Dios Ayahuasca Sanaciones

El Triunfo, peru

My name is Percy Garcia Lozano and I am a curandero from Iquitos in Peru. I dedicated my healing center and more than 20 years of my work to people who are seeking healing: be it spiritual, energetic, psychological or physical. My center has a ceremonial maloca and 12 cabins, two of which are designed for families (4 – 5 persons).

This enables me to work with small groups – the number of clients on ceremonies rarely exceed 10 people. Usually, also facilitator and/or one of my students would make sure that participants are safe and looked after during ceremonies. Small number of clients enable me to follow and monitor the entire healing process of each person from the moment they come until the moment they leave.

Besides three ceremonies per week, the healing is supported by dietas with diferent medicine plants (read more about dieta on the dieta page) and/or other healing work the client would need. I’d like to emphasize that my work is based on high ethical standards, including personal integrity on every level. I make special effort to create peaceful and safe environment in which the healing process may be more successful.

Reviews (34)

4.3 out of 5
Overall 4.3
  • charlie.finn86@gmail.com
    charlie.finn86@gmail.com
    October 3, 2023 at 11:35 am

    I returned to DAS for the second time in July 2023 and had an incredible experience. The plant dieta I did was extremely powerful, and it helped me to make an unbelievable amount of progress in the two weeks of my stay.

    I am especially grateful to Percy and Dhyana, who worked hard with me, both in and out of ceremonies, as well as the rest of the staff (Ruth- thank you for preparing healthy and delicious food every day, Jose, for taking care of the grounds, and Zeby the dog, for comforting post ceremony cuddles).

    My experience went beyond healing and was far more expansive than I previously conceived possible. Percy is an experienced, skilful, humble and gentle curandero who works with the utmost respect and integrity for his medicine. Dhyana, as a ceremonial companion and guide (that’s an understatement…there’s honestly no way of capturing the extent of Dhyana’s consciousness here), will enable you to squeeze every drop out of your time at DAS. Strap in, though…every conversation with Dhyana is an adventure 😉

    I have nothing but love, respect and admiration for the exceptional work at DAS, and I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending this centre to anyone looking to drink ayahuasca with conscious intentions.

    Muchisimas gracias DAS, hasta la proxima 🙂

  • nessquick75
    nessquick75
    November 20, 2022 at 6:16 pm

    I recently got back from a trip to Iquitos where I tried ayahuasca with various shamans and this place was by far the best! Percy has an almost angelic appearance when you are under ayahuasca which I take as a sign he is a true curandero.

    Some people on this forum have complained that there aren’t enough visions, but his ayahuasca is meant for healing, not tripping out. If you are looking for lots of visions and a good time, go to a big gringo ayahuasca center where they cut the brew with chakruna. If you are looking for something deeper, this is the spot!

  • Aussie Enthusiast
    Aussie Enthusiast
    August 2, 2019 at 1:15 am

    Summary:
    If you are a psychedelic adventurer, then this Retreat is definitely not for you. Save your US$600 for a different retreat where the Ayahuasca includes enough DMT to provide visions. I’ve previously done Ayahuasca many times and experienced amazing visions. However, after 3 sessions here I experienced nothing and most of the other participants experienced very little visioning as well.

    If you are seeking healing of some sort, maybe this retreat will suit you better, but personally I doubt it. Basically, avoid it and pick a better retreat. We wish we did. We chose it because Sharman Percy was completely flexible, reasonably priced and suited our tight schedule. But ultimately, he did not deliver what I believe to be a proper visionary Ayahuasca experience. Ayahuasca is well known for its healing capabilities as well as its visual rewards as captured in the amazing artwork it inspires.

