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On the edge of the jungle just outside of Pucallpa, right in the middle of the Shipibo homeland, you can find Pachamama temple. This relatively new ayahuasca centre was built especially around Mama Rosa, well known in the ayahuasca world as heart on legs, and her loved ones. Most of the Peruvian ayahuasca centres are located in and around Iquitos and mama Rosa, like many other shamans from Pucallpa, worked there for many years. This meant being apart from her family for months at a time just to make a living, not an ideal situation. With the founding of Pachamama Temple in Pucallpa this belongs to the past. Mama Rosa now works with her family, also trained and skilled shamans, to create a space with a beautiful family atmosphere and very powerful healing ceremonies. In addition to this loving family you will find a team of experienced English speaking facilitators working alongside them, there to guide you through your ayahuasca experience. Pachamama Temple is a place where you can feel at home and where a genuine loving energy and personal attention are a big part of the retreat experience.

What are you looking for?

Pachamama Temple was founded for those who are seeking profound personal transformation and true healing of the mind, body and spirit. Do you feel lost or out of balance? Like there is something missing in your life? Like you are cut off from a deeper connection to yourself and the people around you? Are you struggling to find meaning in it all? Are you carrying around old baggage that you are not able to let go of? Do you find it hard to love yourself ? You will be amazed how many people, especially in the western world, are struggling with these feelings and the inability to heal themselves from past trauma and loss. More and more of us are waking up. We no longer feel we can just keep going on like this, unfulfilled and unhappy. So we make a choice. No more. There is more inside me, and out there, and I am going to find it!
Transformation and healing. What does that really mean? These are big and abstract words and we don’t want to use them lightly. We don’t want to use them just because they are good words for marketing. We use them because they are the true goal of the Pachamama Temple and we deeply believe that everybody can achieve them working with the ayahuasca medicine and the right support. We invite you to come over to find out what personal transformation and healing means for YOU.

Respecting tradition

Our 12 day Ayahuasca Retreats includes 8 ceremony’s and our 7 day retreats includes 4 ceremony’s. The first ceremony of each retreat is a traditional ceremony where only our shamans drink the Ayahuasca brew. We incorporated this into our program at the request of our shamans. Our healers use this ceremony as a diagnostic tool, giving them a chance to observe you and your energy, to provide you with insight into possible blockages or problems. We strongly feel the traditional ceremony, together with an individual consultation at the start of your retreat, reduces risk and provides a solid base for healing work during the rest of your stay. We understand that many people are eager to drink after traveling all the way to Peru but remember that for thousands of years this was the way ceremony was organized. Pachamama Temple respects the old ways and sees benefit in a cautious approach to ensure the welfare of all participants.

Workshops and lessons

During your retreat you can partake in different activities that will make your retreat much more interesting. Our maestro’s will teach you some basics of the Shipibo language and tell you about their culture and history. More on the creative side of things you will be painting with a local visionary artist and making your own Shipibo embroidery’s with the woman of the tribe. Combined with preparing your own medicine, flower baths, sharing circles, meditation, a traditional Shipibo lunch and market we feel we offer a complete and well balanced program schedule outside of ceremony for you to enjoy.

Prices

7 Day ayahuasca retreat with 4 ceremonies 950 USD
12 day ayahuasca retreat with 8 ceremonies 1650 USD

Safety

As a healing centre the safety of our guests is our number one priority. Every now and then we hear of a tragic loss of life in other Peruvian retreat centres. We feel many of these situations could have been prevented with the proper preparation and care of the staff at hand. This starts with a thorough screening process for all our guests before any retreat where possible contra indications for working with Ayahuasca can be identified. Our staff is trained in emergency care and we keep investing in western safety standards and equipment. Pachamama Temple is also only 20 minutes away from the nearest hospital which means quick access to professional care if necessary.

Why choose us?

Choosing a retreat centre is exiting. There are many centres out there offering different kind of experiences. You want to take your time, do you research and choose a place that feels good for you. It is a choice you want to make with your heart. One of our guests described her choice for Pachamama Temple like this:

“ I searched the wide web of available Ayahuasca retreats for hours, days and even weeks. Hell, this was going to be my first time working with Ayahuasca! It had to be the perfect place! It had to be the most sacred space; a safe place, a place where you feel comfortable enough to expose all that craziness inside your head to a group of perfectly good strangers; and more importantly, a place where you could fully trust the shamans conducting the ceremonies, to not only have good intentions, but excellent skills in helping to guide you through the depths and trenches of your subconscious mind, and deal with all those scary little things you fear or suppress and that keep you behind. -Therefore it had to be a place of true healing. It had to be a place of love. I felt that with Pachamama Temple, and before I even landed at her doorsteps.”

