

Peru Pancha karma
NOVEMBER 17 - 24 | 2025
The 7-night retreat at Kichic is luxurious, pleasurable, easy and deeply impactful. This proven transformational protocol enhances your body's capacity to generate and sustain a more joyful state of being.
The Amaveda Detox
Multi-dimensional beings need multi-dimensional healing.
This pleasure-centered protocol has been refined over 10+ years with outstanding results.
Rooted in Ayurvedic purification, it weaves functional fasting, delicious nourishment, movement, breathwork, and cutting-edge gut repair — clearing the central channel so your body can hold more light, more love, and deeper vitality.



A proven protocol
Your transformation gently unfolds as you spend a week…
Enjoying classical Ayurvedic detox practices
Healing your digestive system
Nurturing your gut mucosa
Replenishing your microbiome
Lowering your brain waves
Bathing in sunlight (and oil)
Stretching
Breathing fully
Upgrading your belief system
Unhooking from old patterns
Learning new things
Connecting — to your intuition, to each other, to the divine in all things
And you’re good.
Functional Fasting
The protocol is built around a 3-day period of Functional Fasting — a liquid nutrition phase I’ve worked with for over a decade.
It’s one of the most powerful healing tools I know.
Expect ease.
Expect effectiveness.
Expect mental clarity like you’ve never experienced, boundless energy, and countless revelations about your intimate relationship with food.
And yes — expect deliciousness.
Nervous System Always
Your body can only truly rejuvenate and detoxify when your nervous system is regulated — ideally while enjoying lowered brainwave states. That’s why we prioritise resting in a parasympathetic state throughout the week — it’s the foundation for deep, sustainable transformation.
Meta Metabolism
The first step toward elevated health is always metabolic. That means working with your gut. When you clear blockages — constipation, inflammation, infestation, stagnation — your entire system resets. A clean, light body becomes the seedbed for your energetic, mental, and intuitive bodies. This is *Meta Metabolism.
5 Bodies to Love
We honour the Ayurvedic wisdom of the 5 bodies — physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and cosmic. When you clear and unblock the physical body, the first body, you restore and amplify flow through all five in natural succession.
Group Synergy
Healing is accelerated in groups. Period. Group experiences harness the power of collective intention — where a shared commitment to well-being creates a powerful synergy that carries everyone forward, lifting each person higher than they could go alone.
The core components
The architecture of transformation




Highlights
Rebirthing Breathwork

Over the course of the week, you’ll be guided through three group Rebirthing Breathwork experiences. These deep, somatic healing journeys support the liberation of the emotional body, activate the parasympathetic nervous system, and often lead us into states of expanded awareness and unity consciousness.
The Amaveda Product Kit

Guests receive the Amaveda Detox Collection — a curated set of small-batch products designed to support the cleansing process and introduce Ayurvedic daily self-care practices and treatments. These rituals can be continued at home, extending the impact of the retreat into your everyday life.
The Peruvian Pharmacopoeia

Drawing from Peru's potent and abundant natural healing botanicals and nutrient-rich foods, the program incorporates Amazonian botanicals and Peruvian superfoods and herbs, sourced directly from this fertile, magical country.
Kichic Hotel

Recognized as one of Peru’s most beautiful boutique hotels, Kichic offers the ideal setting for this kind of inner work — spacious, serene, and deeply comfortable. The rooms are generous, the staff are incredible, the design exquisite, but it’s the open-air living that’s the real medicine. We’ve returned every year since 2014 — there’s simply nowhere better.
Pleasure-focused

Cleansing doesn’t require suffering — in fact, it can block your body’s natural detox pathways. Every part of this program is designed for spaciousness, pleasure, and ease. Even downtime is curated. Healing feels good here.

Over the course of the week, you’ll be guided through three group Rebirthing Breathwork experiences. These deep, somatic healing journeys support the liberation of the emotional body, activate the parasympathetic nervous system, and often lead us into states of expanded awareness and unity consciousness.

Guests receive the Amaveda Detox Collection — a curated set of small-batch products designed to support the cleansing process and introduce Ayurvedic daily self-care practices and treatments. These rituals can be continued at home, extending the impact of the retreat into your everyday life.

Drawing from Peru's potent and abundant natural healing botanicals and nutrient-rich foods, the program incorporates Amazonian botanicals and Peruvian superfoods and herbs, sourced directly from this fertile, magical country.

