Private Ayahuasca or Psilocybin Retreat, Mexico

Up to 2 in group

5 Days Package (4 nights)

Retreat Highlights

A retreat for one person or one couple, never a group
Ayahuasca or psilocybin, chosen together on the intro call
Two to four weeks of online preparation before you travel
One or two ceremony nights, with live sound through the night
A medical review before anything is booked
Steam dome, cold plunge and Thai yoga massage
Integration sessions for a month after you go home

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Luke

Alexa

Luke DeStefano

Luke DeStefano, IHP2 Co-founder, Ceremony Facilitator, Meditation & Breathwork Guide, Qi Gong Adept Luke is an Integrative Health Practitioner, plant medicine retreat facilitator, and ceremony guide, with over 20 years of experience in creating safe spaces for personal and collective healing. His service in the healing arts is guided by a passion for empowering individuals to discover the innate wisdom and untapped potential of their own body, mind, and spirit. In addition to his dedication to health and wellness, Luke serves as a psychedelic preparation and integration guide, ceremonial musician, Kambo facilitator, massage therapist, and breathwork guide. He is also an initiate of the Dharma Mountain lineage of Mahayana Buddhism. His passion for the sacred arts has led him to immersive studies in Thailand, Vietnam, China, Laos, Nepal, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Areas of Expertise - Ceremony Facilitation & Musicianship - Holistic Health & Wellness - Meditation, Breathwork, QI Gong & Buddhist Studies - Music & Sound Healing Credentials - Over 20 years experience in ceremony facilitation & apprentieship - Initiate of the Dharma Mountain lineage of South Vietnamese Buddhism - Breathwork Facilitator training (Wim Hoff) -

Alexa Iya Soro

Alexa Iya Soro, MA Holistic Counselor CAGS Expressive ARTS therapy Medicine Facilitator & Psychotherapist With a skilled therapeutic and heart-centered approach, Alexa empowers you with tools and practices essential for your continued growth and self-discovery through her work with ancestral medicine, talk therapy, somatic and mindfulness practices, Alexa utilizes Depth Psychology, Internal Family Systems, Relational/Cultural Therapy, and Yin Yoga Therapy, incorporating sacred medicine work and techniques such as nervous system entrainment, neuroscience-psychoeducation, and the appropriate implementation of mythology, ritual, and ancestral connection. Alexa holds a Master's degree in Holistic Counseling & Eco-Expressive Arts and a Bachelor's degree in Humanistic Psychology from Brown University. For over 10 years, Alexa has been on the path of ritual healing, grief processing, and plant medicine, studying under world class teachers from both indigenous and western approaches. Areas of Expertise -Psychedelic Integration & Ceremony Preparation -Grief Companionship -Ceremony & Ritual Facilitation Credentials - 5-MeO-DMT facilitation training, Tandava - Brown University - BA Psychology - Naropa - Buddhist Applications of Therapy - Salve Regina University - Masters Holistic Counseling - Internal Family Systems Certified - Ancestral Healing Facilitator Training with Daniel Foor - 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training - Cacao Facilitation Training

Details of this retreat

A private ayahuasca or psilocybin retreat, held for one person or one couple at a time at La Fuente, our adobe homestead above Valle de Bravo. Which medicine is right for you is decided together on the intro call. There's no group to fold into and no schedule to keep up with: the days are shaped around you, and the ceremony sits at the center of them.

It begins before you travel. Over two to four weeks we meet online to prepare: your intention, a dietary lead-in, a medical review, and the practical and emotional groundwork, so you arrive ready rather than braced.

At La Fuente you're met at the airport and fed from the garden. The stay is four nights with one ceremony night, or a night longer with two, and a rest day between them. Ceremony is held in a candlelit room with live, channeled sound through the night, never a playlist. Mornings bring breathwork, movement and meditation; afternoons the steam dome, the cold plunge, Thai yoga massage and the garden.

Before you leave we hold a closing session, and follow-up sessions continue online in the month after with Alexa or Luke, so what opened takes root in ordinary life.

Every retreat starts with a free 30-minute call, and a medical review comes before anything is booked. Couples add $200 a night.

Sacred Counsel does not administer, supply or handle any controlled substances. Ceremonies are held by independent facilitators operating under local law; we hold the preparation, the container and the integration.

Schedule

8:00 Breathwork, movement and meditation (always optional)
9:30 Light breakfast
11:00 Preparation or integration session
13:30 Lunch, then rest
17:00 Steam dome, cold plunge or massage
Evening: ceremony in the candlelit room, with live sound through the night
The day after a ceremony is for rest, a slow breakfast and an integration session

Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Sacred Counsel

Directions

La Fuente is in the hills just outside Valle de Bravo, about two and a half hours by road from Mexico City airport. We send the exact location once you book, and can arrange a private car from the airport or your hotel in the city.

Accommodation

Guests stay in the garden bungalow: a bedroom with a large bed, a sitting room and a private bathroom, with windows onto the land. Two people traveling together share the bungalow. Linens and towels are provided.

One ceremony, 4 nights

Two ceremonies, 5 nights

Venue & Amenities

A/C in Rooms

Free Wifi

Spa

Sauna

Pool

Towels

Free Parking

Kitchen

Tour Assistance

Hot Tub

Coffee/Tea

Cafe

Restaurant

Fitness Center

Yoga Studio

Housekeeping

Bicycles For Rent

La Fuente is Luke and Alexa's adobe homestead in the hills above Valle de Bravo, a lake town two and a half hours from Mexico City. It's a working home, not a resort: a house and a guest bungalow on a wide lawn, a vegetable and herb garden, a pergola for morning movement, a hand-built steam dome, a cold plunge, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber with infrared panels, and hammocks under the trees. We host one or two guests at a time, so it stays quiet.

Meals

Menu Types

Vegan

Vegetarian

Pescetarian

Ayurvedic

Includes Meat

Organic

Gluten Free

Dairy Free

Nut Free

Three meals a day, cooked at the house with produce from the garden and the Valle de Bravo market, plus tea and coffee all day. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and dairy-free are easy; tell us what you need when you book.