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Kambo · Ayahuasca ×2 · Temazcal
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Sacred Retreats · Ecuador
Come home to your breath, your body, your soul.
A small circle of healers, therapists, and traditional medicine carriers — holding sacred-medicine retreats in the highlands and jungles of Ecuador. Small groups, private one-on-one journeys, or something built for you. Not a brand. Not a vacation. The work itself.
Teos Retreats · in eight lines
Quick facts.
- Held by the same recurring team — never rotating contractors.
- Maximum 12 participants. Most circles run with 6 to 10.
- Two lineages — Cofán Amazonian (Ayahuasca) and Andean Sierra (San Pedro / Wachuma) — held by elder taitas.
- Four weeks of integration follow-up after you return home — one video call per week, with named team members.
- 50 minutes from Mariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO). Private transport included in every retreat package.
- Veterans programme led by John Hasan Khadiyev, U.S. Marine Corps Iraq War combat veteran and certified somatic-experiencing practitioner.
- Pricing in plain numbers: 4-day Sacred Mushrooms $865 · 7-day San Pedro $1,690 · 8-day Ayahuasca $1,950.
- Trilingual support — English, Spanish, and Russian — across intake, ceremony bedside, and post-retreat integration.
The Retreats
What you receive when you arrive.
Every retreat is built around six pillars. Whether you come in a small group of six to twelve, with a partner, or one-on-one for a private journey, all of them are present every day. Nothing is sold separately, nothing is upsold. You have already paid; show up and be held.
01
Daily Breathwork & Yoga
Morning practices to settle the nervous system and prepare for ceremony. Evening practices to land the day before sleep.
02
Fresh-Juice Cleansing
Plant-based meals, green juices, and herbal tonics throughout your stay. Personalized for your body's needs.
03
Sacred Ceremonies
Two to four ceremonies depending on retreat length, held by experienced curanderos in safe, prepared, intimate settings.
04
Bodywork & Alignment
Lymphatic drainage, chiropractic alignment, and traditional massage to support physical reset and release stored holding.
05
Somatic & Family Work
Therapy, family-constellation circles, and integration sessions every day after ceremony — often the most surprising part of the week.
06
1-on-1 Support
Personal sessions with our team — before, during, and after the retreat. Four weeks of follow-up calls included, one video call per week.
A note on group size
Group, partnered, or one-on-one.
◦ shaped to who is inside it ◦
Most of our retreats are held in small groups of six to twelve. But the work is not bound to that shape. We also hold private one-on-one retreats for people who need more space, more discretion, or more focus — and we tailor custom retreats for couples, family pairs, and small private circles.
You receive the same team, the same medicines, the same depth of preparation and integration. What changes is the rhythm, the privacy, and the level of attention. If a small-group retreat does not feel like the right fit, write to us. We will design something that does.
◦ a sample eight-day arc · Ayahuasca retreat ◦
Day 1 — Arrival & Opening
Pickup, settle in, free time with the land. 5 PM opening circle, intentions, orientation. Light communal dinner. Early bed.
Day 2 — Kambo Ceremony
Light fast in the morning. 10 AM Kambo — the Frog's Purge — to clear physical and emotional toxins and prepare the body for ayahuasca.
Day 3 — First Ayahuasca
Day of quiet contemplation and fasting. 7 PM ceremony begins — Taita Alirio and Gabriel hold the maloca. Closing tea, rest.
Day 4 — Integration
Nourishing breakfast. Conscious rest, journaling, walks. Optional bodywork (chiropractic, massage, breathwork, yoga).
Day 5 — Second Ayahuasca
Another day of fasting and inner preparation. 7 PM — return to the maloca, deeper. Closing tea, gentle grounding.
Day 6 — Papallacta Hot Springs
Optional day trip to thermal pools high in the mountains. Lunch on site. Return for community dinner and sharing.
