A journey where spirit leads and the heart remembers.
This Retreat is a carefully curated, softer introduction to plant medicine and sacred Andean wisdom.
It is a journey designed for those who feel the call to healing and transformation, yet wish to enter this work gently, safely, and with deep support.
Held in the Sacred Valley of Peru, this five night retreat offers a balanced experience of heart opening, emotional insight, purification, grounding, and integration. It is ideal for first time plant medicine participants, sensitive seekers, and those who want depth without overwhelm.
This retreat does not include Ayahuasca. Instead, it works with cacao, mushrooms, and Wachuma in a beautifully paced and embodied way.
We also enter the Temazcal, the ancestral sweat lodge, where we cleanse, release and emerge reborn, just as many generations have done before us.
Our time together will be interwoven with:
- Yoga and bodywork, including deep tissue massages
- Sound healing to harmonize the energy body
- Nature walks and sacred site visits
- An immersion into Peruvian arts and crafts
- A celebratory dinner with Peruvian music and dance to honour life and all that we have remembered
We are committed to creating a safe, intentional, and transformative container, guided by trained facilitators, wisdom keepers, and local guardians of the medicine.
Highlights
Cacao Ceremony
A sacred heart-opening ritual using ceremonial-grade cacao to foster emotional clarity, presence, and connection. This gentle yet profound ceremony cultivates feelings of love, gratitude, and unity, helping participants access inner wisdom and emotional healing. It is often accompanied by music, intention-setting, and guided meditation to deepen the experience and open the heart space fully.
Wachuma Ceremony
Guided by the sacred San Pedro cactus, the Wachuma Ceremony is a deeply transformative plant medicine journey that opens the heart and heightens spiritual awareness. It fosters profound inner connection, emotional healing, and unity with nature. Facilitated with care, this experience helps participants access clarity, compassion, and a grounded sense of peace and purpose.
Psilocybin
Psilocybin mushrooms, often called Sacred Mushrooms or Magic Mushrooms, have been used for thousands of years in indigenous ceremonies across Mesoamerica for healing, divination, and communion with the spirit world. In the Mazatec tradition of Oaxaca, Mexico, they are known as niños santos, “the holy children”,because they are believed to gently guide us toward truth, wisdom, and the heart’s calling. The main active compound, psilocybin, is converted in the body to psilocin, which interacts with serotonin receptors in the brain, leading to expanded consciousness, profound emotional release, and deeply meaningful visions.
Temazcal Ceremony
A powerful Mesoamerican sweat lodge ritual symbolizing rebirth and renewal. Inside the steam-filled dome, participants undergo physical, emotional, and spiritual purification through intense heat, sacred chants, and shared intention. The Temazcal reconnects you with Mother Earth, releases toxins, and offers a deeply symbolic experience of surrender, cleansing, and emerging anew into fresh energy.
Integration
Integration is at the heart of every journey we offer. At Lionheart, we believe that true healing begins after the ceremony when insights are gently woven into everyday life. We support this sacred unfolding with compassion, guidance, and tools to help you embody your transformation long after the retreat ends.
Accommodation & Food
The Lionheart Prelude Retreat is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with yourself in the presence of ancient lands and wise medicines.
For some, this journey becomes a complete healing experience.
For others, it becomes a doorway into deeper work in the future.
You are welcome exactly as you are.
Your sanctuary for this journey is a beautiful retreat in the Sacred Valley, surrounded by the towering Andes and infused with the ancient wisdom of the Incan lineage. It offers the perfect environment to slow down, turn inward, and reconnect.
You will be welcomed into beautifully designed single and shared rooms, each with its own en-suite bathroom for comfort and serenity. Every meal is thoughtfully prepared, wholesome vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options crafted from fresh, local produce.
Here, it’s not just about where you stay, it’s about how you feel. The land, the mountains, and the people of the Sacred Valley hold you in a field of healing energy, allowing your mind, body, and spirit to soften, release, and expand.
Come join us in Peru for a journey of healing and remembrance.
Meet Our Team
Meet the souls holding a safe, sacred space for your healing. Facilitators and integrators, here to gently support your inner journey.
