Healing and Self-Discovery
Welcome to our transformative Ayahuasca Ceremonies! Nestled on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, our ceremonies offer the perfect setting for awakening and self-discovery. These one-night gatherings provide a safe, sacred space for profound spiritual journeys, led by Shipibo Onaya apprentices (Peruvian Traditional Doctors).
What is Included
- Sacred Beachfront Ceremony Space: Our ceremonies take place in a tranquil beachfront maloka in Cahuita, Costa Rica, surrounded by nature’s beauty.
- Authentic Ayahuasca Medicine: Prepared by the Shipibo Maestros in Peru, honoring traditional Amazonian practices.
- Experienced Guidance: The ceremony is guided in the traditional Shipibo Amazonian way with Icaros and compassionate support before, during, and after the ceremony.
- Coaching Session to help you prepare for your Ceremonies
- Integration session to support your journey afterward
- Medicinal Tools: Rapé, Sananga, and Mapacho medicines to support the experience.
- Comfortable Arrangements: Mattresses, blankets, pillows, buckets, and toilet paper are provided for your comfort.
- Post-Ceremony Rest: After the ceremony, you are welcome to stay and sleep in the maloka (medicine space) for as long as you wish.
- Grounding Refreshments: Herbal tea and breakfast refreshments are provided the morning after the ceremony.
- Love and Support: Our team ensures you feel cared for and supported throughout your transformative journey.
What to Bring
- Comfortable Clothing: Wear loose, breathable clothing made from natural fibers (avoid synthetics). We recommend white clothing, as it aligns with the ceremony’s renewal energy.
- Change of clothes: Bring an additional set of clothes after the ceremony.
- Water Bottle: Stay hydrated with your reusable water bottle.
- Personal Toiletries: Include essentials for your comfort and hygiene.
- Natural Mosquito Repellent: Protect yourself from insects with an eco-friendly, chemical-free option.
- Journal: Capture insights and reflections after the ceremony in a journal.
- Sacred or Meaningful Objects (Optional): Bring items like crystals, amulets, or other meaningful objects to support your journey.
What Is Ayahuasca?
Ayahuasca is a sacred Amazonian Medicine that combines the Ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and the Chacruna leaf (Psychotria viridis). Indigenous tribes have used this powerful brew for centuries to unlock deep healing, introspection, spiritual awakening..
Drinking Ayahuasca opens a portal to your inner self, helping you liberate hidden emotions, memories, and spiritual truths. This experience often leads to life-changing insights and a profound sense of renewal—all enhanced by the Caribbean coastline’s tranquil beauty and powerful energy.
Ayahuasca Benefits
Ayahuasca Ceremonies provide unparalleled opportunities for personal growth, and transformation. Here’s how this sacred medicine can profoundly impact your life:
Heal Emotional Wounds
Release past trauma, overcome fears, and rediscover peace. Ayahuasca guides you through a journey of emotional relief and renewal, allowing suppressed emotions to be cleared.
Awaken Your Purpose
Open your third eye, connect to higher consciousness, and clarify your life’s direction. Experience a deep understanding of your soul’s purpose and your place in the Universe.
Achieve Mental Clarity
Break free from negative patterns, release limiting beliefs, and explore new perspectives on personal challenges. Ayahuasca offers insights that foster personal growth and transformation.
Align Your Energetic Body
Cleanse and balance your mind, body, and spirit, restoring harmony within yourself. Ayahuasca helps release energetic blockages, allowing life-force energy to flow freely through your body.
Deepen Your Connection
Feel a profound connection with yourself, others, and the Universe. The ceremony fosters a sense of oneness and interconnectedness, helping you rediscover the beauty of life. Cahuita’s pristine nature amplifies this experience, grounding you in the harmony of the Caribbean coast.
Scientific Evidence Supporting Ayahuasca's Healing Power
Groundbreaking scientific research continues to validate Ayahuasca’s transformative healing power. Studies published in respected journals such as Frontiers in Pharmacology and Nature Scientific Reports provide compelling evidence of its effects on the brain and overall well-being.
Relief from Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD
A study in Frontiers in Pharmacology (2019) revealed that Ayahuasca significantly reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety. By activating serotonin receptors (specifically the 5-HT2A receptor), Ayahuasca helps reset the brain’s emotional regulation, offering relief from conditions such as PTSD and treatment-resistant depression.
Neurogenesis and Brain Repair
Research from Nature Scientific Reports (2016) demonstrated Ayahuasca’s ability to stimulate the growth of new neurons, a process known as neurogenesis. This effect helps the brain repair itself, promotes cognitive flexibility, and facilitates emotional healing by creating new neural pathways that break old patterns.
Emotional and Energetic Detox
A study in Psychopharmacology (2021) highlighted Ayahuasca’s impact on the brain’s default mode network (DMN), which governs self-referential thinking. The temporary reduction in DMN activity during an Ayahuasca experience helps individuals release entrenched emotional pain, trauma, and energetic blockages, fostering profound psychological and spiritual insights.
