For those of you flying, after arriving in Liberia you will be transported in a private shuttle to our magnificent retreat space. For those of you who are local, we look forward introducing you to a unique experience in Playa Junquillal. 1 shuttle will be offered at 3pm. Please book flights accordingly. We will get settled into our accommodations and provide an exceptional tour of the retreat space. You will have some time to explore or rest before we will gather in the kitchen for dinner and meeting new friends. After dinner we will gather in the Shala for opening circle, an intention setting meditation, our 1st rapé ceremony and a medicine preparedness session. 

At 8:30am we will start the day with our Kambo ceremony.

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Kambo is a sacred secretion from the Amazonian tree frog Phyllomedusa bicolor, known for its deeply cleansing and immune-boosting properties. Honored for centuries by indigenous tribes, this medicine is considered a powerful ally for physical detoxification, emotional release, and energetic alignment. The frogs are never harmed in the process and are treated with deep reverence, making this a respectful and ethical practice. If you have never worked with Kambo before, please read more about this medicine here. 

The medicine is administered through small superficial openings in the outer layer of the skin, allowing the peptides to enter the lymphatic system and begin their work. Kambo is known to support the body’s natural healing intelligence, working at the level of the nervous system, organs, and subtle energy fields to help restore balance and vitality.

There are two main ways to work with Kambo during ceremony, each offering unique benefits:

    •    Wet Kambo is the more traditional and intensive method. It involves drinking a significant amount of water before application, which often leads to a more immediate and physical purge. This style is ideal for those seeking a deep detox or emotional clearing, and it can be especially potent for those ready to move through heavier energetic blocks or stored trauma.

    •    Dry Kambo involves drinking little to no water before receiving the medicine. This results in a quieter, more introspective experience. While the purge may be less intense or may not happen physically at all, the medicine is still working just as powerfully at a cellular level. Many people report profound internal shifts, clarity, and a deepened connection to their body and spirit through this gentler administration style.

It’s important to understand that the purpose of Kambo is not to purge - the goal is to allow the peptides to enter the system and support your body’s natural process of clearing and restoration. A purge may or may not occur, and both experiences are equally valid. The medicine meets each individual where they are, and the healing that unfolds is unique to you.

Each ceremony is approached with intention, reverence, and trauma-informed care. You will be guided to tune into the areas of your life that are calling for support, and held in a safe, supportive container as the medicine works with you. Whether your experience is physical, emotional, or subtle, Kambo offers a profound opportunity to release, reset, and realign. 

Kambo can assist you in detoxing from many conditions:

Depression · Anxiety · OCD · Bipolar · Physical pain · Energy blocks · Infertility · Sexually transmitted Disease · Vaccine toxicity · Heavy metals · Migraines · Blood circulation problems · Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease · Vascular insufficiency · Organ diseases · Cancer · Fertility problems · Deeply rooted toxins · Chronic pain · Addiction to opiate or prescription painkillers (Kambo reduces physical pain, thus helping people kick their addictions to other painkillers) · Fever and infections · Negative energies (traditionally known as “panema”)

This is the medicine of the warrior. Kambo will detox and purge all of your body systems: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and energy. It will detoxify all your organs flushing them of toxins, free radicals, heavy metals, medications, drugs and much more.

Resulting in:

Rapid transformation · Increased stamina · Abundance · Psychic abilities · Clarity · Focus · Happiness · Positivity · Joy · Understanding · Acceptance · Overall health and well-being · Increased sex drive and sensitivity · A deeper connection to self · A deeper connection to nature and spirit.

Following ceremony, you will be offered coconut water and invited to take a bit of a rest -- settling back in to a cleaner body and life! We will enjoy the Kambo reset by journaling, taking a dip in the pool, resting and/or meditating.

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Our afternoon will include lunch followed by time to integrate and reflect on your ceremony experience to include shoreline earthing and connection with the sun, sand and ocean waters to alchemize our bodies.

Dinner will be offered at 7pm.​

We will start our day with our Bufo ceremony. In this sacred ceremony, participants will be offered the opportunity to journey with Bufo Alvarius, also known as the God Molecule, a powerful, naturally occurring entheogen known for its ability to dissolve ego and open the heart to the divine. If you have never worked with Bufo before, please read more about this medicine here. 

This experience is not about force or intensity. It is about surrender, trust, and allowing the medicine to meet you exactly where you are. With the support of a highly trained, trauma-informed practitioner, each journey will be held with great reverence, safety, and deep listening. This medicine is administered one-on-one in the Shala, allowing each participant to receive full presence, individualized care, and undivided energetic support.

Participants may receive up to three rounds of medicine, depending on their experience, nervous system readiness, and personal intention. You will be lovingly guided through each step, with full consent and the freedom to go at your own pace. This client-led approach honors your autonomy and supports the unfolding of your unique healing journey.

