San Pedro Ceremonies in Peru
For mature and sincere people
​
​
​
If the search for truth, healing, and meaning is what drives your spiritual path, your first encounter with Huachuma—also known as the San Pedro cactus—may arrive as a moment of quiet astonishment, followed by a long-awaited sense of peace. In the chaotic world we are living in today, this kind of inner grounding, clarity, and heart-centered connection is worth more than gold.
Awakening is no longer a luxury; it has become a necessity.
​
In a world defined by uncertainty, it is easy to lose inner peace, the foundation of mental health and happiness. Reconnecting with this inner ground is essential to well-being, as its absence often manifests as anxiety, depression, and fear. Fear clouds judgment, suppresses vitality, and limits our capacity to live authentically. Learning to dissolve it in love is essential.
​
Swimming against the current by choosing love is the key to reclaiming your sanity and inner freedom. A San Pedro ceremony acts as a catalyst for higher consciousness, a state of awareness in which fear loses its grip and no longer dictates perception or behavior.
​​​
These times call us to greater clarity, responsibility, and purpose. The awakening power of this medicine has become more relevant now than ever before.
​
A San Pedro ceremony gently removes you from the fear-and-stress paradigm and reconnects you to a state of profound inner peace, often one that feels deeply familiar, yet long forgotten. This shift in consciousness addresses the root of many afflictions permeating modern society: anxiety, depression, addictive and self-destructive patterns, toxic relationships, disordered eating, and the pervasive sense of dis-ease that arises when one is disconnected from self, nature, and truth.
We are not here to help you escape the chaos of the world. At Huachuma Wasi, we empower you to wake up to your truth, and to stand as a force of good where and when it is needed most.
​
​​At Huachuma Wasi, we choose to engage with the turbulence of the world consciously, using its disruptive forces as fuel for inner growth. Through the San Pedro medicine ceremony, these forces are alchemized into clarity, resilience, and positive transformation within ourselves.
​
At its essence, the San Pedro ceremony is a process of transmutation: fear is transformed into love, confussion into clarity, and weakness into strenght.
​
By consciously choosing not to submit to fear, we allow our inner vessels, our soul containers, to be filled with love, presence, and purpose.
​
Those who resonate with this vision will discover a sanctuary of healing and self-empowerment amid the storm. A San Pedro cactus ceremony is not an escape from life, on the contrary, it is an engagement with life, a new beginning, a reset, and an invitation to step forward aligned, awake, and embodied.
​
​​
​
It is one thing to hear about Oneness, and another thing to expirience it. Knowing that we are a single drop in an infinite ocean of love is a fundamental truth that almost any spiritual teacher will share from the very first meeting. And yet, if you are honest with yourself, you know that words alone do not make you feel it.
​
Why do we seek awakening in the first place? Is it not because, at a deep level, we feel unfulfilled and disconnected?
Intuitively, we sense that life holds more than what we perceive through our ordinary senses, through eyes that are open, yet still asleep. A San Pedro ceremony can lift this veil, revealing the unseen forces of Nature: forces that are real, intelligent, loving, and deeply healing.
​
True awakening is difficult to describe, and it is rarely what the mind imagines. It is not fireworks in the sky or extraordinary visions. Awakening is clarity. And clarity itself is healing. When you see clearly, you understand. And once clarity is found and love is genuinely felt, something within you is irrevocably changed.
​
When you awaken spiritually, you become fully alive and present in your body, perhaps for the first time in your life. And that presence carries a quiet recognition: this is the feeling you have always been searching for. In that moment, it becomes clear that everything you once chased, success, validation, possessions, identity, was never the thing itself. And with that realization, the chasing simply falls away.
​
A San Pedro cactus ceremony can gently open you, allowing you to bloom like a flower of your own becoming.
​
When your state of being becomes the source of your joy and inner fullness, you no longer feel compelled to endlessly consume the cultural noise around you. Instead, you begin cultivating something far more intimate and meaningful, your own inner culture, rooted in presence, authenticity, and lived experience.
​
Through the San Pedro ceremony, as awareness widens and the senses awaken, you begin to perceive the world anew. You are touched by the quiet healing beauty that has always surrounded you, while naturally absorbing the vital, nourishing energies of Nature itself.
​
In this space, all ideologies dissolve into pure beingness. What remains is awakening, simple, direct, and undeniable. You find yourself sitting on the grass, immersed in a state of wonder, joy, tenderness, and quiet wisdom, astonished that something so obvious could have been overlooked for so long. And as the heart opens, healing tears of joy begin to flow, not from sadness, but from remembering who you are.
