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The Eagle Condor Alliance offers 10 Day Sacred Medicine Retreats in the mountains outside of Medellin, Colombia. Our next retreat dates are June 23rd – July 2nd.
Participants stay in comfortable glamping, camping, and shared cabin accommodations while experiencing traditional Ayahuasca (Yagé), San Pedro Cactus, Peyote and Temazcal (Inipi) ceremonies.
At Eagle Condor Alliance, our central mission is to spread consciousness, awareness and love by being the bridge between our participants and the ancient traditions and sacred medicines of the Americas. We are ultimately concerned with supporting the elders of these traditions and with conserving the forests of Colombia where these medicines, traditions, and wisdoms are found.
Healing With All of the Sacred Medicines
We offer the sacred plants of the Americas in one powerful and rejuvenating 10 day retreat. Ayahuasca, San Pedro, and Lakota Sioux inipi (sweat lodge) ceremonies each have their own unique spirit, tradition, and way of showing us to ourselves. We believe that using these plants together in guided contexts creates the most profound and curative spiritual experience.
Intensive Plant Medicine Immersion Experience
The demanding itinerary of ECA retreats requires that participants approach the medicine with respect, reverence and strength. These medicines lead us to confront both the beauty and darkness in each of us, and will power is needed to maintain consistent focus on our transformative internal process during the retreat.
Our Commitment to the Individual
Each participant comes with his or her own past experiences, health concerns, goals, ambitions, medical history, and intentions for the retreat. At ECA, we have small retreat groups. The group is cared for by 3 group facilitators and 2 experienced healers who are committed to creating bonds of trust and compassion that form the foundation for the healing processes of participants.
Experienced Healers and The Purest Medicine
ECA’s healers have been finding, harvesting, and preparing their own medicines to the benefit of their respective communities for over 40 years. They offer these gifts from Mother Earth in their purest forms. ECA’s medicines are never altered or mixed with other substances or plants. They are provided with respect and love in traditional ceremonies from the Cofán community of the Amazon, the Lakota-Sioux of North America, and the traditional Andean peoples.
The Setting – Colombia’s Natural Beauty
The retreat centre is located at an altitude of 2300m surrounded by dense Andean sub tropical rain forest, spectacular views of the valley, pristine drinking water, your own private river, hiking, wildlife, and comfortable glamping and camping options
Comfort and Rejuvenation
Comfort is a crucial element in this reviving and re-energizing experience, and it’s typically forgotten by most other retreat centers. Participants at ECA retreats: sleep in comfortable, soft beds, take hot showers, eat delicious, healthy cuisine, drink fresh mountain water, walk outside without being devoured by insects, and are given ample alone time for reflection and self-examination. The mild climate also helps us rest.
Convenience and Price
Fly direct into Medellin’s international airport for a fraction of what it costs to get to Cusco, Leticia, Iquitos or other locations, and arrive at the retreat center in under 30 minutes via our private transport. No special vaccinations or injections required. We provide all food, housing, and on the ground transport in order to make our retreat relaxing and hassle free.
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tdn89
May 11, 2015 at 12:00 amMy experience with the Eagle Condor Alliance was absolutely life changing. When deciding upon retreats, I had a series of questions and ECA was incredibly helpful throughout the whole process to answer them and lead me in the direction that would best suit my needs. The setting was surreal. Perched up in the mountains, the fincas were beautiful, peaceful, and very comfortable. The shamans were humble, friendly and truly there to lead one to the light. The ceremonies were pure. You could feel it in the collective. The medicines were simply beautiful, an experience that rattled me to the core of soul. My memories with the ECA will be with me till the end of my time.
holly nielsen
May 10, 2015 at 12:00 amIt was only my and my husband’s second day in Colombia when I suddenly slipped off a rock hiking and badly injured my knee ligaments. This left me unable to walk and in quite a bit of pain. But as it is with these things, there is always a reason why they happen; however difficult it may be to understand at the time. Thankfully, it was this injury that led me to work with the Eagle-Condor Alliance and, in the process, to come to a much more profound understanding and healing of deep emotional and spiritual aspects to this injury in which my knee was simply an outer manifestation.
I had never worked with these sacred healing plants, or even done a Temezcal before. It was just extremely apparent that this was the time and place, there was no denying the message. Jesse and Hans are such positive and supportive people and made me feel so comfortable at a time when I felt extremely weak and vulnerable. As soon as I met Gonzalo, the shaman who conducts the ceremonies, I felt immediately that this was what I needed, beyond a doubt. What a pure love is radiated from this community!
The ceremony took place in the magical Santa Elena Mountains outside of Medellin. The mountains themselves are an incredibly healing place, the quality of the air is imbued with a certain aliveness that I have not come across anywhere else. It is very pure and quite literally holds the light. The whole place seems like some primordial garden. Here, I entered the Temezcal burdened with my knee pain, my fears and the heavy things of the world and left like I was reemerging from a womb a happy, bright-eyed newborn. My pain that had me in daily tears was completely gone never to return! In the ceremony with Gonzalo, I felt that the power that we all have to heal ourselves, physically, emotionally and spiritually, was renewed in me. I am so very grateful.