Treatments
Personal Treatments
“The truest discovery we could ever make is the unearthing of the universe itself through our own direct experience of being. This is the ultimate divine invitation: the ability to realize and remember who we truly are.”
In a sacred shamanic context that is tailored to each personal case, we directly work at addressing and releasing the root causes of afflictions and suffering, bringing deep personal transformation and healing – a rebirth into a new way of being, beyond the pains of addiction, depression, trauma, immunodeficiency, or other afflictions.
Through a Personal Treatment, we recover the traditional work of the Amazonian “curandero”, and the mission of plants that is the accompaniment of pain and suffering.
This closely and intimately guided process together with Maestro Sanango and Master Plants that aims to reconnect us to our deepest essence and opening of the heart, where we can experience a life of joy and fullness.
Healing the roots of pain
To us, all our afflictions, such as addiction, depression or immunodeficiencies, are symptoms of underlying disharmonies. Our treatments address these conflicts from the deepest space of the soul, so that a real transformation can take place.
The goal is a total reinvention of oneself.
The personal treatment seeks a complete transformation in which one can leave aside even considering oneself “an addict” or “sick”, and be able to exist beyond these limiting beliefs to live a life of fullness.
We address and heal the true causes of afflictions through understanding the root cause of disharmony. We review and deconstruct destructive beliefs we have formed about ourselves, and in doing so, we can experience the deep healing and understanding that comes from the heart.
Held securely by the wisdom of the plants in a sacred shamanic context, we begin to transform our whole being. We transform and harmonize our suffering, blockages and limitations through deep spiritual and energetic cleansing, ultimately allowing reconnection and integration of inner truth and freedom to flourish naturally.
A real alternative
A life of fullness without the need of substances or psychiatric drugs
Unfortunately, many traditional treatments for conditions such as addiction or depression, treat the symptoms rather than the cause. Antidepressants, Anti-Psychotics and other pharma-narcotics can be useful short-term aids for short-term relief of symptoms, or to assist a difficult state – but they do not treat the root cause of the affliction, nor the underlying limiting beliefs.
These medications numb the symptom, along with many of our vital physical and emotional functions, preventing us from living fully and in connection. These medications do not treat the underlying causes, belief structures, or root-trauma(s) of the self that leads to the state of depression or disconnection in the first place.
Programs such as the “12 Steps” can be useful tools to get out of a stage of compulsion with substances, but they also do not address the underlying root causes of addiction, and leave the person in the belief of being an “incurable addict” for life, often associated with high levels of guilt and shame.
Similarly, “modern” psychiatric institutions operate without a real understanding of the inner world, subtle space and different states that are naturally available to us as humans (even without substances or entheogens). When these states are not understood or operate outside of a culturally accepted paradigm, they are often diagnosed under general terms such as “schizophrenia” and “psychosis,” and treated with antipsychotic medications to try to normalise an individual’s behaviour, rather than to help a person resolve the core issue. Through a process with master plants, a person harmonises these states, which are an integral part of their being, and can use them wisely for their understanding and growth on their human and spiritual path.
Who we can help
All treatments at Sinchi Runa are personally designed for each individual according to their needs and situation, and we have extensive experience helping people with a variety of ailments:
- Substance Abuse & Addiction (alcoholism, narcotics, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, opiates, etc.)
- States of Depression, Anxiety, Fear
- Feelings of Disconnection (from oneself, from the body).
- Trauma & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), overcoming difficult life circumstances
- Behavioural Compulsion, Compulsive Activities
- Immunodiseases & Immunodeficiencies
- Diagnoses of “Schizophrenia”, “Psychosis”, harmonizing with altered states and openings to the subtle world
- Spiritual Emergencies, including “Kundalini” awakening, Awakening events
Please contact us if you have concerns about a condition (physical or otherwise) that you may be suffering from and feel can be helped by this consciousness technology.
Also in this context of Deep Immersion we accompany in vision quests, spiritual emergencies and quests of the self related to your spirituality and dharma.
Personal Treatments
Individually Designed Processes, Addressing Your Personal Needs
The content, length and format of personal treatment a treatment is always completely tailored to each individual – no two cases are the same.
Through a treatment we work on multiple levels of the being with a variety of holistic tools and the use of master plants: detoxifying, emetic and purgative plants and processes, oriental consciousness techniques to awaken the heart, and the use of Amazonian healing with shamanic diets, cleansing and master plant ceremonies.
