A small-group ayahuasca retreat in Peru's Sacred Valley, centered on ceremony, nature, and the kind of space that lets you hear yourself more clearly.
See how the days unfoldPeople have been coming to these mountains to meet themselves for thousands of years. That hasn't really changed.
This isn't something to try once and move on from. Real change with plant medicine takes preparation before, real holding during, and enough time after for what surfaced to actually settle into how you live.
Ayahuasca is a brew of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and chacruna leaf. Indigenous communities across the western Amazon have used it in ceremony for generations. Most of what comes up has usually been sitting in you for a while already - the medicine just makes it harder to keep looking away.
The people who hold ceremony here have walked this path themselves for a long time, not read about it. That's the bar: real, lived experience with the medicine, not just training. It's what makes the retreat a container you can actually trust - solid enough that you can walk into ceremony and work with the plants with real confidence, instead of white-knuckling it.
We also work with San Pedro (huachuma), a gentler daytime ceremony, and kambo, the secretion of an Amazonian tree frog used for physical and energetic cleansing.
"The question is, who is doing the dreaming, and how do we wake up?"- Jed McKenna
The ceremonies are the center of it. Everything else here exists to make sure you can actually meet them - awake, supported, and not alone.
Years of lived experience with the medicine - with you from the opening circle to the last day, present, not performing.
A sharing circle after every ceremony - space to put words to what came up, and hear what came up for everyone else.
An afternoon with a Quechua weaving community in the hills above Pisac - their work, their daily life, and where these traditions come from.
A full day off the ceremony schedule: the terraces, the salt pans, lunch over the valley, and time with the llamas and alpacas.
A traditional Andean despacho offering, plus yoga most mornings to ease into the ceremony days.
Full board for the whole retreat, built around what your body needs while working with the medicine.
No agenda after dinner - just the fire, and whatever the group wants to do with it.
Unstructured space built into each day for journaling, rest, or simply sitting with what's coming up.
Basic and unfussy, but clean and quiet enough that you can rest properly between ceremonies.
Exact dates are set with each group and confirmed on inquiry. Day 10 is optional, once the retreat's officially wrapped, and we'll adjust the schedule where it makes the experience better for the group.
We meet you in Cusco (3,400 m) and head straight to Pisac, in the Sacred Valley (2,970 m) - home base for the next nine days. Dropping a few hundred meters on day one makes the altitude a lot easier to handle. First night is unplanned: get settled, look around, meet the group.
A soft start - resting, settling in, and easing into the group before the first night with the medicine. Still at Pisac's altitude while the body keeps adjusting. In the evening: the first ayahuasca ceremony, held by our facilitators.
Morning sharing circle - talking through whatever the first night brought up. In the afternoon we visit the Amaru community above Pisac: weaving, daily life, a real conversation about where all this comes from. This is roughly when you'll need to tell us whether you're joining the Machu Picchu or Ausangate trip afterward, so we have time to arrange it.
A day off - rest, some light yoga, getting ready for round two. By now the body's used to the altitude. The evening ceremony goes deeper, building on what came up the first night.
Sharing circle in the morning, then kambo: the secretion of the Phyllomedusa bicolor frog, applied through a handful of small skin burns. It's not psychoactive - a strong physical and energetic clear-out, with a real lightness afterward. Facilitators are with you the whole time; a light fast beforehand helps. Still at 2,970 m. If you'd like to go further, we can add two more sessions to complete the traditional three-ceremony kambo cycle over three weeks.
Another rest day - yoga, quiet, preparation, still at 2,970 m. In the evening, the third and final ayahuasca ceremony of the program.
Morning sharing circle to close out the ceremony work. Then a full day away from it all: the concentric terraces at Moray, once an Incan agricultural experiment station, then down to the Maras salt pans, where thousands of pools are still worked by hand. Lunch with a view over the valley, and time with the llamas and alpacas. If you'd rather see it on horseback, that's available too (extra, booked on-site).
A daytime ceremony with San Pedro (huachuma) - slower and gentler, held outdoors, unfolding gradually over the whole day rather than the night.
One last sharing circle to bring it all together. We head back to Cusco (climbing back to 3,400 m). This is where the official program ends.
Once the retreat wraps, we can keep going - a group trip to one of two places. Both sit outside the retreat itself and are priced separately. Let us know your pick by around day three so we can plan around it.
Two extra nights and a group trip out to the citadel - one of the New Seven Wonders, carved into a mountaintop above the clouds. Round-trip transfer, entry, a guide, lunch, and your stay are all covered. It's also lower altitude than the rest of the trip, so it's the physically easier option.
An extra night in Pisac first, then a simple overnight around 4,300 m at the base of Ausangate - a mountain held as a living guardian spirit in Andean tradition. Includes a soak in the Pachanta hot springs and a despacho offering of thanks to Pachamama on the mountain where shamans have traditionally been initiated.
Pisac sits at just under 3,000 meters in the Sacred Valley of the Incas: terraced hillsides, thin dry air, and a quiet that starts working on you before the first ceremony does.
In Andean tradition, the sun and the earth, Inti and Pachamama, are never called on separately. That's where our name comes from: Entre Sol y Tierra, between sun and earth. It's roughly where ceremony happens too, somewhere between the ordinary daylight world and whatever's underneath it.
A few moments from previous retreats - ceremony space, time in the valley, visits with the local community, and the quieter parts in between.
Holding this space starts with care and safety - that's the first priority, not an afterthought. We're here to make it safe enough for you to explore honestly and let real transformation happen, with the right guidance behind it.
Health history, medications and contraindications are reviewed privately before your place is confirmed.
People who chose this path consciously, not the shaman label. Skilled at navigating even the darkest moments with steadiness. Ceremony held through icaros, mantras, medicine songs, and silence.
Time to sleep, walk, sit in the sun, talk, or say nothing. Not everything needs to be processed right away.
Ayahuasca, San Pedro and kambo are not appropriate for everyone. We confirm participation only after screening.
Yes. We'll send you diet and lifestyle guidelines a few weeks out - it matters both for safety and for how deep the work can go. We also go through your medical history and any contraindications individually before you travel.
People we've watched work for years, chosen for how long they've stayed devoted to this and how clean their intention is, not for how well they sing. We look for real, lived experience with the medicine before anyone leads a ceremony here - not just training.
Small, on purpose - it's what makes real support possible. The maximum is 10 participants, with the exception of a single family attending together.
English, Russian, and Spanish are all supported - we've had participants who spoke only one of the three, and it's never been a barrier to joining or to the work itself.
Fly into Cusco (3,400 m). We'll meet you and arrange the transfer down to Pisac (2,970 m), where the retreat is held.
It's optional - a trip to Machu Picchu ($675/person, two extra nights, transfer, entry, guide and lunch included) or Ausangate ($650/person, extra night in Pisac plus an overnight at altitude, hot springs, and a despacho ceremony) once the retreat's done. Both cost extra. Just let us know your pick by around day three.
It's the secretion of an Amazonian tree frog, applied through a few small skin burns - not psychoactive, just a strong physical reset. There are real contraindications: heart conditions, pregnancy, certain medications, a few others. We go through these individually with every participant beforehand. If you want the full traditional cycle, we can add two more sessions over three weeks.
"Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes."- Carl Jung
Message us and we'll walk you through the dates, answer whatever you're carrying into the question, and help you find out if this is the right place for it. Screening comes later, separately.