KAIROS
Cuchi Kaya
Relationship Retreat
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In the Shipibo Language
Cuchi Kaya means "Strong Spirit"
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Welcome to your relationship retreat, designed for you to connect in the most profound way, with a significant other, a partner, sibling, friend, or parent.
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As you enter this relationship retreat, you'll need to call on the strongest part of your spirit to meet yourself and another with honesty and clarity.
The relationship retreat provides the space to discover your significant other and to understand each other like never before.
You will be supported by two Curanderos (Shaman) and one facilitator working diligently to support you and provide the ideal space for healing and connection.
It's normal to get caught up in our own noise, making it hard to hear what our loved ones are truly saying.
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Loops of feeling unheard , unseen and feeling stuck in the injustice of it.
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“This shouldn’t be so hard”
“Why can’t they just understand?”
“Why is everything I do never enough?”
“Why can’t they see that I’m trying so hard?”
“What’s the point if they aren’t going to appreciate my efforts?”
“Maybe we aren’t meant to be in relationship if things are this difficult”
You are not alone.
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People all over the world struggle with this daily.
To bridge the gap, it takes time, presence, intention and a deep understanding of each others needs and each other's language.
Knowing this on an intellectual level is one thing, understanding it in the heart is another.
In the Cuchi Kaya retreat, You will enter ceremony with the intention of seeing the world through each others perspectives, emerging on the other side with a greater understanding of each other and with new ways to connect without shame or fear of rejection. ​​​​​​​
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Retreat Information:
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Duration: 9 Days
4 Ayahuasca Ceremonies
(Private, 1 to 1 Ceremonies With Shipibo Curanderos, No other Guests)
Pre and Post Ceremony Integration Circles
Cleansing Plant Baths before each ceremony
Private Accommodation in Kairos Villa
Journey within Kairos Caves
2 Heart Opening Cacao Ceremonies
Energetic Cleansing In Kairos Waterfalls & Rivers
Vegetarian Diet + Organic Free Range Eggs
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Price:
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$2,300 Per Person
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$4,600 Total
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50% deposit required to secure your booking
then you will receive the Preparation Package
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​Accommodation
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Your accommodation is a full riverside villa with two beds and kitchen, nestled in the peace and natural sounds of the jungle.
The space has been purpose built to help you be still, present with yourself and with the emotions that flow without any disturbance.
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Food
Your food is delicious, light and ayahuasca friendly, vegetarian, with organic, free range eggs if desired, to ensure your body is clean and receptive to the medicine.
This is a time for deep healing and connection.
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Important Notice:
It is essential that both people feel a desire to come into this experience together, it must be a mutual decision.
Please, do not try to coerce or convince your other to come with you. It is important that you have an open and honest conversation about your commitment to come and do this work.
This is a beautiful opportunity to grow, to get to know parts of each other that you didn’t even know were there, to evolve and move past some blockages that might have been holding you back for years.
We are grateful to provide you with the opportunity to immerse yourself into this experience, one that could change your life and the way you approach your relationship forever.