Day 7 — Temazcal Ceremony
Light diet. 10 AM sweat-lodge ceremony with Gabriel — pray, sing, sweat, release. Final integration circle. Farewell dinner.
Day 8 — Farewell
Final blessings, contact exchange, breakfast. 11 AM departure — carrying the medicine in your heart and the learnings in your being.
The arc above is from our 8-day Ayahuasca retreat. Our 7-day San Pedro retreat follows the same shape with different ceremonies (San Pedro · Mushrooms · Changa DMT). Schedules adjust to the group, the season, or the individual when we hold a private one-on-one journey.
Upcoming Dates
Our 2026 retreat calendar.
Below are the next confirmed retreats. Spaces fill quickly — group sizes are capped at twelve, and we screen every applicant before confirming. Click Inquire on any retreat to start the conversation.
◦ private dates also available year-round ◦
Don't see a date that fits? We hold private one-on-one and custom retreats year-round, scheduled around your life.
Request a Custom RetreatSacred Medicines
The most respected ancestral medicines on Earth.
We work with four traditions. Not all of them appear in every retreat — they are matched to the group, the season, and the readiness of each participant. We will tell you well in advance which medicines you will be sitting with.
These medicines are held in their traditional context, by traditional people, with the depth of preparation and integration they deserve.
◦ teachers, not tools ◦
Ayahuasca
01Yagé · The Vine of the Soul
Brewed for centuries by the peoples of the upper Amazon, ayahuasca is a teacher plant prepared as a thick, earthy decoction of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and chacruna leaf. We do not refer to it as a 'drug' or a 'trip.' It is a medicine — held by curanderos who learned this work from their elders, in the language and lineage where it belongs.
Ceremonies happen in the evening, in a maloca lit by candle and held by song (icaros). You drink one to three small cups. The effects unfold in waves over four to six hours. Some people see, some people feel, some people simply rest. We have a facilitator beside every participant the entire night — no one is ever left alone with their experience.
We require a one-week dieta beforehand: no alcohol, no recreational substances, no pork, no salt, no spice, no sex. This isn't punishment — it's a way of clearing the body so the medicine has somewhere clean to land. We send you the full prep guide as soon as your spot is confirmed.
San Pedro · Wachuma
02Grandfather Cactus
An Andean medicine, used continuously for at least 3,000 years from northern Peru up through the Ecuadorian highlands. Where ayahuasca tends to take you down and inward, wachuma tends to open you up and outward — toward the heart, toward the sky, toward the people sitting next to you.
People describe a soft, sustained clarity — fewer visions, more feeling. It is gentle but not small, and many people who are afraid of ayahuasca find their way to the work through this medicine first.
Wachuma is well-suited to people processing grief, disconnection, or the kind of low-grade despair that doesn't have a clear cause. We hold these days in small groups of six to eight, with a curandera and a co-facilitator present throughout.
Psilocybin Mushrooms
03Teacher Mushrooms
Held in small, intimate circles — usually four to eight people — for one evening within a longer retreat. The dose is moderate; the intention is honest inquiry, not spectacle. We are not interested in heroic doses or in pushing people past what they consented to.
Mushrooms tend to bring up what is closest to the surface. People often meet a younger version of themselves, or a relationship that needs honoring, or a clear answer to a question they had stopped asking aloud. We follow the ceremony with a long integration circle the next morning — that is where the medicine actually finishes its work.
We screen carefully for people on SSRIs or with a personal or family history of psychosis. If mushrooms aren't right for you, we'll tell you — and we'll suggest something that is.
Changa
04Visionary Resin
Changa is a smoked blend of five plants — including the ayahuasca vine and DMT-rich leaves — that work synergistically to deliver a high-DMT experience that is fast, strong, and remarkably integrated. It is brief — the experience lasts ten to twenty minutes — and it is profound. We use it sparingly, and only inside a longer retreat where there is time to integrate what came through.