Recognized as one of Peru’s most beautiful boutique hotels, Kichic offers the ideal setting for this kind of inner work — spacious, serene, and deeply comfortable. The rooms are generous, the staff are incredible, the design exquisite, but it’s the open-air living that’s the real medicine. We’ve returned every year since 2014 — there’s simply nowhere better.

Cleansing doesn’t require suffering — in fact, it can block your body’s natural detox pathways. Every part of this program is designed for spaciousness, pleasure, and ease. Even downtime is curated. Healing feels good here.
Cared for Self-Care
You’ll enter a held space, in a beautiful place — where the pleasure of truly caring for yourself returns, and stays with you long after you leave.
When everything you need for daily rituals is already in place and thoughtfully prepared, self-care becomes a joy. And joy is what makes it stick.



Expect Results!

MENTAL & EMOTIONAL CLARITY
Heightened mental clarity and focus
Heightened intuition
Motivation for positive change in any area of your life
Culinary consciousness
PHYSICAL VITALITY
Increased energy and stamina
Appropriate weight release
Reduced inflammation and physical pain
Improved flexibility and agility
Brighter, clearer skin
GUT & DETOX
Improved transit time and metabolism
Healthier intestinal flora and pH
Freedom from dietary dependencies and cravings
Reduction of candida overgrowth
Elimination or reduction of parasites
Strengthened immune, liver, and kidney function


Expect to leave feeling light, joyous, energised, reconnected to self, mentally clear and excited for positive change in any area of your life.

This is an all-inclusive experience where everything you need to successfully and comfortably complete the program is included in the price.
Included in the list price
- 7 NIGHT'S ACCOMMODATION
- PRE AND POST GUIDANCE & SUPPORT
- ALL PANCHAKARMA PRACTICES
- COLON CLEANSING DRINKS
- AM AND PM YOGA CLASSES
- Daily talks and shares
- AMAVEDA PRODUCTS
- ALL THE HEALING FOODS
- THE FUNCTIONAL FAST
- DETOX SUPPLEMENTS
- 3 X GROUP BREATHWORK SESSIONS
- 2 X BODYWORK TREATMENTS
- PICK UP FROM TALARA AIRPORT WITH THE RECOMMENDED FLIGHTS


















Kichic Hotel
Peru's most exquisite beach boutique hotel. A beautiful container for our retreat. This is VERSION 12.0
9 rooms
To optimize the detox experience, we recommend single occupancy. However, all rooms are spacious, can be arranged with twin beds, and sharing with a friend can amplify the magic. We do not assign roommates. Prices are in USD.


