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Sacred Rebels Recovery (Addiction Rehabilitation Retreats) • Service Center

Treating:

Addiction

Depression

Chronic Illness

Suicidal Ideation

Eating Disorders

Mind Expansion

Relationship Difficulties

Anxiety

PTSD

Dependency Recovery

Food Dependency

Obesity

Utilizing:

Ayahuasca

Specialties:Addiction recovery, Healing Addiction with Plant Medicine, personalized holistic recovery, integration, long term recovery planning, inpatient treatment, community, boxing, fitness

4HPR+W6X, Llanchama 16000, Peru

OUR STORY @sacredrebelsrecovery (instagram) We are a collective of like minded individuals who have overcome lifelong battles with problematic substance use, mental health difficulties and post traumatic stress disorder. We are people with lived experience as drug users who have found freedom from active addiction & sought refuge in personalized holistic recovery models that incorporate teachings from various traditions. THE CENTER Our tranquil facility Nestled in the lush Peruvian rainforest, a stone’s throw from the Nanay River, our beautiful permaculture & recovery center is designed to unify our visitors with the earth, the plants, and the self while collaborating with Maestro Ricardo Amaringo & Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual is the ayahuasca healing center owned by the master healer Ricardo Amaringo, co-founded with Dr. Joe Tafur, family physician and the visionary artist Cvita Mamic. The center is located one hour south of the Iquitos airport, along the Rio Nanay, an affluent of the Amazon river, in a quiet and lush part of the Amazon jungle in Perú, South America.

The Process

STEP

Initial Contact and Health Information Review • Action: A potential client begins their journey with Sacred Rebels Recovery by making an initial call to express interest in the program. • Process: During this call, the intake team collects preliminary health information, including any history of substance use, mental health concerns, and any prior experiences with addiction treatment. The use of SSRIs or any psychiatric medications is specifically discussed due to the necessary cessation before participating in ayahuasca ceremonies.

STEP

Setting Intentions and Commitment • Action: Following the initial health screening, the client engages in a session focused on intention setting and commitment. • Process: This includes a private, in-person meeting with Maestro Ricardo and the intake team to discuss the client’s goals for recovery, understanding of holistic treatment, and readiness to commit to the program. This step ensures that the client’s expectations align with the holistic and traditional Shipibo approaches to recovery.

STEP

Personalized Approach and Treatment Options • Action: The client is introduced to the holistic recovery model and the various treatment options available at Sacred Rebels Recovery. • Process: This involves a 7-day introduction to the new living environment and an overview of the holistic programs offered, including physical, emotional, spiritual healing, and dual-diagnosis support. Treatment options such as yoga, fitness, experiential activities, psychotherapy, meditation, and traditional Shipibo ceremonies are explained.

STEP

Inpatient Care and Addiction Recovery • Action: The client begins their chosen recovery program, participating in a range of therapies and ceremonies designed to treat addiction holistically. • Process: Inpatient care includes participation in physical activities, emotional wellness sessions, spiritual healing practices, and any necessary ceremonies with Maestro Ricardo. During this time, clients receive continuous support from staff, engage in daily group and one-on-one meetings, and partake in ceremonial preparations like aromatic flower baths and traditional massages.

STEP

Aftercare Integration and Support • Action: Towards the completion of the inpatient program, focus shifts to aftercare planning and integration into the community. • Process: Sacred Rebels Recovery assists clients in developing a long-term recovery plan that includes structured schedules of supportive activities, ongoing healing work, and access to community support. An open line of communication is maintained with participants after they leave, offering ongoing support from psychotherapists with ayahuasca experience and connecting them with local practitioners.

