Ayahuasca Foundation

The Ayahuasca Foundation uses three different jungle camps for our ayahuasca retreats and another location for the Curandero Seminar.  During our time in Iquitos one the first and last nights of the ayahuasca retreats and initiation courses, we stay at a very comfortable hotel.  The jungle camps have very distinct styles and features, from the [...]

The Ayahuasca Foundation has its own jungle camp, located deep within the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve.  Getting there takes about 3 hours and requires a gorgeous two-hour boat ride up the Nanay river, a tributary of the Amazon.  With hundreds of miles of virgin protected land, the camp is secluded and quiet.  The Mishana community lives [...]

Don Lucho has a beautiful center near a small village named Manacamiri, just across the Nanay river from Iquitos.  His center, called Kapitari Centro de Investigaciones, has a nearby farm of ten hectares where don Lucho studies plant relationships and permaculture techniques.   The camp is based around a series of man made ponds, with ten [...]

The curandera doña Othelia has a beautiful camp about 50 kilometers from Iquitos where she lives and works with patients and the plants.  Her camp has three private huts, each with simple bathrooms and one or two beds.  These huts are for long term patients and students.  For shorter stays, visitors stay in one of [...]

The Ayahuasca Curandero Seminar is held at the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve.  The National Reserve has some amazing hiking trails that lead to orchards of fruit trees, botanical gardens, the research center where they breed poisonous tree frogs, and a new butterfly house. While the road back to the ‘real world’ will only [...]

Don Lucho is a Cocama curandero who runs the Kapitari Research Center near the village of Manacamiri, a short boat ride across the Nanay river from Iquitos.  With over 30 years of experience, don Lucho has spent many years developing his center, and now works with the foundation in our Introductory Course.  In addition to [...]

The daughter of indigenous curanderos (both parents were healers), doña Othelia never had a set initiation, for she grew up in the environment of plant spirit medicine from birth, and thus knew the science her entire life. Her childhood was an initiation. Othelia’s specialty is reading cigarettes, a form of divination similar to reading tea [...]