Anam Cara Healing Retreats

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Anam Cara Healing Retreats

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Intimate, small-group plant medicine retreats grounded in ancestral Ayahuasca medicine of the incredible Shipibo Lineage with comprehensive integration support, served in the heart of Sacred Valley, Perú.

31/12/2025

Reflecting on such a wild and beautiful year, we feel deeply blessed to walk this path of devotion—and to have so many inspired people join us along the way.

The greatest gifts of this year, by far, have been the sacred moments of connection, healing, and collective prayer that we have been honored to co-create with all of you.

As we continue to integrate and deepen ourselves, we pray that Anam Cara continues to be all that it is—and even more and we send our blessings to each of you for another year of courage, trust, and service to love.

May the coming year be one of radical self-love, grace and growth. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

The stories of transformation, deepening, alignment, joy, and courage fill our hearts and give us the strength to continue walking this path—for ourselves, for Anam Cara, and for all our relations.

Ahomitak oyasin.

30/12/2025

Non-Beginner Depth Retreat in the Sacred Valley, Peru | Jan 30 – Feb 6

This is a pilgrimage in Peru we have been wanting to offer for many years.

It will be a truly special journey, with a strong emphasis on sacred pilgrimage to the high mountain lakes of two revered Apus—Apu Pitusiray and Apu Ausangate—where we will make despacho ceremonies and connect directly with the living spiritual energies of these mountains.

We will begin the week-long retreat with a Huachuma ceremony, followed by two Ayahuasca ceremonies led by Maestros and teachers Americo Lopez Sanchez and his son Gabriel. Throughout the week, there will be intimate workshops with the Maestros, sharing teachings on Shipibo cosmovision, ancestral myth stories, and medicine wisdom.

If you are a healer, coach, or facilitator of any kind, this retreat offers a powerful opportunity to deepen your understanding of shamanic medicine work and to cultivate a direct relationship with the mountain spirits.

This is an invitation to deepen your practice and to forge spirit-kinship relationships that will continue to support your work long after the pilgrimage is complete.

18/12/2025

We are so excited to be announcing our upcoming Jan 30 – Feb 6 sacred pilgrimage to Peru!
A week-long intensive with Andean Huachuma, Shipibo medicine, and sacred pilgrimage into the Peruvian mountains.

This intensive is created for those already walking the medicine path, ready to deepen their healing and learning with indigenous shamanic medicine and the powerful living mountains of the Peruvian Andes.

An invitation to walk in prayer through the Sacred Valley of Peru and to enter into relationship with the Apus — the living mountain deities of the Andes.

After a day of Huachuma ceremony, we will integrate the Huachuma medicine with a hike to the breathtaking sacred lakes above Apu Pitusiray to make a traditional Andean Despacho ceremony.

From there, we enter two deep Shipibo Ayahuasca ceremonies, held by Americo Lopez Sanchez and his son Gabriel, world-renowned ayahuasceros and traditional wisdom teachers.

You will have the opportunity to learn directly from the maestros in translated workshops and practices around prayer, plant relationship, energy medicine, and deepening beyond beginner work.

This retreat is for those who:
• Have sat with Ayahuasca before
• Are ready for deeper work
• Want to learn with the lineage, not just receive
• Are committed to an integrated practice
• Feel called to a devotional, apprentice-style relationship with plants and spirit
• Desire authentic connection with others walking an embodied medicine path
• Want to learn the potent medicine of land offerings and kinship with earth spirits

We will close the retreat with an optional pilgrimage to Ausangate — a sacred journey to the most revered mountain of the Andes. This includes sacred hot springs, Despacho, prayer, and ritual offerings with the Apus and traditional Quechua healers. A powerful initiation and closing for those wishing to anchor their learnings in reciprocity, devotion, and right relationship.

This is one of the most heartful, rich, and meaningful medicine offerings we have ever created. A true pilgrimage, a living prayer. See you there!

03/12/2025

I recently completed my first Vision Quest with an incredible Red Road circle in Guadalajara, Mexico. During the 4 day dry-fast in nature, what came through for me was a deeply felt experience of self-forgiveness.

