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RAINFOREST HEALING CENTER
An Ayahuasca medicinal plant healing center and Permaculture farm. We welcome you on your personal journey into the magical Amazon Rainforest, just outside Iquitos, Peru. It is our first priority to offer a safe, private, and sacred space tucked away on 60-acres of jungle property home to over 110+ documented medicinal plants.
Rainforest Healing Center is accessed at KM 45.5 on the “highway” that connects Iquitos and Nauta in the Loreto province of Peru. From there you take a three kilometer hike over rolling hills along a dirt (sometimes muddy) path to arrive at our entrance.
OUR MISSION
To facilitate the safe, and deep healing of individuals through unconditional love so that present and younger generations have a loving planet to coexist in harmoniously.
OUR VISION
Is to empower indigenous communities whose sacred healing traditions and native lands to be respected and revered by the Western world and to continue to build a community of seekers empowered to create a loving and authentic life for themselves and others
OFFERINGS
11 Day Retreat- Deeper Integration with the Vine
Our “Deeper Integration with the Vine” is a profound healing retreat where one will partake in 5 ceremonies and will be given ample time to process their journey with our highly trained facilitators and Shamans.
7 Day Retreat- Initiation to Shamanic Ayahuasca
Our ‘Initiation to Shamanistic Ayahuasca’ is a great way for one to start their healing journey that has never experienced any sacred medicinal plants. This would also be a great place to start for someone that has some apprehensions about engaging in shamanistic practices. The 7-day retreat will still be a strong for healing purposes with 3 powerful ceremonies.
Master Plant Isolation Diets
At Rainforest Healing Center, we have been offering Master Plant isolation diets (‘dietas’ in Spanish) since 2011, when we first opened our center. We currently offer three Master Plant diets: Ajo Sacha, Chiric Sanango, and Uchu Sanango. The decision to administer one of these diets is based on careful observation, discussion, and analysis by our Shaman and administrator. We take these diets very seriously and administer them within traditional rules and practice. Dieting a Master Plant is a spiritual rites of passage that is the next level of healing after having worked with Ayahuasca in group ceremonial settings.When the diet is initiated, one will go into isolation in their Tambo (jungle bungalow) for eight days with no contact with anyone except the Shaman administering the diet. The Mind, Body, and Spirit will go through an intense cleansing and reboot while opening new doors within the Self and the Spirit realm.
Kambo Practitioner Training
Kambo (also known as Sapo locally to Peruvians) is the venom from Phyllomedusa bicolor, the Amazonian giant monkey tree frog. This medicine is well known around Peru and Brazil as the “vaccine of the forest.” It is most easily understood as a detoxifying purgative, immune-boosting medicine, and a powerful treatment for chronic pain and drug dependency.
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journeyofthesouls
August 21, 2018 at 5:32 pmMy experience at the Rainforest Healing Center was profound.
First there is a Connection with the jungle and all the energy and beauty possesses. At the same ntime you also disconnect from the outside world of social media, internet and distraction. This alone is worth the price of admission.
You feel like your in another time and place yet there are enough comforts like nice sleeping tambos, private bathing and toilets, clean drinking water, lights ( tambos) and good healthy meals. There is even a bathtub which can be filled with herbs and flowers as you gaze at the stars.
It took me a few days to really acclimate to the jungle, especially at night. It’s an otherworldly experience being listens to the jungle and it’s night sounds.
The Maloca( where ceremonies take place) is a work of art, built by a master Maloca builder. You can feel the spiritual energy and is a perfect conducive place for inner work.
The Shamans Olinda and Estaban ( husband &wife) are blessed with inner abilities and are there to watch , heal and diagnose the plant energy’s. Their presence is key to having a good and healing journey.
The staff are all there to assist you in making sure you needs are met both on a comfort level as well as an emotional/ spiritual level.
Now of course it’s the Medicine I came for, but without a set and setting I believe, and many people much wiser than me also agree, is the key to unlocking the wisdom of Mother Aya.
If you come with Intention, Love, openness and an Active Imagination you will discover, and heal.
I highly recommend Rainforest Healing Center as your place to connect.
Peace and Love to all, Namaste.
Reggiepoohs
August 8, 2018 at 3:52 pmIt’s been two weeks now, since I left Rainforest Healing Center after an eleven day Ayahuasca retreat.
My husband and I also did Ajo Sacha and Kambo. With all my heart I can say this: If you are a novice and are seriously thinking about doing Ayahuasca, then I recommend doing it here. I felt completely secure and taken care of, down to the smallest details. Because the truly important tings for such a serious endeavor are taken care of with such depth and dedication, with LOVE in other words, by everyone at RHC- even the tough moments which are inevitable when one is serious about self healing- became so meaningful and rich.
