A 9-day ayahuasca retreat offers more space—space to settle into the work, to go deeper across ceremonies, and to integrate what arises along the way rather than moving quickly from one experience to the next.
At the Hummingbird Healing Center, the 9-day retreat is designed for people who feel called to sustained inner work over a longer arc of time. The retreat includes multiple ayahuasca ceremonies, rest days between ceremonies, structured preparation, and guided integration, all held within a calm and supportive environment. The extended length allows insights and emotional processes to unfold gradually, with more room for reflection and stabilization.
We are a small, long-established center (founded in 2010) working in the traditional Amazonian lineage with a highly experienced curandero. Groups are intentionally kept small, screening is thorough, and the pace of the retreat prioritizes safety, depth, and individual process rather than intensity or volume.
The 9-day retreat is often chosen by people who want more time than a single week allows—whether they are new to ayahuasca and wish to move slowly, or returning to continue work already begun. Below, you’ll find details on the retreat structure, ceremonies, and how different retreat lengths support different needs and intentions.
Highlights of our 9 Day Ayahuasca Retreat include:
- 9 days/8 nights
- Four ayahuasca ceremonies
- Intimate groups of no more than 10 people
- Guided meditation before each ceremony.
- One Huachuma (San Pedro) ceremony
- A pre and post retreat integration session with an integration professional.
- Private room with very comfortable bed, toilet, hammock and writing desk.
- Cleansing vapor bath with medicinal plants.
- A series of medicinal plant baths to cleanse and strengthen your energy body
- Individual healings by the shaman during ayahuasca ceremonies
- Additional individual healing on rest days.
- Art supplies for painting and drawing to bring your visions to life using color and texture.
- Integration meetings where you can share your experiences and receive valuable feedback from the curandero and facilitators.
- Ayahuasca diet with delicious, wholesome and simple meals suitable for working with medicine plants.
- Guided jungle walk to view the plants in their natural environment and understand their healing purposes
- A mud bath to draw toxins out of your body
- $2400 all inclusive price.
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We also have 7 Day and 12 Day stays available.
You will be staying close to nature in a typical South American jungle setting that has been modernized to include the comforts of daily life that you are used to. Our ayahuasca center follows traditional practices that have proven to bring healing results and the growth and change you are looking for in your life.
Each ayahuasca ceremony is led by master curandero Don Manain Amacifen, who has over 45 years of experience working with the healing powers of ayahuasca. His powerful icaros, prayers and energy purify and heal the body and mind. During the individual healings each person receives, people typically feel Manain's work pulling negative energy from their body and filling their body with positive energy.
Depending on your specific needs, our Don Manain may prescribe additional plant medicines. These are usually served as a tea made from the leaves, bark or sap of the plant. Typically the medicine will be drank three days is a row, but some may be drank only once.
Meditation Before Each Ceremony
Meditation is a great way to clear the mind and get into a good mental and energetic space for your ayahuasca ceremony. Forty five minutes before each ceremony we will have a guided meditation to optimize our consciousness for the ceremony. The guided portion lasts around 8 minutes a leads us into a place of positive possibility. The rest is filled with relaxing, mystical music featuring Sitars, composed for meditations.
While you’re on the retreat additional cleansing processes will be planned to help you get the most out of your time with the medicine plants at the ayahuasca center. These planned activities are intended to facilitate your healing process and will comprise of various traditional healing practices.
All meals, lodging and laundry services are included, and you’ll be housed in a private room in our new guest house overlooking a beautiful lake.
The Hummingbird Center also works with huachuma, the visionary and heart opening cactus of the Andes also known as san pedro. We have found ayahuasca and huachuma to be very complementary. Some individuals have a special affinity for one or the other of the medicines.
Occasionally huachuma will clear blocks in an individual that ayahuasca does not seem to touch. We have seen a number of people who were not having rich experiences with ayahuasca have significant breakthroughs with san pedro, then move on to have wonderful and productive ceremonies with ayahuasca.
The spirits of ayahuasca and San Pedro clearly know people are working with both. During the San Pedro ceremony many find their ayahuasca experiences come into focus understanding the lessons in much deeper and meaningful way. People have wanted to work on a specific area of their life during ayahuasca, and been told by the medicine that would be addressed with San Pedro, and it happened. The opposite has also occurred where people were clearly told something would be addressed in their next ayahuasca ceremony, and that also occurred. A beautiful and gentle healer and teacher, grandfather San Pedro tends to bring very clear lessons and most enjoy the experience.
After the first group San Pedro ceremony, if you prefer to work with it instead of ayahuasca you may do so. It is easy to arrange and we will work that out on a case by case basis. While the experience is very different than ayahuasca, it is a peer in its ability to heal and some people get much more from working with this medicine than with ayahuasca.
You Will Get a Guided Retreat Experience Focused on Healing
Throughout your retreat our expert facilitators will be available to help you understand your journeys and assist you in integrating your experience. They will provide coaching and guidance on how to navigate the process, recognizing that everyone's healing journey is unique.
Our focus is always on healing and we will encourage you to push your comfort zone and step into new productive behaviors and patterns of thinking about yourself and those around you.
On this program we encourage you to relax. Time alone to reflect and integrate your work with ayahuasca is an important part of the healing process. Journaling and the expression of your visions and creativity through art are also recommended and materials are provided for you.
On the mornings following ayahuasca ceremonies, circle meetings are held so you can discuss your experience with the shaman and facilitator and ask questions to get deeper insight into your journey. These meetings are an excellent place to learn more about how ayahuasca works, as everyone's journey is different and variety of explanations and teachings are offered in response.
Through other people's stories you will clearly see the incredible variety in how ayahuasca works and be encouraged to honor and value your own experience, to tell your story honestly without need for it to be like anyone else's.
Shifting Your Perception of Yourself and the World
Unique to our ayahuasca retreat are two talks about belief systems and our subconscious minds, and how to change the often unproductive programming we received as children. This is a detailed discussion of how our thoughts and beliefs influence not only our perception of life but also the body’s physiology.
We all have the ability to change our thinking. What we think and believe has a significant impact on our lives for better or for worse. Often we’re unaware that the pain and struggles we face are as a result of our thoughts and beliefs. Once we can identify the negative views we hold on to we can alter them to bring about positive changes in our lives. As we change our perception of the world around us, we change our experience of life!
How do I get to the Hummingbird Center?
We’ll meet you at 10 AM outside Las Terrazas restaurant, a restaurant on the "Boulevard". There are a number of restaurants on the Boulevard which is a park fronting the river that’s a block away from the Plaza de Armas. From there you’ll be transported to the Hummingbird Center.
You’ll arrive at the ayahuasca center with enough time to get your room assigned, take some time out to relax and then have lunch. An orientation meeting will begin at 2 PM in the maloca, followed by a plant bath to prepare for your first ayahuasca ceremony.
We strongly recommend that you arrive in Iquitos the day before the program begins. This allows you to enter the healing journey well rested and relaxed.