Barro
$3600 single occupancy
$2200 double occupancy, per person


Piedra
$3600 single occupancy
$2200 double occupancy, per person


Hualtaco *BOOKED
$3600 single occupancy
$2200 double occupancy, per person


Ki
$4000 single occupancy
$2400 double occupancy, per person



Elefante
$4000 single occupancy
$2400 double occupancy, per person


Suite Himalaya
$4400 single occupancy
$2600 double occupancy, per person



Suite Neem *BOOKED
$4400 single occupancy
$2600 double occupancy, per person


Suite Balance *BOOKED
$4400 single occupancy
$2600 double occupancy, per person


Suite Chic *BOOKED
$4400 single occupancy
$2600 double occupancy, per person
Results
A gift to your future self
It was truly amazing. I feel in touch with myself again, both physically and mentally...I learned so much about the healing way of living the Ayurvedic life. As a bonus, I lost 3 kgs. yay! My favourites parts were Emily and her amazing culinary food & juices. We did 3 days of liquid fasting and it was a genuine feast. Never had I one second of feeling hungry. This unique Panchakarma was as much about food for thought as it was about thought for food. A healing experience that was my first one but definitely not my last. I haven’t felt this good in years.
What the website doesn’t tell you is how wonderful, passionate, knowledgeable and generous Emily is and that she makes everything fun. What can I say, I loved every minute of my detox holiday I didn’t want to come home! My body is so much lighter and my skin is glowing. I’ve had so many compliments since I got back. My candida feels completely clear and I feel deeply rested, as if I have finally caught up from months of lack of sleep and adrenal fatigue.
I feel physically lighter but what’s even better is the clearing of my headspace. I had a lot of emotional baggage coming onto this trip and now I feel like I really let a lot of it go, which is truly a gift.
I came a bit tired and uninspired and left filled with spirit and creativity as well as a renewed love for my body and how I nourish it. I can't wait to come back and do it again!
Emily is so generous with her knowledge. I loved all the methods we learned and I will incorporate them into my daily life. I loved the written materials – very friendly, detailed, and accessible, they made the experience far more fun than expected. Every idea was presented and with so much love and dedication.
There is an immense amount of knowledge and love behind every detail of this program. The relationship you form with yourself during it goes way beyond the length of the retreat.
It is a unique experience that fills your soul. After finishing the detox program I increased my mental clarity and awareness of being in the present moment. I felt very clean inside and with a deep connection with myself. The whole experience was very uplifting on so many levels. I have been so lucky to share these experiences with my mom. It was our second time doing the retreat together. I am so grateful to Emily for sharing her knowledge and making this retreat possible. It is the best gift you can give yourself!
I enjoyed every minute of the whole experience. Emily, you generously and caringly leads us so that every detail was well organized, what a blessing to have you leading an ayurvedic retreat. Your cooking is delicious, even the juices were to look forward to! Plus you invented such variety, which made fasting totally doable and not get a desperate hunger or headache. And Kichic is divine!!! What a gorgeous, special place, all of it, the best location you could have possibly chosen for a retreat. The location, decor, yoga and massage space, and all the wonderful people who tended to us. I hope to do it every year.
Firstly I feel that my colon and my liver are clean, which to me was the main thing, to detox my physical body. But with it came an incredible change in energy and mood. Like a veil got lifted. You structure it so perfectly that even the hardest parts were easily accomplished. Emily, with all my heart a deeply felt GRACIAS!
It was an excellent week, a life-changing experience, the support and depth of the programme were amazing, extremely professional! Thank you so much for a wonderful experience!
The retreat was so much more than I expected. I never felt really hungry and the attention to detail was amazing. I came away better equipped and educated to pursue a healthier way of living. I feel much better and my entire digestive system is working better. I have been buying and eating some of the foods recommended and that we ate at the retreat. I have not had any sugar cravings and have not had any sugar since I have returned home.
Valió la pena, recomiendo mucho esta experiencia, creo que es una suerte haber tenido la posibilidad en un sitio maravilloso que te permite cambios en lo físico, mental y espiritual. Agradezco s a Dios esta oportunidad.
The Amaveda retreat provided me with the opportunity to really embark on not just the physical detox experience, but to simultaneously dive deep into a state of pure observation, without judgement of my own healing process. I now have a deeper understanding of the tools available to me to live a healthier life with purpose and intention.
The retreat allowed me to see how good food and investing time in myself is so important in healing and rejuvenating the body. My gut feels cleaned out, I feel lighter, all body pains have subsided, I feel less overall tension and more relaxed, more flexible, overall less inflammation, and so far - no caffeine or sugar cravings!
I enjoyed everything about this retreat. I felt so taken care of and supported on every level. I loved the hotel and all of the staff. I loved Emily's playful spirit through it all. To me, she is a fountain of knowledge and I had fun picking her brain and having some good laughs even on the "tougher" days. I loved trying new things every day. Even if it was as simple as a cup of tea, we still tried something new every day. Emily introduced us to and taught us about different superfoods, barks, roots, and all around cool plants from around the world. I loved the dream workshop. I loved that napping and deep relaxation was on the top of my "to do" list and I got to do exactly that every day during the retreat. I love our Amaveda "goody bag" filled with amazing products and new tools to use throughout the retreat and beyond. I feel my mind/body connection so much stronger since I left, I have been receiving clear messages from my body and my digestive system is in top form. YAY!
