In reflecting back on my journey to Peru in August 2022, I feel deep gratitude for the care and support I felt from Jenna throughout the entirety of my process there. I had been a coaching client prior to the retreat where I was able to experience the depth of the space Jenna could hold, and so I trusted that while walking into the unknown there would be a level of safety with her there to walk alongside me. Jenna helped me bridge the world I knew with one that was new to me in a way that I could really understand- the ability she has to meet people exactly where they are has been such a gift to me. Feeling completely held in the space by Jenna, Ute, and Juana, I discovered parts of myself that I have since worked with to live a more intentional, peaceful, and liberated life. I am infinitely grateful.
Jungle Ayahuasca & Master Plant Retreat, Peru
Retreat: Apr 28- May 12, 2025
Rooted Expansion in collaboration with True Journey is offering the opportunity to join Juana, Ute, and Iris in Peru for a two-week highly personalized retreat in April/May 2025 with individual and group preparation and integration support before and after. The powerful journey will be capped at 10 participants. This will be deeply moving, beautiful, intense, profound, and life changing. Our intention is for each of you to experience a deep connection with your essence and to expand into the Truth of who you are. We will be combining sacred plant medicine, ancient traditions, nature, the Jungle, coaching, yoga/breathwork, mindfulness, personal and group reflection, and travel to create the perfect container for growth.
The sacredness and deep spirituality of Ayahuasca will be profound in itself, it has been used for centuries if not longer by indigenous tribes across the Amazon. This journey will activate truth and transformation creating a path of possibility and choice while honoring these ancient traditions.
Testimonials
Out of all of the experiences of my life, my trip to Peru with Jenna and Venture Beyond was one of the most life-altering I’ve ever had. The center, ceremony space, co-facilitators, host family… every piece of the journey was thought through, well-chosen, and well-held. The care created an experience of safety so that I could go deeper than I’ve ever gone in my own healing work. I am so grateful to have taken the wild leap of the Peru trip – years later, its impacts continue to ripple throughout my life.
This Retreat Offers:
- Healing in a space of high integrity through potent Shipibo Medicine, Ayahuasca, Tree Diets, and medicine of the Jungle.
- Support from the True Journey Team including Maestra Juana, Ute, and Iris. Depending on the package of support you select, you will also have access to an additional nine experienced and dedicated beings committed to their paths from Rooted Expansion providing a container of support around the retreat.
- A unique, intimate, and community-centric container that surrounds the highly internal two-week retreat. While your experience in Peru will not involve much interaction with your fellow travelers, you will have a chance to share, connect, and receive support from like-minded individuals who shared the experience with you before and after.
- Two weeks of uninterrupted space for deep self-discovery and embodied change in an intensive and caring environment.
Going Within
The retreat is located in the Jungles of Peru (Pucallpa) and offers a space to explore the depths of ourselves with the support of one of the greatest teachers of all, Ayahuasca. This 14-day retreat will have 6 Ayahuasca Ceremonies led by Maestra Juana Silvano Teco. Ute and Iris will be facilitating the retreat and providing preparation, processing, and integration support. Rooted Expansion is here to hug your experience providing supportive containers of integration once you return home.
The venue is extremely rustic and the focus of this retreat is not comfort but rather the perfect container to go deeply within. If you choose to receive additional support from the Rooted Expansion team you will have a chance to get to know other participants, be witnessed in your intentions, and create connection before descending into yourSelf. You will be held stateside when you return as you step into who you have become. During the retreat, you will likely be in silence and/or isolation for most of the two weeks coming together in silence for the 6 ceremonies with your fellow travelers and the 6 movement/yoga/breathwork classes with Iris. Maestra Juana will perform energy and healing work with the ayahuasca drawing upon her lineage and extensive dedication to this path. If you choose to diet as well, Juana will also work with your energetic body to align the energy of the tree in your system. Ute will be the primary facilitator during ceremony and both Iris and Ute will be available during the day for additional support. When you travel home, you will receive 1:1 integration support from True Journey and if you choose, there is additional containers of support for you through Rooted Expansion.
***Please present code: RE Family 8 if you choose to sign up directly through True Journey for this retreat. A small discount awaits you!***
Meet The True Journey & Rooted Expansion Team Supporting Rooted Journey!
