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At the Nimea Kaya Healing Center, we are dedicated to offering traditional Ayahuasca journeys, working alongside both male and female Shipibo healers. Our Shipibo healers carry decades of wisdom and knowledge through working with master teacher plants. Through our retreats, we aim to support our guests awaken to their fullest potential by healing their bodies, minds and spirits. Our focus on health, nutrition and self-sustainability in our peaceful and eco-friendly environment lends to a deeper healing process where long lasting positive impacts are made in the lives of our guests. With over 16 years of experience leading Ayahuasca retreats, we have helped support thousands of guests from all over the world transform their lives.
Our Selva Spirit Association NGO focuses on raising the awareness in the preservation of shamanic traditions, reforestation projects as well as multiple health programs implemented in the surrounding communities.
Shamanic Retreats:
Our shamanic retreats are designed to accommodate each individual on their path of awakening and healing. We offer a series of three or four Ayahuasca ceremonies per retreat with a local Shipibo Shamans, also known as a Curandero or Maestro. Our healers have been well established in the shamanic ayahuasca practice for several decades. Our medicine is brewed with only the ayahuasca vine and chacruna leaves. Our ceremonies are facilitated with the utmost integrity and responsibility. There are always four to six of our staff members in every ceremony helping our guests through their healing journeys with the sacred medicine. Drinking the ayahuasca medicine during ceremonies allows the participants to expand their consciousness to a multi-faceted universe. Ayahuasca takes the individual through a process of cleansing the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. The individual journeys through a series of visions often receiving profound realizations that lead them to a place of healing, understanding and balance within themselves.
During the course of the retreat we offer facilitated group sharing and one on one counseling. Our groups are no larger than 14 people so we may accommodate a more intimate and personal setting during ceremony. Our ceremonial Maloca is very spacious, providing a comfortable environment for the profound experience. It is situated in the midst of beautiful native plants and trees where where natures orchestra graciously joins us in our sacred ceremonies.
We provide for our guests with herbal and floral baths with a unique blend of plants and flowers from the surrounding jungle after each ceremony. The plant baths help to wash away any negative energies stagnant in the body and help prepare the participant for a more profound healing with the plant medicine Ayahuasca. The invigorating and cleansing bath will help rejuvenate your spirit.
Additional Activities:
Nimea Kaya activities includes: Meet Shamans and Q&A Session, Guided Yoga and Meditation sessions, Sound Healing Sessions, Floral Plant Baths, Visionary Painting Workshop, Ceremony Integration Circles, Guided Nature Walks, Shipibo Art Market, Post Retreat Integration Workshop. Massage and additional healing therapies also offered.
Ayahuasca Integration:
At Nimea Kaya, we specialize in offering Integration Support during and after the Retreat. We also give preparation support before the retreat with a Ayahuasca Preparation Guide and on a Zoom call with the guests. All of our guests will receive a detailed and thorough Integration Guide after the retreat with many tips and recommendations on how to continue the journey forward in life with the most ease, inspiration and motivation. We also offer complimentary integrations with our team integration specialist.