Session Types

Holistic Recovery Program

Holistic recovery at Sacred Rebels Recovery embraces a comprehensive approach to treating addiction, emphasizing the whole person rather than just addressing the symptoms. This treatment incorporates traditional substance abuse therapies alongside a variety of experiential methods, grounded in the belief that addiction affects individuals physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Here's a simplified overview: 1. **Open-Minded Approach**: Utilizes plant medicines, including ayahuasca, within a harm reduction model that emphasizes informed choice, safety, and professional guidance. 2. **What It Is**: A journey focused on balancing and relieving spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional issues through a person-centered approach, treating the entire person. 3. **Why It Matters**: Holistic treatment is scientifically supported as the best approach to addiction recovery. It combines traditional Amazonian plant medicine healing within the Shipibo tradition with modern therapies for a comprehensive treatment model. 4. **Program Introduction**: Begins with a 7-day period to adapt to the new environment and decide on the most suitable recovery program, including preparation for ceremonies and detoxification processes. 5. **Holistic Care Components**: - **Physical Healing**: Addresses addiction's physical symptoms and overall health through yoga, fitness, outdoor activities, and a balanced diet. - **Emotional Healing**: Uses therapies and exercises to manage emotions effectively, crucial for coping with past trauma and emotional disorders. - **Spiritual Healing & Integration**: Revives spiritual connections through meditation, art, support groups, and mindfulness, distinguishing between spirituality and religiosity. - **Dual-Diagnosis Support**: Provides education and tools for those with co-occurring disorders, recognizing the interconnectedness of addiction with mental health issues. 6. **Long-Term Recovery Plan**: Assists in creating structured plans for integrating back into society post-treatment, with ongoing community and professional support to ensure long-term recovery. 7. **Community & Support**: Offers a nurturing environment supported by experienced staff and a recovery community, encouraging those with a history of substance use and ayahuasca experience to contribute to a collective healing journey. Sacred Rebels Recovery's holistic program is designed to offer a deeply personal and immersive recovery experience, ensuring each participant receives tailored care that addresses all aspects of their being.

Inpatient Recovery Program

INPATIENT RECOVERY A comprehensive inpatient addiction recovery program is available for individuals who qualify & have the desire to find freedom from their problematic substance use. There is certain criteria that will apply to potential candidates for specialized inpatient treatment including completion of the medical questionnaire, telephone interview, certified medical screening from the applicants physician and preliminary 14 day detox / abstinence period requirement for those suffering from benzodiazapene & severe alcohol use prior to attending. Preliminary detox from Cocaine, opioids, and other substances can be facilitated at our location with physician approved medical screening. Inpatient treatment programs will be tailored to the individuals needs and include 2 ayahuasca ceremonies per week with Maestro Ricardo Amaringo & Sapha. Other activities & services included will be daily 1 on 1 recovery focused work, plant medicine integration, psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, breathing exercises, meditation, personal training, fitness centre access, our permaculture program and a custom long term recovery plan to help individuals prepare for the journey home. We will be offering 6 & 12 week programs beginning November 1st, 2023 for individuals who are determined to receive help and willing to do the work necessary to recover. For more information or a free consultation for yourself or a loved one please contact us here to set up a call with our team. No previous addiction recovery or plant medicine experience is necessary to attend.

Group Retreats

OUR GROUP PROGRAMS Our group retreats are multifaceted and some will be open to everyone wishing to participate in ceremony at Nihue Rao and learn more about permaculture and the Shipibo Tradition of Vegetalismo. There will also be recovery only invitational group retreats to hold a container for those of us recovering from mental health and substance related issues. Group recovery retreats are open to people with long term recovery 6months-multiple years free from substance use who have been working with ayahuasca for many years and those with long term recovery new to ayahuasca. The group recovery retreats are designed to Unify those of us in recovery working with ayahuasca and deepen our recovery process through community support People in early recovery are recommended to connect with us about participating in future events and consulting about making the decision to begin working with plant medicine prior to registering for retreats, people currently in active use are encouraged to reach out to us for direct support and information about our residential programs. Group retreat invitations will be sent out through our e-mail news letter to everyone who opts for updates about what is happening here at Sacred Rebels Recovery. We will be organizing various workshops related to addiction recovery, permaculture, learning Shipibo Icaros, meditation classes & practices to help develop & advance personal skills to benefit ourselves & eachother during the ceremony experience as well as our daily lives. We will also be holding non-dieta group retreats that will allow participants to enjoy a wider range of foods, fruits, and traditional Shipibo & Peruvian cuisine during their stay, all of which will be prepared in the Sacred Rebels Recovery kitchen at our permaculture center. Local Shipibo men & women will treat guests to regional foods and recipes that are not dieta friendly to allow for a more immersive traditional experience during their stay. Opening a dieta will always be an option for guests however dietary restrictions will apply to those who choose to do so. As the gardens continue to flourish and our trees bear fruit we are looking forward to sharing a more robust menu with our guests that include fresh smoothies, salads, steamed vegetables & greens, fresh free range farm eggs from our hens, paiche fish from our pond, yuca, caldo de gaillina, and many vegan and vegetarian options. We are always open to ideas & suggestions for group retreats! Please feel free to submit ideas or concepts via email and feel free to share our website with others who may be interested in participating in our events. We now offer Starlink internet that operates between 50-200 megabytes per second which allows for all guests to have excellent internet connectivity for work and staying in touch with family via facetime, zoom, and various social media platforms. We look forward to your stay! For more information please contact us today.

