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Lotus Vine Journeys

Tarapoto, Peru

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)

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Overall 5.0
  • YogiKirsten
    YogiKirsten
    December 7, 2019 at 12:34 am

    October 2019 was my first experience with plant medicine and I will definitely be back for ceremony with these absolutely amazing, kind, loving, and professional beings (Spring, Janeth, Yugo and the Maestro). I cannot speak more highly of my experience – it was deep, transformative and profoundly healing. Each ceremony was a deeper dive into Self with support and skill of this phenomenal team. I will be back for more ceremonies with this very special group of individuals. Deep bows to Spring, Janeth, Yugo, the Maestro and Pachamama. The gifts from being in ceremony with this plant medicine are still unfolding. So much gratitude!

  • evgeny
    evgeny
    November 23, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    I took part in the October 2019 retreat at Lotus Vine. It was my first experience working with plant medicine, and it surpassed my high expectations, both in terms of how the retreat was organised and how much my life has improved since (I’m writing this 4 weeks after the last ceremony).

    The team leading the retreat (Spring, Janeth, Yugo and Maestro Adriano) are professional, experienced and very caring. They looked after us at all times, from both spiritual and practical perspectives. Spring’s background as an established Dharma teacher helped her to guide us, while Yugo and Janeth, both gentle and caring facilitators, supported Spring and Maestro Adriano both during and in between ceremonies. The location, Puma Rinri, is very comfortable – clean rooms, healthy food, very hot showers, wifi, etc – which certainly helped!

    I can’t really tell you in detail how much my life has improved thanks to Mother Ayahuasca in a review – I assume that if you’re reading this you’re familiar with the incredible potential of this plant medicine. If you’re considering attending a retreat, Lotus Vine will be a perfect location, especially if you have a background in Buddhism or meditation, as they fuse two traditions together.

  • Azuritemonkey
    Azuritemonkey
    August 31, 2019 at 1:40 pm

    I can’t recommend Lotus Vine highly enough. I’m fairly regularly asked for recommendations about authentic safe places to journey with Aya and until I went to the Lotus Vine retreat I didn’t have a place that I felt comfortable about recommending. My last experience of meeting Aya was remarkable – but it was deep in the jungle and the the trip organiser couldn’t ensure our safety physically or energetically during or between drinking ceremonies.
    Spring Washam is an extraordinary facilitator. She and the Maestro ensured that were strongly held and supported as we went through out individual dance with Mother Aya. I’m not a Buddhist – but have experience of Buddhist practices and found the meditation and dharma teachings to be a beautiful fusion with the Sacred Plant Medicine.
    Run with great integrity and impeccability this journey enabled me to receive very powerful and deep healing. I’m extraordinarily grateful, to Spring, El Mastro, Hugo, Janeth and of course sacred Mother Aya for making this possible.
    I was a woman travelling alone and this is an absolutely safe retreat experience for women travellers, people beginning their journey with Aya or anyone wanting to feel the deep love that Lotus Vine engenders.I plan to return next year.

  • Vanessa83
    Vanessa83
    July 25, 2019 at 3:58 pm

    The Dharma, the Buddha and the Sangha and how the medicine Ayahuasca works with the three gems of the buddhist teachings. This was the focus of one of the brilliant talks that our teacher and leader Spring gave during our beautiful retreat at Lotus Vine Journeys. This is one that has served to help frame my reflections and incredible learning and growth.

    The Dharma: Before each ceremony, Spring planted the seeds of one of the principles of the teachings of the buddha, loving kindness toward ourselves, other beings and our planet. The seeds that these words planted became an essential part of my healing during journeys with Aya. As the plant medicine shined her light on the areas of my subconscious that called for healing, and I gave over to grief, I reminded myself to breath love and self compassion into those spaces allowing for a comprehensive kind of healing to occur. In addition to the loving kindness teachings, were the teachings on grounding in the body, which again sustained me during the journeys. As such, I surrendered to the the felt sense of the body so the medicine could do her work. This gave way to a sense of safety, and profound healing from incredible childhood difficulties as well as unveiling some of the ways to a more equinimonous way of relating to Western culture and ways of being.

    The Buddha: “I take refuge in the Buddha and the Buddha takes refuge in me”. These are the words of Thich Nhat Hahn and I think that the essence of this gem is that we are all working toward and have the capacity for awakening. During my journeys, I had many insights that led to a more awakened state of being and I carry them with me. Just the fact that I was able to see reality in a more clear way and through the window of love was such a gift. But one insight/experience stands out to me and that was when I was actually able to feel and perceive the ways that my thought patterns and the quality of those thought patterns were creating grooves in my brain. It was like, all the reading I had done about neuroplasticity and the brain (Rick Hanson’s work), I was like a scientist for a few minutes just looking in at how my thoughts were creating reality, reminding me that I had choice about the quality of my thinking and my thought patterns. This felt like a nudge toward living a more awakened life. So many more insights, this is just one.

