We would like to invite you to this gathering which will be held by Curanderos Gabriel & Doris, who’ll be joining us from Ampiri, an amazonian medicine  healing center in Peru, located at the boiling river in the deep jungle two hours from Pucallpa, Peru.

Website : www.ampiri.ninja
Instagram: @Ampiri.amazonian.medicine

The ceremonies will be held according to the Peruvian tradition. This includes singing Icaros (the medicine songs) all night, in the darkness. They will be bringing their own medicine, cooked at their home in the jungle with the water of the sacred boiling river.

Ampiri's medicine is known to be very powerful, deep, & loving.

Doris is originally a Palestinian born in Nazareth.
She started back in 2011 with the medicine, helping and facilitating till she got to Ampiri in 2017 & started serious long diets with master plants & trees alongside facilitating in ceremonies,  helping organizing & handling groups at the center till today . She sings in spanish, shipibo, arabic, hebrew, & aramaic.

Gabriel is a naturalist with over 25  years of dedicated study in plant medicine, fasting and diet. Gabriel brings a wealth of knowledge and also the clever ability to convey this knowledge to the western mind.  Early in his study, Gabriel was a complete raw foodist for a number of years and  studied a plethera of detoxing strategies and purgative plants. Gabriel can teach many things about different types of healing diets and other plant based medicine.

In the Amazon, Gabriel spent many years living in native villages and jungle doing long isolation diets. As a result, Gabriel learned to sing  powerful icaros in native dialects such as Quechua and Shipibo. In the amazonian tradition, Gabriel is considered a " Palero" which means he specializes in dieting the most powerful trees of the jungle for long periods of time.

As a couple, Doris & Gabriel bring the healthy feminine and  masculine, their ceremonies are very powerful & healing. They will be assisted by Malka Lew. Malka has been leading Plant Medicine ceremonies for 15 years. She trained extensively as a facilitator and was given permission to serve the medicine after doing extensive plant dietas with the Yawanawa tribe of Brazil and the Shipibo tribe of Peru.  She is also initiated as a Priestess of Ifa and Osun. After a delicate dance to harmonize both traditions in right relationship, she uses the tools and resources of both her path with Ifa and with the medicine to guide her as a facilitator.

For this retreat, we will be a the magical Double A-Fram known as Apex Lodge, in North Fork., about 50 minutes from magical Yosemite Park.

Our retreat begins FrIday at 5pm and goes until Monday at 11am. We do request that everyone to stay to the end to assist with cleanup, and participate in our closing circle. 

Itinerary:

Friday afternoon, arrive to set up and enjoy a gentle Yin Yoga class with breathwork to ground and center us. We will begin our first ceremony of the weekend around 8pm and it will go until 3am in the Ceremony Hall. Our facilitators will guide us in a curated and healing Plant Medicine ceremony accompanied by a variety of instruments for an immersive and healing experience. We will offer a simple and nourishing meal before sleep. 

Saturday: Sleep in, enjoy a leisurely breakfast, and meet for gentle stretching and meditation followed by our first afternoon Integration Session. We will all share our experience from the evening before and how we are integrating the teachings. Relax the rest of the day, hot tub, nap, or take a gentle hike to enjoy the surroundings and community. At 8pm, we will begin the second of our two ceremonies, to deepen the healing that began the previous night.

Sunday: Sleep in, enjoy a leisurely breakfast and meet for gentle stretching and meditation followed by our second afternoon Integration Session. We will all share our experience from the evening before and how we are integrating the teachings.  Hot tub, rest, and then we will enjoy a hearty dinner, conversation and music, and head to bed on the early side to rest the body. 

Monday morning, after a good night's sleep, we will open with a hearty breakfast, closing circle, and cleanup. We will send you off with amazing vibes to the default world, until we see you again next season!

Please note: we will be offering 2 Community Potlucks: one a few days before, to Meet n Greet the group, and about one month post-retreat to share your experience. 

We will also send out a RideShare board and ask everyone to please carpool, as we have limited parking at the Retreat venue.

Once your deposit has been put down, we will require a Waiver / Questionnaire to be filled out by all participants via GoogleForms and a short intake interview to be conducted with our facilitator Malka for all first timers. We also will ask you to please join our private group on Signal for all future communication.

We are excited to meet you and gather with you soon. Note: the ceremony begins once you decide to join. Please be mindful of what your intentions are and what is arising in your life.  It is all a part of the ceremony.  Please be gentle with yourself and create practices witnessing the experience without responding. Meditation and Yoga are highly recommended. These tools of witnessing will be highly valuable in our ceremony weekend.  Feel free to reach out via this site with any questions!

Fine print:  

- While we do not offer refunds, your tuition for the retreat is fully transferrable to another participant in the case that you need to cancel due to illness or unforeseen circumstances. You will be ultimately be responsible for finding this person, however, the facilitators will post to the Signal group on your behalf.

- Please note that we STRONGLY recommend protecting your retreat investment with travel insurance, in case you have to cancel last minute due to illness or extenuating circumstances. We recommend Allianz Travel Insurance:  https://www.allianztravelinsurance.com

With lots of Love,

Your Left Coast Medicine Family