You’ll begin with three days of yoga, meditation, self-connection, and grounding practices—time to arrive in your body, clear emotional noise, and create stability. These days are meant to help you enter the medicine with clarity instead of tension, and with tools you can rely on throughout the week.
On the fourth day, we move into deeper sharing and guided preparation—exploring intention, emotional safety, surrender, and the personal stories that have shaped you. You’ll get specific guidance about how to navigate intensity, how to work with fear, and how to stay centered inside the ceremony.
From there, you’ll join the full LaWayra retreat for the remainder of the week: two night ceremonies, integration circles, cleansing rituals, ancestral medicine offerings, yoga and movement, journaling work, creative expression, and a closing cacao ceremony. This week is a full journey through body, mind, energy, and spirit—held with respect for the tradition and grounded in practices that help you integrate the experience into daily life.
Ayahuasca Ceremonies
Over the course of this seven-day retreat, you’ll move through a complete journey—three days of grounding and preparation, followed by two ayahuasca ceremonies and structured integration. The ceremonies are guided by experienced facilitators and supported by indigenous musicians and healers, creating a safe, intentional environment for deep work. Your physical, mental, and energetic well-being are held with care from beginning to end.
Daily Yoga
During the first three days, yoga and meditation is centered around grounding and nervous system regulation and self connection—combining vinyasa, hatha, yin, and and chakra aligning movement to help you settle into your body and clear excess tension before drinking the medicine. You'll learn practices for a seated meditation to do inside and outside of ceremony, as well as journaling, art, and other integrating practices.
Journaling & Inner Clarity
Throughout the week, you’ll receive LaWayra’s journaling prompts to help you track insights and emotional shifts. During the preparation days, we use Morning Pages as a daily mental cleanse—an honest, uncensored release that creates space for clarity and emotional steadiness. We will also talk about symbols and images- helping you translate the subtle into grounded, lasting change.
Sacred Plant Medicines: Rapé, Mambé & Cacao
We’ll work with ancestral plant medicines used to support presence, clarity, and heart opening. Rapé clears stagnant energy and anchors you in the moment. Mambé, a gentle coca-leaf powder, encourages reflection and steady focus during word circles. On the final day, Brigitte guides a closing cacao ceremony, bringing softness and integration to the end of the week.
Daily Integration Circles
After each ceremony, we gather for integration circles—spaces for honest storytelling, emotional processing, and shared reflection. Listening becomes its own kind of medicine here. For those needing more personalized support, one-on-one sessions with the shaman or healers are available to help you move through insights, fears, or unresolved threads.
Meditation & Inner Preparation
Before each ceremony, Brigitte guides you through grounding meditations to help you enter the night with clarity and intention. In the preparation days, you’ll explore breath awareness, mantra, visualization, candle gazing, eye gazing, and movement practices designed to bring you back into your center. During integration, mornings begin in silence with a seated practice that restores inner spaciousness and supports emotional regulation.
Nervous System Regulation & Somatic Reset
Throughout the week, you’ll learn somatic techniques designed to help the body process intensity and return to center. These practices include grounding through breath, slow intentional movement, shaking, tapping, and guided body awareness. They support emotional regulation before ceremony and help release residual tension afterward, allowing insights to settle in a steady, embodied way.
Creative Healing Pratices
Healing moves in many directions—not only through stillness, but through expression. Throughout the retreat, you’ll be invited into intuitive art, dance, music, and playful exploration. These practices help release stuck energy, give shape to the inner world, and integrate the ineffable through color, rhythm, and movement.
This retreat begins the moment you arrive in the mountains outside Medellín. LaWayra is a quiet healing center rooted in indigenous lineage and the natural world, and the space holds a feeling of warmth—more like entering someone’s home than joining a program. While flights are not included, everything else is held for you: transport from the city, nourishing meals, lodging, ceremony support, and all preparation and closing activities. The first three days are dedicated to arriving fully. Through yoga, meditation, somatic grounding, and reflective exercises, you’ll settle your system, clear emotional noise, and reconnect with your body before entering ceremony. These days also include teachings on intention-setting, navigating intensity, emotional safety, and how to work with the medicine from a steady and centered place. On the fourth day, additional guests arrive, and we come together as a unified group. This day includes long-form word circles where everyone shares personally and openly, along with practical guidance about ceremony—how to work with fear, how to surrender, what to expect, and how to take care of yourself inside the experience. You’ll meet the facilitators, learn the structure, and receive advice that helps you enter the night with clarity. Friday night is the first ceremony, guided by Taita Fernando Jojoa from an Amazonian lineage and supported by musicians and experienced facilitators. Your physical, emotional, and energetic safety is held with great care. Saturday night is the second ceremony, followed by a late-night cleanse led by Taita—an important closing ritual for releasing what the medicine has moved. On Sunday morning, we gather for a cacao ceremony led by Brigitte and then move into a final word circle. This is a chance to speak from a place of truth, witness each other, and integrate what you’re taking home. We close the retreat together with warmth, connection, and a sense of completion before guests depart. Accommodations at LaWayra are simple, clean, and comfortable. Shared dorms offer community and connection, while a limited number of private wooden cabins provide more solitude and quiet. All lodging is surrounded by nature, supporting rest, grounding, and presence. This retreat is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and move through an honest process of remembering and realignment. With Taita Fernando, Sam, and Brigitte holding the container, you’ll be supported each step of the way with steadiness, respect, and genuine care. If you have questions about the retreat, the land, or whether this experience is right for you, feel free to reach out. Call, text, or email anytime. This is meaningful work—and if it’s the right moment, it will meet you exactly where you are.
