The duration of the retreats can be extensive, especially with regard to learning, serious practices involving strong medicines, transmissions of power (Tsentsak) and initiation rituals. The practice in the jungle, in its waterfalls and other places is an extensive journey, which requires spending the night, fasting, preparation, sincere devotion, deep understanding and the approval of Ruymán. It is a long and thorough job for experienced practitioners, for around 27 days.

The center will be open to the public in February 2021. It is fully prepared to receive those who are interested in initiation, or those who want to explore advanced and traditional forms of shamanic practice. Through a prior interview, we offer the public two forms of retreat:

One Week Retreat

: The most recommended way for people looking for a basic knowledge of initiation. It consists of three or four ceremonies with Natem (Ayahuasca). It also involves, at least once, the initiation to the Andean cactus of San Pedro. There are also constant teachings, meditations and disciplined practices that involves, as well, the use of Amazonian Tobacco. Each ceremony usually has a ritualistic duration of about eight hours -the time of the trance's procedure, depending on the capacity of each individual as well as their personal effort-, almost until the afternoon of the following day. Focused on the teachings, immersed in the jungle, walking the path under the auspices of Arutam Ruymán, the guests spend almost all their time of the retreat in a trance state, learning to take care of the sacred touch of Life. For this reason, this is not only a center that offers a simple retreat for tourists with accommodation, food, new social relations or a new cool experience. You must be interested in walking on a deep ancestral path, where you will learn to live and feel like the ancient natives of the Amazon, under the careful guidance of a true Shaman. For this reason, before making a decision on how to participate, you should at least read the blog on this page, pay special attention to the films on the channels, and be duly informed about the commitment and seriousness implicit in this form of traditional practice.

Two Week Retreats

In this type of retreat, the same information from the previous section applies but to this we must add more activities. The public will be initiated into the traditional Waterfall ceremony (Tuna Karamamu), where the participants walk the path that leads to the learning of dreaming, as they drink Tobacco and spend the night next to the waterfalls in the jungle. The ceremonies will be extended, then, to about seven or eight, as there will be another three or four sessions of Natem in the following week, again with the option of one of the sessions including San Pedro. It goes without saying that the depth of the trance and understanding of the Union with Life is all the more remarkable when adding this second week of work.

If someone who was planning to stay a week wishes, after the first week, to stay for the second week of the retreat, this is possible but only if places are available.

Short Stay Retreat

For occasional visitors or those who are in the process of initiation, learning, patients, etc., we have a smaller part of the project, separately, in some fields that are not very far from a little village. Easy access, greater comfort and communication will allow these people to stay closer to their daily lives while delving into the art of Shamanism with Arutam. Here it is also possible to stay for a longer time, that guarantees a recovery, together with nature, after the ceremonies. Thus, the integration of the lived experience and care would be facilitated, in order to enjoy more teachings and treatments. Patients receiving treatment must remain in this place for the necessary time stipulated by Ruymán. It is usually from two weeks to three months, depending on how much treatment you need.

Although Shamanism is a gradual path of learning and all inner knowledge comes in due time, as we get closer to Arutam; there will be workshops and programs open to the public so that different areas of knowledge of this art can be made known, and so that this experience can be opened to the world. For example, meetings are offered in the morning and afternoon to introduce the public to work with Tobacco and other herbs, lectures, teachings, traditional open rituals, brief music auditions, demonstrations of how traditional instruments are made, preparation of medicines, small retreats with diet and ceremonies, etc.

We must all find the magical relationship which doze off the dark seduction, in a world of medicine that enchants the man of power in a noble way.

Sacred land, you who teach us in your deep enchantment, all understanding leads to the perfect union in the peace of man and the whole world. Great Perfection, Absolute Sense, Spirit of the Whole. You are the caress that every man deserves, the nest where to rest to finally understand yourself and let it go into the truth. We must learn to take care of the sacred touch and all its expression. We must provide ourselves with a life next to nature, so that later we can take the whole world in that single feeling.