Our Mission
To provide a safe space for deep spiritual, physical, and mental healing through connection with plant medicine like Ayahuasca, San Pedro (Huachuma), other plants, and healing practices. Bringing a connection with the natural setting, and a personal relationship with the medicine facilitators.
Our Method
Ayahuasca Retreats Guatemala | San Pedro Retreats Guatemala
Intention Setting & Preparation
Your journey with Ayahuasca or San Pedro begins from the moment you set an intention to sit with us in ceremony. We will guide you through preparing your body and mind to most effectively receive this healing medicine. Everyone will be required to follow the dietary requirements.
Toxin Release & Connection
For most people the first ceremony with Ayahuasca is all about releasing what is no longer serving them. It is like hitting a spiritual and physical reset button.
Though uncomfortable, purging is both a physical and a spiritual detox. However, letting go, and connecting to Maestro is the gateway to letting in the healing and life you are looking for.
Expansion of Awareness
After the medicine has taken you through a cleansing process, the next ceremonies are often a journey of connecting with the Earth and with the sky - or the physical and the spiritual dimensions of life.
Integration
Ayahuasca and San Pedro are powerful medicines for healing the body, mind, and spirit. It is not a magical pill to swallow and forget, but a guide to meet and walk with into a new way of life.
One of the reasons we keep our retreats small is so that you have a community of people to go through the experience of integration. If you choose to follow the Ayahuasca or San Pedro diet carefully before and after the ceremony, the effect of the medicine can powerfully support your intention to change. However, it does not work alone. That is why we offer ongoing community and support to help you integrate your experience by letting go of what no longer serves your life and healing your body, mind, and spirit. This final step may be the most important part of your whole experience!
Our Team
The Ayahuasca & Alternative Healing Center (AyaCenter) is a collaboration between Sasha (Alexsandra), a Russian-American artist and medicine facilitator; Ana Sofía, a Guatemalan musician, as well as a life-long spiritual seeker; and Maestro Marcial, a third-generation shaman from the Shipibo tribe of Peru. Together, we have walked life seeking to honor the healing of the soul, and also finding an opening to share this Amazonian medicine with people from all over the world in an accessible location.
Sasha
Onsite Retreat Integrator, Artist
My journey with Ayahuasca began with my personal healing.
I never thought of working deeply with the medicine, dieting for spiritual growth, or opening healing center. But once my heart was cured and my soul started to reflect the universal light, Mother Ayahuasca asked me if I would like to share the knowledge of Her powers with others. I said Yes.
We have opened this alternative healing center/Ayahuasca Retreat here in Guatemala for people who cannot take big trips to Peru but need the help of Ayahuasca for healing and growth.
I am very passionate about helping others to be fully free of pain, or simply get more universal knowledge of who we are and what we are here for. I know each and every one of us has history we want to learn or rewrite.
After being an artist all my life and speaking to others through my paintings, this feels like another form of communication with each person.
I'm going to be next to you, full of love, share it with you. The walk you have to do it yourself. I'm going to make sure you are going to be okay. I'll be right there with you and you'll be just fine. Even if you have to go through some purges.
Ana Sofía
Retreat Facilitator & Meditation Instructor
I have dedicated over five years to practicing and exploring meditation, especially Mindfulness.
My spiritual journey was shaped by a rigorous two-and-a-half-year mentorship. During this, I was guided through diverse meditative practices from various traditions, such as Christian prayer, earth-rooted rituals, mystic Kabbalah, focused meditation, and Buddhist forms like Vipassana and Dzogchen.
I enjoy teaching and guiding the exploration of meditation, aiming for the core objective: breaking through the layers of ego to attain an experiential understanding of our True Nature, and what better than an Ayahuasca Retreat in my own country, Guatemala, to water the seed of Divine contemplation and understanding.
Maestro Marcial
Curandero
In my family, being a shaman is a tradition passed down through generations. Since a young age, I learned from my grandparents and cousins, who were medical shamans, to work with medicinal plants. Faith in this natural medicine gives us the healing power to become medical shamans.
Ayahuasca is not a drug, it is a sacred healing medicine that has to be treated with respect. When we start the ceremony we ask the mother Ayahuasca for spiritual guidance.
We wanted to open an Ayahuasca retreat center here in Guatemala because there is very good energy. I see that the same nature that exists here is the same nature of the jungle. The nature and energy that Guatemala has is perfect to work with medicinal plants and with the medicine of Ayahuasca.
Our Retreat
Location: Antigua, Guatemala
The Ayahuasca & Alternative Healing Center (AyaCenter) provides a unique and spiritual experience. Located in the beautiful town of Antigua, Guatemala, the location offers a perfect balance of nature and art, architecture, and tradition.
There is so much love and peace in this area...
Here, you will be surrounded by flowers and feel the tranquility of the mountainous landscape. The weather is always like spring.
Enjoy your Ayahuasca or San Pedro retreat without having to travel any further, and don't forget to get your favorite beverage once out, at any of the enchanting, picturesque spots around town.
