Gaia Sagrada Ayahuasca & San Pedro Retreat Center

5 ceremonies – 2 Ayahuasca, 2 San Pedro, 1 Sweat Lodge with both Ayahuasca and San Pedro

Accommodation options:

$1,275 each person – Separate Male/Female Dormitory
$1,375 each person – Shared Room (2 people in bunks or double bed if couple)
$1,575 each person – Private small room in house
$1,775 each person – couple in 1 Bedroom Apartment
$2,175 – single person in 1 Bedroom Apartment

All bathrooms are shared, no rooms with private baths except apartments.

Price includes all food, facilities, hot tubs, wifi, community center, ceremonies, yoga and meditation classes, variety of activities and workshops. Transportation is $38 round trip, which covers getting from the airport to Gaia Sagrada and returning to the Cuenca airport (unless you are leaving at an usual time and no one else is going with you, then additional fees apply). Airfare not included.

2 extra Ayahuasca ceremonies for an additional fee are possible.

For more information on our retreats and accommodation options please visit https://gaiasagrada.com/

3 ceremonies – 1 Ayahuasca ceremony, 1 San Pedro ceremony, 1 Sweat Lodge ceremony with both Ayahuasca and San Pedro (optional to take both or just one)

Accommodation options:

$875 each person – Separate Male/Female Dormitory
$1075 each person – Shared Room (2 people in bunks or double bed if couple)
$1275 each person – Private Room

All bathrooms are shared, no rooms with private baths except apartments.

Price includes all food, facilities, hot tubs, wifi, community center, ceremonies, yoga and meditation classes, variety of activities and workshops. Transportation is $38 round trip, which covers getting from the airport to Gaia Sagrada and returning to the Cuenca airport (unless you are leaving at an usual time and no one else is going with you, then additional fees apply). Airfare not included.

There is an option to participate in one extra Ayahuasca ceremony during your stay, for an additional fee.

For more information on our retreats and accommodation options please visit https://gaiasagrada.com/

3 ceremonies – 2 Ayahuasca ceremonies, 1 San Pedro ceremony

Accommodation options:

$875 each person – Separate Male/Female Dormitory
$1075 each person – Shared Room (2 people in bunks or double bed if couple)
$1275 each person – Private Room

All bathrooms are shared, no rooms with private baths except apartments.

Price includes all food, facilities, hot tubs, wifi, community center, ceremonies, yoga and meditation classes, variety of activities and workshops. Transportation is $38 round trip, which covers getting from the airport to Gaia Sagrada and returning to the Cuenca airport (unless you are leaving at an usual time and no one else is going with you, then additional fees apply). Airfare not included.

There is an option to participate in one extra Ayahuasca ceremony during your stay, for an additional fee.

For more information on our retreats and accommodation options please visit https://gaiasagrada.com/

All guests of Gaia Sagrada become part of the family and most don’t want to leave once their retreat is over, which is why we created the Gaia Sagrada Work Exchange Program!

We are offering open-minded, open-hearted people the opportunity to join our family and live with us here in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador for 2-3 months, in exchange for help around our center.

Although preference is given to former guests who have been with us for a retreat, we do welcome applications from anyone that is called to be of service to the work that we do here.

Our volunteers are not only relied upon to help in the kitchen or work in the gardens. We’re looking for people that have the calling to help others and to be of service to humanity!

This is an incredible opportunity for anyone on the path to becoming a healer, counselor or helper of others. Whilst it’s certainly not a prerequisite, a large portion of our applicants are already psychologists, counselors, spiritual teachers and so on. Here at Gaia Sagrada we facilitate and witness deep healing and transformation on a daily basis. This is a unique opportunity to learn about the human condition, consciousness and beyond!

However, your educational background really isn’t important to us. What we look for in volunteers is the desire to be a part of our vision to make the world a better place!

This really isn’t an opportunity to experience plant medicine for less or to become a shaman in training. If you’re coming to plant medicine for personal healing, we really do advise that you attend a retreat as a guest first, to allow yourself the time and space to focus on yourself and your process.

All volunteers are given the opportunity to participate in ceremonies during their time at Gaia Sagrada, but the primary focus of being here is to help and support our guests. In the past we have found that volunteers who have had a big process to work through with the plant medicines then find it difficult to follow through with their daily responsibilities.

Life at Gaia Sagrada is magical. We run our retreats on pure love. But sometimes this can be very demanding, energetically and emotionally, and so it is important that our volunteers are able to keep themselves energetically clean and stable, understand how to avoid emotional transference and know how to set appropriate boundaries.

Whilst it is not essential for applicants to have prior experience with Ayahuasca or San Pedro, it is preferable that our volunteers understand the space that our guests will be working in before they join our team. For this reason, experience with these plant medicines or other psychoactive materials is beneficial.

Work Exchange Benefits:
Unlimited healthy and delicious vegetarian food - 3 meals per day and snacks!
Dormitory housing, comfy beds in nice, modern housing
Hot showers 24 hours a day
Use of facilities, hot tubs, WiFi
Hiking on 55 acres of beautiful Andean mountain trails
Participation in Ayahuasca and San Pedro ceremonies
Assisting in ceremonies
Opportunity to hold classes and workshops for guests
A unique space to learn about yourself and others
Become part of the family and live in community
Lots of love, laughter, and fun in paradise!

Work Exchange Tasks:
Meal prep in the kitchen
Kitchen cleanup
Laundry
Housekeeping and cleaning
Gardening
Leading yoga sessions if you are a certified yoga teacher
Leading meditation classes and/or workshops if you have a skill you’d like to share
General work around the center
Assisting in ceremonies
Preparing ceremony spaces
Being there emotionally for the retreat participants and assisting them with their needs
Being available and willing to jump in wherever you are needed


If you are interested in joining our family here at Gaia Sagrada, please complete our volunteer application form and we will be in touch!
https://gs.nfshost.com/volunteer-form/