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Treehouse Lodging. Female led ceremonies. Small group retreats with personal attention. Flexible Pricing. 1500 Acres of Virgin Amazon Rainforest. Volunteering.
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We work with the principle of ‘Where Attention goes, Energy flows’ through a deeply intentional work in ceremony we introduce our guests to new tools of self-healing and transformation.
Keeping our retreat groups exceptionally small ( 6 people), allows us to provide personal attention to each of our guests and to keep the atmosphere of a small family house in the deep forest.
We hold a gentle space for processing traumas and re-programming of psychic patterns that no longer serve. At Canto Luz we also provide space for shamanic plant dietas for the ones who are ready to embrace serious inner work and encounter plant allies.
Your commitment and work during your retreat at Canto Luz will be a step in a life long process of working with your Higher Self.
Our goals are for long lasting changes in our guests? lives and their accomplishments become the source of pride for Canto Luz.
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Canto Luz Centre for Conservation and Cultural Preservation is a registered not for profit organization dedicated to working with local indigenous communities, supporting preservation of their cultures, healing modalities and environment. Our goal is to help to preserve the biggest tropical rainforest in the world by restoring the balance between the modern man and his surroundings, by reconnecting ourselves to our hearts through the traditional shamanic work of the Amazon.
Our home is located in the middle of primal rainforest full of animals and birds and we offer unique tree house living as a way to re-connect with nature. We offer flexible pricing on our Ayahuasca retreats, shamanic plant dietas and work exchange opportunities.
Canto Luz offers various options for accommodation and can host between 6 and 12 people at a time in our 3 double occupancy treehouses or the ground level 4-bedroom house. We are also available to host any guest retreats that might benefit from the rainforest setting. All our houses are completely misquito-proof and built with locally sourced lumber, often from salvaged wood and with focus on simplicity, sustainability and functionality.
Reyna Luz Edery Flores is a curandera with over 20 years of experience working with medicinal plants of the Amazon. Her strong leadership of the ceremony has a feeling of being embraced by a Mother. Reyna is famous for her beautiful singing and gentle, loving energy.
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April 20, 2015 at 12:00 amHave been in Canto Luz twice, for 2 months in total. Did many ceremonies and 2 plant dietas.
The whole experience feels very genuine; to begin with, it`s very nice to be in a less touristic area of Peru (Madre de Dios province). The facilitators are totally committed to serious medicine work and the staff ready to provide all necessary support for visitors to feel very comfortable.
After partaking in many different circles and witnessing various styles of ceremonies in Peru and Brazil, I would refer to this work as the deepest yet most gentle way i have experienced to explore the mysteries of consciousness, thanks to the beautiful energy channeled by the female curanderas.
The virgin forest where CL is located is incredibly powerful. That, together with the particularly special medicine which is cooked and served over there, allow us to embark on very productive and profound journeys within ourselves, where one can find great opportunity for self-investigation, healing and learning.
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April 19, 2015 at 12:00 amCanto Luz is a special place managed and staffed by fantastic people. It is with good reason the reviews are all 5 star.
Built in partnership by Canadians and Peruvians, they have built a small family atmosphere retreat in the source of the Amazon basin. The ceremonies are led by Reyna who is a very powerful soul-moving icaros singer which defies her gentle and humble spirit. I encourage everyone to listen to her sing on the Canto Luz website. You will find that her skills are quite extraordinary.
The philosophy behind Canto Luz is unparalleled, standing up for the environment and local indigenous communities against the detriments of commercialization on the most important parcel of land on the planet.
Logistically the environs are great, free from malaria while in the vibrant, biodiverse upper jungle along a source river of the Amazon. Puerto Maldonado is only a short flight away from Cusco so you have a great opportunity to explore and unwind in the tranquil sacred valley following your time in the jungle. Also the treehouses are pretty sweet!
I can’t wait to return and would recommend anyone interested in an authentic, powerful ayahuasca experience to attend Canto Luz.
