Intimacy, Somatic Wisdom, & Ayahuasca
Focused on safety, intimacy, and the knowledge of somatic trauma healing, Ananda introduces you to the new paradigm of plant medicine care.
In a culture that is fast-paced, high intensity, and focused on outcomes, disconnection from self is becoming rampant. At Ananda Lodge we believe in the power of the sacred pause and reconnecting with nature, and self, as potent medicines lost in much of today’s society.
At Ananda Lodge your safety and care is our utmost priority. With a 2:1 ratio of healers and facilitators to guests, we believe that each person deserves to be seen, acknowledged, and to receive the highest level of care. Limiting our retreat to only 8 participants not only allows for the highest level of trauma-informed care, but also for our master healers to spend time getting to know you and supporting your work.
Each member of the Ananda Lodge CARE team is trained in somatic, trauma-informed plant medicine facilitation, ensuring your ability to go deep with the medicine in a safe environment. Our philosophy is that of a comprehensive approach in which we empower our guests before, during, and after the retreat with tools and resources that reunite them to their inner healing intelligence.
COME JOIN US FOR A SACRED MEDICINE
EXPERIENCE LIKE NO OTHER
Choosing The Right Retreat Center
At Ananda our sanctuary is purposefully designed to provide guests with the ideal setting to embark on deep, soul-level healing journeys.
With thoughtful intention to every detail, we aim to create a nurturing space to safely go deep with the medicine. Our trauma-informed process focuses on education, tools, and resources that empower you to access the inner intelligence of the body combined with the healing benefits of the medicine. At Ananda we believe in your sovereignty and being an ally throughout your healing journey.
Choosing the right retreat center is an important step in the healing process that should not be overlooked. At Ananda Lodge we work with some of the most respected and powerful healers (Onanyas) from the Shipibo tribe in the Peruvian Amazon. The medicine we work with is of the highest quality and is never mixed with anything other than the vine, Banisteriopsis caapi, and chacruna leaves, Psychotria viridis.
Nowadays ayahuasca ceremonies can vary greatly, and are becoming much more readily available in countries outside of South America. However, more and more unsafe practices are taking place. At Ananda Lodge we aim to be a bridge, where not only sacred medicine practices are honored and upheld, but the indigenous healers we work with are cared for, uplifted, and supported through Ayni, or sacred reciprocity efforts.
What You'll Gain
- An intimate, trauma-informed immersion with the powerful medicine of ayahuasca
- The safety and care from a Peruvian maestra and a team of trauma-informed somatic facilitators
- 6 personalized sessions to help you prepare, navigate, and integrate the wisdom of the medicine
- Tools for education, self-empowerment, and guidance to support going deeper and safer with the medicine
- Extra time post retreat to experience deep integration and nervous system healing
This Retreat Is For You If:
- Safety and trauma-informed care in the plant medicine space matter to you
- You desire an authentic healing experience that pays reverence to the medicine and the healer’s ability to do their best work
- You value the time required to process, to integrate, and to let the medicine settle in your nervous system before departing the retreat
- You are seeking an opportunity to go deep with the medicine in an intimate setting where you are fully supported throughout
- You want to feel empowered through the process with education, workshops, and guidance that focus on you as the healer
The Medicine
Ayahuasca
Oni, in Shipibo, is the name for the Ayahuasca brew. At Ananda Lodge Retreats, we operate with the highest level of integrity when serving medicine. Ayahuasca medicine that is brewed for our retreats is done with sacred reverence and prayer to provide deep healing for those who consume it.
Following many years of intense diets in the jungle, Shipibo healers are known to be some of the most highly skilled energetic surgeons. Through the singing of their icaros, or sacred healing songs, the curendera(o) channels their connection with the medicine and plant and animal spirits to heal traumatic imprints and energetic blockages. Through their singing, they guide the medicine to extract illness, repair the spirit, and harmonize the energy body.
While ayahuasca by itself can be considered deeply healing, it is the skill and level of mastery of the curandera(o) that profoundly impacts the depth of healing.
Shipibo
The Shipibo-Conibo are indigenous people who originate from the Peruvian Amazon. Formerly two groups, Shipibo and Conibo, they eventually merged to become one tribe known as some of the most powerful healers in the world. They are the third-largest indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon, comprising 36,000 people across more than 150 communities.
The Shipibo Tribe is deeply rooted in their spiritual beliefs of healing with plants and their reverence for plant and animal spirits. and gain their healing powers and wisdom directly from the plants. Evident through their icaros, or healing songs, and traditional textiles, or kenes, the Shipibo believe in the concept of an all-encompassing reality of oneness. The kene plays a crucial role in bringing these concepts into tangible, physical form often evident in the visuals experienced by the pasajeros.
Through their work with energy, they can cure a wide range of ailments, from physical to psycho-spiritual. The Shipibo follow a very specific progression of healing work with pasajeros that ensures the utmost safety, protection, and deepest access to removing trauma burdens and emotional imprints.
