Shamanic Healing Retreats: Bolivian Andes & Amazon. Intensive 15 Day Retreat in the Sacha Runa Community

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La Paz, Bolivia
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Up to 20 in group
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15 Days Package (14 nights)

About this Retreat

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Warriors of the New Time. Shamanic Healing and Training Retreat. Guided by Miguel A. Kavlin, Phillip Josey, Angela Muñiz and Juan Macome and  Sacha Runa team working for more than 30 years serving with Respect, Love, Devotion, Surrender to help people connect to the Light and their inner truth, manifest their potential and fulfill their destiny. This retreat will end with our San Pedro (wachuma) Long-Dance Ceremony  to Connect to Source, receive Vision and Wisdom, and Bless All of Creation.Come Experience the Magic of two incredible locations in the Andes and Amazon, two incredible Sacred Medicines which complement each other wonderfully (Ayahuasca & San Pedro) and our Male and Female Shamans working together in Peace, Harmony, Integrity and Sacredness to help you Reach your Potential and Manifest your Destiny; Become Aligned to your Divine Purpose, Incarnate the New Time and Serve the Well-Being of All that Is.This retreat takes place in most sacred and beautiful sites in both the Bolivian Andes and Jungle, as well as a Pilgrimage on the Island of the Sun in lake TiticacaAyahuasca, Wachuma, Andean, Amazonian and North American Shamanism, Meditation and More.Sacred and Wondrous Medicine for those Wishing to Receive. Honoring the Divine Presence, Harmonizing with the Divine Purpose.Train to Serve with Compassion, Love, Devotion and Surrender.For Real, Sacred, Caring, Safe Ayahuasca and San Pedro ShamanicHealing Ceremonies, Sacred Wachuma Pilgrimage, Wachuma Long-Dance, Meditation, Sacred Chanting, Sweat Lodges, and much more in GorgeousAndes and Amazon Retreat Centers. This is a great chance to people who would like to work the spiritual path, for those who are looking for a deep change in their lifes, find theirselves with the medicine of our ancestors. This is also for all who are going through crisis, sorrows or adiction problems, sickness, etc. This retreat is also for those who are already walking the spiritual path and wish to go deep in the Andean-Amazonic wisdomWe will work doing private and group healings according the needs of the group. We will have the honour of working with the master plants Ayawaska and Achura (San Pedro), and do a special shamanic diet, the same that the YACHAYS (jungle healers) do, there we will eat food from the jungle sugar and salt free and we will drink healing teas every morning, to detox our bodies and have a deep cleaning. We will participate in TOBACCO CIRCLES, to clean the vital energy of our AJAYU “soul” and we will participate in TEMAZKAL (sweat lodge) ceremonies to have a deep conection with the Pachamama’s (mother earth) energy. REQUISITESThe people who want to participate in this magic SHAMANIC RETREAT, should email us to (contact info blocked). your letters stating your brief personal history , reasons for wanting to participate, short, medium and long range goals for your life, and specific mental, physical, emotional or spiritual conditions we should be aware of to serve you better, please send them ASAP to (contact info blocked). The biography should be prepared in a WORD document with a minimum of 4 pages and 6 pages as a maximum. 

Schedule

Early morning meditation.
Imbibing shamanic dietary concoction (depends)
Breakfast
half day hike
lunch
nap

evening meditation
dinner (Or night time ayahuasca ceremony)
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Location icon Sacha Runa Allkamari Shamanic Retreat Center, La Paz, Bolivia

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30 minutes from the City of La Paz, nestled amongst sacred snow-peaks and the Lagoon and Valley of the Souls, a direct line from the Sacred Mt Illimani to Tiwanaku, Island of the Sun and Cuzco, a very strong and powerful Layline, most propitious for, purifying, connecting, liberating and getting inspired.

Accommodation

We have double cabins with private solarium terrace with views of the Andes, also Cuádruple rooms . All adobe dome-shaped exquisitely and uniquely designed and comfortable.

