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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

Cfly79
July 5, 2017 at 3:24 pm

Had the time of my life with Pulse in Peru! Recently returned from my late may early June visit. Craig our guide was one of the coolest most laid back people I have ever met. A kind soul and very knowledgeable and helpful and down to earth. They have great people working their tour and at the center. I did one week in Cusco/ Macchu Pichu and then went off to Iquitos and the Amazon. The spiritual center is top notch. They have an onsite kitchen which serves great ayahuasca diet foods. Falcon, he is the local jungle guide they employ there and he took our group out to see the river, jungle, and local wildlife and he was super friendly as well. The Shamans were great for the ceremonies, and truly took the experience to the next level. Also got the opportunity to do DMT for a small extra fee while there, and that was absolutely beautiful. So glad I chose the option to do both the Amazon and the Andes for my package, as Macchu Piccu was definitely the coolest place I’ve ever been in my life. I am so glad I chose pulse for my first journey to South America. They took care of all the logistics, and if I were to try and do all of that stuff myself, I would’ve been screwed. Cherished my time down there and miss it so much! Thank you Pulse!
evan11
June 27, 2017 at 10:38 am

Hello all,
My name is Evan, I am 40 year/old medical doctor from Michigan and this was my first time I had Ayahuasca. I went to the center at the end of February 2017 with a close friend who had already been to the center the year prior.

Personal work and preparation is a must in my opinion. You will get out of the experience what you bring into it.

My main concern was the quality and expertise of the Shamans. Even though technically the medication itself can be very safe pharmacologically, I would place myself in the hands of strangers, in the middle of the jungle.

As soon as I got there I felt very welcome. The lodgings were adequate and very comfortable for the middle of the jungle. The kitchen provides delicious healthy food and the activities the center has for its guest will keep your activity level as intense as you want.

The staff and facilitators for the ceremonies are very good as well. They are knowledgeable, attentive and capable of helping someone during the most intense portions of the ceremony if needed. I think the facilitator team in the center, is a group of people that really want to learn and help people with their work with Ayahuasca.

I believe the shamans at the center are truly experts in their field. They are able to create a very safe and stable space for the individual to do their work with the medicine. A minimum of 20 years experience per shaman. I felt very comfortable and I was able to trust the shamans and the space they created for me in the Maloca 100%. Their mastery of their craft, from the preparation of the medicine, to the safe space, to their unbelievable Ikaros they sing. I was amazed by their knowledge, intensity and focus of their actions throughout the duration of the ceremony (4-6 hours per ceremony).

It is very difficult to express what I experienced during my week in the center. I feel that if you are ready for the work one has to do with the medication, the center is an excellent place to have that work done.

I was truly humbled by the fact that the local Shipibo people were willing to open their home to me and allow me to experience and partake in their culture and their knowledge of this world. Forever grateful.

In my opinion, the price of admission is more than worth it.
ShitShowPat
June 26, 2017 at 3:32 pm

Family is how you will feel here. There is no doubt that every single facilitator truly has their heart in this and for you. Anyone of them are gladly available to you 24hrs a day. No one at Pulse is there to punch a clock. On top of this, the staff are highly trained professionals who have individual specialties that come together to help you get the most out of this incredible experience. The Shamans are absolutely top notch and highly experienced. If this is your first time, I cannot stress how important it is not to overlook the shamans.

The food was very good and healthy. Listen, I have been a meat/junk food eater most of my adult life(since this I enjoy more of a balance) so I was very weary of this diet in the first place. There is plenty of chicken and fish but you’ll enjoy it all.

The medicine…..This four ceremony retreat is my only so I can’t compare it to others. I will say that based on everything I had read and heard, it was everything I was hoping for and more. I had an out of body experience for three hours and saw myself reborn. This is when it is absolutely crucial to have these Tier 1 facilitators take care of you(they can bring you out of uncomfortable experiences and center you) and the Shamans(Can’t even explain how they do what they do but it is powerful in a divine way).

Dolan, Craig, Tamara, Wiler and every single staff member, I love you.
suecurtis00
June 26, 2017 at 10:26 am

Ok, So I chose to experience the 3 week transformation package May-June 2017, I have to say without a doubt, it has changed my life! I felt the facilitator team was very professional, committed, hard working, joyful, offered the right guidance and support that was intuitive, accurate, and so helpful with my experience and journey, I feel so grateful for their knowledge, the way they held space, guidance and when they say “we are here for you” they mean it! I did pick their brains a lot, and it was all so spot on and I got to practice their advice/guidance and was blown away by the clarity and insight/healing I experienced through out my whole 3 week journey. The Shamans themselves were the humblest, cleanest, hardworking, powerful and committed human beings I have ever experienced in my 4-5 yrs of journeying with the medicine of Ayahausca. Their icaros was magical, effective, powerful, healing, ancient, beautiful, clarifying and so clean and offered me the safest place to do the healing work I needed to do to heal myself. I am so grateful and would highly recommend this team and this venue for deep work into relationship with self and plant medicine! Loved the food, accommodation, and excursions we got to experience exploring local village and surrounding jungle, it was awesome, I had fun and I worked hard and so did they!! My only criticism is that I think they have new management coming in and I think they want to upscale to making the retreat more like a hotel, and I think they will lose the rustic charm and appeal and will make a mistake doing that, I intuitively feel its to make more money, as I tried getting accommodation for one week in a simple(but lovely tambo) with no excursions, no medicine, just a room and food for 1 week and they were wanting nearly $900 US- I was shocked, this would be well over $1000 in Australian dollars and I just felt it was greedy and didn’t match cost for value and I was family right??? That’s just my opinion! (I got air flight tickets from Iquitos to Cuzco, accommodation for 1 week and many profound experiences for the same cost, now that was value for money!! Besides this when i chose to let go of staying and processing in stillness in the jungle, i am and would love to come back to the retreat center and am very grateful for what I experienced there. Thank you Arkana Spiritual Center for all the dedicated hard work that you do!! You all deserve the week off between 3 week retreat cycles to recharge and rest and focus on yourselves, without that, i feel it would be unbalanced and harder to give all that you do and the overall support and value you give would suffer and be felt by us all!! Thank you so much. Much love to you all. Sue Curtis ( how about you don’t moderate and just post???)
Chaad Christophe
June 26, 2017 at 7:21 am

Amazing experience! Guys are brilliant the facilitators were amazing and really helpful.. Although I’m rubbish with names the translator was an diamond. Every step of the way the guys were there to help and assist. Shamans were mind blowing. The guide was full of knowledge. Im waffling as i cannot praise everyone enough. Overall I would recommend pulse tours to anyone/everyone. As a package I am overjoyed I went with them. Thanks a lot dudes. You guys helped me immensely..