Ayahuasca

Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual

Name: Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual
Rating: 4.7

Llanchama, Peru

4.7 (146 reviews)

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We are an ayahuasca retreat healing center, operating as a lodge in the Amazon rainforest. We are located 90 minutes outside of Iquitos, Peru near the small village of Llanchama along the Nanay River.

We provide traditional Shipibo medicine services wich includes: healing and learning diets, master plant medicine, and traditional Shipibo ayahuasca ceremonies.

Once you are here, you will meet with our shaman master healer Ricardo Amaringo, and with the asistance of a profesional translator, you can explain him your intention for the healing procces.

Your treatment will then be tailored to your personal needs, often including further treatment with a master plant. Furthermore, in traditional style, you will then adhere to a strict healing diet developed to promote the healing work of the curanderos and our medicinal plants.

Once on the diet, you will be invited to participate in ayahuasca ceremonies four times a week, for further ceremonial healing under the guidance of Ricardo and his assistants shamans. In ceremony, you will be further treated by the curanderos through the traditional healing song, called icaros.

The day after every ayahuasca ceremony, with the exception of Fridays, there is a group discussion led by Ricardo to review experiences in the ceremony and the progress of all of our participants, apprentices and visitors.

In some cases, further treatment techniques are also indicated, including healing plant preparations for bathing and vapor treatment, or cataplasm.

Traditional treatment requires time, so visitors are encouraged to visit us for one week or more. Group programs are often designed for 10 days or 2 weeks and more advanced treatment can take one/two months or longer.

For particular individuals, we also offer traditional diets for learning under the guidance of Ricardo. This level of training is best discussed in person with Ricardo himself.

We charge an all-inclusive daily fee for our services, which covers transport from the Iquitos airport, private room, modern bathrooms and showers, diet meals, laundry service, electricity, wifi internet, traditional medicine and experienced international facilitator staff support.

If you are interested in visiting, please email us to establish contact and verify availability at our center. From that point, we can plan your visit!

Reviews (146)

4.7 out of 5

Overall 4.7

Jing
September 26, 2017 at 11:16 am

I participated in a 10-day Ayahuasca Ceremony Retreat at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual in Peru in September, 2017. I had experienced amazing healing at physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. My intention to heal my persistent insomnia, lower back pain, eczema, allergies has reached the best result beyond words. I feel much healthier, purer and lighter in my body than ever before. Mentally, my chattering mind becomes much quieter now. Emotionally, I have gained much insights about the relationship with myself and with my significant family members, friends, relatives… I am much calmer, more grateful, more confident, more loving … I have gone through great transformation beyond words from this physical plane. Here, I would like to send my heart-felt thanks to all the Shamans, all of the support staff at the Nihue Rao for their pure love and kindness they offered to me throughout my stay at this sacred healing centre. Thank you all, Nihue Rao!
Jing
Gary
September 19, 2017 at 10:25 am

I recently got home from a 10 day retreat at Nihue Rao and could not have asked for a better experience. I really don’t know how Nihue Rao could be improved upon. This is a serious place of healing, a place to work strictly on your spirit. It felt futuristic, but archaic at the same time. The staff are knowledgeable, always available to help, and very friendly. As for the ceremonies themselves, there were four shamans present, all singing icaros at the same time. I experienced some wonderful healing that I can’t possibly put into words. The layout of the retreat was far beyond expectations, the structures being very clean and impressively built and designed. I always felt very safe.
One thing to keep in mind: this is not New Age Summer Camp, but very much an experience in the tradition of the Shibipo culture. If you’re looking for information about Astrology and yoga, you will not find it here. The Shibipo people and the shamans are people of the plant medicines, and rest assured you will just be beginning to scratch the surface of the depth of those traditions upon your first few visits to Nihue Rao. As I said before, I really don’t know how my experience could be improved upon and I’m already planning my trip back. Nihue Rao will undoubtedly be my ayahuasca center for the rest of my life.
Ed
September 17, 2017 at 8:01 am

Nihue Rao is a truly amazing place. I have been to another center near Iquitos before, but this one is clearly more focused on healing, in a very serious and structured process. Ricardo is an amazing and world-renowned shaman, and so are the other three shamans that operate with him during the ceremonies. The staff in general is extremely helpful and reliable, especially during ceremonies. I felt in a very safe place, which helped me work a lot on my intentions. And I can already see now the improvement and positive impact it had on my life. I will definitely go back to Nihue Rao to continue the journey and I will definitely recommend it to my friends and anyone willing to find healing. In fact I already did.
junglegeorge
September 8, 2017 at 5:23 pm

Nihue Rao, the shamans Ricardo and Miguel, and the helpers and the rest of the workers there saved my life!

