Chakanaancestral Reviews 

“As we grow, we come home to the place we know…”

Walking onto the grounds of Terrapacha during my first retreat with Chakana Ancestral felt exactly like that. I was home.
César, Érica and the team create and hold a space of safety, where you can trust… to let go. The ceremonies, breathwork, sound healing, or simply the food - there’s so much love, kindness and honesty.
I’m so grateful for all I’ve experienced and everything that is still to come.

César, Érica and the team are a gift to everyone who gets to know them.

I went to Chakana Ancestral desperate for help with addictions, emotional attachments, toxic relationships, and feeling blocked and uncapable of becoming financially independent or move forward in life. I had tried treatment centers, psychologists, alternative therapies, you name it. Honestly, I was exhausted from looking for answers everywhere.

And to be completely honest, my experience changed my life.

I spent a year with them, like a therapy process and attended every month to the retreats and also did follow up with the group.

Not because it was miraculous or because everything changed overnight. There is no magic shortcut. What Chakana gave me were the tools, support, and strength to face myself, get back up no matter how many times I fall, and take responsibility for my own life.

In my opinion, what makes Chakana special is its holistic approach to healing: body, mind, and spirit. Plant medicine and altered states of consciousness can be powerful, but without proper support and integration, it's easy to get lost in imagination and disconnect from everyday reality. The real transformation, for me, was learning how to come back to myself and apply what I experienced to my actual life.

One of my biggest realizations was this: the sun doesn't ask itself why it's not the moon. It simply is. ITSELF.

So why do we spend so much time chasing something extraordinary, searching for hidden meanings, signs, or answers, when we struggle to appreciate the beautiful reality right in front of us?

I learned that I don't need to escape reality to find peace. I need to embrace who I am, right here, right now. Acceptance, self-love, compassion, and presence. I am enough.

That realization has been my biggest ticket to freedom.

I'll be eternally grateful to the Chakana Ancestral team for their support and the tools they gave me. This is my personal experience, and everyone's journey is different, but for me, it was truly life-changing.

To me, Chakana is the real deal in the world of shamanic healing and personal growth.
The experience, the depth, sensitivity and care I felt from Cesar and the entire team made me feel safe and therefore bold to dive deep into my journey and development. And the music! I will definitely be back.

I started my journey with Ayahuasca with Cesar ten years ago, and im been on the journey with Chakana and seen them grow into a beautiful organization with over ten facilitators and a doctor that support medical reviews, sound healing, Breathwork - all creating a safe space for profound healing. My life has transformed in all ways, and I’m in such deep gratitude to the medicine and to the team of chakana. I also organize my own retreats with them, and I now support them in my own work for the Ayahuasca Integration Alliance. This is more then a retreat center, it’s a community for the long journey of transformation.