Lotus Vine Journeys represents a fusion of two powerful ancient traditions, the Buddhist Lotus and the Ayahuasca Vine. By combining plant spirit medicine with heart-focused practices, we believe our retreats offer a genuine way to accelerate your healing and awakening process. We offer full immersion,14 -day Ayahuasca retreats that include daily yoga, Buddhist meditation practices and 8 ceremonies led by our beautiful Shipibo Maestro.
The core of our work is deeply healing, transformative and life changing. We provide safe and nurturing retreats where our guests can comfortably experience the healing powers of Ayahuasca in its traditional Amazonian setting. We also explore the ancient wisdom of the dharma and Buddhist based psychology throughout the retreat. We provide a loving and dedicated team of staff so that each guest can receive an accelerated spiritual, emotional, mental and physical cleanse of their entire system. It is the teachings of the Buddha that provides Lotus Vine Journeys with the ethical grounding and overall framework for each retreat. Both the founders and the facilitators have years of experience with Buddhist based principles and meditation teachings.
We base our retreats on the outskirts of Tarapoto, Peruat the Puma Rinri Amazon Lodge. It’s an award winning, eco-lodge located one hour from Lima by plane. It’s an area of true ecological and geographical beauty in the mountain rainforest that flow into the Amazon. This spectacular region offers stunning views, waterfalls, breezes and colorful sunsets. Our beautiful location provides unsurpassed levels of comfort for a jungle experience. We offer luxuries more typical of a hotel environment. It’s truly the best of both worlds!
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September 3, 2017 at 11:56 amThis was the most healing experience I have ever had.
Lotus Vine Journeys offered all the support I needed to go through this incredible journey that can be challenging. The combination of Dharma, yoga and ayahuasca is so powerful! So much love is put into making this retreats happen. The accommodation is perfect, in the middle of a beautiful jungle. The food is incredibly nourishing and fresh. The best facilitators I could have ever asked for, and the Maestro is a powerful healer with an incredible heart. The Maestro and facilitators are incredibly supportive, available, and with the best intentions at heart to help you through this journey. There are no words to describe the love, service and commitment they put in each one of us.
Markcb
July 22, 2017 at 11:33 amI decided to join Lotus Vine for the June 2017 retreat. It was my second retreat in Peru, and was a superior experience in every way.
The location is spectacular and the accommodation very comfortable. The food is exceptional, and it’s clear the staff put a lot of effort into getting things right. But the thing that sets Lotus Vine apart from the rest is the way other spiritual practices are integrated into the plan. Eight ceremonies in fourteen days is an intense schedule, and, in my experience, fatigue can lead to darker experiences. But with meditation, dharma talks and yoga led by outstanding teachers (thank you Enrique and Lisa), I acquired techniques to steady the mind and body.
The ayahuasca ceremonies were facilitated with great attention. Janeth, Yugo and Allen were sensitive to each individual’s needs and the space as a whole. The Maestro Diogenes worked tirelessly, delivering beautiful icaros with enthusiasm and a great sense of humor. He’s an impressive man.
These things considered, I was able to unify once separate components of myself – my mind, heart and body – allowing me to bring back more from those eight powerful experiences. A lot can happen in an ayahuasca ceremony, but through the teachings at Lotus Vine I no longer feel like I need to remember it all – rather, the insights continue to live through me.
Thanks to all who worked so hard to put this retreat together, and I hope to return in the future.
MF
July 15, 2017 at 3:41 amMy partner and I traveling to Peru to join an Ayahuasca retreat with Lotus Vine Journeys in May 2017. This was our second visit with Spring and team at Puma Rinri.
We are both very experienced with Ayahuasca, having been to various retreats both across South America as well as Europe. Finding a set & setting which offered the right mix was a long process, after working with Spring and team with their unique approach, we could not imagine going anywhere else for future retreats. Returning as a guest a second time was an even deeper, more supportive process in all respects.