Just the place itself, deep inside the jungle felt like such a help. Under the canopy of trees and plants, the sounds and life of everything that surrounds you there are in fact helpers 🙂 I had my own tambo and loved it. I slept like a baby. The bed was very comfortable and the mosquito netting worked perfectly- in fact I didn’t get a single bite my whole stay! Almost weird. The compost WC, the bucket baths- ok, I’m Norwegian and used to simple cabin life with no running water and compost wc- but I can honestly say it was a luxury, very peaceful. The food is prepared with the obvious ayahuasca dieta- restrictions in the lovely kitchen/casa, and the cook does a great job. Writing a review of this place is bit strange, because I feel so much love and gratitude towards the whole staff who made it all possible, because this beautiful place truly deserves its name Rainforest H e a l I n g Center. The dedication of the facilitators and shamans was something the whole group, my husband and I most definitely included, were struck by. We had the luck to participate in the harvesting of chacruna leaves; and partake in the whole process of making the ayahuasca brew we used in ceremony, to replanting the Mother Vine the next day.
The ceremonies were conducted with the utmost feeling of respect and care. Pre ceremony we all had intention settings one- on- one with our facilitator. I mustn’t gush too much; suffice to say I’m still stunned by how much that helped the whole experience and my personal healing. The solo processing after each ceremony was equally important for understanding and integrating the experiences. Highest quality support are words that can be used to describe this. The shamans… a whole little book could be written about them. Straight people! Totally dedicated, totally natural. They led the ceremonies like the great Maestro and Maestra they are. They even led the ‘Camino del Tigre’ jungle walk and showed us incredible plants. Their knowledge is vast and so is their humor!
The Ajo Sacha and Kambo ceremonies were such a great additional help, each in their unique way. I’m a kambo lover for life now,
I miss RHC. I will always cherish it and what I experienced and learned. I hope I can come back.
Thank you! Thank you Omar, Christina, Anne, Heather… for each being and smile and gesture. Thank you to the staff! Thank you to the dogs and cats and the monkey- and to the majesty herself: The jungle.
honeyws
June 14, 2018 at 7:19 amI attended the Rainforest Healing Centre as a friend of mine had recommended the facility and Omar specifically.
There couldn’t have been a more perfect place on the planet in terms of the area and the wonderfully kind hearted people that work there.
I attended with, what to me, was a lot of mental baggage. I was in a pretty dark spot. The amount of attention that each individual receives and the people you receive from is what makes RHC so special. This will always be the case as they refuse to overpopulate groups for profit.
I can’t say that i’ve walked away completely healed because that just wouldn’t be true. But I’ve been shown the path and given the tools and i know in a heartbeat i’d receive support. I feel great and my perspective has shifted.
The ceremony’s for me were a bit of a rollercoaster and at times and quite hard work. But so so worth it. I was told that Ayahuasca doesn’t give you what you want but will ensure you get what you need. I’d say thats a pretty accurate statement.
Omar – Thank you so much for everything, for having the courage to build such a beautiful place that has helped and continues to help so many individuals. You’re a beautiful human!!
Annie (aka nurse Annie) Thank you so much for all the love and care during my time at RHC. You’re an amazing lady and i love you very much. Thank you for helping everyone in the way that you do. I’ll look forward to seeing you again one day 🙂
Cris Thank you so much for all your love and support. You do an incredible job and help so many. I hope you had a fantastic trip to Brazil and you’ve learnt a new skill!
magda c
June 7, 2018 at 11:10 amThis is truly a special gem on this planet! I went to the Rainforest Healing Center back in March on a recommendation from a friend. With ayahuasca being so popular these days, it was really important for me to find a place where i could have the most authentic healing experience. From the very start, upon my arrival, everyone was extremely caring. The group was small and everyone was there to resolve something in their lives. Prior to my trip i started speaking to Omar for quite some time. His dedication and guidance was so helpful and i really felt he was doing everything from his heart. I was very impressed with the amount of information, guidance and dialogue i recieved. He went out of his way to be there for us in any capacity. I felt comfortable and ready to embark on this important journey. The RHC is really made from love and everyone involved is there because they believe in the healing power of ayahuasca and other plants. There is a deep respect for nature and a careful selection of who they work with, what you eat, and the sessions you have. We had the most incredible shaman couple who gave their hearts into every ceremony with such power and compassion, its hard to describe. I cannot imagine a better place for such an important and delicate experience. i will definitely be back and i highly recommend it to anyone interested in a true healing experience.
Twargo17
May 29, 2018 at 6:12 pmI could spend hours writing about how incredibly breathtaking, loving and refreshing the entire process and experience was from the moment I made first contact with the staff at the Rainforest Healing Center until the present day-weeks after my return.
Love, gratitude and kindness is at the center of it all! They truly are involved with every individual as well as the group as a whole. Your comfort, security and well-being are their top priority. From the beginning stages of the “pre-purge” to the day you leave the center, and even beyond, they are there for you in every possible way; from the cleanliness, maintenance of the property, quality of food, friendliness of every staff member (seen and unseen i.e. laundry and housekeeping) and even the animals living there, I felt like I was with a loving family.
You CAN NOT go wrong by choosing the Rainforest Healing Center. Not only is the cost great, but the value far exceeds what you would expect.
If you’re reading this, look no further. You will feel at peace, make connections to last a lifetime and walk away only to leave a piece of your heart there.
5 star service and experience. It was perfect, better than “near-perfect”
To any of the staff reading this, much love and gratitude.