Testimonials from participants at the Temple
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Dr Paul Roberts
Words are barely adequate to describe the depth, integrity and beauty of my experience at the Temple. I feel enriched at so many levels – physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. I am deeply grateful. Many many thanks.
Grant Chambers
The Temple plays an important role in helping to bring about the evolution of consciousness that is going forth on the planet. The entire experience feels like the next stage in human psycho-spiritual development. It offers a safe and secure foundation for inner and outer growth as well as providing people from the modern world an avenue to explore ancient healing rituals in an incredibly authentic way.
Marie Cavosara
To those who have been called to consider coming to the Temple, I strongly urge you to heed it. The Temple offers an extraordinary opportunity not only for healing, but also for awakening you to your higher self. For me this experience is life changing. In just 12 days I have a stronger relationship with the world. I know my rightful place in the universe and I cannot wait to get out there in the real world to beam my light of love.
Julie Guthrie
My experience was excellent. The Temple of the Way of Light is an amazing place where one can feel safe, comfortable and nurtured during their intense healing process. The maestros/as are an amazing group of healers who pour nothing but love into while clearing out all the unneeded and negative energies. Highly Recommended!
Lucy Arnott
A place of earthly heaven. I felt supported, encouraged and above all else, loved. The integrity that the temple emits is incredible. The healers are so committed. Love Love Love, really is their only truth and the purity these people encompass is something that is so very rare to come by in this world. Such a beautiful once in a lifetime atmosphere.
The healing was DEEP and very easy to understand. I recommend any first timers to come here. Your life will change in positive ways, you’re yet to know.
Klaus Friedl
Amazing ceremonies and great medicine. Amazing work! They work only from their heart, completely without Ego! I feel they very much like working with us! I was very surprised that the maestros/as worked so much with us! I was also surprised about the amazing organization and very good food!
Ora Gina Yoli
So I came for the ayahuasca, this medicine that would assist me in deepening my spiritual path, help me to get clarity regarding my place in the world, my work and clear physical blocks impacting my health.
What I had not expected was the amount of quality and presence of the LOVE.
I had the space to keep showing up as who I am, and keep becoming, keep becoming, I was graced to get a glimpse of the magic that is always available. IRAKU, Gracias, Thank you!
Stephan Chase
My experience here was amazing. The ceremonies were beautiful and felt sacred, they felt secure and structured. The ayahuasca felt intelligent and strong no matter how terrible it tasted or felt.
I thoroughly enjoyed my time here at the Temple. The community here is so supportive and the group that came felt destined. The space to heal, share and grow was amazing and I am so grateful to have had this opportunity to experience the things that I did. I definitely plan on returning next year. Many, many thanks!!
Melody Mayo
I am so grateful to have participated in this workshop at the Temple. Everything about this place is magical: the location, the staff, the fellow guest, the Food! The work we have done in 12 days transcends traditional timelines. It has been amazing to be part of my own process as well as part of the group.
Kevin Cannella
The healing and spiritual growth provided by the Maestras and the medicine in 3 months would have taken years of devoted, personal spiritual practice to replicate. With experiential understanding came a deep change in my perception of the world. This has been a life changing experience.
The situations that arise at the Temple are stunning – an underlying order or guiding hand seems to be hand crafting every situation and every group, it is beautiful.
Sofia Bogdanovic
I felt that the Maestras and Maestros are some of the gentlest yet most powerful people on the Planet that we have the good fortune to interact with.
The Temple of the Way of Light is a very special place on Earth where the Goddess is very much present and is re-birthing those that visit and are willing to go through this birthing process.
I felt very safe, protected, loved, and guided at the Temple. I totally trusted the Maestras and Maestros and felt that to be the most important element that allowed everything else to unfold.
I would say that if for any reason, you are intrigued, curious, or hopeful about what this experience can provide for you, consider the possibility that there are some very large forces at work and that you are being called to this place to work with these amazing healers and sacred medicine.
Jessica Geier
The Temple of the Way of Light is a place to do some really deep healing. From beginning to end I felt so loved and cared for which is what needed to transcend through so many levels in such a short time. The laughter that would erupt from the maestras all through the day was so uplifting, the healing so incredibly powerful yet gentle. The energy between all the travelers, staff and volunteers there was extremely supportive. The kindness and compassion flowed like a constant gentle river.
To anyone hoping to transform their heart and mind, the Temple serves as a beautiful space in which to do it.
Mike Weeks
The Temple is wild and rustic. Clean and simple, and above all, it enables people to shut off from the distractions than might get in the way of a much needed period of healing.