​
The San Pedro experience is ecstatic in nature; however, it is not mere bodily pleasure. Nor is it an emotional euphoria experienced through ecstatic dance, group catharsis, or the dopamine highs often produced in spiritual gatherings. These states are fleeting. They arise, fade, and leave one chasing the next experience, like a painkiller that temporarily numbs discomfort without ever addressing its root cause. At best, such moments are only a drop compared to the ocean of true ecstasy: a Divine intelligence that heals rather than distracts.
​
The San Pedro ceremony is that ocean, one in which we learn not to chase waves, but to swim. Once we enter this space and remember how to move within it, we realize that happiness is not something to be achieved or acquired. It is intrinsic to our nature. All that was ever required was remembrance.
​
When this state of ecstatic aliveness is genuinely experienced, it does not vanish when the ceremony ends. It is not a sensation dependent on stimulation, but a teaching carried within the body and the heart. Divine ecstasy empowers from the inside out. It becomes a quiet guide, shaping how one lives, perceives, and responds to life. It cannot be explained, only known through direct experience.
​
Anchored in this state during the ceremony, its imprint remains. In the weeks and months that follow, it functions as an inner immunity: fear and negativity lose their power to penetrate and destabilize you. Your center holds. A grounded sense of empowerment replaces reactivity.
​
Some remain content believing that talking about awakening is the same as embodying it. Others have grown tired of words altogether. If you are ready to move beyond concepts, borrowed beliefs, and the temporary dopamine shifts produced by other modalities, the San Pedro ceremony offers a direct path to the awakening you seek.
​
True self-empowerment never arises from the hypnotic repetition of affirmations. It emerges naturally from the lived experience of being awake. A San Pedro ceremony is precisely that: a direct encounter with clarity, gratitude, and the miracle of being alive.
​
​
​
WHAT IS A SAN PEDRO CEREMONY?
SAN PEDRO CEREMONY IS A PORTAL TO HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS
SAN PEDRO CEREMONY IS THE GROUNDING AND YOUR ANCHOR IN REALITY
SAN PEDRO CEREMONY CAN TEACH YOU REAL LIVING
Huachuma: The Sacred Teacher No Guru Can Replace | Direct Experience Over Borrowed Beliefs
SAN PEDRO CEREMONY IS A HEALING AND TEACHING ECSTASY
What is the Essence of the San Pedro Cactus Experience?
​
​
The essence of a San Pedro ceremony is to reawaken the purity of who you were in early childhood, and to empower you with the directly perceived wisdom that can only arise through lived experience. Within the ceremony, a magical yet deeply familiar world of beauty, wonder, and joy comes back within reach, allowing you to experience your life and the world consciously, openly, and with genuine delight.
​
As we grow up, that gentle, pure, and vulnerable essence is shaped—and often fragmented—by countless influences. Expectations, conditioning, trauma, and social roles each claim a piece of the Self. By the time we reach adulthood, what remains is often only a faint memory of who we once were, accompanied by a quiet sense of loss.
​
Yet this loss is not permanent. What is often mistaken for an inevitable emptiness of adulthood is, in truth, a forgetting. Through the San Pedro ceremony, this original essence can be restored—and not merely recovered, but matured, strengthened, and embodied with clarity and wisdom. What returns is not childish innocence, but awakened innocence: grounded, conscious, and fully alive.
​
​​We conduct the San Pedro ceremony to reconnect with that precious, original Self and gently bring it back into conscious awareness. By building this bridge, we reconnect with the source of our happiness, so often severed as we move through conditioning, responsibility, and adulthood. This is the healing we should be seeking. How can genuine happiness arise if we are cut off from the purity of our true nature?
​
When the Self is reintegrated and directly experienced as a whole, life begins to unfold from a place of inner peace rather than inner lack. True happiness is no longer pursued; it is realized. In this realization, it becomes clear that searching beyond pure self-awareness is unnecessary, this is the place of bliss itself. From here, the Self does not seek answers; it simply gazes upon the mystery of existence.
​
If self-realization on an emotional level is the felt sense of being yourself, then on an intellectual level it naturally expresses itself as creativity, your uniqueness appearing effortlessly. This divine expression of our humanity may take countless shapes, and Huachuma Wasi exists as a space to explore, remember, and discover your own path in life.
​
Yet there is an important distinction between knowing the path and walking it. Neither self-realization nor the full embodiment of one’s purpose happens overnight. These unfold through time, integration, and lived experience. What can happen here is the beginning, the first conscious steps taken with clarity and intention.
​
At its deepest level, the San Pedro ceremony is a great unifier. It brings you into sacred union with yourself, with nature, and with life itself, restoring wholeness where there was once fragmentation, and coherence where there was confusion.
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​This experience has the potential to profoundly shift your perception and worldview in a positive way. There are no guarantees that life will change in a matter of weeks. Transformation unfolds in its own time. Yet if you can meet the experience with an open heart and a quiet mind, receiving what is offered with sincerity and trust, it can become a new reference point. From that horizon, you may begin to see your life, your choices, and the world itself with greater clarity and depth.
