Eighth Note Path 2 Month Program

The Eighth Note Path

The Eighth Note Path is a path of conscious development, framed inside the musical and energetic reality of the eight notes of the scale, and adapted for people to resolve dependency on substance use or liberate themselves from self limiting beliefs, conditions, or afflictions. This is a very special offering and the first of its kind. This offering is a pilot program to develop a new vision for deep healing and profound transformation.

The Three-Phase Structure

The program unfolds across three distinct phases. This structure mirrors the timeless pattern of preparation, participation, and integration found in ancestral plant medicine traditions and in all truly transformational practices.

Preparation – TRANSLATE

Dates: September 25th – October 10th
Location: El Tirol, Costa Rica
Notes: Do, Re, Mi (Steps 1–6)

In this phase you build the foundation. You declare commitment to the path, reflect honestly on your life, and become genuinely ready. This is the TRANSLATION stage, where you are gathering truth, clearing denial, and moving what is already there into position where it can be seen and worked with. By the end of this phase you will have done substantial inner work and will be ready to meet the Medicine with openness and acceptance.

Participation – TRANSFORM

Dates: October 10th – November 7th
Location: Riosbo, Peru
Notes: Fa and Sol (Step 7)

Here you enter the heart of the work. In the ceremonies at Riosbo you are supported by the plant spirits and the Shipibo curanderos. The TRANSFORMATION stage lets the old structure unform in relationship: with the medicine, the tradition, and the parts of yourself that surface. You humbly ask for the removal of shortcomings in the process of forgiveness. Then the work goes deeper into soul retrieval: the return of lost parts of yourself that were abandoned or lost.

Integration – TRANSCEND

Dates: November 7th – November 25th
Location: El Tirol, Costa Rica
Notes: La, Ti, Do (higher) (Steps 8–12)

You return from Peru changed. Now the work is to inhabit the view from which the old form is no longer necessary. This is the TRANSCENDENCE stage, where you make living amends, establish ongoing practices of inventory and conscious contact, and begin to carry the message through service and embodiment. It is when the true work, but also the true play, begins, as you actively create your new life, moment by moment.

During the Participation Phase in Peru

This portion of the program is designed to provide the right tools to take your healing process into your own hands.  Participants spend 4 weeks at the Riosbo Ayahuasca Research Center and attend 11 ayahuasca ceremonies led by a Shipibo maestro and our assistant healers. What we have discovered after ten years of offering retreats and educational courses is that the more a person can engage and participate in the healing process, the higher the potential for healing benefits.

This healing retreat and educational course is the culmination of our developments in offering the optimal opportunity for healing on all levels. By providing a deep understanding of the methodologies and practices of healing with plant spirits and consciousness enhancement, we feel confident that this course will create a new path of empowerment for each participant to become his/her own healer.  In addition to the ayahuasca ceremonies, participants also receive personalized treatments and practice integrative techniques that enhance the power of the plant medicines by cleansing and purifying the inner environment of perceptions, beliefs, and subconscious messaging.  By blending the sacred ancestral traditions with modern discoveries in holistic health, the healing empowerment course allows you to truly replant your spirit.

Ayahuasca Ceremony

Ayahuasca ceremonies have a unique quality to provide the power to play an active role in the healing process and this course teaches principles and methods to enhance that power. Complementary traditions will also be taught to further enhance the ability to regain and maintain health and happiness on all levels.  Ultimately, we all walk our own paths, we all live our own lives, and we can all take responsibility for how we react to our environments and experiences. The way we react has the greatest influence over our perceptions and it is those perceptions that determine our realities.  By learning to connect with spirit guides and plant allies, understand our true nature, and forgive and love ourselves completely, we create the optimal environment for health and happiness to grow and blossom in our lives.  That is the purpose of the healing empowerment course.

During these courses, participants receive numerous medicinal plant treatments according to the Shipibo healing treadition and the prescription of the Shipibo curandero, who also teaches various aspects of the Shipibo tradition, like the use of mapachos and agua florida, healing songs called icaros, techniques like soplando y chupando, and recipes for specific plant based remedies.  The assistant healers describe each treatment, its purpose and effect, translate each discussion and workshop, and lead the integrative practices in between the ayahuasca ceremonies.

Together, the Ayahuasca Foundation’s staff provides a complete holistic healing experience combined with an in depth education on Shipibo plant medicine and personal health and happiness.  We feel strongly that this course represents the future of medicine, where we all accept and embrace our role as our own healer and the leader of our own healing process.

Methodologies and Practices

Integrative activities to enhance the healing

> Therapeutic Breathwork: a powerful progression of breathing techniques combined with selected music can expand consciousness and activate an innate healing process towards harmony and wholeness. As a continuation of treatment with plant medicine, this work provides opportunities for deep exploration of the self.

> Epigenetic Reprogramming: an incredible set of practices that target and release deep seated traumas and negative thought patterns.  By enhancing control over our reactions to our internal and external environments, we can better guide the expression of our genetics towards health, harmony, and happiness.

> Guided Meditation: one of the most effective methods for mental discipline and focus, meditation is a practice that demonstrates the true power of the consciousness and its influence on our lives. With guidance in particular thought paths and perspective, inner environments can be upgraded to nourish the healing process.

> Life Coaching: creating intentional change in life helps with knowing who you are and discovering the fullest potential for yourself. Discover new perspectives about yourself, and design your own best ways of living, with inquiry processes and guiding frameworks for an integrative understanding personal choices and life transitions.

Healing Benefits

Participants will have natural plant treatments and therapies every day of this course, accompanied by workshops and discussions covering a wide variety of topics within the Shipibo healing tradition as well as cutting edge integrative practices from other cultures around the world.  After four weeks in the jungle, eleven ayahuasca ceremonies, numerous plant treatments, and a progressive series of workshops, lectures, discussions and activities that demonstrate the path to healing empowerment, participants return to Costa Rica feeling refreshed and ready to take their health and life in their own hands.