¡Este fue el mejor regalo de cumpleaños que pude haberme dado!" Mi ropa me queda mejor, ¡perdí 4 kg! Tengo más energía y mi cabello y piel están suaves y radiantes. ¡No he tenido una sola migraña en toda la semana y eso me hace muy feliz! ¡Me siento ligero y lleno de confianza!
One big shock was the high levels of energy I felt, especially while fasting! I literally had so much energy during the whole fast which has completely changed my relationship with food and my beliefs around how much I need to eat.
Estoy tan orgulloso de mí mismo, me siento como un verdadero guerrero. Ahora me siento tan bendecido y feliz, no tenía idea de si podría continuar con el programa, ¡pero lo hice y me siento increíble! Muchas gracias por esta oportunidad y por tu paciencia. ¡Emily, eres maravillosa!
By the time I arrived, I had severe Candida and desperately need to improve and quickly. The transformation I experienced with my health, on many levels has been quite miraculous.
I believe being on this retreat has been nourishing and loving for the soul, body and mind. I had better results than I expected. I think that the most remarkable one is how I now relate to food now, past food addictions and just more awareness when I eat, I'm really taking care of my health. Thank you very much for your effort to make everything with love and care, it was perfect for me.
F.A.Qs
Where is Kichic and how do I get there?
Kichic is located on Las Pocitas beach on the north coast of Peru, just outside the coastal town of Máncora. Both national and international guests fly from Lima Airport (Jorge Chávez International Airport) to Talara Airport where you will be picked up and driven to Kichic Hotel, about 1 hour and 15 minutes away.
¡No hablo inglés, ¿puedo asistir?
El manual del retiro y las clases están en inglés. Sin embargo, podemos proporcionarte una traducción completa en tiempo real, por lo que no te perderás ninguna información importante.
Do you provide airport pick up and drop off?
Yes, we send a taxi to collect all guests arriving at Talara airport from the specific flights that we recommend for the start and end times of the retreat. The details of these flights will be sent to you when we receive the retreat application. If you arrive or leave on different flights, we can arrange a private taxi service for you at a cost of approx $70 each way.
What if I have a long layover in Lima?
If you have extra days in Lima on either end of the retreat, we can assist you with hotel bookings in Lima. Some guests choose to stay at the Lima airport if there is not enough time during their layover to venture into Lima. The airport hotel (Hotel Costa del Sol Wyndham Lima Aeropuerto) has a little day spa where you can relax, use the sauna, or get a massage if your international flights require a substantial layover
I want to stay longer in Peru, can you help?
If you would like to extend your time in Peru, we can connect you with a travel specialist to assist you in creating an add-on itinerary.
What is a typical day on the retreat like?
Unlike many wellness retreats with repetitive days, this is a protocol, a succession of steps, where one thing leads to the next which means that each day is unique. So that you have an idea, here is how a day might look:
8:15 Meet for the colon cleansing drink
8:30–9:30 Yoga
10:00-11:00 Beakfast
11:30 Group meet up and share, workshop or class
1:00–2:00 Lunch
2:00–5:00 Massage treatments, free time, Ayurvedic cleansing practices
5:00–6:00 Guided meditation or relaxation practices
7:00 Dinner
Before bed: Ayurvedic Tonic or colon cleanse.
Do I need any money while I am there?
No, you will not need to purchase anything while on retreat. However, guests usually volunteer to leave a collective cash tip for the incredible staff at Kichic. There is also a fantastic little shop at Kichic with local designer clothes, swimwear and jewellery, credit cards can be used at the shop.
What if I don't want to lose any weight?
The nature of the program does promote healthy weight loss as we are trying to free up the toxic load and many of the non-water soluble toxins reside in our fat cells, so some weight loss can be expected. If you are already at your minimum desired weight or would like to gain some weight, I will amend your program so you will have less weight loss as well as assist you with your post-detox diet that will help you build back stronger. This is not a weight program and you will absolutely benefit.
Can I book a consultation with you before I book?
Yes, please use the 'Connection Call' button below to book a complimentary call so we can discuss any of your concerns and ensure the program will work for you.
How does the registration process work?
To register for the retreat, please complete the registration form provided below. Once we receive and accept your registration, you will be required to make a deposit of USD $1000 to secure your room choice and reserve your place on the retreat.
Three weeks before the retreat's start date, you'll be asked to settle the outstanding balance.
Two weeks before the retreat's start date you will receive a PRE-DETOX information package, including instructions on how to prepare your body for this transformative experience. This package will also include packing recommendations and specific arrival instructions.
Please note that all deposits and payments, including the initial USD $1000 deposit, are 100% non-refundable. All payments are processed through Stripe and are charged in US dollars.
What is your refund policy?
Due to the expenses and logistics involved in organizing international events, please be advised that all deposits and payments made for Amaveda retreats are 100% non-refundable.
How often do you suggest I detox?
Bi-annual detox is recommended.
How do I know if I need a detox?
PREVENTION AND CURE
Full-body cleansing should ideally be done twice a year as both preventative medicine and a curative practice for:
Food intolerances/addictions
Slow fat metabolism/weak digestion
Improved liver and kidney function
Reducing inflammation and oxidisation in the body
And as a general physical and emotional overhaul, upgrading and toning all of our inherent detox processes.