Every one of the group that came to the Temple left as very different people. The words “life changing” almost became a cliché had they not been said with such conviction.
It’s with my highest recommendation that anyone in search of a magically unique healing experience should make the journey to the Temple of the way of Light.
Nicholas Cramer-Klett
My body is recharged. Full of wisdom, love and passion for life and my surroundings. I feel clean and my cells are fuelled with positive energy that will be treasured and increased with the help of the plants.
To me the Maestras were truly inspiring. It was amazing to feel their positive energy, their compassion towards strangers like us. They are truly powerful. The Ayahuasca helped me find myself again and the ceremonies were well organised. Getting filled up with the female power, spirit energy was just what I needed to be strong enough and totally inspired to continue my own life back in Munich, Germany.
Love and many thanks to all of you
Hans Geog Unterrainer
I felt at home at the Temple right from the beginning. Great and intense ayahuasca experiences. It’s great to have 7 shamans working at the same time. The Maestros and Maestras were amazing in their work during ceremonies. Serious about all needs and very helpful with every problem. Their hearts are just sooo wide open it was almost hard to accept all this honest love coming from them – I really felt in love with them. It was also great to have experienced people helping during ceremonies – guiding you to the bathroom and back again!
At the same time as doing such good healing, they were so much fun, giggling around and prepared for every situation during the day – so so natural and without masks and no fear and getting really close to you. My heart will always come back to see your wonderful souls again!
Keep going healing the world and all universes with your unconditional love!!! Good job everybody and I will be back soon to volunteer.
Pierre Tarek Stoffel
Things like this are difficult to explain and language has its limitations. Perfect, powering, unbelievable, great and extraordinary. Ayahuasca helped me to see from where I come from and where I will go. My greatest respect and gratitude goes to Mother Earth, its ambassador Ayahuasca and its healers the MAESTRAS. Thank you very much to have helped me and to have listened to me. Thanks to the people who provided this place to them (the Maestras) so they can do their work. I will come back and tell people about this place.
Jesse James
My initial experience in Feb / Mar 2009 gave me a deep psychological healing – releasing a 45 year old memory of the last time my parents beat me at the age of 9 years old. No psychologist or other form of counselling was able to achieve this breakthrough and I wasn’t even looking for it then. That experience caused me to commit to a 3 month trip to the Temple. Each workshop has been a further refinement of my inner light, my inner love and my joy of living. Ayahuasca with the gentle guidance of the Maestras and Maestros is helping me to be a better human being.
My experience at the Temple was perfection! Although I didn’t know at the outset what I might achieve from this 3 month stay, I have received so much more. The Maestras are the Queens of healing and I felt their love in every action they did.
Gray
A twelve-day workshop at the temple offers a unique opportunity to achieve personal transformation. The convergence of indigenous Shipibo "masters" who conducted the ayahuasca ceremonies in complete harmony exists nowhere else in South America. Combined with the passionately committed staff and volunteers, I found the welcoming atmosphere at the temple to be truly supportive of my journey. The myriad benefits I've gained are ongoing. And they continue to unfold.
Emile Maccarrone – Sicily
I wanted to thank you with all my heart for the amazing gift you have all bestowed on me.That was truly the most amazing time of my life.
I have been liberated from ties of my past relationships, my ancestor line purified, a full download of my purpose of life (permaculture in Sicily!), my heart chakra healed, powers were given for work to come, the origin of my poverty and its resolution, the taking responsability of my own food (I asked to be taught how to kill and prepare a chicken and they let me do that), I saw my own DNA like in a microscope where there was a light within!
Electra Jung
A wonderful, difficult and transformative journey, there were many reasons I decided to embark on this experience but the most important was that I was heeding the call from the Divine Mother from years before. It was now time to answer the call and to purify myself…to become whole through the knowledge and wisdom of the plant teachers.
All I can say is that I have received far more than I expected. Many personal questions and spiritual desires were realized in ways I could never have imagined and which would be difficult to express at this time. The deep healing process was extreme and very taxing on the body…yet always the work brought a profound sense of peace and bliss.
It has been a Great Work and I am very grateful to have this experience in my life.
Kristen De Lacy
So, my experience was very positive and healing, and I recommend the temple as a safe, caring and responsible place to go for people who want to experience ayahuasca close to its traditional context. For me this was really important and I think it shows one's gratitude and respect for both the indigenous peoples and the gifts of the Peruvian jungle that are being shared with us.