Program/Schedule:
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Day 1
(Arrival)
Pick up from either Tingo airport or bus station, met by a facilitator
Arrival at Kairos
Settle into your accommodation & rest
Welcome dinner 6:30pm
Day 2
(Ceremony 1)
Breakfast 8:30am
Welcome/ayahuasca meeting 9:30am
Meet and greet with the shamans and Q&A/speak of intentions with a heart opening cacao 10:30am
Lunch 1pm
Rest
Pre ceremony plant baths for protection 4pm
Ceremony #1 8pm (arrival to maloka-dome between 7-7:30pm)
Day 3
(Ceremony 2)
Breakfast 8:30am
Integration and Love Language exercise 11am
Lunch 1pm
Rest
Pre ceremony plant baths for protection 4pm
Ceremony #2 (arrival to maloka-dome between 7-7:30pm)
Day 4
(Rest Day)
Breakfast 8:30am
Integration and Discussion about Triggers with heart opening cacao 11am
Lunch 1pm
Rest
Dinner 6pm
Day 5
(Ceremony 3)
Breakfast 8:30am
Adventure walk to the cave 10am
Lunch 1pm
Rest
Pre ceremony plant baths for protection 4pm
Ceremony #3 8pm (arrival to maloka-dome between 7-7:30pm)
Day 6
(Rest Day)
Breakfast 8:30am
Integration 11am
Rest
Lunch 1pm
Truth Sharing circle 2:30pm
Rest
Dinner 6pm​
Day 7
(Closing Ceremony 4)
Breakfast 8:30am
Trip to the waterfall 9:30am
Lunch 2pm
Rest
Pre ceremony plant bath for protection 4pm
Ceremony #4 8pm (arrival to maloka-dome between 7-7:30pm)
Day 8
(Final Integration)
Closing plant bath 8am
Breakfast 9am
Final Integration 11am
Lunch 1pm
Final meeting about post ceremony integration and Q&A about going back into ‘civilisation’ 2:30pm
Rest
Dinner 6pm
Day 9
(Departure Day):
Depending on departure, timings may vary
Breakfast 8:30am
Group photos with Shaman etc 9:30am
Testimonials recording 10&11am
Relax & pack for departure
Lunch or Packed lunch to take
Departure
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*IF YOU HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED AYAHUASCA BEFORE*
READ BELOW :
An Ayahuasca ceremony is one of the most difficult journeys to embark on. The majority of participants admit that a single ceremony can be the hardest experience they have ever gone through, yet simultaneously the most rewarding, transformative, and indescribable miracles of their life. From birth, we have been conditioned by family, culture, politics, religion, economics, unhealthy diets and ideologies that impose limitations and boundaries on our consciousness and understanding of reality. Painful situations and traumas experienced during childhood and adolescence often cause negative emotional imprints to be suppressed within the cellular structure of the body causing deep-seated fears, low self-confidence, and unhealthy lifestyle habits resulting in strong disassociation with the self, family, community, and the natural world.
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Through the Ayahuasca ceremonial process, the medicine can assist in revealing what needs to be healed and integrated. Often during these moments, a purging process will take place removing these energies and imprints. Yet, it will still be necessary to work towards living in harmony with the mind, body and spirit afterward as additional processing and integration is a part of the process.
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Ayahuasca, also known as la purga, is a purging medicine. The healing is reached through a multilevel process of self-cleansing that penetrates down to the cellular level. It is not just the liquid that does the healing, but the spirit and intelligence of Ayahuasca, that knows exactly what is needed to help the participant. The medicine often begins by cleansing on the physical level. One often feels the ayahuasca healing them by working through the stomach and intestines, eliminating toxins, parasites, and other illnesses. These initial processes of cleansing are commonly manifested through vomiting or defecating. Purging may also be experienced through crying, shaking, yawning, sweating, fluctuations in body temperature, and even laughing.
The next level of healing is within the emotional and psychological realms. Here the opportunity to find the true root of ones challenges in life are often revealed. This process can feel difficult as one must completely surrender and face their deep-seated fears. As these energies and emotions are purged from the body the individual is shown how they must change to reach a harmonious balance in life. How they may find self-worth and self-love once again. Participants often report feeling lighter as the energetic baggage has left them. They may also feel like they were re-wired with new neural pathways set. Realizations are reached about the truth of one's actions and behaviors and then emotional blockages can be released.
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The depth of spiritual awakening and growth during the ayahuasca healing experience can only be fully understood by direct personal experience. It is here where one can reach profound visions and astonishing realizations. At this stage with the energetic centers more fully open in the body, many participants experience ‘downloading’ divine knowledge. In this place where pure intention is set forth, one may comprehend anything and everything without thought. Here the interconnectedness of all things may be experienced, healing our false sense of separation. One may be able to pierce through the illusion of the conscious dream, able to merge with the Universal Mind, reaching a state of great balance and liberation through genuine self-awareness.
