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Arkana Spiritual Center

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At Arkana, we create the space for you to get in touch with your truth, opening your path for deeper meaning and greater fulfillment in your life. We work with ancestral medicines such as Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Bufo Alvarius, Rapé , using the traditional practices of the indigenous cultures of the Peruvian Amazon. We currently operate two centers in Peru, one in the Peruvian Amazon and a second one in the Sacred Valley (close to Machu Picchu), and one in Mexico, the choice is yours.

With great respect for the plants and the knowledge and healing that comes with them, our lineage of Shipibo shamans set the stage for truly deep and profound healing. Awaken your inner power through their sacred and powerful icaros (healing songs), and discover your connection to all things by exploring some of the 2.2 million hectare Pacaya Samiria National Reserve which is our backyard. Nourish your body and soul with fresh, clean, delicious meals that promote your Ayahuasca experience, and integrate healthy habits into your routine with our yoga classes and extensive selection of gym equipment for all levels. We believe the health of physical body sets the foundation for the health of the energetic body – Often ignored in this type of spiritual work, we find this to be an important part of the healing process, so you can begin implementing the healthy habits that will carry this work with you into your life back home. Finally, relax your mind and spirit with sound baths, meditations, breathwave sessions, and OM circles, or simply enjoy the tranquil views of both sunrise and sunset from our front porch on the banks of the Ucayali River, surrounded by lush biodiversity and the mesmerizing sounds of the jungle.

Arkana’s exceptional team of highly-trained Shipibo Master Shamans represent an unbroken lineage of plant medicine work. With a combined history of over 70 years of experience working closely with Ayahuasca and other master plant teachers of the jungle, our compassionate healers lovingly share their teachings, healing songs (icaros), capabilities, and knowledge with integrity and honor. We strive to maintain the traditional practices passed down through thousands of years of indigenous Amazonian culture, in order to continue to promote the true purpose and nature of plant medicine work.

Experiencing the medicines with us is a transformative personal journey, and so much more. We also work closely with our local community, the Amazonian village of Libertad, to ensure that our Center can benefit and give back to the people who have so generously let us into their homes and hearts. We create employment opportunities, teach free English classes, provide a space for the ladies to sell their handmade crafts, and assist in construction projects, among other things. Our latest endeavor is outfitting the entire village with free solar panels, so every house can have light and electricity. When you join us, you are helping the rainforest and the Amazon communities that live here.

Guests that come to our Center often say they feel like “part of the family” with us – that’s no coincidence, as we are one big family at Arkana! The people that are with you throughout your experience can simply facilitate your own healing journey or become an integral part of it. Our experienced, loving, and professional team of caregivers welcomes you to join our tribe, where we strive to make you feel at home and at ease, supported and cared for with all the love and compassion that is at the core of the plant medicines and people we work with.

Ayahuasca is a powerful medicine that offers us the opportunity to understand our true nature, by shining a light onto our darkness, and holding a mirror up to our fears, negative thought patterns, and self-limiting beliefs. We provide the environment and expertise of a team of highly skilled, warm, compassionate Shamans and facilitators to guide you through the process of awakening, of choosing differently, healing, and expanding. It is a slow but steady path towards freedom – from fear, from illusion, from self-constructed boundaries – resulting in a lighter, brighter, more authentic self, and the full experience of love. It is our honor to help you on this most fulfilling of all journeys: the journey back home.

We look forward to having you with us!

