Your first evening begins with an opening circle — an intentional gathering to release whatever you carried here and step into shared rhythm. You'll meet the people who will witness your journey. The energy in the room will tell you everything.

Your first meal is prepared entirely from local, organic, plant-based ingredients — many sourced from the land you're now standing on. This is your introduction to food as medicine. Clean. Alive. Intentional.

Before anything else, you'll receive the five foundational principles that underpin everything that follows — nervous system regulation, conscious breathing, deep hydration, intentional movement, and reconnection with natural light. These aren't concepts. They're practices you'll carry home.

An introduction to one of the most profoundly effective modalities you may have never heard of. You'll understand — before your session — exactly what's happening in your body and why it matters.

The day closes with a warm ceremonial tea prepared to ground and settle the body. Let the first day soften. Sleep well — what's ahead is extraordinary.

A grounded morning yoga practice to open the body, lengthen the spine, and call your awareness fully into the present. You'll move with intention — feeling how breath, alignment, and presence activate your lymphatic system and prepare the body for ceremony.

Light, hydrating food to energize without burdening digestion before ceremony. Your body will know the difference.

Inside the womb of the earth — heat, breath, darkness, and the sound of prayer working together. You will sweat. You will surrender. You will release things stored in your body that the mind never had access to. This is the kind of experience people carry for the rest of their lives.

After ceremony, there is no agenda. Space is held for you to rest, reflect, and let the experience settle. Your evening meal replenishes minerals and supports deep sleep. The night is yours to absorb everything.

You begin the morning with a walk to a waterfall — movement in nature as a way to arrive in the body. At the waterfall, Rapé (a sacred Amazonian plant medicine) is offered to clear the energetic field, sharpen awareness, and anchor you fully in the present. Breathwork follows, deepening the state.

Throughout the day you'll fast in community — choosing from coconut water, fresh juice, or a light fruit fast. This isn't deprivation. It's a deliberate clearing that allows the body to redirect its energy inward. You'll choose what feels aligned, and you'll be fully supported throughout.

Ecuador's most powerful waterfall. Standing before it, something in the nervous system releases — the noise quiets, the body softens, and you remember in a very physical way what it feels like to simply be present. This is nature as medicine.

The shaman who will facilitate tomorrow's ceremony leads you through a preparation session — explaining the medicine, the process, and how to approach the experience with reverence and readiness. Nothing is left unclear. You'll close this day knowing exactly where you're going.

A traditional Ecuadorian hydrotherapy practice — warm mineral water flowing over the body while you rest in a wooden cabinet. It's deeply relaxing, circulatory, and profoundly grounding after the intensity of ceremony. A ritual locals have used for generations.

An easy walk through the streets of Baños — drinking fresh natural spring water directly from the source, sipping cane juice pressed right in front of you, and simply being among the warmth and color of everyday life here. This is integration through living.

A warm, simple, grounding dinner. Nothing excessive. The body is still settling — this meal supports that process.

On this evening, you'll enter a multi-dimensional sound journey rooted in both ancient traditions and modern therapeutic sound practices. Your experience begins with holistic music therapy and guided meditation, creating a foundation of calm and receptivity. From there, the sounds of ancestral Andean instruments and handpan frequencies weave through the space, inviting the body into deeper states of relaxation and presence. The centerpiece of the evening is a full Tibetan singing bowl immersion. As frequencies ripple through the body, you'll experience sound not simply as something you hear, but as something you feel. The vibrations travel through tissues, fluids, and energetic pathways, creating an environment where the nervous system can unwind and the body can enter profound states of restoration. It is a space to surrender, integrate, and simply receive. The evening concludes with a guided closing and integration process before returning to your room for a deeply restful night's sleep.

The return through the Andes is quiet and scenic. Use the drive for reflection. There's no agenda — just the landscape, your thoughts, and the slow recognition of how much has shifted in nine days.

After lunch you'll walk through the old city — one of the most beautiful in South America — now seen through completely different eyes. The colonial architecture, the plazas, the faces. You are the same person who arrived here nine days ago. And you are not the same person at all.

The final group dinner. Overlooking the city that opened this journey. Space to acknowledge how far you've traveled — inward as much as anywhere else. This meal belongs to all of you.