San Pedro Huachuma Retreat: Sacred Earth Healing
San Pedro Huachuma Retreat: Sacred Earth Healing
Malacatos, Ecuador
Up to 6 in group
Nov 6 - 11, 2026
Retreat Highlights
- 6-Day San Pedro Retreat
- Take a sacred pause from your everyday life to retreat and connect with your inner nature…
- San Pedro, also known as Huachuma or Aguacolla, has been used for thousands of years in the Andes for healing, vision, and spiritual awakening. He opens the heart, quiets the mind, and connects you deeply to nature, your soul, and the divine. He opens our energy channels so that we can see our life in a different way, and positive spirits and energies can come in to work and heal physical, mental and spiritual health imbalances and illnesses.
- Along with the help of this sacred medicine, we support you to release emotional blocks, see with clarity, and remember your true essence. Ceremonies are held in a safe, respectful way, honoring ancestral traditions and the wisdom of the plants. Each journey is unique, offering powerful insight, healing and connection.
- Through San Pedro ceremonies, cacao, song, shamanic rituals and herbal medicine, we’ll release the old and return to love, joy and the creative life force within.
- What's Included:
- 🌿 2 San Pedro Ceremonies
- One nighttime and one daytime ceremony guided in a safe, intimate setting. Work with this ancient heart-opening plant teacher to deepen self-awareness, reconnect to your spirit, and invite emotional healing and clarity.
- ✨ Visit the Birthplace of Cacao - La Florida ruins, in the jungle of Palanda. Enjoy a day excursion to the archeological ruins in Palanda, known as the first place in the world where the Cacao - the plant where chocoloate comes from - was domesticated. Here we can see ruins of a community, including a burial of a shaman and his family, from over 5,000 BC. There is a beautiful river to swim in here, as well.
- 🔥 Sacred Cacao Circle
- Open the heart through ritual cacao, prayer, music, and gratitude for the Earth
- 🪶 Traditional Energy Cleansings (Limpia) + Plant Baths
- Receive a personal cleansing ritual using prayer, energy healing plants and traditional healing elements to clear stagnant energy and restore balance.
- 🧘♀️ Guided Meditations + Gentle Movement
- Practices designed to regulate the nervous system, ground the body, and support emotional presence throughout the retreat.
- ⛰️ Sacred Hike to Mandango Mountain
- Journey together to the sacred mountain of Mandango with offerings, reflection, and connection to the natural world.
- 💧Visit a nearby river for cleansing + fun
- ✨ Nervous System + Intuition Workshops
- Learn practical tools to cultivate inner calm, emotional resilience, embodiment, and a deeper relationship with your intuition.
- 💫 Integration Circles + Journaling
- Guided sharing circles and reflective practices to help integrate insights from ceremony into daily life.
- 🤍 Authentic Connection in an Intimate Group
- A small retreat container limited to only 6 guests to allow for genuine support, safety, and meaningful connection. The first two people to book are guaranteed a private room
- 🏡 Beautiful Countryside Accommodations
- Stay in a peaceful Andean home surrounded by nature, with access to an on-site spa and breathtaking mountain views.
- 🥗 Healthy Organic Meals Included
- Nourishing meals prepared with fresh local ingredients to support the body before and after ceremony.
- Limited to just 6 participants
About this Retreat
Your Guides
Katie
Founder + San Pedro Ceremonialist
Founder of this center, a spiritual medicine guide, and ceremonialist of Wachuma, San Pedro. Born in the US, she has been holding space in ceremonies and retreats for 7 years now. She has studied under the guidance of her partner, taita Miguel, a mestizo shaman, as well as with Mama Mercedes, an indigenous Kichwa Andean healer and midwife. Her role at the healing center is to lead, guide, and empower people to reconnect with themselves, Spirit and Mother Earth.
With a loving, gentle, and compassionate nature, her wish is for everyone to experience the magic, love, and healing of the plant medicines.
Details of this retreat
6-Day San Pedro Retreat
Take a sacred pause from your everyday life to retreat and connect with your inner nature…
Join us for a sacred 6-day journey in the Andes to heal the womb, open the heart, and awaken the feminine spirit.
Through San Pedro ceremonies, cacao, movement, shamanic rituals and helpful workshops, we’ll release the old and reconnect with our inner spark and the wisdom of the Earth.
