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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ls108
September 5, 2016 at 1:27 pmIf you’re looking for a supportive, loving, nurturing, beautiful and safe place to experience the healing of ayahuasca, then you’ve surely found it. When I received an email from Spring saying she was starting a meditation and ayahuasca retreat in Peru, I just knew this was something I needed to do. Being a first timer with plant medicine (knowing nothing about it really) but knowing Spring as one of my favorite dharma teachers in the US, I fully trusted that this was going to be the right retreat for me.
Spring and Janeth have taken great consideration for planning every detail of this retreat, from the beautiful eco lodge location, finding the most powerful shaman & medicine, the delicious food, healing yoga, meditation and dharma teachings before ceremonies, to the integration circles afterwards. It was also so helpful to have 1:1 and group consultations with the maestros and talks on how to integrate and take the teachings home after the retreat. Everything is so well planned and thought out that your every need is taken care of and your healing and learning continue long after the retreat ends.
I also really appreciated that there were 8 ceremonies, this made for a more powerful experience for me. I have been a long time meditator and have never gotten to the level of expansion through just my sitting practice or on long meditation retreats. My heart and mind were blown wide open, in a good way, and I couldn’t have gotten there with mediation alone. I am so grateful that Spring has decided to gift the world with these healing retreats. My mind and heart have been healed in ways that I didn’t even know were possible and for that I am eternally grateful to the medicine, the maestros, Pancha Mama, and the Lotus Vine family! I will definitely be back for another retreat! 🙂
The type of people that Spring attracts to her retreats are some of the most beautiful, awake, and open hearted people I have ever met and fallen in love with! If you find yourself feeling the call of mother ayahuasca, I suggest you listen. Listen to the call, go with your intuition and don’t hesitate to choose Lotus Vine Journeys…you will not be disappointed!
Lennie
September 5, 2016 at 4:23 amI had the two most beautiful and life changing weeks at Pumanriri with Spring and Janeth in May 2015!
Coming all the way from Norway and as I had never been to this kind of retreat before I am so grateful that I choose Lotus Vine Journeys as my facilitators. I felt 100% safe and cared for the whole time by Spring and Janeth, and I could not have asked for a better introduction to ayahuasca.
The 8 ceremonies are beautiful arranged with pre- meditation and a nice atmosphere so we all could get the most out of our own experiences. The Shipibo shamans/maestros are a huge part of the whole experience and Diogenes and Anita who I was so lucky to have lead our ceremonies has forever helped me improved my quality of life!
The lodges themselves and the surrounding are so beautiful, the food nutritious and delicious and the staff at the lodge are very friendly and kind.
I would highly recommend Lotus Vine Journey to anyone, and am myself returning with some friends in July 2017!
mishabear108
September 4, 2016 at 8:40 pm“The Medicine has been the greatest gift that I could have given to myself. I had a wide variety of experiences that have driven me deeper inside. There is a lightness and happiness more than I ever experienced. Spring and Janeth are so loving and supportive. This has been a very beautiful, life changing experience. I am grateful” Misha – USA
Stellamaria
September 4, 2016 at 12:59 pmI had a wonderful two-week retreat with Spring and Janeth facilitating the Ayahuasca retreat at the Puma Rinri Lodge near Tarapoto, Peru. They were both kind, professional, and highly experienced at holding the space and assisting the Shipibo Shamans that assisted Spirit Ayahuasca in our healing journeys. The location of the retreat was amazing! The views of the mountains and the flowing river, and jungle flora and fauna was breathtaking! The rooms were a mix of rustic charm and modern conveniences, exactly what I wanted and received 🙂
The food that Janeth carefully organized for the retreat was not only delicious but allowed flexibility to cater to a persons specific dietary needs to help facilitate their healing. The Shamans, Maestro Diogenes and Maestra Anita were lovely, caring and compassionate people who were always around to chat with and offer loving support. Extra bonuses of having yoga sessions and evening Buddhist meditation and local day trips to nearby sites were also wonderful additions. I would highly recommend Lotus Vine Journeys, and hope to join these wonderful people again.
