An Opportunity to Pause

A plant medicine retreat is often the first opportunity many people have to take an intentional pause. When was the last time you slowed down? Factors such as fast-paced lifestyles, busy schedules, and stress mean people often need time to rest and reset.

A plant medicine retreat gives you the opportunity to slow down for an extended period of time with intention and support, so you can turn inwards. You have a week in a retreat container, away from any external distractions to explore your inner world. The week is full of nourishing practices, downtime, and integration tools to help you do this.

Make Space

Healing is not about adding more layers, it is about decluttering physically, emotionally, and energetically. A plant medicine retreat provides various purification practices and the support of the master plants to release what is no longer serving you.

Over the years everyone gathers impressions, such as patterns of behavior or emotions from strong experiences. The plant medicines and retreat tools can help you let them go. Once you make this space, you open up to new experiences and can connect with your true essence within.

Find Coherence

When your intentions, thoughts, and actions align, life flows. Whether you attend our Medicine of the Heart retreat, which focuses on heart technology, or you attend another type of Ayahuasca and San Pedro retreat in Ecuador, you have the opportunity to find this coherence between the body, heart, and mind.

Ayllu Medicina’s plant medicine retreats in Ecuador share a variety of tools throughout the retreat week, which help you navigate the plant medicine ceremonies, integration time, and the ceremony of life once the retreat week finishes. You have the opportunity to gain more clarity and empowerment to take forward in your life.

Prepare and Connect with Sacred Plant Masters

A plant medicine retreat in Ecuador gives you the chance to connect with sacred plant masters native to this land and continent of South America. You have the chance to meet with Ayahuasca and San Pedro once or twice with guides that honor the traditions of these plants, have blessings to work with these medicines, and can help support you in integrating each ceremony.

You also have the chance to experience how these plant medicines can complement each other and aid your journey. Usually, on Ayllu Medicina retreats, we first have Ayahuasca ceremonies. Ayahuasca focuses more on your roots, so after this, we meet with San Pedro later in the week. San Pedro (also known as Awakolla and Huachuma) can help raise your energy and strengthen your heart-mind connection.

Learn and Remember

When you attend a plant medicine ceremony, people can often forget about the integration, or be unsure about how to navigate experiences post-ceremony. Attending a retreat gives you a container to meet with these medicines, receive support, and gain tools you can take with you to use throughout your life.

For example, on Ayllu Medicina retreats, we share daily yoga classes, meditation techniques, breathwork, and other skills that you can take with you to stay clutter-free after retreat and to continue your adventure. You can also learn about the spirit animals that may appear in your plant medicine ceremony, how to work with the elements, sun and moon dynamics, and other details that only a retreat week can provide time to explore.

The intentional pause a plant medicine retreat provides is not only so you can learn. It is also so you can remember. So you can remember your connection to this Earth, the elements, and your inner being.

Discover Ecuador

An Ayahuasca and San Pedro Retreat in Ecuador also allows you to connect with the land where these medicines reside. Whether you attend the retreat week and get to experience the beautiful coast of Ecuador or have time to travel, it is the perfect opportunity to deepen your connection with these medicines.

Ayahuasca is from the Amazon and San Pedro is from the Andes mountains. Ecuador is an easy country to travel around and our team is happy to help you with travel recommendations.

Lasting Connections

A San Pedro and Ayahuasca retreat also offers a sense of community. You have plenty of alone time, but there are also other participants sharing the retreat experience with you. A sense of community is created quickly in these sacred spaces and continues once the plant medicine retreat finishes.

For example, our Ayllu Medicina retreats in Ecuador include preparation and integration support, which includes connecting with your retreat group online. We still share with groups several years later, and it is a space to give updates, ask for advice, or reconnect in other parts of the world.

There is also time to connect with our guides and learn about their paths, more about plant medicines, and larger ceremonies you can experience, such as Vision Quest. Learn more about our medicine guides, Aime and Hwaneetah, here.

Attend a San Pedro and Ayahuasca Retreat in Ecuador

If you feel you need to re-align and reset, or are feeling called to meet with a sacred plant teacher such as Ayahuasca, consider a San Pedro and Ayahuasca retreat. You will receive various tools to help with retreat preparation and integration of plant medicine experiences.

It takes courage to hit pause and look inside, but it can offer so many benefits for your life. However, not all plant medicine retreats oer the same supportive retreat container. Ayllu Medicina plant medicine retreats in Ecuador are led by experienced guides, with comfortable retreat accommodation on the beautiful coast of Ecuador.

Our first retreat of the season is our Meditation and Plant Medicine Retreat in November 2024, which includes two Ayahuasca ceremonies, one San Pedro ceremony, meditation workshops, and more. Learn more about this retreat and our other retreats this season here. If you have any questions, please contact us.