• Experience a quantum leap in consciousness by journeying from your mind into your heart, your biggest electromagnetic field. 

• Learn how to align with your heart's center through heart technology practices, including workshops and Heart Meditations, such as Trinity Heart Meditation and Activation. 

• Reconnect to your heart during two Ayawaska ceremonies, a San Pedro ceremony, sweat lodges, a shamanic drum journey, and workshops - rooted in ancient wisdom and research.
  

• Remember your connection to the whole by connecting to your heart's center and your body's profound technology. Connect to your inner nature within and the outer nature around you, starting on the beautiful coast of Ecuador at this retreat. 

It is time to return to the heart and remember who you are. When we come back into our heart space, we restore harmony between body, mind, and spirit, gently releasing resistance and reconnecting with our true essence. Ayllu Medicina’s Medicine of the Heart Retreat in May 2027 offers a sacred container of support, ancestral wisdom, and intentional practices to guide you back into alignment with yourself and life.

This retreat holds a unique focus on the Technology of the Heart, supported by sacred plant medicines such as San Pedro and Ayawaska, sweat lodges, and other traditional purification ceremonies.

Through these experiences, we explore heart coherence and the natural synchronicity between the systems of the body. By learning to live and listen from the heart space, you cultivate deeper presence, awareness, peace, and clarity, remembering your connection to the Earth, the community, and all living beings.

Purifying your body, mind, and spirit can help you align with your heart, which is why we include different types of ceremonies as part of our plant medicine retreats in Ecuador. These ceremonies are led by our experienced guides, honoring the ancient traditions from which they come. 

Plant Medicine Ceremonies 

We will gather together in two Ayawaska ceremonies and one San Pedro ceremony. 

Ayawaska is often compared to a wise Grandmother, and like an onion, she can help you find your center and let go of what no longer serves you. She can help you shine a light on areas of darkness, finding your way to the infinite love in your heart. 

Grandfather San Pedro is the healing masculine energy, helping you find alignment and open your heart once more, ready to take flight. We will meet with Grandfather San Pedro once after our ceremonies with Grandma Ayawaska. The plant spirit can also help you integrate your retreat week and let go of anything that remains which is blocking you from residing in your center. 

We will provide preparation support, and we hold circles during our plant medicine retreats to discuss any questions you may have in advance. After our plant medicine ceremonies, we also have sharing circles, so you can share any pearls from your ceremony experience. Some women have sat in ceremonies previously, whereas, for others, it is their first time meeting with the plant medicines. 

You can learn more about these medicines on our Ayllu Medicina blog. 

Sweat Lodges 

There will also be multiple sweat lodges (temazcales) throughout the plant medicine retreat week. Enter the womb of Mother Earth to integrate, purify, and experience rebirth. 

Our volcanic grandmother stones are heated in the fire and are placed in the womb, the sweat lodge. Different incenses are placed on the stones before the door closes, and the heat begins to rise as water is poured over the stones. We share prayers and songs to guide each round. 

We´re going to learn ancient meditations and techniques to answer our sacred and eternal heart’s call. This radical consciousness movement can bring profound shifts in perspective and reality. Some of the workshops and meditations include: 

• Heart technology 

• Basic understanding of our electromagnetic fields - torus or toroid.

• Trinity Heart Meditation and Activation

• An ancient way to reconnect our heart with our sacred Universal Mother’s heart, represented by Mother Earth - and our Universal Father’s heart, represented by Father Sun.

• Expeditions into the heart:

• Moving our consciousness from the brain into our heart.

• Guided imagery is a spiritual technique to live and create from the heart.

• Exploring our sacred space of the heart, the space that holds our soul's history and spiritual guides, through Imagery exercises and meditations.

• Exploring the sacred, tiny saint space of the heart (singularity, oneness)

These workshops will be led by Hwaneetah, and her dear friend from Colombia, Naty, who also specialises in these teachings.

Your plant medicine experience and healing process will be led by Aime, a medicine man of the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan, a medicine family based in the Ecuadorian Andes, and his wife, Hwaneetah. Their purpose is to share medicine, prayers, music, and intention for healing with whoever is called to share in this journey. These two healers are well-known in the region for their music, resonant prayers, and heart-opening medicine. 

Aime and Hwaneetah speak fluent English, Spanish, and French and have been working with medicine for over 20 years, along with other healing modalities. Hwaneetah also runs women's sweat lodges and will be sharing wisdom on womb technology. 

