Ayahuasca Odyssey is an extended educational personal growth experiential retreat which introduces you to the unique natural environment, diverse cultures, and people of the Peruvian Amazon within a safe, sensitive, intellectual and spiritual framework.

The Ayahuasca Odyssey celebration will be an unforgettable opportunity for shared multi-dimensional experiences, deep personal reflection and holistic cleansing to prepare you for the challenges of the 21st century in one of the most spiritually powerful places on Earth.

You will become fully immersed in the authentic grassroots shamanic culture, guided by truly gifted traditional Amazonian curanderos, shamanic healers dedicated to preservation of this ancient knowledge and betterment of humanity with it. These unique experiences will enable a deeper understanding of self, Spirit, and the unique plant healing practices for which the upper Amazon is renowned.

Your perspectives on life, death, nature, plants, wildlife, people, culture, medicine, healing, Spirit, the spirit world, and their intrinsic interrelationship will be enriched and expanded by the knowledge, wisdom, and sage practices shared with us by our gifted shamans.

Enrollment is limited to twenty-four hearty souls of good intent and compatible nature for these very special 'New Beginnings' celebrations.

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What is the Ayahuasca Odyssey?

"a  shamanic revival celebration of joy, challenge, healing, rebirth and Life
amidst the verdant splendor of the Peruvian Amazon"

Ayahuasca Odyssey is designed for the mature, sincere, and respectful seeker of cultural knowledge, spiritual enlightenment, and personal healing.

Ayahuasca Odyssey is not a tourist entertainment experience. It is a shamanic workshop retreat, a serious yet joyous undertaking from which can come great personal discovery, healing, rejuvenation, new knowledge, and renewed vigor for life.

Personal commitment and some sacrifice is required to produce the most positive results possible. Serious advance preparation and diet are required for fullest benefit. We will assist in all aspects of your pre-journey orientation and preparation.

Ayahuasca Odyssey is a golden opportunity for those wishing to safely and expediently connect with true practitioners of traditional Amazonian shamanism in a positive framework of personal growth, learning, and renewal.

We safely and confidently escort you past the substantial insecurity, uncertainties, and potentially serious risks of undertaking such a quest without experienced and trusted guidance.

We are your bridge into the deeper realms of Amazonian shamanic culture. We are richly experienced in the facilitation, assimilation and integration of these experiences for visiting participants and provide all the caring personal support, counsel and guidance you desire before, during, and after Ayahuasca Odyssey.

Don Rober Acho Jurama, our truly extraordinary maestro ayahuasquero, is a marvelously gifted native healer of high integrity, positive intentions, and rich knowledge of ancient jungle medicine with over 50 years of experience in traditional shamanic plant spirit healing.

He is a consummate shamanic ceremonialist who will leave you in awe after each ceremony. You will find him to be a wonderful, humble, and truly gifted person wholly dedicated to holistic healing in the purest Amazon shamanic tradition.

Don Rober is a true master of the legendary jungle medicine Ayahuasca, a genuine banco ayahuasquero (one accomplished at the highest level of the Amazonian shamanic art), who will help you find deep cleansing, healing, transformation and personal empowerment if you come prepared with courage, integrity, faith, and good intentions.

Shamanic practices experienced in Ayahuasca Odyssey are safely conducted in the original time-honored traditions of the Peruvian Amazon without modification for western participation.

Ayahuasca Odyssey is an intense, highly focused experiential growth process which, though not entirely easy, can impart a new meaning, depth and purpose for one's life which many people seek today.

Ayahuasca Odyssey is a genuine and powerful transcultural spiritual experience. Each workshop component is designed to help you experience the oneness of Humanity, Nature and Spirit in a dynamic and personal way, thus initiating a lasting and positive transformative process in your life.

You will have the potential to transcend the barriers of time and space to comprehend the ancient origins of Amazonian shamanic beliefs, practices, and sources of power.

The processes of cleansing, catharsis and spiritual exploration undertaken in and around the ceremonies are challenging and often briefly uncomfortable. The purge is an integral part of the Ayahuasca cleansing process.

It is a rite of holistic purification with lasting benefits far outweighing the temporary discomforts. You will have understanding support and assistance during these moments.

The desired personal benefits will be profoundly influenced by your positive state of mind, heart and spirit in entering your work with the shamans, the spirits, and the Medicine.

You will have the opportunity to discover your personal power and the wisdom to use it to its greatest positive potential.

We find great satisfaction in facilitating these experiences for people who come with sincere heart, a little courage, a bit of faith, an open mind, and positive intentions. We share with you what we practice ourselves and we know these paths very well.

We pledge our full effort to successful realization of your personal goals in undertaking these journeys within journeys. It is our mission and our responsibility.

You will join a warm and caring shamanic family here. You will thoroughly enjoy your stay with us. Though you will return to your home, you will not be forgotten, and you will not forget us either.

During your Ayahuasca Odyssey, you will experience universal love, the most powerful of forces, manifesting in the magnificent life energy of Amazonian nature and her people.

Ayahuasca Odyssey is a very special opportunity for those seeking genuine expertly-facilitated real-life Amazonian shamanic experiences in a comfortable private natural setting, nicely removed from the commercial tourist atmosphere.