Prices:
Cost for 7 Day Retreat with 3 Ceremonies – Shared Accommodation $1750, Single Private Accommodation: $2050
Cost for 9 Day Retreat with 4 Ceremonies – Shared Accommodation $1950, Single Private Accommodation: $2250
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What’s Included:
* Pre-Retreat Preparation Consultation Call
* Digital Ayahuasca Dieta Recipe Book
* Ayahuasca Preparation Guide
* Pick up and drop off from and to Pucallpa Airport
* Transportation to and from the Nimea Kaya Center
* Three or Four Ayahuasca Ceremonies with Shipibo Healers
* Q&A with Shamans before Ceremony
* Participate in Brewing Ayahuasca (Only Available in Some Retreats)
* Guided Medicinal Plant Walk
* Ceremony Integration Circles
* Continual Counseling with Facilitators
* Consultations with Shamans
* Medicinal Floral Plant Baths
* Breathwork & Meditation Classes
* Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga Classes
* Sound Bath Meditation
* Nutritious Plant Based Meals
* Boat Excursion
* Shipibo Art Exhibition & Market
* High Vibe Living Class
* Farewell Celebration
* Laundry Service
* Post Retreat Integration Guide
* Post Retreat Integration Call
* Complimentary 1 on 1 Integration Sessions
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GafaDaba
December 7, 2018 at 9:01 amThis place is amazing! I have been twice and although working with Ayahuasca can be very challenging it was by far one of the most memorable experiences of my life and I plan to return for a third retreat at some point. I attended my first retreat in March of 2018 and my second in October the same year. Everyone from the owner on down is perfectly pleasant to be around and they provide all of the care and support you could ask for. Many of the staff are trained in different types of services from reiki to life coaching and I was able to take advantage of multiple great services. All of the meals there are prepared for you as well and they are wonderful. The diet is full vegetarian and is prepared for you and cooked fresh every day. The cabins are nice, the jungle is beautiful, and the staff are amazing. The retreat is packed with opportunities for getting to know people from all over the world, and I still keep in touch with the folks from both my retreats. There are meditations, integration circles to share about your experience, yoga, plant baths, one on one time with shamans, a plant walk, a water tower with an amazing view of the land scape, and even plenty of quiet moments for you to just enjoy the beautiful flora and fauna that surround you or to reflect on your experience on the retreat. This is an excellent getaway from the technological hustle and bustle of everyday life, and as I said before, I plan to return. They will walk you through your spiritual journey with great care and love! 5 stars all the way!
bpllewellyn
December 5, 2018 at 1:04 amI had the pleasure of attending a 9 day retreat at Nimea Kaya in April, 2018. This place was recommended by a close friend of mine in the Caribbean.
I was greeted one of the owners and a facilitator at Pucallpa Airport and driven to the center (only about 15 minutes away). The center was beautiful. It was in the jungle but close enough to the city. The center has beautiful dogs running around always happy to relax or play with guests. It was a warm welcome!
The facilitators gave us a brief rundown of the weeks events after arrival and showed us to our cabins. The cabins are really lovely and comfy. We were able to get to meet the group and chat about what our intentions were going into our experiences.
In the morning they offer yoga or meditation. This is great before or after ceremonies to think and integrate. The meals were also really delicious. We ate twice a day on ceremony days and three times a day on off days.
The ceremonies themselves were really interesting. I felt safe with the facilitators, owners and shamans there, along with all of my new peers. Most sleep overnight in the maloka after our work with the medicine (we start around 8pm) and it’s a great feeling waking up in the beautiful jungle early in the morning after an experience like that.
I made friends for life at this retreat, while turning inside to look at myself to see the work I need to do. I would recommend Nimea Kaya to anyone that has the ability to go to Peru and feels called by Mother Aya.
jamega61706
December 2, 2018 at 6:13 amSearching for an authentic Ayahuasca experience, my wife and I were strongly drawn to Nimea Kaya. The website was thorough and descriptive, and their staff was open and responsive to all of our questions. We attended a 9 day retreat at Nimea Kaya in April 2018.
When we arrived at the nearby airport, Nimea Kaya’s wonderful staff and volunteers were there to greet us. From that moment forward we felt cared for and supported. The staff and volunteers are capable veterans of Ayahuasca ceremony, eager and willing to share the wonderful teachings of Madre Ayahuasca with their guests.
The Shipibo shamans who hold the ceremonies have an immense presence and power. There was never a moment during any of the ceremonies that I didn’t feel safe in the space they were holding.
If you’re looking for an authentic Ayahuasca experience, under the guidance a wise shamans and loving companions, look no further than the safe sanctuary of Nimea Kaya.
timschriner
November 30, 2018 at 4:16 pmWhat an incredible experience. I was so afraid before going and even when i arrived. i didn’t know what to expect. the mother, as they call her was gentle with me the first night. the second night of drinking the brew was a way more intense. i learned so much about myself and my family. on the third night i realized why i was at nimea kaya healing center at that moment and had flashbacks from another life. where many things bacame clear for me.
when i first arrived, my intention was selfish. to find wealth and love. when i became grateful for all the things in my life.
the experience made me aware and alert of myself. made me realize how important this moment is and how nothing else is ever as important.