The length of stay usually starts from 1 month, but is indefinite and varies on a case-by-case basis, determined together through prior online consultation and preparation. In cases of substance abuse, a minimum stay of three months is considered necessary, and often more is advisable.
This is a deep healing process of closely guided isolation and introspective healing, where we can discover our light and shadow, and release the belief structures that give rise to our deepest sufferings, and truly transform ourselves. A participant will stay at our retreat center without contact to the outside world for the duration of the process (for stays lasting longer than 3 months some contact with the exterior is permitted in some cases and contexts).
This is an essential aspect of the process that allows the participant to truly observe themselves without reinforcing any social dynamics and beliefs that are linked to the causes of afflictions and suffering. Silence is prescribed during certain phases of the process (though speaking is always allowed for guidance from Maestro Sanango or facilitators), and speaking and sharing is permitted at times other participants at the center.
Treatment Stages
A Process of Opening, Healing, and Strengthening
It does not matter if the participant comes to the center for spiritual search or for any physical or psychological condition, it is necessary to successfully go through the following stages, explained in detail below:
Detoxification
The work begins with a physical, mental and energetic cleansing. It is a stage aimed at purifying all kinds of harmful substances, emotional habits and harmful mental patterns. This cleansing is done through the intake of emetic and/or depurative plants together with kambo therapies. Detoxification is complemented with Ayurvedic cleansing, plant baths, saunas and hot springs.
The treatment begins with a period of isolation that can last between 1 or 2 weeks in an intense detoxification process. Physical recovery is addressed under a specific dietary regimen for the neurological rehabilitation of the participant. Mental detoxification is addressed through silence; your unconscious is evaluated through dream interpretation and your current circumstances through private consultations.
The detoxification stage ends with the first “Spiritual Diet” (shamanic diet) followed by the post diet, which is usually at the end of the first month, and direct contact with participants who have already started treatment at the center is allowed until the end of the isolation and detoxification period.
The goal of this stage is to determine the participant’s current status, plan their treatment according to the diagnosis and reduce any patterns of anxiety or withdrawal.
Decoding & Deprogramming
Decoding through the healing process allows the participant to release the excess emotional baggage that has accumulated during his or her life through family, social and cultural conditioning. This stage allows the participant to process and digest emotions that have led them to a state of suffering, and healing, through their own understanding, wounds of the soul that have caused their life experience.
Mainly basic applications for living together with other residents are developed. Living together allows clarifying the relational dynamics with the other and each incident creates an opportunity to modify unconscious behavioural patterns that promote dysfunctional dynamics. The attitude with which conflicts are faced is more realistic and pragmatic, allowing to bring to consciousness dynamics that lead the participant to promote their self-destructive or sabotaging cycle. Observing these dynamics from an objective perspective allows them to understand their own personality and initiates a healthier restructuring.
This restructuring of the personality leads spontaneously to the existential definition of one’s own life, allowing them to break the cycle of reaction to suffering; empowering their existence as a director and creator of their own life.
Opening the Heart & the Ability to Feel
The most important part of the treatment is to develop the ability to feel and to let go of logic or mental reasoning. Healing with the master plants requires an energetic opening to be able to feel, to connect with the wisdom of oneself and the universe.
This stage is worked from the beginning through meditation, the understanding of silence and the use of metaphysical plants that help towards the opening of the being. It is a very delicate phase since it allows us to begin to remember past events that have not been digested and requires a lot of attention to monitor possible crises that may arise.
Various techniques are used for spiritual awakening along with complementary therapies in the transpersonal field. This allows the participant to become aware of the roots that have originated part of their affective, social, existential or spiritual problems in life. These roots originate states of feeling a lack of meaning in life, compulsive actions such as substance abuse, emotional habits that lead to a state of suffering such as depression and reactive states of fear or panic such as post-traumatic stress.
We promote emotional management techniques in order to manage conflictive states that help the participant to flow with the current of each moment and understand each one of them as a circumstance he/she is going through. These states bring with them the opportunity to learn.
Resilience Development
The introspective process carried out through spiritual diets is oriented towards metaphysical concerns. The greatest achievement at this level consists of discovering the meaning of one’s own existence, one’s individual vocation and the development of one’s capacity for resilience to shape one’s life through the elaboration of a concrete life project. Maintaining this perspective is a guarantee of healing for the participant and becomes the cornerstone of his or her healing.