The Lotus Vine team (Spring, Janeth & Yugo) are so caring, they held a very safe and caring space, which was of critical importance to our selecting their retreat. The team and the maestro offered tremendous support both during each ceremony, and on the non ceremony days, for everyone, in particular when anyone was going through a difficult process. I was particularly grateful for the care Spring & Janeth took with me when going through a very difficult night with the Aya. Their support and attention towards all participants was incredible.
The medicine and the Shipibo Icaros were so powerful. The maestro in Lotus Vine worked extremely hard, which we have not experienced in other retreat. They delivered Icaros during the whole ceremony and provided additional work for those who were in difficult processes. Only a true maestro will have the passion to do that.
Other than the teaching, meditation and yoga, Spring and the team also offered consultations and discourses when needed. I had a bit of confusion with some visions and feelings coming up in ceremony and with the guidance of Spring and the team, it helped to move the process forward with more clarity. There is such a delicate, fine line, between guidance and entanglement with an individuals process. With Spring and the team, they are so professional and experienced, there was guidance without interfering in an individual’s process which is highly appreciated.
It was a great experience and this retreat brought us insights on how to move forward in our life with a balance manner. I also feel the Spring and the team are genuinely passionate in what they are doing, they run the retreat with love and a true heart.
After finding Lotus Vine Journeys, I cannot imagine doing our next retreat anywhere else. In writing this 2 months after the retreat, I am still in the process of integration, the work just keeps coming through. Already looking forward to returning in 2018!
Acoho
July 10, 2017 at 9:22 pmI attended the May 2017 retreat with Spring, Janeth, Yugo, and Maestro Adriano. Prior to the retreat I had no experience with ayahuasca other than some stories that I had heard about others’ experiences. I decided to attend the retreat out of curiosity, hope for some healing, and also because I’ve sat for meditation retreats in the past with Spring facilitating.
This was a great team for going deeply into journeying with ayahuasca. I felt supported through and through, both by the facilitation team as well as the community of staff and participants, many of whom were coming back for their second, third, fourth retreats with LVJ.
They are not shy about encouraging strong experiences with the medicine, which I ultimately appreciated, as I firmly believe that it meant I got to do the healing work that I needed to do with the medicine. And with these strong experiences Lotus Vine was professional and unwavering in providing the practical and emotional support during ceremonies to ensure that the set and setting supported healing. They were also very respectful and understanding when I wished to dial back on dosage as well.
All throughout the retreat the staff went above and beyond to take care of us. The food was amazing and just kept getting better. As a newer company they’re very organized and have a well-connected community but also continue to iron out details and offerings. They were constantly reassessing and adjusting to ensure we had the best experience possible. I had an amazing, life-changing, healing experience entrusting them with my first ayahuasca experience and would absolutely recommend them to anyone interested in working with ayahuasca.
NathanielOlk
June 30, 2017 at 5:24 pmI spent two weeks with Lotus Vine Journeys in May of 2017. This experience was one of the most beautiful and profound things I have ever done in my life. Not just because of the medicine (Ayahuasca) but also due to the staff, the surroundings, and the group I spent this time with. The Lotus Vine staff is indescribable, and although I went in with high expectations, they far exceeded those. The teachings, the ceremonies, the yoga, the mediation – were all put together by these wonderful human beings in the most professional, safe, and comforting setting. Being with these people on a day to day basis made this experience that much more profound for me. I cannot imagine ever doing another retreat anywhere else. Lotus Vine is set in a beautiful area of the jungle which is impossible to ignore the magical nature of every time you step outside. Being around the members of the staff here, in the jungle, and with our group members made you feel full of love. I came into this experience (as any normal person would) nervous to my bones, not knowing in the least what to expect. I left with the most calm inner peace and appreciation for life, nature, and friends that I have ever felt. That is truly a sentiment to the combination of the medicine and the members of the Lotus Vine staff that were there to help me. I love this place, I love that I chose to come to this specific retreat center – it is filled with joy, happiness, helpfulness, and love.
