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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

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November 11, 2017 at 11:59 am

Hello! I hope my recent Ayahuasca experience may be useful for those who are interested in the medicine and consider Pulse Tours. I’ve participated the 14 Days Ayahuasca Retreat (Oct, 14-29) and thanks to God (or someone else) I didn’t limit myself by taking just 7 days. I know it depends on a person. As for me, I’m sure that four ceremonies wouldn’t be enough and I would certainly be frustrated. However I met very excited people from previous tours who took just 7days retreat and seemed totally satisfied.
My retreat was not occasional; I planned it since last year being inspired by Graham Hancock’s and David Icke’s youtube videos about their experience with DMT and Ayahuasca. My favourite singer Tori Amos once said that the most influential journeys she had ware with Ayahuasca. So I can’t ignore that signs and started to investigate the topic. That eventually leaded me to ayaadvisor and there I found the Pulse Tours. My attention was also attracted by another organization but they require rubber boots to take from home. That is not convenient for me so PulseTours won in that competition 🙂
Well, don’t expect too comfortable conditions to have in the jungles, however, it doesn’t matter after being there for some time. Ok, honestly I missed hot water every time but everyone can take it for a week or two. What really matters is people at Pulse Tours. They are very kind and always ready to help if you need something. I felt very safe. All guests I met were also very nice people, so we lived like a big family, indeed. Pulse Tours deserves five stars just for that. Tamara, I miss your ‘Group share!’ calling )) I even get a Facebook account after the tour to be in touch with my new friends.
Now it’s time to tell something about the medicine itself. Well, for a long time I didn’t understand it. Every time I just took the dose, listen to the Icaros and wait for something. Well, actually something happened, but it was very far from what should really happen. I had some visions but it was just a “surface” as I understand it later. Unfortunately I wasted a lot of time getting almost nothing useful from the ceremonies just hard sleepless nights and physical exhausting. I thought the normal dose is not enough for me and I tried more but nothing really changed except it became more difficult to endure.
It was my seventh ceremony when I somehow started listening to that internal thin sound of Ayahuasca playing in my body. This tuning of attention turned into the magic door in me, or connection to the medicine as they call it. When it happened, all my bad physical feelings faded away, the vomiting signals disappeared, the breathing became very free and the “rabbit hole” took me really deep. It was the first time I couldn’t walk by myself when the facilitators came to take me to the personal Icaro. My body was in this world but I was in another world(s). At last I understood what was going on during the ceremony, what Ayahuasca did, what Icaros did, why we needed shamans. By the way, the shamans are Great.
DMT or Sapo ceremony is another AMAZING story, if you would have chance to take it, DO IT.
I won’t go into the details of my “rabbit hole” experience, it does matter just for me. I was looking for answers, but Ayahuasca gave me the answer that made most of my questions irrelevant. That answer was a treasure for me. The tour is not cheap for me but I would certainly look for a possibility to come back. I really want my parents, my friends to have such experience, but I can’t recommend somebody to take Ayahuasca, because this way may be very difficult physically and the result in not guaranteed in a short period of time.
If somebody have decided to participate and looking for a piece of advice, I would say you should not have ANY expectations. You have to be patient, honest, don’t stay away mentally during the ceremony, listen to yourself, the magic will be happening inside, we just have to notice it behind that physical unpleasant symptoms and follow the white rabbit.
scissorboy
November 10, 2017 at 11:39 pm

Everyone at Arkana Spiritual Center was so amazing. You feel completely taken care of, and welcome, and safe from the moment you arrive. I can’t believe that there are people in the world that are so incredibly giving, so incredibly loving and selfless. They give so completely to people they don’t even know.

This week was one of the most transformational experiences I have ever had. It was definitely one of the most difficult and intense weeks I have ever had. Ayahuasca doesn’t let you off the hook easy. She takes you to the heart of your “stuff” and if you are ready for it you can experience profound healing. I can’t say I would recommend it for everyone. I would say you have to be ready to be confronted with your deepest darkest issues. There were times I felt completely broken down to my core. If you are not in a place in your life that you are ready to do that then don’t go. If you do go, I can’t say enough good things about Arkana. I’m sure there must be other great places to do Ayahuasca but after seeing how this team works together to completely support every single person that walks through their doors I would not trust anyone else.