Participants will experience two master plant ceremonies held with love and respect in a traditional Andean setting.
What's Included:
🌿 2 San Pedro Ceremonies
One nighttime and one daytime ceremony guided in a safe, intimate setting. Work with this ancient heart-opening plant teacher to deepen self-awareness, reconnect to your spirit, and invite emotional healing and clarity.
✨ Visit the Birthplace of Cacao - La Florida ruins, in the jungle of Palanda. Enjoy a day excursion to the archeological ruins in Palanda, known as the first place in the world where the Cacao - the plant where chocoloate comes from - was domesticated. Here we can see ruins of a community, including a burial of a shaman and his family, from over 5,000 BC. There is a beautiful river to swim in here, as well.
🔥 Sacred Cacao Circle
Open the heart through ritual cacao, prayer, music, and gratitude for the Earth
🪶 Traditional Energy Cleansings (Limpia) + Plant Baths
Receive a personal cleansing ritual using prayer, energy healing plants and traditional healing elements to clear stagnant energy and restore balance.
🧘♀️ Guided Meditations + Gentle Movement
Practices designed to regulate the nervous system, ground the body, and support emotional presence throughout the retreat.
⛰️ Sacred Hike to Mandango Mountain
Journey together to the sacred mountain of Mandango with offerings, reflection, and connection to the natural world.
💧Visit a nearby river for cleansing + fun
✨ Nervous System + Intuition Workshops
Learn practical tools to cultivate inner calm, emotional resilience, embodiment, and a deeper relationship with your intuition.
💫 Integration Circles + Journaling
Guided sharing circles and reflective practices to help integrate insights from ceremony into daily life.
🤍 Authentic Connection in an Intimate Group
A small retreat container limited to only 6 guests to allow for genuine support, safety, and meaningful connection. The first two people to book are guaranteed a private room
🏡 Beautiful Countryside Accommodations
Stay in a peaceful Andean home surrounded by nature, with access to an on-site spa and breathtaking mountain views.
🥗 Healthy Organic Meals Included
Nourishing meals prepared with fresh local ingredients to support the body before and after ceremony.
Limited to just 6 people to ensure safety and personalized guidance and healing.
Take a sacred pause from your everyday life to retreat and connect with your inner nature…
Join us for a sacred 6-day journey in the Andes to heal the womb, open the heart, and awaken the feminine spirit.
Through San Pedro ceremonies, cacao, movement, shamanic rituals and helpful workshops, we’ll release the old and reconnect with our inner spark and the wisdom of the Earth.
Participants will experience two master plant ceremonies held with love and respect in a traditional Andean setting.
What's Included:
🌿 2 San Pedro Ceremonies
One nighttime and one daytime ceremony guided in a safe, intimate setting. Work with this ancient heart-opening plant teacher to deepen self-awareness, reconnect to your spirit, and invite emotional healing and clarity.
✨ Visit the Birthplace of Cacao - La Florida ruins, in the jungle of Palanda. Enjoy a day excursion to the archeological ruins in Palanda, known as the first place in the world where the Cacao - the plant where chocoloate comes from - was domesticated. Here we can see ruins of a community, including a burial of a shaman and his family, from over 5,000 BC. There is a beautiful river to swim in here, as well.
🔥 Sacred Cacao Circle
Open the heart through ritual cacao, prayer, music, and gratitude for the Earth
🪶 Traditional Energy Cleansings (Limpia) + Plant Baths
Receive a personal cleansing ritual using prayer, energy healing plants and traditional healing elements to clear stagnant energy and restore balance.
🧘♀️ Guided Meditations + Gentle Movement
Practices designed to regulate the nervous system, ground the body, and support emotional presence throughout the retreat.
⛰️ Sacred Hike to Mandango Mountain
Journey together to the sacred mountain of Mandango with offerings, reflection, and connection to the natural world.
💧Visit a nearby river for cleansing + fun
✨ Nervous System + Intuition Workshops
Learn practical tools to cultivate inner calm, emotional resilience, embodiment, and a deeper relationship with your intuition.
💫 Integration Circles + Journaling
Guided sharing circles and reflective practices to help integrate insights from ceremony into daily life.
