Ayahuasca Retreat 2 Days Cusco

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Ayahuasca Retreat Cusco - Peru

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  • $400

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How to Book

1. Send Your Inquiry Share your preferred dates, number of participants, and accommodation details.
   Solo travelers or guests with questions are welcome to contact us before booking.
2. Confirm Availability We will coordinate availability, ceremony logistics, and the best schedule for your experience.
3. Reservation Deposit A deposit is required to secure and confirm your reservation.
4. Booking Confirmation Once your reservation is confirmed, we will send all final details including pick-up time, recommendations, and important information for your ceremony.

What Is Included in the 2-Day Ayahuasca

• One private and exclusive Ayahuasca ceremony.
• 1 to 1 guiding and support.
• Integrative sharing is included over 2 days and can be arranged upon request.
• Overnight stay in Chinchero is quoted separately and included upon request.
• Experienced Masters and facilitator to make you feel comfortable, safe and welcome.

Not Included

• Meals, Snacks.
• Services not mentioned.
• Travel insurance.
• Tips.

Preparation for Ceremony

When preparing for and participating in an Ayahuasca ceremony, it’s important to avoid certain things for your safety, emotional well-being, and to honor the sacredness of the experience. Here’s what to avoid one week prior:

Before the Ceremony:

• Pharmaceutical drugs: Especially antidepressants (like SSRIs), MAOIs, or stimulants. These can interact dangerously with Ayahuasca.
• Alcohol and recreational drugs: These can interfere with the medicine and your clarity.
• Heavy, processed, or spicy foods: Especially pork, red meat, fried food, sweets, carbonated drinks, caffeine, fermented food, and dairy – your body needs to be clean and light.
• Any Sexual activity: This helps conserve energy and intention.
• Negative or chaotic environments: Stay grounded and calm; your energy before the ceremony matters.

Note:

• Women, who have their periods, are pregnant or breast feeding SHOULD REFRAIN.
• People with heart problems SHOULD REFRAIN.

During the Ceremony:

• Judging your visions or emotions: Trust what comes. Master Plants work in mysterious ways.
• Breaking sacred space: Respect the collective energy and guidance of the facilitator.

Ayahuasca Retreat Itinerary

DAY:

1 2

Ceremony & Introduction

These ceremonies take place in the evening. Depending on your location, we will pick you up around 4:00 PM and bring you to Chinchero, where our center and the ceremony are held. You will have the option to either spend the night in Chinchero after the ceremony or return to your accommodation in Cusco or the Sacred Valley the same evening. Upon arrival, you will receive an introduction to the medicine and a talk about working with Master Plants. The ceremony itself typically lasts between 3 to 4 hours. During the ceremony, our Ayahuasca Master will guide and support your process with various rituals and sacred icaros (healing songs).

The amount of medicine given to each participant is carefully determined based on their energy level and mental strength – it is not a standard dose for everyone, but rather tailored to individual needs. After the ceremony, we will transport you back to your location unless you choose to stay overnight.

Reintegration & Return

If you decide to stay in Chinchero, the following morning you will participate in a reintegration circle to help you process and integrate your experience. Afterwards, our transportation will return you to your hotel in Cusco.

This day is focused on understanding and carrying forward the insights from your Ayahuasca journey. The reintegration circle provides a supportive space for sharing and reflection.

Why Choose 2 Days Over 1? — The Case for Going Deeper

This is the most common question we receive from travelers considering this retreat. Here is an honest answer:

A single Ayahuasca ceremony can be profoundly meaningful. Many people receive exactly what they need in one night. But Ayahuasca is not linear. The medicine works in layers — and sometimes the first ceremony is primarily a process of opening, of releasing surface defenses, of establishing trust with the plant and the space.

The second ceremony, with that opening already complete, tends to work differently: more specific, more direct, more intimate. The medicine has already introduced itself. Now it can do deeper work.

