Welcome to La Luna del Amazonas

A healing center where ancient traditions and modern safety walk hand in hand. Resting on the banks of the great Amazon River, embraced by pristine rainforest, we honor the wisdom of our ancestors while creating a safe and comfortable space for guests from all over the world.

We believe it is essential to work in small groups of no more than 10 participants, ensuring personal attention, a safe environment, and a warm, familiar atmosphere. Our focus is on traditional healing practices from the Amazon, carried out with humility, care, respect and integrity.

“The Ayahuasca allowed the ancient people here, and for a brief time me, to touch a hidden universe, It was the most religious experience in my life.“

-Josh Gates, Expedition Unknown at La Luna Del Amazonas

Healing with Respect for Tradition

Modern medicine often treats symptoms in isolation, creating customers rather than cures. True healing, however, must embrace the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. This is where Ayahuasca and Amazonian shamanism reveals mastery.

In the way of Amazonian shamanism, healing touches every level of our being: body, mind, spirit. For all are deeply interconnected.

Our team of native shamans and experienced facilitators are dedicated to supporting every participant on their personal journey. As we work in small groups, the shamans can focus on healing, energy work, and deep ceremonial guidance rather than simply serving medicine and sing songs. Each ceremony includes a personal limpieza (energetic cleanse) and Arcana (spiritual protection).

The shamans are guardians of an ancient lineage, carrying wisdom passed down through generations and we honor these traditions with fidelity. While we adapt to meet the needs of international guests, we never distort or commercialize the medicine. Ayahuasca is not entertainment; it is a sacred teacher. The shamans role is not only to serve medicine but to act as intermediaries between the physical and spiritual worlds, drawing upon their own journeys to heal emotional wounds, release trapped energies, and dissolve blockages that can manifest as stress or disease.

We honor the traditional path

While we know that many modern retreats present a “spiritual buffet” of different plants and outside healing techniques to meet Western expectations. In native Amazonian shamanism, this is understood as a confusion of energies that can result in what they call cutipado. Among indigenous people, ayahuasca is regarded as a jealous plant, that should not be mixed.

Ayahuasca works best alone.

When her current is crossed with other energies, the purity of her teaching is disturbed, and at times this interference can even become dangerous. To respect Ayahuasca is to trust that she is enough.

By choosing this way, we preserve the integrity of the medicine, allowing her wisdom to shine clearly. With the support of both our Peruvian shamans and international facilitators, we create a safe and sacred space for transformation.

Our ayahuasca retreat program ensures enough time for meditation, reflection and integration, ensuring that each retreat is not just an encounter with Ayahuasca, but a profound journey of healing and reconnection with one’s purpose.

Principles of Healing and Care

The journey with Ayahuasca is not always gentle. Some ceremonies can bring visions of beauty, others deep challenges, yet every experience carries the seed of transformation. Our approach is rooted in both ancestral knowledge and modern harm-reduction practices:

Safe and Sacred Space: Our ceremonies take place in a traditional maloka, purified with Kamalonga and other sacred cleansing liquids, blessed with icaros and prayers, and energetically protected by our shamans and the sprits of the rainforest.

Compassionate Guidance: Facilitators and guardians support you when needed, but never interfere with your process unless safety requires it.

Community Healing: You are not alone. The circle itself becomes a source of strength.

Integration: We provide guidance and practices to help you carry the teachings of Ayahuasca back into daily life.

Ethics and Integrity

To serve the medicine is to walk with responsibility. Our entire team commits to:

• Respect for Tradition: Fidelity to the lineage of Amazonian healers.
• Safety First: Medical screening, supervision, and clear boundaries.
• Confidentiality: What is shared in ceremony remains sacred.
• Earth Stewardship: We honor the forest and support the local community.

Your safety is our highest priority.

• Every guest completes a detailed health questionnaire.
• Contraindications such as heart conditions, psychiatric challenges, or incompatible medications are carefully reviewed.
• Serious safety protocols and staff members trained in first aid present.

This balance of ancestral knowledge and modern preparation ensures that your journey unfolds in both safety and trust.

A visionary journey

Ayahuasca is not a recreational substance or something you can control to suit your desires. She is a teacher, a mirror, and a guide — revealing what lies beneath the surface. Often, she brings forth hidden truths, suppressed memories, or blind spots we may have avoided. These revelations can be uncomfortable, even frightening, yet they are essential steps toward genuine healing and transformation.

“The medicine shows you what you need to see, not what you want to see.”

Her visions may come in many forms: some luminous and beautiful, others dark and difficult. Each has a purpose. The challenging moments, though often perceived as negative, are usually the most profound. They allow us to confront the real work we need to do, whether it is healing past wounds, breaking destructive patterns or learning humility and forgiveness. The wisdom of ayahuasca lies in showing us not what we want to see, but what we need to see. And by doing so, she creates the possibility for growth, release, and liberation.

The medicine will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the healing and evolution of your consciousness. At times, she also grants mystical experiences. Moments of deep connection with the divine, visions of infinite light, or encounters with the sacred forces of nature. These experiences remind us that beyond the healing of our wounds, ayahuasca can open the heart to mystery, awe, and a living sense of the sacred.

Read more about our ayahuasca ceremonies

In this episode of Expedition Unknown, host Josh Gates participates in his first Ayahuasca ceremony. We are honored to have met all of the production team’s stringent safety requirements while providing the authentic Amazonian experience they sought.

“We are completely unaware of the magical world of the shaman. It is quite simply stranger than we can suppose.“

— Terrence McKenna