At Hayulima, you will find a supportive family that guides you through your experience with sacred plants in an intimate and serene environment. By working with small groups, we ensure personalized and individual attention for each guest, allowing for a deeply personal and transformative journey.
About this Retreat
Details of this retreat
Experience the Transformative Power of Our Retreat in a Natural Reserve
Power Plants Ceremonies and Rituals: Engage in transformative healing through our guided Ayahuasca and San Pedro ceremonies and rituals.
Natural Reserve: Discover the beauty of Hayulima, set in the lush cloud forest of the Choco Region.
Comfortable Lodging: Stay in our eco- guest house, featuring cozy resting areas, hot water, laundry service, and walking paths through the forest.
Meals: Savor nourishing, organic meals prepared with local ingredients, including vegetarian and vegan options. Enjoy access to fresh fruit and teas at all times.
Transportation: Convenient pick-up and drop-off from Quito’s airport included in the retreat fee.
Retreat Details:
Join us for a 10-day transformative retreat, which includes:
Transportation: Internal mobilization from Quito Airport to Hayulima and back to Quito Airport.
Lodging: 10 days and 9 nights in comfortable, eco-friendly guest house.
Meals: Three complete vegetarian meals per day, and snaks.
Ceremonies:
2 Ayahuasca ceremonies
1 San Pedro ceremony
1 San Pedro Temazcal ceremony (sweat lodge)
1 San Pedro Power Walk
Rituals:
1 purification and flowering bath in the river
2 additional Temazcales (sweat lodges)
Participate in sharing circles to connect and reflect with fellow participants.
Extra options
Kambo: Experience a cleansing and health ritual for the body with this powerful medicine that boosts our immune system.
Andean Limpias: Rejuvenate with energy cleansing rituals using medicinal plants that energize, balance, and offer liberation to continue on your spiritual path.
Massages: Relax and unwind with our therapeutic massages designed to relieve stress and promote overall well-being.
Embrace this unique opportunity to heal, grow, and connect with nature in the heart of the Choco Region Natural reserve.
Via El Cinto Alto #7
Mindo, Ecuador
(We are 2.5 hours from Quito Airport)
Accommodation
Comfortable Lodging: Stay in our eco- guest house, featuring cozy resting areas, hot water, laundry service, and walking paths through the forest.
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
Discover the beauty of Hayulima, immersed in the Choco Region's cloud forest natural reserve in Mindo, Ecuador. The Sanctuary resides on over 112 hectares of protected cloud forest, teeming with an abundance of wildlife and native flora. Vibrant toucans, hummingbirds, butterflies, and countless other species inhabit our sacred space freely and undisturbed. Our guests can explore this vast ecosystem with confidence in a safe and gentle manner. Definitely the best place for your retreat.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
Savor nourishing, organic meals prepared with local ingredients, including vegetarian and vegan options. Enjoy access to fresh fruit and teas at all times.
What's Included
The 10 day retreat includes the following activities:
Round Trip transfer from the Quito Airport to Hayulima. The ride is 2.5 hours one way.
Lodging for 10 days and 9 nights at the Hayulima guest house
All meals, 3 per day except when there is ceremony. All vegetarian.
2 Ayahuasca ceremonies
1 San Pedro ceremony
1 San Pedro Temazcal (sweat lodge)
1 San Pedro Walk of Power, hikking
1 purification and flowering bath in the river
2 temazcales (sweat lodge)
2 sharing circles
1 movement workshop
1 voice workshop
Customer Reviews
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The most heartfelt medicine family
I did three years of my Vision Quest at Hayulima and have been there several times from the moment they received the land. Hayulima is my spiritual home and the family are some of my dearest friends. If you are looking for a family that carries traditional medicines in the most respectful, integral way with so much heart and devotion you should go and experience the medicine of Hayulima yourself. I am forever grateful that spirit has put these beautiful humans on my path and my prayer is to be able to return to this lush healing sanctuary as much and as long as I can.
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Nowhere else comes close
I feel truly blessed for my time at Hayulima, this place is something special. So grateful for the Hayulima family and how welcoming and warm they all are, big thanks to all of you. The energy at the ceremonies is mind-blowing, every ceremony has a different flavor and intention to it which really helped me peel back the layers.
The location is magical, the mountain is so full of life, it literally feels alive. Everyday you see new birds, the Toucan are a definite highlight. The food is epic and I really love how they allow you to participate in the preparing of the medicine. Another highlight for me was the Kambo sessions, such a great way to start the day before doing ceremony later that evening.
Have been to other retreats but after finding Hayulima I couldn't imagine going anywhere else.
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Amazing experience!! I can't even begin to explain!!
What an amazing experience at Hayulima!!
From the second you arrive you feel like one of the family. You not only feel like part of the family, you are! To be included in these very special traditions is to be part of a family.
Don't come with expectations about what your experience with plant medicine should be. You will get exactly what you need at this time in your life...no more, no less.
Come prepared to feel a deeper essence of love and compassion for family, friends, humanity, the earth, water and all life.
This experience will forever stay with me and I am so grateful to Salvador and the entire Hayulima team for creating an amazing place like this.
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Wonderful Place for Zen Buddhist First Timers!
Came here with some understanding of the practice and a draw for how open the center is to other traditions, as evidenced by some of the Buddha statues I saw in some of the marketing material. I was honestly just so blown away by the authenticity and generosity of the family that holds space here for people to heal. The food is amazing, the teachers there are top notch, and the surroundings in the cloud forest will have you feeling so nourished and relaxed. You all have literally changed my life trajectory. Thank you so much.
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My first experience of this kind
When I went to Hayulima, I was apprehensive. I had watched many videos online, and researched plant medicine. As a result, I had a certain level of expectations regarding the plant medicines, which is exactly what you are not supposed to have. What I did not expect was the people to be so warm and comforting. I feel like I benefited greatly from the advice and wisdom from the shamens regarding many of life's issues. All the volunteers and guests were very outgoing and friendly. If I were to sit by myself, someone would come up to me and ask how I was doing. I felt very welcomed.
I did not drink a lot of the medicine, even though I was free to do so, but the days that I spent at Hayulima were very insightful. Just laying in the hammock, looking at the forest, and thinking, was what I needed. I was asked several times by people outside of Hayulima if I would do it again. The answer is, when I'm ready, yes.
Refund & Cancellation Policy
For refunds requested 3 months before the retreat starts, a 15% refund fee will be applied. For refunds requested 1 month before the retreat starts, a 30% refund fee will be applied.
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