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!

Reviews (39)

4.3 out of 5
Overall 4.3
  • Jim La Rose
    April 18, 2015 at 12:00 am

    I attended the April 2015 Mythic Voyage, and it was the absolute best thing that I could have ever done for my life. Let me start by saying that since I had attended an entirely different retreat the year prior, I thought I had an idea as to what I was getting into. I was wrong and so very happy that I was.
    For many years I had been feeling numb and indifferent. I hated it because I could recall a time in my life when I felt love, joy and connectedness with the world around me. I heard and read about ayahuasca and determined that it was a means to get back to where I essentially left off in my life. So anyway, the ceremonies I attended in ?14 at the other retreat gave me a glimpse at what was possible. But I had no idea or instruction on how to achieve or maintain those possibilities. Basically it was your typical retreat with a few ceremonies and a whole lot of down time and reflection. Don?t get me wrong, I still think it?s a great place and would never recommend to anyone to not go there. But after attending the Mythic Voyage at Tierra Mitica, I could not imagine EVER going anywhere else.
    The biggest reason I chose Tierra Mitica and the Mythic Voyage this time around was not just because I was drawn more to it than the others. But because they offered the ?intensive? workshop which I felt would keep me busy and focused on what I needed to do for myself. That is exactly what happened but also was so much more than I could have ever imagined.
    I could go on about the great food that they serve, the above standard accommodations they provide, the beautiful setting it?s in and even the most awesome loving and supportive people that live there. But I want to get to the meat of my experience to share.
    When they say that they have had people quit, they are not kidding. While I was there, we had 1 person quit and leave the retreat entirely, another quit the workshop but stayed at Tierra Mitica, and even I almost quit the workshop on its final night. What happened this night is something that no matter the words I use, or how hard I try, I can not possibly manage to truly convey it to anyone. The closest I can manage to come to describing what happened to me, was ?magic?. And if it weren?t for my fellow Argonauts (or family as I now refer to them) being there to witness and share in the experience. I would have a hard time believing that I didn?t somehow make it up. All the days leading up to this night, I thought I knew I was making the progress I was needing to. Boy I was right, but at the same time SOOO WRONG! This night Mikis made or helped to make something happen that woke me up and got me to break and emerge from the shell that I?ve been in for so long. Without trying to explain what happened leading up to it, I will just say that in that moment, I truly felt everything that I hadn?t been able to feel for so long. I felt pain, sorrow, loss, joy, happiness and most importantly to me? For what may have been the first time in my life, love. Love from Mikis and my ?Family?, and my love for them.
    I now appreciate and love everyone around me. My relationships with everyone in my life are so much healthier and stronger. I have direction in my life which I never did before. I know what I need to do to gain and maintain my happiness. I would not have any of this if it weren?t for Mikis, the Tierra Miticans and the rest of my family that attended the April 2015 Mythic Voyage.
    If you are looking to just experience ayahuasca, please do not attend the Mythic Voyage. I have not attended their Mythic Journey but believe that it may be more for you if that?s the case. If you are looking for needed change in your life and have had a hard time achieving it. If you have the desire, determination and even strength to live the best life that you possibly can?. Please, by all means, attend the Mythic Voyage. If you trust and do not quit. It will be the best thing you ever did for yourself and those around you.

  • Jess West
    April 15, 2015 at 12:00 am

    I have just completed the Dec Mythic Voyage and am feeling amazing. It was one of the best retreats I have done and am really happy with what has come out of it. I have always been lost for direction but now know where I want to head and have confidence in the fact I can get there, it has also helped me feel a deeper connection with my family which is something I will always appreciate. The location is amazing! It is a beautiful spot surrounded by amazon.

    The accommodation is really nice, comfy rooms, beds, hot showers and amazing food. The staff were all really beautiful people and they looked after us really well and supported us on our journey whenever they could. I was hesitant about trying Ayahuasca for the first time but here they created a safe nurturing place and I always felt well looked after. On my last ceremony I had a fairly rough night with everything that was coming up. Mickis laid with me most of the ceremony making sure I was ok and pulling me through the ceremony with amazing outcomes, for this I will always be appreciative.

    If you are wanting to change your life, experience ayahuasca and still enjoy the comforts of the western world, this is the place for you. The love is abundant and the work is hard, but good.

  • Sskingsley
    April 15, 2015 at 12:00 am

    Wow, how can I sum up my Mythic Voyage in words?

    I came to TierraMitica for the April Mythic Voyage because I was completely lost in life, I had recently returned home from a much needed 12-month career break after having a failed marriage, loss in motivation at work, loss of my sense of purpose and generally not enjoying life. My first ayahuasca experience was actually a 6 day, 3 ceremony Magic Journey at TierraMitica last September. In September I chose to do a Magic Journey instead of a Mythic Voyage as I wanted to familiarise myself with Ayahuasca and TierraMitica before committing myself to a workshop as heavy duty as the Mythic Voyage.

