3 day Ayahuasca Weekend Retreat (Faro - Portugal)

Through this retreat we aim to create a safe and sacred space that allows each individual to experience profound spiritual healing and understanding. We do this with the hope to contribute to the healing and liberation of humanity and our beautiful planet.

Our world is in need of a true revolution, the kind of revolution that comes about by opening our hearts in a genuine search for truth. Ayahuasca is a sacred opportunity and we share the tradition of Amazonian shamanism and knowledge of Vedic philosophy with our greatest gratitude, purity and truth. This weekend retreats involves two deep plant medicine ceremonies, with Tobacco (La Purga) and Ayahuasca. 

Walking the path with Ayahuasca and the Master Plants is a Yoga – a Yoga of the Plants. It is humanity’s quest to embrace her true nature of compassion, and to live it through a direct experience that recognizes itself in all that is. Yoga is to live a direct experience with the truth, beyond words, ideas and thoughts, a lived communion with the cosmos and existence. With the wisdom of the Amazonian traditions and the invaluable teachings of Vedic philosophy, we try to serve this search for truth through silence and an authentic path of awakening – a path of healing through understanding and thereby seeking to open the heart and awaken the nature of love and compassion that resides in each person. 

Sinchi Runa
The Sinchi Runa Institute was founded in the jungle of Central America in 2011, by Peruvian Master Sanango with over 25 years of experience working with ayahuasca, with an Amazonian training and structure and a variety of shamanic master plants and natural entheogens.

We specialise in Ayahuasca Sessions, Master Plant Diets (shamanic diets), short or long term treatments for addiction and depression, deep immersion processes and intensive retreats.

We are servants of Ayahuasca and Amazonian Master Plants and a home for students, seeking to help awaken the existing inner knowledge and inner master of each individual who comes to us, on their path to remembering their true nature. We merge the wisdom and direct experience that plants bring with the Vedic teachings. Respecting the Amazonian tradition we insert Vedic tools through Ayurvedic healing, astrology, lectures, mantras and spiritual practices such as pranayama, meditation and Hridaya hatha yoga. We are now based near Faro, Portugal with continuous connections with the Peruvian Amazon.

You can read more about us at https://sinchiruna.com/

Maestro Sanango
Our retreats are directed by Maestro Sanango, a Peruvian spiritual master who has spent several decades inviting Ayahuasca, as well as directing Shamanic Diets or vision quests. Sanango is a “vegetalista” with a deep knowledge of the Master Plants, their metaphysical implications and forms of healing. He has been directing the Sinchi Runa Institute, previously located in the Peruvian Amazon and now located in Portugal, for the past 10 years. Sinchi Runa is now in Portugal offering Ayahuasca Retreats and teachings in shamanism, the shamanic vision, master plants, Vedic philosophy and reconnection with the divine.

Sanango has given lectures on shamanism in Universities of Peru and Guatemala. He has also developed extensive knowledge within the Vedic philosophy, establishing connections and healing tools between the shamanic tradition of Peru and the Vedic philosophy. He works with his students who accompany him and are on a path of understanding, having spent several years learning from him and the Master Plants.

Before the creation of Sinchi Runa, Sanango spent many years learning with different maestros in the Peruvian Amazon, as well as prolonged retreats in solitude with Master Plants in what are traditionally called shamanic diets, dietas or vision quests. During this time, he created a deep bond with the spirit of Ayahuasca and other medicinal plants and divine deities that allow him to celebrate safe ceremonies and processes that lead to a deep spiritual realization and healing of the soul.

Silence and Contemplation in Nature
Retreats with Sinchi Runa use the tool of silence (with the exception of sharing circles or consultations with Maestro Sanango or facilitators) to allow each person to interiorize and inward in their process. ‘Time’ does not exist on our retreat (and we will ask you to hand in your phones, watches and eletronics). For this short duration, we seek to free ourselves from the need to constantly ‘do’, and instead begin to ‘be’, to feel ourselves, our hearts and the plants speaking to us.

Silence is the most important part of the retreat and in deepening the work with the master plants, but speaking is always allowed with facilitators and the Maestro when in need of assistance.

This retreat is a precious opportunity in search of truth, understanding and healing, an opportunity to begin observing and knowing ourselves, our minds and our reactions. This requires a discipline of constant awareness and search for silence. This search is manifested outwardly in refraining from all forms of contact (verbal, written, visual eye contact, and conserving our personal space) to allow the inward search for silence to unfold.

It is important to be able to detach from the usual “day-to-day” routines, habits, personal stories and external noise, in order to be able to integrate the healing and wisdom through one’s process with the plants. Disconnection with the exterior allows us to concentrate all of our energy on the healing process and gives space to observe our lives without interference from the elements that one way or another have created the circumstance we are living in. We nurture and provide the space for self-observation, introspection, and contemplation.

The opportunity of a process with master plants is to become aware of and release what causes one harm and to understand oneself and one’s relationship to the entire movement of life and existence. This is a beautiful and challenging process of comprehension, reflection and silence that requires great willpower, dedication, honesty, sacrifice and purity of intention.

Retreat Structure

This retreat includes two plant medicine ceremonies, discourses on shamanism, healing and awakening with master plants and ayahuasca and sharing and integration circles.
Our retreats purposefully contain plenty of space for reflection and integration. This weekend is a short but intense experience, and it is important. When it is harmonious for what is unfolding with the group, we may add yoga and/or meditation sessions.

We serve a healthy, nutritious ayurvedic diet that harmonises with plant medicine work, and is itself cleansing.

This retreat includes 2 plant medicine ceremonies with Tobacco and Ayahuasca, and 1 Agnihotra (Sacred Fire) ceremony.

Day 1:
Arrival in the afternoon, retreat orientation
Introductory discourse with Maestro Sanango on Ayahuasca, Master Plants, and awakening of consciousness.
First Plant Medicine ceremony

Day 2
Morning: Rest after ceremony, Breakfast
Afternoonl: Lunch, Sharing & Integration circle, discourse on master plants with Maestro Sanango
Second Plant Ceremony

Day 3 (departure day)
Morning: Rest after ceremony, breakfast
Afternoon: Sharing & Integration circle, discourse on master plants and closing talk with Maestro Sanango,
Closing Sacred Fire (Agnihotra) ceremony
Late afternoon: Departure

About us:
About us: www.sinchiruna.com
Terms & Conditions: www.sinchiruna.com/terms-conditions/
Contraindications with plant work: www.sinchiruna.com/contraindications/