Seven nights in the Sacred Valley. Four ceremonies held by maestros we name, a physician awake through every one of them, and a year of integration with the same person who read your file before a place was offered.
A structured seven-night stay built around four night-long ceremonies in which a brewed Amazonian plant medicine is taken under the direction of trained healers. Here that means Shipibo maestros in the Sacred Valley, where ayahuasca is legal and has been protected as national cultural heritage since 2008.
The days between are not filler. Rest, plant baths, one meal, bodywork, and daily contact with the integration lead who stays on your calls for a year. Most of what guests describe as the change happens in that year, at home — not in the ceremony room.
Three different things, never stacked on the same day. Ayahuasca is why people come. Kambo and Bufo are offered to a smaller number of guests, each with its own screening — and clearance for one is never clearance for another.
Clearance is per medicine, not per booking. Each is assessed on its own contraindications after the physician reads your file. Nothing is ever combined on the same day.
Maestros are named, credited and paid, and photographed only with permission. We do not reproduce kené — Shipibo textile patterns — as decoration anywhere on this site.
We would rather lose the booking than hold a ceremony we cannot hold safely. Declined applicants are never charged, always get the reason in writing, and receive a referral list. Book flights after confirmation — not before.
Every medication and supplement with dose and duration, diagnoses, cardiac and neurological history, previous experience. Omissions are the one thing that makes this unsafe.
SSRIs, SNRIs, MAOIs, lithium, tramadol, triptans, stimulants and beta blockers are assessed individually. Tapers are planned with your own prescriber, on your timeline — never rushed to fit a date.
Forty-five minutes with the integration lead who stays with you for a year. Only after that is a place offered and a deposit taken.
Diagnosed schizophrenia or bipolar I, uncontrolled hypertension, a cardiac event within twelve months, epilepsy, pregnancy, severe liver disease. If your history is borderline the physician will say so rather than guess.
Direct to Lima from Miami, Houston, Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles, then ninety minutes on to Cusco. We collect you at arrivals; the drive to the valley is ninety minutes.
US passport holders need no visa for stays under 183 days. Passport valid six months beyond travel. We issue a letter of stay on request.
Cusco sits at 11,150 feet, the valley closer to 9,400 — the difference between arriving unwell and arriving able to sleep. Come a day early anyway.
Nine days: one to arrive, seven with us, one to fly home. Leave the forty-eight hours after landing empty. Do not book a Monday meeting.
Ayahuasca is legal in Peru and protected as national cultural heritage. It is not legal to carry into the United States, and we will never help you try.
Two weeks: no alcohol, no fermented foods, minimal salt and sugar. We send a US grocery list and a day-by-day plan three weeks out.
Not included: flights ($700–$1,300 from most US hubs), travel insurance, and nights in Cusco either side. Payment plans across three or six months. Full refund up to 45 days out; medical withdrawals refunded in full at any point.
Twelve guests, four ceremonies, optional Kambo. Four places open; applications close 22 August so no taper is rushed.
The same week, the same maestros. Seven places, two of them held for guests whose taper timeline needs the extra month.
Returning guests only. Six guests, five ceremonies, extended dieta, Bufo where both leads agree.
Yes. Ayahuasca is legal in Peru and was declared part of the nation’s cultural heritage in 2008. It is not legal to bring into the United States, which is why the work happens here and stays here.
$5,800 for seven nights, all-inclusive: four ceremonies, single-occupancy accommodation, the dieta kitchen, transfers from Cusco, an optional Kambo session, and twelve months of integration calls. Flights and travel insurance are not included.
SSRIs, SNRIs, MAOIs and lithium are reviewed individually. Some require a supervised taper planned with your own prescriber; some are a full stop. We tell you which before you book flights, and we never rush a taper to fit a retreat date.
Ayahuasca is a brewed plant medicine taken at night, four times across the week. Kambo is a frog secretion applied to the skin in a short daytime session. Bufo is a brief one-to-one with synthetic 5-MeO-DMT. Each has its own screening and none is combined on the same day.
Fly to Lima — direct from Miami, Houston, Atlanta, New York or Los Angeles — then connect to Cusco. We collect you at arrivals and drive ninety minutes to the valley. Arrive a day early; altitude matters.
You get the reason in writing, no charge, and a referral list of practitioners who work with the conditions we cannot hold. Roughly one in five applications does not proceed.
At any point, without argument. You keep the room, the food and every integration call. Nobody is talked into a ceremony here.
No. We make no medical claims and ayahuasca is not a treatment for any condition. Participants report lasting change; the peer-reviewed literature and its limitations are cited in full on our safety page.
A physician reads your application within 48 hours. Then an integration lead calls you, and we either offer a place or tell you plainly why we cannot. Nothing is charged in between, and there is no follow-up you did not ask for.