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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 (643)

4.9 out of 5

Overall 4.9

Ayamaori
October 1, 2024 at 8:58 pm

Kia ora my name is TeAriki from Aotearoa NZ, My people are Ngati Kahungunu – Ngai Tuhoe and Te Rarawa. I recently visited Arkana Spiritual Centre in the Amazon and OMG the experience was nothing short of amazing, powerful, enlightening, spiritually inspiring, cultural and transforming. I believe I was the first Maori to ever do a retreat at this venue (my claim to fame lol) and being Maori (Indigenous to NZ) we share a lot of cultural values and rituals similar to the Shipibo Tribes the Kaitiaki (Guardians) of the plant medicines of the Amazon especially ayahuasca.
The day we arrived at the Center we were greeted by the tangata whenua (people of the land) the local Libertad people with dance,music, smiles, smoke, love, kindness, protection and care -we have a similar welcoming ritual in our cultural called a powhiri
where we welcome our visitors with songs, speeches, prayers, haka, and food. When we were welcomed immediately all my fears disappeared and i felt myself being drawn into their world of love, healing,spirituality and acceptance. I knew from that day I belong here.
When Maori host their guests its our tradition to shower them with gifts of hospitality – feeding them , giving them a place to sleep, supporting them during their stay – well Arkana hospitality was out of this world in fact you do it better than us Maori, the food was next level (our chef was a local from the village he is so gifted) the security, the facilitators, the beds, our rooms our toilets and showers the cleaners and grounds men the guides thank you all so much for making us feel at home ans looking after us I love you all.
The facilities are world class – tidy clean. eco friendly solar power eco toilets, chemical free pool, absolutely perfect venue surrounded by Papauanuku (mother earth) Ranginui (Skyfather) Tane Mahuta (Jungle) and all the animals that live there. I was at one with all this I had to pinch myself every day saying I am in the most beautiful place on earth.
The Shipibo Shaman are the carriers of this sacred knowledge of the plant medicines. Wisdom and knowledge that has been past down to them over thousands of years from their ancestors. All of them make major sacrifices to be a shaman – fasting, diet, abstinence, dying to the ego, silence, prayer. They take their roles very seriously so when they led us each night in the ceremonies I knew my life was in good hands because they have been where we are and they have experienced the healing power of mother ayahuasca. With such depth, spiritual insight, discernment and care they led us with icaros and more icaros sometimes chanting in amazing spell bounding unity all with different tones and vibration and intensity it was a true spiritual awakening. The shaman are so attuned to the spiritual realm they know when to chant and when to be silent they listen to the spirit of the medicine who is guiding them and all of us through the night and that happened every night – as a Maori I’ve been in lots of spiritual meetings but the ones I experienced there in Arkana were at a whole new level.
The facilitators and staff also play a significant role in making our experience there so positive and healing. All of the staff are just like us all from different walks of life refined by their own trials but have experienced the healing powers of the plant medicines and this refining & healing shows in their love for us their gentle sensitivity and selfless care their sacrifice and dedication. I felt so warm and welcomed and safe with them their smiles, their open hearts was so healing and beautiful I love you all.
My experience:
The 7 days has a certain pattern where on Monday you are introduced to mother ayahuasca but then she takes you on a journey and she shows you things you need to see, she helps you face your demons and exposes what lurks deep inside you that needs to be healed its like you are split right open and that splitting feels like you are dying bro some nights it can get pretty intense but as our shaman said you have to trust the process you have to let go of the old to embrace the new life a head of you. The sapo medicine is like the good mother she comes and shows you pure light and love but even our minds and bodies can’t handle that love its so overwhelming and pure our minds & bodies can’t handle it. When we arrived one of our first meetings is with the shaman & facilitators and they asked us what are our intentions for coming to the retreat. Well all of my intentions were achieved. In conclusion this has got be one of the most powerful life changing experiences of had in my life and I’ve had a few in my spiritual quest – I know its early days but the impact of this retreat will have lasting affects already i’m seeing changes in my life, being more connected more present to the moment more at peace more empowered – it must be said the retreat puts a lot of thought into the followup plan once we leave they have good integration advice and programmes that help us fit back into our routines without losing sight of the experience and growth ayahuasca gave us. I feel i have made life long friends brothers and sisters who I will share this journey with for days to come.

