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At the Nimea Kaya Healing Center, we are dedicated to offering traditional Ayahuasca journeys, working alongside both male and female Shipibo healers. Our Shipibo healers carry decades of wisdom and knowledge through working with master teacher plants. Through our retreats, we aim to support our guests awaken to their fullest potential by healing their bodies, minds and spirits. Our focus on health, nutrition and self-sustainability in our peaceful and eco-friendly environment lends to a deeper healing process where long lasting positive impacts are made in the lives of our guests. With over 16 years of experience leading Ayahuasca retreats, we have helped support thousands of guests from all over the world transform their lives.
Our Selva Spirit Association NGO focuses on raising the awareness in the preservation of shamanic traditions, reforestation projects as well as multiple health programs implemented in the surrounding communities.
Shamanic Retreats:
Our shamanic retreats are designed to accommodate each individual on their path of awakening and healing. We offer a series of three or four Ayahuasca ceremonies per retreat with a local Shipibo Shamans, also known as a Curandero or Maestro. Our healers have been well established in the shamanic ayahuasca practice for several decades. Our medicine is brewed with only the ayahuasca vine and chacruna leaves. Our ceremonies are facilitated with the utmost integrity and responsibility. There are always four to six of our staff members in every ceremony helping our guests through their healing journeys with the sacred medicine. Drinking the ayahuasca medicine during ceremonies allows the participants to expand their consciousness to a multi-faceted universe. Ayahuasca takes the individual through a process of cleansing the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. The individual journeys through a series of visions often receiving profound realizations that lead them to a place of healing, understanding and balance within themselves.
During the course of the retreat we offer facilitated group sharing and one on one counseling. Our groups are no larger than 14 people so we may accommodate a more intimate and personal setting during ceremony. Our ceremonial Maloca is very spacious, providing a comfortable environment for the profound experience. It is situated in the midst of beautiful native plants and trees where where natures orchestra graciously joins us in our sacred ceremonies.
We provide for our guests with herbal and floral baths with a unique blend of plants and flowers from the surrounding jungle after each ceremony. The plant baths help to wash away any negative energies stagnant in the body and help prepare the participant for a more profound healing with the plant medicine Ayahuasca. The invigorating and cleansing bath will help rejuvenate your spirit.
Additional Activities:
Nimea Kaya activities includes: Meet Shamans and Q&A Session, Guided Yoga and Meditation sessions, Sound Healing Sessions, Floral Plant Baths, Visionary Painting Workshop, Ceremony Integration Circles, Guided Nature Walks, Shipibo Art Market, Post Retreat Integration Workshop. Massage and additional healing therapies also offered.
Ayahuasca Integration:
At Nimea Kaya, we specialize in offering Integration Support during and after the Retreat. We also give preparation support before the retreat with a Ayahuasca Preparation Guide and on a Zoom call with the guests. All of our guests will receive a detailed and thorough Integration Guide after the retreat with many tips and recommendations on how to continue the journey forward in life with the most ease, inspiration and motivation. We also offer complimentary integrations with our team integration specialist.
Prices:
Cost for 7 Day Retreat with 3 Ceremonies – Shared Accommodation $1750, Single Private Accommodation: $2050
Cost for 9 Day Retreat with 4 Ceremonies – Shared Accommodation $1950, Single Private Accommodation: $2250
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What’s Included:
* Pre-Retreat Preparation Consultation Call
* Digital Ayahuasca Dieta Recipe Book
* Ayahuasca Preparation Guide
* Pick up and drop off from and to Pucallpa Airport
* Transportation to and from the Nimea Kaya Center
* Three or Four Ayahuasca Ceremonies with Shipibo Healers
* Q&A with Shamans before Ceremony
* Participate in Brewing Ayahuasca (Only Available in Some Retreats)
* Guided Medicinal Plant Walk
* Ceremony Integration Circles
* Continual Counseling with Facilitators
* Consultations with Shamans
* Medicinal Floral Plant Baths
* Breathwork & Meditation Classes
* Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga Classes
* Sound Bath Meditation
* Nutritious Plant Based Meals
* Boat Excursion
* Shipibo Art Exhibition & Market
* High Vibe Living Class
* Farewell Celebration
* Laundry Service
* Post Retreat Integration Guide
* Post Retreat Integration Call
* Complimentary 1 on 1 Integration Sessions
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July 18, 2019 at 3:34 amFor those beings ready to radically revise their body mind soul complex; Ayahuasca (ie.psychedelia) creates new neuronic pathways that enables our consciousness and therefore physical/material/dense selves to experience/travel and therefore manifest/be altered/hightened states of thinking and perception. This is what evolution, ascension and expansion is all about. Altered and hightened states of perception can be simply explained as moving into higher and lower frequencies of exsistence as all there is and all that is, is frequency and vibration. Truly, scientifically as well as esoterically, Love and Light.
