Ecuador Ayahuasca Retreats
Find the Best Ayahuasca Retreat in Ecuador
Ecuador is one of the traditional Amazonian homelands for ayahuasca, with a cultural heritage deeply rooted in shamanic traditions and medicine. Indigenous peoples have been cultivating and using this plant medicine for centuries, ensuring that an Ecuador ayahuasca retreat is genuine, safe, and healing.
Ecuador boasts diverse and stunning natural landscapes, which make for an ideal backdrop for ceremony, spiritual reflection, and integration. Being immersed in the lush rainforest of the Amazon or surrounded by majestic Andes mountains inspires a profound connection to nature, to life, and to spirit.
Ayahuasca retreat centers in Ecuador also tend to prioritize small groups, enabling personal attention and support, fostering a more intimate retreat experience. Meeting Mother Aya can be a deeply vulnerable experience, so the trust and support created in small groups is very valuable.
Terence McKenna
Featured Ecuador Retreats
Casa del Sol ✾
casadelsolvilcabamba.com ➜
Vilcabamba, Loja, Ecuador
Casa del Sol is located in the beautiful Sacred Valley of San Pedro in Vilcabamba. This family-run ayahuasca retreat center in Ecuador also incorporates San Pedro in their inclusive 11-day healing retreats. A maximum of 13 participants ensures that each group has an intimate experience with the healers, the medicine, and each other. Enter as an individual, leave as family.
Retreats
Offering 10-night ayahuasca & san pedro retreats in Ecuador.
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Alma Healing Center
almahealingcenter.com ➜
Pintag (near Quito), Ecuador | Mindo Cloudforest, Ecuador
Alma Healing Center is a woman-run, inclusive, LGBTQ-friendly ayahuasca retreat center in Ecuador, operating two locations convenient to Quito. Apart from ayahuasca, the facilitators at Alma also work with other sacred plant medicines – San Pedro, Hape/Rapé, Psilocybin mushrooms, and Peyote. Their affordable retreats include meals, accommodations, and even sweat lodge.
Retreats
Offering a variety of ayahuasca (and other plant medicine) retreats: 2-day, 5-day, 7-day, women-only, private, and even artists retreats.
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Ayllu Medicina
ayllumedicina.com ➜
Manglaralto, Ecuador
Ayllu Medicina offers transformational, all inclusive 8-day retreats on the beautiful southern coast of Ecuador. Retreats include plant medicine ceremonies (Ayahuasca & San Pedro), sweat lodges, womb technology circles, daily yoga, meditation, breathwork, ice baths, workshops, song circles and more. Facilities boast ocean views and a swimming pool, and comfortable accommodations include air conditioning, hot water, & private bathrooms. Three plant-based nutritious meals are served each day.
Retreats
Offering all inclusive 8-day retreats that include ayahuasca and much more.
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Corazon de Pacha Mama
corazondepachamama.org ➜
Malacatos, Loja Ecuador
Corazon de Pacha Mama is unique in that it is both a retreat center and a shaman training center. Those that feel called to work with plant medicines can seek apprenticeship with grandmother Ayahuasca or grandfather San Pedro. Simple retreat guests will experience a hybrid-medicine retreat with both sacred plants.
Retreats
Offering 2 retreats each month of various lengths: 4, 8, or 12-day retreats.
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Feather Crown
feathercrown.com ➜
Santa Clara, Pastaza Province, Ecuador
Feather Crown is an ecologically-minded ayahuasca retreat center in the high rainforest of Ecuador. The cornerstone of this center is safety, responsibility, ethics, and respect towards indigenous populations. Feather Crown works to preserve and protect the Amazon, believes in sustainable living, and strives to preserve indigenous traditions and culture.
Retreats
Offering 5 and 10-day ayahuasca retreats in Ecuador.
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Vilcabamba, Loja, Ecuador
casadelsolvilcabamba.com
Offering 10-night ayahuasca & san pedro retreats.
Vilcabamba, Loja, Ecuador
almahealingcenter.com
Offering 2-day, 5-day, 7-day, women-only, private, and even artists retreats.
Manglaralto, Ecuador
ayllumedicina.com
Offering all inclusive 8-day retreats that include ayahuasca and much more.
Vilcabamba, Loja, Ecuador
corazondepachamama.org
Offering 4, 8, or 12-day ayahuasca and san pedro retreats.
Santa Clara, Pastaza Province, Ecuador
feathercrown.com
Offering 5 and 10-day ayahuasca retreats in Ecuador.