Tailor-Made Dietas For You & Ayahuasca Retreats
Each retreat is tailored specifically for every guest, recognizing that no two people arrive with the same needs, health history, or intentions. Before any plant work begins, your health is carefully assessed, allowing the Maestro to choose the most appropriate plants for you personally. Your dieta is therefore prepared individually, with the plants selected according to what your body, mind, and spirit require. If you have a preference for a particular plant or tree dieta, this can also be arranged. Additional plants can be prescribed for you to continue your treatment at home, allowing the healing process to continue after you return.
We also work with traditional plant steam treatments using a steam box, where medicinal plants are prepared and applied through sacred steam to support deep cleansing and physical realignment. Plant and floral baths are also offered to cleanse, restore balance, and strengthen the energetic field, complementing the work of the dieta and supporting the body’s natural capacity to heal.
During your stay, the Maestro’s son will also assess any aches, pains, or physical imbalances you may be experiencing. Through traditional healing work, he uses icaros to call spiritual elements that help relieve pain and restore balance in the body, and he can also realign bones where the body has fallen out of proper alignment.
To ensure this level of care and personal attention, the retreats are kept intentionally small. The limited group size allows each guest to receive proper individual care, personalized plant work through their dieta, and close support throughout their stay.
The dieta is a sacred container — a time to enter deeply into your process with the plants and commune with their spirits. It offers a rare opportunity to connect with your inner world, work through what arises, and quiet the noise of daily life. In this stillness, you are invited to listen to the guidance of the spirits and remain open to their teachings as they communicate through insight, sensation, and awareness. We encourage journaling or sketching as a way to record your process and reflect on the guidance that unfolds.
We gather for meals, meditations, treatments, and ceremonies. While community and connection are important, time between these moments is meant for rest and reflection in your cabin. You may watch the wildlife from your balcony or take mindful walks on the land, allowing space to recharge, release stress, and move deeper into your process. You may also Immerse yourself in our stream, where waters born of the Amazon flow for purification, healing, and inner rebalancing.
Isolation Dietas
For those with prior dieta experience who wish to go even deeper into the work, there is the option to enter complete isolation once the dieta begins. In this mode, you will only attend ceremonies and treatments. Your meals are brought directly to your cabin, enabling you to remain in silence and solitude, fully immersed in your process.
Discipline and Commitment
To create the ideal energetic environment for the tree spirits to cleanse, teach, and guide you, certain rules must be followed during the dieta and for a period afterwards. These guidelines are not merely recommendations — they are essential for your safety, for receiving the fullest benefits, and for showing respect to the plants and the shaman you are working with.
Undertaking a dieta is a serious commitment. These trees are powerful teachers whose medicine requires dedication, discipline, and integrity. If you feel unable to follow the rules, it is best not to participate, as breaking them may cause adverse effects and disrupt your relationship with the plants.
Dieta Guidelines and Restrictions
During the dieta at the retreat:
- Meals are simple and clean, prepared without salt, sugar, oil, or condiments.
- All medications, including supplements, must be stopped. Exceptions may be made depending on your circumstances. A health questionnaire will be completed before booking, and some medications may be paused or gradually reduced under your doctor’s guidance for the retreat period.
- No cosmetics, soap, toothpaste, or insect repellent. Showers are permitted, but without soap. Teeth may be brushed with water and a brush, and flossed with unflavoured floss.
- No physical contact with others — no hugs, handshakes, or touching, except during healing work by the shaman or assistants.
- No sexual activity of any kind, including masturbation. Sexual energy should be retained and directed inward. Avoid flirting and wear modest clothing.
- No strenuous exercise. Gentle walks within the lodge grounds or light yoga are fine, but no sunbathing.
Continuing the dieta after the retreat:
- No sex or sexual activities (brief, non-sexual gestures such as a kiss on the cheek or a friendly hug are fine).
- No alcohol.
- No other plant medicines.
- No recreational drugs.
- No pork or duck.
- Minimize processed and sugary foods.
- If you normally take medication, it can be resumed after the retreat.
- If you normally take medication, it can be resumed after the retreat.
These restrictions protect the integrity of your connection with the plants, allowing their teachings and healing to continue integrating long after you leave. The maestro will determine how long these restrictions will last depending on your personal situation. Normally 15 days but could be longer.
Ayahuasca Ceremonies
There will be 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies held to complement the dieta. Each ceremony will be followed by a sharing circle, offering space for reflection and integration. You will also have the opportunity to speak privately with Maestro Mario about your process and treatment, allowing for personal guidance and deeper understanding of your experience.
Medicinal Plant Steam Bath
Step into the warmth of our traditional steam box and let your body unwind. Infused with carefully selected medicinal plants, the steam helps release physical tension, ease aches and pains, and gently detoxify both the physical and energetic body. This deeply cleansing treatment invites relaxation, grounding, and renewal.
Cleansing Plant Bath
Soak in a fragrant bath prepared with Amazonian plants traditionally used for energetic cleansing. These plants help to clear stagnant or heavy energies and restore harmony to the subtle body. As you rest in the water, their healing properties are absorbed through the skin, supporting emotional release and spiritual purification.
Floral Bath
A gentle and uplifting ritual to awaken the heart and spirit. This beautiful bath is prepared with fresh flowers and aromatic plants, traditionally used to refresh your energy and help you blossom. Much like the opening of a flower, it marks a moment of lightness and renewal — a way to step back into life with clarity and joy.
Guided jungle walks
Guided walks can be arranged