What the second day and ceremony makes possible:

• Integration between ceremonies. The morning after the first ceremony is one of the most valuable moments of the entire retreat. With your guide present, you have time to sit with what emerged, ask questions, and understand what the medicine showed you — before going in again.
• Layered healing. What the first ceremony surfaces, the second often resolves. The two-ceremony arc mirrors the natural structure of deep therapeutic work: opening, processing, integration.
• Reduced pressure. Knowing there is a second night removes the unconscious pressure to receive everything in a single session. This relaxation of expectation often allows the first ceremony to be more open and receptive.
• Overnight immersion in Chinchero. Rather than returning to the city after the ceremony, you stay overnight in the Sacred Valley — waking with the mountains, eating a light breakfast in nature, and beginning the second day grounded in the landscape that held your first night.

If your time in Cusco permits it, the 2-day retreat is the format we recommend without hesitation.

Traveling with limited time? See our 1-Day Ayahuasca Retreat in Cusco.

What’s Included in Your 2-Day Ayahuasca Retreat

• Private round-trip transportation from your hotel in Cusco to Chinchero
• Two traditional Ayahuasca ceremonies led by an experienced Andean Master
• Preparatory Coca Leaf Reading on Day 1
• Overnight accommodation in Chinchero (Sacred Valley)
• Light meals and herbal teas on both days (breakfast and light dinner)
• Bilingual guide present throughout (English, Spanish, Quechua)
• Integration circle on Day 2 morning
• All ceremonial materials (icaros, flowers, incense, sacred objects)
• Post-retreat integration support and guidance

Not included: full meals beyond what is listed above, travel insurance, personal medications, gratuity for the Master and guide (warmly appreciated).

Safety — Who Can Participate in the 2-Day Ayahuasca Retreat

Your safety is the non-negotiable foundation of every ceremony we hold. Before confirming your booking, a health screening is required. There are genuine contraindications to Ayahuasca that must be honored.

You can participate if:

• You are 18 years of age or older
• You are in generally good physical and mental health
• You are not currently taking SSRIs, MAOIs, lithium, or antipsychotics
• You have no personal or family history of schizophrenia, bipolar I, or psychosis
• You are willing to follow the preparatory diet
• You are willing to disclose your full health history honestly

You should not participate if:

• You have a serious heart condition or uncontrolled hypertension
• You have a personal or family history of schizophrenia or psychosis
• You are currently pregnant or breastfeeding
• You are on psychiatric medications (discuss with your doctor and inform us in advance)
• You have used recreational drugs in the 7 days prior to the ceremony
• You are in acute mental health crisis without professional support

If you are uncertain about your situation, contact us before booking. We will advise you honestly — including recommending you do not attend if we believe the circumstances are not safe for you at this time.

The Cusco Ayahuasca Retreat Difference — Why This Location Matters

The majority of Ayahuasca retreats operate in the Amazon jungle of Peru — Iquitos, Pucallpa, Tarapoto. At PumAdventures, our ceremonies take place in Chinchero, Sacred Valley, at 3,762 meters above sea level in the Andes. This is not a compromise — it is a deliberate choice that creates a distinctly different experience.

The energy of the Andes is different from the jungle. Where the Amazon environment tends to be dense, humid, and inward-facing, the Andean landscape is open, vast, and sky-oriented. Working with Ayahuasca here tends to produce a quality of expansiveness and clarity alongside the inner depth that the medicine always brings.

The Apus are active participants. In Andean cosmology, the mountain peaks surrounding Chinchero — including Salkantay, Ausangate, and the range above the Sacred Valley — are living spiritual beings of enormous power and benevolence. Their presence during ceremony is real and felt. Many participants describe the mountains as a holding presence throughout the night.

The altitude creates a natural threshold. At nearly 4,000 meters, the body is already in an altered relationship with oxygen, energy, and perception. This physiological shift can amplify the medicine’s capacity for depth and openness.

The lineage is Andean and intact. Our Masters come from Chinchero families who have worked with these plant medicines for generations — in relationship with this land, these mountains, and this particular spiritual tradition. The ceremony is not imported or reconstructed. It is native to this place.

