An introduction to the medicine
Ayahuasca & Dieta Retreats
Silent Ayahuasca and Master Plant Dieta retreats, held by Maestro Sanango in the living Amazon jungle.
Conscious inner work
A space for healing and awakening
Our Ayahuasca and Master Plant Dieta retreats are a sacred process of healing and inner discovery.
Within the stillness of the jungle and under the guidance of Maestro Sanango, participants are invited into deep introspection: to meet themselves, to release what no longer serves, and to rediscover clarity, peace, and purpose.
The work with Ayahuasca, the master plant dieta, and the sacred plant purges allows a profound purification of body and mind, helping dissolve old patterns, emotional wounds, and forms of inner suffering.
These retreats are, by our own understanding, an introduction to the world of the plants — a first, well-held meeting. The heart of our work as a centre remains the longer individual process, designed one-to-one with Maestro Sanango. Many of our participants come first to a retreat to discover if this work is for them, and return later for that deeper path.
The centre
A return to the roots
After eight years serving master plants in Europe, Sinchi Runa has recently returned — with deep gratitude — to the Peruvian jungle, to the land where the medicine was born and where its spirit is alive in its full immensity.
Our new centre sits near Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon, immersed in living forest and surrounded by the song of birds and the flow of the sacred river Shilcayo. It is the Amazonian home of Ayahuasca and the master plants: a place of silence and simplicity, where the voice of Mother Earth can be felt, and where she lends her healing to the work with the plants.
La Dieta
Communion with a master teacher plant
At the heart of our retreats is the master plant dieta, one of the most essential healing processes in Amazonian shamanism, held alongside Ayahuasca ceremonies.
During the dieta, participants enter a period of solitude and isolation, following a simple monothematic diet without salt or condiments, while receiving daily small doses of a non-psychotropic teacher plant — Ajo Sacha, Bobinsana, or another — chosen for them by Maestro Sanango according to the needs of their process.
Like Ayahuasca, each teacher plant is a master and a healer in its own right. The dieta is a subtle process that unfolds over days of solitude as an inner conversation that may arrive as memories, sensations, feelings, intuitions, or states of clarity and understanding. It is an opportunity to observe our inner world, under the guidance of the master plant.
The Dieta often marks a point of inflection in life: a “before” and “after”. This process can help the roots of long-held suffering to surface within a safely held process, where it can be understood and released. We consider it central to all retreats and processes at Sinchi Runa.
Stilness Speaks
Held in the silence of the jungle
Silence is central to all Sinchi Runa retreats and processes. Away from distraction and noise, the forest becomes a mirror through which we begin to hear ourselves and our own heart speak. It is central to the healing work, permit the process of observing ourselves, our minds, and understanding what does not serve us.
This stillness is not empty: it is conscious work. It is a search for awareness of our own minds, patterns, and projections — and from there, a way of connecting deeply with ourselves beyond the causes of our pain.
Speaking with the team is always permitted, for guidance and assistance, and the retreat holds deliberate spaces of conscious communication.
Personal consultations, discursive talks, and group integration sessions with Maestro Sanango offer a deeper understanding of your process throughout the retreat.
A safe, sacred process
Guided by Maestro Sanango
Retreats are directed by Maestro Sanango, a Peruvian spiritual teacher and curandero whose work is rooted in decades of leading traditional Amazonian healing processes with Ayahuasca and master plant dietas, alongside Eastern contemplative practices.
Upcoming dates
Sinchi Runa Retreat Calendar
Dieta retreat
New Year Retreat: Ayahuasca & Master Plant Dieta
28 December 2026 – 7 January 2027
- 11 full days
- 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies
- 1 Tabaco/Mapacho & Rosa Sisa purge — La Purga
- 1 Kambo cleanse ceremony
- 8-day shamanic dieta with a designated master plant
- Plant flower baths for protection and harmonisation
- Meditation sessions in preparation for ceremonies
- Preparatory talks, Q&As and post-ceremony integration with Maestro Sanango
- Personal consultations with Maestro Sanango
- Discursive talks on shamanism, plant medicine and the awakening of consciousness
- English / Spanish translation with Ananda
From2,350 USD
Ayahuasca retreat
New year retreat: Ayahuasca Retreat
28 December 2026 – 5 January 2027
- 9 full days
- 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies
- 1 Tabaco/Mapacho & Rosa Sisa purge — La Purga
- 1 Kambo cleanse ceremony
- Plant flower baths for protection and harmonisation
- Meditation sessions in preparation for ceremonies
- Preparatory talks, Q&As and post-ceremony integration with Maestro Sanango
- Personal consultations with Maestro Sanango
- Discursive talks on shamanism, plant medicine and the awakening of consciousness
- English / Spanish translation with Ananda
From2,050 USD
Dieta retreat
Ayahuasca & Master Plant Dieta
12 February –
22 February 2027
- 11 full days
- 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies
- 1 Tabaco/Mapacho & Rosa Sisa purge — La Purga
- 1 Kambo cleanse ceremony
- 8-day shamanic dieta with a designated master plant
- Plant flower baths for protection and harmonisation
- Meditation sessions in preparation for ceremonies
- Preparatory talks, Q&As and post-ceremony integration with Maestro Sanango
- Personal consultations with Maestro Sanango
- Discursive talks on shamanism, plant medicine and the awakening of consciousness
