Willka Hampi
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💬 Guests Say
- Spiritual Growth: Best Retreats highlights the focus on sacred plant ceremonies, with retreat.guru noting guests felt “transformed” by Ayahuasca and San Pedro, though some found the strict vegetarian diet limiting.
- Community Vibe: Quora praises the “circle consciousness” approach in Taray, with guests appreciating the communal living, but a review on a retreat platform warns of a “toxic herd mentality” and rigid rules.
- Serious Concerns: A 2020 review on a retreat platform calls it a “dangerous cult,” alleging patriarchal power dynamics, self-policing, and name changes (e.g., Casa Copal) to evade accountability, making guests feel unsafe.
🚩 Incident Report
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Theft: No reports on Reddit, Quora, Tripadvisor, or Google mention stolen items at Willka Hampi.
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Sexual Misconduct: No allegations against Willka Hampi’s staff were found in online discussions or ICEERS resources.
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Crime/Concerning Behavior: A 2020 review on a retreat platform labels Willka Hampi a “dangerous cult,” alleging patriarchal control, self-policing (e.g., members monitoring compliance with rules like no meat), and frequent name changes (Casa Copal, Hospedaje Choquepata) to avoid accountability. The reviewer felt unsafe due to a “toxic herd mentality” and top-down control by a “guru” named Copal, but this remains unverified without legal action or further corroboration.
🔍 Critical Notes
CEREMONIES WITH SACRED PLANTS
We mainly propose ceremonies with Grandmother Ayahuasca and on certain occasions ceremonies with Grandfather Huachuma.
The purpose of our medicine is to find the initiatory path of life, to awaken the consciousness of its real being, to discover how to serve life, to awaken our potential as leaders if such is our destiny, to review the programming of the collective subconscious that can block our progress.
The ceremonies are managed by a circle of people from the community qualified to serve the medicine under the connection, guidance and protection of our authentic lineage.
Before each ceremony there is a prior preparation with discussions about the shamanic tradition, about our way of serving medicine and to discover together the particular purpose of entering the ceremony.
The ceremony is followed by a collective debriefing to understand the teachings that have come to us at a collective and personal level. And if one feels it necessary, one can also ask to receive complementary personal accompaniment.
To enter into ceremony with us, you need to dedicate at least a whole week. Living within the community by entering into the circle consciousness, following the diet, participating in the singing circles, readings and discussions. All of this is part of the preparation to go into ceremony.
It is our particular way of serving medicine, seeing that it is what will help them receive what they need to receive from life through their medicine.
FIRST INITIATION RITUAL
What makes our collective special is that we prepare those who wish to undergo a ritual of first initiation into the universal path of life. This ritual does not in any way define their identity within our collective. It provides a basis for expansion and it is up to each person to discover the particularities of their connection with life: lineage, spiritual family, spiritual practices, service, place, projects, etc. This ritual helps us to gradually distinguish between what corresponds to our identity conditioned by the body and what is related to our true identity as spirit.
Free Chants
Reading & Discussions 20 soles
Temazcal 35 soles (basic) – 60 soles (with Huachuma) First
Ceremony : 400 soles. Second: 400 soles. Third: 200 soles. Fourth and subsequent: 350 soles.
Continued process: From the fourth month of your stay, you will receive a complete package of activities for the price of 900 soles. This price decreases every quarter, reaching 300 soles after 2 years of active stay.