Retreats
"The Expansion of conscious awareness within a mystical experience can leave you with the feeling that there is much more to life and so much more to you than you had ever imagined."
Alan Francis Waugh
*Excerpt from Alchemical Ayahuasca: Chapter 15: How Ayahuasca Heals – Ayahuasca and Spirituality
A One-of-a-Kind Healing Retreat Experience
Dianna and Alan take pride in offering uniquely powerful Ayahuasca Healing Retreats.
Immerse yourself in the tranquility of our boutique retreat, where we will guide you through journeys of deep connection and profound healing in a safe and comfortable environment. Leave behind the stresses of daily life and rekindle joy, intimacy, and harmony in your life and relationships.
At our beautiful sanctuary in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, Dianna and Alan offer something truly rare—a private, deeply personalized Ayahuasca retreat, unlike anything you will find elsewhere in the world.
You may have experienced or researched other retreat centers in South and Central America. Most host medium to large groups, offering Ayahuasca ceremonies combined with some yoga or breathwork. Some also include Kambo or Rapé snuff. While these can be powerful experiences, they often lack something essential: individualized healing and integration on all levels of the whole person. After two decades of attending retreats in Peru and elsewhere, we have learned that personal time with the shaman healers outside of the ceremony is incredibly rare—yet it’s one of the most valuable aspects of sustained healing.
What Sets Our Retreat Apart?
Individual or Couple-Only Retreats
We provide a personal atmosphere that focuses entirely on you. This is not a group retreat; it’s your retreat. We do not have fixed dates but collaborate based on our mutual schedules from Sunday to Sunday over seven nights and eight days.
We Speak English
Communication is seamless, with no language barrier between you and your facilitators. We understand the subtleties of the language and the Western mindset while honoring ancient traditions.
Tailored Ceremonies for Total Body Healing
Our three dynamic and unique ayahuasca ceremonies — Anaconda, Jaguar, and Condor — are designed to activate and heal specific energy centers and their associated influences on your body, mind, and spirit. We work with your belief systems and spiritual background to ensure your experience aligns with your inner world.
Personalized Healing Beyond Ceremony
Between ceremonies, we offer individualized or couples sessions tailored to your needs, utilizing a blend of techniques that extend well beyond the ordinary.
Paradise Spa for Deep Relaxation (off-site)
Unwind in the pyramid massage temple with individual or couples’ massages, soak in the pool, relax in the eucalyptus sauna, and let your nervous system reset before your first ceremony.
What Sets Our Retreat Apart?
- Individual or Couple-Only Retreats
We provide a personal atmosphere that focuses entirely on you. This is not a group retreat; it’s your retreat. We do not have fixed dates but collaborate based on our mutual schedules from Sunday to Sunday over seven nights and eight days. - We Speak English
Communication is seamless, with no language barrier between you and your facilitators. We understand the subtleties of the language and the Western mindset while honoring ancient traditions. - Tailored Ceremonies for Total Body Healing
Our three dynamic and unique ayahuasca ceremonies — Anaconda, Jaguar, and Condor — are designed to activate and heal specific energy centers and their associated influences on your body, mind, and spirit. We work with your belief systems and spiritual background to ensure your experience aligns with your inner world. - Personalized Healing Beyond Ceremony
Between ceremonies, we offer individualized or couples sessions tailored to your needs, utilizing a blend of techniques that extend well beyond the ordinary. - Paradise Spa for Deep Relaxation (off-site)
Unwind in the pyramid massage temple with individual or couples’ massages, soak in the pool, relax in the eucalyptus sauna, and let your nervous system reset before your first ceremony.
What sets us apart is that your retreat includes a wealth of powerful holistic healing tools that we have learned over the past three decades of combined experience.
We combine ancient wisdom with modern techniques to support your journey:
- Shamanic Healing
- Hypnotherapy
- Energy Cleanses
- Parts Therapy
- Reiki Healing
- Freedom Breathwork
- Brainspotting
- Spiritual Coaching
- Couples Coaching and Communication
- Plant Medicine Integration
- Sacred Rituals
- Sound Healing
- Herbal Steam Baths
Our All-Inclusive Retreats are Low Cost – High Value
You will stay in our beautiful Bamboo Shala Guest House, which features its own outdoor bathtub, and enjoy high-quality farm-to-table vegetarian and pescatarian cuisine from local suppliers. Outside of the ceremony, you will have free time to relax, take walks by the river, meditate by the fish pond, and receive one-on-one healings from Alan and Dianna.
Benefits of Our Healing Retreats
- Open the pathways to deep self-love.
- Face your fears—and transcend them with courage.
- Heal the root causes of addictive patterns.
- Rebuild and strengthen your sense of self-worth.
- Break free from patterns of self-sabotage.
- Achieve clarity and direction for your soul’s journey.
- Reconnect with your true, authentic self.
- Release negative energy and emotional blocks.
- Ignite a sense of hope, joy, and possibility.
- Feel secure and connected to your body.
- Address the root causes of physical conditions.
- Experience a deeper connection to yourself and others.
- Nourish and strengthen your connection to the Divine.
- Open neural pathways and expand your consciousness.
No Other Retreat Provides This Level of Care.
We don’t just guide you through ayahuasca ceremonies; we walk beside you every step of the way. No other retreat offers this breadth and depth of healing expertise and sacred intimacy. We invite you to join us for a genuinely life-changing retreat experience.
With an intentionally limited number of clients each year, we work with visionaries, innovators, change-makers, thought leaders, and influencers, who unleash the transformed version of themselves back into their communities and uplift the world!
