Vedic 25-day Immersion Retreat with Ayahuasca & Master Plants with Masters Daru Krishna and Sanango

This seminar is a 25-day silent deep immersion into the world of Ayahuasca and Master Plants, with a focus on the union between so-called Shamanism and/or the taking of master plants with Vedic Philosophy. 

Through the experience of Sinchi Runa, we have understood that really walking the path of the Master Plants is a Yoga – a Yoga of the Plants. It is a path to live a direct human experience, in all its potential of perception and connection, which recognizes itself in all that is. The Master Plants, from this perspective, are the beginning of a yogic path, an authentic path and discipline towards the search for truth and understanding of being, free from religious fanaticism, superstitions and ideas of belonging to cultural forms. We understand that the roots of shamanic tools and healings and understandings coincide with the brahmanic visions at the dawn of humanity. We have forgotten the Dharma and the path that unites us as humanity and that seeks understanding and healing. Through this retreat, we seek to remember the real nature of taking entheogens.

The lectures and exercises are led by Master Sanango, director of Sinchi Runa with extensive experience and recognition in working with master plants, and Master Daru Krishna, renowned Vedic astrologer and Ayurvedic scholar. In this retreat we merge the wisdom and direct experience that the Master Plants provide with the knowledge and science of Vedic tools, the use of mantras, jyotish (Vedic astrology), ayurveda, focusing everything on a technology and science of consciousness (yoga) – a real science that seeks truth and understanding of being. Yoga is living 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 intend to serve this search for truth through silence and an authentic path of awakening – a path of healing through understanding, which seeks to open the heart and awaken the nature of love and compassion that resides in each person.

This retreat takes place in complete silence, and is a serious and intense commitment in the search for inner silence, truth and understanding. It is recommended for participants who have previously attended silent processes (either Sinchi Runa retreats, silent meditation retreats such as Vipassana, or similar) or who are confident in their ability to maintain silence for 25 days.

Maestro Daru Krishna
Maestro Daru Krishna is a Vedic teacher and close friend of Sanango who honors Sinchi Runa through sharing his Vedic knowledge and Vedic ceremonies as well as holding Vedic astrology readings. He will be leading this deep immersion retreat alongside Maestro Sanango.

Daru Krishna has studied and practiced Bhakti Yoga, Ayurveda and Jyotish since 1976, and trained dozens of students in these Vedic disciplines. He has systematically studied the Vedic sciences in India learning from prominent scholars. In the last thirty years he has accumulated vast experience in reading astrological charts and he also teaches seminars and private Vedic astrology classes in Latin America and the United States.

Daru Krishna is also the founder and director of the Institute Vedika, an organization based in Lima, Peru, dedicated to spreading awareness of the Vedas and offering a variety of services in the area of health and wellness. In April 2013 he published “The Science of Karma – Jyotish – Vedic Sidereal Astrology,” a complete book about Vedic astrology.

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.

The Shamanic Diet
An important part of this retreat will be a shamanic diet of up to 12 days. A shamanic diet is an opportunity to work with and learn directly from a master plant that is your teacher and “speaks” within you. A spiritual teacher that is contained in a brew or decoction of a master plant, such as the Chiric Sanango that belongs to the family of plants called Sanangos. The Chiric Sanango (healer who heals through cold) opens the heart, teaches us love and trust. Also as an example we have the Uchu Sanango (healer who burns, who cleans our limitations with fire or heat), the beautiful plant Bobinzana, healer whose archetype is the mermaid, teaches service, feminine wisdom, adaptability. Likewise we have other teachers such as Ajo Sacha, Tobacco, etc. In the diet the guide, healer or shaman acts as a mediator between the dieter or participant and the spirit or entity of the plant. 

During a period of up to 12 days, the voice of these plant masters guide the heart, to find solutions to complexes and deep-rooted suffering, emotional or physical pain. They open memories to cleanse the heart of reactions, healing deep scars to achieve healing through understanding, self-observation, and understanding. The diet is delicate work, because it demands discipline of silence and isolation. It is for many a definitive step in life towards change, to leaving afflictions that accompany our existence, and truly open the heart to life. 

Plants act at the level of each being. They are not “magic” pills or chemicals that falsely offer healing by numbing the mind or disconnecting feelings. They work at the level of the soul accompanying and healing each affliction according to the personal universe. Their work is to cleanse, burn or purge wounds, and also to support the being to strengthen it, and above all to teach us to live our direct experience by alleviating us of the burdens we carry from our experience, sealing our scars.

Everything that happens to us is calling us to understanding, to comprehension. The experience of suffering is a call to meet the Dharma, but we need to light the way to not get lost in emotion or pain, to let go of what does not belong to us and focus on the reason for the experience – the understanding for the search of a spiritual path, for which we need to reconnect with ourselves, to be guided to our inner teacher. The diet plants are ancient and wise teachers that give us the opportunity to be guided to understand what life calls us to understand, in order to heal. The plant master accompanies you on your journey, strengthening you, opening what needs to be opened, burning and purifying what needs to be cleansed, and also healing you on a physical level. 

It is an opportunity to understand life, existence and karma; an opportunity to build the resilience and strength necessary to rise beyond our suffering, and through understanding let go and free ourselves from the circumstances that bind us to suffering. 

The diet is an opportunity to listen to yourself and your heart. Everything else is silenced, including the noise of food. During the diet we eat very simple and silent food (monothematic), and we isolate ourselves from the world for a few days. It is a search for silence, so we may listen to ourselves and open our hearts. To open the heart, we must first find it and feel its voice. The master plant guides us to listen to that voice, to hear ourselves, to perceive the rhythm of the universe through nature and its essence in ourselves. To feel the wind, the sunrise and sunset, to begin to understand the meaning of existence and our real being. 

The diet is a practice to return to the essential, to silence. Therefore, we stay in tents in nature, returning to the primordial in our being. Through the diet, we begin to return to our true nature by leaving our comfort zone, leaving behind the beliefs of a culture based on sumptuary and excessive comfort. We begin to realize our body and its functions, andwe can marvel at the experience of inner perception by understanding in solitude our immensity, which is the first thing that plants show us. It is the beginning of humanising ourselves by living fully the experience of being here and now.

Plants are a medicine
The Shamanic Diet is an opportunity to go as deep as possible in healing with Master Plants, because they go to the heart of the being impregnating, impregnating it with their wisdom.  We must remember that plants, and this spiritual work, are a medicine for the body, mind and spirit. This opportunity must be treated with the care and respect that comes with the sacred and ancestral understanding that comes to us through millennia of knowledge stored in the Amazon since the beginning of time. Healing with Master Plants is not about doing many more Ayahuasca ceremonies, to receive more healing or knowledge, but above all to bring to the heart the teachings and understanding that we are able to receive, assimilate and understand. The Diet is also a work of integration of the ceremonies, to really bring the understanding of our circumstances into our lives, to fully receive the fruits of this work. The inner evolution of working with Master Plants is a deep holistic process that encompasses our whole being.

Each Ayahuasca ceremony is an invaluable opportunity if prepared and integrated correctly. Silence and nature open that inner space that allows us to settle and integrate what is opened and shown to us in the ceremonies. That is why the opportunity of the diet is incredible.

For us, a retreat with a shamanic diet in silence and isolation, is the most correct way to digest and work deeply with this medicine, that brings this immense opportunity for humanity that is Ayahuasca and other Master Plants.

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 in Portugal with continuous connections with the Peruvian Amazon.

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