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Ayahuasca Retreats with Plant Dieta at Caya Shobo offer a deeply transformative and sustained healing experience in the way of the true Shipibo plant medicine healing tradition.
Limited to only 12 guests, our Ayahuasca Retreats offer an excellent opportunity to receive highly personalized attention and care.
Available 2025 Ayahuasca Retreat Dates
12-day Ayahuasca Retreat with Personalized Plant Dieta
Our standard Ayahuasca Retreat healing program gives you the opportunity to participate in up to 8 Ayahuasca ceremonies, and experience the sustained, transformative healing benefits of true Shipibo traditional medicine.
Your healing treatment is tailored to your particular needs through a personally prescribed Master Plant Dieta with one or more powerful Master Teacher Plants (such as Pinon Blanco, Bobinsana, Albahanca, Ajo Sacha, Suelda con Suelda, Marosa, etc). Your Teacher Plant will be selected according to the Maestros’ recommendations for your unique healing needs and intentions.
Prices start at US$2,960
A 12-day stay in one of our spacious standard rooms is $2,960 or for $3,250 you can upgrade to a jungle tambo, or book our best accommodation option in the deluxe Tambo Bamboo for $3,450.
Ayahuasca Retreat Prices are all-inclusive of Ayahuasca Ceremonies, other plant medicine treatments, accommodation, meals, transfers to/from Iquitos airport. Airfares or other travel costs are not included.
All retreats include skilled facilitation and translation support (Spanish, English, and sometimes Russian and German – please enquire).
Please enquire for more information about extending your retreat stay or arranging your own private group retreat (minimum 8 guests).
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– Caya Shobo Ayahuasca Integration Sessions-
At Caya Shobo we offer regular group Plant Dieta Integration Sessions on Zoom – which are free for recent retreat guests, and priced at US$35 for all other attendees. These small group sessions provide an excellent opportunity to receive expert in-depth guidance related to Integration of Ayahuasca ceremony experiences and Plant Dieta healing.
Maximum attendees: 10
Session max. duration: 2 hours
You’ll have the opportunity to ask our experienced lead facilitators a question about your Dieta or Integration process and hear questions and sharing from other attendees. Each guest will be allocated approximately 10-15 minute discussion time on their preferred topic.
Please be sure to read our Terms and Conditions of stay at Caya Shobo.
These Conditions form the basis of your contract with us so please read them carefully. Please note our Terms and Conditions have recently changed.
– A Note About Payment –
Caya Shobo accepts payment by credit card, international bank transfer, and Bitcoin. Please write to us if you wish to pay by Bitcoin or bank transfer.
We are also able to receive payment for your stay by Cash upon your arrival at the Centre. However please note that we cannot guarantee availability of your room without full payment for your stay received 6 weeks in advance of your scheduled arrival date. See our Terms and Conditions for more information.
When bringing cash USD to Iquitos, please be sure to request pristine bills from your bank – the slightest tear or mark will cause your bills to be rejected by most Peruvian retailers and banks, and therefore cannot be accepted at Caya Shobo.
You can withdraw pristine USD bills and Peruvian Soles from ATM machines in Lima or Iquitos.
If you pay for your stay by bank transfer or cash, upon arrival you will be asked to provide a valid credit card for a security deposit. If you do not have a credit card, you can pay a security deposit of USD$300 in cash, which will be returned to you at the end of your stay at Caya Shobo.
Read our Travel Planning page for more tips on preparing for your journey to Caya Shobo.
Rafael was born into a family of Ayahuasca Curanderos in the Shipibo village of Santa Rosa de Dinamarca, 5 hours journey by riverboat to the south of Pucallpa. Growing up immersed in the world of Ayahuasca, he observed his parents and the men and women of his extended family always working in healing ceremonies and guiding plant dietas. At the age of 18, his curiosity to learn more about this path inspired him to open his first plant dieta, and he has since been learning and dieting with different master plants over the past 15 years.
Meeting Walter you immediately recognize his natural warmth and humility as a person, as well as his impressive capability as an experienced Onánya Maestro healer. His beautiful, lower toned voice and variety of melodic Icaros can transport you to a place of peace and reconciliation with your life’s experiences and your healing path. Walter is always solid in the middle of the storm.
Maestra Maricela is a highly experienced Shipiba Onánya curandera and Raomi herbalist. Born in the Alto Ucayali river village of Roya, south of Pucallpa, her father Nicolas Vardales is a well known Shipibo medicine man with a strong famileal lineage of medicine knowledge. At age 13, in receiving treatment for some serious health issues of her own, Maricela began to learn about the healing properties of Amazonian medicine plants. She continued dieting with different master plants until she started working with Ayahuasca in her early 30’s.
Immersed in the medicine world her entire life, Maestra Lucinda is the eldest daughter of renowned Shipibo Onánya Maestro Pascual Mahua Ochavano, born in the Shipibo village of Paoyhan or ‘Water of the Pearls’ located on the banks of the beautiful Ucayali river, north of Pucallpa. When she was a tiny infant of 4 months old her father opened her first learning dieta to bring her the advanced knowledge of the Noya Rao “Tree of light” of her ancestors.
Orlando also belongs to the famous family Mahua. His great-grandfather Manuel Mahua was renowned as one of the most powerful Onánya shaman in the entire history of the Shipibo tribe. Manuel’s daughter Manuela, grandmother to Orlando, is also a well – known living Onánya Maestra. Manuela brought up Orlando from early childhood and opened his first medicine plant dieta at age 7. 
Fernando Levi, also born in the village of Paoyhan, is the grandson of Pascual Mahua, and, like his father, his grandfather and many generations before him, Fernando has inherited the Shipibo name “Sani Piko” which means “The Great Medicine Men.” This legacy of ancestral knowledge and the discipline Fernando has brought to developing its power within himself is clearly evident in his Icaros, in his medicine and also in his extensive knowledge of master plant dieta for healing and learning.
Francisco (or Pancho) has been working with the Shipibo medicine path since his early 40’s, and is now in his late 60s.
As a teenager, Pablo felt the call of the medicine, but without access to knowledgeable teachers in his own family or community, he pursued his own learning path with Ayahuasca in the way of the ancient Shipibo Maestro Onánya – by entering the jungle alone and following the call of the plants in isolation dieta.