We hope your heart will bring you to us. We will welcome you with open arms and work with you to get the most out of your meeting with the sacred medicine.

Reviews (36)

4.7 out of 5

Overall 4.7

unhappyguest123
July 13, 2021 at 2:18 pm

I am writing this review about events that happened 3.5 years ago when I attended Pacha Mama temple for 2 back to back retreats. I have not written about my experience until now, partly because I am an extremely private person who did not wish to draw attention to myself, and partly because I didn’t want to negatively affect the good work that Mama Rosa and her family do at the Temple. While my negative experience has little to do with them, I am aware that fewer people at the Temple means less money for her and her family. I am writing now as I have been reflecting on my selfishness in placing other women at risk so that I can avoid exposure and because I am aware that people in my community have been promoting this retreat centre to others.

My experience at the Temple relates to the white, Western facilitators. Specifically, how the white male facilitators prey on female guests to deal with their sexual desires and loneliness. I am absolutely not the only woman who has dealt with this behaviour. I was told that about 2-3 weeks before I arrived, the same thing happened to another woman, and I saw another review on a different site recently reporting the same thing.

Complicating matters is that while I (and many people) are in the medicine space, I can feel strong emotions of love and joy. When male facilitators are not able to respect boundaries and when there are no policies or practices in place preventing staff from engaging in sexual contact with guests, these strong feelings of love and joy that are meant for me are easily transplanted onto the males in my orbit. While I did not initiate the sexual contact (the male facilitator in question first approached me by spooning me during an ayahuasca ceremony) I definitely encouraged it while I was at the centre. After I left the Temple (and while still very much in the medicine space), I quickly booked a flight to see this person again. It wasn’t until I had been home for a week that I realized what had happened, and that I actually didn’t like this person (and certainly had no desire to see him again).

I know my behaviour makes this situation all the more complicated and confusing, especially because I know I was a difficult guest while I was there (for other reasons I don’t want to get into because I don’t want to defame the centre or its facilities further). In my view, the bottom line is that this situation should not have happened at all. I came to the Temple to heal from an abusive relationship, and the behaviour of the male facilitator meant that my healing experience was essentially ruined. I needed another retreat at a different centre (one with very strong policies forbidding sexual contact between staff and guests) in order to undo the damage and mistrust caused by the white facilitator.

I also want to be upfront that I was advised by the white facilitators that the male maestros had told them that oral and hand stuff with guests was OK, but penetrative intercourse was not. At the time, I understood that the white males used this information to justify their behaviour toward female guests. I implore the white males involved with the Temple to ask themselves if they truly believe that this behaviour is acceptable, or if it is possible that the maestros may have told the whites what they wanted to hear to make them happy.

While everything I have written is the absolute truth, I have no ill will towards the Temple, and I respect the work Mama Rosa and her family are doing. I invite the Temple to respond to this review, and to clarify publically (and on their website) what their policy is about sexual contact between Temple staff and guests. Until this is done, I suggest that women seek healing elsewhere, in safe spaces where we can do our work without the risk that we will be used for the sexual and emotional gratification of white men who haven’t done enough work on themselves to be able to hold respectful boundaries.
shushila
April 15, 2020 at 7:51 pm

I did 8 ceremonies at Pachamama and felt absolytely horrible after I returend to the US, and had to spend a bunch of money to do a follow up ceremony. The US ceremony turned out to be 1000 times more profound than the 8 Pachamama Ceremonies combined. My US guide truly truly cared about me and gave me lots of hints along the way so I could get the message from ayahuasca. Pachamama’s maestros not only did not care what happened to me, they could not see what was happening to me and told me that I was cursed. Their lack of care and insights led me to suffer an unimaginable amount of pain all for no reason.