Some people describe changa as a fast doorway. Others describe it as the most direct conversation with the unseen they have ever had. We don't make promises about either. What we do promise is that you will be sat with, breathed with, and walked back gently.
Changa is offered selectively, by invitation, and never to anyone in their first ceremony. It is not part of every retreat.
Kambo · Frog Medicine
The forest's deep cleanse.
Kambo is the natural secretion of the Phyllomedusa bicolor — the giant green tree frog of the Amazon. Carried for centuries by the Matsés, Katukina, and Yawanawá peoples, it is the most direct physical reset we offer. Twenty intense minutes. Days of clarity afterward.
◦ twenty minutes · seven days of light ◦
Where it comes from
The frog is not harmed. Practitioners gently call her down from the canopy at dawn, collect a small amount of secretion onto a wooden stick, and return her to the same branch. The medicine she gives carries dozens of bioactive peptides — among the most studied in modern pharmacology.
How the work is held
A short, honest, fully held twenty minutes.
01
Opening the points
Tiny burns are made on the surface of the skin — usually on the shoulder for men, the lower leg for women — to open the lymph. The dried secretion is rehydrated and placed on these points.
02
The wave
The medicine moves through the body within seconds. Heat, pressure around the face, a strong urge to purge. The elders call this sacando la panema — drawing out the heavy, stagnant energy.
03
The clearing
Within thirty to forty minutes the storm passes. What is left behind is a clean body, a quiet mind, and a wide-open heart. Most people sleep more deeply that night than they have in years.
What people often report
What Kambo is known for.
- ·Deep physical detox — liver, lymph, gut
- ·Powerful anti-inflammatory peptides
- ·Immune-modulating effect
- ·Mental clarity, focus, lifted mood
- ·Releases trauma stored in the body
- ·Resets cravings and dependency patterns
- ·Strong preparation before plant medicine
- ·Often: deeper sleep for days afterward
Honest cautions
When Kambo is not the right medicine.
Kambo is not for pregnancy, serious heart conditions, recent surgery, certain neurological conditions, or some medications (SSRIs, MAOIs, immunosuppressants). We screen carefully before every session and will tell you honestly if it is not the right time. Always with a trained practitioner. Never alone. Never on a substance.
Kambo is included as a preparation ceremony on Day 2 of every Ayahuasca retreat. It is also offered as a stand-alone session for those who want only this medicine.
Daily Practices
Eight pillars woven into every day.
Ceremony is one or two nights of a retreat. Everything else — what we do in the mornings, what we eat, how we move, how we sit together — is what makes the ceremony actually land. These eight practices are with you every day.
Breathwork
Two breath sessions most days — conscious-connected breathing in the morning to open the chest, slower pranayama in the evening to settle the nervous system. We've seen breath alone move things people had carried for thirty years.
Plant-Based Cleansing
Three plant-based meals a day plus fresh juices: papaya, pineapple, ginger, beet, cilantro, lime. The food is the medicine before the medicine. Most people feel lighter by day three.
Detox Protocols
Optional 7- to 21-day deeper cleanses using lymphatic-supporting herbs, parasite protocols (when indicated), liver and kidney tonics. Done under supervision and matched to your body.
Meditation & Yoga
Slow, sincere, beginner-friendly. We're not interested in advanced postures. We are interested in helping your nervous system remember what safe feels like.
Somatic Therapy
Body-based work for what talk therapy cannot reach. Gentle, titrated, trauma-informed — bringing slow attention to the places the body has been protecting.
Family Constellations
One afternoon mid-retreat, the group becomes a living map of your family system. Patterns surface that have been moving you for generations. Often the most surprising day of the week.
Bodywork & Alignment
Lymphatic drainage to support detoxification, chiropractic alignment to release stored holding, and traditional massage when bodies need it. Booked individually during the retreat.