​
If you walk into a market without knowing what you are looking for, you may wander all day and leave either empty-handed or burdened with things you never needed. Knowing what you seek, and where to find it, saves time, energy, and resources. Huachuma Wasi is a place for sincere and mature spiritual seekers who have grown tired of talking about awakening and are ready to engage in a direct experience of it, to feel awake rather than merely think about it.
​
While this path is often entered in pursuit of personal healing or insight, we hold a deeper understanding: the change you wish to see in the world begins with the change you are willing to embody within yourself. If you resonate with this description of our work, then questions of price naturally move to the background. That is why there are no prices listed on the website. The first invitation is to read, to reflect, and to listen inwardly, before anything else.
​
If the words speak to you, the next step will reveal itself.
​
Huachuma and relationships
​
​​​​​​As time passes in relationships, it is common for the initial spark of love and passion to fade. The routines and pressures of daily life can slowly dull connection, allowing distance, apathy, or even toxicity to replace what was once vibrant and alive.
​
Within a San Pedro ceremony, couples are given the opportunity to reconnect, to see one another again as they did in the beginning, before stress, roles, and unresolved emotions accumulated.
Over time, it can be difficult to move beyond layers of disappointment, defensiveness, or distraction. Yet love is sacred, and it is not enough to merely remember that, we must be in love with the person we are choosing to share our life with.
​
Culturally, we are taught that falling in love means losing ourselves. In truth, real love is the opposite: it is the discovery of oneself with another, within a shared field of presence and trust. When stress and unconscious patterns dominate, that shared space begins to collapse from within. Approached with sincerity and care, a San Pedro ceremony experienced as a couple can help restore clarity, openness, and the original feeling of passion that brought you together.
​
Beyond healing, the ceremony can also reveal new dimensions of your partner, allowing you to meet one another beyond habits and assumptions. When connection happens at a deeper, more authentic level, love expands. Appreciation deepens. What once felt familiar becomes alive again.
​
San Pedro ceremony promotes self-honesty. It does not impose narratives. If a relationship has been built on misalignment or unconscious motivations, this too may become clear. In that clarity, truth replaces confusion.
When love is truly present, it naturally strengthens. Minor frictions lose their emotional weight and are met with ease, perspective, and understanding. And if love is no longer there, its absence is felt without denial, bringing with it the quiet knowing of what must come next.
​
For those ready to explore their relationship with greater depth, authenticity, and truth, the San Pedro ceremony offers a space where love can be renewed and re-experienced.
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
SAN PEDRO CEREMONY IS A MIRROR IN WHICH YOU CAN SEE YOUR TRUE SELF
SAN PEDRO CEREMONY OPENS YOUR HEART AND MAKES YOU WANT TO BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF AND OTHERS
​
​
​
​
​
Our San Pedro ceremonies are a union of spiritual adventure and deeply personal inner work, rooted in self-reflection, contemplation, and direct experience. Shamanism, at its core, is a way of communing with nature. For this reason, our ceremonies take place outdoors, immersed in the elements, allowing you to recalibrate to the natural pulse of life rather than the accelerating rhythm of technological society.
​
At Huachuma Wasi, we provide a safe, grounded, and supportive container under the Sergey's guidance. This guidance helps you move through the experience with clarity, intention, and care. Prior to the ceremony, you are encouraged to set a clear intention, which serves as an inner compass, gently orienting your awareness throughout the journey.
​
Ceremonies are held during the daylight hours, typically beginning at 9:00 a.m. and concluding around 5:00 p.m. After taking the medicine, the day unfolds in silence and contemplation, held by the breathtaking beauty of the Andes. You are welcome to listen to music if it supports your process, yet we have found that silence, and the healing sound of a river, offers more.
​
While earplugs may be useful during travel, closing yourself off from the sounds of nature during the ceremony may mean missing the music of life itself. You did not travel all the way to Peru to remain unchanged. You came to be here, to listen, to feel, and to remember.
​​​​
Our San Pedro ceremonies are intentionally limited to a maximum of fifteen participants (with no minimum), ensuring a deeply personal and attentive experience for each individual. Rather than sitting in a circle, as it is done elsewhere, participants are spread throughout the forest, each held in their own space while remaining within a safe distance of one another. The intention is simple: to leave you alone with the medicine, free from unnecessary distractions.
​
In this setting, you are alone, but never unsupported. Energetically held within a safe and conscious container, you are free to explore your inner landscape with trust and openness. Sergey is always nearby, whether visibly present or quietly attentive, and available at any moment should support be needed. A San Pedro ceremony is not about being taught through words; it is about learning directly through lived, embodied experience.