- English / Spanish translation with Ananda
From2,350 USD
Dieta retreat
Ayahuasca & Master Plant Dieta
25 March –
4 April 2027
- 11 full days
- 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies
- 1 Tabaco/Mapacho & Rosa Sisa purge — La Purga
- 1 Kambo cleanse ceremony
- 8-day shamanic dieta with a designated master plant
- Plant flower baths for protection and harmonisation
- Meditation sessions in preparation for ceremonies
- Preparatory talks, Q&As and post-ceremony integration with Maestro Sanango
- Personal consultations with Maestro Sanango
- Discursive talks on shamanism, plant medicine and the awakening of consciousness
- English / Spanish translation with Ananda
From2,350 USD
Dieta retreat
Ayahuasca & Master Plant Dieta
18 June –
28 June 2027
- 11 full days
- 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies
- 1 Tabaco/Mapacho & Rosa Sisa purge — La Purga
- 1 Kambo cleanse ceremony
- 8-day shamanic dieta with a designated master plant
- Plant flower baths for protection and harmonisation
- Meditation sessions in preparation for ceremonies
- Preparatory talks, Q&As and post-ceremony integration with Maestro Sanango
- Personal consultations with Maestro Sanango
- Discursive talks on shamanism, plant medicine and the awakening of consciousness
- English / Spanish translation with Ananda
From2,350 USD
Dieta retreat
Ayahuasca & Master Plant Dieta
6 August –
16 August 2027
- 11 full days
- 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies
- 1 Tabaco/Mapacho & Rosa Sisa purge — La Purga
- 1 Kambo cleanse ceremony
- 8-day shamanic dieta with a designated master plant
- Plant flower baths for protection and harmonisation
- Meditation sessions in preparation for ceremonies
- Preparatory talks, Q&As and post-ceremony integration with Maestro Sanango
- Personal consultations with Maestro Sanango
- Discursive talks on shamanism, plant medicine and the awakening of consciousness
- English / Spanish translation with Ananda
From2,350 USD
Optional additions
Deeper Retreat Preparation & Integration
3-day Pre-Retreat Kambo Initiation & Detox
Finding depth in plant medicine has a lot to do with how prepared and open we are – physically, emotionally, and mentally.
This pre-retreat preparation help you enter a space of stillness, detoxing, and grounding you into sensitivity and openness in the lead up to Ayahuasca Ceremonies and Dietas. Arrive 3 days early, with food and accommodation included.
Full Kambo Initiation: Three ceremonies with one of the deepest Amazonian cleanses, Kambo, that helps lift dense energies, break through repetitive mental patterns, cleanse the physical body of toxins, and develop fortitude. Kambo is a purge that helps deepen sensitivity and open the heart, allowing deeper work with Ayahuasca and Master Plants.
Sattvic Detox Diet: A purifying Ayurvedic approach that fosters calm, mental focus, and stillness, helping you enter the retreat in balance and peace.
Diuretic Plant Cleanse: A special selection of Amazonian and Ayurvedic healing plants that help cleanse, detox and tone various of the body’s systems and organs.
Silence & Meditation Grounding and observation practices together with solitude in nature help to connect with your heart and prepare to receive the wisdom of Ayahuasca with trust and openness.
3 days550 USD
Individual Online Integration Process
A retreat or process with plants is an important catalyst for change – but it is only the beginning. After the retreat, the real work of implementing and living this understanding unfolds.
Returning to daily life after a transformational retreat can sometimes surface many questions as the new understanding settles in and we begin to live these changes.
How do I preserve these realisations, and make the healing lasting?
How can I continue to deepen my process, even outside of retreat? How can I bring a new spiritual understanding into the fabric of ordinary life?
Ananda, a long-term student of Maestro Sanango, offers tailored one-to-one online integration sessions to help you navigate this vulnerable and vital time.
Each session is shaped by your own process as it unfolds. Depending on each case, you may receive personalized help in grounding insights, harmonising and navigating difficult emotions, developing meaningful practices and habits, and finding clarity in purpose and direction — so that inner realisation can root itself into outward action and change in daily life.
Each session is held online by video call and lasts around sixty minutes.
3 sessions200 USD
5 sessions300 USD
Health, Safety & PReparation
The work begins long before you arrive
Master Plants and Ayahuasca are powerful medicines that have the potential to alter the course of one’s life for the better. Undergoing a retreat or process should be a conscious choice in search of healing & understanding. It requires each participant to enter with respect, intention, humility and proper preparation.
Safety in this work is the first priority. Before being accepted to any retreat, your application will be reviewed carefully to ensure your safe participation. You will be asked about your health, your history, the medications you take, and what brings you to this work. Leading up to the retreat, you will receive indications for a Master Plant preparation diet to follow for about 10 days before your retreat, and further guidance on how to deepen your preparation from home. There is also a post-retreat diet that you must follow.
In cases of contraindicated conditions, substances or medications, we can offer guidance and assistance for preparation – in some cases with approval from your medical doctor. Depending on each case, individual preparatory consultations will be held with Maestro Sanango. In our experience, most participants are able to safely participate with the correct preparation and guidance.
If you have any questions, you are always welcome to speak with a facilitator first, before anything is decided.
Please read our terms & conditions and the contraindications for Ayahuasca & plant work before booking.
