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Join us in the Sacred Valley of Peru for an Ayahuasca & Internal Alchemy Retreat.
We’re opening a new path through the combination of traditional systems of spiritual awakening with ancient, shamanic ritual, sacred plant medicines, and energy work, as well as modern tools for the exploration of consciousness. This multidimensional approach expands and potentializes each system, bringing forth a powerful, effective path to freedom. Explore the unlimited nature of who and what you are at one of our retreats.
Our work with the medicine is heavily influenced by the Tantric traditions. TAN means to expand, stretch. TRA means to liberate. AYA means the little death. So we expand and liberate through surrender and recognition, gaining realization in the after-death-like state. Before each ceremony, we do Tantric Puja, calling on allies, Gods, Goddesses, ancestors, and helpers from the plant and spirit realms to empower, heal, and liberate the spirit.
Our Shaman, Paul Diamond, is initiated into a multitude of lineages, and offers an unprecedented degree of spiritual and energetic protection, based on over 20 years training in the world’s wisdom traditions. When traveling in the inter-dimensional realms, it is necessary to have an experienced and knowledgeable guide. Safety is paramount when dealing with the unseen. Participants will experience a field of love, and a safe intimate space conducive for Kundalini awakening, deep realizations, and liberation.
Throughout the retreat, we will focus on a specific set of practices taken from the Internal Energetic and Alchemical Traditions (Taoism, Tantra, Alchemy, and Shamanism) that are simple to learn yet far-reaching in their capacity to bring us to the highest levels of realization. We will be practicing these meditation exercises on a regular cycle to fully ground, activate, and energize these circuits.
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March 5, 2025 at 4:44 pmFully cannot recommend this place. I sat there once for medicine (against my better judgment) and was completely shocked by lack of safety, physical and emotional. The “shaman” is a man who looks very unwell and claims to be “widely initiated”. The guru complex with this guy is impressive. A sense of superiority rolls off the guy, and he openly speaks of play with “dark forces”. He cultivates relationships with people who worship him and treat him as a disciple of God himself, but these same people eventually leave that place worse off and speak openly about the issues with the place. I’m not one for dark magic, bruja speak, but I’ve heard several accounts from devoted “followers” of this after the fact. Take that or leave it.
His ceremonies are centered around him: his massive altar full of dead things, his 2 hour tantric puja where he dances in the middle of the space for everyone to see, his voice, his energy, his leadership, and yadda-yadda-yadda. I’ve never seen such a show of egoic “look at me, aren’t I so all-powerful” crud in my life. And he uses possession as a foundation for ceremony? Like Isis, Sehkmet, Kali and other eastern or Egyptian forms. There’s no plant medicine tradition to speak of, or respect for the plants and tribes who carry the wisdom or lineage.
People routinely flip out in the space, and with up to 15 participants with only the “head shaman” and no helpers present, the bigger rowdy participants can get dangerous to others and themselves.