Noga Weir
Matthew, Brian and all the Maestras, thank you from the bottom of my heart for a most holistic experience, for takng such good care of all of the aspects. I received so much love and being taken care off. Had 6 very distinct experiences with Ayahausca and received a new brain and new dna during the ceremonies personally and feel very peaceful and deeply grateful.
I feel this is the best place to take Ayahuasca and to preserve this sacred and ancient knowledge. I thank the Divine for bringing me here and cannot wait to come back!
Allan Fadalla
It has been one of my most interesting life experiences. A healing and transformative journey. The medicine was a great teacher. The healer’s work helped me tremendously and the great people who ran the workshops were supportive and made everyone feel at home.
Bodil Christenson
I have a very good but intense time here. It is difficult to explain the process I do not have words for this. I can just say that I feel that I am on my way now. I have never been more clear in my mind and I look for words to feel and see what the process brings.
My heart is so full of love for the Maestras, they have done such a good job and have worked so hard for all us. They always have a smile and a hug to all. Thanks to all of you Maestras.
Carol
My experience at the Temple was very healing. It was wonderful to experience the peaceful and nurturing way of the staff and the Maestras. During the ceremonies I could feel the sound energy of the ikaros flowing through me on a physical level. On an emotional level I released several demons. I am still processing this transformative experience and look forward to seeing the effects it has on my life when I get back home. Thank you!
Niema Wilson
My experience at the Temple was quite beautiful. The staff is very supportive and the grounds are gorgeous. The opportunity to receive healing from these incredible Maestras will stay with me forever. I found myself happy to just be in their presence let alone the powerful ceremonies and complimentary therapies.
Shane Beresford
My experience at the Temple of the way of light was nothing short of life changing. I was lead into a new world where darkness and fear is transformed into love and light.
My 7 ceremonies at the Temple during this workshop showed me far more than I thought possible and have given me a true understanding of what is necessary to return to my natural state.
I was in absolute awe of the abilities of the Maestro and Maestras, they seemed to look into my soul like like an X ray and use their icaros to knit back together the frayed edges. I found them supernatural, and seemed as though they were using an incredibly advanced technology not of this planet. In the light of day the Maestras were like a group of 60 - 70 year old school girls, joking with each other and the guests. Their sense of humor and humility was obvious.
The strongest impression the experience had on me was the need to act now, both on myself and for the planet. I decided to stay on at the Temple as a volunteer to do my part to help them realise their vision of creating a positive, self sustaining community. I look forward to more magical experiences at the Temple in the future.
AJ Dahoo
I wanted to send my love and appreciation to all the maestra's who worked with me during my time at the Temple in November. Although the work with ayahuasca was very challenging at times, I felt so much love and care from the ladies who worked with me in my healing, and all those who worked around the temple. They were such fabulous people and I am so grateful that they were there to support me and I feel humbled to have spent time with such kind, caring people who have helped me so much and who worked so hard and intensely for the benefit of all the guests.
I have absolutely no doubt or hesitation in recommending them to anyone called to work with ayahuasca. They were so kind, so knowledgeable, and always knew the right thing to do to help people. I can't speak highly enough of them.
I will be returning to the Temple in 2010 to continue the work with ayahuasca as I know I still have more to do.
Geeke Mattijsen, 68 years old
I came to the jungle on the advice of my friend Dhanja, because I was physical a wreck.
Pain all over. In all my joints, head, loss of hair, cystitis few times a year , difficulties with walking because of my knees. In short, I felt like a very old lady! But, by the loving care of the 5 little, friendly, cheerful Maestras I feel now like a young girl again - I have even climbed Machu Pichu and I am proud of myself. - thought that these events were over for me.
Mali Jarvis
The Temple of the Way of Light provides the kind of healing I always hoped existed on this planet. The opportunity to be served and healed by these Shipibo healers leaves me in a constant state of immense gratitude.
Rhonda Sprenger
I came to the Temple a mess of confusion, anxiety and directionless hoping desperately that ayahuasca would be able to restore me to a healthy state of being in the world; a more normal state. Now after my experience here I feel whole, peaceful, clear and complete. I received very important direction regarding my work, how I invest myself in the world, a very clear message that I need to change my career and in exactly which direction I need to go. I return home with a great excitement to pursue my newfound path. A sense that I now resonate with a deep truth pervades me.
There are simply no words to express the immense amount of gratitude I feel for my experience here. It changed my life. Thank you deeply, thank you...
Damien Saul
This has been by far the greatest experience of my life to date. Both challenging and rewarding. Here I have learnt the true meaning of life on this planet, the important things! The true unconditional love I’ve experienced here is immense. The lack of pre-judgement, the total love and support of the group, the staff, the shamans and the Maestras and the commitment to improving the lives of all concerned.