    Sangha: “The Community that lives in harmony and awareness supports our efforts toward becoming awakened beings”. From our Shamans Spring and Adreano, Hugo and Janeth, to all of the people that Lotus Vine attracted to the July 2019 retreat as well as the entire staff, this was an essential part of my healing journey. I believe it is due to the ways that the leaders create an incredible container of love and safety that they attract the most special and wonderful kinds of people to these their retreats. The community of people and how we held space for one another became a support for the medicine to work in her most profound ways. Essential to my Sangha was my partner in life. I am grateful for the compassion that we were able to show one another, and how our love and ability to see and understand one another grew through this experience. Again, the community was there every step of the way to witness and support our togetherness in this experience. Maestra Spring and Maestro Adreano, gave us such a gift through the Ikaros-I’m not even really able to put into words the beauty and nurturing from the Ikaros.

    I cannot recommend Lotus Vine Journeys as a healing experience enough. But I wish to say that LVJ was a rapid and profound peek on what has been a lifelong journey of healing and learning to love myself fully. The journey does not end with the Ayahuasca. What this wise medicine did was show me the acute areas that still need attention. I will continue with meditation and therapy as I integrate back into life. I will embark upon my work toward social and political justice in my role with more equanimity so it too, can be a path toward my own healing rather than yet another avenue of neglecting myself. Thank you Aya. Thank you Spring. Thank you Maestro Adreano. Thank you Janeth, Yugo, Lotus Vine Family July 2019 and so much love and gratitude to my partner D for being in this with me and supporting me in all ways.

  • Wheresdrdeborah
    Wheresdrdeborah
    April 30, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    I’ve done two retreats now with the Lotus Vine Family and I think this is one of the best things I have ever done. The accommodations and the surrounding setting are beautiful, the staff at the retreat center are very attentive and prepare amazing, meals for you, so that your only worry is to work on yourself. The retreats have helped me with a 180 degree turn around with physician burn out; as well as helping me to get rid of self-doubt, to find my strength and courage and truly love myself. The intermingling of Buddhist Dharma with spirit medicine is so powerful.

  • jacobkear
    jacobkear
    September 30, 2018 at 10:35 pm

    Lotus Vine Journeys is the best thing that has ever happened to me!

    It is the most beautiful place with the most beautiful people. The facilitators are outstanding and spring is a phenomenal teacher. The care they provide to each individual is as sensitive as I have ever experienced. Safety and healing are the upmost importance at all times. The environment is special with light and divine spirits.

    PumaRinri provides the most amazing scenery and accommodations. The rooms are clean and made of 100% earth materials including hardwood flooring, white adobe walls, and straw woven ceilings. Mosaic tile in the shower and sink makes the bathrooms super nice.

    The food is so amazing oh my goodness it is so delicious. I cannot stop thinking about how amazing it makes me feel.

    Incredible teachings using yoga and meditation alongside a blueprint to concentration in the present moment as a way to increased consciousness. Amplified by the master plant catalyst Ayahuasca.

    Deep healing takes place here. I cannot wait to go back!

  • Doenicke
    Doenicke
    September 24, 2018 at 8:45 pm

    I just returned back to my home in Tokyo, Japan after spending two absolutely incredible weeks on an Ayahuasca retreat with Lotus Vine Journeys in Tarapoto. Wow. What an experience it was! Words truly can not adequately describe what I’m feeling right now. There are retreat centers… and then there’s Lotus Vine. The latter is at a whole different level in every possible way. I know, because I’ve been to other retreat centers in Peru. While there are some good ones out there, none come close to the level of professionalism, comfort, care, love, insight and community as Lotus Vine. And none, in my opinion, come close to Lotus Vine in terms of the quality of facilitation and support in terms of how the medicine ceremonies are conducted.

    My experience was truly magical. I originally chose Lotus Vine as I was curious about the Buddhist philosophy underlying the retreat. Having a philosophy such as this in which to place your Ayahuasca journey in perspective is both incredibly powerful and helpful at the same time. On the matter of ceremony, the maestro shaman who conducted the ceremonies was amazing. His humility and unassuming nature outside of ceremony was complemented by his amazingly powerful and compassionate presence during ceremony.