What is special about Ayahuasca compared to other psychedelics is the physical healing she induces, importantly targetting our hormonal system in depth, which is basis necessity for enlightenment and ascension. Not only, but she is also a gateway for other plant medicines: taken in smaller doses she makes other medicines stronger and more effective.
Specifically with my body I had various experiences: tingling all over (for what seemed an eternity!) as she was healing my nervous system. I could feel, see, know it. It was a miracle. Furthermore, i had a purging experience where i saw,knew,felt that it came from my lungs and not my stomach. All my years indulging in smoking of all kinds, she cleared. It was strong, painful, but darn did it transform me. Breath is life,and I could breath again. (note: I had been guiding breath work for years prior to this). With Ayahuasca there is a lot of purging that happens and I felt compelled to mention these 2 of many clearings that happened to my body to note that the purging is not relative to the stomach and intestine. The purging occurs as the intelligence of the sacred plant targets all our physical areas that need healing. This medicine allows for what can take us years to heal (physically-emotionally-spiritually) to happen in instants.
Moving on to the psychedelia effect, healing the mind/soul part of our beings, here I find myself at a loss for words. The mystical, fantastical, shattering visions are too complex, artful and incredible to write about. Most ayahuasca journeys are described in poetry and visual art; there is a reason for this. Astral travel, soul leaving the body and living other worlds and dimensions; the pure joy and bliss of understanding life after death. The travel within one self and deeply knowing that we create all; the lessons imparted by the sacred medicine regarding our incarnations and beyond is transforming, healing, liberating. Years, many many years, of mental/psychological struggles, addicitons, depression, existential questions: gone, in 1 ceremony. Had someone told me, i wouldnt have believed. Now i do not believe, I KNOW. Its miraculous. She is truly divine. Not for nothing do we produce DMT when we incarnate (birth) and when we ascend (death/moving on) – specific breathwork also has the effect of DMT secretion from our pineal.
A crucial and determinant part of all this is Nimea Kaya; the needle for the thread. NK is a dome (king-dome) on this earth of non judgement, purity and expansion beyond human understanding. The simple techniques of the way we were fed, the gift of rulers of existence as breath/surrender/love applied to Aya use (which I now focus on every day- my grandest teachers) the yogic incorporations (excercise, meditation and breathing), the very special high frequency water, the heart circles, the knowledge and open hearts of the facilitators, and the Shamans that I can only say are the incarnation of love and healing! Yes Ayahuasca is Divine, but the power of this centre is undescribable. I have taken Ayahuasca after being in Nimea Kaya, and I can state that it was a totally different experience in all facets. There was a different depth; a different vibe all together. Nimea Kaya is an all encompassing, blessed place. A wonder and necesisty on this planet at this time.
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May 14, 2019 at 12:12 amI first arrived at Nimea kaya in February of 2017. I heard of this retreat while i was traveling through Colombia in 2015/16. During that time I had experienced an ayahuasca retreat with a good friend who mentioned that Nimea Kaya was a very powerful, well respected retreat. So a year or so later when he was facilitating at Nimea, I made my way back to Peru to continue working with this sacred medicine. It was definitely an incredible, powerful, humbling and deep healing experience.