Maz
June 28, 2017 at 3:48 pmI highly recommend Lotus Vine Journeys for an Ayahuasca retreat.
This was my first time working with the medicine and I couldn’t have asked for a better experience.
The staff was incredible. The love, care, counselling and guidance offered was heartwarming, thorough and personal. I felt part of a family.
I always felt that I was in a safe space, during ceremonies and outside of ceremonies.
I valued the Buddhist framework of the retreat as it accompanied the teachings of the Ayahuasca very well.
The location is stunning and the lodge deserves a 5 Star rating in itself.
I am forever grateful that I chose Lotus Vine Journeys to start my deeply profound and spiritual journey with the vine.
ThisISPhish
June 21, 2017 at 12:59 pmI can’t say enough wonderful things about my experience with Lotus Vine Journeys. All around phenomenal experience. The space itself for the retreat center is magical. Taking daily baths in the healing waters that ran off of the mountain was the perfect thing the day after our ceremony. The facilities were very nice. The food was very highly quality and nutritious. You’re near the amazon but not in it so the temperature is WAY better. There were some bugs but no mosquitoes, which was a huge plus. The stars out at night were the best I’ve ever seen. Period.
Most importantly, the teaching team was excellent. Spring Washam is a master level teacher and maestro. I’ve been around a lot of great yoga and meditation teachers and I was pretty much in awe of her by the end of it. She was very tuned into the energy of the group and knew exactly what we needed each night in terms of the theme for our dharma talk. She has also assembled an excellent teaching team along with her. While I was there Yugo and Janeth were the teachers and both were exceptional. The environment that the team creates is incredibly open and loving and supportive.
This retreat also attracts a great group of people. This was a major benefit of doing the retreat with Lotus Vines. It’s definitely for people who are committed to using Ayahuasca as medicine to heal and as a tool to explore their consciousness and not for anything less. It’s for mature, serious explorers. There is a very explicit emphasis on Buddhist dharma throughout the entire retreat experience. This is one major reason that I chose Lotus Vine and it’s what I loved about it. As someone who has practiced Buddhism for years I loved how the language of the dharma framed all our lessons. It was very helpful in terms of dealing with a lot of the challenges and issues that arise with the medicine. Most people on the retreat were committed, practicing Buddhists. Not everyone particularly identified as Buddhist but it’s safe to say that close to everyone had a regular meditation practice for some time before joining the retreat. I would definitely suggest having a solid meditation practice in place before doing an Ayahuasca retreat, even if you have prior experience with psychedelics. Ayahuasca is NEXT LEVEL. And if you want to work with Ayahuasca I can’t recommend Lotus Vine Journeys highly enough. It was the PERFECT Ayahuasca experience as far as I’m concerned. This was my first time and I’ll definitely be back for another retreat with him. It was, quite literally, life changing, and dramatically so for the better. There were several people on my retreat who had been back numerous times with Lotus Vine Journeys, which is obviously a testament to their effectiveness in facilitating these retreats.
Jackie Aya
June 12, 2017 at 12:06 pmThis May I experienced an Ayahuasca retreat at Lotus Vines for two weeks at Puma Rinri Lodge. I went with my brother, who had attended a year prior as well, for some family healing, as well as from PTSD and depression. A domestic violence survivor and a struggling single mother of 2 I came in search of peace from grief and sadness.
The facility was beautiful, it over looks the Huallaga River, and has bird sighting and cacao trees on sight. They offered day excursions to a beautiful waterfall and hike. The natural pool and flower baths were highly relaxing and provided an energy cleansing and grounding that was beyond healing. Though there were single units I chose a shared maloka and was so grateful to enjoy the company of 2 other beautiful women where we shared insights, laughs, healing and fun!
