Chakana

Retreats

Siekopai Retreats

In partnership with the wisdom keepers of the Amazon rainforest

The Siekopai are an Indigenous Amazonian people whose cosmology, ceremonies, and plant knowledge are deeply interwoven with the rainforest and its living intelligence. Their traditions carry a profound understanding of healing, vision, and balance, guided by ancestral teachings passed through generations in close relationship with the land.

The Siekopai once numbered over 30,000, but now only 1,600 remain. This native tribe of wisdom keepers depends on the Amazon rainforest for survival, and its destruction puts them at risk of extinction. These bridges of cultural recognition and compassionate understanding lead us toward a world of harmony.

Retreats with the Siekopai are offered directly by their knowledge holders — held with consent, cultural integrity, and reciprocity. These are invitations, not performances.

Faces of the Siekopai

The Siekopai Community

The Siekopai Community

Wisdom keepers of the Ecuadorian Amazon, holding ceremony, song, and plant knowledge passed down through generations. Every retreat is an invitation extended by them, on their terms.

A Keeper of the Lineage

A Keeper of the Lineage

The teachings of the Siekopai live in the people who carry them. Each knowledge holder shares from a lifetime of relationship with the forest and its living intelligence.

Gathering at the Table

Gathering at the Table

Where food, story, and medicine are shared. The table is its own ceremony — a place of reciprocity, where relationship is tended as carefully as any ritual.

Join an Upcoming Siekopai Retreat

Dates are released by inquiry. Reach out to learn about the next gathering and how to take part.