Lots of Love,
The Team

Reviews (642)

4.9 out of 5

Overall 4.9

StarDancer
September 25, 2016 at 8:33 pm

I have just returned from a 7 Day Ayahuasca Retreat in Peru outside of Iquitos run by Pulse Adventure Tours. This was my 10th time in Peru and my first time drinking the medicine with Pulse who use authentic Shipibo brew consisting of only the Ayahuasca Vine and the Chacruna bush with no dangerous admixture plants (Toe’ Mapacho etc..) The y have 3 Shamans with one of them being a woman to help maximize the female energy of the plant for the guests benefit. All 3 singing together were really something special. It helped the Icaros become more powerful to help us guests get most out of our ceremonies. It was truly magical in every way.
The people at Pulse looked after me and helped me reach my full potential with the medicine to actually cure my lifelong depression as opposed to another place in Iquitos that is “Accredited By The Peruvian Government” where I was given a band aid type of dose and also wasn’t given the Shamans true interpretation of what I needed to do in my work. This is of vital importance while doing this work. People who use this medicine strictly to make money aren’t being true to their guests and there are A LOT OF THEM IN IQUITOS. Pulse was honest with me about what the Shaman said about my visionary process and what I needed to do to get the most out of my retreat. I know only a few words in spanish but I know for a fact I was being told the truth when my interpreter was relaying the Shamans message to me. This my friends, is WHY WE SEEK THIS MEDICINE. This is also why I will never go ANYWHERE ELSE. Honesty is the only policy with this work.
The people from Pulse are also open to other medicines that help gain consciousness like the sacred Mushroom as they are all important for human transformation. The Shaman at Pulse told me it was a very good thing that I work with the mushroom at home and to take my time at the retreat to unite the 2 medicines together to really ascend with this work. The guy from Spiritquest lied to me and other people about this several times in the past to try to control his guests so that they had to come back to most expense place in Peru if they needed healing. Pulse actually offers this medicine (Mushrooms) on their New Years Retreat and are positive about folks like me who do ceremony work with it at home. They in fact may be offering more of this in the future on Aya rest days during retreats as they recognize the benefits of this as well.
I was able to take part in a Kambo ceremony with a Kambo Shaman which has taken my chronic back pain and put it into remission for the 1st time in many years! Having Kambo has now helped me focus on my continued path of enlightenment not my back pain. I give Pulse Tours and their retreat 5 Stars all the way. They kept me busy with jungle walks, swimming, Piranha fishing, Caymen Hunting, and even took us to a locals home where we got to hold a sloth and take pictures for free.There is an adjacent local village with a NO PRESSURE craft market unlike the 2 tribes that Spirituest takes you to who are relentless to get you to overpay for crafts that are very low quality. The Shipibo market inside the Pulse Center has some high quality dynamite tapestries as well as Paintings by real artists of the highest quality. The center has all locals from the neighboring village working there so your money is also benefiting the locals not just a greedy gringo who has no family working at his center though he’s married to a peruvian who has 10 brothers and sisters.
The food was very good (at least as good as an Ayahuasca diet will allow), none of us were ever hungry and a real nice touch was a big fruit platter brought into the ceremonial Moloka immediately after ceremonies to help us guests put electrolytes back into our body afer “LaPurga” but only if we wanted to, again no pressure.
In closing I will definitely be back and bringing as many friends and family as possible to the work as Pulse will never let their guests hang out to dry like with what Spiritquest did when I took my 17 year old daughter who BEGGED for help and didn’t as so much get a conversation the next morning much less help during the ceremony (We were right next to the owner and the Shaman) which left her wounded. She is still battling from this and hopefully someday will come back to the medicine now that I have found a place that cares about their guests from start to finish, ensuring that quality healing takes place within each individual that goes there. Viva la Pulse Tours! Bravo for having a higher consciousness and integrity working with the medicine. The Pachamama needs you 🙂
The Star Dancer
Joe O
September 12, 2016 at 5:14 pm

I found Pulse thru this site and I am extremely thankful that I did. I have been on a personal journey of self-discovery and improvement for many years. Haphazardly disappearing into the jungle of a foreign country by myself to meet strangers from around the world to do “drugs” on a whim is far from normal behavior for me……….though it is essentially what I did here, haha. However, I can now say with confidence that “medicine” is a far more appropriate description for Aya than “drug”. As someone wisely told me, you don’t find Aya, she finds you.

