Journey to Peru
Become The Medicine
Dieta at Mushuk Pakarina

We are excited to extend our invitation to our annual Peruvian Amazonian retreat taking place in the region known as the "Eyebrows of the Amazon", in the Northeast of Peru. This is the birthplace of many rivers all driven to the great Amazon. Host of sacred waters such as the Awashiyacu, where the last steps of the Andes turn into the Blue Cordillera, where the Andes open to the Amazon Basin. This is where Metsa took his first steps into the Vegetalismo world. We take pride to have kept relations going and growing over the last 3 decades with the Chujandama family, who are descendants of the Chancas people, and to have now a place to call HOME at the Mushuk Pakarina retreat center. A place where tradition, wisdom and integrity from the lineage of plant medicine has been kept alive.

Every year WE come home and encourage you to experience the HEART of the medicine through the dieta experience. A unique way to reset, reboot and expose yourself to SOURCE.

This year will be different and new. We have the opportunity to be part of the blessing and inauguration of the new maloca (ceremonial house) which has been completely rebuilt. This project was made possible by the fundraising effort of our non-profit organization, the Sacred Ways Foundation. We extend our deep appreciation and thanks to our generous donor community. 

The Dieta is considered the key that opens the door to the wisdom of plant consciousness, transformation, and evolution.

The Dieta is a way to rejuvenate your body, mind, and spirit, and cultivate a profound sense of connectivity to the environment as sacred.

A lot has come forth this year with the implementation of our course Being and Becoming, and we feel this is a unique opportunity to make this retreat a BRIDGE of the traditions and to intertwine and potentialize your REBOOT … the dieta will still be in place but with shorter period in strict isolation so we can build inner cultivation through collective meditation, singing, QiGong, spiritual resilience with day ceremonies and water prayers. All of which WILL GIVE THE WAY for an experience more rooted in our COLLECTIVE.  This year we want to bring you into a new experience and BRING the medicine HOME.

From Home to Home….

Will you dare to join us?

Come to Peru!

This retreat is designed to support you every step of the way.
You'll be guided to waterfalls and secluded hot springs, we'll go on hikes and oxygenate the body while exploring the pharmacopeia and the making of your own medicines. We will share together our deep feelings and sense of connection and root our understanding in a discerned capacity to engage and relate to nature and spirit.

Having lived in Tarapoto for many years, Metsa provides the experience of a local as your guide for this journey. Metsa's organizer, Brandon, also an apprentice on the path, will be supporting registrations and communications as well as in attendance to help with trip logistics and the support of the group.

These dieta retreats are the heart and soul of the medicine work. As the world continues to change at an exponential pace it is crucial to have traditional practices that root us in deep connection. We're so fortunate to still have access to this plant medicine dieta work, for a complete reset of body, mind, and spirit.

Through the dieta, we open ourselves to spirit by exposing our bodies to nature and plant medicine energy, which enhances our dream-state, clears our emotional field, and awakens the wisdom and intuition that lives within us.

 The dieta opens the door to the Universal language and wisdom. 

Over my years committed to this path in Peru, from 1996-2011, I had the privilege to be exposed to different traditions and places in the Peruvian Amazon and the southern Andes. But it is with the Quechua Lamista people that I began to become fully immersed in the heart of Vegetalismo. This retreat will offer a way for you to experience some of the people and places I most revere. 
I look forward to sharing this journey with you.
With care,
-Metsa

Orlando Chujandama Huazanga:
Orlando is an accomplished Qechua-Lamista Vegetalista, trained in plant medicine knowledge and the ritual and healing ceremonies of the upper Amazon. He's also an Ayahuascero rooted in the lineage of his grandfather and carries the lineage of his people. Orlando embodies what's left of the old ways of the Vegetalismo tradition of Peru where Dieta is placed at the center of the Ayahuasca practice. Metsa and Orlando started to participate in Ayahuasca ceremonies at the same time 27 years ago, though Orlando had already been trained by his grandfather when he was a young boy. Orlando's grandfather started to come to Orlando in his dreams to pass on the knowledge of the plants and the power of the Ikaros, the songs used in ceremonies to heal and communicate with the spirits.

Who & Where?
Our ceremonial grounds:
Llucanayacu is the name of the small locality on the banks of the Huallaga river where our group will land after a short visit to Tarapoto and its local waterfalls. Llucanayacu has kept its very rural aspect and its local language Quechua Lamista. There Metsa's dear brother Orlando Chujandama has created a small center, Mushuk Pakarina (the Rising Sun) surrounded by the Yanayacu stream.

Logistics
Meet in Tarapoto Peru at Hotel Plaza de Bosque.

Voyage to Llucanayacu for the dieta experience.
Close and Depart Tarapoto from Hotel Plaza de Bosque.

Your investment: $3,550 USD. 

We will have a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 20 participants.

Once you arrive in Tarapoto all costs will be covered. This includes local transport, food, lodging, aya ceremonies, and dieta medicine. A detailed program will be disclosed for those of you who are committing to the retreat. (Your airfare is not included.)

A $1,000 deposit is required to secure your spot. The remainder of the funds will be due 2 weeks prior to departure. Deposits are refundable with at least 3 weeks' notice prior to departure.