Integration Circles
Every morning after a ceremony, the whole circle sits in conversation. No fixing, no advice — just witnessing each person say what is true for them today. This is where transformation actually lands.
The Shamans & Healers
A circle of carriers — each one chosen with care.
We are a small circle. The same people who answer your first email are the people who will pick you up at the airport, sit with you on the worst night, and call you four weeks after you go home to ask how you are.
Our facilitators were not flown in for the season. They live here. Their lineages reach back into the Andes and the Amazon, and their training spans modern psychology, somatic therapy, clinical naturopathy, and decades of personal practice. Above all, they hold space with humility and reverence — because every one of them came to this work after their own breaking point.
We do not have a guru. We do not have a face on a billboard. The medicine is the teacher. We are the people who help you sit with it.
◦ no gurus, just witnesses ◦
Read full bios on About◦ meet the circle ◦
Taita Hernán Toapanta
Curandero · Aguacolla / Wachuma / San Pedro
Andean medicine carrier of Aguacolla and Wachuma. Holds our San Pedro retreats with prayer, song, and the sacred fire.
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Taita Alirio Causaluzán
Curandero · Cofán Yagé Tradition (Ayahuasca)
Cofán Yagé tradition, formed by Elder Taita Saulo Gil Botina. Thirty-plus years of cooking the medicine.
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Gabriel Guillén
Ayahuasca Apprentice · Temazcalero
Apprentice of indigenous medicine for over ten years. Floral therapist and guide of our closing temazcal ceremonies.
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David Srolis
Therapist · Mushroom Psychotherapy
Ten-plus years and hundreds of plant-medicine ceremonies. Specializes in psilocybin psychotherapy and integration.
Ana Karina Maldonado
Licensed Therapist · Yoga · Ayurveda · Family Constellations
Licensed psychologist, Hatha yoga teacher, Ayurveda coach. Leads our family-constellation integration day.
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Giuseppe Morales
Holistic Bodyworker · Chiropractic · Floral Therapy
Auriculotherapy, acupressure, chiropractic, therapeutic yoga, moxibustion, floral therapy.
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John Hasan Khadiyev
Somatic Facilitator · Certified Detox Specialist · Veterans Liaison
Iraq War veteran. Somatic experiencing facilitator and certified detox specialist. Leads our Veterans program.
Read full profileCooks, stewards, and the families who tend the land are part of the circle too. You will know them by name before you leave.
Where We Hold Space
Two lands. One circle.
We hold our retreats at two centers in the Ecuadorian highlands — chosen for their silence, their water, and the quality of their air. Where you stay depends on the size of your group and the depth of the work.
◦ both lands held with the same prayer ◦
01 · Calacalí Center
Intimate · up to 6 souls
Wild highland land in the Quito Valley.
A small private property just outside Quito, on the equatorial line. Where we hold private journeys, one-on-one work, and our smallest group retreats.
A small concrete-dome temazcal sweat lodge on the meadow, a geometric meditation pyramid, and a kitchen cabin with a fire pit and simple benches in the trees. The kind of place where you can hear your own breath again.
- Capacity
- Up to 6 participants
- Best for
- Private · One-on-one · Small group
02 · Teos Center
Larger gatherings · the full container
Our flagship maloka and ceremonial circle.
Our larger center — a full ceremonial maloka with a bamboo-vaulted ceiling and skylight, stone walls hand-laid by the same circle that holds the medicine. A wood-beamed integration room hung with hand-carved masks. A traditional wood-fired kitchen with a clay oven. Bedrooms with round-brick portal windows. Where we hold our scheduled Ayahuasca and San Pedro group retreats.
Gardens, ponds, brick fire-circles, and a working temazcal sweat lodge ring out from the maloka. Sister site to teosharmony.com.
- Capacity
- Group retreats · up to 12
- Best for
- Scheduled group retreats · Ayahuasca · San Pedro
Photo Gallery
The land that holds the work.
