
Lunch 12 pm
Energetic healing 4 pm on nights without ceremony
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
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Getting Here

Location icon Hummingbird Healing Center, Varillal, Peru

Directions

You will need to fly into Iquitos, Peru the day before your retreat begins and stay at a local hotel. Groups will be picked up at 10 am the day the retreat begins, and brough to our center by bus. Read More

Accommodation

Our rooms have high quality mattresses, a writing desk and toilet

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Venue & Amenities

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Free Wifi icon Free Wifi
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Pool icon Pool
Towels icon Towels
Free Parking icon Free Parking
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The Hummingbird Center is located in the Amazon jungle outside of Iquitos, Peru. Beautiful landscaped grounds and gardens provide a tranquil environment for your journey of transformation and growth Read More

Meals

Menu Types

Our food is mostly vegetarian, but we do serve fish or chicken every other day for lunch. While staying with the guidelines of the ayahuasca diet, we serve the delicious food Peru has become famous fo Read More

What's Included

  • 6 Ayahuasca ceremonies
  • 1 San Pedro ceremony
  • Daily cleansing plant baths
  • Meditation before each ceremony
  • Delicious, healthy meals in accord with the Ayahuasca diet
  • Guide walk through the jungle
  • Vapor bath with medicinal plants
  • Talks on changing our belief systems and taking charge of our thoughts and emotions
  • Energegtic healing on days without ceremony
  • The company of three fabulous German Shephards!

What's Not Included

  • Airfare to Iquitos
  • Hotel in Iquitos
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Customer Reviews

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5.0
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Great Experience, Wonderful people and Peaceful Enviroment
I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to have the experience I had at Hummingbird. Jim is a very caring, engaging, and experienced individual that gives a lot of attention to the essential details to having a wholesome experience. Gina and her staff provided a wonderful diet that was specifically catered to the medicine and purpose of my visit. Don Fernando is a very kind, and very experienced shaman, and our conversations was something I looked forward to having whenever possible. For me this was exactly what I needed in order to see where my spiritual growth needs to go, and it was quite a life changing experience to have the ability to be in stillness, quiet, and surrounded by nature. I look forward to in the future paying these wonderful individuals a visit again, and continue my growth and journey in this lifetime. Read More

5.0
Healing with a dose of relaxation
I just attended a 12 day retreat February 2016 and I am absolutely grateful for this center and it's proprietors Jim and Gina, the wonderfully skilled and kind shaman Manain, and the friendly and attentive staff.

In 12 days I learned so much here and Jim is always available to chat or coach folks through the process, whatever their journey may be. It was very clean, comfortable, and just exactly what I needed at this moment in my life. I'm generally a skeptic - a very cynical skeptic - but I would wholeheartedly recommend this center to anyone looking for healing or insight into themselves or their life.

If you're looking to get fucked up and see cool shit, this is not the place for you - ayahuasca is a harsh mistress and not something to be trifled with.

On off days, time is spent relaxing in a hammock, reading from their sizable library of spiritual and just for fun books, swimming in their lovely pond, or chatting and playing games with other members of the retreat. I had to learn to slooooow down, but I'm glad the days aren't packed with activities - it gives ample time for reflection and healing.

Thank you so much for everything Jim and Gina - you're fantastic reflections of God's love and light! Read More

5.0
I highly reccomend Hummingbird - by Patrick
I stayed here in April of 2014 for a 12 day retreat and I have to say that everything went above and beyond my expectations. Jim and Gina run an amazing retreat. Their property is calm and peaceful and perfect for clearing your mind and preparing yourself for the healings. Read More

5.0
the most important and awe inspiring experience of my life - by Psilo
(2012) - I went down there last year to a place called The Hummingbird Center. It was run by english speaking gringos so there's no culture barrier to worry about. The center is deep in the jungle, but if you stay close to the main hut, the mosquitos are not bad at all. 10 steps into the jungle and you have about 100 on you at all times drinking your blood. I recommend 100% you do this, just be prepared for the worst. The shaman who makes the ayahuasca for this place is known to make some of the strongest ayahuasca in the Amazon, and I don't doubt that. I had a full on death experience. I thought it was fun for about 20 minutes, while I observed a sky scraper sized 100 tentacled monster and all the kaleidoscopic fractal geometry and wormhole travel, but then I was convinced that I had been sucked into the afterlife and suspended in a timeless void of infinite universal consciousness and having face to face encounters with real demons and things more terrifying than the human imagination can fathom. It was the hardest experience of my life, and I only drank half doses after the first night, but it was the most important and awe inspiring experience of my life. It cured my OCD, and sent me on a path of healing and reflection that is still shaping my life today. Read More

5.0
By far the most transformational experience of my life - by Kirs Beth
I visited the Hummingbird Center in April of 2013. I came to the center stressed out, horribly depressed, and desperate to change. I left a new person, and almost a year later I continue to be free of the depression and anxiety that so burdened me my whole life. I got so much more out from my visit then I could have ever imagined, and I will always be immensely grateful to Jim, Gina, and the shaman.The center itself is beautiful, and the food is amazing. During my time there I always felt safe, supported, and cared for. The Jim and Gina work closely with you during your stay and are always available if any issues come up. Everyone at the center is incredibly kind and genuine, and you can tell that they are truly invested in your healing journey. I can't recommend the Hummingbird Center enough! It was the best investment I have ever made in myself. I am so profoundly grateful. Read More