Stella in Dubai
Freddy
September 3, 2016 at 4:15 pmI was really interested in trying Ayahuasca to deal with some serious emotional problems. I had been meditating for several years but I still felt stuck especially in my heart. I have been in therapy for years to heal from my childhood, which was very physically and emotionally abusive. I think my therapy and meditation practice have helped a lot however I still felt really blocked. Prior to coming on retreat I hadn’t been able to cry for over 10 years and I felt very disconnected from everyone in my life especially my girlfriend. This retreat exceeded my expectations on every level. At first I thought 8 ceremonies would be way too much but now I see how much I needed it. I think the environment and the focus on compassion really worked on me. By the 5th ceremony my heart finally opened and wow what a release! I really started to forgive people and begin to allow others to love me. I cried a lot. It’s sounds kind of cheesy but I feel really different. Spring is a life -saver, what an incredible teacher and facilitator. The meditations before our ceremonies were my life- line because the ceremonies were powerful. The people at Lotus Vine have so much heart, man it’s inspiring. I am a better person now and I am planning on coming to the March retreat as well. Good luck in your search.
Dixie
August 30, 2016 at 10:29 pmThe July retreat was my second time coming to Pumarinri with Spring and Janeth. To say that my experiences were profound and life changing, would be a gross understatement. You couldn’t ask for a more loving, caring and supportive environment for exploring the inner workings of your heart and soul.
I cried a quantity of tears that would surely equal hospitalization level dehydration if I hadn’t been so vigilant about drinking the freshly popped open coconuts from the super friendly kitchen. I slept at all hours of the day and night, but almost never during “normal sleeping hours”. Those hours were reserved for drinking a mind opening concoction brewed by the happiest shaman I’ve ever met. I haven’t met many shaman, mind you, but he’s a beautiful and special light in this universe all the same. I fell in love with myself first. And then with a group of people who were strangers, then friends and finally closer than family.
One night I met a few of my demons and I got scared, so scared that I was trembling with fear and trepidation. I knew in my heart of hearts that all I had to do was find Spring and Janeth and I’d be safe. Two things you should know here: first, they were only about 20 feet from me at the time and second, on the happy shaman’s medicine, 20 feet could easily be equated to the Sahara. So, with focus, determination and strength that I didn’t know I possessed, I started out across the vast desert on hands and knees. Eons passed, time immeasurable spun out into the distance, and still I crawled towards my oasis of safety. Finally, with a whimper, I found them and dissolved into a puddle at their feet, so grateful for their presence. When, from some unknown region of the universe, a hand began caressing my arm and the sweet loving voice of Spring entered my world, “Dixie, honey, are you sure you want to lay on the floor? We have a nice pallet for you to lay on…” I had a few thoughts in that moment, didn’t she understand what I just went through to get here! Now she wants me to move!? And, thank goodness, Spring is here! I’m safe! And, yeah I probably shouldn’t lay on the floor in the middle of a dozen other people making their own treks through their own deserts. That night, laying in a crumpled pile on the pallet Spring directed me to, my heart transformed into something new and wonderful. Irrevocably, I’m changed. The first step was trusting that I was safe and that Spring and Janeth would help me if I needed. The second step was overcoming my fear of crossing the desert. I would say choosing the perfect ayahuasca retreat is much the same, and believe me, Spring and Janeth have got your back! It all comes down to confronting the desert now!
Artur
August 20, 2016 at 7:07 pmTruly, I doubt that anything that I will attempt to write here will adequately convey the profoundness and the beauty of transformation that anyone who has decided to join the Lotus Vine family experiences. Although ayahuasca itself is a powerful teacher in any setting and whatever retreat you choose you will have your dose of unbelievable journeying, this retreat will provide you with the tools that will make your journeys meaningful and the results lasting. These tools will help you navigate through layers of your unconscious mind ridden by painful psychological conditioning, of which we are often unaware, to release and recognise your own powers, wholeness and holiness that are waiting inside to be seen and acknowledged, and to make you aware how intimately you are connected with the whole creation.