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15 day Healing Retreat (1 person)

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Boutique Eco Resort “Allkamari” is ideal fora retreat.. Its location near the city of La Paz, the exceptional beauty of its landscape, exquisite design of its infrastructure, the tranquility and silence of its surroundings and the powerful energies of the land make any occasion a special one.
Our buildings are finely designed and elaborated using local materials, with the goal of making them comfortable, elegant and fitting for a wonderful visit.
One of the basic concepts behind our structures is energy efficiency and conservation. The buildings made of clay in the La’kauta fashion passively store solar power, which in turn is used to heat our rooms and spaces at night.
The Palca Canyon, "el Valle de Las Ánimas" and the Laguna de Las Ánimas, are considered natural monuments by the department of La Paz and therefore there is an effort to protect their geological formations, flora, and fauna.
Boutique Eco Resort “Allkamari” is an experience you won’t want to miss. The beauty, magic and mysticism of our place will ensure you have a peaceful, comfortable and life transforming stay.

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Customer Reviews

4.94 out of 5.0 average rating

5.0
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Great experience with Miguel
I did the three day ayahuasca retreat with Miguel as the lead. He is a great spiritual guide, kind but very wise. The experience was fantastic and the ceremonies he held were just beautiful. Very thankful for his guidance.

4.0
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A beautiful time for the vast majority
Please read the whole of my review or not at all to ensure a fair understanding. I have detailed the issues I had with Don Miguel around money in high detail, as I believe high ethical standards should be adhered to as a shaman and anything otherwise should be exposed. The amazing time I had and the kindness I received until the sad end remain at the forefront of my mind as they constitute the bulk of my experience.

I was planning to do 3 months, taking ayahuasca twice per week and san pedro only once. From the start I found little benefit of the Ayahuasca and much stomach pain. After 7 attempts with this medicine, I still couldn't say I'd experienced anything with much value. This isn't unheard of - unpredictability of the experience for each person is just part and parcel of consuming Ayahuasca. As weeks went by in the jungle with nothing new to process, it was clearly not for me.

I'd paid him $4,500 at the start - obviously this is a high price in the cheapest country in South America when you're eating a very basic shamanic diet for most of the time, but that's fine because you can find Sacha Runa online, you can see the reviews and know that the ceremonies are of a high standard etc. It's a good option for many reasons, many of which I mention at the end of this review, but one of them is that the online presence enables people to see reviews that ensure a safe experience, so it would be a good experience for vulnerable people, especially with mental health issues who cannot afford further problems.

For this reason, I write this review. Don Miguel briefly tried to use his shamanic authority to manipulate me to stay, implying that I shouldn't trust myself by telling me it was my ego running away. At first, I really questioned myself, but when I did make a clear decision he revealed he just cared about keeping my money...

"We had a gentleman's agreement", he said
Don Miguel gives a 44% discount to buy 3-months worth of medicine. Even the pharmaceutical industries that are happy to suppress these powerful medicines and cause the opioid crisis do no hook you in to such long-term commitments to their medicines. Yes, theirs are more addictive, but with free living costs and the greaer expense of these you don't want to waste the thousands of dollars by leaving, so in the sense you are on the hook.

In the end, after stringing me along with hopes of reaching an agreement just after the next ceremony, then the next, he made me a deal such that I spent $3,000 in 3 weeks. Don Miguel was defensive when I asked him for clarification. I simply didn't understand what he meant, but got the cold "No Negotiations". I only found out when he eventually handed me my partial refund. Later, I messaged a previous agreement we'd had of allowing me a 1-month escape option. After saying "if you wanna continue crying and pouting I'm gonna have to block you", he did ask Retreat Guru to give me $400 more dollars off when he'd actually read my message.

Having spoken about Don Miguel's defensiveness, and prioritisation of business revenue, it's as if he was wearing his 'CEO cap' then and during a ceremony he'll put on his 'Shaman cap'. Like the rest of us, he's only human. Don Miguel is in his element during the ceremonies, staying up late playing the most beautiful music, taking great care of you and ensuring safe and very special cermonies especially on my incredible, healing pilgrimage with San Pedro. The locations of the jungle and the mountains are second-to-none, as are the ceremony rooms more specifically.

I am grateful for all the incredible people I had met, the insight into the shamanic tradition and being in the most biodiverse national park in the entire world. I found more effective psychedelics elsewhere - Don Miguel being the only one at the site never to wish me well on my journey to find them.

