Rua do Prado 22, Centro, Arraial d'Ajuda, Bahia, Brazil
Up to 10 in group
February 17 - 23, 2025
About this Retreat
Meditation Facilitator - Ixtaliy was born in Peru in 1968 and raised in Colombia and Brazil. She chosed traveling as a back-packer craft woman for many years all over Latin America and later on in Europe, specially in Ibiza, Spain. This journey opened her creativity and sensitivity to social and human issues. Her passage through the Andes mountains and Amazonian rainforest very early in her life carved her deeply inside and was marked by the teachings of Huachuma - also known as San Pedro, the ancestral sacred cactus of the Andes, that inspired and transformed her life in one session , opening her body-mind-soul to a completely new life.
Since 2017 organizing with love and commitment Yoga Retreats and since 2019 Yoga and Medicine Retreats with her partner Ingrid Christiansen, a journey of service and LOVE IN ACTION.
On the retreats, besides serving breakfast and holding space for participants at any time required, she facilitates Mindfulness Meditation workshops inspired by the Mindfulness based stress reduction program (MBSR) and offers holistic massages to balance energy and reconnect to the self and Tarot readings to bring to light subjects that need attention and a fresher way of seeing;
She is also one of the co-founders of the association Verdejar d'Ajuda verdejardajuda.org, an ecological project in Bahia, Brazil, which mission is to plant a million trees and bring environmental education and awareness of our responsibility to mitigate the impact of climate change to her community, and part of the benefits of the retreats supports it.
Original from Brazil, Aline is a Medicine Woman learning in permanence from elders from different traditions such as Huni Kuin; Noke Kuin, Tubu (Colombia) and others. Her gifts come through chanting ancient songs of different cultures and bringing to ptresent traditions and old ways of relating with the elements, the directions, the spirits and others to support participants to locate them selves in the Merkaba, and make use of the intrinsic power of each person.
She will conduct Rapé Circle according to Huni Kuin and Noke Kuin traditions, and the Psilocybin Ceremony based on her experiences with taita Lionel from Colombia, and her master Yohan, french antropolgist devoted to the study of Mushrooms from Mexican tradition and abroad.
Flor is your host in our Bahia Retreats. She will take care of our guests, nourish them with colourful brunchs, guide the Cacao Ceremony and share a Yoga practice during the retreat.
Loving and commited to service, she is a source of light and joy.
Details of this retreat
Ready to make of your holidays a deep journey of beauty, self-discovery, and wellbeing? This experience integrates in a careful program the ancient practices of Yoga and an introduction to meditation from the perspective of mindfulness, with the powerful teachings of the master plants Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and Tobacco in a ceremonial context!
This retreat is for those who have felt the call to experience with master plants, or feel to deepen with them in a safe context. For those who feel ready to face some trauma and difficulties from a different approach, or dive into the multidimensional realms of existance, to cultivate self love, integration and appreciation.
This will be a wonderful opportunity to drop your masks and look at yourself from a new perspective, one of self-compassion and kindness, allowing what there is to be, allowing to let go what needs to stay no more, entering day by day into the experience of BEING, moment by moment, breath by breath and from this BEING AWARE OF BEING to make new choices, to fully enjoy, to try new habits and gain inspiration and perspective for your journey in life.
The villa offers comfortable accommodations and magic spaces where the beauty of nature surrounds and inspires the journey. =
Be welcome to this journey of awakening and potential transformation. The theme for this retreat is cultivating self-love and deeper awareness.
A program of well-being, cleanse, and self-discovery will be offered to arrive at the Ayahuasca ceremony in the best condition to receive with an open heart the teachings and visions of this powerful ancestral medicine from the Amazonian rainforest. The Ayahuasca ceremony is optional, so if you feel like coming to share the program without taking the medicine, you are welcome to.
We propose a little "interview" with those who are interested in the Ayahuasca Ceremony, to better understand the motivations to participate in such a retreat and be sure this is the experience that will suit your needs.
We work with different facilitators such as the Huni Kuin natives from Brazilian Amazonia and other skilled medicine men or women from other traditions. Always with a huge sense of responsibility and care for the following days of the ceremonies.