Amazonian tradition
Plant medicine
Two different things, often confused with each other. One is a weekend held in ceremony. The other is a month of drinking a tree, quietly, at home.
Thirty days
The planta dieta
In the Amazonian tradition a dieta means taking one tree into your body over a sustained period and letting it teach you. You drink the bark as a tea, every day, for thirty days.
Every tree has its own qualities. Some work with the nervous system. Some with the cardiovascular or circulatory system, or with memory. Some work with relationships: attracting love, healing it, repairing what has been damaged.
Which tree is right for you is not something you choose from a list. Loukas selects it based on what you are carrying and what you are trying to move.
In his own words: this tree is non-psychoactive, it is not illegal, and it is like drinking a tea. What it carries is something else.
People who have done it describe a lot of negativity shifting, and a sense of being guided somewhere rather than pushed.
A weekend
The retreat
Ceremony held across a weekend, usually Friday and Saturday, in a prepared space and under guidance, following the Amazonian shamanic tradition Loukas was initiated into.
The weekend includes preparation before, the ceremonies themselves, and integration support afterwards, which is the part most people underestimate. It is not a workshop. It is not a festival. It works on the mind, the body and the spirit together, and it asks something of you.
What a retreat involves, where it is held, and whether it is appropriate for you at all are discussed directly with Loukas before anything is booked. That conversation is not a formality.
Before you ask about a retreat
Most people are better served by sitting with him once first. He will tell you whether the retreat is the right thing or whether something quieter would do more, and he has turned people away from it before.
Both of these start with a conversation
There is no booking button on this page on purpose. Tell him what you are hoping for and he will tell you which of the two, if either, is the right fit.
Start with a conversation
Fifteen minutes, free, no obligation at the end of it. Tell him what is going on and he will tell you honestly whether he can help.
Already know what you need? Book the Mental & Emotional Recalibration session directly, 90 minutes for $350.