Permaculture Program in Iquitos, Peru

OUR ECOSYSTEM At Sacred Rebels Recovery, our permaculture programs incorporate regenerative agriculture with our recovery methodologies to enhance the efficacy of our programs and drive efforts to unify the health and wellbeing of those in our care with that of the earth. Permaculture is an approach to land management and environmental design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. This philosophy can be applied to our approach to healing and recovery as well. When visitors arrive on our permaculture farm, they are greeted with the natural elements that are thriving in their holistic environments. They are invited to participate in our permaculture programs in Iquitos, Peru to experience working with the plants that both feed and heal our bodies. Just as we tend to the plants, we also tend to our own healing and the healing journey of our visitors. Our healing as humans, whether we are healing from trauma, every stress, chronic addiction, or all of the above, relies on having a stable and nourishing environment. One size fits all does not apply to our permaculture program, and the same goes to our approach to healing. In addition to the role of permaculture as a core tenet of our lifestyle and recovery philosophy, the plants grown on our land serve the larger community, bringing sustenance to those in need and allowing us to give back to the community we call home. THE CENTER Our community Beyond agriculture, our permaculture philosophy extends to the ecological engineering, sustainable architecture, and construction of our facilities. We partner with the community of Nihue Rao to establish food share programs & develop better access to fresh water through the construction of water towers in the neighboring village of Llanchama. We are employing local community members to be involved in the development and design of the project in order to create more accessibility to necessary food sources that will be available for future generations.

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Staff

Ricardo Amaringo · Master Shaman

Maestro Ricardo Amaringo is a Shipibo curandero master, Ricardo has been working with ayahuasca for over 43 years and has completed a cumulative 18 years of master plant and master tree dietas including one that 2.5 years long. Ricardo shares openly about his past with alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana misuse as well as his ability to overcome these personal challenges by working with ayahuasca. He began apprenticing over 20 years ago and is an expert in the Shipibo tradition of vegetalismo and widely known and respected as one of the greatest shaman of his generation. Ricardo has dedicated his life to helping people heal from their traumas, addictions, physical & spiritual challenges. Ricardo is also an amazing teacher and loves to share his knowledge and experience with anyone who is willing to learn. “Ayahuasca and the master plants heal people because they help people see their wrongs and give them the ability to correct them while at the same time allowing them to make peace with their traumas and find peace in themselves, people who have suffered from the use of drugs can recover but they must be willing to surrender and begin living a new way of life and work with the medicine to clean the negative energies and blockages caused by their life in addiction” – Maestro Ricardo Amaringo” For more information about Ricardo Amaringo, please visit www.nihuerao.com

Treating:

Depression

Anxiety

Addiction

PTSD

Palliative Care

Chronic Illness

Suicidal Ideation

Eating Disorders

Relationship Difficulties

Utilizing:

Ayahuasca

Specialties:

Shipibo curandero master,

Miguel · Shaman

Miguel is from a Shipibo village outside of Pucalpa, Peru. He has been working with Ayahuasca for 40 years and at Nihue Rao for 12 as a shaman. He has dieted many master plants of the Amazon but his first diet was with Piñon Blanco, a plant full of light. He started working with ayahuasca because he wanted to help people to heal. Miguel was fascinated by the plants and their mysterious healing powers. He wanted to learn the way of Ayahuasca and the plants so he could heal the people.