The Shaman was amazing. He was a true healer. He is completely committed to helping you.

The Shamans assistants and helpers gave and gave and gave. I don’t think I have ever been in an environment where people were being supported with so much love as I felt from them. When the week was over I found it very difficult to find the words to be able to thank everyone that helped me in my journey to healing. What do you say to someone that helped you finally overcome the issues you have been trying to release and let go of for your entire adult life? This one week trip felt like you got the equivalent amount of deep insight and healing of going to see a therapist every week for 20 years.

I highly recommend Arkana
Tom
November 9, 2017 at 5:09 am

It was the second time for me at the Pulse retreat center. This time I spent 3 weeks there as compared to 1 week the first time.

Again the overall experience was great! The shamans, facilitators and staff all did a great job in making it an unforgettable experience. The ceremonies are carried out carefully and the guests are being taken care of nicely. The shamans Wiler, Abuelo and Angelita are the professionals you want to have on your side, guiding you through the psychedelic journeys from the first “consulta” to the ceremonies and finally the daily group shares.

Wiler recommended me to do a Pinon Blanco plant diet during my stay, which was a great addition to the experience. The special food diet accompanying the plant dieta might become uninteresting after a few days, but it’s definitely worth it as it helps you to better connect to Ayahuasca and to yourself.

I met lots of interesting people there from all over the world. Activities include: Jungle tours, boat trips, sloth visiting, visiting the village nearby and movie nights.

Great place, feels like second home now 🙂
andy14169
October 31, 2017 at 12:22 am

I’m an Army veteran who was dealing with pretty heavy PTSD-related anxiety disorder and depression. After 5 years of all-too-regular breakdowns and one too many destroyed relationships, life was feeling desperate. Numerous pharmaceuticals had failed me. I had learned about Pulse from some YouTube videos I saw a few years ago, and proceeded to slowly research what Ayahuasca was and what it could do. Then, last summer, the universe smiled on me at the exact right time, and I found myself traveling into the middle of the Peruvian jungle in seek of seek a different kind of healing. A healing that even I was still a bit skeptical about. But after 2 weeks of working with Ayahuasca under the guidance of Shaman Wiler, I found myself completely healed. It may sound hyperbolic, but – honestly – I still catch myself now, a few months later, in awe of just how much I have changed. The way this powerful medicine stimulates neuroplasticity is undeniably true. So many walls were broken down, leaving a clear and open mind, no longer plagued by negative thoughts and patterns. So many symptoms are gone and staying gone, and I am 100% medication-free now. It’s hard work, mind you, both in ceremony and throughout the integration process after returning home, but the newfound (rekindled?) senses of empathy, love, and patience I have gained were worth every ounce of physical and mental sweat. I feel that I have been given nothing short of a new lease on life. I sincerely owe so much to the entire Pulse family, and can now look forward to a more peaceful, joyful, and loving future than I thought possible just a few months ago. They have truly curated a place of love and healing down there in the jungle.

-Andrew P
alexseymouruk
October 29, 2017 at 6:39 am

One for the veterans:

Receiving an invite to participate in a veteran’s retreat here at Arkana Spiritual center was a true honor!

I have stayed at several ayahuasca centres in previous years and the Pulse Tours team are exceptionally brilliant! You are in safe hands when you’re with these guys. They are the real deal!

Seriously, if you’re a veteran looking for sacred plant medicine healing in the awesome Amazon, then you need to look no further. Everything they say and do here is trustworthy, safe and full of the utmost integrity.

The staff are conspicuously intelligent, sensitive – and full of fun and light. The very fact that this very special group of people found each other and work together so beautifully as a cohesive team to help those who need it most is just incredible! I love you guys.

Alex Seymour

Author ‘Psychedelic Marine’