Nimea Kaya healing center changed my life and i will always hold a dear place in my heart for them.
Aliwoo1
November 29, 2018 at 7:26 amReview by Alice.
To review all that I experienced with Ayahuasca during the August 2018 retreat at Nimea Kaya would not only be exhausting but near impossible. There are complexities to the medicine and ceremonies that cannot be categorised into words; instead they are, and should remain, an experience: much like that of each moment we spend in life. But if I had to make one comment on my time there, it would be that it was an experience like no other. That goes for the unconditional love and kindness displayed by the volunteers working there, the exquisite vegetarian food and the quality of yoga, meditation and mindfulness classes on offer throughout the whole 9 days. And then there’s the medicine…
Whether you’ve taken psychedelics in the past, recreationally or as a panacea, there was a profound sacredness to this medicine that united me with all that lived and breathed. The trees emanated a force of energy that mesmerised me during my second ceremony. I had taken myself outside for the first time and sat in solitude on a bench looking up at a marquis of green and black prints, the inside of a circus. I had anticipated having to face some of my deepest fears on this retreat; I knew that I was there to process severe childhood traumas and the thought of revisiting them frightened me. However, on that second night, the darkness didn’t frighten me. Instead it invited me to sit with it, a mesh of life all as one, outside the wooden Maloka hut on that bench. It was really something else. I was a part of nature: the light and the dark.
I had spent the whole of my first ceremony sweating, vomiting, purging, crying. Twenty years of on-going trauma had left me with complex PTSD and a pit so deep I barely identified with myself when I looked in the mirror. But, like the phoenix, I was determined to rise again. And Ayahuasca showed me the way. Of course, she works with you, so she will only give you what you are able to process at that time. For me, it took three ceremonies until I experienced any visuals with the medicine. And when I did, they came all as one: a wave of black bats washed over me and I stood rooted to the ground on the way out of the bathroom. I had taken myself in there to cry my eyes out. I sobbed and sobbed as I forgave all those who had hurt me from the past. And when I finished sobbing, what felt like a bolt or a brick lodged in the back of my head, was released…and then in came the bats. I sank down to the ground to take it all in and was helped back to my bed by one of the beautiful volunteers working there. The rest of that night took me somewhere very hard to describe: a spiritual world that was so real and yet so removed from reality as we know it. A part of me identified with this aspect of my psyche – the aspect that she was showing to me – and it scared me to think I had this tyrant or sultan in me. I’ve always considered myself as an open, bright, loving, kind person but this side of me was sinister, stubborn, derisive. It is a side of me that I needed to see. A side of me that I needed to be aware of so that I can manage it in my daily life with consciousness and love. It was a part of me that may have developed due to my childhood difficulties and, since becoming aware of it, I have invited other forms of healing into my life to balance out this aspect of my psyche. They include a lot of heart-opening meditations, yoga and Reiki energy healing. That night lasted for what seemed like a spiritual eternity and it did frighten me, I won’t lie, but I needed to see it. It opened up a new portal for me that has stayed with me ever since.
The fourth ceremony was full of love, beauty and acceptance – much of what I had hoped to experience at this retreat overall. We had created this batch of ayahuasca ourselves on our first day of arriving and it had been brewing ever since. It was a more delicate taste, dissimilar to the bitterness of the previous three and I had the feeling that most of the other participants on the retreat also experienced a much softer, more gentle experience during this ceremony. It was a good way for me to finish. I knew I had more to see with this medicine so I have intention of doing it again in the near future and I know for sure that, when I do, I will choose to go back to the beauty of the jungle at Nimea Kaya where I felt loved, safe and cared for throughout my entire healing journey.