    My experience in the September Magic Journey showed me that there were many aspects of my life that I wanted to improve. During the Magic Journey I was given the option of some free consultations with Mikis who gave me a flavour of the work that is done in the intensive Mythic Voyage workshop. As a result of these consultations I saw how much I wanted a true change in my life! From that moment I decided I no longer wanted to live a life void of inspiration and passion, I decided that I no longer wanted to have a heart closed to the possibility of falling in love, a heart closed to the ability to feel empathy and compassion. I decided that I no longer wanted depression and anxiety in my life. I saw how my life could be transformed through the work that is done during the Mythic Voyage. I returned for the April Mythic Voyage and had the most incredible life-changing experience!

    The Mythic Voyage completely opened my heart! From day-one an environment of openness, care and trust is created and my heart immediately started to open. For the first time of my life I felt compassion and empathy for people as they were telling their life stories. Mikis is gifted with his ability to identify people’s emotional and psychological blockages and gives each person a perfectly crafted intention to take into each ceremony. The intention proved to be an incredibly powerful tool to direct my Ayahuasca trip to the places most guarded by my subconscious and oh lord did things happen! Although I was taken to some very dark and scary places, these were places I had to go in order to get the answers my heart was so desperately yearning. The first three ceremonies were by far the most challenging experiences of my life but they completely freed me from the fear, self doubt and feelings of inadequacy which have been major barriers to my happiness.

    By the third ceremony I managed to reach the source of my suffering which was a repressed memory of a trauma from when I was four years old. Finding this memory answered so many questions I had and helped me make sense of so many aspects of my life that had been the source of confusion and sadness. My fourth and final ceremony was nothing short of pure bliss and a huge energetic shift took place. I started to feel passion for the first time in my adult life. This feeling of passion and inspiration permiated every cell of my body and made me feel alive again. The seed of an amazingly beautiful life has been planted. It’s truly amazing what Mikis can achieve in such a short period of time.

    Absolutely everything at TierraMitica is done to perfection. They provide a gourmet Ayahuasca diet (they don’t believe in depriving their guests of amazing and abundant food when it is completely not necessary). The accommodation is super comfortable, proper mattresses, clean and well maintained facilities and hot showers. All of the TierraMiticans stop at NOTHING to make this the best experience for you as possible.

    I have been so impressed with TerraMitica I have decided to stay and volunteer as I believe in the great work that is done here and I want to continue learning.

  • greenman1977
    April 14, 2015 at 12:00 am

    My experience at TierraMitica was incredible. The Mythic Voyage was an extremely intensive workshop that accomplished its goal of helping me to transform some core beliefs that were holding me back and sending me on my way with a more logical and effective framework of beliefs. If you just want an ayahuasca experience then go for the Magic Journey. It doesn’t involve the intense self-exploration required of the Mythic Voyage. Mikis Hasson is a remarkable human being. He will share his insights and will offer to help you in any way he can. He and all of the staff there lead by example – and it is inspiring. The Mythic Voyage program is one of a kind in the world and will open your eyes to your belief systems and how they impede your progress in life.

    The staff has wellspring of experience that made my time there more meaningful than I would have thought possible. They were available to offer advice and encouragement whenever possible and everything from diet and rest to navigating my way through the ayahuasca experience made my stay there unforgettable. The food was excellent and the facility is located in lush rain forest at an altitude that made the temperatures comfortable everyday, rain or shine. They put tons of thought into catering to their guests and it shows. The ayahuasca experience takes place in a controlled environment and safety is a primary concern for all guests.

    Their website breaks down the different experiences clearly. While I was there a few people who signed up for the Mythic Voyage clearly didn’t understand the scope of the workshop. This, for me, is a program of healing and fostering internal change. Those who enter with a closed mind: beware, you may not like what you see when truths are exposed. So make sure your intention is clear by reading the website and watching the youtube videos to understand what is being offered. Most of all, go there with an open mind because it will pay dividends as you start on a path toward a Mythic life.

    Marvelous Job, TierraMitica!

  • Aura
    December 25, 2014 at 12:00 am

    Wow, what a journey! this was the most unbelievable experience during which I truly reconnected with myself. According to the standards of the society I had everything and yet I was not a happy person. I felt like some things were missing from my life. The Mythic voyage was a voyage deep within my soul, allowing me to see my fears, the beliefs holding me back. This is not an easy trip and it would not have been possible without the constant help (sometimes very confrontational) and lots of love offered by Mikis and all the Tierra Miticans. After hours of workshop during the day, which were pushing me to confront my deepest and well hidden beliefs, the ceremonies created the space to feel, to really feel and see my fears, deepest desires and beliefs. The magical icaros singed by the shamans transported me, encouraged me to search and never give up. So, did the loving help offered by the Tierra Miticans assisting us. If you feel stuck in your life, with no direction, then Tierra Mitica and the Mythic Voyage is the place for you. It is sooo much more than just an Ayahuasca experience. It will not be easy, but the experience and the results are magical and worth everything. As, for me…I know I will be back. I want more, I want to be happy and I will do everything it takes for this. Thank you, thank you, thank you Tierra Mitica family!

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