Ayahuasca Odyssey is an extraordinary journey which will enlighten, cleanse, heal and prepare you for an exciting and fulfilling life yet to come. It could well be the best investment in yourself you've ever made.

The processes undertaken requires serious advance preparation for fullest benefit. Some aspects of these processes may be temporarily physically and emotionally difficult. We have decades of experience in the administration of these processes and will nurture your passage through them with sensitivity and competence.

We will assist in all aspects of your journey preparations and provide all the follow-up guidance and counseling you desire.

For the benefit of all, applicants are screened to determine personal goals and fitness for this experience.  We reserve the right to respectfully decline any application without prejudice. Notarized waiver of liability and acceptance of risk and all written terms is a requirement of registration.

Workshop activities and programs are conducted in accordance with the laws and statutes of the jurisdictions in which they occur.

We greatly respect the rural Loretano people of the Peruvian Amazon, their rich and varied cultures, and their profoundly-rooted spiritual beliefs.  We believe they have much to teach us if we'll listen. We therefore require the same respectful attitude from our fellow travelers.

 

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Press El Otorongo to request further information and application materials for the Ayahuasca Odyssey in the Peruvian Amazon. Your questions or comments are welcome. You can contact Otorongo Blanco by telephone in Iquitos, Peru at (011-51-065) 60-0178.  We'll be pleased to hear from you.

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ethnobotany, medicinal plants, healing and related topics

A very special opportunity following each Ayahuasca Odyssey

The Original
Huachuma Mesa Journey Through Time



From the mysterious and powerful Lambayeque and Mochica ceremonial pyramids along the northern coast ...

to the cradle of Andean civilization,
the benevolent Huachuma Temple of the Jaguar
at Chavín de Huántar
and the newly opened Heaven's Gate in the Cordillera Blanca

"A magical journey through time and space, exploring incredible places of great shamanic power
revered by three remarkable pre-Inca cultures of Peru ... the Lambayeque, Moche, and Chavín.

From the ancient Moche ceremonial pyramids of human sacrifice on the northern coast ...

... to the center of supreme shamanic enlightenment ...
 the great Huachuma Temple of Universal Consciousness at Chavín de Huántar

with four masterful Huachuma Mesa works.  We practice full-on deep core pre-Columbian Huachuma shamanism in the pure Chavin tradition, vastly more powerful and transformative than the contemporary San Pedro mesada.

Inquire about this unique opportunity if you feel a mysterious calling to it.

Note: This journey is, by it's very nature, challenging on many levels and not for everyone.

BUT ... if you are prepared to enter the non-ordinary realms of the land, mind, and shamanic cosmology of the ancient Moche and Chavin with an open mind, courage,
unselfish intention, personal integrity, and universal love ...

... if you can bring your best to the Mirror of the Mesa ...

then this just might turn out to be the most incredibly enlightening spiritual experience of your life!

Participation is limited to twelve intrepid pilgrims of positive intent,
sharing attitude, stout heart, relaxed travel style, adventurous spirit and sharing, forgiving, and tolerant nature..

WE WILL ENGAGE THE MIND, HEART AND SPIRIT OF ANCIENT CHAVIN SHAMANIC CONSCIOUSNESS
AT SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND MAGICAL PLACES ON PLANET EARTH

From those who've gone before ...
alumni references available on request

Participation is limited to twelve pilgrims of warm and stout heart,
adventurous spirit, and sharing tolerant nature. Group minimum is five.

The Huachuma Journey Through Time is demanding on many levels
and reserved for the serious seeker of powerful core shamanic experience.

Registration deadline is 45 days before departure date due to special arrangements required.
Applicant screening is required due to the powerful and sensitive nature of this journey.

Important Note
 This journey is moderately strenuous at times and requires
good intentions, character, courage and fortitude, a patient and tolerant nature,
and a willingness to become part of a bonded spiritual family for the duration of this shared journey.
The HJTT is a supreme core shamanic experience for the connisseur.

Horseback riding experience is an asset but not a requirement
for our pilgrimage to Las Huaringas in September.

Inquire about space availability. Alumni references available on request.

IMPORTANT NOTE!
This is the ORIGINAL  Huachuma Journey Through Time ..

Though imitation is a form of flattery, plagiarism is simply theft of the concepts and ideas of others,
and reflects a lack of integrity and inspired creativity.  Don't be deceived by unscrupulous "shamanic travel agents"
offering an imitation of our pure mesa work ...

The Huachuma Mesa Journey Through Time is an original copyrighted
ancient-to-modern shamanic training and initiation concept .... accept no imitations.

Experience Shamanic Communion  with the Spirits of Nature and Cosmos through powerfully healing and spiritually transformative  Huachuma mesa works  at the most powerful huacas in Perú ... masterfully performed by don Otorongo Blanco in the ancient Chavín tradition.

Andean Huachuma Pilgrimage
to commune with spiritual power at sacred sites of the Inca and their ancestors, featuring stunning Mesa works with the grand maestro Huachuma at Chinchero and Machu Picchu and a ceremonial despacho offering to Pachamama with the Q'ero shamans in the Sacred Valley.

~ August, 2009 ~
dates to be announced

group size limited to twelve. Group minimum is six.
Registration deadline is 45 days before departure date due to special arrangements required.

Inquire about space availability. Alumni references available on request.

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