NEXT TRIP TO PERU – November 2009

I will be available for people in Peru from 10th – 24nd November 2009.
A travel agent named Jean-Paul will arrange a tour for us that looks something like this:

10th Nov. We meet and stay in Lima at a safe guest house.
11th fly to Cusco - go to Ollantaytambo or somewhere else near Machu Picchu.
12th and 13th People may visit Machu Picchu on the one or both days. Price will only include 1 entrance fee and transport.
14th – 20th Ayahuasca retreat at Melissa Wasi.
20th Leave Melissa Wasi late morning – travel to Lake Titicaca.
Until 24th Lake Titicaca
24th fly to Lima. The tour finishes here but of course you are welcome to stay longer and travel as you wish. I will be returning to India.

We will start with a group session after we meet up – either in Lima or the following day. During the time I am with you at Lake Titicaca there will be meditations etc – depending on what is needed / appropriate at the time. I will also take some of the sessions at Melissa Wasi.

*Approximate cost not including airticket:
Approx. $850 Melissa Wasi – includes room, food, 3 Ayahuasca ceremonies and other sessions with Diego, some tours.
Approx. $350 Jean-Paul – includes Lima airport pick-up and transfers, bed and breakfast Lima, Ollantaytambo and Lake Titicaca, entrance Machu Picchu, transport Lake Titicaca.

Booking: Pay d. kr. 1500 to the account of J M Longstaff, Nordea Bank, Husum afd.
Frederikssundsvej 300, 2700 Broenshoej, Denmark .
Reg. nr. 2125 Account nr. 7560 936 308
IBAN: DK112000756093630
Mark payment Peru Lectures.
The advance payment covers my work with the group in Peru and trip organisation.
Please send an email telling me you have booked and paid.
Please follow these instructions - it makes things much easier.

*I write ”approximate” cost as prices are rising everywhere. Final details later. You are welcome to make your own flight arrangements to and from Peru, however Jesper is helping to organise a cheap group flight from Copenhagen for those interested.
Contact him soon: Email: jesperbrandt@yahoo.com

Below are more details about the retreat at Melissa Wasi
PLEASE read carefully before booking.

Ayahuasca Retreat at Melissa Wasi

The Ayahuasca retreat will take place at Melissa Wasi in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, in the town of Pisaq, 45 minutes from the city of Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire. We will stay at Melissa Wasi, a retreat house near the base of the ruins of Pisaq. Pisaq is well known for its Sunday market place and its beautiful, simple people. Each bedroom is double occupancy, private bathrooms with hot water 24 hours a day, and electricity. The view includes the sacred mountains, farm lands and the ruins of Pisaq. A retreat in this powerful sacred valley heightens the effects of the ceremonies. We will be in an environment where we can meditate in peace, surrounded by the natural energy and the right context to relate with these ancestral traditions.

Jacqueline says:
I have waited some time before putting information about Ayahuasca on the website. In no way did I want people who do not know me to get the impression that I use drugs in my work with people or encourage people to use drugs as a path to awakening. As I have said to those who are close to me, I see Ayahuasca first and foremost as a healing plant. It heals the physical body and the emotions and can take people deeply into the heart. It also provides a wonderful opportunity to witness, without indentification, the creations and projections of the mind- something very important for the work I do with the death process as an opportunity for enlightenment. Years ago I had a feeling that a time would come when many people would be getting sick physically and I felt I would know where to send people who needed both physical and emotional healing. When a doctor first introduced me to Ayahuasca I sensed this would be the cure I could put people in touch with. It has taken a few years to find the right shaman and place I wish to take people to. The shaman we will be with is Diego from Melissa Wasi. (See photo) He is fine man who follows the Buddhist teachings and has also visited Arunachala. His work, and the space he has created at Melissa Wasi, is very pure. Someone who was in training with him told me Diego had said that if he had to choose between Ayahuasca and ”the teachings”(i.e. the spiritual wisdom teachings) he would choose the teachings. When I heard this I knew I had chosen the right shaman for the people I work with.

Diego says:
During the retreat, we will have three Ayahuasca ceremonies, integrated in a harmonic process which will include discussion forums about the experience. Each session produces a profound reaction in the body, mind and spirit. Ayahuasca allows the individual to release emotional blockages, confronting and conquering our deepest fears. The opportunity for deep personal growth, reflection and holistic cleansing is invaluable. We combine traditional Amazonian Shamanism with methods such as meditation, Tibetan Philosophy centered on impermanence, breathing, and exercises to increase awareness and to recognize the nature of mind, so as to perceive primordial wisdom within ourselves and the environment as one.