Shaman Peru Ayahuasca

One of our most basic goals is to We are each a collection of multipledemonstrate and measure the importance systems and living organisms constantly striving to achieve and maintain balance of consciousness within any healing and harmony, and we are also part of a process, as well as to better understand much larger system that works together how traditional elements surrounding with other systems and living organisms to particular medical treatments create a achieve balance and harmony on regional, consciousness enhancing environment global, galactic, and universal scales. Every that optimizes the healing potential of atom is connected. medicine.The Ayahuasca Foundation is currently building a new research facility,the RIOSBO Ayahuasca Research Center, which will open its doors inJuly, 2016. Having hosted nearly 100 healing retreats, courses, andseminars, and observed the treatment of nearly 1,000 programparticipants, the staff at the Ayahuasca Foundation has developed anexperienced and educated perspective on various aspects of thehealing process unique to the indigenous medical traditions of theAmazon Rainforest.

The Ayahuasca Foundation’s Healing Ayahuasca Retreats are not only an adventure into the Amazon Rainforest of Peru, but a journey into another dimension. The power of the plants help to reconnect each person to the whole, to the earth, to nature, to themselves, to god. By venturing deep into the jungle and feeling the tranquility and peace of this vast paradise, one’svibrations begin to harmonize with the flow of nature, slowing the mind downto a level of subtle observation. The rainforest is old and wise, beyond humancomprehension, and it contains the answers to questions that humans cannot ascertain by themselves.

Over 90 different indigenous tribes in the Amazon Rainforest have developed healing traditionsbased on the use of ayahuasca. This number becomes even more impressive when oneconsiders the fact that many of these tribes live thousands of miles apart and would appear tohave never had contact with each other. Within the philosophy of each tribe, one point remainsconsistent, which is that they originally learned about ayahuasca and the science of plantmedicine from the plants themselves.Harmala alkaloids have the unique effect of temporarily reducing levels of monoamine oxidasein the body. Monoamine oxidase is an enzyme that normally breaks down tryptamine alkaloids,among others. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) thus make tryptamines orally active. What is Ayahuasca? The word “Ayahuasca” refers to a medicinal brew with the main ingredient being the ayahuasca vine (banisteriopsis caapi). The vine is cooked, usually in combination with at least one other admixture plant, to produce a brown liquid that is consumed in healing ceremonies led by Amazon healers, called ayahuasqueros (curanderos). The effects of the brew vary greatly depending on which admixture plants are used in its preparation, how the curandero runs the healing ceremony, and a number of more complex aspects that are a bit of a mystery.

Across time and across culture, we find that the ritual pattern of “containment, transformation, and emergence” provide a process of renewal and rebirth for women throughout the life cycle. This two week women’s ayahuasca retreat offers you anopportunity to enter the sacred space of the divine feminine, where you will engage in powerful healing experiences throughout your journey of exploration and self- discovery.We begin our healing journey with a variety plant medicines that support cleansing and deep healing of mind, body, and spirit.

The Ayahuasca Curandero Initiation Course is intended forpeople who want to take their study of the Amazon healingarts more seriously. Students will spend 40 days in the junglewith the Shipibo curandero don Enrique and our team ofhealers at the Ayahuasca Foundation’s remote CuranderoSchool, drinking ayahuasca in ceremony 18 times or more. Atthe root of the course, students follow true plant diets withone or two sacred and powerful plants. A major focus of thecourse is the use of icaros, sung during healings and inceremonies.Therefore, the Shipibo language is also a focus, as the icaros are sung in Shipibo. This course isheld at our Curandero School, located in a different part of the rainforest, and which requiresa bus ride and a 45 minute hike into the jungle.Students follow an intense but abbreviated version of a traditional, authentic shipiboinitiation. The accommodations at the jungle curandero school have modern amenities likerunning water, a gas stove, and limited electricity. There is also limited phone service at theschool, but no access to internet. The food will be prepared by our experienced staff,adhering to the traditional diet food eaten during an authentic initiation. Students receiveinitiate’s clothing made by the shipibo, also according to their tradition.

The Ayahuasca Foundation recognizes that more and more people areresponding to this call, and we have designed an ayahuasca trainingprogram to facilitate their journeys on the healing path.Ayahuasca Initiation courses are an opportunity to experience anauthentic training in the Shipibo tradition of curanderismo, centeredaround the use of ayahuasca in ayahuasca ceremonies. This course is acondensed version of an ancestral initiation, teaching the basicprinciples that form the heart of the ayahuasca tradition in Peru.