What Ayahuasca Can Address — Areas of Healing

Ayahuasca does not treat diseases in a clinical sense. It is a sacred traditional practice, not a medical protocol. That said, participants across thousands of ceremonies have reported meaningful shifts in conditions that conventional approaches often struggle to address:

Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress
Ayahuasca has an unusual capacity to bring traumatic memories into conscious experience in a way that feels survivable — held by the medicine, the ceremony, and the Master. Many participants describe a process of revisiting difficult events from a new vantage point, one that allows release, reframing, or forgiveness where previously there was only pain. The growing body of clinical research on psychedelic-assisted therapy reflects what indigenous traditions have long understood: that some wounds are healed not by talking about them, but by meeting them directly in an altered and supported state of consciousness.

Anxiety, Fear, and Depression
Rather than managing symptoms, Ayahuasca tends to work toward the root — the underlying fear, the original wound, the moment a story about oneself was formed and calcified. The experience is not always comfortable, but participants frequently report a lasting reduction in anxiety and a renewed sense of possibility and meaning after the retreat.

Grief and Loss
Unprocessed grief — from death, separation, failed relationships, or lost versions of oneself — responds particularly well to plant medicine work. The medicine does not rush grief away. It creates conditions in which grief can be fully felt, honored, and released.

Addiction and Compulsive Patterns
The addictive loop is, at its core, a search for relief from pain. Ayahuasca often works by surfacing and healing the pain that is being avoided — making the compulsion lose its grip, not through willpower, but through genuine resolution of what was driving it. This is not a guarantee, and integration support is essential for lasting change.

Spiritual Disconnection and Loss of Meaning
Many people arrive at Ayahuasca not in acute crisis but in a quieter kind of pain — a sense that life has become mechanical, that purpose is unclear, that the depth they once felt is no longer accessible. The medicine tends to address this directly, restoring a felt sense of connection — to oneself, to others, to the living world.

Note: Ayahuasca is a sacred traditional practice. It is not a substitute for medical or psychological treatment. We always recommend working in parallel with a qualified mental health professional, particularly for trauma or clinical diagnoses.

The Preparatory Diet — Dieta Before Your Ayahuasca Retreat

In the Shipibo tradition, the dieta is not simply a set of food restrictions. It is a process of energetic refinement — preparing the body and mind to receive the medicine with maximum openness and minimum interference.

One week before the retreat, avoid:

• Pharmaceutical drugs (especially SSRIs, MAOIs, stimulants, antidepressants)
• Alcohol and all recreational substances
• Pork and red meat
• Fermented foods (pickles, vinegar, aged cheeses, soy sauce)
• Caffeine and chocolate
• Carbonated drinks and refined sugar
• Heavily spiced or processed foods

Three days before, additionally:

• Avoid sexual activity
• Minimize screen time and social stimulation
• Spend time in quiet reflection, nature, and journaling

Day of the ceremony:

Fast from the morning — do not eat for at least 6 hours before the ceremony begins

Drink only water or light herbal tea

Arrive rested and calm

Why this matters: Many of the foods on this list contain tyramine or other compounds that interact directly with the MAO-inhibiting alkaloids in Ayahuasca. Some interactions are dangerous. Others simply reduce the clarity of the experience. The dieta protects both your safety and the quality of what you receive.

Continue Your Healing Journey in Cusco

Many participants who complete this retreat choose to extend their time with us, adding complementary experiences before or after the ceremonies:

• 1-Day Ayahuasca Retreat in Cusco — ideal if your schedule only allows one night
• San Pedro (Wachuma) Ceremony — the daytime Andean medicine that complements Ayahuasca with heart-opening and solar energy
• Coca Leaf Reading — clarify your intention before the retreat or integrate afterward
• Offering to Pachamama – Despacho — a powerful act of gratitude and reciprocity to close your time with the sacred medicines
• Essence of Cusco – 5 Day Spiritual Retreat — combines Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Despacho, and Coca Leaf Reading into a single guided journey
• Healing Peru – 10 Day Retreat — for those ready for a complete immersion across multiple traditions and landscapes

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