Throughout the treatment, the participant’s personal interests are explored in order to help them rebuild their life according to their capabilities and opportunities. The adversity they have experienced becomes a tool that they can use to their advantage to build their own existence.
This stage initiates an essential process to get out of the states of emotional dependency. Spiritual elements are rediscovered and integrated as pillars of a new life oriented to personal growth and the right to exist.
Family Constellation Harmonization (Substance Abuse Cases)
Substance abuse is an issue that does not only concern the user. The relational dynamics with their inner circle contributes to their being assumed as the “scapegoat”, and they require understanding if the user wishes to continue to maintain contact with them. This stage is crucial for total healing and it is essential that the family is willing to face its share of the responsibility that induces the user to remain in a state of dependency. This stage usually takes place at the end of treatment and is of utmost importance to establish a completely new relational dynamic. It is vital to understand that in these cases there is no one to blame and everyone involved must make an effort to move past a problem that has been created between them. Both parties must understand the state of dependency in order to end the game that has promoted the cycle of abuse. It must be understood that relational dynamics have an exchange and are established unconsciously. It is necessary to clarify, understand and heal the dependency of both parties in order to create a new way of relating founded on freedom and true love. The very fact of making this effort on the part of both parties, begins to consciously generate a process of transparency that allows them to harmonise their relationship based on truth.
Contact with the Outside World
The relational dynamics of the participants with their inner circle is of utmost importance to keep them totally disconnected in the previous stages. In psycho-spiritual processes, depression and post-traumatic stress, it is advisable to establish contact until the end of the treatment, so it is recommended to organize the necessary time for this to be possible. In processes of addiction or substance abuse, it is recommended that the participant disconnect from his or her environment for a long period of time after treatment and not return to the environment of consumption.
Treatments of 1 – 3 months: The participant should have no contact with the outside world, family members or people in his or her inner circle until the end of treatment.
Treatments longer than 3 – 12 months: The participant may have contact with family members or their inner circle at the end of their third shamanic diet via online video call or telephone. Personal contact with the outside world begins from the sixth month and this is in a controlled manner to initiate their insertion into the world. Participants who pass this stage have the challenge and opportunity to start a completely new life.
The disconnection with the outside world allows the participant to concentrate all their energy on their healing process and to observe their life circumstance without interference from the elements that conform it.
Throughout the treatment, the participant’s personal interests are explored in order to help them rebuild their life according to their capabilities and opportunities. The adversity they have experienced becomes a tool that they can use to their advantage to build their own existence.
This stage initiates an essential process to get out of the states of emotional dependency. Spiritual elements are rediscovered and integrated as pillars of a new life oriented to personal growth and the right to exist.
Closing the Process
Participants are encouraged to develop a life plan and concrete steps to follow to achieve it. For the most part, participants feel the need to completely transform their existence and there is a feeling of non-participation in the way of life they brought with them when they arrived at the center.
This is totally normal and should be viewed very broadly and objectively. The best recommendation to ensure the work done is not to return to your country of origin and to remain outside of the familiar for a long time to allow your new state of consciousness to flourish in a tangible way in your environment.
In this stage, exercises are performed that are aimed at rooting oneself to the earth and to one’s own essence. It is recommended that the participant is free to follow his heart and help him to initiate a path based on his own truth that will lead him to self-realization as a human being.
Honouring the Work of Traditional Amazonian Curanderismo
Guided by Maestro Sanango
All Personal Treatments are closely guided by Maestro Sanango, a Peruvian spiritual master and “curandero vegetalista” with over thirty years of experience in the Amazonian shamanic healing tradition. Through thousands of ceremonies and many years of seclusion in the Amazon jungle, he has formed a deep relationship with the spirit of Mother Ayahuasca and a variety of Plant Teachers or “Plantas Maestras”.
Maestro Sanango specialises in helping individuals heal from difficult afflictions & addiction, as well as the effects of deeply rooted trauma. Through his extensive experience as a healer he has helped thousands of individuals on their path of healing and to reconnect with their essence, purpose and meaning in life. With rectitude, love and humility he works towards the dream and vision that humanity may remember and reconnect to the universal love that is the essence of our being.
The Gift of the Plants
One of the best ways to get to know Maestro Sanango, and how we work with Ayahuasca and Master Plants at Sinchi Runa, is through our podcast & blog. We are honored to share recordings of Maestro Sanango’s wisdom, where he speaks about awakening through a path of Yoga with the Plants, and the immense gift and opportunity that the plants are for the healing of humanity and our hearts.
