Soltara Healing Center: Playa Blanca – 8 Day Ayahuasca Retreat

– Ayahuasca ceremonies with experienced Peruvian male and female Shipibo healers. These skilled facilitators have decades of experience in ceremony, helping your journey through the healing process.
– Small group sizes with a maximum capacity of 21 visitors, ensuring 1 on 1 attention from healers during ceremonies.
– A low guest to facilitator ratio.
– Numerous integration workshops and group sharing circles.
– A copy of The Hero’s Journal, our integration book, to assist you in your Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journal, is published by Soltara in collaboration with clinical psychologists, provides you with a psychological framework that we adapted to the Ayahuasca experience.
– Fresh daily ayahuasca-friendly meals made from locally-sourced organically grown food.
– Airport pick up and drop off for SJO airport.
– Daily yoga classes for all levels of experience.
– Meditation sessions and Pranayama breathwork, breathing exercises developed for mental focus rejuvenation, purification, and healing.
– Medicinal plants baths.
– Multiple walking trails that immerse you in one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.
– Access to our jungle gym, creative spaces, on-site pool, two semi-private beaches along the Gulf of Nicoya.
– In room air-conditioning.
– 10% discount for all return visits.

If you’re getting vaccinated, we recommend at least 2 weeks in-between vaccination and your
retreat to ensure no interactions with the medicine
If you have the COVID-19 Vaccine, we still require an Antigen or PCR test taken within 36
hours of arrival to enter the retreat

To catch our shuttle, book your flight to the Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) in San José, Costa Rica
• We offer free group pickup on Day 1 of your retreat at 11:15 am (for 12 pm sharp departure) from the Wyndham San Jose Herradura Hotel, 15 minutes from SJO Airport
– If you plan to fly in on Day 1, your flight must land by 9 AM on Day 1 for enough time for customs (could take up to 2 hours) to get to the Wyndham for the 11:15 AM meet-up
– We highly recommend arriving the day before, to ensure smooth arrival
– You will arrive at Soltara around 4:00 pm, after a 90-minute drive through the beautiful rolling hills of Costa Rica, and catching the 2:30 pm ferry ride from Puntarenas to the Nicoya Peninsula.
– Dropoff, after your retreat, is on the last day at The Wyndham Hotel

– Based on our experience with Ayahuasca, it is recommended, if possible, that participants stop most medications, four (4) weeks in advance of their visit to the retreat. Having said that, we acknowledge this may not be feasible for all participants. It is imperative that you talk to your doctor about any medication you may be taking in order to determine how it reacts with MAO inhibitors. Be sure to keep track of any medication that has a health risk if you discontinue taking it.

– While it is not 100% necessary to discontinue medications prior to your retreat visit, its very important to discuss the use of Ayahuasca this with your primary care physician, as well as being 100% transparent with our staff when filling out the medical portion of your intake questionnaire prior to booking your retreat.

– It is important that you understand that some medications are clearly contraindicated with Ayahuasca use and unlike the consequences of food allergies/interactions, Ayahuasca interaction with prescription and over the counter pharmaceuticals as well as certain herbs can be potentially fatal. In particular, the drugs and medications listed below can be hazardous when mixed Ayahuasca and should be discontinued at least 4 weeks prior to coming to the retreat:

– Other monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI’s). These include drugs like Isocarboxazid (Marplan), Phenelzine (Nardil), Selegiline (Emsam), Tranylcypromine (Parnate).
– Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s).
– Any high blood pressure medicine (Antihypertensives).
– Diet pills/appetite suppressants.
– Medicine for bronchitis including antihistamines, cold medication, sinus medication, hay fever/allergy medications.
– Drugs with dextromethorphan: Found in cough suppressants.
– Central nervous system depressants like Xanax or Ativan
– Vasodilators: medications that dilate blood vessels, often use for hypertension
– Antipsychotics: Used to manage symptoms of psychosis, including delusions and hallucinations. Often used to treat those with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and Alzheimer’s disease.
– Barbiturates: Class of drugs that have a depressant effect.
– Cocaine: a stimulant.
– Amphetamines/ephedrine/MDMA/MDA, MDEA, PMA: Nervous system stimulants.
– Opiates like heroin, morphine, codeine, and opium: Opiates are used for pain management and are depressants.
– Mescaline
– Kratom
– Kava
– 5-HTPand St. John´s Wort
– Cannabis