Parign Hak – Grandma's Home
Atmosphere
Features
💬 Guests Say
- Familial Warmth: Guests call it a “loving space,” with one on ayaadvisors.org saying Jessica and the Harakbut team made them feel like family, fostering deep trust.
- Powerful Ceremonies: Many praise Jessica’s skill, noting on psychedelicexperience.net her icaros and focus as an Onanya created a “grounding, transformative” experience.
- Serious Concerns: A 2023 random review reports Jessica’s “mental breakdown” post-ceremony, describing animal sounds and rants about ayahuasca ruining her life, causing fear.
🚩 Incident Report
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Theft: No guest reports or public posts on forums, social media, ICEERS data, or news sources mention stolen valuables or items at Parign Hak.
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Sexual Misconduct: There are no documented allegations, complaints, or legal actions against Parign Hak’s staff or facilitators in online discussions, news archives, or ICEERS resources.
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Crime/Concerning Behavior: A 2023 ayaadvisors.org review alleges co-founder Jessica had a “mental breakdown” 24 hours after the first ceremony, making animal sounds, using different voices, and yelling that ayahuasca “ruined her life” and the center’s operators were “hypocrites.” This caused significant distress for the reviewer, but no legal action or further reports confirm this, making it totally unverified.
🔍 Critical Notes
Parign Hak – Grandma’s Home, is a small non-commercial Ayahuasca center in the Peruvian Amazon, founded and owned by an indigenous Harakbut woman and her family.
Our unique retreats strive to be as beneficial to the local indigenous population as they are to the participants who visit us. We work closely with the surrounding native communities to offer a life-changing experience of respectful cultural exchange for every guest, from the moment they arrive. Participants are immersed into the culture, history, food and knowledge of these amazing but little known Amazonian people. Ayahuasca originated in the Amazon, and reciprocity for this rainforest and its indigenous people rests at the very heart of our center.
We are located in breathtaking mountain rainforest terrain, on the Upper Madre de Dios River in Southeastern Peru. Parign Hak rests between two major natural protected areas: the Manu Biosphere Reserve, (one of the most biodiverse places on Earth and a UNESCO world heritage site), and the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve, the ancestral Harakbut homeland.
Contained by a local indigenous family in this stunningly beautiful natural environment, our retreats are transformational, environmentally sustainable, culturally respectful and re-affirming, highly educational, mutually beneficial, and safe for both female and male participants.
Ayahuasca is often regarded as a female motherly spirit, which is why we call our center Parign Hak which translates into Grandma’s Home. At Parign Hak, our Ayahuasca work is about holistic cleansing, healing and learning, in a safe and welcoming environment with a strong maternal and familiar presence. We hope you join us on a future retreat!