🤍 Authentic Connection in an Intimate Group
A small retreat container limited to only 6 guests to allow for genuine support, safety, and meaningful connection. The first two people to book are guaranteed a private room
🏡 Beautiful Countryside Accommodations
Stay in a peaceful Andean home surrounded by nature, with access to an on-site spa and breathtaking mountain views.
🥗 Healthy Organic Meals Included
Nourishing meals prepared with fresh local ingredients to support the body before and after ceremony.
Limited to just 6 people to ensure safety and personalized guidance and healing.
Schedule
Itinerary
Day 1: Lighting the Fire + Setting Intentions
Arrive by 11am - 1 pm, enjoy lunch and get to know each other. Settle into the house. We will have an opening limpia ritual to open the retreat, followed by dinner and a guided meditation.
Day 2: Cleansing
Today we will go for a hike and give offerings to the sacred mountain, Mandango, in the morning, have breakfast, and a workshop in the afternoon about nervous system healing + coming back to the body. Lunch, and rest before the ceremony. We will start the San Pedro ceremony at night around 10pm and finish in the morning with fruits, and sharing by the fire.
Day 3: Rest, Restore, + Intuition
Today we will have a guided meditation in the morning, breakfast, and relax in the morning. We will have a workshop about connecting with our intuition. We can enjoy the spa today, journal, and integrate. Lunch + dinner.
Day 4: Connecting with the Heart of Mother Earth
San Pedro ceremony in the daytime beginning around 8am and finishing around 3pm or so. We will share fruits, hang by the fire and enjoy the spa this evening, followed by dinner.
Day 5: Ancestors + Cacao
Today we will start the day with a guided meditation and movement practice, have breakfast and then take a drive to the jungle to visit Palanda and ancient ruins from 5000BC - the birthplace of Cacao. We will get a tour of this site, give offerings, and enjoy the river there. We will head back, have lunch, and a Cacao circle at night, giving gratitude to the Earth and spiritual allies. Dinner at night afterwards
Day 6: Gratitude
We will have breakfast, discuss integration plans, and then head out by 11 am.
Day 1: Lighting the Fire + Setting Intentions
Arrive by 11am - 1 pm, enjoy lunch and get to know each other. Settle into the house. We will have an opening limpia ritual to open the retreat, followed by dinner and a guided meditation.
Day 2: Cleansing
Today we will go for a hike and give offerings to the sacred mountain, Mandango, in the morning, have breakfast, and a workshop in the afternoon about nervous system healing + coming back to the body. Lunch, and rest before the ceremony. We will start the San Pedro ceremony at night around 10pm and finish in the morning with fruits, and sharing by the fire.
Day 3: Rest, Restore, + Intuition
Today we will have a guided meditation in the morning, breakfast, and relax in the morning. We will have a workshop about connecting with our intuition. We can enjoy the spa today, journal, and integrate. Lunch + dinner.
Day 4: Connecting with the Heart of Mother Earth
San Pedro ceremony in the daytime beginning around 8am and finishing around 3pm or so. We will share fruits, hang by the fire and enjoy the spa this evening, followed by dinner.
Day 5: Ancestors + Cacao
Today we will start the day with a guided meditation and movement practice, have breakfast and then take a drive to the jungle to visit Palanda and ancient ruins from 5000BC - the birthplace of Cacao. We will get a tour of this site, give offerings, and enjoy the river there. We will head back, have lunch, and a Cacao circle at night, giving gratitude to the Earth and spiritual allies. Dinner at night afterwards
Day 6: Gratitude
We will have breakfast, discuss integration plans, and then head out by 11 am.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Allpa Mama Healing, Malacatos, Ecuador
Directions
To arrive to Malacatos:
OPTION 1 (FASTEST): You can fly to the Quito airport and take another flight to Loja (called Catamayo airport). From there you will take a taxi to Malacatos. The flight is around $100 and the taxi is $35 which can be split amongst guests traveling together
OPTION 2: Fly to Quito or Guayaquil airports (Guayaquil is closer) and take a bus to Loja (about $20). From there, you can take a taxi ($20) or bus ($2) to Malacatos.