There were 8 ayahuasca ceremonies and a shaman sang moving Icaros to us all individually and the team of facilitators, Spring, Janet and Yugo all provided healing thru music and singing Icaros. They assisted me thru dark moments in my vision and ensured our safety thru all the ceremonies. They assisted in reconnecting myself to my body and for the first time in my life I actually felt my body, I felt the strength and beauty of myself.
My experiences with the medicine alone provided immense insights to past trauma, provided the ability to let go of the pain and grief attached to domestic violence, along with what my mission to my community should be.
There was daily yoga, group shares, Dharma talks, a women’s healing circle and many other healing activities to partake in. The food was vegan and balanced perfect for healing the body. There was fresh tilapia available though and many people enjoyed that plate.
The team of facilitators were beyond knowledgeable and the group chosen for the retreat were beautiful souls and I am grateful to have made a life long connection with them all.I have been home for a few weeks and integration has proven to be beautiful. I have started the first spiritual women’s group in my city, shed the toxic people in my life, and as a mother my relationship with my children has increased ten fold.
Lotus Vine also went over and beyond with one of their member’s Rosie and chose me as a recipient for a donated scholarship to continue my spiritual healing. As a single mother with financial burdens always on my shoulders, this was beyond imaginable. Love is real and the work will continue, I can not wait to go back!
Carmen
June 11, 2017 at 8:46 pmMy experience with Lotus Vine Journeys retreat of May 2017 was the perfect blend of Buddhist teachings/practices with Shamanic Plant Medicine wisdom. Envisioned by Spring Washam, whom I would describe as a modern -day Bodhisattva and in collaboration with her team: Janeth, Yugo, experienced Shipibo Shamans, wonderful Yoga teacher Naia and the PumaRinri Amazon Lodge staff, Spring provided a safe, compassionate and supportive setting for for all of us retreat participants.
I was able to witness Spring’s open-hearted compassion, wisdom, strength and courage guiding her actions and teachings before, during and after ceremonies for the greater good of all participants as well as the community as a whole.
Janeth’s joy in service to others is delightful to experience. Her leadership is an integral part of Lotus Vine Journeys retreats day-to-day activities and ceremonies. She generously shares her knowledge and support with enthusiasm, kindness and wisdom. Additionally, Janeth designs and supervises the retreat food menu (with her own recipes) which was always delicious with fresh, local healthy ingredients.
Yugo’s steady and supportive leadership during ceremonies and daily activities was comforting and a delight to experience. Yugo was generous in sharing his knowledge, beautiful music and organizing our day excursion into the jungle to learn about plant medicine, see Ayahuasca in its natural habitat and enjoy a spectacular waterfall.
PumaRinri Amazon Lodge in Tarapoto is a beautiful location with amazing biodiversity on the banks of the Huallaga river, with mist floating over the forest and mountains. PumaRinri staff were gracious and diligent, accommodations clean and comfortable. Often, after returning to my room at the end of ceremonies and watching the starlit sky, the forest and mountains, I felt as if embraced and supported by the entire Universe, absolutely magical…
Almost a month since I took the first step on my own Lotus Vine journey, I feel that a profoundly inspiring and peaceful healing “reset” has occurred deep within my body and soul.
I am immensely grateful for this unmistakable touch of Grace, for my fellow retreat journeyers, now my friends and to Spring, Janeth and Yugo for the beautiful gift that is Lotus Vine Journeys!
Vivanatura1
May 16, 2017 at 7:52 pmThis place was the foundation of my road to healing…as you know it continues when you return home, and that is equally as important as the work that is done here. I could not have imagined it being facilitated more gracefully. The owners & facilitators do everything in their power to guide you through your sacred journey with love, safety, peace, and grace. Living accommodations were clean, comfortable, & beautiful. Food was delicious, like seriously I wish I could bring home all the chefs. So much gratitude for Lotus Vine & the power that instills this whole retreat – Spring, Janeth, Maestros, Employees, & of course Medicine. SO blessed to be drawn to such an empowering center. <3 XOXO Tara