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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zachcolorado
July 22, 2014 at 12:00 amWow, my experience here has been incredible I think this has been one of the best week of my life. Taking Ayahuasca here has been a very eye opening experience and I think I have found out a lot about myself and about life in general. I definitely plan on coming back and doing Ayahuasca here again after I have spent some time with meditation so I can have more mental discipline and so I can have a more spiritual experience. I have had a lot of fun here the entire week I have stayed, Don Lucho and Monica have been absolutely the best, they are one of the nicest person I have ever met, they made me feel at home here and the food was absolutely excellent, Monica is a wonder cook! I will forever remember and cherish my experience here and I will miss everyone. I have met here very much, I will recommend Selvamadre to everyone that ask me about doing Ayahuasca. This is such abeautifull place! I love you all!
stephanie
July 16, 2014 at 12:00 amThank you to Don Lucho and family + Philippe for this experience, you have been very gentle amd kind. I felt comfortable and safe experiencing Ayahuasca for the first time in the temple. I wont forget my time here, soon I hope to come back over in the year to finish the 8 ceremonies, muchas gracias,
marco
July 16, 2014 at 12:00 amYou have made a sweet paraiso, thanks for welcoming us into it so nicely, tamquilo, seguro, I felt throughout the stay. I think after this short visit and iniciation ceremony it would be best to return to explore further andexperience more fully what these jungle medicine have to teach me. Hasta la vista, Lucho is a great singer. Thanks again for a significant experience
conrad
July 13, 2014 at 12:00 amWe had an incredible stay with Lucho, Monica and all the other people at Selvamadre. We had our first Ayahuasca ceremony ever monday night with Lucho and it was an amazing experience. The energy was strong and so our personal experiences which included plenty of visions and hallucinations. Lucho helped us and the others, Philippe made the experience secure, joyful and amazing. We walk away as changed men.
Besides the ceremony the stay has been nice, very good atmosphere, good food and plenty of it in tranquil and calm environment.
We would definitely recommend a stay at this place.
mike
July 10, 2014 at 12:00 amI did a 7 days retreat there, everything was nice, The shaman is ver nice and the place beautifull