Iquitos, Peru · Amazon Rainforest

Ayahuasca & Sacred Master Plant Retreat

Metsá-Kabi

A full Shipibo healing treatment with Maestra Ángela López

at Metsá-Kabi · Iquitos, Peru

Metsá-Kabi is a Shipibo-Konibo name carrying the spirit of beautiful, graceful, and ancestral feminine wisdom.

September 25 – October 6, 2026
November 8 – 20, 2026
November 28 – December 10, 2026
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The Maloca at Metsá-Kabi, Iquitos Peru
A Transformative Journey

Not just ceremonies.
A complete healing process.

This retreat offers a full Shipibo healing treatment — a traditional process of energetic cleansing, realignment, and renewal guided by two of the most experienced healers in the Ucayali region.

Each of the five ayahuasca ceremonies carries a distinct intention within the traditional Shipibo framework: Diagnosis, Cleansing, Protection, and the closing Arkana. Your facilitators guide you through each stage so you can understand and integrate what you are moving through — not just experience it.

Our purpose is your genuine transformation. To release the weight, the doubt, and the patterns that limit you. To reconnect with your own heart. Many participants leave with a different relationship to their body, their life, and the earth.

A maximum of ten participants. This is intentional — so that your process is genuinely held.

The Medicine

Ayahuasca has been revered in the Amazon for generations.

When approached with respect and proper guidance, it dissolves emotional blocks, expands self-awareness, and awakens the capacity to live with authenticity, purpose, and love.

01

Energetic Cleansing

Release accumulated emotional weight, energetic imprints, and patterns that no longer serve your life and wellbeing.

02

Realignment

Reconnect with your own center — your heart, your purpose, the inner confidence and clarity that lives beneath everything you've accumulated.

03

Protection & Renewal

The closing ceremonies seal the work with protection and Arkana — a spiritual fortification that carries the healing forward into your life.

The Five Ceremonies

Each ceremony holds a distinct intention.

The traditional Shipibo healing process is not a series of identical ceremonies. Each sits in sequence, building on the last — a complete arc of treatment from first diagnosis to final integration.

I
Diagnosis

Opening the Vision

The healers read your energy, identify what needs to be addressed, and open the channel between you and the medicine. This ceremony orients the entire treatment that follows.

II
Diagnosis & Cleansing · Opening the Dieta

Going Deeper

The second ceremony deepens the diagnosis and begins active cleansing work. The traditional dieta is formally opened — the plant medicine begins working on you around the clock, not only during ceremony.

III
Cleansing

The Heart of the Work

The central ceremony. Heavy energies, grief, fear, and entrenched patterns are moved through Maestra Ángela's icaros. Many participants experience this as the most profound ceremony of the retreat.

IV
Protection

Building the Shield

With the cleansing complete, the healers begin laying in protection — fortifying your energy field and anchoring the healing that has been done.

V
Arkana · Closing the Dieta

Sealing the Work

The final and most integrative ceremony. Arkana is a spiritual fortification — a sealing of everything that has been healed and cleared. The dieta closes, and the medicine's direct phase of work completes.

Daily Life

What your days look like.

The days between ceremonies are not empty. They are woven with practices designed to support and integrate what the medicine is moving in you.

Day 0

Arrival in Iquitos

Arrive, check in, and meet the group at 5:30pm for your opening orientation before the journey begins.

Day 1

Journey to the Land

Drive to KM 72, settle into the retreat center, receive your first plant bath, and begin the ayahuasca preparation process.

Day 2

Dragon's Blood & First Ceremony

Dragon's Blood purge, Agua Florida, plant baths, and meditation. Evening ceremony.

Ceremony I · Diagnosis
Days 3–4

Consultation & Movement

Healer consultations, guided art, sharing circle. Day 4 adds yoga, plant medicine treatments, steam bath, and Mapacho workshop.

Ceremony II · Day 4
Days 5–6

Sound, Land & Third Ceremony

Sound bath, steam baths, guided art. Day 6 includes yoga, Agua Florida workshop, and a medicinal plant hike.

Ceremony III · Day 6
Days 7–8

Shipibo Art & Fourth Ceremony

Rest day with sound bath and sharing. Day 8 features a special class with Maestra Ángela on Shipibo art, its sacred symbolism, and protective meaning.

