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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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Tim Morrison
October 15, 2017 at 9:26 pmI’ve just returned back home after a 6.5 week stay at The Rainforest Healing Centre and it was one of the most magical, profound and soul shifting journeys I have been on. A couple years ago I had spent some time at other ayahuasca centres but none of them compared to the intensity, support and loving cared of the surrounding jungle and centre at RHC!
The medicine at RHC is super powerful and you can feel the love interwoven throughout it. One of the things that I loved most about RHC is the support given and deep care provided by all of the staff not just during your stay but also pre and post retreat. Karin helped me so much on the lead up to my trip helping me book and rebook stuffed up flights that I had booked and made sure I was processing and integrating and was always available to chat at anytime of the day. Isadore is just epitome of love and selfless service. The way she holds space, facilitates and conducts pre-ceremony chats and integration is second to none. Its amazing to watch and feel as she weaves her love throughout the retreat, continually making sure everyones needs are met. Kristina is just a straight up jungle goddess, her knowledge, love and care of all things jungle medicine truly blew my mind. So much love for all the staff there as they helped me through some truly dark periods in my journey.
I began my stay with a 7 day aya retreat with 3 ceremonies which were absolutely incredible and deeply healing. I then went on to my Master Plant diet in isolation with Uchu Sanango which also deeply healing but also physically intense. My reason for the Uchu diet was to help heal my body from chronic inflammation and chronic nerve and muscle pain. The diet brought out the pain excruciatingly but now since being back my pain has dropped down about 50% so was definitely worth it. The after affects is well is feeling the strength of Uchu through my body and learning an icaros to call him when needed.
I also began my Kambo apprenticeship (the first one they had) with Kris after a couple of days of being there. The knowledge passed on from Kris was exceptional. We began by receiving mambo from her and then learning to administering it to myself and then at the end of my stay I was able to share the medicine with the guests on the retreat. An absolutely incredible experience! I highly recommend anyone feeling called to work with Kambo to get in contact with them.
The shaman I spent most of my time with Eladio was incredible to! He was a tobaccero and an ayahuascero, a super powerful combination. It was such a blessing to have been able to spend some much time with him and being able to learn from him.
I couldn’t recommend RHC enough to anyone that is looking for deep healing with ayahuasca in a safe, supportive environment!
Josephine
September 10, 2017 at 6:02 amMy retreat at the Rainforest Healing Centre was one of the most beautiful and profound experiences I’ve ever had. Not always easy, but worth it I hope.
Th facilitators were so supportive and loving and from what I can see, it seems to be one of the centers in the area that takes your intentions, your healing and your integration the most seriously.
I still feel like I’m on a journey and that I will have their support whenever I need it.
Love Streamer
July 18, 2017 at 10:52 amI did two Ayahuasca ceremonies in the Netherlands and two in Portugal. In June this year I went for the first time to Peru to do a ten day Ayahuasca retreat with 5 ceremonies at RHC Chakra Alegria.
Both, Netherlands and Portugal, was a nice experience for me but only after Peru I really understand what Ayahuasca can do for you and how powerful this medicine is. It is comparing amateur football with Champions League!
RHC wants to heal people and that’s why they will only accept maximum 8 guests so that every person can get the full attention of the manager, it’s staff and the Shaman.
The location is perfect, each Tambo stands alone while they’re spread over the property. A bucket shower is like a blessing, your day will start happy! Because of the more than 120 plants on the domain, the water is from an unheard quality, your hair will feel softer, your skin looks better.
It’s not easy to prepare a good and delicious meal with the restrictions of the Aya diet but at RHC they manage to do so, food is of good quality and it is tasty.
I want to say once more: ‘Thank you very much Murielle’
Murielle is the manager at RHC and she is a fantastic person, dedicated her life to help others.
She travelled throughout the world, has passed her exam at the University of Life Cum Laude and in my opinion, that makes her the perfect person to run RHC and help the guests.
The Shaman was not only a nice person but also very professional, His brew was of high quality and he led the ceremonies in a very good way. Once the ceremony is finished, between midnight and 1 am, everyone sleeps in the Maloca, the Shaman and one of the staff will sleep there as well, so they will not leave you alone. As you can see at RHC they really care about you!
The rest of the staff and the volunteers, all nice and friendly people, all there to help you, also a big thank you to all of you.
And don’t forget Karin, she’s the one you will meet first via Skype. I spoke to her for 1 ½ hour, I immediately had a good feeling and no doubts about the quality of RHC. Thank you as well.
Conclusion: If you’re serious about healing and looking for a professional center I can recommend RHC Chakra Alegria with confidence and with all my heart. You don’t have to look any further.
alisoj
July 13, 2017 at 5:53 pmI am beyond grateful for everything RHC has done for me. The center is very safe and the staff are friendly. They make time for any questions. The staff are always smiling and I am so thankful for their service. My trip to RHC is the best thing I’ve ever done. RHC also prepares us before, during, and after the retreat. I asked a lot of questions before coming and received so much support. I came with a lot of baggage, became naked spiritually, and left transformed. I defintely am coming back.
sphynxcats3
July 13, 2017 at 11:57 amI was in the isolation tambo, I was bathed in the love and light. I can see so many spirituality from the deep of the jungles. I can feel them touch me and my body, they are dancing and smoke the smudging that I can smell them. It is very peacefulness and love, the jungles have bought me into healing and peace. And during in my kambo frog, my third eye exploded and brung the beauty out of jungle that left me in awestruck of their beautiful. I want to be lost into their dreams of jungles with the ancestors and the kingdom. Ayahuasca drink that healed and bought me out of my childhood death that won’t let me go, I have been fought for long time. The mother of vine broken the chain and bounded me from the death. I have been freed from the virus since age two. I have been transformed from kambo frog, uchu Sanango and ayahuasca. I feel so wholeness and I am!