Applying To Live In Our Community
Monthly Stays at Gaia Sagrada

Please be aware, this is NOT a long ayahuasca retreat program. This is an application period for living in our intentional community.

Dates and Reservations – scroll down to the 2 month stay category, past the retreat listings
Prices & What’s Included – more information on monthly stays
Extra, Optional Costs – information on the extras at Gaia
Logistics & Further Info – things to be aware of
Travel & Visas – info on what is needed to enter Ecuador

Community, Safety, Love & Joy

If you want to live in a heavenly place, maybe living at Gaia Sagrada is just right for you! This is an opportunity to apply for residency tat Gaia Sagrada by trying it out for 2 months and seeing if you’re a fit for our intentional community. This two month residency is a chance to stay here for two months and see how you like it here!

  • Would you like to live for a while at a magical place in the Andes Mountains?
  • Want to have connection with like minded, spiritually focused souls?
  • Want to experience Ayahuasca and San Pedro ceremonies on the side?
  • Want a quiet place with plenty of free time to work on your creativity, or simply retreat from the world for a little while?
  • Want to have a better than normal life with connection to other people?

This is your chance to live in Heaven on Earth!

Gaia Sagrada is manifesting a community. This is a rare opportunity to live at an ayahuasca retreat center, a chance to escape the insanity of the world. Many have wanted to live at Gaia Sagrada or stay at least a few months in this magical place. This is your chance to do it affordably.

Minimum 2 Month Stay

Our Monthly Stays Program has been designed for those who are looking to retreat from the world for while and immerse themselves in our community. A minimum of a 2 month stay is required so we don’t have a lot of people coming and going. Our focus is on providing a safe community atmosphere for those seeking refuge and peace.

You will be around the guests, you are welcome to be in the workshops, meditation and yoga classes, and of course you are around everyone at meals, but this is not an ayahuasca retreat program. You will be on your own somewhat even though you can do one, maybe two, Ayahuasca or San Pedro ceremonies per retreat. (You won’t be able to do every ceremony in a retreat, not by a long shot).

During the breaks between retreats its very quiet and most people leave for some kind of tourist adventure, which means you are on your own for making your own food and such. There are no services like meal preparation and dishes washed for you. You will have to do all that for yourself between the retreats.

This is a place to live in an intentional community. Yes, Gaia Sagrada functions as an ayahuasca retreat center and there are guests here during retreats, but if you are here as a resident, there isn’t a lot of hand holding for you as if you are on a retreat with counseling and processing for your ceremonies and such. You will be able to participate in the next day’s integration session after a ceremony, but if you are a resident you must be fairly able to entertain yourself and be self sufficient.

Plant Medicine

During retreats, Monthly Stay guests are invited to participate in ceremonies with retreat participants when there is space to do so (see Retreat Schedules for ceremony information) and the Family Meeting for integration the next day. Fees for ceremonies are extra (not included in the monthly stay price) and you can choose when you want to do them. There is usually an opening for one, maximum two per retreat, which gives you the opportunity to do 3-6 ceremonies per three months. or 1-2 ceremonies per month. If you want an intense medicine experience, you’ll want to do a retreat rather than a residential stay.

During the breaks between retreats, no ceremonies are offered, and in fact it a personal time without much going on. Things are quiet for 5 days between retreats before everyone starts coming back. Staff and work exchangers take a much needed and deserved break! Sometimes there is a special work exchange and staff ceremony you can participate in, but not always. You may want to go on some tourist excursions with work exchangers and guests during the 5 days when they go on an adventure. OR you can stay and have lots of personal time to yourself.

During break times you can use all the facilities as you want to, but workshops, classes, ceremonies and events are not happening during the break. This is a time when everyone is independent and they can help themselves to leftovers or make their own meals in the main kitchen. (Making your own meals during retreats is not possible.)

Rare Opportunity! Seize the Day!

Creating a long term community here at Gaia Sagrada has not been possible before now because our retreats were always fully booked. We cannot guarantee that this opportunity to live at Gaia Sagrada on a monthly basis will be available after the pandemic era, so this is your chance!

We have always dreamed of having a spiritually focused community here alongside the medicine retreats of Gaia Sagrada. It is possible for a few people to stay on as long term residents.