Transformational Ayahuasca Retreats Bridging the Indigenous Shipibo Lineage with Eastern Practices and Healing Modalities

Intertwining Medicines offers a variety of trauma-sensitive ayahuasca retreats combining the Amazonian healing rites of the indigenous Shipibo tradition with grounding practices such as mindfulness meditation and restorative yoga.

With a focus on a small group setting of 5-10 guests per retreat, we create a safe, intimate container to foster a very personal and deeply healing journey for all. Every guest receives one to one guidance, professional facilitation, and consultations led by our highly experienced team.

Included in our programs are private online preparation sessions before each retreat, ongoing integration support, medicinal plant treatments, supportive activities throughout your stay, and much more.

Our retreat offerings include options for beginners and non beginners in addition to specialty retreats such as women’s ayahuasca retreats, men’s ayahuasca retreats, and Shipibo plant dietas.

  • Set and Setting

    When we open the door to the shamanic realms of ayahuasca, set and setting impact the experience as a whole. Our retreats offer a beautiful, serene environment where you can sink into the tranquility of the Andes mountains in or relax under the canopy of the Amazon rainforest next to a flowing river. Feeling a close connection to nature is an important component to healing.

  • Integrity and Safety

    The pillars that support an immersion with ayahuasca are found within the strength and cohesion of the team holding the space. Each member of our team is in service to this sacred work with plant medicine and in long term apprenticeship with the Shipibo lineage. Together we hold impeccable standards of integrity, responsibility, safety, and a code of ethics grounded in trauma-informed care.

  • Privacy and Support

    With very small groups of 5-10 guests per retreat, we create a stable, private, and loving container to initiate your highest healing potential. One to one facilitation is available at all times throughout your stay with us. Following every retreat we include ongoing integration support with an offering of six private calls with our facilitation team in addition to an online group call to share integration processes.

  • Trust and Connection

    Trust is the first brick in the foundation of building relationships, and we honor this process by including personal preparation support for every guest with video calls provided by our facilitation team. Establishing trust and connection opens the doorway for ayahuasca to work its magic in extraordinary ways, and we invite this magic in from the beginning of every correspondence.

  • Healing in Community

    In our modern world of technology and the digitalization of life, a growing number of people in Western societies feel the loss of community and authentic human interaction. An aspect of healing with ayahuasca is the acknowledgement of our relational needs. Sharing the journey of an ayahuasca immersion together within a small group container is in itself a healing balm.

Our 2025 schedule is open for registration. View our full list of retreat dates and location options below.

Our Ceremonial Maloka For Ayahuasca Ceremonies

The Sacred Valley of Cusco, Peru is our primary location.

Following every Andean retreat we offer an optional private tour to sacred sites such as the impressive ruins of Ollantaytambo and Pisac Temple, and we finish with a day trip to the spectacular citadel of Machu Picchu.

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— Carl Gustav Jung