    Short Explanation:

    After discussions with a number of people and reading other reviews, I now believe this retreat has been set up by shaman Percy to be as convenient as possible to his lifestyle. Percy lives away from the retreat (I was told in Iquitos which is at least 25 mins walk + 40min drive away) and only visits the retreat 3 times a week on Ceremony nights and travels back into Iquitos after each ceremony which is a long way particularly after a ceremony. With a view to being at home in bed before midnight I believe Percy intentionally keeps the ceremonies short with a brew that is not very powerful with respect to visioning. Having now paid more attention, to the negative reviews it appears it may have once been the case that Percy had strong brew because his customers complained about Percy finishing the ceremony and departing the retreat and leaving him feeling abandoned. I think Percy learnt from this and came up with the wrong solution which was to under dose his participants such that they get the purging but not the visions and he can still leave early without worrying about participants struggling with visions. I think this is a really sad way to do business. And at the prices Percy is charging it is most definitely a lucrative business. Anywhere from 2-14 people paying US$500-600 a week in Iquitos is great money there and anywhere else in the world for that matter.

    A more detailed account of our Experience:

    To say that my friend Dan and I were disappointed in our experience at the DAS retreat is an understatement. We were both really excited to be in Peru with the aim of a wonderful and enlightening Ayahuasca experience in the heart of the Amazon jungle. I’d been told in Australia that there is no better way to experience Ayahuasca than in the Peruvian jungle with an authentic Shaman.

    So, the DAS retreat is about 48km out of Iquitos and then a further half hour walk along a muddy path to get to the retreat itself. Dan and I were brimming with excitement for the adventure ahead.

    After arriving and being shown to our sleeping huts (which are really basic but did meet with our expectations) we joined the group for a flower bath. During the flower bath we met shaman Percy Garcia. He advised that his brew contains an additional 12 secret plants to assist with the healing and Ayahuasca experience. We were asked if we’d done Ayahuasca before and asked our intention for the ceremony. I explained that I’d done it before at least 16 times and that I usually needed a strong dose and that our intention was to have Ayahuasca related visions. Strangely Percy sort of scoffed at this and explained that Ayahuasca doesn’t always give visions and gave the impression (and I could be wrong) that he thought we were a couple of ignorant gringos. He told us a story about how big muscular gringos think they can drink Ayahuasca and end up crying like babies and are unable to get themselves to the toilets. Then he declares that both Dan and I will be only allowed to have a single medium cup that ceremony and that was his determination. No further discussion was to be entered into. It was clear that his determination was final and given it is his retreat and his brew we agreed to defer to his ‘wisdom’.

    We are then given our flower bath and sent to the Maloca for the ceremony. So the first of a number of bad impressions was then created. After waiting in our allocated positions for the ceremony to start, we are advised by Percy’s assistant Joel that Percy will not start the ceremony until we pay the remaining US$300 owing for the week. This seems like extraordinarily poor timing as he already had our 50% US$300 deposit prepaid. I question Joel if he is serious and can we just fix him up the next day. He advises that we must go back to our huts and pay immediately, or the ceremony will not happen. So we comply and I guess now I understand why.

    Anyway, that night we drink what is certainly the most disgusting tasting Ayahuasca brew I’ve ever consumed (and none of them are ever nice). We lie down and he starts his icaros. His ceremony is ok and I’m in no way qualified to give an opinion about its quality. But the brew as expected made me nauseous. At times Percy’s helper Joel would come over and tell me to close my eyes and concentrate because the Ayahuasca is working it’s magic and that you need to concentrate to get the visions. This I found very odd. In my experience when the Ayahuasca starts working you don’t need to concentrate, the visions come through loud and clear, no particular concentration is needed. You can’t possibly miss them!! So I just lay there listening and waiting and waiting for something to come on. With nothing happening, please excuse my possible lack of imagination, the ceremony was unfortunately quite dull. Three hours of “naval gazing” with a churning stomach and being treated like a naughty child for looking around is more than enough. Finally the ceremony was over. After closing the ceremony Percy basically left the Maloca and fled the retreat to go home to Iquitos as that is where he lives. So a short ceremony finishing up before 10pm is obviously how things work at DAS and clearly it suits Percy’s work schedule perfectly.