OPTION 1 (FASTEST): You can fly to the Quito airport and take another flight to Loja (called Catamayo airport). From there you will take a taxi to Malacatos. The flight is around $100 and the taxi is $35 which can be split amongst guests traveling together
OPTION 2: Fly to Quito or Guayaquil airports (Guayaquil is closer) and take a bus to Loja (about $20). From there, you can take a taxi ($20) or bus ($2) to Malacatos.
Accommodation
Each room offers a spacious, open, and comfortable sanctuary designed for rest and reflection between ceremonies. Large windows invite in natural light and mountain air, creating a serene connection to the surrounding nature. The rooms are simply furnished yet cozy, with thoughtful touches that support grounding and relaxation—your own peaceful space to integrate, dream, and restore. The home is nestled in the Andes and also has a spa on site with jacuzzi, steam room and pool. There is hot water, wifi and laundry available on site.
Program Price
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
We host retreats in Malacatos, Ecuador. We are in the Andes mountains where it is eternal spring weather - 70s F every day. The house is nice, spa on site with pool, steam room and jacuzzi, with private and shared rooms available, hot water, wifi, comfy beds.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
We serve simple, healthy foods during the retreat. We offer fresh, local, organic produce and chicken and fish for those who eat it. Meals are mainly vegetarian. We also can make vegan meals.
What's Included
- What's Included:
- 🌿 2 San Pedro Ceremonies
- One nighttime and one daytime ceremony guided in a safe, intimate setting. Work with this ancient heart-opening plant teacher to deepen self-awareness, reconnect to your spirit, and invite emotional healing and clarity.
- ✨ Visit the Birthplace of Cacao - La Florida ruins, in the jungle of Palanda. Enjoy a day excursion to the archeological ruins in Palanda, known as the first place in the world where the Cacao - the plant where chocoloate comes from - was domesticated. Here we can see ruins of a community, including a burial of a shaman and his family, from over 5,000 BC. There is a beautiful river to swim in here, as well.
- 🔥 Sacred Cacao Circle
- Open the heart through ritual cacao, prayer, music, and gratitude for the Earth
- 🪶 Traditional Energy Cleansings (Limpia) + Plant Baths
- Receive a personal cleansing ritual using prayer, energy healing plants and traditional healing elements to clear stagnant energy and restore balance.
- 🧘♀️ Guided Meditations + Gentle Movement
- Practices designed to regulate the nervous system, ground the body, and support emotional presence throughout the retreat.
- ⛰️ Sacred Hike to Mandango Mountain
- Journey together to the sacred mountain of Mandango with offerings, reflection, and connection to the natural world.
- 💧Visit a nearby river for cleansing + fun
- ✨ Nervous System + Intuition Workshops
- Learn practical tools to cultivate inner calm, emotional resilience, embodiment, and a deeper relationship with your intuition.
- 💫 Integration Circles + Journaling
- Guided sharing circles and reflective practices to help integrate insights from ceremony into daily life.
- 🤍 Authentic Connection in an Intimate Group
- A small retreat container limited to only 6 guests to allow for genuine support, safety, and meaningful connection. The first two people to book are guaranteed a private room
- 🏡 Beautiful Countryside Accommodations
- Stay in a peaceful Andean home surrounded by nature, with access to an on-site spa and breathtaking mountain views.
- 🥗 Healthy Organic Meals Included
- Nourishing meals prepared with fresh local ingredients to support the body before and after ceremony.
- You may feel drawn to this work if you are ready to:
- - Heal emotional wounds, grief, heartbreak, childhood pain, or past trauma in a supportive and intentional environment
- - Release old patterns, fears, or beliefs that no longer serve your life
- - Reconnect with yourself after feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, numb, anxious, or emotionally stuck
- - Improve your relationship with your body, mind, emotions, and spirit
- - Deepen your connection to nature, intuition, spirit, and your authentic path
- - Explore sacred plant medicines in a respectful, grounded, and traditional way
- - Gain clarity, direction, and a renewed sense of purpose
- - Open your heart, cultivate self-love, and experience deeper inner peace
- - Step into a new chapter of life feeling more aligned, connected, and empowered
- - Experience genuine human connection in a safe and intimate retreat container
- You do not need previous experience with plant medicine. What matters most is an open heart, humility, emotional readiness, and a sincere respect for the process.
What's Not Included
- Airfare, travel insurance
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