Overview
Casa Del Maestro is a family-run plant medicine center that offers safe, transformative 11 day retreats with ayahuasca and Sanango plant medicine dietas. We follow the lineage of Maestro Don Alberto Torres Davila, a highly-reputable healer who has over 50 years experience working with plant medicine.
Our approach is down-to-earth, withe a focus on empowering individuals to connect with and cultivate meaningful relationships with the plants and the process in order to get the most out of the experience. We take an educational, experiential approach, where we share the foundations of Amazonian plant medicine while exploring wider perspectives that help people make sense of this world and turn it into valuable, practical, and supportive tools to bring home.
Groups are small, with a maximum of 12 participants. We help facilitate a warm, inviting container that fosters a spirit of communion and community. Accommodations are simple, clean, and comfortable. The local environment and our strong medicine lends to slowing down and going deeper.
Highlights
- Intimate, authentic environment
- Family ambience
- Clean, strong medicine made fresh onsite
- Experienced, skilled medicine team
- Small groups
Processes
Substance sourcing
Many of our plants are grown on our land, and we supplement by harvesting locally. Everything is harvested fresh and prepared onsite, with participants.
Intake / Prescreening Process
Registration; Health Form and Screening (with additional details requested if necessary before acceptance; Welcome Packet that includes Travel and Preparation information; Logistic email and direct communication to organize travel
Preparation
Preparation information on our website (dietary, medical, psychological, spiritual) ; a more comprehensive version of this is sent in our 12-page Preparation Guide; Travel and logistical information provided on our website, and a detailed 15-page Travel Guide is sent to all participants. Participants also have direct messaging and email access to our facilitators for any questions and guidance.
Ceremony
Traditional ayahuasca ceremonies as led by Maestro Alberto, his son Maestro Eliseo, and a team of apprentices/facilitators. Ceremonies are held at night, and are conducted in a format that includes icaros, one-on-one healing sessions, and facilitator support. Participants typically experience everything that an ayahuasca ceremony can be: purging, emotional release, psychological insight, energetic purification, receiving lessons and wisdom, and experiencing connection to greater meaning and higher purpose.
Integration
90 days of content sent via email after the retreat ends; access to facilitators for support and questions; and for deeper work we offer integration sessions
Accommodations
- Private rooms in common bungalows with shared bathroom facilities.
- All bathroom facilities are modern, and building construction is in the local style (wooden buildings with thatch roof, mosquito netted).
- Beds are modern-style wooden frames with mattresses and mosquito nets.
- Our two main bungalows have large common lounge areas with hammocks, reading material, tea, tables, and rocking chairs, as well as space for yoga.
- We have a dining and kitchen building that comfortably accommodates our groups, with a lounge area as well.
- The Maloca is reserved for daytime activities, night-time meditations, and ceremonies.
- We also have an open-air building where we prepare plant medicines.
Itinerary
10:30 am - Meet in Iquitos, check-in w/transport company
11:00 am - Bus ride to Nauta
13:00 pm - Arrive in Nauta, board the boat to Herrera, lunch
16:00 pm - Arrive at the port in Herrera
16:30 pm - Settle in at Casa Del Maestro, orientation meeting
19:00 pm - Dinner
08:30 am - Breakfast
10:00 am - Jungle trip to gather Sanango roots
13:30 pm - Lunch
15:00 pm - Prepare Sanango roots for the dieta
16:00 - Pre-dieta discussion
19:00 pm - Dinner
03:00 am - First Sanango ceremony
08:00 am - Breakfast
13:00 pm - Lunch
14:00 pm - Group sharing & discussion
15:00 pm - Prepare Sanango roots for the dieta
19:00 pm - Dinner
03:00 am - Second Sanango ceremony
08:00 am - Breakfast
13:00 pm - Lunch
14:00 pm - Group discussion
15:00 pm - Prepare Sanango roots
19:00 pm - Dinner
03:00 am - Third Sanango ceremony
08:00 am - Breakfast
11:00 am - Discuss the week ahead
13:00 pm - Lunch
14:00 pm - Optional activity
19:00 pm - Dinner
08:00 am - Breakfast
10:00 am - Plant medicine tradition discussion
13:00 pm - Lunch
14:00 pm - Optional activity
19:00 pm - Dinner
08:00 am - Breakfast
10:00 am - Plant medicine tradition discussion
13:00 pm - Lunch
14:00 pm - Optional activity
19:00 pm - Dinner
08:00 am - Breakfast
10:00 am - Post-dieta discussion, integration
13:00 pm - Lunch
14:00 pm - Swimming trip
19:00 pm - Dinner
06:00 am - Cut the diet with salt, restrictions end
08:00 am - Breakfast
10:00 am - Guided jungle hike
13:00 pm - Lunch
14:00 pm - Pre-ayahuasca discussion
20:00 pm - First ayahuasca ceremony
08:00 am - Breakfast
10:00 am - Group sharing
13:00 pm - Lunch
14:00 pm - Plant diets & integration, group activity
20:00 pm - Second ayahuasca ceremony
08:00 am - Breakfast
10:00 am - Group activity
13:00 pm - Lunch
14:00 pm - Preparation for ceremony & going home
20:00 pm - Third ayahuasca ceremony
08:00 am - Breakfast
10:00 am - Post-ceremony discussion, sharing
13:00 pm - Lunch
14:00 pm - Jungle trek
19:00 pm - Dinner
Costs
Which costs are included in the retreat price?
- All ceremonies
Which costs are excluded from the retreat price?
- Airfare
- Travel Insurance
FAQs