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Australia & Peru's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ traditional Andean and Amazonian shamanic sanctuary.
Peru's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Traditional Andean & Amazonian Shamanic Sanctuary
OPENING HOURS
We are here to help!
Monday - Friday: 10 am - 7 pm AEDT
Saturday: 10 am - 1 pm AEDT
CALL US AT +61 406 674 874
Is This the Right Time for Traditional Plant Medicine?
April 20-28, 2026
TRADITIONAL
Ayahuasca
Retreat
Iquitos, Peru
Welcome to
Banco Puma Sanctuary
Ancient Ceremonies – Banco Puma Sanctuary, Peru
Traditional Andean & Amazonian Shamanic Retreats in Australia
Ayahuasca and Huachuma ceremonies in Peru
Held within the Lamista and Chavín lineages
Ayahuasca and Huachuma ceremonies in Peru Held within the Lamista
and Chavín lineages
Join us on a life-changing journey
Inside the Family Ground
Step into the heart of the Australian countryside where Ancient Ceremonies unlocks a haven for deep shamanic healing. Here, your journey towards wholeness begins amid the whispers of Andean tradition and breathtaking Australian landscapes.
You don’t arrive at Banco Puma as a guest.
You step into the family ground of the Acho lineage.
Ceremony here is not arranged around visitors.
It is part of life.
Ayahuasca is prepared and served within the same family structure that has carried this work for decades.
There is no separation between the curanderos and the people who come to work.
We eat together.
We sit together.
We prepare together.
You see how the medicine is made.
You ask what you need to ask.
Nothing is hidden.
Huachuma is carried through the Chavín lineage in the same disciplined structure in which it was taught to me under Maestro Don Howard Lawler.
Both traditions are held as they were given — steady, without modification, without spectacle.
When you are here, you are not observing the work.
You are inside it.
And for some, that is the difference.
Welcome to Banco Puma.
Rodolfo De Angeli
Ancient Ceremonies
Banco Puma Sanctuary, Peru
The Acho Family
At Banco Puma, Ayahuasca is held by the Acho family within the Lamista lineage.
Maestro Don Rober Acho Jarama has worked with Ayahuasca for more than six decades.
He drank for the first time as a child.
He began serving in his youth.
He has never stepped away from the path.
Today, at 80 years of age, he continues to hold ceremony with the same steadiness that has defined his life.
Beside him is his wife, Doña Eliana.
Her presence is not supportive in name alone.
She has walked this path for decades, carrying her own depth within the medicine and holding the space with a strength that is quiet but unmistakable.
Their son, Don Carlos, continues the lineage.
Raised inside this work, he carries the knowledge of the plants, the preparation, and the discipline of the tradition not as something learned later in life — but as something lived.
This is not assembled for retreat dates.
It is a family that has given their lives to this practice.
When you sit in Ayahuasca ceremony here, you are not meeting strangers trained for retreat dates.
You are sitting with a lineage that has never been separated from the work.
The Andean Mesa
Huachuma is carried here through the pre-Columbian Chavín tradition of the Andes — one of the earliest ceremonial cultures of ancient Peru, long predating the Inca.
Rodolfo apprenticed for years under the late Maestro Don Howard Lawler, receiving the discipline of the mesa through direct transmission and sustained practice at his side.
This was not a weekend training.
Not an expansion.
Not an interpretation.
It was repetition.
Structure.
Responsibility.
The mesa is held as it was given.
At times, Huachuma is served on the Amazon ground at Banco Puma.
At other times, it is carried directly in Chavín itself — on the same Andean landscape where this ceremonial current moved thousands of years ago.
No reinvention.
No embellishment.
When people sit with Huachuma here, they are not stepping into something newly assembled.
They are entering a stream that has already endured.
Two Traditions. One Coherent Path.
At Banco Puma, Ayahuasca and Huachuma are not blended into a single experience for intensity.
They are sequenced.
Ayahuasca comes first.
It cleanses.
It strips away what is no longer aligned.
It prepares the ground.
Only after that cycle is complete do we enter Huachuma.
Huachuma does not purge in the same way.
It stabilizes.
It clarifies.
It helps integrate what Ayahuasca revealed.
This structure was not created for novelty.
It was handed down.
The Amazon prepares.
The Andes instruct.
When both are carried correctly, nothing is rushed and nothing is diluted.
Participants are not moved through ceremonies.
They are guided through a process.
And when it is done this way, something settles.
Not an experience.
A shift that remains.
Like many people, I didn’t come into this work looking for it.
I was sceptical. I tried the conventional paths first. Therapy, frameworks, explanations. They helped to a point, but something always felt unfinished.
What eventually shifted things for me wasn’t a breakthrough or an experience. It was being shown, very clearly, what responsibility actually looks like when ancient traditions are held properly.
I learned from my teachers that this work isn’t about healing as an idea. It’s about structure, discipline, limits, and honesty. About knowing when to act and when not to. About serving something bigger than your own story.
Over the years, I’ve seen hundreds of people come into this work hoping for change, and leave with something quieter but far more important: clarity, responsibility, and the ability to return to their lives differently.
When these traditions are respected, nothing needs to be forced. People don’t get “fixed.” They get steady enough to meet their lives again.
That’s the work.
- Rodolfo De Angeli, Ancient Ceremonies Founder
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Occasionally, we share updates on upcoming retreats, reflections from the work, and practical insights that support integration in everyday life.
No noise. No constant emails. Only what is worth sharing.
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Voices From Those Who Have Walked This Path
Over the years, individuals from different backgrounds have stepped into this work with uncertainty — and returned to their lives with greater clarity and steadiness.
Here are some of their experiences.
Every story shared here is from someone who completed our screening process and chose to step fully into the work.
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The first step is a Connect Call.
You’ll complete a short application so we can understand your intentions, background, and whether this work is the right fit for you.
If aligned, we’ll speak directly — answer your questions, explain the structure of the retreats, and clarify next steps.
This is not a sales call. It is a careful conversation to ensure the container is appropriate for everyone involved.
If you feel ready, you’re welcome to apply.
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