These are photographs from our own retreats and the land we hold them on. We don't put participants' faces on the internet without their permission — so what you see here is the land, the medicines, the team, and the spaces we hold.
Voices from the Circle
What participants say afterward.
First names and first initials only — by request. Some of these are excerpts from the integration calls we hold four weeks after each retreat.
After a 21-day cleanse I renewed my body and let go of cravings that had been controlling me. I came in skeptical and slightly ashamed. I left lighter than I have been in a decade.
This work helped me understand my inner triggers and emotions. I was given real tools to ground my reactions — not just talk about them. The integration calls afterward made it stick.
Held with such care from the very first call. The team meets you where you are. I came home a different person, and my husband noticed before I did.
I came carrying twenty years of grief from my brother's death. I left it on that mountain. I'm still surprised that's how this works, but it is.
Frequently Asked
Questions, honored.
If your question isn't here, write to us. We'd rather hear it.
Adults — usually between 28 and 65 — who feel a sincere call to do this work. Many of our participants are working through trauma, addiction recovery, grief, burnout, or a long quiet sense that something needs to change. We are not a party scene. We screen everyone before accepting them, and we will tell you honestly if we don't think this is the right fit.
As safe as this work can be made. Every ceremony is held by experienced traditional facilitators. We require a medical and mental-health intake before confirming attendance. We have a Quito-based MD on call, on-site facilitators with each participant, and a strict screening process for medication interactions, particularly SSRIs, MAOIs, and lithium.
Six to twelve participants over seven to ten days. Days alternate between preparation, ceremony, rest, bodywork, breathwork, and integration. Plant-based meals throughout. We share a full sample schedule and prep guide as soon as your spot is confirmed.
Yes. Many people prefer a private one-on-one retreat — with the same team, the same medicines, and the same depth of preparation and integration, but built around their schedule and pace alone. We also hold partnered retreats for couples, family pairs, or two close friends, and we design fully custom retreats for small private circles. Pricing scales with length and team configuration. Reach out and tell us what you need.
Group retreat pricing — for circles of six or more — runs from $865 USD (4-day Sacred Mushrooms) up to $1,950 USD (8-day Ayahuasca with Kambo and closing temazcal). All prices include meals, ceremony, lodging, and integration support. Smaller, more intimate journeys (a private one-on-one, a couple, or a circle of fewer than six) are custom-tailored — held by the same team, with the same medicines, but in a more personal container. Pricing for those is shaped around length and configuration; we'll send a clear quote within a day of your inquiry. Sliding-scale and scholarship options exist for veterans, first responders, and people in active financial hardship.
We hold all of our retreats on the outskirts of Quito and in the Quito Valley — quiet highland land at altitude, a short drive from the international airport. Travel logistics, airport pickup, and exact location are coordinated after your spot is confirmed.
Many medications can be combined safely with this work; some absolutely cannot. SSRIs, MAOIs, lithium, and certain anti-anxiety medications require either a careful taper (with your prescriber's supervision) or are not compatible. Send us your medication list during intake — we will be honest about what is and isn't possible.
One week before the retreat: no alcohol, no recreational substances, no pork, no salt, no spice, no fermented foods, no sex. The week after: continued gentleness, plant-forward eating, and as much rest as your life allows. Full prep guide sent with your booking.
We have a dedicated program with scholarship spots available. Read the Veterans page for our approach to PTSD and moral injury work.
Four weeks of integration calls — one video call per week with named team members — plus a private community space, and one-on-one follow-ups available with our therapists at a reduced rate. Integration is where the work actually becomes a life — we don't drop you at the airport and disappear.
Begin the Conversation
If something in you said yes — write to us.
Tell us a little about yourself and what is calling you toward this work. There is no obligation. We will respond personally within 48 hours, and from there we will guide you through every next step.
You can also reach out on WhatsApp if that's easier. We answer in English, Spanish, Russian, and a small amount of patient broken French.
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