Interested individual can learn more by downloading this study from ICEERS.
“Mayan culture was very mycophilic, and they revered mushroom stones for divination, for spirituality, and also to be able to predict incoming armies and how to strategize against them.” Paul Stamets, Fantastic Fungi.
Integration Beyond The Norm
At Ananda Lodge, we hold the integration journey with the same reverence and sacredness as we have towards the plants and the ceremony itself.
Integration is a sacred endeavor to be honored with time, commitment, compassion, and grace. In the process of integration, we grow a deeper relationship with ourselves and a deeper understanding of our true essence.
Post retreat we offer 3 levels of tiered integration, embodiment, and transformation programs to deepen weave together the wisdom from the sacred plants.
Our Ripple Effect healing Packages place a strong emphasis on the Somatic process, the intricate relationship between the body and mind, and empowering pasajeros to reunite with the innate intelligence of the body.
At Ananda Lodge we don’t believe in offering one-off integration sessions. Instead we believe in building relationships and threads of continuity that support your ongoing healing and CARE.
If you are looking for integration support with a Plant Medicine Specialist, choose from a package below:
3 Session Package: $450
5 Session Package: $650 (14% savings)
7 Session Package: $850 (20% savings)
Discounts given if bought at time of retreat registration
A guided journey of somatic exploration, embodiment, and empowerment. For those wanting to harness the keys of nervous system regulation, this program is designed for you.
Work 1:1 with a Somatic Specialist on a journey of empowerment where you will learn how to tap into your innate somatic wisdom, release patterns of trauma and walk away with increased capacity, resiliency, and overall vitality.
PRICE: $1250
Payment plans available
Discounts given if bought at time of retreat registration
Our flagship offering, this program offers you a guided 6 month journey to wholistic healing and whole-being transformation.
In this program we will uncover old ways of being, energy patterns, and traumatic imprints that are keeping you from your most vital self. In this program we uniquely explore the interplay between the ancient wisdom of the energy body, with the Native American medicine wheel, and how to use plants, foods, and herbs as catalysts for healing and transformation.
A complete approach to whole system transformation, this program empowers you to unlock the keys to personal regeneration, self liberation, and alignment with your innate soul purpose.
PRICE: $3495
Payment plans available
Discounts given if bought at time of retreat registration
Ripple Effect Healing Packages
The Experience
8 Day/7 Night All-Inclusive Experience
3 Plant Medicine Ceremonies
Ocean-view King Bed Accommodations
Shipibo Master Healers
Max 8 Participants
2 Individual Healing Consultations
Private chef prepared meals
Trauma-Informed Facilitation
Somatic Movement and Breathwork Offerings
2 Somatic Preparation Sessions
2 Individual Onsite Navigation Sessions
2 Post Retreat Integration Sessions
What Makes Our Approach Unique
Trauma-informed care is not a ‘check the box’ process. At Ananda trauma-informed is a way of being and is woven into our entire Continuity of CARE process.
At Ananda Lodge Retreats, we believe in providing a level of care that is unprecedented in the plant medicine retreat business. Our process emphasizes intimacy, preparation through education and somatic resourcing, onsite individual and group processing, and post retreat integration for a wholistic and comprehensive approach to your care.
Our C.A.R.E. Philosophy
Compassion
We view compassion as the cornerstone of healing. Compassion for self and others allows us to see beyond separateness and to forgive ourselves and fellow human beings
Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that trauma-imprints are universal, with us each carrying wounds, visible or invisible. We acknowledge the power of being witnessed and the healing capacity available to us all.
Reverence
With reverence, we bow to Mother Earth and to the plants that provide healing. In reverence, we bow to ourselves for the innate healers that we are, and to the Divine for the guidance on our journey.
Embodiment
We believe somatic embodiment creates a roadmap for lasting integration and healing. When we walk the path with wisdom, we are able to heal for the generations before, and those after us.
A New Way Forward
Starting with a thorough intake process, our goal is to begin learning about you, your background, and how we can best support your journey. Following the intake process, you will receive an individual 75-minute somatic preparation session. This session will help you define a clear intention and how to leverage your unique resources to go deeper with the medicine.
Throughout your stay, you will have access to 1:1 sessions with an assigned trauma-informed CARE member who will be with you throughout. These sessions are optional, and designed to provide additional support as you process feelings/sensations/insights from your experiences.
We understand that continued care post-retreat is critical in your journey of plant medicine work. Following your departure, it is our pleasure to continue supporting your unique path of integration.
As part of our continuity of CARE experience, you will receive two additional 1:1 integration sessions with a trauma-informed somatic integration specialist, invitations to our monthly community gatherings, and access to our Ripple Effect healing Packages.
Before
- Thorough intake process designed to learn about you, your background, and how we can best support you
- An individual 75-minute somatic preparation session to understand your intention and techniques for deeper connection with self and the medicine
- Virtual group orientation to meet fellow pasajeros and your onsite CARE team
During
- Two onsite plant medicine navigation sessions with an assigned trauma-informed CARE member
- Optional workshops and experiences designed to deepen the healing process and your self-empowerment tools
- Daily somatic and breathwork practices
After
- Two additional 1:1 integration sessions with a trauma-informed somatic integration specialist.
