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Lotus Vine Journeys

Name: Lotus Vine Journeys
Rating: 5

Tarapoto, Peru

5.0 (55 reviews)

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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!

Reviews (55)

5.0 out of 5

Overall 5.0

clp
September 3, 2017 at 11:56 am

This 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 am

I 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 am

My 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 pm

I 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 pm

I 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.