Kumankaya Healing Center

28/05/2026

We wanted to share a few principles that we consider essential to our lives and have shaped the work we do at Kumankaya throughout the years.

While most are simple to understand, they are most powerful and transformative when you put them into practice.

Taking just one of these principles and embodying it in your life will deepen your practice and catalyze growth in your life.

We hope that they are as helpful for you as they have been for us, and for many who have visited us here.

We’d love to hear which of these speaks to you 🌱

26/05/2026

Throwback to Remi, .saryndipity and Ricardo sharing about the learning process soon after Remi completed his apprenticeship diet .

If you’re interested in joining Remi and Ashley at Nihue Rao next year, from May 8-19, 2027, write us at [email protected].

’s School of Ancestral Knowledge is opening enrollment for its next cohort from June 1 to August 1 for their one-year apprenticeship program. You can find more information through the link in their bio.

24/05/2026

Peru, vol.3 🌿

We still have spots open for our retreat from May 8th-19th 2027. Send us a note at [email protected] if you’re interested!

22/05/2026

The path of the apprentice begins when the healing of others becomes your primary focus 🌱

Thank you for the beautiful video ❤️

13/05/2026

This is one of Remi’s favourite pieces of advice to give.

It goes out to all our youngsters out there who are ready and willing to devote their lives to the medicine.

This doesn’t mean ‘don’t pursue the medicine path’. It means get grounded and stable first. Be realistic, and don’t seek medicine work as a way to become someone special.

True devotion requires facing reality head on, not running away from it into the jungle.

06/05/2026

We recently completed our 3rd and 4th retreats at Nihue Rao and we’re happy to say that once again they were a huge success!

We did our first two last year and enjoyed them so much that we decided to continue doing them. 

Something special about these retreats is that Remi and Ashley sit alongside you as facilitators rather than lead the ceremonies, so they get to spend extra time with you and really be present for all the pasajeros’ journeys.

Nihue Rao is the home and spiritual centre of Remi and Ashley’s teacher, Maestro Ricardo Amaringo, and is where they did their apprenticeship diets. Ricardo has around 50 years of experience working with the medicine, so sitting with him is a really special experience. It is in the heart of the Amazon, near Iquitos in Peru.

For anyone interested in joining us for our next retreat there, from May 8th–19th 2027, please send us an email at [email protected]. We’d love to have you there!

Thank you to Eric and the whole Nihue Rao team for doing the awesome job that you do. We can’t wait to see you guys next time 🌿

30/04/2026

23/04/2026

This is a quote from one of our favourite books - The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life, by (available in our living room!) 🦁

21/04/2026

IYKYK 🐉