Ceremony IV · Day 8
Days 9–10

Cacao, Breathwork & Final Ceremony

Heart-opening cacao ceremony and breathwork on Day 9. Day 10 closes with love bath, intention sharing, and the final ceremony.

Ceremony V · Day 10
Days 11–12

Closing & Departure

Integration talk, final love bath, and group closing circle. Morning departure on Day 12 back to Iquitos.

Beyond Ceremony

Every day is held with intention.

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Healing Plant Baths

Traditional floral and herbal baths prepared by the Maestros to cleanse energetic fields and refresh the spirit.

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Yoga Practices

Gentle morning movement to restore balance, flexibility, and embodied awareness between ceremonies.

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Cacao & Breathwork

An immersive heart-opening practice combining sacred cacao medicine with guided breathwork for deep emotional release.

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Agua Florida Workshop

Learn the sacred uses of Agua Florida and Mapacho — traditional Amazonian tools for purification, grounding, and prayer.

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Sound Bath Journey

Restorative sound healing using instruments and frequencies that bring the mind and nervous system into harmony.

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Shipibo Art Class

A special class with Maestra Ángela on Shipibo art — learning its sacred geometry, symbolism, and healing significance.

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Medicinal Plant Walk

A guided hike through the land with the healers, learning the medicinal and ceremonial plants growing on the property.

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Creative Expression

Optional art space — drawing, painting, or collage — to translate ceremony insights into embodied creativity.

Your Healers

Shipibo lineage. Decades of practice.

The quality of the healers is everything. Both Maestra Ángela and Urias come from deep within the Shipibo tradition — their knowledge is lived, ancestral, and precise.

Maestra Ángela López, Shipibo Curandera

Maestra Ángela López

Shipibo Curandera · Lead Healer

30+ Years Experience

A highly respected healer from the Ucayali region, Maestra Ángela works with deep compassion and precision. Her icaros — the sacred healing songs sung directly to each participant — are known for their profound power to move heavy energies and open the heart to renewal. This retreat is held at her own land, which she has tended and worked with for decades.

Urias García Nunta, Shipibo Curandero

Urias García Nunta

Shipibo Curandero

Trained from Childhood

An experienced Shipibo healer trained from childhood within his family's lineage, Urias has guided hundreds of participants through deep healing processes, including extended work with the Temple of the Way of Light in Iquitos. He carries ancestral knowledge of icaros and plant medicine with humility and strength. His presence brings clarity, grounding, and powerful energetic protection to the retreat.

Your Facilitators

Guided at every step.

Your facilitation team bridges the traditional healing process with trauma-informed, integrative support — before, during, and after the retreat.

Brian Landever

Brian Landever

Facilitator & Retreat Leader

Brian brings years of experience supporting ayahuasca retreats, Shipibo dietas, and community healing work in Peru. His approach blends clear organization, meditation practice, and a warm, steady presence that helps participants feel safe, understood, and guided through their personal process.

Mariella Noriega

Mariella Noriega

Facilitator

Mariella offers a deeply caring presence shaped by decades of experience with ayahuasca and master plants. She brings maternal steadiness, intuitive listening, and practical support to group dynamics — encouraging participants to release emotional blocks and reconnect with self-love and inner confidence.

Annie Ladino

Annie Ladino

Facilitator & Psychedelic Integration Coach

Annie provides a grounded, compassionate presence informed by years in plant-medicine integration, somatic awareness, and trauma-sensitive support. She helps participants move gently through their experiences, offering clarity, encouragement, and space for insight to unfold naturally.

The Land

The jungle is not the backdrop. It is the medicine.

Maestra Ángela's retreat center sits at KM 72 outside Iquitos — a living Amazon property that has been held in ceremony and tended with intention for decades.

The Maloca at Metsá-Kabi
The ceremony space

The Maloca

A traditional open-air ceremonial structure built in the Amazonian style. The sounds, air, and presence of the rainforest are constant throughout every ceremony.

Tambo accommodations at Metsá-Kabi
Accommodation

Tambo Cabins

Traditional open-air wooden tambos with thatched roofs, raised wooden floors, and mosquito nets. The jungle surrounds you on all sides — the sounds, the air, the light are constant companions throughout your stay.

