This Soltara retreat is held at an off-grid haven immersed within a National Park in the heart of the Amazon River Basin in Peru, where we work with traditional Peruvian Shipibo healers and sacred plant medicine, as well as other traditional and modern healing modalities, to help you along this path of self-discovery. Our decades of combined experience holding ceremony and doing medicine work allow you to experience in-depth healing in a safe and loving environment.
We are called to serve medicine in sacred ceremony with integrity, humility, and compassion. By creating a safe space and working only with experienced, well-intentioned healers and facilitators, we uphold the lessons of the medicines and build a foundation of mutual trust, authenticity, and respect. We are not gurus, preachers, or enlightened beings – our healers are maestros who humbly transmit the knowledge and healing energies of the plants, and our facilitators are devoted to helping guests face, process, and explore difficult experiences and emotions, handle projections, manage expectations, and surrender to the process. We strive to uphold the highest integrity in everything we do and be a beacon for responsible, safe, and ethical practices, such that our guests feel safe and supported to get the most out of their healing.
8.00 am - Morning yoga
9.00 am - Breakfast
10.00 am - Consultations with healers
1.00 pm - Lunch
2.00 - Free time - beach, hammocks, walking trails, onsite pool
6.30 pm - Pre-ceremony yoga
7.30 pm - Ceremony
Our retreat spaces provide safe & supportive containers to dive deeply into your healing.
Under the guidance of indigenous Peruvian Shipibo healers, we combine plant medicine ceremonies, supportive embodiment practices, and a unique integration program to empower each guest in their healing over the long term. Our decades of combined experience holding Ayahuasca ceremonies and doing medicine work allow you to experience in-depth healing in a safe and loving environment.
Supporting guests from intake to integration
At Soltara, we hold a high standard for every aspect of the healing process. We believe all those who feel called to work with the medicine at an ayahuasca retreat, regardless of where they choose to partake, should understand the current knowledge, traditions, and recommendations, both spiritual and medical, in preparing for such an experience.
Ultimately, the goal of your ayahuasca retreat preparation & integration (post-retreat) work is to help you potentiate your experience with the medicine. You’ve invested your time, energy, resources, and commitment to your healing, and we encourage you to see your efforts as an investment in yourself and in devotion to the plants & the Shipibo tradition that stewards this work. Our holistic before and after-care offerings are here to help you realize and connect to the answers and agency you already have within you.
Our before and aftercare support extends beyond your ayahuasca retreat, and includes:
We believe healing even takes place in the kitchen. We take on the mantra by the Greek physician, Hippocrates: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” We honor the role of food in our lives and expand it beyond its primary purpose of bodily nourishment – food can be an avenue to dig deeper into ourselves, consciously looking at our patterns and mindsets surrounding not just what we eat, but how and why we eat what we do. Our eating habits don’t just affect our mental health, they also reflect it. At Soltara, we aim to help you jumpstart this process of connection through conscious cooking on all levels. Diet is an important part of the healing process, both on its own and also to help prepare the mind and body for plant medicine work. We work closely with our shamans to prepare wholesome, delicious meals that adhere to the traditional dietary guidelines of working with ayahuasca.
All of our meals are freshly prepared in-house by our loving kitchen staff. From fresh smoothies and juices every morning, to plant-based meals emphasizing local, organic, and sustainable produce, to lean proteins such a chicken and fish, we celebrate the rich local flavor of Costa Rican cuisine, and offer a chance to experience a connection to the land and culture while nourishing the body, mind, and spirit.
Prices for packages include transportation from a hotel near the Tarapoto airport (more information is included in your confirmation email), as well as all meals, accommodations, medicine, ceremonies, daily activities, workshops, taxes and fees.