This love and support has rubbed off onto me and given me a greater purpose in life and given me a profound insight into how I need to portray myself in the future toward others with greater patience and understanding.
I thank all at the Temple for their undying love and support and also I thank Mother Ayahuasca for her insights. This journey came to me at exactly the right time and I’m sure I will return equally at the perfect time.
Gary Beaver
My workshop at the Temple of the Way of Light was at times a very difficult and challenging experience because my fear prevented me from surrendering to the process. But despite this, or maybe because of it I believe that I experienced some profound personal growth which I am only beginning to understand. The Maestras and Maestro at the Temple are the most open, loving and giving people I have ever met. They have an incredible amount of wisdom and experience and I always felt that I was in the most capable hands on the planet. They skilfully helped me to navigate through some intensely frightening experiences.
I can recommend the Temple without reservation.
Jewelli Dallman
My stay at the Temple of the Way of Light has been one of the most profound and precious experiences of my life. The heart and love I’ve felt here has been immensely healing. I feel such gratitude to the Maestras for their purity of devotion to the spirit of Ayahuasca. I will return to go deeper into this journey and will definitely spread the word of the good work being done here.
Karen McKee
My life has been changed forever. I have been trying to heal most of my life nothing has healed me like this trip has. What you guys are creating is amazing. We (the World) need places like this to come to.
Libby Perkins
I loved the female energy of the Maestras at the Temple. I felt safe and cared for and really loved during my stay. The food and service was also all round very impressive. I feel grateful I have healed and released old issues that have been affecting my entire life and will recommend this retreat space to friends at home.
Ansel Cummings
My primary intention for coming to receive this healing was to release pain I’ve held since my brother’s death three years ago. I was able to sink deeply into the feelings of grief and loneliness that I had not previously allowed myself to do. After experiencing this, I let go of it, and have been able to enjoy and appreciate the memories of my brother’s presence greatly.
These ceremonies have given me more strength and confidence in what I am called to do. I’ve let go of attachments that held me back and my centre of focus is within myself again.
All the shaman here are wonderful examples of unconditional love. They have been so tender and gentle with treating us. Their songs were such great support through the ceremonies. I am deeply grateful for their blessings and protection.
So many amazing and life changing experiences occurred here. This is great work happening here. It can be very difficult, challenging and sometimes unpleasant though the rewards are more than worth the effort.
I will recommend the Temple of the Way of Light to the World for its healing. I look forward to the day I return to this terrestrial eden of paradise. Until then, I look forward to living every day of my life the best that I can.
Sherill Cyr
Words cannot express the gratitude that is in my heart for the blessings that I received while spending 12 days with the Shapibo at the Temple of the Way of Light. I encourage anybody who has been invited to work with this most sacred "power plant", Ayahuasca, to answer the call regardless of AGE, race, religion or culture.The transformation and the healing occur at the cellular level - in the DNA, and I believe it is one of the greatest gifts we can give not only to our families but also to our communities and the Planet. As we go through this time of great transition it is necessary to heal ourselves before we can help others.
The Temple grounds provide a safe and beautiful environment complete with great food, hammocks and a kind, helpful staff. These amazing shamans give "floral baths" each morning and masages every afternoon in preparation for the evening's ceremony. Their sacred songs, the Icaros, defy description and will always remain in my heart - along with the 23 "total strangers" with whom I shared this awesome experience.
THANK YOU to Matthew and all who are affiliated with the Temple of the Way of Light!
Jacques Floweday
The Temple is a very special place; paradise on Earth! The environment is breathtaking and the staff is lovely. The Maestras are such loving caring people with true healing abilities and a vast amount of knowledge. The ceremonies are very well organised; a safe and caring environment is provided which is extremely important when taking ayahuasca.
My ayahuasca experience itself was amazing; it’s actually difficult to put into words. I will say it’s a very intense experience and demanding sometimes both physically and emotionally. However the rewards make it all worthwhile. I experienced stunning visions and many profound insights into my life – some breakthroughs that I had been trying years to attain. I also experienced a dissolving of boundaries, feeling more connected to nature and with the people around me.
Lastly, although the purging is very intense, it is very cleansing – I felt deep toxins – which felt psychosomatic – release of old traumas and memories where being released from storage deep in my muscles. Coming here has truly been a profound life changing experience – it’s a real one off.
Danielle Weiss
My experience at the Temple was life changing and am looking forward to this new beginning. The Maestras and Horacio sing like angels and their love and laughter filled my heart with happiness. The food was great and after 12 days at the Temple, I feel healthier than ever!
