Ananda San Pedro Retreat

Ananda San Pedro Retreat

with the Real Spirit Cooperative

Full Price Starting $5995

2024 Launch Offering ​ $3995

About

You are invited to take part in this 8 day/7 night offering of the indigenous sacred medicine of San Pedro for deep healing and self-discovery.

The Medicine

Echinopsis pachanoi, San Pedro or also known as Huachuma, is a cactus revered as a sacred plant medicine for over 3,000 years in Peru. Growing in the high altitudes of the Andes mountains, San Pedro is a tall, fast-growing cactus that contains a number of psychoactive alkaloids, but the major one is the classic psychedelic mescaline. The cactus has been used for its powerful medicinal properties by South American peoples for thousands of years.

Despite being sometimes overlooked, San Pedro possesses profound healing properties. While a San Pedro ceremony can be intense and powerful, it is also known as the grandfather medicine, highlighting its ability to help us slow down and enjoy the present moment.

San Pedro is unique in that it does not have the same pharmaceutical contraindications that are present with ayahuasca, allowing those who are on certain medications to experience its beautiful and deep healing medicine. The San Pedro experience is known for being empathogenic (similar to MDMA) and potentially life-changing, promoting radical introspection, healing, and a sense of wonder and awe.

San Pedro facilitates a deep exploration of our self-imposed barriers and limitations, allowing us to open our hearts and connect with our true selves. Each ceremony is a profound reunion with ourselves, Mother Nature, and the Divine.

Acting as a medicinal mirror, San Pedro illuminates the self-limiting beliefs and patterns that we cling to, gently guiding us towards releasing that which no longer serves our highest good. As an empathogenic, San Pedro can instill a sense of universal connectedness, promoting unity with self, others, nature, and the greater spiritual universe.

THE EXPERIENCE

8 Days/7 Nights in en suite accommodations with ocean view


Farm-to-table conscious meals with The School of Natural Cookery


Optional beach time


Maximum 14 participants for intimacy and deep immersion


Opening Fire Ceremony


Onsite one-to-one integration



3 Healing Ceremonies



Somatic Yoga Offerings


Online preparation and integration with Ananda Lodge CARE Team


WHAT YOU’LL GAIN

THIS RETREAT IS FOR YOU IF:

The Guide

Chase Moore

Chase Moore, a Tennessee native, is an experienced Huachumero trained in the indigenous San Pedro medicine tradition by his long time teacher, Bernhard Karshagen. He’s a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and has been teaching for over a decade. 

Ceremonies with Chase are always limited to a small number of participants to ensure personal, one-on-one time with each person. Chase currently lives in the Sacred Valley of Peru with his wife, Anna, and their beautiful daughter,

Maria Grace.

Ananda San Pedro Retreat Schedule

PRE-RETREAT ONLINE GROUP PREPARATION

 

DAY 1  (ARRIVAL)

4PM Arrival

5PM Welcome and Preparation

6PM Dinner

7PM Fire

 

DAY 2

FASTING

8:30AM Group Medicine Circle (Ceremony 1)

After the ceremony opens and until we close, everyone is asked to hold their own space to not interfere with anyone else’s process or leave the property

12PM Delicious fruit salad

4-5PM Grounding and Ceremony Close

6PM Dinner

7PM Fire

 

DAY 3

9AM Breakfast

10AM Group Integration

1PM Lunch

2PM Rest or 1:1 consultations

5PM Gentle Yoga (Optional)

6PM Dinner

 

DAY 4

FASTING

8:30AM Group Medicine Circle (Ceremony 2)

During ceremony everyone is asked to hold their own space to not interfere with anyone else’s process or leave the property

12PM Delicious fruit salad

4-5PM Grounding and Ceremony Close

6PM Dinner

7PM Fire

 

DAY 5

7:30AM Morning Beach (Optional)

9AM Breakfast

10AM Group Integration

1PM Lunch

2PM Rest or 1:1 consultations

4PM Gentle Yoga (Optional)

5PM Beach Sunset (Optional)

6PM Dinner

 

DAY 6

FASTING

8:30AM Group Medicine Circle (Ceremony 3)

During ceremony everyone is asked to hold their own space to not interfere with anyone else’s process or leave the property

12PM Delicious fruit salad

4-5PM Grounding and Ceremony Close

6PM Dinner

7PM Fire

 

DAY 7

7:30AM Morning Beach (Optional)

9AM Breakfast

10AM Group Integration

1PM Lunch

2PM Rest or 1:1 consultations

4PM Gentle Yoga (Optional)

5PM Beach Sunset (Optional)

6PM Dinner Celebration

7PM Closing Fire Circle

 

DAY 8 (DEPARTURE)

8AM Restorative Yoga

9AM Breakfast

11AM Depart

 

 POST-RETREAT ONLINE GROUP INTEGRATION

Ceremony is an opportunity to bring the divine into the ordinary

Sacred Reciprocity, Ayni

Support UMIYAC, an organization created in 1999 and includes five indigenous ethnicities from southwestern Colombia.  Working to preserve the Amazon rainforest and to revitalize and protect their cultures and ancestral medicines. They are spiritual authorities, medicine men and women of knowledge, working hard to ensure the health of the territories and the physical and spiritual wellbeing of their communities and territories.

ANANDA LODGE

Ananda Lodge is a boutique healing center aimed at creating a ripple effect of healing through the reconnection of self and extending outward to all of humanity and to the planet. Our mission is to provide intimately curated healing experiences that regenerate your being, and pay respect to sacred medicine traditions. We honor this through the lens of integrity, reverence for the healing plants, and the medicine keepers that carry these sacred rituals and traditions.

At Ananda Lodge, eco-sustainability meets luxury, featuring local artisanal design elements and natural wood and earth tones. Spanning over 3300 square meters, our property offers a secluded hideaway just 6 minutes from some of the best surfing in the country.

Stepping onto the property, immediately you feel an overwhelming sense of calm and peace. Removed from the noises of daily life, Ananda Lodge sits perched on the mountain with a picturesque view of the jungle and the Pacific Ocean. The sound of birds and monkeys fill the air, and as you settle in, a remembering of coming home, back to nature, can be felt throughout the body.