Wachuma (San Pedro) has been used for more than 4,000 years in Peru for the purposes of healing, divinination, and expanding consciousness. This cactus is chereished by the Andean people as a powerful medicine, a sacred teacher & healer plant, and a doorway to the spiritual world.
San Padro Wachuma is also known as the 'San Pedro' (Saint Peter) Cactus. To use a Christian metafor, Just as St. Peter holds the keys to the gates of heaven, this sacred cactus opens the doors of perception and allows us to enter the Spirit world, accessing a paradisiacal reality in communion with the divine. San PedroWachuma is a powerful catalyst for healing, meditaiton and self understanding. Just as Ayahuasca is expereinced as a feminine teacher plant, the Andian Shaman of Peru view San Pedro Wachuma as a benovolent Masaculine teacher plant.
Each ceremony with San Pedro Wachuma produces a gental yet profound shift in consciousness, helping us to cleanse and heal the wounds of the past while opening us to a more heart centered and conscious way of being.
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BEFORE THE CEREMONY:
The people interested in the SAN PEDRO ceremony will have fill in a medical form for a personal evaluation of their physical condition and will have to sign it, in order to give veracity to the information given to SUMAC COCA TRAVEL.
The people interested in the SAN PEDRO ceremony, will have a preliminary conversation with the Shaman or Healer who will perform the ceremony, in order to allow the latter to diagnose their physical and emotional condition and know about the interest they might have regarding the use of the Medicinal & healing Plant and so that a mutual trust relationship might establish itself between the participants and the person who will perform the ceremony.
ON THE DAY OF THE CEREMONY:
The ceremony will start around 7:30 a.m., going to nature, as this kind of ceremony is normally performed in the light of day, in order to get better results, due respect to the effects that might occur in the organism. Therefore, that ceremony has to take place during a walk that will last all day, passing by a variety of places, so as to better feel or enjoy the plant´s effects.we finish aprox. 7:30 pm
EFFECTS OF THE SAN PEDRO:
After having ingested the medicine, you will have a different perception of your body and will feel lighter and sensitive to what you perceive in your surroundings.
Possible vomiting or expulsion of the ingested plant, like a purifying purge of your organism, as what is expulsed is only what was ingested or simply, you won´t have any of these sensations and this will depend a lot on your general physical and emotional state and whether or not you followed correctly the indications given in the agency and by the Shaman.
You will go through moments of visions throughout the day, during which you will have a chance to appreciate nature with more interest and sensitivity than in normal conditions.
At the moment that you will be under the San Pedro´s effect, you will feel more sensitive to anything that might occur around you.
At the end of the ceremony, you will feel tired and still with the effects present in your mind and will feel like resting due to the mental work undergone during the whole day.
AFTER THE CEREMONY:
After the San Pedro ceremony, each participant will have an analysis and conclusion conversation with the Shaman about everything that happened during the ceremony and especially, on his/her general state, as well as on the interpretation of visions if he/she had any, in order to offer him/her a complete service and eliminate doubts regarding all of what he/she had the chance to experience during the process of the ceremony. This conversation will take place on the same day, after the ceremony.
IMPORTANT:
Strict diets to participate in an San Pedro Ceremony One to three days before the ceremony:
Do not eat meat, fish or seafood of any kind
No citrus fruit (lemon, grapefruit, orange, tangerine, pineapple, kiwi, passion fruit)
No pills nor chemical medicine of any kind
No smoking of any kind of tobacco
No ingestion of any kind of alcohol
No ingestion of any kind of drugs, being legal or not
No sexual activity of any kind
Women who have their periods, are pregnant or breast feeding SHOULD REFRAIN
People with heart problems SHOULD REFRAIN.
THE DAY OF THE CEREMONY:
drink water and nothing else during the whole day, until the time of the SAN PEDRO EREMONY
AFTER THE DAY OF THE CEREMONY:
Do not consume any alcoholic beverages, at least three whole day after the ceremony
Rest to regain energies lost during the previous night
As far as food is concerned, you will be able to go back to your normal diet.
WARNING:
An overdose provokes dangerous arrythmia. Therefore, such a case must be considered as a medical emergency. that is necesary that you do this kind of ceremonies wiht shamans who have experience, because you could have problems in your healt
INCLUDES:
Transportation to out side fron the city.
Ceremony Shaman
Translator if need be
DOES NOT INCLUDE:
Tips
Water for the ceremony
Other unmentioned expenses.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Warm jacket
Rain poncho or waterproof jacket
Some fruit such as bananas or apples for the afternoon, after the ceremony
Wachuma (San Pedro) has been used for more than 4,000 years in Peru for the purposes of healing, divinination, and expanding consciousness. This cactus is chereished by the Andean people as a powerful medicine, a sacred teacher & healer plant, and a doorway to the spiritual world.