Spring and Janeth are two huge pieces of love, wisdom, care and ease who are always there for you in any situation effortlessly and invisibly. They make sure that you enter each ceremony well furnished with the knowledge you will require to traverse the realms of the non-physical, and that you are safe and secure during the ceremonies. They also make sure that you are in complete bliss throughout your entire time at the retreat; a 4-star lodge that hosts the retreat is in the middle of the mountainous part of the amazon forest – a place worth visiting on its own right.
The comfort of the lodge, the beauty of its surroundings, the kindness and love of the people you are with, the food, and sheer leisurely flavour of the whole experience coupled with the deepest spiritual work I have ever done are the reasons I will keep coming back to Lotus Vine, having been there twice already.
Catherine
August 18, 2016 at 6:47 pmI felt called to explore Ayahuasca, but as a first-timer and a woman traveling on my own, was intimidated and anxious to find a retreat that felt safe and comfortable. I am so grateful to have found Lotus Vines.
Spring and Janette create a loving, welcoming environment that feels like family. The daily schedule offers a perfect balance between relaxing, time to integrate, yoga, meditation, and delicious healthy meals. All of this is provided against a gorgeous backdrop of jungle, wildlife, and starry nights. After long ceremony nights, the facilities at Pumarinri were a blessing to have – comfy beds, amazing views, peace, and hot showers!
I particularly valued the emphasis on integration circles post-ceremony; sharing and hearing others’ experiences helped me to further integrate the lessons I witnessed during ceremonies. I also felt consistently guided and supported by Spring’s Dharma teachings – they were a comfort to bring with me into each ceremony.
The maestros were the kindest, most open-hearted people I have met. They exuded a peace and connection that was a true joy and inspiration to be around. I felt completely held and protected during ceremonies with them.
If you are considering Lotus Vines, please go! After years of therapy attempting to move through childhood trauma, this retreat was exactly what I needed. The LV staff and maestros helped me to access love and gratitude that has expanded my awareness in beautiful ways.
beijgenraam
August 13, 2016 at 9:27 amLotus vine journeys is the perfect place for deep Healing and growing. Beautiful people, resort, very good food and very experienced lovely meastro to help and guide you. The meditation and yoga lessons are of good support to the ceremonies.
I can recommend everybody to go here and get as much as possible out of your connection with the spirits.
I just booked my next retreat with them.
Thank you Spring & Janeth!!
crystal feather
August 13, 2016 at 6:24 amI have been coming to Peru for the past three years, I searched and drank in a few places in Iquitos and with different Maestros in Pucallpa, and I can truly tell you that Lotus Vine Journeys is a very special, professional and unique retreat. Janeth and Spring, are amazing, beautiful women who put all their heart into what they are doing with many years experience working with plant medicine. Maestro Diogenes is an authentic Shipibo shaman, a powerful healer with a big heart and charismatic personality. The medicine is a profound way to connect yourself with the world of spirit on an inward journey of healing, learning and growth. Lotus Vine creates a safe and nurturing container with the optimal conditions to allow you to go deeper and further on your medicine path. Using Dharma teachings as tools to navigate spaces opened by mother Ayahuasca the blend of these two traditions is perfectly balanced.
The retreat is situated in a beautiful jungle location in Tarapoto, the accommodation is first class with all the comforts of a modern resort, but immersed in the Amazon jungle. The food is delicious and prepared with love from a carefully designed menu, the staff at the hotel are great and very helpful, and there are organized trips to different places of the jungle. As I said, this is a very special and unique retreat, an ideal place for everyone to meet the magic wisdom the Medicine.