    When I check in with Dan, his experience was the same as mine except that he can add to the list the worst diarrhoea (or lower gate purging) he has ever experienced as well as no visions. It is not till later in the evening back in my hut that I also experience the worst diarrhoea of my life. We are both really disappointed that night. However, it is not till the next day that we find out that none of the participants have experienced visions. None!! Everyone purged but nobody had visions. I found this very very odd. I started to wonder if we are all being low dosed so he can get home early or his brew is mostly the vine (MAOI) and too low in the shakruna (DMT) to provide visions. Or alternatively his 12 other plants, make up too much volume in his brew and limit it.

    I then found out from the two long term participants who are on plant diets at the retreat that they rarely have strong visions and that Percy’s brew focuses on the lower two chakras and that Percy’s medicine is more focused on healing than visionary experiences. I’d have thought the two could be combined but I really wish someone had told me that before I committed US$600 to seeking an Ayahuasca experience at Percy’s retreat. It is not the desire to clean their bowels that draws most people to seek an Ayahuasca experience. I believe it is the lure of Ayahuasca based artwork and the promise of visions that makes retreats such as DAS a destination for the majority of Ayahuasca seekers. I feel if this isn’t what is offered then it should be made clearer on the website.

    Clearly at the prices Percy is charging and his attitude towards the money, he is running a commercial enterprise. Business is obviously good. He lives in Iquitos, drives a top of the range Ford Ranger XLT and as such he should be very clear about what he is offering.

    During the next ceremony I was able to consume a bit more Ayahuasca but I was absolutely limited by Percy to two cups without any attempt to consult with me during the ceremonies to see if I was experiencing anything. Needless to say, I did not experience any visioning and instead, just got more purging.

    I remember reading the reviews about Percy’s retreat on trip advisor and the overwhelming majority were positive. Unfortunately, this gave me a false sense of anticipation for a positive experience. All my ceremonies their were disappointing and I can only wish I’d attended another retreat.

  • BradyBear
    BradyBear
    July 7, 2019 at 11:56 pm

    I spent 10 days at DAS almost one year ago and am still integrating the lessons into my daily life.
    Percy, along with Erika at his side, hold a sacred space that is incredibly focused, and, at the same time, an empty page on which I was able to view the experience for myself.
    There were moments when Percy seemed to be speaking generally to Erika, another fellow attendee, and myself, and simultaneously directly to the unspoken questions and doubts in my own mind.
    Everyone will have their own journey, their own lessons, and I’ll share one from my experience that seems to be the theme of this commentary: All things are many things.
    The DAS Center, and everyone I encountered there enriched my journey and my understanding of that theme.

  • spoxi
    February 22, 2019 at 8:35 am

    Great place to do serious work and receive deep healing. I was fighting addiction which was killing me for over 20 years. I went to visit DAS 4 times already and after 2 years of receiving healing from Percy Garcia I’m now almost 1 year fully sober. During last visit in November 2018 I’ve also miraculously gave up on benzodiazepines (which I was taking for about 15 years and trying to give up on for about last 3 years) Now I’m in my 3rd month on benzodiazepines-free life I’m still little anxious and feel anxiety but last visit at Percy’s DAS somehow made me strong in my way through withdrawal. Can’t emphasize enough the beauty and serenity of this place. Also food prepared by Seniorita Ruth is absolutely awesome. DAS is not a touchy-feely kind of place, you going there to do a serious work. Percy Garcia prepares the most amazing medicine I’ve ever tried (and I was trying from 4 other places before), so be prepared for a deep dance with his Medicine, it will be as strong and amazing as the healing you will receive. Highly recommended. Thanks!

