HUACHUMA RETREAT SACRED VALLEY
three sacred ceremonies
six guests
nine day healing medicine retreat
Nine day retreat
Our 2025 dates are April 14 – 22, July 7 – 15, November 10 – 18
The healing retreat represents a complete treatment with the medicine, and is an ideal format for maximizing its many benefits. It has been designed to allow you the space to do deep, healing work on all levels of your Being: spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical as well as provide the space to allow you to develop consciously, better enabling you to walk a life path with heart.
This is a unique experience to retreat from the pressures and responsibilities of daily life, in order to focus completely on your personal growth, leaving you positively transformed, healed, and ready to return to the world eager to live a life of purpose, and to offer your many gifts to others.
The retreat includes...
- Three Shamanically-facilitated Ceremonies with Master Plant Teacher Wachuma (San Pedro), which will assist you in releasing the energetic blockages that prevent you from realizing complete health, happiness, and conscious awareness in your life.
- A Despacho ceremony led by a Paco from teh Q’ero community, in which we will offer sacred gifts together to Pachamama (Mother Earth/Nature) and the Apus (Mountain Spirits) in exchange for their blessings and assistance as we walk our life paths.
- A relaxing trip to the medicinal waters of the Lares Thermal Baths, where you will relax and let the wisdom of the healing journey seep in.
- Guided tour at the Cocha Wasi Animal Sanctuary and the sacred ruins of Pisac right above our ceremonial space.
- Post-cerremony group circles the next morning at 10am.
- Optional walks in the tranquil beauty surrounding our place of retreat, where you may connect with nature. A great opportunity to meditate as well.
- Wholesome, nourishing, and organic meals served daily.
- Opportunities at any time, 24 hours a day, to speak 1-on-1 with John for any questions, counsel, or assistance you may have and need.
- Ample time to let go, rest, relax, and connect with your true self and purpose for attending.
- Our place of retreat is a tranquil and rustic lodge complete with lovely gardens and spectacular views of the surrounding mountains, and it offers an assortment of single occupation and double occupation rooms. Single occupation rooms will be awarded first in the order that deposits are made to reserve space in the retreat.
Itinerary
Day one
10:30 – Group pick-up in Cusco
11:30 – Check-In
12:00 – Orientation
12:30 – Lunch
13:30 – Free time
18:30 – Dinner
Day two
9:00 – Our first ceremony
Day three
07:30 – Breakfast
08:30 – Massages/Free time
12:30 – Lunch
13:30 – Massages/Free time
18:30 – Dinner
Day four
07:30 – Breakfast
08:30 – Free time/massages
12:30 – Lunch
14:30 – Despacho Ceremony
16:30 – Free time
18:30 – Dinner
Day five
09:00 – Our second ceremony
Day six
07:30 – Breakfast
08:30 – Cocha Wasi Animal Sanctuary
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – Pisac Archeological Site
18:30 – Dinner
Day seven
07:30 – Breakfast
08:30 – Depart for Lares Thermal baths
11:00 – Lares Thermal Baths
16:00 – Return to place of retreat
18:30 – Dinner
Day eight
09:00 – Our third ceremony
Day nine
07:30 – Breakfast
10:00 – Group Circle
11:00 – Free time
12:30 – Lunch
13:30 – Free time
18:30 – Dinner
Departure Day
07:30 – Breakfast
10:00 – Farewell – Group Transportation to Cusco
Costs of retreat
$1,650 USD per person
Group size is 2 – 6 participants
A deposit of $500 is required to reserve a space in the retreat. Payment in Full must be made no later than 15 days prior to retreat start.
About Huachuma
Huachuma/San Pedro (Trichocereus/ Echinopsis pachanoi) is a tall, columnar species of cactus native to the Andes Mountains of South America, and the name of the entheogenic and medicinal brew into which it is made. It’s medicinal/shamanic usage within Peru has been dated as far back as 2200 B.C.E. Of all it’s beneficial and psychoactive alkaloids, Mescaline is the most prominent and best studied. The medicine I make and use in our healing ceremonies is a unique process which takes several days, It is an extremely potent medicine and spiritual tool that, when used in conjunction with the appropriate shamanic healing techniques, can help individuals effect significant change and growth in their lives.
Huachuma heals the underlying energetic roots that can cause us suffering in our lives in the form of depression, PTSD, repressed emotions, addictions, and anxiety. It also removes the blocks that prevent us from achieving success however you may define that and enjoying peace and joy in our lives. Additionally, it helps to remove energetic roots that lead to the manifestation of physical illnesses. Once the body has the underlying root causes removed, it uses its innate wisdom to heal itself, often rewiring down to the level of our DNA.
John Patton
Your host John is a shamanic practitioner and curandero based out of Tarapoto, Peru. He has been working with entheogenic plants and shamanic plant dietas for over 18 years, having begun his healing path in 2006 with maestros from Iquitos in the Loreto region of Peru.
Preparing, working with, and serving Ayahuasca, Huachuma and Kambo along with holding shamanic plant dietas has gifted him a broad base of experience and an ever-deepening relationship with these medicines and their spirits from which to draw upon.
