In the heart of Peru’s Sacred Valley, where ancient wisdom flows through the mountains like a sacred river, Seven Retreats offers a profound journey into the depths of self-healing and transformation. Through the sacred plant medicines Ayahuasca and Huachuma (San Pedro), guests embark on a path of deep trauma healing, guided by experienced Indigenous Maestros and trauma-informed facilitators.
For those seeking a safe and sacred plant medicine retreat, Seven Retreats provides a setting that honors ancestral tradition while integrating modern emotional care—unlocking the full potential of these powerful healing allies.
Why are they called Master Plants?
These sacred medicines are referred to as Master Plants because, since time immemorial, Indigenous tribes and medicine elders have believed that they are inhabited by higher spirits or intelligences. These plants act as teachers, opening gateways to altered states of consciousness where spiritual, emotional, and physical traumas can be acknowledged, confronted, and ultimately released. Through this altered awareness, one begins the sacred path of spiritual apotheosis—a transcendence of limitation and return to wholeness.
Healing Trauma with Plant Medicine
Trauma resides deep in the body, mind, and spirit—often manifesting as anxiety, addiction, depression, chronic illness, and emotional disconnection. While modern therapy has its place, it often struggles to reach the emotional roots where trauma begins.
At Seven Retreats, we offer something different: a plant medicine retreat for trauma healing rooted in ancestral ceremony and spiritual care. Through sacred rituals, guests move beyond symptom relief and into deep resolution and renewal.
Scientific studies now support what ancestral wisdom has long held true. Ayahuasca has been shown to stimulate neuroplasticity, helping the brain form new neural pathways. For individuals with trauma, this rewiring is key to releasing patterns of fear, hypervigilance, and emotional pain—not masking them but transforming them at the root.
Ayahuasca: A Journey Into the Subconscious
At Seven Retreats, the luxury Ayahuasca retreat experience includes three curated ceremonies, each with a unique purpose in the healing process:
- First Ceremony: Opening the Healing Path
This initial encounter introduces guests to the spirit of Ayahuasca. The Maestro begins to understand the guest’s energetic blueprint. It opens the subconscious gently, revealing the early wounds that shaped emotional defense mechanisms or core beliefs.
- Second Ceremony: Deep Purification & Release
Often the most intense, this ceremony brings long-buried trauma to the surface. With the guidance of the Maestros and the plant spirit, emotional patterns and limiting beliefs are brought into the light—where they can be safely released and transformed.
- Third Ceremony: Clarity, Strength & Protection
The final ceremony helps integrate the previous night’s work. Guests reconnect with their inner strength, intuition, and sense of purpose. Energetic protection is offered by the Maestros to anchor the healing and prepare for return to daily life.
Ayahuasca works across the emotional, psychological, and spiritual layers—offering not a quick fix, but a profound rewiring of the inner world.
Huachuma: The Medicine of the Heart
After the intensity of Ayahuasca, Huachuma (San Pedro) serves as a complementary force—often described as grounding, heart-opening, and expansive.
Known as the Grandfather Medicine, Huachuma brings a soft yet powerful lesson in presence, gratitude, and connection. Unlike Ayahuasca’s shadow work, Huachuma reveals beauty, harmony, and the sacredness of the present moment. Seven Retreats guests report:
- A deeper connection with nature and their own heart
- Emotional release without overwhelm
- Renewed understanding of relationships and boundaries
- Peaceful clarity about life choices and next steps
Huachuma is often experienced during a daytime ceremony in nature, allowing guests to process insights from Ayahuasca in a spacious, embodied way. As one guest said, “It didn’t show me anything new—but it showed me everything clearly.”
Integration: Sustaining the Healing Journey
As Maria Fernanda, the founder of Seven Retreats, emphasizes, “Without integration, the healing remains incomplete.” Integration is not an afterthought—it’s the most important part of the journey. It means translating spiritual insight into grounded change. At Seven Retreats, guests are given practical tools for post-retreat life: journaling prompts, micro-habit changes, integration circles, and optional 1:1 support. This is how our plant medicine retreat supports not just catharsis—but long-term transformation. Healing becomes how you live, not just what you felt in the ceremony.
Why Choose Seven Retreats?
Seven Retreats is a top-rated ayahuasca retreat in Peru, located in the heart of the Sacred Valley. What sets us apart is our devotion to cultural integrity, personalized care, and sacred ritual. Guests are held in a safe, trauma-informed environment by Maestros with over 20 years of ceremonial experience. Our offerings include:
- Traditional herbal cleanses and despacho ceremonies
- Luxury accommodations with spa amenities
- Holistic emotional and spiritual support
- Integration before, during, and after ceremony
- A peaceful, private setting for personal transformation
A Return to Spirit
Master plants don’t belong to a belief system—they reconnect us to what’s already within. Spirit, from the Latin spiritus, means breath, wind, life force. These sacred medicines help us return to that essence: to clarity, to peace, to presence. If you’re seeking a plant medicine retreat for trauma healing, if you feel ready to face the pain that’s held you back, or if you’re simply called to reconnect with your truth—Seven Retreats is here to walk with you. Come home to yourself.