It's also very importantant to consider the following when giving your money to this organisation. Ayahuasca is a highly valuable medicine that many people need, yet accessing it is difficult for people outside of South America. And there are not enough shamans around, at least not at the level of any of the shamans or apprentices at Sacha Runa. So if you support Sacha Runa, not only do you enable people to easily access these life-giving opportunities via a trusted website, but he promotes a lineage of great people that can provide these highly valuable and under-accessed medicines long after he is gone. For all of this, we can only applaud the work of Don Miguel.

All the shamans and apprentice shamans are incredible, and are so kind and helpful - I emphasise that I have detailed only the negative side of Don Miguel's character, which is only in relation to money, and he was totally different at other times. I really do hope this place continues to thrive. It benefits humanity massively.

To everyone else who is a part of Sacha Runa, I hope you can understand why I decided to write this. I believe it to be true, yet I write it with sorrow.

A message to all prospective users: make sure you agree with Don Miguel in advance to have an escape route - a partial refund - as he will try to win you round to long commitments without informing you that it doesn't work for everybody.

A message to Don Miguel: please show some more respect to the medicine by not making it into a commodity and end this malpractice of locking vulnerable people into long contracts.

5.0
Incredible retreat
From the moment I arrived at Sacha Runa for the start of a three month retreat and learning program I knew that I had landed in a profoundly special place and community. After a month with the program I am feeling an extraordinary sense of gratitude for this opportunity, for the Sacha Runa Community and for the incredible healing and teaching work offered by Miguel.

Over the last month I have participated in a series of wachuma and ayahuasca ceremonies at both the Alkamari and Rurrenabaque centers. In each of these ceremonies I have been able to work through deep personal blocks, develop insights and clarity into long standing life patterns and receive deep healing.

Both the jungle and Andes retreat centres offer gorgeous environments in which to deep dive into the work and your personal process. In the Andes I would wake each morning to the sunrise over the snow capped mountain peaks and in the jungle have the opportunity each day to swim in the crystal clear rivers, hike tracks around the centre and enjoy the company of the Amazonian wildlife including butterflies , monkeys and armadillos.

If you are looking for an opportunity to participate in beautiful, transformative plant medicine work I thoroughly recommend joining a program or retreat with Sacha Runa.

5.0
Deep powerful healing
Phillipe is a very sensitive guide. I spent 11 days in the Jungle at Wizard´s Mountain Healing Retreat Center where I used the Master Plant and a special diet under his guidance. During the ceremonies he was able to gently and firmly create a space free of distraction, where I felt safe, able to get connected easily with myself and to experience deep inner visions. Each ceremony I was able to dive deeper into my subconscious, observe and allow things which I encountered. Ultimately I began healing my wounds, reconnecting with myself, feeling happy, inspired and loving. Thank you for having me, Phillip, ahoou <3

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Allkamari December 2019
I recognize Miguel Kavlin as a great soul, by the vision he conceived, and by the fruits of his labour.
He understood very early, the key principle of the Universe – the sound. He also understood the sacred geometry, and found such auspicious place as Allkamari is, near La Paz. The first building he established there, was the Peace Sound Chamber, which binds by sacred geometry to all the other sound chambers around the planet. This chamber – Kiva - serves humanity for about 35 years with powerful and wonder-filled ceremonies. Two decades later, Miguel established a sister structure for Kiva, Tibetan stupa, another sound and prayer magnifier. How thoughtful was to add a circular building for yoga, meditation and celebration, a sharp pointy “Cosmic Accupuncture” statue on the view point, surrounded by a cactus garden, and to host the Sun and Moon Dance on the sacred grounds around the Tree of Life. The whole center is tastefully aligned with Pachamama’s elements, and even when staying indoors, the eco cottages make one feel connected to surrounded nature. This creation of Miguel, and his people, is simply delightful and reveals deep heart connection with the Spirit.
Another thread, confirming Miguel’s affinity to sincere cultivation of spiritual values, is his inclination to outstanding teachings and teachers. He has the capacity to recognize a true essence, depth, and purity of teachings. This gift served him well, also in recognition of young shamans, who are now excellently working with people when he is not around.
Let Divine Grace continually bless your service to this world, Miguel, and allow many more to benefit from your gifts.
With gratitude and respect,
Jana Ziman/Guru Bhai Kaur