Note: This business no longer operates as a plant medicine retreat center.
TierraMitica is a healing and research center in the beautiful unspoiled Fasaquihui gorge in the spectacular high jungle of Peru, 40 km by road from the city of Tarapoto. A paradise of 80 hectares (197 acres) of lush jungle with river and waterfalls, full of wild life, monkeys, blue morpho butterflies, hummingbirds and much more… It is the permanent home of the transformative Mythic Voyage Ayahuasca Workshop and the Embrace the Medicine Ayahuasca Retreats.
It is also an art center and the home of a community fully dedicated and trained to our healing work.
Our mission is to create a place where people are helped to transcend their personal wounds as well as our collective wound, to restore their trust in the wisdom of the world we live in, in themselves and in humanity, to provide a haven that offers everything we would like our own sisters, brothers, mothers and ourselves to find in order to absorb the gifts and healing insights of the medicine and the ceremonies. A place to inspire and restore the trust needed for every one of us to dare to rediscover and deepen our ability to embrace every moment, our power to create for ourselves amazing, fulfilling, creative and happy lives of choice and open heart.
We want for any one of our guests, in groups of a maximum of 12 people, to find here a place where they feel at home, safe, taken care of, supported and guided, so they can go as deep as they need in their healing process.
We work with a team of Shipibo Maestros and Maestras, that we have chosen not only for their experience and their power -that you will both feel strongly during the ceremonies- but also for their passion for their sacred work, their dedication to the healing, and their genuine attention and love for each single participant. We do ceremonies outdoors, since, due to the altitude, we have the luxury of being free of mosquitoes, under the moon and the stars on a wooden floor, were the icaros, the traditional healing chants of the Shipibos, are accompanied by the symphony of the river and the jungle.
We provide modern accommodations, with hot showers, comfortable beds, clear spring water and gourmet Ayahuasca diet food prepared with love.
We offer three different programs, the Mythic Voyage, the Embrace the Medicine 6 days, the Embrace the Medicine 11 days.
The Mythic Voyage:
It is a unique process, a fully guided, intensive and holistic workshop of 11 days for life transformation, and the only workshop of its kind in the world actually GUARANTEEING results, the success in fulfilling the guarantee judged by the participants themselves.
It is not focused on the Ayahuasca but on the end result: total transformation on every layer of human functionality and on every aspect of life for a beautiful, happy, inspired, creative life full of enthusiasm, ideas and love. It is holistic because it deals with seven layers of human functionality: our emotional, physical, cognitive or intellectual, philosophical, energetic, sensory and symbolic bodies to achieve a common internal direction and true, long lasting change. During the Mythic Voyage, intuitive, simple enough for a five-year-old to understand answers to existential questions like what exactly is the soul, what is enlightenment, who are we as human beings, why do we all feel bad about ourselves, why the universe exists and for what purpose, what is the reason why humans exist, and many more, are found that actually make sense.
During the 11 days, Ayahuasca ceremonies are not done for the experience but in order to find specific, practical answers to problems that make us suffer and blocks that stop us from living life to our full potential. We teach and guide people on how to effectively navigate and interpret the ceremony experience, diving deeper and deeper into our internal world, our subconscious, our belief systems that determine only who we are and how we perceive everything around us but also everything that we feel and think, our senses, our health as well as our memories. In contrast with retreats, the number of ceremonies is not fixed but varies according to the flow of the workshop and can vary from as many as six to as few as two.
Embrace the Medicine:
This program is an Ayahuasca retreat with two different formulas of 6 or 11 days, with respectively 3 and 6 Ayahuasca ceremonies.
The Ayahuasca communicates through the symbolic language, so we offer sharing circles and consultations to prepare you for ceremony and to decipher together the messages, the visions and the insights lived during the night. This way you can gain clarity on what has happened and what your next step should be. The Ayahuasca is a navigable experience, so if you wish, we can teach you how to collaborate with the Ayahuasca instead of being a simple observer, how to guide your own journey through a very precise and focused intention to go where is needed to find the answers and insights that will make a real difference in your life. The more you know how to navigate it, the more you will feel safe and free to explore, the more conscious you are of your experience and the clearer the results will be.
The guide of the retreat and one or two trained assistants are always presents in ceremonies, to support and assist the participants in anything they may need, as much for practical matters than in their personal process.
We have certified yoga instructors in Hatha and Vinyasa yoga, who can give classes every day during the Embrace the Medicine, for beginners or for advanced, an art studio available for you to create, an art gallery dedicated to the myth of the Grandmother Ayahuasca with 19 murals painted by visionary artists from all over the world, a natural pool by the waterfall, and plenty of land to explore and enjoy the wildlife, everything for our guests to feel inspired, nurtured, to feel their thirst for everything beautiful life has to offer.
Magic does exist!
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Nilouflower
August 8, 2015 at 12:00 amWow where do u start? I was desperate to be happy and excited about life again. I stated going to therapy and made many changes in my life, but it just wasn’t enough. I just knew something wasn’t right and that I was still depressed no matter how good things turned out for me. After much research, I came to Tierra Mitica to attend the Mythic Voyage as my final hope to make a big change. Words cannot describe my gratitude for the Tierra Miticans for creating the most loving, safe, and supportive space for us to go as we could possibly go. It was without a doubt the most challenging and intense experience beyond what I had expected, but it was all worth it. I was worth it. This is a fully guided workshop. The only way to make it through, is to stick to the commitment to your happiness and TRUST. Do it for YOU! You are worth it. It is now time for me to do the work and change my life, and things are only going up from here, and now I know I’m not alone. I have the support of my fellow Tierra Miticans walking the path with me. Thank you grandmother for bringing me to Tierra Mitica. I love you guys so much!