Ani
April 11, 2015 at 12:00 amAfter a lot of research and contemplation and syncronistic events( Ayahuasca plant spirit called on me) i have decided in 2014 that i will have to go on a ceremony.
Due to constantly repeating patterns in my private life that could all be drawn back all the way to my childhood. To the “i don’t want to see” events of my life. I finally was ready to see. I had no idea what exactly those things were but i was ready to be courageous and brave to face them.
As i found out intuitively i was already on a pre-ayahuasca diet,subconsciously getting my body ready in the whole year.(no sugar, alcohol,cigarettes,very clean diet.)
I researched all the retreats available, and i found one in northern Peru.
In the meantime i was asking my spirit guides to help me to make the best decision, to guide me toward the best place for me.
The owner of the retreat emailed me that he cannot accommodate me,but there’s Canto Luz.
So it was meant to be. I loved the fact that its a female owned and operated environment,because i had to deal with a lot of male energy issues. And i frankly had enough of men…:-)
A friend of mine wanted to join me on this adventure, i was more than happy that i didn’t have to go alone, i was afraid.
Our backpack got lost on the way with the airline and all we had is our hand luggage.
I also lost my phone on the way into the jungle.
So there i was stripped of all western comfort and safety blanketing, just plain me commando going into the forest.This was a lesson of letting go. (Later on my way to Lima we received our backpacks.)
The Canto Luz staff was very very helpful, whatever i needed they had, it was a sharing place, and i was surprised by all the good heartedness over there.
We arrived and we got into our tree house,the first night was quite frightening with all the jungle noises, by the end of the stay it was our Home!
The food they served was prepared with Love and it was very delicious,very clean and healthy.
In the 3 ayahuasca ceremony i learned how to let go, and they were all life altering, deeply transforming experiences.
Before the second ceremony i also did a Tobacco purge which cleared further all my male issues, and traumas, and gave me also a vision of how people disrespect the Tobacco plant spirit (the most sacred plant in the Amazon) by smoking cigarettes and polluting Earth with throwing away the cigarette butts. People are unaware of this.
During the Tobacco cleanse i connected through my whole body,and from above to a very bright white light, and it was amazingly beautiful. It was so beautiful that my tears were just flowing endlessly.
That night on the Ayahuasca ceremony i had the clearest experience and Oneness with Mother Earth and this Universe. I connected easily, and all the drumming which Mariya did raised my vibration very high in my body. Mariya and Reyna were also singing so beautifully.
Mother Reyna was very calming and even though it was dark at the end of the ceremony when she went around I’ve seen her spirit as she was representing Ayahuasca. Like a strong, calm grandmother.
All in all this jungle retreat is not a simple vacation, not for the faint hearted, but its like arriving Home.
This truly will help you face your shadow self and all traumas, even past life, with their gentle help they are always there. I’ve had a mini crisis point during one of the Aya ceremonies, and called out for Mariya and she came over. She was great help,her hands emitted a white light as she touched my back,it went through my whole heart helping me to stay focused and calm. She was helping me and staying there with me until i felt better.
I strongly recommend this place if you are interested.
With the help of Canto Luz, my whole life changed. Integration so far hasn’t been easy but I can see things and people and patterns and recognize them for what they are.
I am now working toward “cleaning house”,letting go of all the past and achieving my dreams finally.
As an abuse survivor i learned to forgive, and to love myself again.
Whenever i will have the opportunity i will return to Home in the Amazon again.
The best decision for a journey in my whole life. Go for it!
Dan Fox
April 11, 2015 at 12:00 amMy friend and I were the first guests of Canto Luz. It was quite the honour to be one of the centre’s first official guests.
Our stay was back in May of 2013. Just signed up for Aya Advisor and thought I’d post a review. My overall experience was that is was great! The main reasons being the remoteness of the location, the quality of the plant medicines and the attentive care given by the staff there.
Puerto Moldonado isn’t exposed to the high volume of tourism that other cities such as Iquitos or Cuzco are. So it was a breath of fresh air not to be hounded by random people on the street for tours or merchandise. When we arrived here I felt it was an easy transition into the flow of the life there.