As the medicine begins to take effect, you may experience a softening of the mind, a dissolving of mental chatter, and a gentle opening to your inner landscape. For many, Bufo brings about a profound state of expanded awareness, connection to source consciousness, and an overwhelming sense of unconditional love. Others may feel emotional release or encounter deep inner truths that are ready to be seen and felt. All experiences are valid, and all are welcome.

Rather than focusing on a dramatic “breakthrough,” this ceremony is about coming home to yourself… to your innate wholeness, to the divine essence that has always lived within you. With the guidance of the practitioner, you’ll be supported in integrating your experience gently and mindfully, grounding back into your body and the earth before rejoining the group.

Throughout the day, the collective will be holding space in quiet reverence for one another. The Shala will serve as a sacred container for each soul’s unfolding, supported by the energy of the group, the wisdom of the medicine, and the loving guidance of your facilitator.

After your journey, you’ll be given time to rest, reflect, and take in the beauty that surrounds you. We’ll close the day in togetherness with a nourishing dinner and a soft space to begin integrating what has come through. 

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After Dinner, Susan will lead us through a somatic practice. This practice will open us up to grounding the Bufo medicine somatically in our bodies even further. The same way we have inherited dance, movement and expression in tribe from our ancestors and shamanic lineages, we have also inherited the primal need for spaces where we can drop below the surface, to descend into the subtle realms of existence to listen and feel – TOGETHER. Something profound happens when we do this. When we actually OPEN to ALLOW this space and its ancient wisdom the possibility of actualizing. When this happens, when a group of human beings comes together, with relaxed nervous systems, there is a deep heartfelt synchronization that happens. Our bodies form a kind of energetic web of wisdom-in the softness and silence we finally have the ability listen to it. The somatic practice that relaxes our bodies, opens our hearts, and puts all our fears to rest. To meet the primordial human need to be together in silence, and allow the ancestral wisdom alive and available in our bodies to have the time and space to be heard, and deeply felt.

We will meet for a nourishing breakfast at 8am. Following breakfast, we will meet in the Shala for a Bhakti meditation and sharing circle.

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The rest of the morning will be free time to integrate and use the ice bath, pool or to journal. 

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Lunch will be served at 1pm.​ After lunch, we will gather in sacred circle to create mala beads, guided by Natalie as she shares her heartfelt gifts of jewelry making. Malas have been used for centuries as devotional tools, each bead representing a prayer, mantra, or intention - offering us a way to anchor spirit into matter and carry our practice into daily life. This art is deeply sacred to Natalie, and we are honored to receive her offering. In preparation for this practice, stones have been lovingly selected for each participant based on your individual intake and what is most meaningful for your path. With intention and reverence, you will string each bead in prayer, infusing it with the medicine of your journey. In this way, the mala becomes not only a beautiful piece of jewelry but also a living talisman, carrying the energy of your retreat experience, your prayers, and your transformation. This integration practice allows you to embody the teachings and insights of our work together, ensuring you leave with something tangible to return to - a reminder of your inner devotion and the sacred path you are walking.

Dinner will be served at 6pm. Following dinner, we will gather in the shala for a drum circle, a time of singing, chanting, and shared vibration. As our voices rise together with the rhythm of the drum - the primal heartbeat - we anchor our spirits into the present moment and into one another. Chanting and drumming are timeless practices of devotion, weaving us into the current of bhakti, the yoga of the heart. This collective offering of sound opens pathways of joy, connection, and surrender, reminding us that we are both individual voices and part of a greater harmony.

We will start the day at 7am with a lite breakfast. At 8am we will have a heart opening meditation in the Shala led by Susan. Lunch will not be provided in preparation for ceremony. Our ceremony will open with an intention setting circle. At 11am Susan will lead a breathwork session to open the heart and spirit and release any stuck energy or emotions. The breathwork will be accompanied by guided ceremony music to deepen the experience. Ron Nikel and Paul Jarred will begin our heart and spirit plant ceremony around 12pm. In ceremony, we will work with a range of plants that fall into two categories: heart and spirit (entheogen and psychedelic plants).

The HEART medicines are derived from flowers and trees that originate from Asia, Africa and North America.

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Heart Plants

• Kanna: a succulent found in South Africa

• Blue Lotus: a water flower from Egypt

• Passion Flower: a flower from Southeastern USA, Central & South America

• White Lily: A South American water lily 

• Red Lily: A water lily from Bangladesh and India 

• Sassafras: a North American tree used as an activator 

• Acacia: a North American tree used as an activator

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The SPIRIT or psychedelic plants come from fungi found in Asia, North and South America and can help to facilitate connection within the spirit realm and to transverse into deeper levels of consciousness.