  • Chez
    November 10, 2018 at 1:04 pm

    I have visited DAS centrum in 09/2018 for 10 days retreat for second time in a raw (2012). In previous reviews here there are many usefull informations about good organization of the center and I would just briefly comment things which I appreciate the most:

    1. I see the leader of the center (Percy) as a very strong shaman who presents his
    love and compassion to DAS visitors by creating very safe and secure
    environment to relax, process,integrate issues which are being brought up to
    light and to be healed.
    2. It is up to each individual to use up this safe envirnoment to its full potential by
    formulating precisely the theme of which is suppose to be processesed. It
    requires personnnal honesty and focus on self healing and the whole place will
    provide all necessary support to it.
    3. Assisting shaman Erika from Slovenia who is creating very peacefull bridge
    for all foreigners to understand not only cultural, but also spiritual differences in
    realities, which we are coming from to this place.
    4. Equipment and structure of center, privacy of personnal space during stay
    surrounded by jungle (great support). Vegetarian food prepared with love and
    creativity, very friendly staff and cats to enjoy company if desired.

    The center is continuously evolving to create more comfortable envirnoment for all future visitors and this focus is more than obvious. I fully trust this place with my issues and both times I was supprised of help which I have recived there. I am definatelly coming back and I recommend this place to all who are willing to take responsibility for their issues and face them. This is the place.

  • AAVAULT
    AAVAULT
    November 9, 2018 at 7:01 pm

    I stayed at DAS twice, once in 2010 and then again in 2018. Both times I had a very good experience. Both Percy and his apprentices are fantastic and take traditional plant medicine very seriously. This is a good place to come for traditional Amazonian plant medicine. It isn’t Club Med or some kind of new age Yoga retreat, which I appreciated to no end, understanding some of the things that are being peddled around Iquitos and the way things had changed in the 8 years of my absence. Also, the food is very good, which I see as being of upmost importance while eating such a restricted diet as is required when preparing for an Ayahuasca ceremony. Highly recommended.

  • smartin04
    smartin04
    October 8, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    I visited DAS Centre in July 2018 with my boyfriend, for one week and three ceremonies as our first experience with ayahuasca. DAS is situated in the jungle, a 30-45min walk from the main road, and at night you can hear an array of animals. Upon arrival we were greeted politely by Percy, Joseway and the other guests and shown to our bungalow. The bungalow was very comfortable modest accommodation with mosquito nets around each bed. There was no electricity but candles were provided. The toilet was the flush-with-a-bucket-of-water kind and there was no showers, however you can swim in the river, where the flower baths take place, at anytime. The food at DAS was great, a good variety and very tasty.
    Percy conducted every part of the ceremonies with the upmost respect for the participants and the medicine. He facilitated group and individual discussions before and after ceremonies. He has built a beautiful maloka over the river to assist with the flow of energies and spirit in the ceremonial space. The ceremonies lasted around 5 hours of which Percy, with Joseway’s assistance, sang beautiful icaros. At the end of every ceremony we were invited to stay in the maloka as long as we liked or return to our bungalow as we desired. During my second ceremony, once the ceremony had officially finished and Percy had left the maloka, I had an extremely intense outpouring of emotion. I was crying and screaming like I’d never had before. Percy came back into the maloka to make sure I was okay, and with the help of Joseway and a few other participants, helped ground me while I worked through some deep emotional trauma that I’d been holding on to – something that I’ll forever be grateful for. Our last ceremony was held during the daytime, I was initially unsure about this, but it turned out to be the most beautiful ceremony and I would highly recommend asking if this can be facilitated during your stay.
    I have very limited experience with ayahuasca and have only visited DAS but from my experience I highly recommend going to this centre. The accommodation is basic but all the more better for you to disconnect with the outside world and focus upon introspection. A few reviews on Aya Advisor did give myself and my boyfriend some doubts about Percy as a Sharman, I feel they are completely unfounded and I would return to continue working Percy.
    I found a lot of personal and spiritual growth at DAS and left knowing my work wasn’t finished – but it has started me on a path that will change my life for the better. And I wish whoever reads this, all the best on their journey towards enlightenment.

