What is Ayahuasca?

Ayahuasca is confronting. There’s no way around that fact. She is the Queen of the jungle. She is the Mother of ALL Plants. That’s a pretty powerful Mama to hold that role.

You will have an experience IN ceremony and one OUTSIDE the ceremony that will challenge you, test you and make you confront the things you have been avoiding. She keeps working on you for the days, weeks, months and years afterwards.

She will test you. She will make you do hard things that are ultimately for your beautiful transformation. She will rub your sharp edges against your friends and families sharp edges. She will expose your weaknesses and your dark edgy corners (that you pretend aren’t there) to help you love and accept those parts of you deem unloveable or unworthy.

She will break down the protection and armor and melt patterns of depression, anxiety and fear like a hot knife through butter. It is the perfect experience created just for you. She knows the blue print of your soul and scans your energetic body to see what you need right now. Of course, you have free will. It is ultimately up to you if you wish to transform.

This is just a glimpse of what she can do. To try to define her is impossible. Every experience is different and unique to each person. As we say, “you get what you need. Not what you want.”

She is not a magic pill. She is not going to solve all your problems for you. You will still have to learn the lesson.

We operate from the belief that everyone is already whole and complete. The work is to peel away the layers of amour and protection and help to open the heart.

Aya is not for everyone. It is a CALLING. She will call you if this is something you are to experience. She is a medicine. Not a drug. She has been used for 1000s of years in the Amazon for healing.

Our retreats are for those who seek spiritual self-realization with humility and respect for Madre Ayahuasca, Mother Earth and all living creatures. Our retreats create a meaningful base of self-love, self-trust, and self-power. You are your own guru. We welcome the messiness and fallible human experience.

Our Vision

It took us 6 years to create a webpage for our Ayahuasca Retreats. We took our time because we wanted to be mindful and respectful of the medicine. We didn’t want to fall into the trap of making Madre Ayahuasca a machine and cranking out retreats and participants like an assembly line. We have learned that things with the medicine are best when allowed to unfold at the pace of nature; slow and natural. There’s no need to force or push.

Our path with Ayahuasca is very sacred to us. She is a living being. We understand that this is a relationship with a divine spirit and it takes patience to cultivate. Although we have each been walking our medicine path for over a decade, we will always have the beginners mind, understanding that we will always be learning.

Our vision is to create a safe, loving and supportive container of healing rooted in empowering people to find their own connection to Spirit. To awaken within each person their own unique medicine, so they may weave their gifts into the world. We like to keep things real and grounded. Allowing people to feel their feelings without judgement or bypassing. We embrace the messiness of life!

Serving medicine is our offering to Pachamama (Mother Earth) and humanity. It is our deepest prayer from our hearts.