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Parign Hak – Grandma´s Home

Name: Parign Hak – Grandma´s Home
Address: Manu Biosphere Reserve
Rating: 4.9

Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru

4.9 (73 reviews)

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While living in the Southeastern Peruvian Andes and Amazon for 22 years, the co-founder leading practitioner Jessica has been trained and is working with Ayahuasca in the Shipibo tradition. She is certified as an “Onanya” (Ayahuasca master) by the School for Traditional Shipibo Medicine in Pucallpa and member of its advisory board.

A former Manu National Park rainforest guide, she does ongoing healing work requested by the indigenous people of the region. As a traditional practitioner she regularly participates in international conferences.

As a woman and mother, she is highly experienced in assisting people in bringing about positive life change by very practical and down-to-Earth means. She organizes and takes small groups of Westerners (2 to 5 persons) on 7-day-long retreats to “Parign Hak” (Grandma´s Home), a unique initiative of Manu´s indigenous Harakbut people to host her retreats, located in the mountain rainforest adjacent to Manu National Park, where she provides a culturally adapted healing and cleansing process that consists of traditional plant baths and three ceremonies in Ayahuasca´s natural home, combined with an intimate immersion into Harakbut culture.

Other local healer are usually on site and participants may be brought together in ceremony with Harakbut community people in an attempt to not only facilitate integral healing for all ceremony participants, but also to foster mutual cultural understanding.

As recommended by the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service (ICEERS), all participants go through an integral process of selection, preparation, ceremonies and integration. This process includes a pre-ceremonial information package, a previous personal interview, traditional dietary restrictions, integration circles, further one-to-one integration interviews in between ceremonies and availability for further consultations for as long as necessary after the third ceremony.

Reviews (73)

4.9 out of 5

Overall 4.9

Jim
June 19, 2019 at 11:01 pm

By the end of the week at Parign Hak it felt like I had a second home in the Amazon. The way of living here is so wholesome and feels so natural; eating whatever you pick or catch from the river, spending time together, learning about the local flora, fauna and cultural traditions. Not to mention all of this takes place in the most beautiful setting.

These experiences coupled with the ceremonies helped me heal from past trauma and give me a new outlook on everyday life along with steps on how to apply what I had learned to my every day life.

My experience here is something that I’ll never forget thanks to the knowledge and guidance of the Harakbut people, Jessica, Viki, Alberto, Steve and our nature guide Alexis. I couldn’t recommend Parign Hak highly enough for anyone looking to experience ayahuasca in a safe and welcoming environment.
ayadreams
June 19, 2019 at 3:52 pm

Words don’t really serve well to say how much the week I spent at Parign Hak has meant to me. I felt myself reawaken. Jessica has committed her life to this medicine, to the healing it offers and to the people who form her team and her family there. Every single person and every single plant at Parign Hak serves a purpose and supports and works in honour of healing. The experience I had and the things I learned and realized have a value that is impossible to attach a price tag to. I will forever be grateful to Jessica, Vicky, Alberto, Steve, Herman, Gladys, and the whole Parign Hak family. I would recommend this centre to anyone who is serious about transforming their lives, about diving deep and making a commitment to their healing and to their personal growth. The way Jessica has combined cultural exchange that is enriching and heart opening for all involved with the incredible healing potential of ayahuasca is truly inspiring. Thank you Parign Hak for all the incredible gifts, dakishi. I know I will be back.
Jonquils
June 17, 2019 at 9:55 pm

Parign Hak is pretty special. The new Ceremony space (grandma’s house) is a loving little, round building filled with transformative nights.
Jessica is a powerful Onanya, and wonderful advisor and interpreter, not only of the meaning of the ceremonies, but of so many languages, human and otherwise.
Victoria, Alberto, and Steve all helped to take care of us and it was so nice to meet and play with the baby Howler Monkey they had adopted.
The jungle near the center is rich, diverse and beautiful and Jessica and the other guide who came with us were both incredibly informative about plants. insects, animals and birds. We saw a lot of beauty, and met a lot of incredible locals who helped and partook in the ceremonies with us.
The entire experience included jungle hot springs, clear river pools, plant education, ancient carved river rocks, local dances and villages, epic views, and more birds and birdsong than I could imagine. I loved it so much, I stayed for ten more days after the retreat to do a plant dieta.
I will return to Parign Hak, and to these people who became family.
Silvia
June 17, 2019 at 3:10 pm

I recently returned from my second visit to Parign Hak. I went specifically to continue the healing process I began the first time. And I got what I was looking for – big time. If the beauty of the Amazon rainforest isn’t enough to soothe whatever ails you, the love and support of the beautiful people who own and operate the retreat will. The food is fresh and organic because so much of it is harvested right there in the jungle. Outside of ceremonies there are numerous walks in the rainforest and trips to hot springs and other “hot spots” in the jungle that only the expert guides such as Jessica, Victoria, Alberto or Alexis can show you. Any one of these features is enough to commend Parign Hak, but this retreat has it all. I shall be always grateful for the love and healing that Grandmother’s Home gave me.
Calsifer
April 22, 2019 at 11:08 am

I’ve been to a Parign Hak retreat a few months ago, and I’d like to talk about my experience, which involved not only the Ayahuasca ceremony.
First of all, Parign Hak is not simply an Ayahuasca retreat centre. What I’ve learned there is not only concerned with Ayahuasca cleansing and learning process. Parign Hak is a very special place where you can learn a lot about the forest, the people living there and their history, the plants, what the plants really are, and how you can relate with them.
When you arrive in Parign Hak, a wonderful place in the forest down the Upper Madre De Dios river, you realize you are not simply in a retreat centre, but in a family, in a small community that will lead you through the knowledge of the forest and her spirit.
Thanks to Jessica and the people of the community you will learn many things about the uses of the plants of Amazonian basin, you will discover the plants and you will be taught how to recognize them. You will walk along rivers and through the forest, experiencing particular sensations and feelings, and being deeply connected and grounded to Mother Earth.
Talking about Ayahuasca experience, first I’ve to say that for everyone is a particular and unique experience, so it’s difficult to talk about it. What I just want to say is that Jessica is a skilled and experienced ayahuasquera; I always felt safe with her, and in this area I think it’s what really matters. The environment is safe and protected, and you will join the ayahuasca ceremony surrounded by local people who deeply know what “plants teacher” are, and they will support you with their experience in a very respectful way.
It’s a blessing to have the possibility to join an authentic and familiar place where you can know the history and the culture of local people, live in the forest and connect with her energy, and among this environment receive the teachings from Ayahuasca.
As I already said, what I’ve experienced was not only a cleansing and learning process, but a very human and touching relationship with people and nature.
Last but not least, the food was amazing.
I’ll always be grateful to Jessica and Parign Hak people. I think experiences like this could change many things in this world, and I hope more and more people will join the heart of Amazon and his natural richness.

Andrea