  • Sascha
    Sascha
    August 28, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    Having just arrived home from my 5 week adventure in Peru I am now able to fully appreciate the deep deep healing that was undertaken in my 10 days working with Percy at center DAS.
    As I walk the streets of my neighborhood and city, where formerly there was judgement towards people, there is now none.
    I feel connected to each and every individual I interact with, with so much compassion and love filling my heart.
    The fear, doubt and confusion that was instilled upon me as a child and youth has been lifted off, leaving me feeling strong, directed and protected.
    I cannot remember a time when I felt so free, so pure, so light.
    For 10 days, under the magical facilitation offered by Rak Razam, Percy devoted his undivided attention on each and every individual that was staying at the retreat.
    Whether it be in ceremony, holding space, calling in the spirits to heal us.
    Cleansing flower baths held each day (which may be a special bonus of our specific 10 day program).
    Lessons held in the dining hall teaching us about the science of the plant medicines he works with (including ayahuasca preparation, perfume demonstration/preparation, medicinal plants of the jungle).
    Or just offering his presence wherever you may find him, a shining beacon of light, calming, purifying, soothing the delicate soul.
    It was clear to see that the center was his life work. I never could have expected such a divinely conscious and natural setting. One part hospital, one part garden of eden, the facilities consisted of a completely off-grid mostly self-sustainable system.
    Whilst there was no power, gas or the common western privileges, we were blessed by the light of the moon, the flow of the beautiful jungle stream, and the crackle of the cooking fire.
    This allowed the attunement with the spirits to begin, aided by the gastronomically inclined dieta meals we were offered (the quality of which was startling to say the least, organic, nourishing, always seemed to be planned specifically for the state of the guests ie post ceremony soup with ginger for our delicate bellies) and the absolute comfort of a family home offered by the beautiful staff.
    As the days progressed, the connection with the spirits increased, and as my loud and chatty mind eased it’s barrage of endless thoughts and began to quiet, the plants in the jungle surrounding us began to be heard.
    Through dreams I would be given guidance, and during waking hours and especially post ceremony, the higher frequency communication of the plants could be heard clearly.
    In ceremony, Percy became a trusted older brother. Calm and assured he would translate the words of the mother through his icaros, the power of which was able to be appreciated on the experiential level.
    If ever there was a time of darkness being experienced by anyone in the ceremony, and I would find myself slipping off into thought or negativity, Percy’s vibrational presence acted as an anchor, pulling me back into the light.

    I feel so so blessed and grateful to have been lucky enough to spend time at center DAS, the first visit of many. I leave with the experiential knowledge that Percy is not only a master healer, medicine man, curandero, but also a true friend and brother.

  • Dave77
    Dave77
    August 22, 2018 at 7:41 pm

    This past July I attended Percy’s center for the 5th time since 2012. On this occasion I went with my fiancée for 10 days and participated in 5 ceremonies. Once again my stay proved to be of great existential import where profound amounts of cleansing and clarity were imparted to every part of my being. I have a rather long history with ayahuasca (16 years) and an even longer history of searching for answers (spiritual/ existential). I originally came to Percy’s Center with a wealth of experiences and a wealth of cultivated knowledge but with a slew of unresolved issues. I had the semblance of respectability (I was a successful teacher in a good school system and a functional member of the middle class – with all of its trappings). There were however unacknowledged weights that were undercutting my potential and were subverting my life. Inwardly despite many visionary experiences, both naturally and through the use of medicines, I was still a deeply vulnerable and hurt person who carried a slew of distortions and I was drawn to self defeating compensations that were keeping me subtlety imprisoned and were having a covertly negative effect on those closest to me.

    So when I arrived in Percy’s Center in 2012 I was ready to begin a sacred work that would ultimately bring levels of healing and liberation I never thought possible; along with tangible transformations of my outer circumstances as well. Each time I have entered DAS I have come with the vision of healing firmly in mind – of integrating and grounding a vast array of experiences within a functional embodied framework – a healthy grounded male whose mind is both rooted in this reality but also with access to deeper mind-states / realms and whose heart is both open and discerning. Each retreat afforded me the insights and the openings to take meaningful steps towards this aspiration. Each time there were also great challenges and changes that would take place in my life. In a very real way these mindful engagements with the medicine while in ceremony activated (unpacked) subtle energies and potential that would flesh themselves out during the course of my life back home in unforeseen and ultimately healing / aligning ways. It has always been a question of my intellect catching up with the implications of these unfoldings. In the process many intuitive leanings and discerned leaps of faith have been taken. In the process
    I have been left continuously humbled and grateful for this process in whom at best I am a junior partner.