Spirit Plants

• Psilocybin Mushrooms

• DMT

• Syrian Rue

If you have never worked with these plants before, please read more about these medicines here. Each person working within this blended tradition has an opportunity to work with a range of plants that work on reconnecting the individual with the energy of the heart and spirit. Each person will meet with the medicine facilitator to determine the plant or combination of plants they will take during ceremony that will meet each individuals needs and intentions. Plants offered are subject to availability.

The ceremony is held within a safe and sacred container, guided by Ron Nikel as the primary medicine facilitator and supported by two to three additional trauma-informed facilitators. Together, they create an environment of deep care, protection, and attunement, ensuring that each participant feels supported as they journey with the plants. Each experience is inward, with eyes covered to encourage turning within and following the wisdom of the medicine. Participants are invited to meet whatever arises - whether emotion, vision, or sensation - with mindfulness, awareness, and curiosity, learning to surrender into the unfolding process rather than resist it.

Throughout the ceremony, the resonance of sound healing from Paul and carefully chosen sacred music weaves through the space, offering guidance and anchoring to those navigating the inner realms.

The heart plants open the doorway to love and safety, while the spirit plants lift the consciousness into more ethereal dimensions, making the crossing between worlds more fluid and gentle. This medicine sequence, following the profound purification of Kambo and the expansive awakening of Bufo, allows the energies of each to integrate and spiral together - clearing, awakening, and now opening into the heart of devotion. In this way, the ceremony becomes a living prayer, uniting body, heart, and spirit in the vibration of love.

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After the ceremony has concluded, soup and fruit will be provided.

We will have a leisurely morning and meet in the kitchen for a refreshing breakfast at 8am. After breakfast, Ron and Paul will lead us in a sharing and integration circle. This will be a day for grounding and going inward to reflect on ceremony experiences. The activities for the day may include: rest, journaling, hike, pool, meditation walk. After lunch at 12:30pm we will venture to the beach to continue our grounding with some Shoreline Earthing and relaxation. Grounding is an important technique to lock in all of our ceremonies from the week. We will experience high vibrational consciousness exploration that may bring up some tough emotions, and it is necessary to feel solid and recalibrated in our newborn bodies. Releasing fear, trauma, stuck emotions, negative energies and anything else that needed to go, leaves our bodies very open and raw to receive what we wish for our new selves.

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Dinner will be at 6pm.

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We will then fathering for a somatic practice in the Shala and sharing circle followed by our ancestral fire ritual.

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As we gather in circle for the Fire Ceremony, we enter into an ancient ancestral ritual honoring the grandfather energy of the flames. In many shamanic traditions, fire is revered as the great transformer - the element that burns away what no longer serves, offering release and renewal. Through meditation and prayer, we will invite the fire to carry our offerings into smoke, transmuting pain into wisdom, fear into freedom, and endings into new beginnings. At the same time, the fire becomes our anchor, holding the experiences and insights of the week so that they may root deeply in our hearts. This sacred element reminds us of our radical belonging, connecting us to the Bhakti current of devotion and the warmth of community. As sparks rise into the night sky, we affirm our journeys, our healing, and our shared commitment to walk forward with hearts ignited in love. In this way, we call in the Phoenix -rising from the ashes, embodying fear to freedom, and awakening into the radiant truth of our belonging.

We will start our day with breakfast at 7am followed by a Kundalini Activation Process (KAP) with Anne in the Shala at 9am. The Kundalini Activation Process (KAP) with Anne is a dynamic energy transmission that invites deep surrender & connection to your innate life force. Through sound & sacred space, Anne guides you into an experience where Kundalini energy naturally rises, moves through the body & supports integration, expansion & alignment with your essence.

After the KAP journey we will we gather in sacred ceremony with Wachuma (San Pedro), the Grandfather medicine of the Andes. Guided by its gentle yet expansive spirit, we open our hearts to deeper connection with Pachamama — feeling the pulse of the Earth, the rhythm of the ocean, and the oneness that flows through all of life. We’ll spend time on the beach grounding the week’s transformation, letting nature anchor the healing that has unfolded. A nourishing lunch follows, integrating body and spirit. The ceremony concludes with a heartfelt sharing circle and optional ice bath, inviting us to embody presence, community, and gratitude as we close the retreat in harmony with each other.

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Testimonial videos will begin at 4pm. We will have a group dinner at 6:30pm followed by ecstatic dance at 8pm in the Shala. This dance will be an embodiment practice, culminating in a celebratory journey of self-expression, freedom, and integration of all the transformation we’ve cultivated throughout the week.

Breakfast 7am. Closing circle in the Shala at 8am. Shuttle to LIR 10am. Checkout for those staying in Costa Rica at 11am.