Reduced Inflammation and Improved Physical Health
Emerging research suggests Ayahuasca may have anti-inflammatory properties that support physical healing. Chronic inflammation has been linked to numerous physical and mental health issues, including autoimmune diseases and mood disorders. Ayahuasca’s impact on inflammation offers hope for holistic health improvements.
Enhanced Well-Being and Connection
Research published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology shows that participants in Ayahuasca studies consistently report increased feelings of peace, purpose, and connection to themselves and others. These effects contribute to lasting improvements in mental health and overall life satisfaction.
Your Ceremony Guides
Roberto and Alexandra Tentiu, founders of Inner Flight Retreat, lead the ceremonies with compassion, wisdom, and dedication. They have trained extensively with Shipibo Maestros Francisco and Tessy in Pucallpa, Peru, and return annually to deepen their practice through the Master Plant Dieta. Twice a year, they host retreats in Costa Rica with Shipibo maestros and offer private Ayahuasca and Kambo ceremonies year-round. Their extensive experience in coaching and ceremony guiding honors the sacred Shipibo traditions, creating a nurturing space for profound healing and transformation.
Our Guests Reviews
Discover the transformative experiences of those who have joined our Ayahuasca ceremonies. Hear their heartfelt stories of healing and growth. Ready to explore more? Watch More Reviews →
Ayahuasca Contraindications
Ayahuasca is not safe for everyone, and your safety is our top priority. Please respect the following guidelines to determine if Ayahuasca is suitable for you:
1. Medications:
– If you are taking antidepressants, benzodiazepines, sleeping pills, or other medications, Ayahuasca is not safe unless you discontinue these medications at least 14 days before the ceremony.
– Combining Ayahuasca with these substances is extremely dangerous and can even be lethal.
2. Recreational Drugs
– Using recreational drugs in combination with Ayahuasca poses severe risks and can also be lethal. Abstain completely 14 days before the ceremony.
3. Medical Conditions:
– Ayahuasca is not recommended for individuals with severe heart conditions, extreme high blood pressure, or mental health disorders such as schizophrenia or dementia.
4. Pregnancy:
– Pregnant women should avoid Ayahuasca for their safety and the safety of the baby.
Unsure about your health compatibility?
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Ayahuasca Diet
The Ayahuasca diet is essential to your preparation and is designed to support your body, mind, and spirit for the ceremony. To fully understand its importance and guidelines, we invite you to explore our Ayahuasca Diet Page for detailed information.
I came across the Inner Flight Retreat through a flyer.
The complex is easy to find, it is at the beginning of Cajahuita, almost directly by the sea.
Appointments were made very easily via WhatsApp. Within a few days the time had come.
I received a very warm welcome, everyone hugged me.
Since I arrived very early, I got a delicious meal.
I felt safe, especially because a participation requirement had to be filled out when registering. This is very serious.
Everything was explained to us travelers again and again and questions were answered precisely.
During the ceremony I felt very taken care of and I didn't panic or have any other complications. Unfortunately, there are many people with prejudices, but not one of them has been confirmed.
The Deva (plant soul) of this medicine was able to implement my previous attention 1:1.
Traumas, retraumatizations and corresponding behavioral patterns accumulated in my life like a necklace of pearls. I was just in head mode. I have been involved in psychology for many years. You mess around with every task you do, which takes forever and it all hurts again.
But this one! Ceremony, half a cup of medicine, took me from the head to the heart energy and I opened my heart, it drew in love. Heat and a pink/purple light replaced all this junk data. At the same time, I was mentally so far along that I manifested how to preserve this feeling. So, every time I meditate now, I chant something intuitive and I am reset again.
During this time, all participants were looked after very lovingly. Incense rituals and gestures of love and connection helped those who dealt with other issues with the help of medicine.
Medicine is like a chameleon, it always presents itself! on the person who takes them and their topics.
Everyone reacts differently.
For me it wasn't just the most sensible investment. I was able to let go of everything and/or accept things because they belong to me.
I laughed, talked, sang and cuddled with a cat for ages.
Many thanks to the entire team, to Ayahuasca and its medicine.
I see myself as healed.
Nature is God.
Aho and much love Jenny
Even before I actually met them in person, the loving, attentive energy they show is present in every interaction. They creat such a loving safe space that makes doing the deep soul work very comfortable. The guidance through the process is overflowing with kindness.
I have been sitting with medicine for many years now, some with other factors but mostly on my own in the old ways. I knew there were things I needed help with and it required a very special group. I found them all here at inner flight. I was able to finally unpack some very heavy trauma and grief that had eluded me for a long time. The healing in my soul is at a much deeper level than I even know it could be. I have found my medicine family.
If you’re looking for a safe space to go deep or are just curious about medicine healing this is the only place I can recommend. All the others I have tried always had something missing. It’s hard to say what it was. Here at inner flight there is nothing missing in the healing. They provide you the space and tools to go into areas you didn’t even know you needed to.
The healing and guidance doesn’t end when the retreat is over. They have created a community space with regular interaction to help with integration. This in my opinion is the biggest part the other places don’t have. At inner flight you are brought into the circle for life if you choose for continued guidance.
The property is by the beach and I enjoyed long walks, swim in the ocean, family style meals, painting and pottery, and sharing this transformative experience with amazing people.