It was a 40 minute boat ride and about an hour long hike through a remote and very beautiful part of the Jungle to get to Canto Luz.
Being one of the first guests there, I was a bit worried that the facilities wouldn’t be up to par. But we were well taken care of with adequate rooms (the main guest house or any of the tree houses weren’t yet constructed) and the food was great!
We had a few Ayahuasca ceremonies in the main guest house that was still under construction. And let me tell you, that was some potent brew! I had a very productive and deep experience with the medicine there.
I completed an 8 day dieta with Tobacco in one of the Tambos near to the centre. On the first day I drank the tobacco juice and the administrator said that it was a stronger brew because she knew I had done Tobacco cleanses before. I drank it and was supposed to purge right away but it stayed in me for about 5 hours. I felt pretty ill during that time and when it finally did come up the main Curandera named Reyna was there at the perfect time. She helped me get to a little pond to freshen up and continue on with my dieta. The care and consideration she puts into her work there is second to none.
During my dieta I had the most vivid lucid dreams I’ve ever had in my life. And I’m an avid lucid dreamer. I’ve since decided to write a book about my experiences there. I also encountered the spirit of Tobacco in one of my dreams as well as the spirit of one of the trees that was right outside my hut. It was an amazing and otherworldly experience. Blue morphos would flutter by from time to time each day as I would read or write or just hang out in my hammock having a mupacho taking in all the brilliant life of the jungle around me.
The staff would drop off my meals in the morning which was a very plain and humble meal consisting of mainly white rice and plantains. The days that I would get a few eggs in my meal box were amazing! Small joys. But the meals before and after my dieta were plentiful and delicious!
When the dieta was complete my experience with Ayahuasca was heightened and I got a lot of great work done there which I’ve been able to build on ever since.
Reyna’s beautiful voice throughout the night was both an anchor in this world that I could count on and a portal into some of the most profoundly inexplicable places I’ve ever experienced while working with Ayahuasca. Mariya’s singing was very powerful as well and helped me immensely through my experience with the medicine.
Overall I would recommend this place to anyone looking for an authentic experience in the deep Amazon with some strong medicine and some very hospitable and genuine staff.
tainaprado
March 28, 2015 at 12:00 amCanto Luz ? My secret place on Pachamama
My first contact with Ayahuasca was in Canada while I was living there. I had a strong experience, the medicine quickly got my full attention. I was still in Canada when I heard of Canto Luz for the first time, some friends told me about the work that was being developed there and how serious the intentions were. I immediately felt a very strong call for being there.
I went to Canto Luz on September/2014 to stay 4 weeks and participate as a helper at the retreat. 4 weeks in the jungle! I was nervous! I had no idea how it would be, must of all I was expecting an intense and life changing ayahuasca journey. What I truly got was much more than that.
First of all, the structure of Canto Luz is extremely impressive for a place literally in the middle of the jungle. It is all very simple, as one of the missions is to minimize as much as possible the impact over the natural environment. But the small things are the ones that make the difference: beds are very comfortable with good mosquito nets, running water and a good shower, amazingly tasty and unforgettable food.
There is one thing I?ve come to realize during my stay in canto Luz: part of what makes it so special is the fact that the owners have lived there while they were building it, they did the project and they made it their home. That?s how Mariya and Juan take care of the place, as their home, not a business. Canto Luz is not only a place is a family. A family I very much felt part of, a family I miss everyday since I left. Mariya, Juan and Reina have known each other for a long time and Canto Luz is a result of this friendship full of history, mutual respect and exchange of knowledge and traditions.
It is also home to the spirit of Ayahuasca and a place where she is treated with full respect. Brewing the medicine is a commitment with 7 days of non-stop work, shopping wood, smashing the vine, adding water, refining and keeping the fire night and day. I had the privilege of being there during the preparation of a batch and it was beautiful to watch the medicine showing up step by step.
Like the quality of the medicine, the ceremonies are nothing but powerful. Guided by two women with very different energies and so great together. Reina embraced me with her