Costa Rica Ayahuasca Retreats

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Soltara Healing Center ✾

Soltara Healing Center is a renowned Ayahuasca retreat center with two locations in Costa Rica. With a belief in the need to encompass the emotional, energetic, and spiritual aspects of healing, the Soltara mission is to empower guests to bridge the gap between mind, body, and spirit and become more fully embodied, integrated, and connected versions of themselves. Soltara boasts an expert team of indigenous Peruvian Shipibo healers and luminaries in the fields of psychology, healthcare, and psychedelic science.

$$$ | Offering 5, 7, and 12-night luxury retreats.

Soltara Scarlet Valley ✾

Scarlet Valley is Soltara’s newest location. Found in the lush mountains of Costa Rica’s Central Pacific Valley, this retreat is alive with wildlife, tropical gardens, and protected rainforest near Carara National Park. This historic wildlife corridor is one of the last remaining habitats of the Scarlet Macaw, the center’s namesake. This incredible destination offers sweeping valley views, fresh mountain air, and a deep sense of peace – the perfect setting for an Ayahuasca journey. With newly built accommodations, a brand-new maloca, gym, spa, and saltwater pool, this center offers modern comforts immersed in the jungle and grounded in the living landscape.

$$$ | Offering 6-day, 3-ceremony or 8-day, 4-ceremony retreats.

Anam Cara Healing Retreats

Anam Cara balances the traditional plant medicine ceremony, rooted in indigenous wisdom, with modern therapeutic care. This evolved approach to an ancient practice creates a grounded environment that is focused on lasting transformation, not quick spiritual tourism. Ceremonies are led by highly respected Shipibo curanderos, indigenous wisdom keepers and master healers. The Anam Cara eco-luxury sanctuary features open-air gathering spaces, luxury glamping accommodations, natural swimming holes, waterfalls, and abundant gardens.

Ananda Lodge

Ananda Lodge is a retreat center 30 minutes from the popular beach destination of Tamarindo, Costa Rica. Limited to only 8 participants, with a 2:1 ratio of guests to healers & facilitators, Ananda offers an intimate, personalized, trauma-informed healing experience. Each member of their CARE team is trained in somatic plant medicine facilitation, ensuring a deep encounter with the medicine, in a safe environment. Retreats included 3 ceremonies, 3 floral baths, 6 support sessions, somatic movement and breathwork, rest and restoration. Luxury accommodations overlook the ocean at their new eco retreat center.

Ayahuasca Costa Rica

Ayahuasca Costa Rica is an eco-friendly retreat center in the heart of the forest – ideal for integration of plant medicine, healing, and awakening. Guests will enjoy a healthy vegan diet, group sharing sessions, and even optional Kambo sessions to compliment 2 ceremonies with Mother Ayahuasca. Also available are excursions to hike in the cloud forest, trips to the nearest beach, and waterfall tours.

Behold Retreats

Behold offers premium, small-group, all-inclusive Ayahuasca retreats in the lush tropical paradise of Esterillos, Costa Rica. Combining ancestral knowledge with modern comfort, Behold provides participants a beautiful space and profound experience to reconnect with their inner world, the natural world, and with others. Retreats include 3 ceremonies, yoga, pool, massage & spa treatments, private accommodations, and high-vibe nutritious meals, all under the care of a highly-trained support team.

New Life Rising

New Life Rising is an intimate, traditional Ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica offering safe, supportive, and deeply personal healing experiences. With a strong emphasis on trauma-informed care, their retreats are intentionally small, with no more than 12 participants, allowing for individualized attention and a deeply held ceremonial container. They work in the Peruvian Mestizo tradition and the ceremonies are led by experienced facilitators with over a decade of training. Every aspect of the experience is designed to support genuine transformation.

Pandorita

Pandorita is located at National Park Piedras Blancas​ – a beautiful wildlife preserve on the clear blue waters of Golfo Dulce. This is an incredible spot to meet Grandmother Aya, under the experienced guidance of Shipibo onayabo (shamans). This Costa Rica plant medicine center offers longer, more comprehensive retreats with a full compliment of healing modalities and guest activities, including wildlife tours, kayaking, snorkeling, and massage. Lodging varies from glamping, to bungalows, to a spacious beach house.

Posada Natura Healing Center

Posada Natura is a non-profit, eco-retreat center on the edge of the pristine Naranjo River and 7,500 acres of protected rainforest – one of the most biodiverse places in the world. This is the ideal setting for healing encounters with Mother Aya. Retreats include counseling sessions, integration circles, daily yoga and meditation, beach trip, and group excursions to rainforest swimming holes & waterfall. Cuisine is farm-to-table, delicious, & healthy. Accommodations are the perfect balance between luxury and immersive.

Reunion Experience

Reunion is a not-for-profit, LGBTQ-friendly retreat center on Sugar Beach in Costa Rica. This is a destination to experience the transformational power of the medicine, to bring forth positive change. Reunion is a special place to ignite life. Retreats include ceremonies, meditation, breathwork, yoga, pool, spa treatments, beach access, and fitness center. Meals are locally-sourced, nutritious, with vegetarian and vegan options. Private rooms include en-suite bath, air conditioning, and high speed WiFi.

Sowa Nete

Sowa Nete is a plant medicine center that offers private (customized) and semi-private retreats with a maximum of 8 participants. Working with both Ayahuasca and psilocybin, Sowa Nete focuses on intimate, supportive groups that create a familiar environment for deep work, healing, and transformation. In addition to ceremony, their program includes yoga, meditation, breathwork, and and nature immersions, all designed to provide practical tools for participants to integrate and bring home. Accommodations can be shared or private, with air conditioning, wifi, hammock, and pool. Meals are locally sourced and prepared fresh daily from a pescatarian menu.

Sowa Soma

Sowa Soma is a trauma-informed healing retreat held in the jungle forest near Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. Founded by a husband and wife team with years of plant primarily in the Shipibo tradition, the center stands out for its careful participant screening and small group sizes, limited to only 6 participants, allowing for personalized care. Rooted in principles of ritual, relationship, respect, and reciprocity, each retreat emphasizes safety, integration, and genuine inner transformation. Accommodations are private, surrounded by lush forest and ocean views.

Templo del Tigre

Located in the wild Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica, Templo del Tigre is the only retreat center in Costa Rica offering one-on-one master plant dietas with sacred Mapacho tobacco as a central teacher, alongside Amazonian tree medicines. Limited to a maximum of 5 participants, retreats are highly personalized and guided by Amazonian plant wisdom, working with master plants such as Bobinsana, Chiric Sanango and others. The 9-day retreat is dedicated to the dieta process in a focused setting. Guests may extend to 15 days for integration with yoga, breathwork, sound healing, rainforest immersion, and optional excursions including visits to Corcovado National Park at additional cost.

Villa Inti Wasi

A jungle mountain sanctuary with captivating Pacific & Central Valley vistas, Inti Wasi offers 4-ceremony retreats under the guidance of native Peruvian Ayahuasquero, Jairo Lllerena Valles, son of the renowned Don Julio Llerena Pined. This center specializes in working with professional therapists interested in exploring psychedelic-assisted therapy. Retreats include kambo cleanse, massage, breathwork, fire ceremony, 1-on-1 consultations, beach trip, luxury bedding with air conditioning, and gourmet cuisine, accommodating to dietary restrictions.