- Invitation to monthly online Ananda community gatherings for engagement and support
- Access to Ananda Lodge Ripple Effect healing Packages with our trauma-informed coaches.
Retreat Schedule
PRE-RETREAT
*Intake and Primary Preparation Session*
*Somatic Preparation and Intention Session*
*Online Group Orientation*
DAY 1 (ARRIVAL)
2:30 PM Airport Shuttle pick up from Liberia Airport
4:00 PM Arrive at Ananda
4:30 PM Welcome refreshments
5:00 PM *Group welcome, orientation, and grounding*
6:30 PM Dinner with Healers
DAY 2 (CEREMONY 1)
7:00 AM Vomitivo
9:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 AM *Meet the Healers*
11:00 AM *Ayahuasca Review*
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM FREE TIME
4:00 PM *Floral Bath*
5:30 PM Embodied Meditation
6:30 PM *Ceremony 1*
DAY 3 (CEREMONY 2)
8:00 AM Meditation and movement
9:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 AM FREE TIME or Individual CARE session
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM FREE TIME or Individual CARE session
4:00 PM *Floral Bath*
5:30 PM Embodied Meditation
6:30 PM *Ceremony 2*
DAY 4 (INTEGRATION)
8:00 AM Meditation and movement
9:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 AM *Group Share*
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Healer Consultations
5:00 PM Yin Yoga
6:00 PM Dinner
DAY 5 (CEREMONY 3)
7:30 AM Beach
9:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 AM *Group Somatic Session*
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Healer Consultations
4:30 PM *Floral Bath*
5:30 PM Embodied Meditation
6:30 PM Ceremony 3
DAY 6 (INTEGRATION)
8:00 AM Meditation and movement
9:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 AM *Group Share*
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM FREE TIME or Individual CARE session
4:00 PM Q&A with Healers
5:30 PM Beach Sunset
6:30 PM Dinner
7:30 PM Fire (weather depending)
DAY 7 (INTEGRATION)
8:00 AM Meditation and movement
9:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 AM *Group Post Retreat Care*
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM FREE TIME or Individual CARE session
4:00 PM *Shipibo Market*
6:00 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Group Sound healing Journey
DAY 8 (DEPARTURE)
8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM *Group Closing Circle*
11:00 AM Depart
POST-RETREAT
2 Individual Integration Sessions
Group Integration Call
Monthly Medicine Community Forums
*Indicates required activities*
Ananda Lodge Guide to Ayahuasca
Frequently Asked Questions
A sacred medicine retreat is an immersive experience that incorporates the ceremonial use of sacred plants or substances for healing, spiritual exploration, and personal growth.
This retreat was created specifically for beginners. However, it’s essential to consider your own readiness and intentions for participating in a sacred medicine retreat.
Safety is a top priority during ceremonies, and experienced facilitators take precautions to ensure the well-being of all participants. This includes screening participants for medical conditions or contraindications, providing pre- and post-ceremony support, maintaining a safe and sacred space and having trained staff on hand to assist.
Certain medical conditions, medications, or mental health conditions may be contraindicated with the use of sacred medicines. It’s essential to disclose all relevant medical history or medications to the retreat facilitators before participating.
Ceremonies involve ingesting the sacred medicine in a ritualistic setting under the guidance of experienced facilitators. Participants may experience a wide range of physical, emotional, and spiritual effects, including heightened sensory perception, introspection, emotional release, and spiritual insights.
Determining the correct mushroom dosage for a sacred ceremony is a nuanced process that requires careful consideration of various factors. We take an individualized approach, considering factors such as body weight, tolerance, previous experiences with psychedelics, and personal intentions for the ceremony. Our experienced facilitators have undergone extensive training and have years of experience working with sacred medicines.
We embrace the synergy of sacred plants and substances to create transformative and integrative experiences for our participants. Cacao has been used for centuries in ceremonial contexts for its heart-opening and mood-enhancing properties. When combined with sacred mushrooms, cacao can enhance and complement the psycho-spiritual effects of the mushrooms, creating a synergistic and expansive experience. The heart-opening properties of cacao can help to soften the edges of the mushroom experience, fostering a sense of safety, love, and trust that allows participants to surrender more deeply into the journey.
By offering ceremonies at different times of the day, we provide participants with the opportunity to experience the medicine in varying contexts and energetic frequencies. Evening ceremonies provide an opportunity for deep processing and integration as you sleep during the night. Morning ceremonies provide an opportunity to take advantage of optimal, natural brainwave patterns and chemicals, while offering conscious integration of the journey. The spacing of evening and morning ceremonies also allows participants time for rest and reflection between experiences.
Yes. Our Ananda Lodge CARE team is here to support you with 1:1 preparation and integration sessions before and after your onsite experience. Contact us to learn more.