Treating:

Depression

Chronic Illness

Suicidal Ideation

Eating Disorders

Relationship Difficulties

Palliative Care

Addiction

Anxiety

PTSD

Utilizing:

Ayahuasca

Specialties:

Ayahuasca Ceremonies

Makena · Curandera/ Co- Founder

Makena Keahiomakali’i Seymour is a curandera and apprentice of Maestro Ricardo Amaringo at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual. During her 9 year battle with problematic substance use Makena attended treatment and became a strong believer in the combination of plant medicine, conventional and alternative approaches to help overcome her addiction. Makena began working with ayahuasca in 2017 and realized its powerful ability to heal her trauma. Makena has over 1 year of abstinence from drugs & alcohol. Makena has a professional background in tropical permaculture and gardening that was inspired by her deep love for working with the earth. She started the permaculture project at the beginning of 2022 with her partner Sapha. Her experiences with ayahuasca helped her recognize the immense suffering of the planet, people and animals. Makena co-created & envisioned the Sacred Rebels Recovery project as part of a collective solution. Makena is driven to reforest the 30 acres of the permaculture project with endangered trees, medicinal plants, fruit, vegetables & ancestral foods from various cultures. She believes that combining plant medicine, recovery work and connecting with the land & the local people is the ultimate combination for deep healing and transformation. Makena aims to share the medicine of the jungle and the knowledge she has gained through working with the plants & healing her own trauma with others, especially people from her home territory of Hawaii and the BIPOC communities so that they too may benefit & find freedom in the ways she has been able to. Makena sees a deep need for marginalized people to have access to plant medicine and wishes to help curate retreats that create opportunities for all people to attend. Biography Makena Keahiomakali’i Seymour is currently apprenticing to become a curandera under Maestro Ricardo Amaringo at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual.

Treating:

Depression

Chronic Illness

Suicidal Ideation

Eating Disorders

Relationship Difficulties

Palliative Care

Addiction

Anxiety

PTSD

Utilizing:

permaculture and gardening

Specialties:

Tropical Permaculture and Gardening

Sapha · Curanderismo, apprentice under the guidance of Maestro Ricardo Amaringo

Sapha is a practicing curandero & apprentice of Maestro Ricardo Amaringo living full time at Nihue Rao. Sapha founded the permaculture project in December of 2021 with the support & approval of Ricardo Amaringo. Sapha has been working with plant medicine in recovery for over 7 years and offers guidance and support to those in both early and long term recovery. Sapha attended a holistic treatment center in 2015 after a 12 year career in the canadian oil & gas industry & 16 year battle with cocaine, alcohol & opiates. After Attending treatment he shifted his focus towards his own healing which lead to an interest in social work, drug user advocacy & addiction recovery. During his social work studies at university on Vancouver Island he recognized a need for community development in the realms of psychedelics, harm reduction, addiction recovery and began developing a program that could be supportive to people looking for something outside of the conventional models available. Sapha works with people to help them prepare for ayahuasca ceremony, inpatient treatment, medical detox, provides individual & family interventions, recovery coaching & mentorship, assists in helping clients taper off of opioid replacement therapy, and develops personalized recovery plans for individuals based on their needs. Sapha is working along side his team to help curate retreats for people wishing to explore plant medicine while incorporating teachings from various traditions & recovery modalities to optimize their recovery experience. Sapha is currently managing the permaculture operations at Nihue Rao Proyecto de Permacultura & development of the Sacred Rebels Recovery Program alongside his partner Makena Seymour while working together with peers & community friends to raise funds to further develop the project and create opportunities for local members of their community. Sapha is creating a food share program with members of the local community of Llanchama & Nihue Rao as well as coordinating several fundraisers to reach project objectives. Sapha & Makena’s vision is to establish both curated plant medicine recovery retreats and inpatient recovery treatment programs for people to attend in the peruvian amazon, canada & the united states. Sapha is also working on developing men’s retreats at Nihue Rao Proyecto de Permacultura that incorporate plant medicine, permaculture, recovery work workshops, meditation, breathwork, yoga, and fitness classes. Biography Sapha is a curanderismo apprentice under the guidance of Maestro Ricardo Amaringo and lives as a full time at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual.

Treating:

Depression

Chronic Illness

Suicidal Ideation

Eating Disorders

Relationship Difficulties

Palliative Care

Anxiety

Addiction

PTSD

Utilizing:

Medical detox

Specialties:

Prepares for ayahuasca ceremony, inpatient treatment, medical detox, provides individual & family interventions, recovery coaching & mentorship

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Locations

4HPR+W6X, Llanchama 16000, Peru