The Calanoa Jungle Lodge offers a unique space for those seeking a life-changing experience through the senses and a creative and spiritual dialogue with the Amazon rainforest and its inhabitants.
A meeting place, at Calanoa we have had the pleasure of sharing our facilities with workshop leaders in yoga, meditation, photography, music, writing, gastronomy, and many other disciplines. Our experiences include a stay-at-home package, meals, and jungle and river activities. We have done something absolutely unique in the area so that our guests can enjoy a deep connection with the jungle while being very comfortable and inhabiting beautiful spaces.
Calanoa was conceived as a meeting place.
It is with this purpose that we have conceived and built a beautiful pavilion in the jungle named The Jaguar’s Eye. It was inspired by indigenous longhouses and temples. It is a very welcoming place for those who wish to listen to the jungle, meditate, practice yoga, connect through their voice, listen to the stories of elders and wiseones, and to create music to the ongoing symphony of the effervescent jungle.
Music Workshop
The Wild Symphony is a space of collective creation, an encounter of musicians of different disciplines and traditions. It’s a workshop where professionals and music students create together with traditional indigenous singers and the living forest. With a diversity of visions of the world, the group has a common purpose: listen to the ancient sounds of life and answer to the polyphonic voice of the forest and the river. It is an exercise of deep listening, expanding perception, and plunging into the resonances, harmonies, and beat of Life.
Calanoa offers yoga and meditation retreats to deepen the connection with your being and with the natural environment. Our emphasis is on reconnecting with nature as the main teacher and guide. Yoga, silence, and meditation practices help to quiet the mind and to return to the present moment where choruses of frogs, birds, crickets, and the wisdom of the jungle await you.
The Amazon Field School was established in Calanoa in 2013. Leaded my Lucie Gagne, Marlene de Samper and Diego Samper, it offers students the opportunity to participate in intercultural and interdisciplinary field works.
Through alternative learning methods, students are exposed to subjects such as creativity, imagination and aesthetic, academic research, ecology, conservation and environmental consciousness, cultural consciousness, community development, and environmental design.
In agreement with Kwantlen Polytechnic University of Vancouver, Canada, an interdisciplinary course is run every year in Calanoa jungle lodge.
The taste of origin is seeking the expression of a culture in the fresh fruits of the earth and in ancient recipes. It is eating from the hands that cultivate, process, and cook food in a tradition proudly maintained for generations. It is a ritual of sacred food, one that heals and connects with the Origin.
Please contact us for additional information on our plans, activities, workshops, and the Calanoa Foundation.
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