During my last 6 consecutive ceremonies, at Pachamama I suffered through the same 2 themes repeatedly, without anyone helping me move through the suffering or understand what it was. Finally in the US, during the first hour of my ceremony, my guide told me my 3 core issues that was in my shadow, 3 core issues that Pachamama never saw despite my constant inquaries. For example, I had a bad energy leaking out of me for 6 ceremonies in a row and also during day time and non-ceremony days, but when I asked Pachamama Maestroes guess what they said- That I was cursed. They said my bad energy is from a past life friend who gave me a curse. In the US, I finally understood it was simply my long-time supressed negativity and released all of it in 1 night (vs 6 ceremonies at Pachamama and 6 days afterwards)

To make things worse, the owner Dominik is very unreasonable. I asked for a refund back because he wouldn’t host any ceremonies due to covid19 quarantine. I was totally fine to get a refund and then just leave without any ceremonies. There were plenty other places conducting ceremonies in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. Dominik refused to refund me without any apology. Then he kind of oked me to do ceremonies but made it seems like he was doing me a huge favor. It was an uphill battle to get the ceremonies in. If he didn’t want to do ceremonies, then no problem at all, just refund me my money, and that didn’t work for him either. All of the volunteers who work there all found the owner Dominik extremely domineering as well.

Last but not least, they had bed bugs. I originally thought it was mosquito bites so I toughed it out, but eventually my entirely body is covered in line-shaped bites. Mosquitoes are expected, but not bed bugs. Another guest also got fleas. All of their dogs have fleas.
skyscan
February 19, 2020 at 10:31 am

A friend went here and had a very positive experience, so I decided to take the leap of faith and book the 12 day ayahuasca retreat. The experience for me, was 12 days of work on myself that I deserved. I learned so much about myself and was able to heal everything I had intended on working on. The ceremonies were so powerful. The ikaros are beyond anything I could have every imagined. Having each maestro individually sing an ikaro designed just for you is out of this world. Everything is sustainable (the bathrooms are clean and there is no smell whatsoever). Treating with Earth with love and utmost respect is beautiful. Thank you. It was amazing to be able to help make our own ayahuasca and see the actual process. I was able to put in my intentions and felt a deep connection with the plants. Ayahuasca is a beautiful and sacred spirit and she has guided me in my life thus far. I am forever grateful for these beautiful people (Dominick (spelling)- I never met you who have decided to open a facility to help heal people and share the beauty of plant medicine (Ana- always sending good vibes). A whole family of beautiful maestros who are able to stay home, work, and live with their family is beautiful. They don’t have to be far away from their family in the middle of the jungle for long periods of time. I think this is one of the reasons I really love this place. It was created with pure love and good intentions and the family of maestros are beautiful and loving people. I think this is one of the most important things when I was looking into a retreat. Since I had a reference, I felt better about making the decision, but once I was here, I really understood how important it is to have safe and loving legit maestros. The healing that they are able to do is out of this world. I am not sure how else to express that. Also, Peru is a beautiful country. I have lived here about 3 years. The wisdom and love that this Earth has to give here is so amazing. I am so grateful to have been able to experience the jungle in all its beautiful glory. I think that being in the jungle is a once in a lifetime experience. I understand that I wasn’t deep in the jungle, but feel that it was the perfect balance for me. I wish you peace and love in making a decision. Thank you Pachamama Temple. highly recommend Pachamama Temple.
jttaylor
September 7, 2019 at 7:57 pm

My week at Pachamama provided me with fertile ground for healing. The medicine was powerful and the energies at this place are benevolent and supportive. It was such a fascinating experience, I would recommend Pachamama to anybody and everybody. The maestros are wonderful healers and the whole place feels so peaceful and energetically on point. If you are looking for a real deal experience that is not exploitative to the human healers check this place out.
Jon Spiros
July 24, 2019 at 11:52 am

I spent almost two years on research about different temples and I am more than grateful that my intuition took me to Pachamama! It is hard to express with plain words what I have received there. I received a second life, a chance to live again. I came to heal a deep childhood trauma and before coming, I was at a point of giving up. I thought there was no hope for me and then God directed me to this place of healing and love! I needed a lot of extra attention and a more private approach and Shamans and the staff took care of me like I was their child. I felt safe and loved. The Shamans and the staff are the most amazing and caring group of people I have ever met and i recommend this place to everyone! It is a real place with real people and the healing is real too. Thank you Pachamama for all your love!
Michal.d56
July 19, 2019 at 3:18 am