The retreat is very well run and taken care of by amazing people! One thing that really stood out for me was how it was so well organized. All the way from integration circles to the yoga/meditation. The way the retreat helps you process such an intense experience makes a big difference. The ceremonies were incredible, Having been through a couple different retreats/ceremonies i have to say these ones had a very strong impact on me. The shamans were such loving people, welcoming you with open arms ready to help guide you through such a powerful unique journey. With the facilitators also being right by your side the entire way. Looking out for you and assisting you in anyway possible. Another major thing for me was, I always felt safe. Never did i have any worries of where i was or who was looking after me. After completing my retreat i felt so much love and tranquility. I still understand i have a long way to go, but without a doubt this retreat improved my quality life in so many different ways. I am forever grateful.
The food and hospitality were also great. All together i highly recommend experiencing an ayahuasca retreat at Nimea Kaya. It is such a profound experience from start to finish.
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However it unfolds, you can be sure that Nimea Kaya will be there to support you at each and every step of the way. I certainly wouldn’t change a thing.
Finding the appropriate space to commune with Ayahuasca is a must. You are opening yourself up physically, emotionally, and energetically. You may be highly vulnerable, and being in a safe environment is incredibly important. To have trained practitioners adept at navigating the inner realms of experience is key, and all in a space with the right ‘energetic ambiance’ to ensure this can occur.
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I could easily write an essay here, but for the sake of brevity will not. To those reading this, I know the feeling. There are a lot of centres with great testimonials out there, and it can be overwhelming figuring out just which one is right for you. If you do feel a call to Nimea Kaya, trust it and don’t hesitate.
You won’t be disappointed.
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April 8, 2019 at 2:56 pmI am writing my belated review.
Perhaps it`s even better that I write a review in a month, as not to be subjected by the original emotions and sort everything out.
1)Facilitators. The organizers have created ideal conditions. They are very friendly and very dispose to feel comfortable and to fully open to the process. Facilitators are very well prepared and they dispose to fully let go and tune in to the journey. These are people with whom we spent a lot of time and unforgettable trips too. Also during the Ayahuasca trips i was very fond of their humor. Especially about “sorry, bar is closed”.
Especially, I want to mention the main Facilitator – Matt. This is the first time in my life when I meet such a non-egoistic spiritual person. E2-E4-ॐ.
Additionally, I want to add for those who speak English badly: my English is pretty basic, but i didn’t have any problems with the retrit. Although, it was bad that there were some difficulties to fully express myself with other participants in the retreat, I am sure we would have a lot to talk about if I could. Also in the group was another russian girl who had not experienced any difficulties.
2)Shamans. It`s nice that all the ceremonies conduct a female shaman and a male shaman. It is also very cool that they are relatives – husband and wife, and sister and brother. It seems to me that not only because of Ayahuasca, but also because of them there is healing. Ayahuasca is medicine and Shamans are doctors.
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Before coming here I read a lot of reviews (especially on reddit). I can say with confidence that if you want to get a deep positive most authentic Ayahuasca experience then Niema Kaya is the best place for you!
Namaste.
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March 4, 2019 at 9:59 amI first visited Nimea Kaya in 2014 to address various problems with my life, including alcohol. I got much more than I bargained for. The first ceremony resulted in deep physical healing. I purged a ‘granuloma’ up from my lungs, which was a manifestation of an autoimmune disease I had been suffering with (sarcoidosis). My lungs went from 80% capacity to 100% overnight. I could breathe fully again! To this day I am in awe of this miracle. I am healed. I returned to Nimea Kaya a year later to do more work, and now my life has been transformed. I have reached a level of peace and contentment I could never have imagined.
The retreat is amazing. Great people, Amazing food, powerful Shamans and most important, a really safe space to drink this powerful medicine. I loved it so much I went back a third year, this time to work as a volunteer and help others through their healing. I cannot recommend Nimea Kaya highly enough. If you have any doubts send them an email. Jill or Casey will get back to you quickly and can answer any of your questions.