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About the Retreat:Experience a Transformation of Your Being
Whether you've tried therapy and other healing modalities and feel like you've reached a ceiling, or feel a desire to connect with yourself in a way in which you never have before.
Grandmother Ayahuasca will guide you on a journey of transformation - allowing you to heal, learn, move forward, discover your potential and look at your inner beauty from a place of compassion.
You will work with the elements of nature, while guided by individuals who have dedicated their lives to be in service, with training rooted in ancestral wisdom traditions, the field of psychology, and direct apprenticeship with indigenous elders.
Over the course of six days, experience:
- A deep cleansing of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
- Resetting your central nervous system.
- Healing wounds and traumas from the past.
- Self-love and forgiveness.
- Reconfiguration of the body's natural cycles and rhythms.
- Awakening your creativity and spontaneity.
- A sense of belonging to Mother Earth, and unity with the whole.
This retreat is set in the beautiful and energetically potent lands of Ecuador. It is a time for you to rest, reset, and go within while experiencing what it means to live and heal in community.
Each day will include activities that center our body, mind, and spirit. We will be nourished throughout by delicious and consciously prepared foods.
Together, we will learn to flow with the present moment and attune to the signs around us.
Dates for 2024:
April 15-20
June 18-23
October 7-12
November 10-15
Description of Services:Included:
- Accommodations for 5 nights
- All meals
- Pick up/Transportation from Quito Airport (UIO) to retreat center
- 2 Ayahuasca Ceremonies
- Plant bath for cleansing
- Plant bath for flourishing
- Nature activities (ex: day trip to waterfall hike)
- Visiting local artisan market
- Offering ceremony to attract abundance and good life
- Introduction, preparation and intention setting sessions prior to retreat
- Group integration following each ceremony
- 1:1 integration session post-retreat
Practitioners:Mercedes Andino:
Alchemist and channeling woman in service of Mother Life. A mestizo descending from a family of healers and herbalists who deepened her studies and knowledge with indigenous communities such as the Inga, with whom she has learned about the ritual use of the sacred Ayahuasca plant.
A psychotherapist with years of experience focused on treating psychosomatic, emotional and spiritual ailments in individual and group therapy.
She has developed the perfect combination of sharing the ancestral Ayahuasca medicine with psychotherapy to serve and support the human family in its healing, growth, empowerment, and awakening of consciousness.
Nadia Hannout:
A student of the sacred plants and traditions that guided her back to the essence of her heart, to cultivate self-love and connect to a purpose for her life.Gratitude for the healing and transformation experienced over the past 5 years inspired Nadia to move to Ecuador to reconnect to her roots and dedicate her life to learning about what it means to be in service to Mother Earth and life.
Complementing what she learns from personal experience and teachers along her journey, she has also studied topics related to the human psychospiritual journey and models for understanding stages of cognitive development, the Enneagram system, consciousness coaching, and how to integrate experiences in altered states of consciousness.
Sergio Velasquez:
A sensitive and strong man, trained in the spiritual and shamanic fields. Knowledgeable about master plants and ancestral remedies. He has been serving Ayahuasca for ~10 years.Sergio's learnings were carried out with the Inga community of the Amazon jungle and the Ayahuasca musician Andres Cordova. He currently shares Ayahuasca from the Inga and Cofan tribes.
He has written the book "Because the Breeze Laughs" based on his experiences with Ayahuasca, which serves as an inspiration, companion, and guide for anyone who wishes to learn about Ayahuasca experiences. He is the founder of the organization Ayahuasca in Ecuador, and brings traditional doctors from the jungle to the city, introducing the use of Ayahuasca to urban areas. He also promotes projects for the conservation of Mother Nature and the planting of Ayahuasca.
Team/Medical Staff:Mercedes Andino - Shaman & Psychotherapist
Nadia Hannout - Integration Coach
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Founder(s) / CEO: Nadia Hannout & Mercedes AndinoGroup Size: 4-6 peoplePrice Range: $2,430 - $3,000Specializing In: Ancestral Wisdom, Andean CosmoVision, Anxiety, Depression, Evolution, Integral Health, Integration, Ritual, Self-Discovery, Self-Love, Shamanic Bioenergetics, and Well-beingOur Process
Overview of Experience:This retreat was created from a desire to share not just the medicine of Ayahuasca, but the principles and practices of the communities and traditions that the ceremony of Ayahuasca stems from.
We are living during a time where so many are seeking healing on an emotional, mental, and physical level, and there is so much we can learn from the principles the native communities have been practicing for millennia, to apply directly to our lives to cultivate a greater sense of well-being.
This retreat is about learning and practicing together as a community. It's about understanding the principles from which various sacred plant medicine ceremonies originated and taking a more holistic and integrated approach to participating in ceremony and ritual.
Intake Process:1:1 Introduction call
Medical history review
Preparation call and guidePsychedelic Substances Offered: AyahuascaHow does this Center source medicine?:Native communities that prepare the medicine in accordance with the tradition of their lineage.
Practice reciprocity with local communities?: YesPhotos
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I attended a 9 day long retreat with this amazing team in this location. The place is beautifully and thoughtfully designed. It is a very calming environment. There is WiFi but I strongly recommend not using it during the retreat. The food was homecooked and delicious as well.
The retreat itself is beyond words, one of the most profound experiences in my life. It truly changes one’s perspective towards existence and self.
From day one, we all felt like family with this team and that made everything even better.
Anyone who comes across this opportunity to do this work with this team and in this location is very lucky!
You are in extremely good hands with Mercedes, Nadia, Sergio, and the rest of the team! They created and held an excellent container for self-exploration. I could not recommend them more highly!