10 commitments for post-diets, retreats and spiritual workshops
You’ve just returned from a shamanic and spiritual Ayahuasca Retreat from Peru, where you’ve survived defeating your demons after the noble honor of a Master Plant Diet. Congratulations on your success! But… it is not over. The...
Ayahuasca now banned in the Nederlands
A recent judgment of the Amsterdam court has been issued against members of the Santo Daime church, making Ayahuasca illegal in the Netherlands. Since now this country was known to have a very liberal approach towards...
Ayahuasca: the Magic Potion
Second millennium. Modern medicine is everywhere. Its technologies and remedies have spread all over the world to all human societies. All? No. Some Amazonian tribes still resist using medicinal plants and using a magic potion,...
Project of Medicinal garden in the Shipibo community of Dinamarca
When one thinks of the Amazonian pharmacopoeia, we imagine a native sinking deep into the forest for a few hours to fetch the medicinal plant in order to heal his family. This is far from the case and it is rarely so. When we...
Two Weeks Immersion Retreats in Peru – Spirit of the Amazon
Ayahuasca-retreats.info invites you to participate in a retreat of Ayahuasca in the shipibo community of Dinamarca, near the city of Pucallpa in Peru. These stays in immersion of a minimum of twelve days to one month take...
Ivan Popov: from neurosurgery to shamanism
I have had the pleasure of knowing Ivan for a few years now. I could see his arrival in the world of ayahuasqueros, his great thirst for knowledge and his rapid progress in the practice of this ancestral medicine. Of course there...
Preparing for Travel
You will find here a collection of tips and tricks, the result of the experience of many tourists who have sometimes suffered some inconvenience during their stay in Peru. We hope this will help you to plan your journey...
What is the Diet ?
The Diet is not a simple diet as it is conceived in the West. Healers prescribe it mainly to people with physical and / or mental health problems. It is considered the main stage of a care process and consists of a set of dietary...
Master Plants
Traditional Amazonian medicine revolves around the use of “master plants”. The term master plants refers to a specific group of age-old plants used both for their medicinal properties as well as for their...
Ayahuasca Ceremony
The drink of Ayahuasca is consumed traditionally as part of a ceremony. The various indigenous communities of Amazonia drink it during a collective ritual. It is a way for these communities to unite and purify as a group with the...