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We are an ayahuasca retreat healing center, operating as a lodge in the Amazon rainforest. We are located 90 minutes outside of Iquitos, Peru near the small village of Llanchama along the Nanay River.
We provide traditional Shipibo medicine services wich includes: healing and learning diets, master plant medicine, and traditional Shipibo ayahuasca ceremonies.
Once you are here, you will meet with our shaman master healer Ricardo Amaringo, and with the asistance of a profesional translator, you can explain him your intention for the healing procces.
Your treatment will then be tailored to your personal needs, often including further treatment with a master plant. Furthermore, in traditional style, you will then adhere to a strict healing diet developed to promote the healing work of the curanderos and our medicinal plants.
Once on the diet, you will be invited to participate in ayahuasca ceremonies four times a week, for further ceremonial healing under the guidance of Ricardo and his assistants shamans. In ceremony, you will be further treated by the curanderos through the traditional healing song, called icaros.
The day after every ayahuasca ceremony, with the exception of Fridays, there is a group discussion led by Ricardo to review experiences in the ceremony and the progress of all of our participants, apprentices and visitors.
In some cases, further treatment techniques are also indicated, including healing plant preparations for bathing and vapor treatment, or cataplasm.
Traditional treatment requires time, so visitors are encouraged to visit us for one week or more. Group programs are often designed for 10 days or 2 weeks and more advanced treatment can take one/two months or longer.
For particular individuals, we also offer traditional diets for learning under the guidance of Ricardo. This level of training is best discussed in person with Ricardo himself.
We charge an all-inclusive daily fee for our services, which covers transport from the Iquitos airport, private room, modern bathrooms and showers, diet meals, laundry service, electricity, wifi internet, traditional medicine and experienced international facilitator staff support.
If you are interested in visiting, please email us to establish contact and verify availability at our center. From that point, we can plan your visit!
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Torleifj
April 25, 2019 at 7:10 amI spent 10 days at Nihure Rao and i was very happy with the whole stay. Its a little drive from town, but everything was facilitated nicely with pickup and transport. Once i arrived, i was given a tour and lodged into my room. The place was nice and quiet, away from any city noise, so i had the peace around me to really focus on the treatment. The facilitators was professional and helpful in interpenetrating the visions i had during the ceremonies. I can recommend Nihue Rao for anyone that wants to experience a true traditional treatment in secure and friendly circumstances. All the best. Miss you guys!
Damian Campbell
April 24, 2019 at 6:24 pmTo whom it may concern,
I am writing to let you know from the depths of my heart of my experience with mamma aya at the healing centre Nihue Rao.
I was at a point in my life where I felt completely lost, confused, directionless, had no clarity and was suffering from self confidence and a lack of that magical lust for life. This was all so out of character for me as I am usually one to embrace life and all that it has to offer. I had just come out of a very serious relationship only a few months before and was completely heartbroken and sad. I thought that relationship was going to last forever and was completely lost when it ended. I had no sense of myself and no direction in life. I fought and fought and tried to hang on but in the end I just lost myself. For a small period like I said I couldn’t find that magic spark in life anymore.
Which brings me to Nihue Rao and my magical transformation with mother ayahuasca. A friend of mine back here in Australia knew what I was going through and told me about this incredible and magical healing centre in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon called ‘Nihue Rao’. Instantly I was a buzz just wanting to try anything to get my life back and come to me. I wanted to love me again and accept myself for who I genuinely was as a person. To regain that zest and spark for life. To say I found it again at Nihue Rao is a huge understatement. I gained and even more potent zest, love and appreciation for not only life but for myself and all those around me. I came back to me and learned to love and accept myself again in all my entirety exactly as I am and unconditionally too. I was able to turn anger and resentment into love, understanding, forgiveness and compassion. I was also given the tools and able to learn the process in developing a healthy ego in order to navigate forwards through life from this point on. A balance of confidence and humility I learned is all that is required. It is a process yes but one I now understand a little better.
From the moment we entered Nihue Rao we were greeted with a smile and warm friendly hug and made to feel right at home. We felt like family instantly with all the other passengers as that is exactly what we all became and will remain forever. We were shown our beautiful jungle hut living quarters and given a tour of this incredible healing centre nestled deep in the heart of the jungle. A place where you feel time stands still and you are completely at peace. The head Sharman ‘Ricardo’ interviewed each and everyone of us individually to really find out our trauma so he could go deep with the healing. Then we were given a plant concoction called ‘Vomitivo’ to help cleanse our system and again aid in the healing process. We had to adhere to a strict diet also before, during and after our stay at the centre. This also helped the ayahuasca do her her work in pulling out our trauma at the roots. Really going deep. The ceremonies were conducted six times out of the ten days we were there in a beautiful Maloca and were conducted in a really professional and ceremonious way. The shamans would start singing there icaros to the group as the ayahuasca started to take effect and then we were called up one by one individual to get sung to.
I can not express my gratitude, respect and love I now have for mother ayahuasca and the endless possibilities in life she has helped me see. It was a brutal and emotionally painful experience dealing with all my childhood trauma and all my stuff, bringing it to the surface but also one the most liberating, profound and beautiful life transforming experiences I have ever had. I have been able to let go of so much baggage I was holding on to and turn that emotional turmoil into love, forgiveness, understanding and compassion. This has dramatically improved my life so much and for that I am eternally grateful. I know have more clarity, perspective, love and most importantly acceptance of what is. I am able to let go of that control and just trust and allow a lot more easily. And that’s the greatest feeling ever. Because when we learn to do that, trust me, we can all fly…:)
Much love to all out there on your journey. May you always be happy and you all find your purpose. With love,
Damo ❤️
jeffreycsorensen
February 27, 2019 at 10:13 pmI highly recommend Nihue Rao Centro Espititual. I was really impressed with their methodical and analytical approach to healing, a true blending of traditional healing practices with a western scientific approach.
Maestro Ricardo and his team of shamans continually amazed me with the beauty and power of their icaros as well as their profound healing capabilities. The facilitators and other staff at the center were kind, caring, welcoming, thoughtful and considerate. I felt completely supported and cared for from the time I got off the plane in Iquitos until I left Iquitos to come home. The center feels extremely safe and provides a perfect environment in which to heal.
I can not recommend this center highly enough, the money spent here is one of the best investments you can make towards health, wellbeing and a happier, more peaceful life.
Thank you all at Nihue Rao! I can’t wait to come back!
Kosta
February 26, 2019 at 10:44 pmI stayed at the Nihue Rao Center in February, 2019.
This was my second retreat and I absolutely love the experience. Real Shipibo Shamans, Icaros, beautiful Maloka, comfortable accommodations, everything is just amazing. Maestro Ricardo and his team are very knowledgeable and experience. I have great respect for all the people at the Center including Benoit, Martina, Amber, Mikey what an amazing people, they were very professional and always available to talk and help. I was there for 10 days and I was able to diet a master plant which was amazing. To be able to live near the Village and experience the culture and the local people was amazing. I highly recommend this place because of the attention you get, their experience, knowledge and, friendly happy people who are always there for you. Highly recommended Nihue Rao Center
Anais
January 21, 2019 at 9:08 amMy partner and I went for a 10 day retreat to Nihue Rao. We had a wonderful experience. The center was very well-kept and the staff was absolutely wonderful. We really enjoyed the Ayahuasca ceremonies and flower baths. Will definitely be back!