After moving through and releasing huge amounts of anger and hurt, there was a softening back to compassion and forgiveness.

I found myself apologizing to myself, forgiving myself for the ways I’ve failed to love and care for myself… for all the ways I had abandoned myself, and allowed others to cross my boundaries.

Self-forgiveness is such a vital step in moving out of victimhood and creating meaningful change. Compassion is what allows us to arrive—truly and deeply—at acceptance, and from that place, transformation becomes possible.

Real forgiveness says, “I’m sorry—and I’m going to change so that I don’t keep hurting you.” So naturally, then, comes the follow-through: keeping the medicine of compassion and self-love alive in the day-to-day.

For me, I recognize that I must slow down so I can really feel myself, rather than operating from unconscious patterns of over-functioning, addiction, and dissociation.

Through a nervous system lens this means slowing down from a sypathetic state into a ventral-vagal state - the only state from which we can actually truly connect with self and other.

Without slowing down to truly feel ourselves, self-compassion, self-love, and self-accountability remain concepts rather than embodied experiences that can sustain us and weave transformation into our lives.

In a world hyper-focused on status and success, we have to remember to stop and be present with ourselves—to be intimate with our own hearts. Otherwise, we risk abandoning ourselves again and becoming the collateral damage of our own unconscious patterns.

So tell me, what do you need to do to love and care for yourself more?

01/12/2025

We are not a retreat center. We are a family.
The work that happens here is held by relationships, not roles.
By lineage, not logistics.
By the kind of love that grows from years of sitting in ceremony together, raising each other, and tending the fires of each other’s prayers year after year.

We don’t just share meals, we share grief. We share initiation, shame, joy, birth, death, fear.

This is a lineage of care.
Shaped by the Shipibo maestros who are abuelos to us. Shaped by the songs of their children, their humor, their devotion.

This is the medicine of family, not a facility.
Real humans showing up for one another across languages, cultures, and lifetime.

This is the meaning of Anam Cara.
The safety and love of human beings that come along in life’s hardships to guide you back to your soul and your truth. Soul family.

In the presence of the Anam Cara, you come home to yourself.

We are blessed to be overflowing from a beautiful month of service. Gracias a la medicina 🌿

11/11/2025

Initiation isn’t just a ‘ceremony’ or performance ritual.
It’s the very necessary process of dying to what is false, what is expired, so what is more true, more evolved can emerge.

Every culture once held rites of passage — ceremonies that marked endings, transitions, and rebirths.
We’ve lost these practices in our modern world, and with it, the wisdom of death, as well.
So now, initiation finds us in other ways — heartbreak, loss, disaster, illness. We fight the call, until the call finds us.

It takes a courageous soul to be willing to embrace death first, to go into the cave, to let go, before being forced. To be initiated is to be willing die — to the image, the mask, the old, the control we cling to, the parts of ourselves that were never meant to last.
It’s disorienting and raw, but it’s how real growth is born.

Without initiation, we stay children in adult bodies — seeking comfort, avoiding consequence, mistaking disembodied information for wisdom. Initiation gives us spine and shapes our soul. It humbles us. It teaches responsibility. It asks for surrender before it gives us strength and freedom.

This is why the medicine path is not easy work. Every ceremony, every dark night, each unfolding alignment… is another small death — another invitation to become more honest, more human, more whole, more real.

The medicine is an incredible teacher and tool to help us practice the art of dying more gracefully, so we can be reborn again and again… and so that when our final time comes, we let go with grace and trust.

What are you still clinging onto that is ready to be laid to rest?

29/10/2025

When you show up to the medicine with an intention that’s truly honest and rooted in truth, the medicine senses the sincerity in your heart and responds to it. But that requires deep introspection—looking under the hood and taking stock.

Where are unconscious behaviors driving me?
Where are addictions ruining my life?
What are the deepest, darkest secrets I keep hidden in the shadows?

Bringing these to the medicine and humbly saying, “I want to change this. I want to shift this. I don’t yet know how, so please help me,” is powerful.