Rooted Expansion & True Journey
It all started in 2018, when Jenna and Ute met while working at the Temple of the Way of Light, an Ayahuasca Retreat Center in the Amazon Jungle of Peru. They immediately hit it off and had amazing synergy. Ute and Jenna knew this was just the beginning. Fast forward to 2021, Jenna and Ute ran into each other on a beach in Costa Rica (after Jenna had journaled days before about wanting to collaborate with Ute). It felt like fate! After that encounter, Ute and Jenna partnered and organized their first Ayahuasca collaboration in the jungles of Peru. Jenna brought down a group in 2022, which led to another collaboration in 2023 (that Bailey participated in!), and then a beautiful collaboration in 2024. Since that time, Ute, Bailey and Jenna realized how much these two organisms, True Journey and Rooted Expansion had to offer each other. Through True Journey, Ute has cultivated a depth of deep knowledge and wisdom in navigating and guiding others through the plant world. Ute has dedicated herself to learning and studying through long-term Masterplant Dietas with a well-known and respected traditional Shipibo Healer Lineage in the Ucayali region in the Peruvian Amazon. She has worked directly with Juana for years and sees herself as a bridge between ancestral wisdom and Western understanding of life. To learn more about Ute’s experience and work, please visit her website: True Journey. We are so grateful for our partnership with True Journey. Rooted Expansion comes in offering integrative and holistic support once you return home from your journey. We have a dedicated team of multi-disciplinary practitioners that weave supportive and integrative containers around the True Journey retreats. We are calling this collaboration Rooted Journey!
Preparation:
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- 2 individual coaching/prep sessions with Ute
- 2 group video calls: dates will be announced
- 3 True Journey ebooks:
- True – Journey Masterplant Retreat Guidebook & video playlist
- Preparation Guidebook & video playlist
- Integration Guidebook & video playlist
- Comprehensive guides on how to prepare, what to bring, where to fly into etc.
- Optional Add Ons:
- Journey Within Series
- Denver, CO Based Folks – meal prep and support leading up to the retreat in alignment with diet guidelines
Ayahuasca Retreat:
- Accommodation for 14 nights in private hut & bathroom
- Drinking water
- 2 meals a day
- Ayahuasca Talk/Prep Session
- 6 Ayahuasca Ceremonies with Juana, an experienced Shipibo Shaman, Ute as the primary facilitator, and Iris as the supporting facilitator
- 1 plant for optional Dieta
- 1:1 process work with Ute during the diet & retreat
- Opening and closing group sharing circles
- 6 yoga/movement/breathwork classes with Iris
- Translation support during the retreat (Spanish, English, German, French)
- Mapacho for the 10 days (jungle tobacco)
- Aqua Florida
- Plant & flower bathes
- 1 massage with Maestra Juana; 1 massage with the Vegetalista Bertrix; 1 plant vapor bath;
- Last day: class/talk about integration
- Transport from the meeting point in Yarina to the port (only on the starting day)
- Transport from Yarina port to the Retreat place (20-minute boat ride) – day of arrival
- Transport from the Retreat place back to Yarina Port (20-minute boat ride) – departure day
Integration:
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- 2 individual integration sessions with Ute
- 1 group call with Ute
- Add On: 12 1:1 sessions once you return home: 8 integration sessions with a choice to work with Ute, Bailey, Jenna, Kinde, or Taylor + 4 additional sessions, of which you can select from the following choices:
- Ancestral Healing with Kinde (2 sessions minimum)
- Dreamwork with Bruna
- Deep Nature Medicine Walk with Kinde (2 sessions)
- Grief Coaching with Kinde
- Add On: Journey Within Series – this is a special series of monthly workshops exploring multiple modalities and topics designed to support your integration process. This series offers experiential and educational workshop. Each session offers a unique entryway into deeper understanding of Self.
The following is *NOT* included:
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Flights
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Transport from the airport to your accommodation, return to the airport
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Transport from the port in Yarina to your accommodation (after retreat)
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Extra Massages
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Extra vapor baths
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Extra plant medicine for additional treatments
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Travel insurance
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Flight cancellation insurance
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Hotel / Accommodation before or after the retreat
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Travel and flight advice & support (this is an add on from Rooted Expansion)
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The Maestra and Shipibo host family will put on a market showcasing their Art and handmade offerings. Please bring soles if you’d like to purchase anything.
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Additional coaching sessions for preparation and/or integration At the end of the retreat there is a optional Plant Medicine Walk, if you choose to go we ask that you bring a donation to our Shipibo host father.