Welcome to the program description for the January 2025 Amazon retreat.

This is a spiritual journey that lands the group into the heart of the Peruvian Jungle of Pucallpa for a 12-day experience, aiming the expansion of consciousness, connection to living beings and focus on personal insight, concentration and meditation.

The camp is organized in a traditional Shipibo community about 8 hours of travel via several means from Pucallpa and it is run by experienced local shamans. A typical day in the camp may start with tai chi, except post Ayahuasca mornings, followed by breakfast, morning activities such as swimming, nature connection or group or individual exercises, lunch, rest and afternoon activity – this one is typically a plant sauna, or plant bath, or both.

We can perform short early morning walks in the jungle, if not too tired – the temperature exceeds 32 Celsius and humidity is about 95%. Rain is frequent. Also, we can organize small boat trips. The group will harmonize as it progresses from ceremony to ceremony, so it is important to perform all group activities and all individual tasks as pointed out by the shamans and facilitator, including rest and sleep when required.

This format offers a deep healing at all levels. Each participant will discuss his/her current health condition and motivation with the facilitator and the shamans, so that each individual process can be customized according to each person’s needs.

The group is limited for best interaction and optimum personal space.

During the retrreat, here are the main activities:

The key aid to meditation, connection, breathing and diet will be consissting in 5 ayahuasca ceremonies, organized in the Shipibo traditional way. Should you want to have additional ceremonies, we can organize that for an extra cost of 150 usd per participant per ceremony. The shamans have an extensive experience and have worked with previous groups gathered by the same facilitator. In addition, the group will have the chance to participate in gathering the medicinal plants and prepare the ingredients for the ayahuasca drink. No other components will be used but ayahuasca, harvested locally – an incredible accelerator and cleanser that provides the chemical framework for the second plant, chakruna, rich in DMT (dimethyltryptamine) to do its work.

The ceremonies are supervised, no one leaves the ceremony until the end and only to go to his or her own bedroom after the departure of shamans. Communication in ceremonies is limited to the facilitator and shamans, no side talk and no involvement in others’ process unless required bu the facilitator. It is important to understand that safety comes first and that a well managed ceremony can only result in beneficial outcomes. For a better understanding of what is ayahuasca and its purpose, you can visit https://pisicka.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/mic-indreptar-de-ayahuasca/.

Preparation for the trip is quite important. As Ayahuasca is a powerful cleanser, it is ideal to get through a one-month preliminary cleansing process, consisting in the following>

• avoid any toxins.
• create a menu based on fish, eggs, vegetables, fruit and rice. This oberves the shamanic diet that we will take in the jungle retreat. The requirements are the following: no toxins such as meat, alcohol, coffee, drugs, especially psychoactive ones, no dairy, sugar, salt and pungent or hot foods. Chocolate and black tea or green tea enter this category.
• refrrain yourself from having sex. The sexual energy is capital for higher consciousness experiences therefore a strict abstinence is the best way to accumulate and preserve it. More details, in our first meeting 🙂
• prepare yourself with meditation and prayer. The experience is a deeply spiritual one.
• if you have any questions regarding the diet, please address them via the whatsapp group.

The draft schedule of the retreat is the following, based on a departure around Novber 27. The final date to be set based on the availabily and price of flights in the first month after publishing this article.

Day 1 – departure. Flight to Lima and accommodation in Liima (not included in the base ⁰price).

Day 2 – flight to Pucallpa and accommodation in Pucallpa (also not included). The hotel price is about 30USD per person in a double room. This day might be changed or skipped if we find a late flight connection to Pucallpa, depending on the chosen airlines timetables.

Day 3 – departure to camp. We will take an earky morning a speed boat up the Ucayali tributary of the Amazon. Get ready for a 6-hours trip. Transfer cost is about 30 USD one way .

Arrival in camp and dinner. Setiing the intentions and initial info.

Day 4 – Ayahuasca preparattion and initial practices before the first ceremony. In the ayahuasca days, there is no dinner. Ceremonies are performed on an empty stomach, no food after lunch and no water after 4 pm. The ceremonies start at 8 pm.

Day 5 – free morning. Debriefing and lunch, visioning and drawing. Afternoon activities and dinner.

