23-day Ayahuasca Vision Quest: Yachay Ñawi
With Sanango, Ananda, Arjuna and Mikaela
September 3 - 25, 2025
In Quechua, “Yachay Ñawi” refers to the awakening of true sight.
To discover your path, you must first truly see yourself, and live the experience of your true Self – the undoubtable, immutable truth of your heart and being.
Guided by the sacred master plants, Mother Ayahuasca, and ancient rites of initiation, this 23-day retreat is a profound Vision Quest into what is most essential: your authentic voice, truth, and discovering your unique purpose as a human being.
This is a journey of deep transformation, making use of the primordial knowledge of the master plants & sacred shamanic initiation rites, to awaken to your inner power and knowing.
Through FOUR INITIATORY STAGES (detailed below), intertwined through with Mother Ayahuasca and Amazonian Master Plant, you will go through a profound process spiritual rebirth and reconnection with your path and purpose.
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THE FOUR INITIATORY STAGES
🔥 Stage 1: Purging, Purification & Letting Go
This first stage is a shedding; a decoding and deconditioning. The wisdom of the medicine will show you what must be seen. This is a stage to witness the patterns of the mind, the limiting beliefs, and the negativities that bind you, and a call to awaken your personal power and take responsibility as the creator of your reality.
🔥 Stage 2: The Search for Vision – Ñawi
The next stage is the Sacred Vision Quest: a shamanic diet with the master plant Ajo Sacha. This is a search to embrace the Ñawi, to truly see. During these 10 days of solitude and stillness in the forest, the voice of your heart and purpose may be revealed.
The vision quest with this ancient teacher marks a new beginning, a definitive before and after in life. Along with the invaluable insights with Mother Ayahuasca, this stage of the journey is a sacred rebirth.
🔥 Stage 3: The Rites of Rebirth
To end the vision quest in isolation, we step into the The Ritual of Rebirth, with the The Sacred Shamanic Fire, and the ancient Incan “Apacheta” rite.
This is your moment of conscious choice, where you decide to fully embrace the new Self that has been awakening within you. Before the flames, you will sacrifice the fears, doubts, and limitations that have held you back, surrendering them to be purified and transmuted into light, strength, and courage.
🔥 Stage 4: The Return, Grounding & Integration
As your journey through the depths of transformation comes to completion, you arrive at the sacred moment of return, the gentle yet powerful re-integration into your new Self, grounded and clear.
We will offer our gratitude to the master plants, the ancient teachers and divine masters who have healed us and guided us in their deep compassion through this sacred passage.
In ceremony, we offer our gratitude to Pachamama, honoring all that we have received, acknowledging the wisdom that now lives within us.
This is not an ending, but a new beginning. You are ready to walk your path.
✨ SINCHI RUNA RETREAT CENTER ✨
At Sinchi Runa, we are dedicated to provide a safe and sacred space in which you can experience genuine healing and spiritual awakening.
Our Ayahuasca and Master Plant retreats are a unique opportunity to reconnect with your true essence and purpose in life, and to heal from emotional wounding, trauma, depression and internal blockages.
Sinchi Runa is founded and directed by Maestro Curandero Sanango, whose work is based on over 30 years of experience and a deep understanding of traditional Amazonian medicine, as well as contributions from eastern yogic disciplines such as meditation and work with mantras (sacred sound vibration).
✨ THE TRADITIONAL AMAZONIAN PROCESS ✨
Silence, solitude, reclusion in nature and the ceremonial intake of Ayahuasca and other Amazonian Master Plants in the shamanic diet (or “dieta”) are central aspects of this retreat, together with purification processes and rituals known traditionally as “purgas”.
This provides a sacred shamanic context of silence and self-reflection, in which we are healed through the understanding that arises from our direct experience and inner connection, and the natural wisdom that follows from addressing and releasing the root causes of our suffering, bringing about deep personal transformation and healing.
Through a safely guided process of introspection and awareness, the sacred plants help us flourish in our natural joy of being, to discover what lies beyond our pains and live a life aligned with our heart, personal power, truth and purpose.
✨ SANANGO – PERUVIAN MAESTRO CURANDERO ✨
Our retreats are led by Maestro Sanango, a Peruvian spiritual master and “vegetalista” with over thirty years of experience in the Amazonian shamanic 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”.
Through his work with the plants, he serves those who come to him to heal from states of depression, addiction, anxiety and pain, to find joy and purpose in an understanding of their true selves and the unconditional love of the divine.
✨ A SAFELY GUIDED PROCESS ✨
Real and lasting healing manifests itself when the heart begins to integrate the lessons learned and settle in the understanding we’ve been given. This is a profound and vulnerable process, of opening to our internal light and shadows, healing our pain, learning to trust and re-define ourselves and who we are in the world, while cleansing the heart of the “hardness” we once built as an attempt to protect ourselves.
Maestro Sanango and our team of experienced facilitators, being deeply acquainted and dedicated themselves to a continous process of healing and awakening, are present to guide you through every step, from preparation to integration, to ensure the lessons from the plants can take real root in your life.
Sharing circles, Q&As, and private consultations with Maestro Sanango are a central part of the retreat to enable and facilitate the healing work. Our facilitators & therapists are always available to assist in the unfolding of this delicate process with sensitivity, warmth, understanding, knowledge and care.
This retreat is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the stillness of nature, the ancient wisdom of Amazonian Shamanism and the loving guidance of the plant world; a place to rediscover your true self and inner strength, and be reborn aligned in love and purpose.
We will be honoured to share this magical process of healing and remembering with you and hope to serve you on your journey.
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About the Leaders

Sanango
Sanango is a Peruvian healer and spiritual master whose learning is based on Amazonian shamanism and Vedic philosophy. His life and work has allowed him to travel in various states of the soul, from disconnection to the experience of divinity and peace in states of compassion. Over the past 20 years he has conducted thousands of […]
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Ananda
Ananda helps to facilitate retreats at Sinchi Runa, and is on a path of learning with Maestro Sanango and the Master Plants. He has spent many months in silence and solitude, dieting a variety of master plants and communing with Ayahuasca and the plant world, before beginning to assist on retreats at Sinchi Runa. With […]
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Arjuna
Kameron has been learning from Maestro Sanango and facilitating retreats at Sinchi Runa Ayahuasca Healing Center for the last three years. He has gone through various shamanic diets and spent much time in solitude and communion with Ayahuasca and other master plants in the Peruvian Rainforest. Before this he practiced meditation and self-enquiry for many years, while […]
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Mikaela
Mikaela is a Kambo Therapist, Ayahuasca Facilitator and Hridaya Yoga- and Meditation Teacher. For the past eight years she has been living in the Guatemalan and Peruvian Rainforest, where she has been assisting and developing Sinchi Runa together with Maestro Sanango. Her presence is safe, loving and compassionate and she serves Ayahuasca with deep integrity […]
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