6 Day Ayahuasca Retreat with Peruvian Shipibo Healers in Cusco, Peru

This Soltara retreat is held at an off-grid haven immersed within a National Park in the heart of the Amazon River Basin in Peru, where we work with traditional Peruvian Shipibo healers and sacred plant medicine, as well as other traditional and modern healing modalities, to help you along this path of self-discovery. Our decades of combined experience holding ceremony and doing medicine work allow you to experience in-depth healing in a safe and loving environment.

We are called to serve medicine in sacred ceremony with integrity, humility, and compassion. By creating a safe space and working only with experienced, well-intentioned healers and facilitators, we uphold the lessons of the medicines and build a foundation of mutual trust, authenticity, and respect. We are not gurus, preachers, or enlightened beings – our healers are maestros who humbly transmit the knowledge and healing energies of the plants, and our facilitators are devoted to helping guests face, process, and explore difficult experiences and emotions, handle projections, manage expectations, and surrender to the process. We strive to uphold the highest integrity in everything we do and be a beacon for responsible, safe, and ethical practices, such that our guests feel safe and supported to get the most out of their healing.

8.00 am - Morning yoga

9.00 am - Breakfast

10.00 am - Consultations with healers

1.00 pm - Lunch

2.00 - Free time - beach, hammocks, walking trails, onsite pool

6.30 pm - Pre-ceremony yoga

7.30 pm - Ceremony

Our retreat spaces provide safe & supportive containers to dive deeply into your healing.

Under the guidance of indigenous Peruvian Shipibo healers, we combine plant medicine ceremonies, supportive embodiment practices, and a unique integration program to empower each guest in their healing over the long term. Our decades of combined experience holding Ayahuasca ceremonies and doing medicine work allow you to experience in-depth healing in a safe and loving environment.

Supporting guests from intake to integration

At Soltara, we hold a high standard for every aspect of the healing process. We believe all those who feel called to work with the medicine at an ayahuasca retreat, regardless of where they choose to partake, should understand the current knowledge, traditions, and recommendations, both spiritual and medical, in preparing for such an experience.

Ultimately, the goal of your ayahuasca retreat preparation & integration (post-retreat) work is to help you potentiate your experience with the medicine. You’ve invested your time, energy, resources, and commitment to your healing, and we encourage you to see your efforts as an investment in yourself and in devotion to the plants & the Shipibo tradition that stewards this work. Our holistic before and after-care offerings are here to help you realize and connect to the answers and agency you already have within you.

Our before and aftercare support extends beyond your ayahuasca retreat, and includes:

• A thorough intake process, in collaboration with therapists and medical advisors, to ensure a retreat with us is safe and supportive
• Extensive & holistic preparation support guidebook, created by Soltara plant medicine therapist Sharon Slate
• An ayahuasca diet guidebook, to support you in preparing your body for your ayahuasca retreat
• Access to our community platform The Maloca, with extensive resources, regular virtual events, preparation and integration circles, your own retreat cohort group, a network of practitioners, educators, and organizations, and a community of like-minded individuals to connect and receive support, ask questions, and share wisdom
• Discounted sessions with a preparation support therapist
• Access to our Entwined program, a 12-module program with resources and support for the loved ones and family members of those stepping into plant medicine ceremony
• An integration journal, published by Soltara in collaboration with clinical psychologists. This book follows a psychological treatment framework adapted to the ayahuasca experience and includes beautiful art and self-guided tools to empower you in your journey
• 3 months of weekly emails that support the integration process
• An individual integration call with one of our therapists with extensive plant medicine experience
• Lifetime free monthly group integration calls with one of our plant medicine therapists

We believe healing even takes place in the kitchen. We take on the mantra by the Greek physician, Hippocrates: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” We honor the role of food in our lives and expand it beyond its primary purpose of bodily nourishment – food can be an avenue to dig deeper into ourselves, consciously looking at our patterns and mindsets surrounding not just what we eat, but how and why we eat what we do. Our eating habits don’t just affect our mental health, they also reflect it. At Soltara, we aim to help you jumpstart this process of connection through conscious cooking on all levels. Diet is an important part of the healing process, both on its own and also to help prepare the mind and body for plant medicine work. We work closely with our shamans to prepare wholesome, delicious meals that adhere to the traditional dietary guidelines of working with ayahuasca.

All of our meals are freshly prepared in-house by our loving kitchen staff. From fresh smoothies and juices every morning, to plant-based meals emphasizing local, organic, and sustainable produce, to lean proteins such a chicken and fish, we celebrate the rich local flavor of Costa Rican cuisine, and offer a chance to experience a connection to the land and culture while nourishing the body, mind, and spirit.