How important is integration after your ayahuasca retreat?
Why integration matters after your ayahuasca retreat in Peru, and how it bridges Indigenous traditions of dieta and ceremony with life in the Western world.
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What Is the Voice of Ayahuasca?
Ayahuasca speaks in many tones: purging, insights, visions, emotions and sensations. How to receive and understand her messages during your retreat in Peru.
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How Do I Find My Intention for an Ayahuasca Retreat?
To be fair, drinking ayahuasca or wachuma is a big decision. We feel the calling. We know we want to enter ceremony.
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Healing retreats in Peru as a pathway to honoring your needs
We tend to live our lives without tuning in to what we need. We have learned to turn to outer sources of wisdom, guidance and truth.
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Couples Ayahuasca & Wachuma Retreat in Peru | Heal, Reconnect & Grow Together
A 5-day Couples Ayahuasca & Wachuma Retreat in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
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Willka Integration online community
At Willkamayu Spirit, we believe that integration is the continuation of ceremony in daily life.
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Is Ayahuasca Safe If You Have Trauma or Health Conditions?
At Willkamayu Spirit, we are often asked this question—not as a casual curiosity, but as a sincere inquiry: “Am I ready? Is this safe for me?”
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Can Medical Doctors Work with Plant Medicine? One Rheumatologist’s Story of Healing Beyond the Clinic
Dr. Alex Papou, a UK consultant rheumatologist, shares how Ayahuasca, Wachuma and Inner Child work in Peru changed the way he holds science and soul.
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What You Can Expect to Experience in a Plant Medicine Retreat
Stepping into Peru’s Sacred Valley, you leave the familiar behind and enter a place of quiet power.
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Our Founders’ Vision for an Authentic Peruvian Ayahuasca Ceremony in a Modern World
At Willkamayu Spirit, Jhon’s Andean heritage grounds our ayahuasca ceremonies in ancestral lineage, while Janneke’s integrative methods bring head and heart…
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Benefits of an Ayahuasca & Wachuma Retreat With Integrative Therapies
For those seeking deep spiritual healing and transformation, Ayahuasca retreats in Peru offer a profound opportunity.
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My Pregnancy and Inner (child) Work
During pregnancy we are opening ourselves physically, emotionally and spiritually to receive and to bring a child here to the earthly realm.
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Communicating with a quiet Inner Child
There are times where we can feel a lack of communication or a distance from our Inner Child. Silence can take us away from our Inner Child work.
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A diet with Mother Rose
Mother Rose was very generous; she gifted me a song, a song of the rose… she told me to sing that song for connection. Plant diets and dietas.
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Which guide lines are important with the use of Ayahuasca?
Which guidelines matter when working with Ayahuasca? Maestro Juan Carlos on feeling the calling, holding a clear intention and respecting a serious medicine.
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In what way do you think the use of Ayahuasca in Peru is different than its use in Holland?
How does the use of Ayahuasca in Peru differ from its use in Holland? Maestro Juan Carlos answers a journalist's question, with a personal message from Janneke.
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What's the significance of Ayahuasca for you?
Maestro Juan Carlos answers a Dutch journalist's question on what Ayahuasca signifies: ancestral lineage, awakened consciousness and the union of vine and leaf.
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Kundalini & The Inner Child
Kundalini and the Inner Child: how reconnecting with our innocent, original nature supports the awakening of our life force.
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What training does a person need to be a guide during Ayahuasca ceremonies?
What training or background does a person need to be a guide, a shaman or a maestro during the Ayahuasca ceremony in Peru?
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Reconnecting with the Netherlands: My Integration Story - Part 2
In part two of her integration story, Janneke explores the energy layers she felt back in the Netherlands, from the natural world to collective consciousness.
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How is Ayahuasca medicine used in Peru?
A Dutch journalist asked how Ayahuasca medicine is used in Peru. Guided by maestro Juan Carlos, we answer the first of five questions on sacred medicine.
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Reconnecting with the Netherlands: My Integration Story - Part 1
Janneke tells of the challenges and rewards in traveling back home to the Netherlands after 4 years in Peru. A process of integration and managing energy.
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My Inner Child: A Practitioner's Testimonial
As an Inner Child Practitioner I keep a journal, detailing the growing relationship, the breakthroughs, bursts of creativity and play, above all, healing.
Read articleGiving Back, Planting Ayahuasca
We feel profoundly blessed that we could plant Ayahuasca together with our Maestros. It’s such a big gift to give back, to share in Ayni, in reciprocity.
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A connection with your Inner Child
Inner Child workshop as a spiritual support for sacred medicine ceremonies in the Sacred Valley, Cusco. Ayahuasca and Huachuma ceremony house.
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Mother Moon, Madre Luna, Mama Killa
A prayer of thanks to Mother Moon, Madre Luna, Mama Killa, and reflections from Janneke on how the cycles of the moon influence us.
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Evolving to Willkamayu Spirit
Willkamayu means sacred river in Quechua. Why our ceremony house moved on from Casa del Viento to work with the Sacred Water Spirit of the Sacred Valley.
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