A friend of mine recommended this place.
I was going trough a divorce and at the time I had a girlfriend and the relationship was not doing good. That as well was bringing a lot of anger, depression and anxiety out of me. My life was a mess. 17 years ago I was as well for one year in a drug rehab. I do have an addictive personality. I started drinking and still training martial arts every day in the morning. It was very hard on my body. My mind was racing with negative thoughts. I have two kids and knew that I need to do something. Work was bad as well (I am self employed) and I owed money to all my friends, to the IRS and had no more credit cards and the banks where calling me all the time.

The first time I went to Nihue Rao was in July 2016 for 10 days. Those 10 days changed my life. I came back a different person. Actually the same guy but without all the dark, negative baggage and all the problems did not look unsolvable. My approach to life changed. Not only work is better and I stopped drinking, but I stared rebuilding my relationships with all the people around me. The healing went much deeper than I expected. I saw and understood where all my problems started, where all my traumas came from.

Now I have a much better relationship with my kids, parents, friends, even with my ex wife we put the arguments aside and living separate we still take good care of our kids. I forgave myself and all the people in my life. I feel free! Don’t need anymore anything like alcohol or any other drugs. Still going to the gym. My energy levels are much higher then they used to be ever before. My smile is real. I feel in peace.

I was blessed that from the first time I went right to Nihue Rao. I have seen there many people that have been to other places and then they actually needed even more help to get out of the mess other “centers” got them into. It is not a joke. You have to be very careful where you go and with who you do Ayauasca. Make sure it is light shamans, shamans that are willing to help and do good. That have good intentions. Shamans that have dieted the right way the master plants and that have done many diets without any shortcuts.
I was blessed that I went to Nihue Rao because Ricardo and the rest of the shamans there have good souls and are experts in working with Ayauasca. As well as Joe [last name removed by request] was saying once – Ricardo understands the type of problems that we have in the “developed” world.
After I came back in 2016 all my friends saw the changes and I went within 1 year 4 more times bringing back people and witnessing miracles. I can not describe the joy I get from seeing the change in my friends and in me. We all are brothers and sisters and there is nothing better than to reach out and help the people that want to change for good.

Thank you so much Nihuea Rao. Thank you Ricardo. Thank you Miguel, Thank you Benoit. Thank you Glennis. Thank you Joe. Thank you Cvita, Thank you Martina, Thank you Markus. Thank you to all the wonderful loving staff at the center.
Thank you Mama Ayauasca and thank you Master Plants!
Thank God!
Love you all!
JBones
August 23, 2017 at 8:18 pm

Nihue Rao is the real deal. If you want an authentic Ayahuasca retreat with no funny business then go to this sacred Shipibo run center. Ricardo is a master shaman who will guide you expertly in your healing process along with his team of professional shamans and truly caring and nurturing staff. I am forever grateful to all those at Nihue Rao for making me feel like part of the family in both of my stays here. I just recently returned from a 10 day retreat which was absolutely life changing. I was here previously 2 years ago with my wife- who will be returning on her own this spring. Niue Rao is absolutely safe for women to attend on their own, many of the pasajeros are solo women. Ricardo and his staff have a great respect for female pasajeros and take extra care to make them feel comfortable and safe. I really can’t recommend this center enough- the accommodations are very comfortable, the food is humble and nutritious in respect to the variety of master plant diets available, the staff is always very helpful and will make you feel at home. This is a center of total healing, incorporating various Shipibo methods in addition to Ayahuasca. I had several massages which were incredible and well priced. There are always various artists and artisans stopping by sharing their work, and an art center where you can express yourself in any medium. The land itself is very well maintained with numerous flowering trees and plants of all kinds. Parrots, monkeys, rabbits and a great number of other animals are around to help you in your journey. If you need to get to town or need anything from town it is easy to get there or have someone get something for you. All in all, you are in the best hands at Nihue Rao, everyone is looking out for your well-being. I’ve never felt so taken care of, there is the utmost focus on your healing- and quite successfully I would add. Benoit runs the center and he is really a Saint. If you have any reservations about visiting Nihue Rao throw them out the window. It is a sanctuary of health. I am forever grateful for their services and hope to return in the near future. My heart is in the maloka. Gracias and irake!