10 Day - Plant Medicine Retreat in Hayulima Natural Reserve

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Via El Cinto Alto #7 Mindo, Ecuador
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Up to 10 in group
Date
February 7 - 16, 2025

Retreat Highlights

  • 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.

Getting Here

Location icon Hayulima Spiritual Sanctuary, Via El Cinto Alto #7 Mindo, Ecuador

Directions

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.

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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
Kitchen icon Kitchen
Tour Assistance icon Tour Assistance
Hot Tub icon Hot Tub
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Restaurant icon Restaurant
Fitness Center icon Fitness Center
Yoga Studio icon Yoga Studio
Housekeeping icon Housekeeping
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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

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Menu Types

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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Love and respect
From the moment I stepped into the space, I felt a deep sense of safety and love. Salvador, Amilya, Matias, Fernanda, Diana, Synithya, and Socrates (I hope I’m writing their names correctly) and the rest of the team welcomed me with open arms, creating an environment where I felt truly seen and understood.

This wasn’t just a retreat, it was a sanctuary. The warmth and care of everyone there made it possible for me to face parts of myself I had been avoiding for years. I felt supported in ways I didn’t even know I needed, and for the first time in a long time, I felt safe enough to fully surrender and do the inner work.

The ceremonies were graceful, held with love and deep understanding. The team created such a caring space that even in my most vulnerable moments, I felt completely safe.

At Hayulima, I wasn’t just another participant I was family. It’s a place where healing happens, not just because of the medicine, but because of the people who hold you with such unwavering love. I left feeling lighter, freer, and more connected to myself than ever before.
Looking forward to returning back again soon with my loved ones.

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Beautiful family; lovely healing center
My time at Hayulima was profound. I feel grateful to have had the opportunity to experience the medicine of this family. They are welcoming, exuberant, and focused.
I felt held and able to more deeply explore the medicines and my medicine while enjoying the community they attract.

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Great time at Hayulima (3-day), a good introduction to the world of medicine
Overall, great group to experience these medicines with for the first time and the guides, Amalia, Salvador, Diana, Matias (great mustache), Cynthia and Fernanda created a great vibe and energy that allowed me to dive deep into the ceremony. We got to join a larger group that were already there doing a 10day retreat and it was fun to join them towards the end of their trip and they gave good advice and the happiness was there to see.

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3-day ayahuasca and San Pedro: champions league experience
I really enjoyed the spiritual and safe adventure of ayahuasca, San Pedro and kambo at Hayulima. Salvador, Amalia, Diana, Matias, Cynthia and Fernanda were excellent shamans that provided great medicine and through chants and speech maintained a great energy during the ceremonies. The others in attendance brought good energy and were also fairly experienced with the medicine while this was my first time. The food and accommodation was comforting during the retreat. I would highly recommend doing the 10 day retreat as this will allow you to develop a better relationship with the medicine.

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Just Go
You can drink the plant medicines almost anywhere- but it' s not the same at Hayulima. You will get ALL the support and Love that you can possibly handle. The family that lives there will hold you during your entire process. I personally have taken to drinking ayahuasca several times per year, and each facilitator is different. No one has ever taken the care with my body and spirit like the family at Hayulima. Whatever concerns you may have, they will take on themselves. I really lack the proper words to share my experience- I will just say: GO.

Love to All,

Betty