An Ayahuasca Retreat for Women

Recently a new Ayahuasca lodge has opened near Cusco that is offering one of the most unique retreats advertised on the web. Ayahuasca Ayni offers three week retreats for women only. I spoke to the lodge founder, Eroca Hunter.

AE: How did you receive this vision?

"While I was working with the cactus medicine huachuma, it was shown ever so clearly to share my experiences with others. I am offering three week retreats for women to participate in sacred plant ceremonies, and also to express themselves through daily journaling, and to learn to paint freely and passionately from their hearts. For now I am inviting women because, as a woman, I was so afraid to travel to South America when I felt the call. I didn't know the language or the culture, and I didn't know if I would be safe traveling alone. But now I can assure you, this is a wondrous place populated with a gentle people."

What is the difference between Ayahuasca tourism and what you are doing?

"These are very small intimate groups, and for now we will be working with two experienced people who give the medicine and hold the space. I will not be giving the Ayahuasca as I am not qualified. We will be co creating a mini-community and going very deeply with each other, holding space for our own and each other's realignment with the true self."

What does your retreat cost and include?

The upcoming three-week summer retreat for women is advertised at roughly $2,000 and includes:

"Pick up and drop off from Cusco airport, a private room with shared bathroom, house cleaning, laundry, filtered drinking water, a shared kitchen stocked with vegetarian food (we cook for and with each other), three ayahuasca ceremonies, a huachuma cactus ceremony, alignment session with crystals, three canvases with acrylic paints and brushes, trips to the Inti Watana temple complex above Pisac, Moray and the salt fields near Urubamba,Ollantaytambo, and the Pisac market."