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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

Maz
June 28, 2017 at 3:48 pm

I 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 pm

I 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 pm

This 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 pm

My 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 pm

This 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