Selva Madre is a family owned and operated center. Our goal is to offer you a unique Ayahuasca experience with the utmost professionalism and loving care. The family atmosphere provided at Selva Madre is unparalleled offering you the opportunity to benefit from a long standing generational lineage of healers in the Rimachi Family. With a loving heart and warm embrace we welcome our guests from all walks of life with varying spiritual and cultural backgrounds. We make every effort to make you feel at home as another member of our every growing family in a safe and peaceful environment.
Selva Madre welcomes guests from all over the world and is considered one of the best places in the world for healing therapy and an authentic Ayahuasca spiritual retreat. Don Luis Rimachi has been a practicing Shaman for over 40 years in local native communities. He is dedicated to healing and guides guests from all corners of the world to achieve positive transformation and begin a new path on their spiritual journey. The Ayahuasca is brewed on site and is made with no additives. We have a strict policy that ONLY experienced Curanderos following a strict Dieta brew our Ayahuasca in order to incorporate the purest and highest energies into the medicine.
Selva Madre 10 Day Ayahuasca Retreat
Our Retreat Includes:
The Ayahuasca Ceremonies
The Ayahuasca experience is a permanently transformative process on all levels to include the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual parts of our being. It helps reveal our higher self and facilitates deep healing. Our safety protocols are important in order to offer the best experience possible. Unlike other centers that propose five ceremonies or more per week, we feel four ceremonies is the perfect amount per ten day retreat. Ceremonies are held every other day with a day of rest, processing, and consultation in between. Ayahuasca demands 48 hours to be entirely processed by the body and for its teachings to be assimilated. Doing more ceremonies in a short time is definitely not recommended. We feel a 10 day retreat with 4 ceremonies is ideal for most people, but we offer a range of 2 days to multiple years (for apprenticeships).
Detoxing & Purging
Purging is a central element in Amazonian traditional medicine, the purge is provoked by Ayahuasca in order to release physical, emotional and non physical energies that you may have carried since the beginning of your life which have caused health issues, karmic blockages, and emotional disorders. By the end of your stay you will be cleansed from all toxins and energetic charges and have a final consultation with the Shaman.
Accommodation
You will be staying in a private traditional Amazonian jungle bungalow with cement foundation. They are comfortable, spacious, and protected from mosquitoes by screens. Each room contains a double bed and private toilet and shower.
Food
The food is very important to us here at Selva Madre. In order to have the best experience during your retreat we serve fresh and natural local food. The meals are healthy and balanced. We accommodate individuals with specific dietary needs.
Transport
The transport is provided between Selva Madre and Iquitos Airport or your hotel. Selva Madre is located at the other side of the river Nanay from Iquitos, so the journey takes approximately 1 hour from Iquitos city center including taxi and boat.
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aamir
July 31, 2014 at 12:00 amI came to Padre cocha searching for a spiritual outlet and found it in the Ayahuasca ceremonies directed by Don Lucho. I participated in 3 ceremonies and found them profoundly meaningful and paradigm in the way that I perceive the SELF the major constituents of spiritual health and the framework within which to view then. The wester world has much to learn from the generations starve of spiritual wealth contained into the indigenous healers and their rites + practices. I am certain that my journey into the self will bring me back to this culture once more.
adamgott
July 31, 2014 at 12:00 amTo all my family, friends, teachers in this sacred space thank you for this time of learning. I am hunbled before each of you and I am grateful for the teachings and experiences you have shared with me. Each is but a seed that I now have the privilege of nurturing.
Words can not express my gratitude, nor the depth of invalauble knowledge I have been blessed with here. The truth lies behind the words in the eternal realm of love which we each of us, the golden essence of life is the most valuable gift one can receive.
May we all live within the beauty of love. May love be the source of all our thoughts, words and actions. May our sows never cease striving fearlessly towards this infinite realm of love and may we all return to this place of peace. Our eternal home
alex01
July 30, 2014 at 12:00 amDon Lucho filled my cup to the brim with Ayahuasca for the first ceremony! Drank it down in four big gulps. What happened then was truely an experience, I won’t forget.
However at the end of this vision, I was shown a piece of wisdom in which everything made sense and there was order and balance. This balance continued to grow in my thoughts and in my soul throughout the next five days and two ceremonies I felt pure joy in the form of eternal peace. I am leaving your holy piece of land with a better understanding of myself and of the universe and for that I am extremely grateful.
biankiss
July 30, 2014 at 12:00 amI really can’t find the words now.
It has been the most amazing 3 weeks of my life. I became a different, much better person and totally new. Never felt that much love and peace ever.
Lucho, Monica and everyone here gave me so much positive energy. I also got a purpose for my life, I won’t ever feel lost or lonely again I really can’t express my emotions I feel right now. I am so pleased can’t say thanks enough times.
This place is a heaven and paradise together and much more. Can’t wait to be back for good and to know Ayahuasca and this culture and my new family as well.
matt
July 22, 2014 at 12:00 amThank you for allowing me to spend time at your home. The path tha lead me here has been a long time in the making. I?m blessed to be fortunate enough to find myself here this time around. It has been truely amazing. I will find you all again soon in the dream world so we can continue to smile and lough together. Thank you Don Lucho for your teachings and guidance, thank you Monica for the food and positive energy Thank you Phillip for the everyday contribution you give to make this the most comfortable evironment possible. Also to my good friend Poochie, the cat who never sleeps. I love you all and will always think of this place fondly.