San Pedro Sanctuary is an intimate healing and ceremonial sanctuary, nestled by flowing rivers, wild forests, sacred mountains, ancient trees and abundant orchards.
Based in the Sacred Valley of Peru, we offer San Pedro Ceremonies, Retreats and Dietas in this serene and nurturing environment.
The sanctuary invites those seeking healing, transformation, and deeper soul connection into a safe and intentional space of heart-centered connection, soul remembrance, and initiatory transformation.
Our retreats offer an immersion into the medicine of San Pedro, guided soul work and communion with the natural world—creating a container where healing and transformation can unfold.
At the heart of each retreat are ceremonies that invite you to shed old patterns, encounter deeper truths and return to the essence of your being. The rhythm of the retreat supports this unfolding, offering spaciousness for rest, integration, and soulful presence–an opening that invites you to emotional depths, attunement with the natural world, and the weaving of insights into lived experience.
A dieta is a deeply immersive process, held within a sacred and structured container created to deepen and amplify the transformative work with San Pedro.
Through strict dietary protocols, extended solitude and intentional withdrawal from external stimuli, the dieta creates conditions for the plant to cleanse and recalibrate the physical, emotional, mental and energetic bodies. It is a process of purification and attunement—one that opens the way for profound healing, soul-stirring breakthroughs and life-altering shifts.
This path is not to be taken lightly. It requires commitment, adequate preparation, a willingness to surrender and spaciousness for post-dieta integration to honor the depth of what unfolds. A dieta is for those who feel a clear call in their bones to walk this path.
***At least one San Pedro retreat and a dedicated amount of ceremonial work are required before entering a dieta.***
San Pedro Sanctuary is nestled in a secluded valley, where mountain air, river song, and ancient trees weave an atmosphere of stillness and vitality. The land itself feels alive—lush gardens, winding paths, and fruiting trees offer quiet spaces for softening, connection, and renewal.
Each corner of the sanctuary has been tended with care to invite presence and ease. Gentle trails lead along the river, through groves of native trees and wildflowers, while hammocks and resting spots offer places to pause and breathe. Cozy cabins and intimate gathering spaces are thoughtfully integrated with the landscape, allowing nature to hold and nourish you throughout your stay.
Here, simplicity meets depth—an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and return to the rhythm of the earth and the essence of your being.
At San Pedro Sanctuary, we believe in nourishing the body with fresh, organic produce sourced from our sanctuary, local organic farmers and vibrant fruits sourced from the jungle.
All meals are prepared by our Sanctuary Chef
Meals comprise fresh fruit bowls and hearty soups on ceremony days.
Three freshly prepared meals are provided on non-ceremony days, with wholesome snacks available to support you throughout the day.
We cater to various dietary needs, including vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options. For specific requests, please contact us in advance.
Rayan is a holistic therapist, ceremonialist and a transpersonal soul guide whose work is devoted to the deep healing of individuals, relationships and communities. Over the last decade, he has immersed himself in a wide spectrum of healing modalities—including psycho-somatic therapy, transpersonal soul work, family systems, parts integration, plant medicine dietas, and wilderness immersions.
His path has been profoundly shaped by near-death thresholds, spiritual awakenings, and transformative life initiations that revealed the soul’s deeper intelligence at work in the unfolding of life. These experiences, together with years of training and apprenticeship—including time studying under elder teacher Sue Lewarne—have informed a grounded and integrative approach to healing. His work weaves ceremonial practice with San Pedro, contemporary therapeutic modalities, and the wisdom that arises through altered states of consciousness, all held through the lens of the soul.
A seasoned psychotherapist and ceremonialist, Jenae followed a deep inner calling to Peru, where she opened her heart to the wise teaching of master plants in the jungle and later deepened her work with San Pedro in the Sacred Valley under elder teacher Sue Lewarne. Weaving her psychoanalytic training with ancestral plant wisdom, she embraces the multifaceted nature of the psyche—bridging the psychological and spiritual realms to foster true, holistic well-being. Her path—a fusion of clinical insight and ancestral wisdom—allows her to gently guide seekers through the liminal spaces where psychedelics, plant medicine, and the Western psyche meet.
Integration honors the depth and complexity of these journeys by weaving their insights, teachings, and revelations into the fabric of our daily lives. It is the art of merging the mystical with the mundane, the extraordinary with the ordinary and connects us individuals to a broader sense of an earth and galactic community, so that we can create a balanced and harmonious way of living.
At San Pedro Sanctuary, integration is embraced as ongoing, personalized work that extends far beyond ceremony. Through supportive practices, therapeutic guidance and tailored approaches rooted in years of experience, participants are invited to anchor their experiences into daily life — allowing the medicine to continue unfolding in subtle yet profound ways long after they return home.
Through somatic awareness, we engage the innate intelligence that lives in your body. Together, we cultivate embodied awareness, support the release of trauma imprints, and bridge the natural connection between body, heart and soul.
A space to explore the subtle and overt dynamics within your relationships—unraveling patterns around power, attachment, family systems, and conflict. Together we learn how to cultivate deeper intimacy, authenticity, and connection in how you relate to yourself and others.
Exploring the direction of your life and supporting you through major and meaningful transitions. Whether you are shifting careers, seeking deeper alignment with your purpose, entering/exiting a relationship, or walking further with plant medicine, this space offers grounded guidance and intuitive perspective.
Plant Medicine work carries with it an inherent sense of mystery.
The invitation to work with sacred plants is an invitation to step beyond the comforts and confines of modern life and enter a doorway into realms beyond ordinary perception—awakening to the deeper mysteries of existence. Words often fall short of capturing the essence of these journeys; they are experiences meant to be felt, especially for those who feel the call to Peru and the ancient medicine held within its mountains, rivers and sacred plants.
Within this mystery, San Pedro carries a distinct presence as a medicine of the heart—one that gently dissolves the surface layers of identity and opens the heart to the soul’s deeper currents. In ceremony, it can invite profound emotional release, an opening into renewal, and a felt sense of resting into one’s essence—realigning you with your soul and centering you in the truth of your being. Its presence is grounding yet expansive, guiding us into intimate contact with the mysteries that dwell both within and around us.
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