Roder Alexandra
I had a great time; a life changing experience and more than I expected. The Maestras, Aroldo and Horacio are so loving, wonderful healers and treat all persons with passion and respect. I would recommend this place to all of my friends and I cannot express in words how much this workshop changed me inside and my problems, I didn’t even know that I had.
Thank you all! I’m sure I’ll come back to this paradise on earth.
Nada Andre
I am so deeply grateful and happy. I enjoyed every bit of this workshop. It has been an amazing process to go through, a life time experience. The place is great, the accommodations as well, the food is really amazing, the staff are doing a hard job to make this happen perfectly, the group is such a blessing to share this experience with and the maestros / maestro are just unbelievably beautiful and powerful. And last but not least, MOTHER AYAHUASCA is this truly amazing Goddess of all healing. I bow down to her!
Diane Lavin
This journey with Ayahuasca was much more than I anticipated. It was intensive deep inner personal work with strong purging with much more benefits. Since 1997 I have seen a deep core wound in my heart and on the 5th Ayahuasca journey my heart was taken, smoothed over and the wound totally healed. I feel lighter, cleaner, more peaceful than I ever felt. This experience has been totally transformative. The ratio of Maestras, Aroldo and Horacio was beautiful and excellent.
William Du Vall
I now feel a peace within myself that I have never felt before. My body is now feeling very healthy. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. The shamans were very good at giving and receiving unconditional love. They have an outstanding knowledge of how to heal the planet.
Jaana Wuethrich
It was a really special and overwhelming experience. The idea with the community that you want to build is super. I wish you all the best and I really hope Ayahuasca will call me again to join. Thank you so much, I am a different human now!
Virginie
What I found in the Temple (and which is not that easy to find) is TRUE GENUINE healing. Transparency and honesty really made me comfortable enough to let go and completely open, knowing there was no danger there and the safe atmosphere allowed us to go deeper as were in good hands. The brotherhood developed within the group helped a lot too; sharing our experiences and visions while being accepted and loved.
THANK YOU. You are all doing a wonderful job, may it continue to climb towards love and light...
Torben Kaare Nielsen
The general impression at the Temple was that of high spirits, laughter and devotion. We all had our own personal journey to go, our own personal experiences to harvest from. Personally I had the most dramatic and profound experiences (visions) as the Ayahuasca cleaned my body and reset my mind. To explain it is impossible, it is so personal and individual, but it has changed my life. Happiness and energy is flowing freely through my veins, and I was not surprised when my closest relatives confirmed the change when they met me shortly after the trip to Peru.
Years of therapy and psychoanalysis would not have been able to do this healing. My life is back on the track, and I am forever grateful to the Shamans that I met in the Peruvian Amazonas in febuary 2009"
Randall Sexton
I've drank ayahuasca with both male and female shamans and I can attest to the power of the feminine, which is sorely needed in today's world. Matthew has a hit at the Temple of the Way of Light!. I really recommend it!
Daniela El Kady
The work they do is really amazing, they have so much love, power and compassion in their hearts, it's a true blessing to be surrounded by them, during ceremonies, but also the rest of the day when they give the flower-baths and/or the massages.
The gratitude I feel for spending time with these amazing Shipibo healers can't be expressed in words, I still carry them with me in my heart. Working with them and Ayahuasca has been a blessing for me and I believe that anyone can achieve many great things by going to the Temple and come out as a better balanced, more positive and healed person with a purified mind and an enlightened spirit.
One thing is for sure, I'm going back to the Temple as soon as I can! I have a great deal of stuff that I still have to learn and there's no better place to do it and people to work with than at the Temple of the Way of Light. After doing the workshop I knew why the Temple was my first choice to begin with and why I had such a strong feeling that I had to go there.
I'm determined to help Matthew in every way I can to make the Temple the big success that it deserves to be and I hope that pretty soon he will be able to be open all year so I can spend more time there than 12 days.
Isabel Cali
After two trips to other centers in 2007 and 2008, my third quest for the medicine guided me to The Temple of the Way of Light. Before I even arrived, I knew it felt right. I felt so cared for, so loved, so connected to the Shipibo curanderas, curanderos and to everyone in the group. The amount of love and healing that happened in those 12 days gave me the feeling that those of us who are called are capable of being the light to heal the earth and all of its creatures. The Icaros were sounds coming from spirit, and each one so powerful, affecting each of us exactly as we needed. I am forever grateful, forever humbled, and forever full of light.
