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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:
- 4 Ayahuasca ceremonies
- Shamanic Dieta
- Shamanic consultations
- Integration discussions in the mornings after ceremonies
- Fresh dietetic meals
- Lodging in private rooms with double bed and shower/bathroom
- Laundry service
- Botanical tour
- Jungle excursion
- Spanish / English Interpreter
- Plant and floral baths
- Transportation from Iquitos to Selva Madre
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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jotabe
December 2, 2014 at 12:00 amI have been in Selva Madre with my wife in November. I had a great experience there, Don Lucho and all the staff are wonderful, they have always a smile for everyone and they are extremely nice. The ayahuasca is pure and safe. The objective of the retreat is to help you and keep you safe. They are still improving the retreat; at the moment the rooms are basic without electricity and running water, but we’ve got used to it very easily, and I kind of liked it, it makes me remember that we’ve got to many unnecessary things in our modern lives. The only thing that could improve a bit was food, but maybe the reason was that the main cook was on holidays…
I think that Don Lucho is a great shaman and his icaros are just wonderful! If you are looking for a safe place and a caring shanman, go to Selva Madre, you won’t regret it! They will make you feel like at home.
Anthony
November 27, 2014 at 12:00 amI recommend to everyone! An authentic Ayahuasca experience!
My girlfriend and I just returned from a 10 day retreat at Selva Madre. Words cannot describe how amazing and influential this magical place is. I will admit I was doubtful of the reviews I read on this site, as anyone can create them with an email account. But once we arrived I knew I was in the right place. The atmospher is warm and comforting, almost feels like home. I miss that place already and its only been a week. Don Lucho is an amazing shaman and has had a lifetime of experience with ayahuasca. His brew is pure, just chacruna leaves and ayahuasca vine. I myself had very distinct and powerful visions (of space travel and more) 3 out of the 4 ceremonies. The first ceremony I had a negitive energy blocking mother ayahuasca from flowing through my body and mind. Before the 2nd ceremony Don Lucho prepared an ayahuasca shower which did its magic and helped me heal.
The retreat is only a few years old, but they are constantly building to make it bigger and better. It back to the basic way of life which is amazing when accompanied with the ayahuasca ceremonies. Real makes you think how many unnecessary things we have in our modern world. The dieta the served was pretty good from my perspective. Bland food the day after the ceremony, salt and sugar the day of ceremony, no supper on ceremony days. Lots of eggs and rice for ten days though.
Selva Madre is truely an amazing authentic ayahuasca healing center. I would recommend it to everyone. Especially first timers. I look forward to returning there in the future. One note, make sure there is an interpreter there. Philippe was away for 6 months so we had to help eachother out with spanish. As Don Lucho speaks minimal english. There does seem to be many bilingual people attending this retreat. Which does help for communication.
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ssekyer
October 31, 2014 at 12:00 amI just returned from a 10 day 4 session Ayahuasca retreat at Selva Madre. If you are looking for an authentic Ayahuasca experience at a fraction of the cost of other retreats I looked into then I would highly suggest Selva Madre. You actually live on the same premises as the shaman and his adult children and wife who all cook, clean and care for the facility and the guests. I can not speak highly enough of these people. They are all so kind and caring. Shaman Don Luis is a second generation shaman & is perhaps the kindest, humblest and most good natured person I have ever met. It is so refreshing to meet someone who is so dedicated to their craft and financial compensation is not the primary concern. Don Luis eats his family’s incredibly healthy meals with us & is always available and excited to share his insight and wisdom. You are in the jungle with limited electricity, not internet, and basin rain water showers are always filled in your neatly kept huts. Don Luis works with in the 4 ceremonies (Earth, Fire, Water, Air) and doesn’t necessarily blast you out of the water so to speak like I have heard and seen some of the other retreats do. He has great respect and the sanctity and brew of pure Ayahuasca Vine and chacruna that is grown and brewed on the property with no other additives. I have no other retreats to compare it to other than what I researched online before I went and I couldn’t have asked for a better more enriching experience. He will accept you at anytime with no set dates. Ceremonies are Monday Wednesday and Friday so you can plan your 4 ceremonies accordingly. I hope you have as positive experience as I had
thomaso
October 17, 2014 at 12:00 amThanks to Don Lucho for his great work, thanks Ayahuasca! Before coming to that place I didn’t know what to expect. I come back from another world where I discovered a lot about myself. Don Lucho guided me with care through all my visions. I feel like a new man refreshed from the old energies.
Thanks to Monica for the delicious food and everything. There was a friendly and peaceful ambiance with other guest. I just recommend that place for a safe travel into yourself
norman
September 22, 2014 at 12:00 amThe first day I came to Selvamadre the Shaman told me things about my life I never told him, I was really surprised about his power. There was a connection of trust like if I was his child. My life totally changed, I see clear into myself now and I just can say thanks!
I like the way we are treated as part of the family with a lot of care and there was a so nice ambience with everybody there.
If recommend to anybody to take Ayahuasca, it is a sacred plant that will heal you very deep like it did for me.