You can watch Hwaneetah's talk on ancient womb technology on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X9LkyK4bHw

The Ayllu Medicina team will be supporting you throughout your retreat week; you can learn more about our medicine guides and facilitators on our website under 'team'. We also have a great kitchen team who will be providing nutritious food and drinks throughout the week. Vanessa, our experienced yoga teacher, will be leading the daily yoga classes, yoga nidras, and sharing her Ayurvedic knowledge.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. We will also be providing orientation support, and there are options for integration sessions post-retreat. You can also choose from other add-ons, such as a 1:1 moon session with Hwaneetah.

How do we support the local community?

Sometimes we are asked how we support the community here in Ecuador! Ecuador is home for all of us, some of the ways we share with the communities here are:

• Working with our local kitchen team!

• Taking part in community events such as for the water and community sweat lodges

• We are connected with a family in the Amazon who harvests the Ayawaska we prepare, along with other artisans and organisations with products such as Guayuasa, that are sustainably working with this plant.

• Contact us to learn more!

Ayllu Medicina is based on the coast of Ecuador, in Manglaralto, situated near the world-famous surf capital of Montañita and the peaceful haven of Ayampe. 

Immerse yourself in nature in our retreat space, which is perfect for renewal. It is magical during ceremonies to hear the sounds of all the nature around, from the birds singing to the waves crashing. 

You can easily access the beach, which is a ten-minute walk from the accommodation. The accommodation has everything you need to be comfortable, feel at peace, and retreat inwards during your stay, including a swimming pool with ocean views, one of the best spots to enjoy Ecuador's sunsets! 

Rooms include air conditioning, large comfortable double beds, internet access (unless you want a phone-free week!), and hot water.

Read: Accommodation and Flight Recommendations

• We recommend flying in at least one day before retreat to allow time to settle. We can recommend some accommodations nearby.

• If you need to fly in on the Saturday we start retreat, schedule your flight to arrive by 10am to allow time to get to the retreat center.

• We can help arrange transport with our trusted taxi drivers or we provide public transport information. Taxis cost around 90$. We will be in touch re. all logistics once you sign up.

• For departure, we finish retreat at around 3pm on Saturday. We have a community sweat lodge this evening, starting around 5pm. We recommend flying out the next day, or late this evening. Of course, if you can stay longer, this is also great!

• Usually there is the option to stay an extra night at our retreat center post-retreat for an additional charge, with sufficient notice.

• Airport: Guayaquil is the most convenient, which is 2.5-3.5 hours away.

• Do you plan to stay for longer? We are happy to offer recommendations for where to stay and where to visit pre or post-retreat!

- Arrive at our retreat space and settle into your accommodation. 

- Enjoy a welcome lunch and meet the rest of the group.

- Learn the retreat schedule & logistics

- Set your intentions and open the retreat week with our opening fire ceremony. 

- Opening sweat lodge (temazcal)

- Dinner

This schedule is an idea of how the week will flow. The schedule is subject to change and the final one will be given to you on day One of retreat.

- Breakfast 

- Yoga, breathwork, & meditation

- Heart technology workshop

- Cold Plunge

- lunch  

- Intro to ceremony circle

- Rest time

- Light dinner

- Ayawaska ceremony (beginning around 10 pm)

- Sunrise sweat lodge

- Breakfast

- Rest & restore

- Lunch

- Rest & restore

- Restorative yoga

- Dinner 

- Breakfast

- Energizing yoga, breathwork, & Heart Technology meditation

- Sharing circle & power animals talk

- Silent lunch

- Rest & Restore

- Ayawaska Ceremony 

-Sunrise sweat lodge

-Breakfast

- Rest & restore

- Lunch

- Restorative yoga

- Heart Technology workshop and Meditation 

- Dinner 

- Breakfast

- Energizing yoga, breathwork, Heart meditation

- Sharing circle & intro to ceremony

- Lunch

- Music and art time

- Rest

• either dinner then a San Pedro night ceremony, beginning around 10pm. Or a Heart Technology Workshop/ drum journey, then dinner

- Ocean offering and beach time

- Breakfast

- Songs around the fire 

- Goodbye celebration lunch 

- Rest and meditation time

- Dinner 

OR

DAY CEREMONY of San Pedro & Celebration Dinner *

• subject to weather, and scheduling

- Breakfast

- Yoga, breathwork

- Heart technology workshop

- Closing fire ceremony to close the week and say farewell

- Lunch (check-out 2-3pm)

- Optional afternoon sweat lodge

The adventure continues...