​
Guidance unfolds organically through spontaneous, private conversations that arise when needed. This is our way of holding the ceremony, much like ícaros guide the Ayahuasca experience, not through instruction, but through resonance and attunement. We value mutual dialogue and shared reflection over hierarchical teacher–student dynamics. True understanding emerges through exchange, not authority.
​
After the ceremony, charged with clarity, beauty, love, and peace, we return together to Huachuma Wasi for a gentle closing. From there, the evening unfolds naturally. Guests are free to do as they wish, though most choose to remain together, cooking, sitting by the fireplace, sharing, and deepening connection. This immediate form of integration is both helpful and deeply relaxing.
​
San Pedro ceremonies are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The days between ceremonies are intentionally left open for integration and exploration of the surrounding area. Some guests rest, read, or write in the garden. Others hike, explore the Sacred Valley, or simply sit with their experience. These integration days are not empty time, they are fertile ground, allowing insight to settle and life to reorganize itself organically.
​
HOW DO WE CONDUCT OUR SAN PEDRO CEREMONIES
SAN PEDRO CEREMONY IS A NEW BEGINNING
Throughout my life, I have had to leave behind people and places that were deeply dear to me at the time. I did so in service of finding my true Self—the part of me that refused to settle for anything less than what felt honest and real.
Looking back now, I feel profound gratitude for my younger self, who kept walking despite the bitterness, disappointments, and pain that marked the path. The search was relentless. At times it felt hopeless, even illusory. And yet, something unseen was always present—an invisible current quietly pulling me forward, guiding me toward what was meant.
​
This picture are taken in our garden, says what words never fully can.
— Sergey Baranov
SAN PEDRO CEREMONY TEACHES YOU HOW TO BE PRESENT AND LIVE CONSCIOUSLY
Logistics
We do not require a special San Pedro diet or food restrictions for working with this medicine. Your diet is a personal choice. What matters most is the intention, sincerity, and presence you bring into the ceremony, not what is in your stomach.
​
On ceremony days, however, we do ask that you skip breakfast and take the medicine on an empty stomach. This allows the body to absorb the medicine more smoothly and helps reduce any initial physical discomfort. In the evening, after the ceremony has concluded, you are free to eat whatever you wish.
​
We do not require sexual abstinence before, during, or after the retreat. Sexuality is a natural and integral part of the human experience and is not something we believe should be suppressed or denied.
This, however, applies to couples who arrive together. We discourage the formation of romantic or sexual relationships within the group, as this type of interaction can become a distraction from the healing process.
​
Our intention is to create a focused, respectful space where attention remains directed inward and toward the medicine, rather than toward interpersonal dynamics that may dilute the experience.
​
We strongly recommend reading the books written by Sergey Baranov prior to inquiring. These writings offer a clear sense of the philosophy and depth of the work we do. If you resonate with the material, it is usually a good indication that you are ready to take the next step.
​
As part of the application process, we ask for an honest introduction of yourself. This should include your intentions, the challenges or questions you are currently facing, and what you hope to explore or resolve. Full and honest disclosure of your medical and psychiatric history, as well as any medications or substance use, is required. This information is essential for ensuring safety and integrity for everyone involved. We reserve the right to decline any inquiry without further explanation.
​
The focus of our work at Huachuma Wasi is to help guests reconnect with themselves and with nature, connections that, for many, have been gradually severed by modern life. Restoring these bonds often brings clarity, healing, and a renewed sense of inner peace. From this reconnection, happiness arises naturally, not as something pursued, but as something remembered.
​
The time we spend together with the medicine is a meaningful and intimate process, one that often brings clarity, healing, and deep understanding. This is an invitation to take a spiritual vacation from the mundane and step into the sacred. While even a single San Pedro ceremony can positively influence your life, allowing yourself more time and honoring the natural rhythm of the work creates a far more profound and lasting impact. A minimum stay with us is one week and includes three ceremonies. Longer stays often result in a deeper connection.
​
Each ceremony is not a separate event, but a continuation of the previous one, a gradual unfolding. With every step, the process deepens, building toward greater healing, integration, and expansion of consciousness. Respecting this progression allows insight to mature and transformation to root itself in daily life.
​
If you feel called, please submit your information form. We will carefully review your application within 24 hours and respond with pricing and further details regarding booking your retreat at Huachuma Wasi.
This path cannot be rushed, but entered with a clear intention, and readiness.
​
Good Medicine for Good Hearts
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
Sixteen years ago, these were little cactus babies. Today, they stand as the quiet guardians of Huachuma Wasi.
The same is true for children. Once small and fragile, they grow into our pride, shaped by time, care, and presence.
Life moves in reciprocity: what we nurture, nurtures us in return. What we give, we receive, often transformed and multiplied.
Are you ready to visit us?
Please fill out our information form below:
​​