Aaron McMinn
June 18, 2015 at 12:00 amHello My name is Aaron McMinn I just completed the Mythic Journey May/June 2015. I was contacted by a friend of mine just after he completed the Mythic Journey. His experience and words spoke to me at a time when i really needed something exactly like this.
This is what he wrote me:
“I cannot describe the transformation that I experienced here.. there is no price i could have put on it. If you are ready to take back your life just choose this and make it happen.. You are worth it ..
I was close to ending my life.. now finally after 34 years I have full control of my life, I have direction, vision, I can dream. I am truly happy. and it only took 10 days … *was like 20 years of therapy”
So I quit my job and went to the next Mythic Voyage and id have to say it was the best decision i’ve ever made. Before i came i had no direction and a lot of unanswered questions about my life.
Thanks to Mikis I now have direction and am well equipped with the direction for any situation i find myself in. Mikis can see things in you that you can not see in yourself and this is a great gift because if you cant see what wrong then you’ll never know where to start. This workshop could be done without the ayahuasca and be just as effective. If you truly want change in your life I guarantee you this will work for you.
The staff, accommodations and Shipibo shamans at tierra Mitica are world class, full of love and every need is takin care of. couldnt ask for a better landscape to do the work in. Thank you So So Much <3
Nilouflower
June 16, 2015 at 12:00 amWOW! Where do I start? I was desperate to be happy and be excited about life again. I went to psychotherapy and made many changes in my life, but it just didn’t seem enough. What do I do? I came to Tierra Mitica as my final hope to find direction to my happiness. Words cannot describe my gratitude for the Tierra Miticans for creating the most loving, supportive, and safe space for all of us to go as deep as we could possibly go.It was without a doubt the most challenging and intense experience beyond what I had expected, but it was worth it. I was worth it. This is a fully guided workshop. To make it through, stick to the commitment to your happiness and TRUST! Do it for YOU. You are worth it. It is now time for me to do the work and change my life, but I am not alone. I have my family of Argonauts and TierraMiticans walking along side me on the path of happiness. Thank you grandmother for bringing me to Tierra Mitica. I love you guys so much!
awakensimon
June 14, 2015 at 12:00 amhello
my name is Simon Therrien and I completed the mythic voyage of may 2015 and I can say it was the best experience of my life .. 🙂 I arrived at Tierra Mitica and was welcomed with the best hospitality you can imagine smiles and happy people.. clean great food… all the comfort of home in the middle of this jungle paradise … the workshop itself is really hard… you get challenged by Mikkis the super awesome owner and best philosopher of the world with all your problems and contradicting beliefs… I was a dilusional person and unhappy going through life without sense of direction and opening up in front of 12 people was at time really painfull… the ayahuasca sessions were amazing … the shipibo shamans and Icaros ladies were phenomenal.. increasing the experience 1000% most loving people I have met 🙂 … now that I have finished the mithic voyage .. for the first time of my life I know what it means to be truly happy and doing things that makes myself proud… I also started working here … hoping to see you here in Tierra Mitica where I will gladly take care of all of you 🙂 much love
sincerely
Simon
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April 18, 2015 at 12:00 amAttending the mythic voyage was the single most important thing I have done in my life to date,and I have done a lot of things including oh oh oh so many personal growth seminars ranging from mind power, to business, to happiness, to enlightenment. I had always wanted to attend an ayahuasca ceremony and somehow I ended up at Tierra Mitica ( the amount of gratefulness that I have for somehow choosing this place is huge). I went assuming I would learn a couple things about myself, connect more with nature/earth, etc. What happened was a total metamorphosis of my entire being and psyche into this beaming, relaxed, trusting, ILLUMINATED human being. This mythic voyage is SO SO SO SO much more than just the ayahuasca ceremonies themselves( which are so perfectly magical and the most authentic, supported, and beautiful as can be). I saw in myself and my fellow argonauts a mythic transformation take shape as the days progressed, one that I didn’t think could be real, especially in just 10 days. To call what Mikis does therapy, or psychological help is almost demeaning and would be like calling an exotic truffle a mushroom. What he does is somewhat in the magic realm but it is more effective than 20 years of therapy ( what someone who had that said). It effectively digs deep into your belief systems and does a thorough shake up and you could say spring cleaning of what you thought that you thought. The outcome: happiness, happiness, happiness. The funny thing was that I thought I was the most happy person I knew before I got there. Let me just tell you, THERES MORE!
The intermingling of the ceremonies with the most in depth work into the psyche has an outcome that would BLOW AWAY any professional in the field of personal transformation.
I am sending every important person in my life to Tierra Mitica because I know that this will change their entire lives forever and I can’t wait to be around more citizens of the world that are on this train.
If you have even the tiniest inkling, like I initially did, to take the plunge don’t even consider any other place than here. If money is a consideration, I felt I had gotten value the very first day. If you are a sucker for luxury look no further- the service here is not only “with a smile” but with more love than your mom gives you. The food and somehow ever changing menu also must be part of the magic because there is NO WAY that I can be that far in the Peruvian jungle and have 2 of the best cakes I have ever eaten for dessert in one night ( our last night party night). The beds are comfy and made daily, my dirty shoes are washed and sparkly, I am not allowed to bring my dishes anywhere- but even more important I am part of a new family.
I know I just wrote a lot but these words don’t even come close to what happens in that mythic place.