I come from Poland and have drunk Ayahuasca number of times in different places in Poland and Netherlands and then decided to go to Peru to experience Ayahuasca with Shipibo Shamans in Pachamama and this was the best decision of my adult life! Pachamama is a place that feels like home, everybody is relaxed and friendly, but at the same time professional, knowledgeable and caring. Drinking Ayahuasca in Pachamama was a whole new dimension of and cannot be compared to ceremonies in Europe. This was the real deal, the reality check and deep healing! I have experienced the most powerful ceremonies I could ever imagine and the Shamans were out of this world! They are so connected during ceremonies and we all got individual healing by each one of the Shamans! I got what I came for, and so much more. The place itself is safe and homey, the food is delicious, there are kids running around and going to school there, the staff are awesome people, the Shamans powerful…I have no words to explain my gratitude for the healing and love that I have received! Thank you Pachamama,
I will be forever grateful.
massy333
March 9, 2019 at 3:55 pm

Me and my husband have been to Pachamama Temple twice and we absolutely are in love with this magical place! The support and love we receive from the maestros, facilitators, staff and participants are just out of this world …. This experience has helped me completely heal my depression which I had struggled with for the 12 years. I tried so many anti depressants and anti anxiety medications and nothing seemed to help -or would help very temporarily- until I heard about Ayahuasca and happened to be one of the lucky ones to come to this temple. I honestly cannot express in words my gratitude that this place exists, it’s the ultimate channeling of mother earth’s love. I HIGHLY recommend this place to anyone who’s looking to heal something or is stuck in life. I will definitely be back simply to feel more and more of this amazing connection I experienced… Forever in love with this place & the wonderful maestros and maestras…
lucidaf
January 11, 2019 at 6:33 pm

amazing, there’s no words to do it justice… if you’re thinking of doing this, then it’s probably time… and if you’re doing to do it there’s no better place or people to do it with… such a warm and welcoming vibe, from start to finish… you’re made to feel at home and ease… can’t recommend enough… if I can I’ll be back sometime
Anna McGregor
October 2, 2018 at 6:48 am

I have recently completed a two weeks retreat at the Pachamama temple in Pucallpa, Peru and would like to share my experience which was, needless to say, life changing. The place itself is one with no ego, with facilitators and shamans that perfectly fit into that frame. Everything and everyone there is oriented solely on the individual’s healing process and towards making our journeys easier and more understandable. The facilitators, as well as the shamans (who live on or close to the property) are always available for private consultations and advice and are not mystified or kept in the “ceremony/maloka space bubble”. I went through several ceremonies, first of which was chaotic due to my lack of experience and knowledge on how to approach and work with the medicine or how to cope with a “heavy” journey. I have learned (again with the help and advice of caring facilitators and shamans) that setting your intentions before the ceremony is as important as the diet. Please do not mix expectations with intentions since intentions are as prayers and come with humbleness whereas expectations can only create disappointments as we cannot possibly comprehend the spectrum of Ayahuasca’s artistry, nor should we try to do so. Best advice I could give is to surrender with faith and trust and try to surf on the waves of Her energy without fear or resistance. At the end of the day and no matter how we interpret, understand or not understand the journey, She knows what She is doing and is there to help you. In my case, I found the dosage the be of crucial importance and as with any other medication, even a tiniest bit quantity wise can make a difference and thus, start your journeys with small doses and give Her space to show you the dosage She is comfortable to work with. Furthermore, my approach to shamans changed from one with subtle scepticism and latent prejudices to one of pure respect and I soon learned to treat and approach them with utmost love, respect and humbleness which was exactly what I received from them, regardless of my initial approach. They deserve the same respect that you would render to a physician who would be operating on your heart, since they do the same, but on an energetically and obviously, more subtle level. Mending broken hearts and minds without knives and stitches. Without stitches, however, does not mean less painful. The traditional doctor will give you an anaesthesia where in this case, you must face many dark sides of your brain and even though you will be safe and warm in the maloca and surrounded by loving people, the journeys can be very hard and exhausting, surfacing traumas and fears that were buried deep in the subconscious creating behavioural patterns and making us into adult auto pilots, contributing all our miseries to something or someone external. The shamans and their icaros guided me through the choppy waters of Ayahuasca, however, the work was mine to be done. The most important and by far the hardest ceremony I went through (I soon learned those are the most life changing and should be embraced as blessings) was the one that went deep into the subconscious and put a spotlight on the very source, the nucleus of the patterns that made me come to Pachamama in the first place. The patterns that made me addictive to being unhappy and judgemental to myself and everyone around me. The medicine took me to the deepest pits of my subconscious mind, where the God given, long time ago forsaken and forgotten child had been timidly hiding from childhood traumas and fears. I saw this child that in a subtle and gradual, but at the same time, aggressive and violent way, got banned from my own existence in a storm called life. It was now in exile, surrounded and safely guarded by many layers ego that dwell as it’s guards, making sure it does not escape from this life long night mare. It was sitting there in the darkest and most unreachable corner of my subconscious being and Ayahuasca, armed with the light of consciousness and teamed up with extremely powerful and experienced shamans, confronted all those guards, took the child by the hand and showed me the divine within. The divine we all came with. I felt as if a tumour had been removed from my soul. A physical ease from heavy burdens that I have been carrying for so long, that I actually became accustomed to their weight. I do realise that the ceremonies serve merely as guidelines and that Ayahuasca is not a gold fish or a fairy with a magic wand. For me, the work begun with the following morning, with the first negative thought that was in the service of the old patterns. The only difference is that that morning, I could actually recognise it as such, instead of attributing it to my personality. We cannot fight our patterns without the light of consciousness and in Pachamama temple, I received all the light I needed. The whole atmosphere of the place seemed like from another dimension. The food was healthy, delicious and prepared with love, I tried fruits I never knew even existed There are innocent and unspoiled children running around the property (Shaman’s kids I realised afterwards), people are caring in a genuine way, conversations are real and friendships for life. The support I got goes beyond anything I have ever experienced in this life and I highly recommend it to all of you brave enough to face and fight that which does not belong to you.
paisley2674
September 3, 2018 at 4:02 pm

