Selva Madre
Traditional Ayahuasca retreat center in Iquitos, Peru
Welcome to Selva Madre
Set deep in the Amazonian rain forest, we offer a safe and relaxed environment. Perfect for exploring your inner Spirituality and healing powers through the ancient teachings of Ayahuasca
More about Selva Madre
Selva Madre was founded by Shaman Don Luis Rimachi in order to help people find a way to transform themselves through the power of healing using Ayhuasca
Discover our Ayahuasca retreat
We are dedicated to providing Ayahuasca retreats in the traditional lineage of native Shamans to heal and awaken.
Ayahuasca healing
Today many people are looking for alternatives to western medicine in order to heal themselves in a spiritual way.
The pillars of our work
Ayahuasca retreats in a safe and comfortable environment
This is the foundation of our work. We want to offer you a protected, nurturing, and caring environment. We are devoted to offering the best spiritual experience, expansion of consciousness and initiation of spiritual awakening. This is done through the help of the sacred medicine and the experience of Maestro Curandero Don Lucho Rimachi.
Ethics and professionalism
It is very important for us to provide professionalism and follow protocols in order to ensure a safe retreat. Some Ayahuasca retreats offer more than five ceremonies a week, and it has been our professional experience that this is excessive. Ayahuasca requires at least two days to be processed by the mind, body, and soul. It is our intention for our guests integrate the teachings of The Mother Plant into their lives, and allow all parts of their being to be healed. In complying with our ethics, and the greatest good of our guests, there are no more than three ceremonies per week at Selva Madre (4 for 10 days).
A renowned center
Selva Madre welcomes guests from all over the world and is considered on the best places for healing therapy and an authentic spiritual retreat. Don Luis Rimachi has been a practicing Shaman for over 30 years in local Native Communities. His dedication is to heal and guide the guests of this land to new accomplishments on their spiritual journey. The Ayahuasca that we brew has no additives; only fresh Ayahuasca vines and Chacruna (Yahe) leaves are used. We have a strict policy to brew that medicine by experienced Curanderos while fasting to incorporate the purest and highest energies in our medicine.
Opportunity for a life transformation
We want to offer the opportunity to you and our beloved attendants to awaken in the best conditions. Our vision is to provide a deep change in your future and personal awakening. Selva Madre is also a community of people helping one another in order to have the best Ayahuasca retreat.
Human structure with love and care
Selva Madre is a family owned and operated center. It is our intent to offer you a unique experience with excellent care. The family atmosphere that is provided at Selva Madre allows you to integrate into a generational lineage of healers. The embrace that is provided to all that arrive is done with the fondness of the spiritual and cultural backgrounds of all that attend. We welcome all walks of life with loving arms, and are enchanted to sharing a devotion to personal healing, and transformation. Everything is made for you to feel at home during your experience, your awakening and your healing.
Our Ayahuasca retreat
Located in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest, Selva Madre is one of the most renowned place for an Ayahuasca retreat according to your path of awakening.
Honoring our principles, our brew is made only by Shamans fasting during the cooking process. We use only pure, fresh Ayahuasca vines and Chacruna leaves, nothing more is added.
Drinking the sacred medicine allows you to expand your consciousness, to encounter your real self and to heal your Karma. In other hand, it ensures your body of a perfect health.
Every ceremony is followed by a personal consultation and debriefing with Don Luis, plant baths and natural remedies can be recommended to you following his diagnosis.
Accommodation
During your retreat, you are staying in a private double traditional Amazonian house, they are very comfortable and spacious, protected by mosquito netting. Each room contains a private bathroom and shower.
Safety
Our primary concern is your safety during your retreat. For this reason we have a doctor and a nurse coming on site for any needs.
3 Ceremonies per week
Our safety protocols are important in order to deliver the best experience. Unlike other centers that propose five ceremonies or more per week, there is the perfect amount of three ceremonies per week, this is a normal and ideal frequency. Indeed Ayahuasca demands 48 hours to be entirely processed by the body and for its teachings to be assimilated. Doing more ceremonies in a short time is definitely not recommended. Our 10 days retreat includes 4 ceremonies and our 20 days retreat includes 8 ceremonies.
Circle meetings
The days after ceremonies there is a circle meeting with all the participants, the Shamans and Maestro Don Luis Rimachi. You have the opportunity to speak about your visions and their significance, also the Shamans will explain what they have seen within participants during the ceremony. Each participant will receive direct feedback regarding his progression and/or healing. If Don Luis find it appropriate, there will be a natural medicine prescribed.
Ayahuasca ceremonies
Taking Ayahuasca is a permanently transforming process on all levels of your being physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It reveals your higher inner self and facilitates deep healing. At the beginning of the ceremony the Shaman sings Icaros that are sacred songs in order to tune healing frequencies from nature. Every participant comes in front of the Shaman for a personal healing.
Detoxing
Purging is a central key element in Amazonian traditional medicine, the purge is induced by Ayahuasca helping releasing physical, emotional energies and traumas that you can carry since the beginning of your life.
Upon the completion of your stay you will be cleansed of all toxins, energetic charges and you will have a final consultation with Maestro Don Luis.
Food
For us the food is very important in order for you to have the best experience during your retreat, for this reason we serve fresh and natural local food. The meals are healthy and balanced with a dietetic care.
After the ceremonies there will be vegetarian food served and the following elements are omitted: Salt, sugar, saturated fats.
Transport
The transport is provided between Selva Madre and Iquitos city center on your first and last day, the transportation during the retreat except tours are not included. We are located at the other side of the river Nanay from Iquitos so the journey takes approximately one hour including taxi and boat.
The benefits of Ayahuasca
- Improves your health
- Rejuvenates your body
- Improves your mental and emotional health
- Increases intellectual capacities
- Provides a spiritual journey
- Awaken Psychic perceptions
- Attracts abundance in one’s life
- Has the potential to be as effective as many years of Psychotherapy