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Ayahuasca is not for everybody. One must feel a deep calling within to step forward on this path of healing. Mother Ayahuasca should be approached with the deepest and most humble respect and caution. As Ayahuasca ceremonies are being facilitated all over the world, one should do their research before committing to drink with a shaman, guide, group or any particular Center. There are many charlatan shamans and facilitators that do not have the best interest of the participants at heart. When drank in a safe and proper set and setting with experienced healers, one may delve very deeply into their inner psyche and reach profound levels of healing and transformation.
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The Ayahuasca Diet
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The Ayahuasca Diet is an essential component that should be adhered to in order to receive the deeper healing benefits of the ceremonial experience. Over thousands of years, indigenous healers have acquired the necessary knowledge regarding this practice in order to experience a safe and effective journey with the sacred plant. Participants will expand their states of consciousness with more ease by following the dieta requirements. Although the guidelines of the dieta may differ according to various lineages of shamanism, it is best to follow the basic diet requirements to ensure ones health and safety with Ayahuasca. It is recommended to fast during the day, only eating a light breakfast and optional light lunch which allows entrance into the medicine realms with more ease.
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The dieta
Eliminate the following two to four weeks before and after:
Pork
Sexual activities of any kind, including masturbation
Alcohol
Marijuana
Spicy foods
Ice, ice cream, or ice cold drinks
Refined sugars
Red meat
Junk foods
Salt or pepper (healthy salt like pink Himalayan salt is fine to use in small amounts)
Oils (Virgin olive oil, coconut oil, hemp oil are ok in small amounts very)
Animal fats
Carbonated drinks
Dairy products
Fermented foods
Caffeine & other stimulants
All street drugs (cocaine, MDMA, amphetamines, etc need to be fully eliminated 4 weeks before and after.)
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Many pharmaceutical medications conflict with Ayahuasca
Please contact us to know what may need to be eliminated and how to safely come off the medications.
History & Shipibo Tradition
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Traditionally, Ayahuasca is made of two Amazonian plants, the Ayahuasca vine, and the chacruna leaves. In some areas, the chaliponga leaves are used. This sacred medicine is traditionally known by it’s Quechua name, Ayahuasca, which translates to; “Vine of the Soul” or “Vine of the Dead”. In Shipibo, Ayahuasca is known as Oni which signifies wisdom. Throughout the Amazon region, Ayahuasca goes by several dozen other names such as Daime, Yage and Caapi. Ayahuasca has likely been used for millennia. There is little written history on the subject yet there have been several verbal stories passed down through family lineage about the use and origins of this sacred medicine. Traditionally the healers of the villages would use ayahuasca to assist in healing patients of illnesses. To diagnose the root causes of the illness they would often seek assistance by other plant spirits and doctors in their visions and would be shown which plants to prescribe in order for them to heal. Some further examples of the shamanic use of ayahuasca by the village healers was to help settle village disputes, help with hunting tactics, or to help a person attract a partner for love.
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The Shipibo tribes are from the Ucayali River region. The use of Ayahuasca has been present within their tribes for hundreds of years and their vast knowledge in healing and plants has been an invaluable gift to those that have worked with them. The geometric patterns that you often see in their art are also termed icaros. These icaros in their artwork of painting and embroidery also tell stories. The icaros can be read and are essentially their original language. The Shipibo culture has thrived throughout the past in the practices of fishing, hunting, medicinal plant knowledge and art such as embroidering, painting, wood craftsmanship and ceramics. The Shipibo have always had a deep connection with mother nature yet as there has been more globalization and western ideals moving into these some of these regions, their traditions, language, art and knowledge are slowly being lost. Within our work we focus in preserving their traditions by supporting their arts, traditional practices and aid in the reforestation of the local jungle.