Day 6 – Breakfast and morning activity. Lunch, break, afternoon session. 2nd ayahuasca ceremony in the evening..

Day 7 – free morning. Debriefing and lunch. Afternoon activity and dinner.

Dy 8 – Breakfast and morning activity. Lunch, break, afternoon session. 3rd ayahuasca ceremony in the evening.

Day 9 – free morning. Debriefing and lunch. Afternoon activities and dinner.

Day 10 – Breakfast and morning activity. Lunch, break, afternoon session. 4th ayahuasca ceremony in the evening.

Day 11 – silent day. No talking, no watching, no physical contact with other participants. The facilitator will be available fo any problem. Meals are also an occasion for mindful eating and inner insight, there will be no communication during group lunch.

Day 12 -Last ceremony.

Day 13 – Arcaneo and preparing our departure to Pucallpa. Transfer and accommodation in Pucallpa – not included in the base cost. You can either take the boat or a local flight. The flight is ascenic 40 minute cruise over the Ucayali, costs about 100 USD and needs to be reserved about a week prior to departure.

Day 14 – flight Pucallpa Lima, day tour in Lima if the flight schedule allows for it and night flight from Lima to Europe. For the ones continuing to Macchu Picchu, connection to Cusco. The Sacred valle y program is an optional loop and it is not included in this program. We have a connection with the best tour operator for Sacred Valley, should you want to continue, pleasae plan for 5 days more before you fly back to Europe. The flight to Cusco is about 250 eur, the package is about 800 including good hotels, airport and Macchu Picchu transfers (bus, train, bus two ways) and guided entrance to Macchu Picchu. For the Sacred Valley day tours it is more effective to orgnanize on our own with a rented bus and no fixed schedule, to allow for reaching the significant energy centers and meditating wherever the group wants to do this. These optional tours are not included in the agency psckage.

The schedule is tentative and might depend on other activities as suggested by the shamans. 10 Plant baths and 5 plant saunas are included in the afternoon treatments, we will also have Shipibo culture orientation sessions and discussions with the shamans about ceremonies and the process of each participant. Also, for the ones requiring additional ceremonies, these can be organized for an additional cost during the evenings when the group is not in ceremony.

Departure date: January 20, to be discussed depending on availability and price of fights.

The base price for the camp is 1800 EUR and includes everything from the arrival in Contamana to departure from the camp: food, lodging, laundry, ceremonies and assistance.

Lima overnight, Pucallpa hotel and flights/ boat transfers are not included. Options for flights will be supplied on the discussion group. We do work with an agency but each participant can make his or her own arrangements. If the participants wish to receive other therapies with different plants from shamans, or remedies, please be advised that those wil incur extra costs.

Base price for the flight starts from 1500 eur, depending on the flight you select. Avoid the low cost airlines such as Air Europa, displaying attractive fees – the timeliness, chairs, the food and overall quality of flight are terrible. Best options are Air France, KLM and LATAM.

Questions and clarifications: andreeai@yahoo.com or on the whatsapp group.

Facilitator: Andreea Ionescu is a clairsentient holistic healer and coach,  coming from Romania. She has been organizing holistic retreats since 2012 in the Amazon as a part of a long haul-year series of courses, workshops and conferences targeted to spiritual workers, people interested in their personal development and business leaders or teams. She combines her skills, techniques and expertise in a number of different processes, from rebirthing to energy healing, from metaphysical psychology and science of mind to linguistic deprogramming, to allow people to enter an expanded awareness of being, closer to their original nature.
Her approach, based on a mix of the best of spiritual traditions and personal development techniques, adapts to the stages each group goes through and allows for initiations in different ways, shifting those modes as the consciousness of the group rises. Group sessions and personal ones are performed to ensure all participants are keeping up with the pace of expansion.

Black belt facilitator and trainer, Reiki master, teacher and healer. Andreea comes with an experience of over 25 years in developing people, out which the last 15 fully dedicated to integrative therapies and coaching. Andreea also holds initiations and currently teaches several spiritual and energetic systems, such as Shinki, Reiki, Seikhim, Huna, Angelic and Archangelic Seikhim – Reiki.

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