    No review of Lotus Vine would be complete without recognition of the tremendous support from Spring Warsham and her two amazing assistants Janeth and Yugo. In my opinion, what truly separates Lotus Vine from any other retreat are these three angels. Spring is a warrior. I can’t describe just how amazing she is. She exemplifies everything you could hope for in a retreat facilitator – compassion, knowledge, love, attention, presence and power. Yugo and Janeth are also legends. Always on hand to provide support. Their ability to intuitively know for who, where and when support was needed was remarkable. For me, their presence during ceremony provided a level of stability and calm that allowed me to let go and confidently flow wherever the medicine invited me to go. I still recall one evening after ceremony how all three of them lovingly guided me back to my room. They were always on hand, before, during and after ceremony to support you in any way you needed.

    There was so much love, music, singing and joy throughout ceremony that I began to worry about how I would ever re-integrate back into my ‘normal’ life. Fortunately, integrating your experience and newly gained insights from ceremony back into your life at home is something Lotus Vine take very seriously. Years of experience have allowed Lotus Vine to prepare you for your return home after retreat but more importantly to ensure that the healing work you did on the retreat, and the discoveries and progress made, continues long after you return home. I truly can’t wait to be there again soon. So much so in fact that I am now considering bringing my entire company staff along with me! I can’t think of a better investment in my people than giving them the opportunity to learn, heal and empower themselves to a degree they will never have thought possible.

  • elled
    elled
    August 14, 2018 at 4:30 pm

    The entire experience at Lotus Vine was incredible. Impossible to fully capture in words how profound and far-reaching the experience was.

    I chose this retreat because it combined the study of the Dharma with shamanism and the use of plant medicine—as well as the fact that Spring is a renowned Buddhist/meditation teacher and someone who has really spent time in the Amazon, diving deep into this tradition to heal herself and others. My expectations were more than met…

    Spring is compassionate, knowledgeable, intuitive, strong, and wise. A powerful light and teacher who embodies the fierce heart her book describes. She has assembled a gifted team, each of whom was committed to helping us heal and to supporting us on our journeys. Janeth is one of the most caring people I have ever met; she was always there to make sure all the details were in place and that we were well cared for. I experienced some of the most profound compassion I have ever received from Yugo during two of my more challenging ceremonies. It was a gift. Our Shipibo maestro, Adrianno, was powerful, kind, and wise; coming from a lineage of healers, he has a deep understanding of the medicine and was proud to share his tradition to help heal others.

    The location was dreamy—a verdant paradise. The rooms had expansive views of the jungle and overlooked a tributary of the Amazon. There was a freshwater spring where we took flower baths on ceremony days. The daily yoga was lead by a beautiful soul and talented yogi. The cuisine was fresh and creative, which was refreshing given the restricted diet that accompanies the use of ayahuasca. There was a cacao-avocado-banana pudding that was addictive and yet still healthy…

    Taking ayahuasca is necessarily a vulnerable experience—knowing you’re in able, safe hands of knowledgeable guides is hugely beneficial. It was also a boon that the other participants were brave, caring, open-minded individuals, from different backgrounds and parts of the world. Everyone was supportive and committed to the process.

    It was a beautiful, powerful experience that is still unfolding for me in many ways, and I couldn’t recommend this wonderful group of healers or this special place more highly. So much gratitude to the Lotus Vine family!

  • tolindalee
    August 7, 2018 at 10:13 am

    Lotus Vine Journeys offers a15-day retreat that will genuinely save a broken person’s life. As a child, I was subjected to horrific abuse from both of my parents, leaving me with PTSD, poor sleeping habits, low self-esteem, suicidal thoughts, constant bodily pain and an overall shame and disliked for myself. I prayed to be woken, given a new start, wipe the slate clean, and I was lead to LVJ. Just before going for Peru, I was struggling to find the energy to walk around my neighborhood; now I can do lapse with ease. No matter how many self-help books I read or how often I went to church and prayed – the beautiful and inspiring words only provided temporary relief. Under the right conditions- loving people administering Ayahuasca gets to the deepest regions of your brain where permanent changes occur that are genuinely life-changing in the most beautiful way. I received a complete and total reset, and I’m so grateful for this healing. If you want to heal in loving-hands go to Lotus Vine Journeys.

  • Funder
    Funder
    July 28, 2018 at 9:06 pm

    Holy guacamole. This is the most amazing and intense experience I have had in my life. I am eternally grateful to the facilitators of this retreat and to Mother Aya. The place is beautiful, the medicine is strong, the facilitators are wonderful, the food is exquisite and the staff is great. Nothing bad to say about this place whatsoever. Much love!

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