Chamisal Retreat CenterIquitos, Peru
April 13 - 30, 2025
About this Retreat
Don Ronor was raised in a family of curanderos and comes from a long lineage of Shipibo plant doctors. With an incredible knowledge of the plants, don Ronor continues to do dietas and study the science of healing. His sense of humor and gentle, playful spirit allows program participants to feel comfortable in his presence, which creates an optimal environment for healing and connecting. Don Ronor leads healing retreats at the Chamisal Retreat Center and assists in research at the Ayahuasca Foundation's Riosbo Ayahuasca Research Center. His humility and kindness are expressed in the care he provides, and he works hard to provide the best possible treatment for every participant. He enjoys getting to know the participants and always makes friends with everyone who comes to do a retreat.
Details of this retreat
A COMPLETE TREATMENT
The Eighteen Day Shipibo Ayahuasca Retreat is an opportunity to receive a complete treatment from an authentic curandero in the Amazon rainforest. Participants spend 18 days at the Ayahuasca Foundation’s Riosbo Retreat and Research Center (plus 2 days in Iquitos), participating in 9 ayahuasca ceremonies led by a Shipibo curandero and the assistant healers. In addition to the ayahuasca ceremonies, participants also receive a wide variety of plant treatments that cleanse the mind, body, and spirit, as well as remedies specific to their afflictions. This retreat is much more than just receiving treatment for physical, mental, and emotional problems, it is also an opportunity to get to know yourself on a much deeper level, connect with nature in a unique and fascinating way, and gain a much greater understanding of reality.
The Shipibo plant medicine tradition allows participants to take greater control of their lives, their thoughts, their actions, and their overall health. The unique qualities of the ayahuasca ceremonies provide participants with the opportunity to play an active role in the healing process, confronting their negativity, past traumas, or possible roots of their illnesses. The plant treatments further enhance this process, working to boost the immune system, balance the digestive system, purify the nervous system, cleanse the circulatory system, and heal the emotional body. The treatment is complete and total, effecting positive changes on all levels and allowing the participants to realize the path to their health and happiness. Further counseling is provided after the retreat to assist with the challenges of integration upon return.
Accompanying the treatment and enhancing the healing process is a diet. Some participants may need to follow an even stricter diet than the others due to their particular issues, like no eggs or fish, for example. The diet is a necessary element of the treatment but it is not a difficult sacrifice, thanks to the wonderful cooks we have at the center. The basic restrictions of the diet are no salt, no sugar, no oil, and no spices. A typical breakfast is oatmeal, hard boiled eggs, and rice with steamed vegetables. A typical lunch is a root vegetable soup with rice or quinoa and a light salad, and dinner is usually similar to lunch.
The plant remedies are typically ingested before meals, but also include a variety of plant baths and include special purgatives to help clean out several systems in the body. The plant baths are very helpful when dealing with afflictions that have roots in the spirit, like traumas or lack of self-love, or if a participant is not having visions in the ayahuasca ceremonies. Vapor baths are used so that participants can absorb the plant medicines in all manner possible. The purgatives may be difficult treatments, for they induce vomiting and diarrhea, but the effects are very positive afterward.
The first week of the retreat is often spent getting to know the curandero and the assistant healers, as well as getting accustomed to the ayahuasca ceremonies and plant treatments. This first week is often when strong emotions begin to come out and the participants begin to discover the root causes of their afflictions. Faith is built during this time and the following week and a half is spent delving deeper into these causes, understanding these roots and working to pull them up to the surface to be dealt with properly in the ayahuasca ceremonies. The curandero and the assistant healers work hard to help each participant find solutions to their issues and realize their total and complete healing of any and all afflictions.
In addition to receiving treatment, retreat participants also have the opportunity to learn a great deal about the healing traditions of the Amazon Rainforest. Several workshops will be held during the retreat to teach various aspects of the tradition, like the use of mapacho and agua florida and singing the sacred healing songs, called icaros. When participants leave our ayahuasca retreats, they not only return home with health and happiness, but also with the knowledge of how it was achieved, which can be invaluable when embarking on a new path in life, the true path meant for each person.
The $4,450 price includes:
ACCOMMODATION
Pre-program counseling session with AyaHelp.com
Gain insights into how best to prepare for the experience
Airport pickup
You'll be met at the Iquitos airport and brought to the hotel
Accommodations for 17 nights at the Retreat Center
Screened in rooms with private bathrooms and electricity
Transportation to and from the Retreat Center
Air conditioned bus (1hr) and an amazing boat ride (1hr)
At least two meals a day, following a healing diet
Fruit, vegetables, quinoa, lentils, grilled fish, eggs, etc.
Translation of entire program when needed
Assistants also add their own experiences and teachings
Access to the Assistants for counseling/guidance
3 assistants will be available throughout the retreat
USB of retreat photos and ceremony recordings
Audio recordings of ceremonies and digital photos
Other gifts and educational items
You’ll receive other gifts and healing tools as well
Post-program counseling session with AyaHelp.com
Enhance the process of integration when you get home
TREATMENT
9 traditional Ayahuasca Ceremonies
Led by an indigenous curandero and the AF assistants
2 private consultations with the curandero
Translated by the assistant healers
Daily Piñon Colorado brain/blood remedy
Taken three times a day for the duration of the retreat
1 Sangre de Grado digestive system cleanse
Reset digestive enzymes and enhance nutrient absorption
6 Vapor Baths with five medicinal plants
Sweat out toxins and replace them with healing medicine
2 Mucura sinus cleanses
cleanse the sinuses and boost immunity against allergies
6 Plants Baths
Connect further with the plants and soak in the medicine
2 Smoke Baths
Increase energetic defenses and protection from negativity
1 Chiric Sanango nervous system cleanse
Boost the immune system and release emotional blockages
2 Love Baths
For attracting positive energy, good luck, and love
Any additional treatments
Poultices, medicines, massage, or whatever is needed
Retreats take a maximum of 12 participants
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