When we approach the medicine this way, we make it sacred. Because working with ayahuasca is not just some random psychedelic trip—it’s an opportunity to interface, to have a conversation, with an intelligence so vast and expansive that it reaches far beyond the limits of the human mind.

25/10/2025

🥀 Are you tired of using your precious life force to hide so much of yourself away? Isn’t this facade getting old?

Aren’t you tired of pretending the darkness isn’t not only within you, but deeply apart of you?

the addict,
the victim,
the control freak,
the hot mess,
the martyr,
the insecure one,
the dark sexual desire,
the needy one,
the jealous one,
the avoidant one,
the manipulative one,
the one you swore you’d never be.

We spend so much precious energy trying to contain our dark forces in an “attempt” to not hurt others, but hiding and exiling doesn’t work. It further fragments our sense of self, aggravating the very fear-driven behaviors we’re trying to evolve out of.

How fu***ng exhausting.

When we run from death, we refuse to descend into the shadow
when we won’t turn toward the shameful, uncomfortable, or ‘unworthy’ parts
they rule us.

But when we bring them into the light, surrendering the grip of the ego, something sacred happens. When we relate with them as holy and human, we expand and become more whole. And in doing so, we give others permission to do the same.

Ay@huasca is an incredible teacher of duality. A tool that brings both the bright light of masculine awareness and the glorious motherly unconditional love straight to the cracks and corners we’ve been denying ourselves. She asks us to meet these parts, nourish them with love, and reintegrate them into our being so we can live from wholeness and truth.

It is not enough to talk or psychoanalyze our shadows, we must descend into them, we must learn to love them, and we must create space to be with them, master them, relate with them consciously. Only there, will we free ourselves from the shackles of limiting behaviors and find freedom.

The Holy Work of the Underworld · Pt. II Learning to dance with death, a truly sacred practice.

23/10/2025

It’s safe to say there are way too many labels being thrown around these days — way too much pop psychology that’s confusing people and wrecking our heads.

When people ask me about ayahuasca and what it’s really about, my answer is often much simpler.

Ayahuasca is a tool that helps us cleanse and clear the body of accumulated energy — so we can find spaciousness in our being, come home to the wisdom that lives in our heart, and remember that God exists both within and without.

It’s really a simple process of honoring the fact that we are energetic beings. Every so often, we need to tend to that energy — to create space, so that openness can carry through into our lives.

21/10/2025

Every month, I speak to dozens of people who feel the call of the medicine. And almost every time, I can feel it. The subtle attempt to reach for the light, for a new life, without having to truly walk through the dark.

To heal without really having to lose anything.
To transform without having to die.

“But what if it’s terrifying? How can I ensure a good ceremony?”

That’s not how it works. The medicine doesn’t save us from death, she walks us straight into it. And if we’re lucky, and humble, and honest, that very death (we’re so scared to face) is the very thing that saves us, and will be full of grace.

We can’t create something new, without making space for it. And that space, is created by the sloughing off, the decay, the death of what no longer can continue. So why are so many of us holding on to so much dead weight?

The identities that kept us safe as children, that now create separateness and pain.

The illusions and stories that we created to make sense of the bad things… that now just keep a small and stuck in the past.

The old strategies, the beloved and once successful tools we’ve collected, that have helped us to survive… but now keep us from living beyond just survival.

This medicine contains an unconditional love, a divine light, a benevolence words cannot describe.

But with it she brings death - and it’s not always poetic. It’s disorienting, humbling, and in moments terrifying. Bringing us to the very edge of surrender, so we can meet our inner worlds of control, distrust, and fear.

How can we evolve, without meeting these parts of ourselves?

How can we take a new shape, without giving breath and embodiment to these parts within?

We can’t. We can’t psychologize or therapize or positive affirmation ourselves away from what exists inside.

It must be revealed, given voice, given shape, we must meet it.

And from that courageous act, of willingly working with death, expansive new timelines are born for us ⚡️

Ay@huasca will divinely change your life, and you can guarantee - it will cost you your old one.

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