TeAriki Beattie
karla cruz
October 1, 2024 at 7:15 pm

It’s definitely the best experience I’ve ever had in my life, it wasn’t easy but it was totally worthy. I love all about Arkana family, the staff, the facilitators, the shamans, the food, everything was amazing, you can tell everybody’s doing their job with passion and tons of love, I am so grateful with all of them and with this magic place, I totally recommend this place. Thank you so much y’all.
Munkey43
October 1, 2024 at 3:54 pm

Arkana had to be one of the best hidden gems of the world, and that is no understatement. You will find whatever healing it is that you need here as long as you open yourself up completely. Jose (Owner), shamans, facilitators and the rest of the staff are world class people. The level of care, love and understanding you get from these people cannot be faked. This is truly a life changing experience and wish everyone in the world could visit this oasis. I will be coming back soon with a friend of mine that needs this experience. Cannot recommend this place enough. There are not enough human words of any language to describe how wonderful this place is.
KarolinaM
September 29, 2024 at 4:40 pm

Words are lacking to describe the healing that happens in the Amazon jungle, but I will give it my best shot. I want to preface with stating that I’ve drank Ayahuasca several times, both at South/Central American retreats, as well as more locally in North America. But sitting with Ayahuasca in the jungle, in the place where she comes from, is a whole new level of healing. And Arkana provides a wonderful container to facilitate such an authentic experience enveloped by peace, love, and safety.

As soon as we arrived to Arkana, we were greeted with celebration, and I immediately felt the peace, family atmosphere and connection to nature, the way community was always meant to be. The facility is clean, well kept, with the most comfortable queen size beds in each room, a far cry from the sleeping-on-dirt-with-tarantulas stories I’ve been told about the jungle. It even has a chemical-free pool for those super sticky jungle afternoons!

Drinking the Medicine with traditional Shipibo Shamans, who have rigorously trained with their elders for years, some since childhood, was absolutely beautiful, and their Icaros have helped me regain trust in the medicines, in the process, and in myself again.

Arkana not only welcomes Westerners into the jungle for deep healing with sacred medicines, but it is also a leader in sustainability, as everything runs on solar power, as well as giving back to the local community by employing residents of the nearby Amazonian village, which made my hippie heart that much more enthusiastic to be contributing to the betterment of Mother Earth.

Overall, my heart is overflowing with gratitude and love for Arkana, the founder José for bringing his vision to life, the native Shipibo Shamans for opening up their homes and hearts to share their ancient wisdom and their Medicines with us from the West, the facilitators who look after each participant with such tenderness and care, and every staff member from the nearby village Libertad, not only for feeding us delicious meals, but for keeping us safe and taken care of in the wilderness of the jungle.

I have finally found a place that I feel comfortable recommending to everyone I know, and I cannot wait to return to the jungle and visit Arkana’s other two locations!
GeorgeChen
September 29, 2024 at 4:12 pm

I chose Arkana partly because of its amazing reviews and now I know why those reviews were so good. Firstly, the location is amazing. The retreat is located in the mountains of the Sacred Valley and the view is breathtaking to wake up to. Secondly, the accommodations and food exceeded all my expectations. The chef Socrates has some of the most amazing recipes with the freshest ingredients. Thirdly, Arkana at the Sacred Valley was the only retreat I found that offered Ayahuasca, San Pedro, and Bufo, and all three of the medicines kind of work together in a perfectly crafted schedule for the week. Finally and most importantly is the people. Maestra Ada and Maestro Misael make you feel so safe and cared for during the ayahuasca ceremonies, and trust (in the medicine, in the maestros, in everything) is key when working with the medicine. The San Pedro maestro Alcides is one of the most beautiful people I’ve ever met; his love and joy for the world is truly infectious. The facilitators also are some of the best. These people are now my family, and I am so grateful for their time and care during my time at Arkana. I told myself beforehand that for my first time with ayahuasca, I wanted to be comfortable (the food, the amenities, the weather) and that if the medicine calls me again, I could then go somewhere else (such as the jungle). But now, I can’t imagine going anywhere else.