Profound Healing in an Ancestral Tradition
Ayahuasca Retreats at the Ayahuasca Foundation
The Ayahuasca Foundation is a one of a kind ayahuasca retreat center located inside a pristine natural reserve deep in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru. Founded in 2009, the Ayahuasca Foundation offers healing ayahuasca retreats and training courses led by an incredible family of authentic Shipibo healers.
Our retreat programs provide comprehensive holistic plant medicine treatments, enhanced by complementary practices, offering much more than a typical ayahuasca retreat. We teach elements of the Shipibo healing tradition on every program to enhance the healing potential of the retreat experience.
Superbly talented.
It was memorable and very fine.
If you want rock-solid ceremonies,
The Ayahuasca Foundation delivers.
Discover Healing and Harmony: Ayahuasca Retreats Guided by Authentic Shipibo Curanderos
An ayahuasca retreat at The Ayahuasca Foundation offers participants the opportunity to discover and address the root causes of their afflictions. Guided by Shipibo plant doctors, participants receive treatments that help to remove the obstacles preventing the realization of their health and harmony. Cleansed of the detrimental obstacles on the levels of the mind, body, and emotions, retreat participants can achieve the highest states of health and well being.
Shipibo Family Lineage of the Noya Rao Tradition
The Ayahuasca Foundation works in a very unique familial lineage. The Lopez family practices a multi-generational healing tradition rooted in the deep connection and relationship to a remarkable tree called Noya Rao, also known as the tree of Light.
Plant Medicine Treatments and Complimentary Practices
Beyond the power of the ayahuasca ceremonies, ayahuasca retreats include comprehensive treatments with a variety of effective plant medicines specific to healing on every level of our being. Complimentary practices further enhance these treatments.
Ayahuasca Preparation and Integration Guidance
Our dedication to creating long lasting healing benefits goes beyond the time participants spend at our retreat center. We provide preparation recommendations and methods to integrate important changes and improvements into their lives to realize true transformations.
We Offer Four Ayahuasca Retreats:
10 DAY RENEWAL AYAHUASCA RETREAT – $3450
10 DAY WOMEN’S AYAHUASCA RETREAT – $3450
18 DAY AYAHUASCA RETREAT AND DIETA – $4650
18 DAY THERAPIST RETREAT AND DIETA – $4650
Traditional
Ayahuasca Training Programs
and Plant Dietas
Responding to the Call
Ayahuasca Courses led by a true Shipibo Maestro
Ayahuasca courses at The Ayahuasca Foundation were designed for people who have felt the call to liberate their inner healer or to learn the ayahuasca tradition in the Amazon rainforest. Ranging from four to eight weeks, these courses provide the space to cultivate deeper relationships with plants, nature, and our true selves.
The opportunity to learn directly from the teacher plants in their native setting of the Shipibo tradition is a real honor for students from all over the world. Navigating the world of plant spirit medicine can be very challenging, but receiving guidance from a Shipibo maestro and his apprentices can accelerate and deepen the plant dieta process on the journey to becoming a healer.
Plant Dietas: the Roots of the Ayahuasca Tradition
The Shipibo family’s profound healing tradition offered at the Ayahuasca Foundation centers around a connection to five powerful plants: Noya Rao, Bobinsana, Marusa, Chiric Sanango, and Chullachaqui. These amazing plant spirits are sacred maestros and maestras.
A Stuctured Teaching of Ancestral Wisdom
The course has been offered over fifty times and continues to grow and develop innovative methods to teach the foundations of the Shipibo healing tradition. The true teachers of the course are the plants themselves, guided by the maestro and facilitators.
Spreading the Energy of Noya Rao Across the Globe
Nearly one thousand students have participated in Ayahuasca Foundation courses and there are now communities in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia built by our students to spread the healing energies of the Shipibo tradition and Noya Rao.
We Offer Two Ayahuasca Courses:
4 WEEK HEALING EMPOWERMENT COURSE – $5850
8 WEEK AYAHUASCA INITIATION COURSE – $6850
Through this immersive experience,
I gained invaluable spiritual insights
and emerged with a profound sense
of appreciation, gratitude,
and connectedness.
Our Team of Shipibo Healers: The Lopez Family of Curanderos
Since the Ayahuasca Foundation was formed in 2009, we have only worked with one family of healers. The Lopez family is part of a unique and special lineage of plant medicine doctors and ayahuasca healers from the Roaboya community near Pucallpa, Peru. They have contributed significantly to the design of our programs and due to many years of collaboration we have achieved a tremendous depth of treatments and curriculums in our ayahuasca retreats and training courses. The respect and love we share with this family and our strong bonds of friendship are expressed in the warmhearted care they provide for all of our program participants.