Nourishment

On-Site Kitchen

A dedicated chef prepares all meals fresh daily following the traditional Shipibo dieta — clean, nourishing, and in service of the medicine work.

Two Noya Rao Trees

The property is home to two noya rao trees — one of the most sacred and rare master plants in the Shipibo tradition, known as the Tree of Light. Their presence on this land is considered deeply significant. Healers and participants alike feel their influence throughout the retreat.

Noya Rao tree Ancient tree with roots
What's Included

Everything you need for the journey.

Included
  • Accommodation at Maestra Ángela's retreat center (all nights)
  • All meals, prepared fresh daily following the traditional Shipibo dieta
  • Five ayahuasca ceremonies with Shipibo healers
  • Personalized treatment plan with master plants and Shipibo healing methods
  • Healing plant baths prepared by the Maestros
  • Yoga and embodiment practices
  • Cacao ceremony and breathwork session
  • Agua Florida and Mapacho workshop
  • Shipibo art class with Maestra Ángela
  • Medicinal plant walk on the land
  • Integration and intention sharing circles
  • Sound bath journey
  • Optional creative expression space
  • Pre-retreat orientation session
  • Post-retreat integration session
  • Trauma-informed facilitation throughout
Not Included
  • Flights to Iquitos (IQU) via Lima (LIM)
  • Airport transfers (we can help coordinate)
  • Travel insurance (strongly recommended)
  • First night hotel in Iquitos (we can recommend)
Sacred Reciprocity

A portion of all proceeds directly supports the healers, their families, and community projects in Ucayali, Peru.

We work ethically, compensate our healers fairly, and protect the cultural integrity of this ancestral tradition. Ayni — sacred reciprocity — is not a tagline. It is the foundation of everything we do.

Our Commitment

Trauma-Informed Approach
& Sacred Reciprocity

Trauma-Informed Healing

This retreat is guided by trauma-informed principles.

Our facilitators are trained to recognize emotional, physical, and energetic sensitivity — and to respond with presence, patience, and care. The pace of each retreat respects every participant's boundaries and readiness, ensuring safety, grounding, and consent at every step.

We offer gentle integration practices and create a space where participants feel supported, witnessed, and empowered to move at their own rhythm.

Sacred Reciprocity — Ayni

Central to this retreat is Ayni — sacred reciprocity.

In the Shipibo tradition, healing is an exchange of energy, gratitude, and respect between all beings. By participating, you are not only receiving the medicine's wisdom — you are also supporting the preservation of Shipibo knowledge, culture, and livelihood.

A portion of the proceeds directly supports the healers, their families, and community projects in Ucayali, Peru. We honor the lineage by working ethically, compensating fairly, and protecting the cultural integrity of this ancestral tradition.

Logistics & Pricing

Ayahuasca & Sacred Master Plant Medicine Retreats 2026

$2,950
Credit card · All-inclusive

A non-refundable deposit of $800 is due three weeks before your retreat date to secure your place.

Only 10 spots per retreat
September 25 – October 6 November 8 – 20 November 28 – December 10
Dates
September 25 – October 6  ·  November 8 – 20  ·  November 28 – December 10, 2026
Location
Metsá-Kabi · KM 72, Iquitos, Peru
Fly Into
Iquitos (IQU) via Lima (LIM) — Iquitos is accessible by air only. LATAM and Sky Airline operate this connection. Flight time ~1.5 hours from Lima.
Transfers
We can help arrange airport-to-hotel transfers. The full group travels together to the retreat center on Day 1 — your first shared experience.
Arrive
Book flights arriving by afternoon on Day 0 to attend the 5:30pm opening orientation.
Depart
Book departure flights from Iquitos on Day 12, late afternoon or evening.
Group
Maximum 10 participants. This intimate container is deliberate — it ensures every participant is genuinely held by the healers and facilitation team.
Begin Your Journey

Ready to reserve your place?

Space is intentionally limited to ten participants per retreat. To reserve your place or ask any questions before committing, reach out directly — we respond to every inquiry personally.

Ayni.medicinas@gmail.com
Brian.Landever@gmail.com
+1 347 324 6759
September 25 – October 6 November 8 – 20 November 28 – December 10