Authentic ayahuasca retreats with experienced indigenous shaman in his medicine lodge and family home. Dr. Sanango facilitate ayahuasca healing retreats and shamanic dietas at Chinchelejo Lodge, the family home of indigenous ayahuascero Don Eluco Navarro. Chinchelejo Lodge is located in the Amazonian village of Jenaro Herrera on the banks of the Ucayali River, deep in the jungle, about 200km from the city of Iquitos. Our retreats include medicinal plant collection, ayahuasca cooking, medicinal plant baths and ayahuasca ceremonies in our jungle maloca (ceremony house), a 20 minute walk in to the forest. Our visitors can explore the surrounding rainforest and village, getting a taste of jungle life. This is not a luxury retreat but an opportunity to experience real Amazonian healing and living with a highly experienced indigenous shamanic healer and his family.

Don Eluco Navarro is part of one of the most powerful and famous shamanic groups in Peru, who reside in Jenaro Herrera. He apprenticed with the late Don Julio Llerena, one of the most powerful Master Shamans in the Upper Amazon Basin. Eluco has many years experience of shamanic practice working at prestigious centres in the Iquitos area. He established Dr. Sanango with his English apprentice , retreat co-ordinator, and anthropologist, Emily, in 2015. Our vision is to be a centre of positive cultural exchange. We aim to preserve, share, and develop shamanic knowledge through our interaction with the international community, whilst working with and serving the local community in Jenaro Herrera.

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