This place is an amazing value on every level. I wanted to do Ayahuasca for many years and chose this place because it was recommended by a friend. I’m so glad I did! The Ayahuasca worked her magic and I certainly experienced the healing and transformation I intended. For this I am so very grateful. Beyond this, the environment, staff, facilities, maestros, and activities added so much to the experience. The temple had recently added a fourth ceremony when I attended my 7 day retreat and I’m so glad they did. Having that extra ceremony made it possible to have an initial ceremony to just get to know the medicine and see how I interact with it, followed by another 3 ceremonies to actual work and play with the medicine. I found the staff to be very kind and caring while also providing the structure and guidance needed to move from one activity to the next. The pace of activities on the schedule was perfect, allowing enough engagement as well as free time for reflection and interaction with the other guests. The staff were happy to answer questions and assist with whatever was needed. They did a good job of preparing us for ceremonies and explaining various aspects of our experiences. I felt that between the staff and the maestros/shaman they have created an exceptionally safe space in which you can explore your inner world and experience the healing power of Ayahuasca. This is so important when you are entering the unknown territory of your own mind and unsure of what you will find there. I felt confident “traveling” with these people at my side and I have never felt so safe with strangers. The maestros are on another level. I don’t think I understood how much your shaman’s happiness might influence your experience in ceremony. This family of healers is joyous, friendly, kind, sincere, generous, and loving. They truly care about your healing and want to help. I cannot believe how much they gave of themselves on top of providing 4 ceremonies: massages, individual consultations, making the medicine, additional plant medications, traditional meal, flower baths, and a Shipibo history and culture lesson (outside of ceremonies-this was my favorite part because it gave me such insights into the context for working with the medicine). I felt like on top of the medicine, I had the opportunity to get a taste of their culture and practices in ways that enriched the entire experience. When I saw how much the shamans themselves do, I imagined that they might be tired or even resentful at times for doing so much. But they are authentically generous and do everything with a loving heart and a beautiful smile. Among the maestros, especially when they speak to each other in Shipibo, I felt such joy and love. They obviously love each other so much and they bring joy and lots of positive vibes to the ceremonies and the entire healing process and it makes a tangible difference. All of this created a beautiful, open environment where I was able to connect with my fellow guests-amazing souls who I will stay connected to forever. This was the cherry on top of my experience. Finally, the food was remarkable. I had been following la dieta at home and somewhat bored with the food. I anticipated more of the same when I arrived, but I was amazed at the delicious clean, whole food they prepared within the guidelines of la dieta. It was a nice surprise. With a couple of exceptions the food is mostly vegan with vegetarian options (like eggs). The BBQ and traditional meal included local fish and chicken as options. All of it was tasty. It was very difficult to leave this very special place and I intend to return as soon as I am able. I highly recommend Pachamama Temple to anyone looking for an Ayahuasca experience in a safe, kind, sensitive, and open environment.

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