Don Enrique
Don Enrique leads the eight week initiation courses for the Ayahuasca Foundation. With over 30 years of experience, don Enrique continues to study, diet, and deepen his knowledge and relationships with the plants and plant spirits. His passion for teaching and his deep knowledge and connection to the plants is truly incredible, and it is an honor to know him and work with him.
Doña Angela
Doña Angela is the sister of both don Enrique and don Rono. She leads our healing retreats, including the veterans retreats in collaboration with Heroic Hearts. She has done extensive plant dietas and has a soft and motherly energy in ceremony and in life. She is humble and approachable with a warmth and gentle nature that puts retreat participants and staff at ease in her presence.
Don Ronor
Don Ronor is don Enrique’s youngest brother and trained with him for over a decade before leading ceremonies on his own. He currently leads the longer retreats and Empowerment Courses at the Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Center. His gentle, playful spirit allows program participants to feel comfortable in his presence, creating an optimal environment for healing and connection.
Clean, Safe, and Powerful Ayahuasca
Our ayahuasca is always prepared by the Shipibo family of curanderos. They only use two ingredients: ayahuasca vine (banisteriopsis caapi) and chacruna leaves (psychotria viridis). Other than chacruna, we do not use any admixture plants. Our ayahuasca is made at the homes of the curanderos, or at our school for plant medicine, surrounded by the rainforest and gardens of medicinal plants. We do not buy brewed ayahuasca. Our ayahuasca is filled with healing energy and served in an environment of compassion and love.
Such a wonder filled experience. Mentally, emotionally, and spiritually rewarding! I can’t speak highly enough. You really can’t put words to this.
Demonstrating the Healing Potential
Ayahuasca Research:
The Effects of Attending an Ayahuasca Retreat
The Ayahuasca research currently underway at the Ayahuasca Foundation focuses on the healing potential of the ayahuasca plant medicine tradition in the treatment of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and childhood trauma.
Complimentary studies are also running concurrent with the main research investigating potential epigenetic changes resulting from treatment during an ayahuasca retreat. Another study is also being conducted in collaboration with Heroic Hearts Project specifically for military veterans to measure the health benefits of attending an ayahuasca retreat for the treatment of PTSD.
Reduces Depression
Research demonstrates that attending an ayahuasca retreat greatly reduces levels of depression. It is especially interesting to note that levels of depression continued to reduce in the months after the retreat, without any further treatment, suggesting a lasting improvement.
Reduces Anxiety
Studies also show that attending an ayahuasca retreat greatly reduces levels of anxiety. As with the reduction of depression levels, anxiety continued to reduce in the months after the retreat, without any further treatment, suggesting a lasting improvement.
Reduces Global Distress
Defined as the overall distress someone feels due to any mental health challenge, problem, or disorder. Research found that attending an ayahuasca retreat lowered levels of global distress and that the levels did not return, even six months after the retreat.
Friends, Partners, & Collaborators
The Ayahuasca Foundation has formed important relationships to make our programs available at the highest level of quality and care. Our research center has been funded since its inception by the trust and generosity of the Grant Town Foundation, a charity organization in the United States. We’ve worked with MAPS as our fiscal sponsor for over a decade, and with Onaya Science since the ayahuasca research began in 2016. We became a founding member of the Psychedelic Medicine Association when it was created, and teamed up with Heroic Hearts Project to offer healing retreats to military veterans since 2023. Our new Therapists Healing Retreat is in collaboration with ATMA, the leading psychedelic assisted therapy training provider. We also collaborate with One Million Acres to support the preservation of the rainforest and indigenous cultures. It is through these friendships and collaborations that we are able to accomplish the wonderful work we do at the Ayahuasca Foundation.
Activate Your Healing Potential
Explore the Ultimate Ayahuasca Experience
Experience the profound power of an authentic Ayahuasca retreat at our renowned center, where healing and self-discovery are our top priorities. Our retreat offers a safe, supportive environment meticulously designed to facilitate deep transformation. With a proven and effective operational model, we ensure the highest potential for healing through Ayahuasca ceremonies and potent plant remedies.
Unlike typical Ayahuasca retreats, our program delves deeply into the Shipibo plant medicine tradition of Peru. This journey is an activation of the inner strength and beauty within you, guiding you to remove obstacles and illuminate your true self. Join us for a transformative Ayahuasca retreat that transcends the ordinary.
I can tell you that this is by far one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life, but I can also tell you that it is by far one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life!