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The Eagle Condor Alliance offers 10 Day Sacred Medicine Retreats in the mountains outside of Medellin, Colombia. Our next retreat dates are June 23rd – July 2nd.
Participants stay in comfortable glamping, camping, and shared cabin accommodations while experiencing traditional Ayahuasca (Yagé), San Pedro Cactus, Peyote and Temazcal (Inipi) ceremonies.
At Eagle Condor Alliance, our central mission is to spread consciousness, awareness and love by being the bridge between our participants and the ancient traditions and sacred medicines of the Americas. We are ultimately concerned with supporting the elders of these traditions and with conserving the forests of Colombia where these medicines, traditions, and wisdoms are found.
Healing With All of the Sacred Medicines
We offer the sacred plants of the Americas in one powerful and rejuvenating 10 day retreat. Ayahuasca, San Pedro, and Lakota Sioux inipi (sweat lodge) ceremonies each have their own unique spirit, tradition, and way of showing us to ourselves. We believe that using these plants together in guided contexts creates the most profound and curative spiritual experience.
Intensive Plant Medicine Immersion Experience
The demanding itinerary of ECA retreats requires that participants approach the medicine with respect, reverence and strength. These medicines lead us to confront both the beauty and darkness in each of us, and will power is needed to maintain consistent focus on our transformative internal process during the retreat.
Our Commitment to the Individual
Each participant comes with his or her own past experiences, health concerns, goals, ambitions, medical history, and intentions for the retreat. At ECA, we have small retreat groups. The group is cared for by 3 group facilitators and 2 experienced healers who are committed to creating bonds of trust and compassion that form the foundation for the healing processes of participants.
Experienced Healers and The Purest Medicine
ECA’s healers have been finding, harvesting, and preparing their own medicines to the benefit of their respective communities for over 40 years. They offer these gifts from Mother Earth in their purest forms. ECA’s medicines are never altered or mixed with other substances or plants. They are provided with respect and love in traditional ceremonies from the Cofán community of the Amazon, the Lakota-Sioux of North America, and the traditional Andean peoples.
The Setting – Colombia’s Natural Beauty
The retreat centre is located at an altitude of 2300m surrounded by dense Andean sub tropical rain forest, spectacular views of the valley, pristine drinking water, your own private river, hiking, wildlife, and comfortable glamping and camping options
Comfort and Rejuvenation
Comfort is a crucial element in this reviving and re-energizing experience, and it’s typically forgotten by most other retreat centers. Participants at ECA retreats: sleep in comfortable, soft beds, take hot showers, eat delicious, healthy cuisine, drink fresh mountain water, walk outside without being devoured by insects, and are given ample alone time for reflection and self-examination. The mild climate also helps us rest.
Convenience and Price
Fly direct into Medellin’s international airport for a fraction of what it costs to get to Cusco, Leticia, Iquitos or other locations, and arrive at the retreat center in under 30 minutes via our private transport. No special vaccinations or injections required. We provide all food, housing, and on the ground transport in order to make our retreat relaxing and hassle free.
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February 6, 2023 at 6:02 pmWow! What an amazing experience. The place, the people, the medicine, what to say, simply magic!
Everyone at ECA is dedicated to making sure you have a transformational experience and are on the path themselves. You can tell that they are genuine and truly wish for you to have the experience of a lifetime. I particularly loved the ceremonies with Peyote and San Pedro in the teepe, I had never done these before and they really opened my heart and helped me heal on a deep level. Together with the Yagé ceremonies in the traditional Maloka which, as always, is intense, scary and enlightening, the whole process for me was well thought out and every step helps to drive home the universal message, and personal ones as well! Aho…
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February 6, 2023 at 2:42 amI picked this place because I liked the name, and the price. I really did close to no research, and somehow picked the most authentic place imaginable. Seriously, these guys have put in the work, and outsource running the ceremonies themselves to professional shamans (not the right term, but it paints the right picture) who have lived in the jungle with elders for decades.
I had intentions of things I wanted to fix, to heal, and to improve going into this. And I can safefully say I made serious progress in all of them, but I also made progress in things I thought were completely hopeless. It’s been a couple days since my retreat, and I never thought I could feel this amount of love. Seriously, it has changed my life. And I have experienced a type of spirituality that I would have called people crazy for before. I think the less I say, the better. But if you’re reading this, then that means you’re ready for what this medicine has to offer. Something has pulled you here, something is pulling you in the direction of these medicines, and you should listen.
