Duration: 7 to 15 days | 16-30 July 2026
Price: 1100 €
Highlights:

Proposed activities

Walks to activate inter-species communication.
Conversations and dialogues between contemporary creation and ancestral wisdom.
Exchange of languages and knowledge about care, medicine, and food.
Thought laboratory on sacred plants and the expansion of consciousness.
Ceremonies with master plants
Management: Marc Caellas

Munay

Artistic residency in the jungle

Participate in rituals and ceremonies designed to connect with nature, ancestral wisdom, and holistic wellbeing.

What is Munay?

It is a multidisciplinary residency in the Peruvian jungle.

Why was it created?

As an invitation to inhabit the jungle as a space for creation, listening and memory. To foster encounters from transdisciplinary perspectives that activate interspecies artistic projects.

What for?

To give yourself time to be and let yourself be imbued by the jungle, its cycles and its multiple forms of life, which become silent teachers that accompany each artist's creative process.

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Chontachaka

At Chontachaka, art is born from direct contact with the land: from walking barefoot, observing, listening, letting oneself be enveloped by the forest. Nature is not just a backdrop, but an active interlocutor, an inexhaustible source of images, rhythms, stories and questions.

The project

This project began more than fifteen years ago with extensive forest restoration work in the Manu Biosphere Reserve. Over time, a parallel path revealed itself to us: restoring ecosystems while restoring our sensitivity and ancestral memory. As the forest regenerates, something within us also awakens. We remember what we were, what we are, and what we can become again.

The residence

The residency will bring together artists from different parts of the world and from various disciplines, creating a temporary community where exchange, coexistence and shared experiences enrich individual processes. The nights, the days, the creative work, the silence and the conversation weave a common space that enhances inspiration.

Ceremonies with master plants

For those who feel so inclined, there is the optional possibility of participating in ceremonies with master plants, accompanied by traditional healers, as another—non-mandatory—way of inner exploration and deep connection. These experiences, lived with respect, can open up other levels of perception and dialogue with nature, freely integrating themselves into each participant's creative process.

Marc Caellas

Marc Caellas is a wanderer who works in writing, theatre, performance and curating on hybrid projects that become books, plays, installations, public programmes and festivals.
He maintains the newsletter Umunukunu (land where the sun rises), a record of his readings and reflections on the search for meaning, conscious living and the wisdom of plants.

History

The day has arrived. After some dreams, several retreats, many conversations, the day has come to get started. In reality, it is not so much a start as a culmination. A life project that began as an ecological reserve, which later also became a place of welcome for a certain type of conscious tourism, or a space for transformative retreats, whether Tantra or sacred plants, and which now, without ceasing to be all that it is, also gives itself permission to be an artistic residence.

Thus, La Munay is born, an artist residency in the Peruvian jungle. La Munay was created to provide space, support, and shelter to artists who view creative processes as a way to intensify and improve our connections with other humans and other species. La Munay is committed to relational art, to the poetry of birdsong, to establishing and merging perspectives under the trees.

The project will be developed in practice, with contributions and exchanges with participants.

Magda and I, Marc Caellas, are the driving forces behind it, but we are accompanied by the entire local community, Julio, Gloria, Nadia, and others who work and contribute value to this unique space.

La Munay aims to be a space for the exchange of ideas. Located on the banks of a mighty river, whose sound accompanies us day and night, La Munay is a space for conversation and exchange based on ideas such as those that emerge in this poem by Ida Vitale, which I received in my email a few days ago, thanks to the good work of Robin Myers and his fantastic newsletter, A Poem Per Diem.

At Munay, poetry is not only read, but put into practice. It is an inspiring force, like the life and work of Joseph Beuys.

LET YOURSELF FALL - Joseph Beuys

Learn to observe snakes.
Sow impossible gardens.
Invite someone dangerous to tea.
Make little characters that say
YES and scatter them throughout your house.
Become friends with freedom
and insecurity.
Rejoice in the dreams that come.
Swing as high as you can
in the moonlight.
Dream wild dreams full of fantasy.
Draw on the walls.
Read every day.
Imagine you are under a spell.
Laugh with children,
listen to old people.
Cultivate different moods.
Refuse to “be responsible”...
Do it for love.
Believe in magic.
Laugh a lot.
Bathe in the moonlight.
Dream wild dreams full of fantasy.

Is it really so bad to vegetate? Will we have to put down roots, with all that permanence implies? Perhaps a little sand will suffice, but then it will be a cactus that comes to the new state. It would undoubtedly be better to find some good black soil for the experience, because not just any soil is suitable for the adventure that is about to begin. Will a few sprouts be enough? But no matter how determined one may be, they will not appear anywhere if one does not manage to grow even the smallest root. And for this, stillness is needed. Sinking and stillness?

At La Munay we also offer ceremonies with ayahuasca and other master plants. We consider them a tool for internal healing. They are the loudspeakers of Pachamama. There is no better place than the jungle to understand all its power.