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Temple of the Way of Light
The Temple of the Way of Light is a traditional plant-medicine shamanic healing center located in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest that offers intensive ayahuasca retreats with female and male Shipibo healers. We are dedicated to providing our guests with the opportunity to benefit from the ancient healing wisdom of the Shipibo people, and to helping this unique culture preserve its knowledge and identity in the 21st Century.
We work with some of the most respected and powerful healers (Onanya) from the Shipibo tribe. They are highly experienced, gentle, caring, and deeply dedicated to healing and embodying the wisdom and sincerity of their people. The healing traditions of the Shipibo people offer an ancient yet pioneering path to health, re-discovering our true nature and re-awakening to our true purpose.
The Temple firmly believes in respecting and honoring the ancient practices of the Onanya, experts in ayahuasca healing and plant-spirit shamanism of the Amazon. They bring a rich cultural and medicinal legacy to the healing process: time-honored rituals, intricate practices, an expansive cosmology, an encyclopedic knowledge of medicinal plants of the Amazon, and a far-reaching ancestral lineage.
The Temple has safely facilitated healing for thousands of people since 2007 and has forged an exemplary reputation for stringent safety protocols, compassionate care, and a balance of female and male healers and facilitators. We have used our experience to fine-tune a synthesis of ancient Shipibo medicine traditions and modern and Eastern integrative practices that now extends to comprehensive aftercare and integration support long after guests have returned home. All this takes place with an institutional focus on sustainability, permaculture, ethics, and social responsibility.
We offer ayahuasca retreat programs of varying duration, focus, and intensity, with a balance of female and male Shipibo healers, experienced western facilitators, floral baths, a steam bath, a high ratio of healers to guests, a high number of ayahuasca ceremonies, individual consultations, a nutritional and balanced ayahuasca food diet, and a strong focus on how to process and integrate healing, both during and after each ayahuasca retreat.
The safety of our guests is paramount. We are constantly working to offer the safest container and most effective ayahuasca healing experience in the Amazon. We have developed the most stringent health and safety protocols available on any ayahuasca retreat in Peru. The Temple’s commitment to guests begins with in-depth medical and psychological screening during our booking procedure and continues after the retreat through our integration support. Guiding you safely through deep personal healing and growth is our priority, both in and out of ceremony.
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CondorSky
March 19, 2019 at 3:04 pmI would say that while the healers of this organization are gifted the staff is dangerous in that there is a lack of awareness and accountability for blind spots and spiritual bypassing. The staff dabbles in areas of therapeutic healing that they are not skilled to handle and don’t even recognize that they aren’t skilled to handle. They can’t see what they don’t know and from that perspective they have the potential to cause great harm to clients who are vulnerable.
I had thought that I was one of few people to hold this perspective but the more I speak out the more I find that others have unfortunately had this experience as well. You likely won’t hear from these people as the Temple does a good job of silencing them.
TOTWOL
April 11, 2019 at 3:04 amThe Temple is deeply committed to ensuring that we provide optimal conditions for deep transformation to occur, be it in the quality of our medicine, with experienced and well-intentioned healers and staff, providing a safe setting, etc., as well as always learning from any mistakes that arise. We do not practice spiritual bypassing and our foreign staff includes skilled and experienced doctors and practitioners in a variety of healing and therapeutic fields. Our aim is to empower those who come for retreats to be present in the Now and awaken their most authentic self. Our mission is to create a container where our guests can feel safe so that they are able to create transformation for themselves and with ayahuasca.
We always handle valid complaints and criticisms honestly and appropriately. Where and when we make a mistake (which we occasionally do), we accept it, learn from it, and strive not to repeat it. The challenges that we have faced over the years have actually been our biggest teachers and have initiated an evolution for the Temple for which we are most grateful.
Dishonest complaints, disinformation, and spurious allegations unfortunately also happen occasionally. When working in “shadow territories,” as it is the nature of ayahuasca, limiting, blameful, destructive, and self-sabotaging patterns are exposed. In an effort to manage and integrate a big experience, or if the ego is not able to face the shadow within, it may then unknowingly be projected externally, and result in being triggered and/or finding fault or blame in other people, circumstances, situations, reasons, or excuses to validate a position. This is a huge aspect of shadow work and one that we see frequently. We devote a lot of energy to guiding guests towards an awareness of what projection is in the first days of working with the medicine, as it is possible to become overwhelmed with a strong experience in ceremony. We do our best to encourage awareness of this pattern before it does arise, and then again, gently, when it does.
This reviewer’s experience, like all of ours, is entirely valid, and also a reflection of their inner world. We are never interested in silencing anyone, and there is also a line between accepting when we have made a mistake and not accepting charged blame and unauthentic assumptions, which can and does happen with a very small number of guests who are not able/willing to take personal responsibility for their experiences.
Lightbearer
February 9, 2019 at 2:27 amMe and my wife did the 12 day retreat in january 2019, with 7 ceremonies, this was our first time, when we decided to go for ayahusca we searched online before agreeing on the temple of the way of light.
I am so greatful for the temple, it was an intense and eye opening experience full of love, support and healing on all levels, i came back a changed man.
My experience of the temple was more than i ever expected, the staff provided me with a loving, caring, safe, organised, informative environment to heal and purge so much blackness that had accumulated within my psyche unconsicously over the years.
No matter what i was dealing with in ceremony, i always knew i was safe, which helped me focus exclusively on my healing/purging process.
My faith in human kind has been restored, no matter how dark this world gets, the light always finds a way, and minarets of light and love on this earth exist (the temple of the way of light is undoubtedly one of them)and are available to those ready to really look inside the closet and clear out the skeletons.
Thank you soo much for everything, we came in as strangers from different countries, religons, backgrounds and connected so deeply when it was time to leave we left as a loving family.
Thanks to all the maestros and supporting staff and a special thanks to Debie and Claude
NicLod
February 6, 2019 at 11:09 amI have just come out of the jungle after completing a 12-day intensive retreat at The Temple of the Way of Light. It was an amazing experience that far exceeded my expectations. I would class it as one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Everybody at the temple are deeply committed to creating the ultimate conditions for healing and catalyzing lasting transformation. The Shipibo Maestras and Maestros are extraordinary. I am sure I will go back as so many people who go to the temple do. Can’t recommend this establishment highly enough. Faultless. Thanks, beautiful people.
lucyaya
February 6, 2019 at 5:03 amI have just returned from the temple and my whole life has been transformed by my experience there.
I am so deeply grateful for the care that each person showed me at the temple. It was such a safe, supported and joyous environment and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I partook in the 23 deep immersion and the yoga, mediation element was integral to my integration and the classes were top quality.
Thank you to the Temple and everyone that contributed to this life-changing journey. I owe the temple so much.
jm2019
February 2, 2019 at 12:33 pmAn experience I will never forget, run by an amazing group of people doing such great work.
I felt so held, loved and comfortable the moment I arrived till the sad day when we had to leave.
A place everyone needs to visit at least once in their life.