For me, there were a lot of nerves involved upon departure from Iquitos, however the center, the setting and the facilitators quickly put you at ease upon arrival. Pulse takes guest safety and the healing process very seriously. After spending a few days at the center you start to get a true appreciation for just how thought thru and planned all aspects of the experience are. The medicine is in no way all “joy ride” all the time. Sometimes the medicine has to kick your ass to bring about the healing you need. However, that part of the experience does pass and is so very rewarding afterwards. The facilitators at Pulse go out of their way to help you thru any challenging experience you may encounter during ceremony. The amazing thing about the Aya experience for me is the love for and beauty you see in people who you just met and can seemingly have very little in common with. Regardless of your other personal healing, I think everyone takes that home with them.

By the end of your week(s) at Pulse, if you are sincere and transparent in the process I am confident you will have a powerful and positive life experience. As for Pulse, based on my personal experience, I can attest the overwhelming positive reviews on this site appear to be very accurate. Good luck with your journey, I hope you find whatever it is you are looking for!
Jonramlal
September 12, 2016 at 1:41 pm

Honestly a week of my life I know I’ll never forget, I don’t know where to begin.
The retreat itself is something out of fiction; the maloka, bedrooms, hammock rooms, gym, and dinner room have a sense of comfort and power to them. All areas of the retreat are completely safe, the location is magical, and I can’t recall once ever being in some sort of discomfort being within the Amazon Jungle there.
The Staff and Shamans are by far experienced within their field ensuring that safety and proper ceremonies are held, all ceremonies are authentic and keep the roots of Shamanism alive. They catered to my needs and are there to talk to whenever needed.
The excursions are insane!! definitely things that are done once in a lifetime and are by far worth the cost itself excluding the ceremonies included.
The Ayahuasca is by far powerful, it would be an understatement to say anything less.
On top of all this, you meet friends for the rest of your life, definitely people I would never forget and would love a reunion with down the road.

Overall I would recommend this to anyone, friend, family, or stranger. This place is run by the most spiritual and sophisticated group of people you can find within this field and their ready to give you a life changing experience.
Thank you Pulse and to all the Shamans and Facilitators that are involved. My heart goes out to all of you.

With love, Jonathan.
Joe Springer
September 2, 2016 at 11:21 am

I returned from a 7-day experience about a month ago (it was actually 5 days because my initial flight was cancelled). Melissa came and met me at the airport and took me into the jungle. Although my trip was shortened, I still got to participate in 3 of the 4 ceremonies and it was still completely worth the trip. The experience met or exceeded all of my expectations and “reverberated” in my mind long after I came back (it’s still reverberating!). If you’re reading this, you know that Ayahuasca is definitely not for everyone, and even if you think you’re prepared, she will likely give you more than you bargained for in many ways. Regarding Pulse Tours specifically, I was extremely pleased with how everything was handled and arranged. Their description on their website is 100% accurate. I would highly recommend them if you’re considering an Ayahuasca experience.
NickBignall
August 22, 2016 at 9:42 pm

Amazing time!

So much to do and see, in the heart of the jungle undergoing not only an adventure of a lifetime but of course… much needed psychological surgery and a splash of spiritual enlightenment as well.

I will say although I’ve still got some stuff to work through in life, like everyone does, my mental toolbox has been pimped up a bit so now I can do what I have to do. I know myself more and things that used to bother me more now bother me less or not at all.

The staff, facilitators and shamans know EXACTLY what they’re doing and I felt like I was honestly in the best possible hands. I stayed with Pulse Tours for three weeks. During that time, when me and the other guests weren’t puking our guts up under the influence of the medicine, we’d spend our hours joking and laughing, doing activities like jungle walks or helping one another through tough spots.

Ayahuasca is by no means a cakewalk. In fact, you spend a lot of time in some form of discomfort but the fun you have and the payoff makes it all worth it. It’s not all about being sick and crapping one’s self either. You’ll have some memorable experiences to say the least. Some will be hard work while others will be beautiful and fascinating.

Pulse Tours is who I’d recommend if you’re still deciding whether ayahuasca is something you’re interested in.

Final words:
Do it, do it DO IT!!