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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Rosa
May 22, 2015 at 12:00 amIt is difficult to put into words something so amazing and spiritual. My partner and myself had planned to visit the jungle for sometime. We both had experienced praying with mother ayahuasca medicine in a previous ceremony. So for us it was important to have a spiritual setting and a maestro/teacher (shaman) that would lead from his heart. Don Lucho and his beautiful family did just that! They not opened their home (the jungle) but also opened their heart and guided us through such a transformational journey spiritually and mentally!
The amazing icaros were so piercing to my soul that I can still feel and hear them. I will forever carry them with me. I found so much healing from the ceremonies that in turn I have also found myself! Our Maestro took time to interpret our visions and give us guidance that we continue to practice and incorporate in our lives today. Someday we hope to return…
encouragement8
May 19, 2015 at 12:00 am7 of us went on a 10 day retreat at Selva Madre.
We had 4 ceremonies and we were sad to leave.
It was incredible… one of the most unique experiences
I’ve ever had.
I’ve been back ‘home’ for 11 days now and still
feel like I’ve left a piece of myself in the jungle…
Looking back in hindsight, I really liked how
there was no electricity, hot water, wifi, etc.
It added to the whole experience… very special and sacred.
Think they are installing some creature comforts for the next couple of months… for the 10 day retreat. (They have 20 day retreats too).
It’s a family run business – a beautiful family at that.
I highly recommend Selva Madre for so many reasons…
Many blessings, Selva Madre.
We miss you guys… thank you so much for holding the space for us, guiding us, assisting us in shifting, expanding, and letting go…
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CodyJML
May 18, 2015 at 12:00 amI went down for my first ever ayahuasca retreat early April 2015. I couldn’t be more pleased with the time i spent there. I highly recommend going for the twenty days and eight ceremonies. It seemed almost everyone who only stayed for only 10 days wished they had more time. Phil the translator and apprentice shaman, and Anderson apprentice shaman, were great and I couldn’t speak more highly of Don Lucho. He is absolutely one of the kindest, if not the kindest, person i have ever meet. Even though i cannot speak comparatively to other retreats and other brews I can say with confidence that it is the most profound experience i have ever had. The ayahuasca addressed every single thing i went down there to work on and gave me visions and insights I could have never foreseen happening. If you are looking for an organic experience to learn and work on yourself then you will not be disappointed in your decision to go down to Selva Madre. I will never forget the experience and lessons i learned at Selva Madre and I wish you all the very best on your own personal journeys.
jackwatson
March 13, 2015 at 12:00 amThe journey for recuperating is a general human phenomenon. We every single have propensity, addictions, and burdens that we might want to change. An Ayahuasca retreat is the right approach to work with this strong healer in a lovely, sustaining common place.
matt3534
March 10, 2015 at 12:00 amHighly recommended.
I recently returned from spending 10 days in February. My first time in Peru. The insight I gained will stay with me for a long time.
I felt very safe and looked after the whole time I was there. Like part of the family. Don Luis [the shaman] held a very positive energy during the ceremonies. I could feel some of the connection with him take place on an intuitive level. He is active in the local community and helps protect the local rain forests. The medicine and Icaros were very powerful and the ceremonies felt traditional. Accommodation was very comfortable for jungle standards. A very positive experience and would recommend Selva Madre to anyone genuinely seeking to work with plant medicine.