Shamanic Training Retreat: Ayahuasca, San Pedro & Wilka

14 Day Shamanic Training Plant Medicine Retreat in Vilcabamba, Ecuador

Finishing with the Full Moon in May

Learn shamanic healing skills & connect deep with the spirits of the sacred plants

Join us for an intimate, two-week Shamanic Healing Plant Medicine Retreat designed for those who wish to deepen their connection with the spirit world and learn powerful healing practices.

This immersive experience will guide you through ancient shamanic traditions, offering the opportunity to gain hands-on skills in working with plant medicines while exploring your own spiritual path.

Throughout the retreat, you’ll be taught essential healing techniques, including the art of singing Icaros (prayer-songs), performing Limpias (spiritual cleansings), and preparing cleansing plant baths to remove negative energies. You will learn how to communicate with friendly spirits and work with sacred ceremonies to heal yourself and others. Our experienced facilitators will also introduce you to the use of herbal medicines, teaching you how to harness the healing power of plants for physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

In addition to the plant medicine ceremonies, the retreat offers daily practices that support your personal growth and healing. Meditation, yoga, and breathing exercises will help you ground your energy, open your heart, and deepen your intuition. You will also have the opportunity to embark on guided hikes, connecting with nature and receiving the grounding energy of the earth, visit the spa, rivers and more.

This retreat is perfect for those seeking to expand their healing abilities and learn sacred practices passed down through generations. Whether you are new to shamanic healing or looking to enhance your current practice, this intimate retreat will provide the space, support, and teachings to help you grow into a confident, compassionate healer.

Are you ready to awaken your shamanic healing abilities and step into your true power? Join us for this transformative two-week journey.

Very small group of maximum just 4 people.



Retreat includes:

- All accommodation and food in a beautiful, private home in the mountains with shared and private rooms

- Nourishing meals made with local, fresh ingredients - VEG & VG options available

- 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies

- 2 San Pedro ceremonies

- 1 Wilka ceremony

- 1 Hape Tobacco ceremony
- Energetic cleansings

- Ritual plant baths for energy cleansing

- Guided meditations & yoga

- Breathing exercises

- Spa visit
- Talking circles and time to meet individually

- Fire circle to set intentions with offerings
- Hiking to sacred mountains, rivers, waterfalls



Shamanic Healing Workshops:

- Learn to give limpias, or energetic cleansings & using instruments to feel into another person's energy field

- Learn how to connect with your friendly spirits. One ceremony will be dedicated to connecting with a friendly spirit

- Ikaros: learn about ikaros, or healing prayer-songs used in ceremonies. Learn 3 sacred healing ikaros to utilize in your healing sessions. You will also create your own ikaro while here

- Holding ceremony space workshop

- Herbal medicines


Plant Medicine Ceremonies

We will gather together in Plant Medicine Ceremonies. Ayahuasca is often compared to a wise Grandmother, and like an onion, she can help you find your center and let go of what no longer serves you, as well as helping to heal physical and mental illness.

Grandfather San Pedro is the healing masculine energy, helping you find alignment and open your heart once more, ready to take flight. We will meet with Grandfather San Pedro next to Granfather Fire in beautiful, unique ceremonies

Mama Wilka is a rare, sacred medicine that comes from the Huilko tree in the Andes. Miguel is one of a handful of people who know how to work with this medicine. Huilka is a medicine taken as a snuff, and is very visionary, intense and short. The experience usually lasts about 1 hour. This plant contains 5MEO DMT. Wilca is known to heal terminal illness, and is especially helpful for those with addictions. She teaches us about ourselves and the Universe and helps show us clearly our path in life.


We will provide preparation support, and we hold circles during our plant medicine retreats to discuss any questions you may have in advance. After our plant medicine ceremonies, we also have sharing circles, so you can share any pearls from your ceremony experience. Some people have sat in ceremonies previously, whereas, for others, it is their first time meeting with the plant medicines.



Optional:

Huilka seed reading with Taita Miguel - before or after on Zoom, or at retreat. Ask questions about your life, work, relationship, connect with loved ones who have passed over


Virtual limpia (energetic cleansing) - We can do a limpia for you via Zoom before the retreat if you wish, or after. We will do them at the retreat, but it can be helpful to start aligning your energy or help with any health issues you might be experiencing even before you arrive.



The Location

We will be located in the gorgeous, Andes mountains near Vilcabamba Ecuador. There are private rooms, private and shared bathrooms. There is hot water, wifi and comfy beds.


Do you plan to stay for longer? We are happy to offer recommendations for where to stay and where to visit pre or post-retreat. If you would like to extend your stay and have additional ceremonies, we can also accomodate this.


The Team

Taita Miguel has 27 years of experience healing folks of all types of illnesses with plant medicine. He works with Ayahuasca, San Pedro and the rare medicine Huilka. His ceremonies are powerful, visionary, healing and well-protected. He is a highly respected shaman, and will be leading the Ayahuasca ceremonies. During ceremonies, he gives energetic cleansings and works with his friendly spirits to bring positive energy and healing. He learned from elder Shuar uwishins (shamans) of the jungle, elders from the Andes of Ecuador and Bolivia.



Katie has been assisting in plant medicine ceremonies and retreats in Ecuador for 5 years and is Miguel's partner. She will be facilitating this retreat, leading the San Pedro ceremony and assisting in the other ceremonies, giving massages, limpias, and other activities. She is a student of Mama Mercedes, an indigenous healer from Otavalo, and has learned massage, herbal medicine and energy healing rituals with her. She is also a sundancer, having attended several Sundances in Wisconsin, USA with an Ojibwe elder.