Your healing journey is sacred.
Let us walk beside you.
Schedule a Free Discovery Call and application process.
What sets us apart is that your retreat includes a wealth of powerful holistic healing tools that we have learned over the past three decades of combined experience.
We combine ancient wisdom with modern techniques to support your journey:
- Shamanic Healing
- Hypnotherapy
- Energy Cleanses
- Parts Therapy
- Reiki Healing
- Freedom Breathwork
- Brainspotting
- Spiritual Coaching
- Couples Coaching and Communication
- Plant Medicine Integration
- Sacred Rituals
- Sound Healing
- Herbal Steam Baths
- Shamanic Healing
- Hypnotherapy
- Energy Cleanses
- Parts Therapy
- Reiki Healing
- Freedom Breathwork
- Brainspotting
- Spiritual Coaching
- Couples Coaching and Communication
- Plant Medicine Integration
- Sacred Rituals
- Sound Healing
- Herbal Steam Baths
Our All-Inclusive Retreats are Low Cost - High Value.
You will stay in our beautiful Bamboo Shala Guest House, which features its own outdoor bathtub, and enjoy high-quality farm-to-table vegetarian and pescatarian cuisine from local suppliers. Outside of the ceremony, you will have free time to relax, take walks by the river, meditate by the fish pond, and receive one-on-one healings from Alan and Dianna.
Bamboo Shala
Guest House
Benefits of Our Healing Retreats
- Open the pathways to deep self-love.
- Face your fears—and transcend them with courage.
- Heal the root causes of addictive patterns.
- Rebuild and strengthen your sense of self-worth.
- Break free from patterns of self-sabotage.
- Achieve clarity and direction for your soul’s journey.
- Reconnect with your true, authentic self.
- Release negative energy and emotional blocks.
- Ignite a sense of hope, joy, and possibility.
- Feel secure and connected to your body.
- Address the root causes of physical conditions.
- Experience a deeper connection to yourself and others.
- Nourish and strengthen your connection to the Divine.
- Open neural pathways and expand your consciousness.
No other retreat provides this Level of Care.
We don’t just guide you through ayahuasca ceremonies; we walk beside you every step of the way. No other retreat offers this breadth and depth of healing expertise and sacred intimacy. We invite you to join us for a genuinely life-changing retreat experience.
With an intentionally limited number of clients each year, we work with visionaries, innovators, change-makers, thought leaders, and influencers, who unleash the transformed version of themselves back into their communities and uplift the world!
Your healing journey is sacred.
Let us walk beside you.
Love & Blessings,
Alan & Dianna Waugh
Benefits of Our Healing Retreats
- Open the pathways to deep self-love.
- Face your fears—and transcend them with courage.
- Heal the root causes of addictive patterns.
- Rebuild and strengthen your sense of self-worth.
- Break free from patterns of self-sabotage.
- Achieve clarity and direction for your soul’s journey.
- Reconnect with your true, authentic self.
- Release negative energy and emotional blocks.
- Ignite a sense of hope, joy, and possibility.
- Feel secure and connected to your body.
- Address the root causes of physical conditions.
- Experience a deeper connection to yourself and others.
- Nourish and strengthen your connection to the Divine.
- Open neural pathways and expand your consciousness.
No other retreat provides this Level of Care.
We don’t just guide you through ayahuasca ceremonies; we walk beside you every step of the way. No other retreat offers this breadth and depth of healing expertise and sacred intimacy. We invite you to join us for a genuinely life-changing retreat experience.
With an intentionally limited number of clients each year, we work with visionaries, innovators, change-makers, thought leaders, and influencers, who unleash the transformed version of themselves back into their communities and uplift the world!
Your healing journey is sacred.
Let us walk beside you.
Love & Blessings,
Alan & Dianna Waugh
Personal Retreat
What you can expect:
- 3 Ayahuasca Ceremonies
- 2 Shamanic Healing Sessions with Alan (includes Brainspotting)
- 1 Reiki Session with Alan and Dianna
- 1 Half day at the Spa with a Massage
- 1 Breathwork Session with Alan and Dianna
- 1 Hypnotherapy IFS/Parts Session with Dianna
- 3 Herbal Baths
- 1 Flower Bath
- Quiet time for journaling and integration
- River Walks with our dogs Misha and Shasta
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Closing Ceremony in Chakana Circle
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*Your retreat includes all food, accommodations, and transportation to and from the Catamayo, Loja airport to our retreat facility.
$3850 US
Couples Retreat
What you can expect:
- 3 Ayahuasca Ceremonies
- 1 Shamanic Healing Ceremony (per person)
- 2 Deepening Communication Sessions
- 1 Couples Reiki Session
- 1 Half day at the Spa (includes a Couples Massage session)
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1 Breathwork Session
- 1 Hypnotherapy IFS/Parts Session with Dianna (per person)
- 3 Herbal Baths
- 1 Flower Bath
- River Walks
- Time for Romantic Connection
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Closing Ceremony in Chakana Circle
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*Your retreat includes all food, accommodations, and transportation to and from the Catamayo, Loja airport to our retreat facility.
$6550 US
A 50% non-refundable deposit is required at the time of booking for all retreats. Cost is in U.S. dollars.
Disclaimer: Healing practitioners at Sacred Valley Spiritual Retreat are not physicians, psychotherapists, or psychologists. Our spiritual healing and coaching work through Sacred Valley Spiritual Retreat and Spirit Wisdom Healing is not offered as a substitute for health care with a licensed physician or mental health provider but as a complementary service.
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