What to bring?
Your packing guide for your 7-Day Retreat!
Preparing for your 7-day, 6-night retreat at Shambalante is key to ensuring a comfortable and enriching experience. Below is a detailed packing guide to help you bring what you need while keeping your luggage light and practical.
Table of contents:
Clothes to bringPersonal items to bringOther optional and useful items to bringDownload the list PDF and checklist away!What Shambalante providesWhat Shambalante does not provideRemember why you’re here
Before you pack for your trip, remember:
The cleaner you are before, the more sensible you will be in the retreat 🙏😊
So eat healthy, drink water, avoid noisy places and be far from situations that can cause stress. We ourselves are responsible for our inner peace.
Read also how you should prepare for the Ayahuasca Ceremony.
What your 7 day will look like?
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Clothes to bring:
Dress comfortably and beautifully (a ceremony is always a special moment of our lives).
We recommend you to use lighter colours like white, beige, light blue, etc.
Clothing for Ayahuasca: Please avoid colours such as bright red, green and orange and also bring a spare outfit for the ceremony, just in case.
Clothing for Wachuma - you can wear casual clothes, but please be respectful because it is still a ceremony. So, we recommend to wear comfortable-lose pants, and no jeans
Bring a jacket / sweater / long pants / socks because it can get chilly at night & early mornings from the month of November - March🧥
Swimming costume 👙🩱🕶
Personal Items to bring:
It gets hot during the day, so you can bring a hat and glasses
Toiletries such as Toothbrush, tooth paste, and deodorant, because Shambalante only provides shower gel, shampoo, and conditioners
Lip balm or moisturizer
Sunscreen
Bring your own bottle of water to refill drinks. The water provided are purified water. ✨🍶
Other Optional and useful items to bring:
(if you have) personal torch or flashlight 🔦
Personal Mosquito repellent
Small backpack or day bag – Useful for carrying essentials around the retreat center.
Bring a journal book and a pen - to write your experience, for reflections, or integrating a process throughout the retreat, which helps you to disconnect from technology.
Books or reading material
Personal belonging that you cherish - like an important family photo, jewelries, trinkets, or etc, to be put on the altar for recharge and cleansing✨🖼
Other sentimental objects - that you feel resonate with, such as a piece of surrounding nature or ecosystem that you feel drawn to, or it can also be a picture of a landscape you resonated with.
Bring your personal instruments - to jam and play during Alegria!🪇
It is best to bring Mexican Pesos Cash. Depending on the number of days you will be here, we recommend to hold 2,000 MXN to 5,000 MXN to pay for local taxis or local restaurants that may not accept cards.
Download the list PDF and checklist away!
Download the packing list and check off items to keep track!
*be sure to download the document so you can check off the list
What Shambalante provides
Filtered drinking water
Natural mosquito repellent
Nutritious meals, Vegan and Vegetarian meals
Bath Towels and Pool towels provided.
Toiletries (Soap, Shampoo, Conditioner) provided.
Yoga mats and props
Parking area
Although we encourage participants to disconnect from their work and reconnect to themselves, Shambalante does offer free access to Wifi only at the dining area.
What Shambalante does not provide:
Laundry Service - No washing machine around (but if it is urgent, an employee can hand-wash and sun dry your clothes, about 10 MXN ($0.50) per item)
Hair dryer or styling tools
No mirrors can be found here, as the purpose is for us to only see what’s inside our hearts and spirits.
Transportation from Shambalante to International Airports is available for additional cost. Price can range from 1,000 - 4,000 MXN ($50 - $200) *depending on group size and Airport Location
Remember why youre here
📍on your way to the retreat center, remember your intentions and why you are coming here.
😇 As you arrive at Shambalante, connect your heart to the lands of Mexico and be open your eyes to magnificent nature as you walk down the maze and into the hacienda.
🕊🪶offerings are welcome. You can offer seeds to the land, a prayer, a song, a ride, a tabaco to the fire, something to the house or to the family. The best way of abundance is offering.
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