    So now 6 years later my life is in a radically new place, brimming with possibilities and new found potency. Six years ago I was in a covertly dysfunctional committed 14 year relationship, in the past we had been good for each other although we had reached the full positive potential of this relationship and now its negative aspects were creating hindrances for our continued growth. It was at times an agonizing process but by the time I returned to Percy’s Place our relationship had come to an end. Fortunately we’ve been able to transition into very good friends and continue to benefit from the connection in a good and positive way. In the retreat of 2013, quite unexpectedly I received a vision from ayahuasca that I would meet a woman that was substantially younger than me. Sure enough by 2014 this became a reality. Since then our relationship has blossomed beautifully and we are ready to take the next step and consecrate our love in marriage in the Spring of the coming year. These past two years my fiancee has gone to the DAS center with me and has gone through some profound healing and changes in her own life, both in terms of her relationship with food and in her relationship with herself and her family. In fact she is ready to take a further step in her journey this coming February and will be attending DAS on her own accompanied – ironically – by my former partner and now good friend.
    This is only one example of the changes that have occurred in many areas of my life. In terms of food I’m almost fully vegan, work has presented many challenges and growth and now I’m in a very good and stable place. I am doing well economically (I’m in saving mode so that we can move to another area of the country, more rural / wholesome, to raise a family). Spiritually, my fiancee and I have found and embraced a beautiful path (Bhakti Yog) and it has proven to be a most ennobling path bearing very good fruits.

    So this last time at DAS in July it felt like the process undertaken 6 years ago came to a culmination and conclusion. Three of the five ceremonies were the most deeply healing I’ve ever experienced in my life. It felt as if my psyche was going through a profound realignment – much as a body worker is able to realign the body, and in the process it felt like the distortions that had been undermining my life, and which I’d been progressively excavating and releasing throughout these 6 years finally were released from their roots (not fun to go through). It’s as if I had reached an inflection point where the good chi I had been progressively cultivating gave me the strength to dive to the causal depths of these issues and root them out. Once again the feeling was one of utter gratefulness and thankfulness for being given the opportunity to engage in this truly transformative work.

    An important aside that I’d like to make is that Percy’s Aunt Maria Luisa and her daughter Amparo are both gifted Hueseras (bone setters) who have worked with me and loved ones in profoundly healing ways as well. I have seen them both in DAS and in Iquitos. They are available to work with anyone at the center that is interested (just mention it to Percy).

    So in retrospect Percy and his Center has been an unfathomable blessing in my life and in the lives of several loved ones. His inherited knowledge passed down to him from his grandfather (he is part of a family lineage of healers and removers of black magic – part en parcel of life in traditional amazonian villages), his relationship with very powerful healing plants (he calls them the Doctors), his integrity, commitment, and humility (he sees himself as a medium through which these powerful forces are able to effect multidimensional healing). And, the depth of his experience has prepared him to offer a very unique service to mankind.

    From a practical perspective he has a beautiful center that is very well run. Very good food, clean, comfortable accommodations; He has an architectural mind and he is always making additions and changes to the center. Currently he is working on expanding the Communal area by creating a three level structure for dining, reading, meditating, yoga, creative engagements (instrument/art space) as well as taking in panoramic views.

    From an aesthetic/accommodation perspective it rivals any of the centers listed in this site, however from the perspective of doing inner work and healing I can’t think of any other center that I would rather take part in. Next July my fiancee and I plan to go back before we embark on our honeymoon to DAS to pay respects to the work that has been accomplished under the ever mindful guidance of Percy, and to share this joyous occasion with Percy, Maria Luisa and Amparo, people who have become friends and have played a pivotal role in this transformation and for that I am and will always be eternally grateful.

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