Plant Dieta
Plant dietas are an integral part of Amazonian shamanic practices. These dietas involve a period of isolation, during which a participant consumes a specific plant or a combination of plants chosen by the curandero, in combination with food restrictions and restrictions on all types of sexual activity. The purpose of the dieta is to establish a strong and direct connection between the participant and the spirit of the chosen plant and initiate profound healing and transformation.
At Yachay Wasi, each dietero has his or her own private Tambo where they undertake their dieta. Following the dietary restrictions, which exclude all spicey, oily, salty, sweet and acidic foods, stimulants, and even social interactions, helps the dietero to increase their sensitivity by minimizing external distractions and allows one to open up to the subtle energies of the plant, which facilitates the learning and enhances the connection with the plant spirit.
The restricted diet, combined with the plant’s effects, purifies the participant’s body, mind, and spirit, thereby facilitating deep healing and self-discovery.
Participants often receive insights, visions, and teachings from the plant spirits during the dieta. These experiences can provide profound understanding of one’s life, purpose, and the nature of reality.
After completing the dieta, participants work to integrate the experiences and lessons learned into their daily lives. This can involve incorporating new habits, attitudes, and ways of being, and one of the most important aspects of the integration is maintaining a very clean post-dieta, meaning, a shedding of old self-limiting habits and behaviours which no longer serve one’s highest purpose.
We recommend during and after a retreat or dieta, that the dieter develop a discipline or practice such as yoga, meditation, writing and/or a form of artistic expression as we find that these practices are exceptionally powerful in that they allow the participant to develop a stronger connection with the body, a very important aspect of healing. In addition, artistic expression helps us to integrate our lessons, experiences and stay centred.
All guests visiting Yachay Wasi for an Ayahuasca retreat or plant diet remain on dieta which drives the healing, purification and transformation to profound levels. The importance of the dieta cannot and should not be underestimated, as the dieta is where the hard-resets, rewiring and reconnecting are really happening between the ceremonies, the absolute pre-requisites for permanent change.
What is also important to note is that the dieta is a sacred process, an agreement between the chosen plant spirit, the curandero and the patient. The patient agrees to adhere to the restrictions of the dieta, the curandero agrees to facilitate the dieta between the plant and the patient, and the plant spirit agrees to purify and teach the patient, therefore it is imperative that the dietero honours the strict rules of the dieta, as a dieta broken earlier than the agreed time may have implications on the health and well-being of the patient.
Quite often the dieta can be a difficult journey as one is confronted with strong emotional upheavals, trauma and shadow aspects, yet when one passes through the “pruebas” or tests that the plants bring up, a new found strength and peace may certainly follow.
Understandably, due to the time limitations of our occupations and other aspects of our lives, not all guests are able to participate in a plant dieta for 14 days or more, so if you’d like a custom program to suit a shorter time frame, please contact us and we will be happy to tailor a program for you.
Plant Dieta & Treatments
Personal shamanic treatments are tirelessly carried out to address your spiritual, mental, emotional needs during each ceremony. Each of the shamans completes two personalized treatments per person at each ceremony for a total of 24 personalized treatments during the process of the Ayahuasca ceremonies throughout the retreat.
These treatments are varied and very important to eliminate negative energies, promote balance, relieve phobias, all tailored to the needs of each guest. Creating transformative experiences and meaningful well-being with the utmost care.
Pulsario Treatment: A shamanic healing technique known as pulsario is where shamans identify and address emotional energy trapped in the area of the stomach known as the pulsario, in this location intense or unpleasant emotions accumulate causing general discomfort such as headaches, back pain and eating problems. The treatment involves the application of Santa Maria and Suri oil, which is applied to the location of the pulsarium to release trapped energies and expel them through the legs, restoring a level of balance and well-being.
Plant Bath: The morning after each Ayahuasca ceremony, cleansing baths with plants are performed to cleanse and expel any negative energy from the body during the ceremonial purging processes. Ayahuasca expels negative energies as a powerful purgative. These baths use strong healing plants with powerful cleansing properties, ensuring that negative energies are completely eliminated.
Flower bath: The spiritual blossoming bath is performed in the morning after the last ayahuasca ceremony to cleanse and harmonize one’s energies while increasing the aspects of life and love, the guests are bathed with this mixture of different sacred plants and flowers valued for their distinct spiritual and healing powers.
Plant Steam Bath: These saunas are specialized therapies, used only when necessary, for people who have blockages in Ayahuasca, either physically due to the cold in the bones or energetically. The use of aquatic plants for the cold in the bones is used, which allows you to expel the cold from the bones through the energetic and transpiration channels, to ensure the effective elimination of any blockages.
All above mentioned treatments are included in master plant dietas and Ayahuasca retreats, with the exception of the steam bath, which is only given if absolutely necesary.
Transportation to the centre and back to Iquitos, food and accomodation is also included in our dietas and retreats.
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14-day plant dieta
USD $1550
(Includes 4 Ayahuasca ceremonies, plant baths, other medicinal treatments as needed).
7-day Ayahuasca retreat
USD $1450
(Includes 4 Ayahuasca ceremonies, dieta, plant baths, other medicinal treatments as needed).
21-day plant dieta
USD $2250
(Includes 5 Ayahuasca ceremonies, plant baths, other medicinal treatments as needed).
30-day plant dieta
USD $2950
(Includes 6 Ayahuasca ceremonies, plant baths, other medicinal treatments as needed).