My warning to people would be this: If you go into these ceremonies without intentions, or without being fully willing to explore the darkest parts of yourself, and come out of this with a lot more self love and spirituality than you went in with… You’re going to get your ass kicked by these medicines, and you’re going to have your world turned upside down. It may not make sense at first, it may be the most difficult thing you’ve ever done, and you will want to quit. But if you see it through to the end, then you will realize your fullest potential, and live your life more authentically afterwards. So good luck, but you won’t need it.
AlignmentWithAya
August 14, 2021 at 8:53 pmOne of my first retreats & first time taking medicine. I was called to come here, no one referred me to be here. This medicine has been a great value to my life. The staff was extremely awesome, never received the amount of love and support as I received being here. Felt really family friendly.
The medicine is potent and makes you tap in. Once taking the medicine, my energy was on another level, my alignment feels like infinity because it has been just back to back things happening in my favor of what I envisioned. Even now, things are becoming more clearer and I’m just going for it.
My love has increased and I’m taking care of my spirit, mind, energy more than ever.
Great Retreat Overall. Will go back soon.
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Healingthanks
May 11, 2020 at 4:05 pmI attended a retreat in February 2020. I travelled across continents and I was so fortunate to be at this retreat with these healers. I am eternally grateful.
The medicines were strong and powerful. We were a small group, and there were intense experiences in the maloca, teepee and sweat lodge. At all times during ceremonies I knew our safety and physical needs were being looked after by the facilitators Jesse and Bobby, and helpers Jacob and Mark. These people are beautiful. They are very calm, strong, loving people, immediately right there for anyone when something big comes up that we need help with, without rescuing, always making space for us to have our relationship with the medicine, to do the hard work, to let the gifts and the blessings come in. I am so grateful for their steadfast service. They believe in the healing of the medicine and they are there to serve.
To the shamans and the medicine I can only give my eternal gratitude. Thank you for giving your self and your spirit to this work. I can’t believe that I, as a Westerner from a different culture and tradition, can experience your gifts.
This retreat centre is a part of the community, so there are some locals and some of the shamans’ family members who attend some of the ceremonies. It is a privilege to witness and be with people who live their lives according to the ancient and wise ways and traditions going back for thousands of years. It is good that we as participants can in our small way contribute and show thanks.
During the retreat there was plentiful healthy and delicious food, and the cooks were another loving, fun and positive part of the team. There is a range of accommodation, and I was very comfortable. The setting is beautiful. The mountains above Medellin are magnificent. Before ceremonies we had outdoor cleansing showers with water and fresh herbs heated in big pots on the fire. To have a private space outside in nature looking at the clouds and mountains and hearing the birdsong was incredible.
There was a lot of quiet time to prepare and meditate and reflect. There were a couple of guided meditations and yoga sessions. Other group participants were respectful and not intrusive of each other’s journey, and over the ten days we formed the bond you would expect from going through this together. What a beautiful group of people from all around the world. They were inspiring.
There were also joyful times. The music played and sung in the communal areas in the evenings and during some of the ceremonies helped me get through the tough times. I experienced a lot of pain, a lot of purging, and a lot of joy- if that’s the way to receive healing and meet those parts of myself and the universe then I’m in! I’ll be back at ECA for sure, if I can integrate these lessons and get to a stage where I’m ready for more learning. Apparently a lot of people come back to this retreat centre for another retreat. I can see why.
qaz
February 20, 2020 at 5:09 pmIt’s been a year since I had my first and only (for now) retreat at ECA. I want to express gratitude for all the love I felt, received and felt encouraged to share with the shamans, facilitators, and group members. Even after all this time I’m still learning from the experience.
Every person reading this review may have different criteria they need met in order to think this place is the “right one”. In my case I needed assurance I would get the most healing for my buck–haha it’s a little silly to think about now…
What I can say today is that the beautiful facilities, the medicine, the guidance, and support I received at ECA left me with a deep sense of knowing that every experience can bring healing. There is love in every moment. I now feel and know this to be true.
Thank you Bobby, Jesse, Mark, Margarita, Leidy, and the shamans Leonidas, Gonzalo, Cesar. I am so grateful I got to be in your presence and witness the love and truth you embody.