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Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center

Itacare, BA, Brazil

5.0 (315 reviews)

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We have been hosting ayahuasca retreats since 1996. Our center is based in the midst of the beautiful Atlantic Rainforest along the coast of Bahia in Brazil. We facilitate a safe and comfortable space for you to achieve harmony in your everyday life by aligning your mind, body, and heart with your true self.

Our 9 day and 11 day ayahuasca retreats are designed to give you a balanced experience. We have ayahuasca ceremonies every other night and in between there are activities to integrate your experiences and insights. There is also ample free time to reflect, to enjoy the beauty of the jungle, to visit the gorgeous beaches, and just to relax, let go, and enjoy the pure bliss of the moment.

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We have extensive experience integrating ayahuasca, psychology, shamanism, self development, modified states of consciousness, and various other modalities. We are present at all times and are dedicated in supporting you with loving care, attention, safety, and respect.The activities include workshops focused on spiritual development. The techniques covered in the workshops can be practiced even after the retreat to continue the journey of personal growth. Some of the topics include inner child integration, life progression, discovering the source of your blockages and the resources to overcome them. Another very important part of the retreat are the Yoga sessions in the morning which greatly enrich the ayahuasca experiences at night.

Spirit Vine & TheVine Center previously known as Ayahuasca-Healing have been created by Silvia Polivoy. She received her license in clinical psychology and had a private practice in Buenos Aires, Argentina for several years until she began to feel the need to make a transition from studying and healing the mind to exploring the worlds of Spirit. This took her away from the busy city streets to the more tranquil life in the jungle, moving to Brazil where in 2004 she co-founded the TheVine Center, a trans-denominational and inter-faith spiritual center located in the state of Bahia.

The nature of our nonprofit center is philosophical, religious, mystical, spiritual, educational, and cultural. All the retreats’ income’ serves to maintain the center grounds, create employment for the local community, and help preserve the jungle, having replanted thousands of native trees over the years to give but one example.

The retreats take place inside of 39 acres of lush preserved area. It is about 7 miles from Itacaré on the coast of Bahia. Our location is only minutes away from beautiful coastal beaches, which back onto the Mata Atlántica, the second largest rainforest in Brazil.

The experience of sacred tea ceremonies can be challenging for some, deeply religious for others, but profound all around. Please note that we have several programs to offer and the plant ceremonies are always optional and not required to partake in during any of our retreats. The plant ceremonies begin in the evening and go through the night. The group dynamic is very important and there will be facilitators to look after participants throughout. There will be plenty of time for group discussions and also time alone to reflect on the experiences elicited by the spirit vine tea for those that wish to partake in the plant ceremonies.

At the retreat center we grow our own ayahuasca vine and chacruna plants organically! We also have an organic garden to source vegetables for the food prepared during the retreat. We have pure spring water for drinking and also coconut water, juices, and a variety of teas.

During all our programs we follow a strict (though delicious) diet. The meals are completely vegan, gluten-free, and nutritionally balanced, prepared by our in-house chef who has specialized in vegan cuisine and has a post-graduation in functional nutrition. They include plenty of fresh vegetables cooked with delicious herbs and spices, luscious fresh tropical fruits, salads, and grains.

A note about sexual abstinence: this varies from culture to culture; some recommending as long as 30-40 days while others as little as one day or none at all like here in Brazil. For energetic purposes we recommend sexual abstinence during the retreat as well as 3 days before it begins and 3 days after the retreat concludes. As well, a drug free and no salt diet with no red meat, pork or heavy alcohol use for the same amount of time is optimal.

We fully expect you have questions about the retreats, programs and the facilities we offer. Please feel free to explore our website or watch our videos and write to us to come to one of our retreats.

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Noor
March 28, 2018 at 8:26 am

Words alone can’t describe my personal experience at the Spirit Vine Center.
What I can say is that the facilities in place are set up with nature in mind. Imagine waking up with the light coming through the trees, birds and crickets singing or some drops of rain caressing the roof and washing away the energies of yesterday to make way for new ones.
From the almost invisible staff making sure you have a feeling of being home to being able to jump in the pond and refresh your senses, everyday feels like a treat.
The ayahuasca ceremonies happen in a beautiful and expansive shelter surrounded by the Atlantic forest trees that sometimes fireflies visit.
Magical.
I felt invited, protected, safe, compassionately allowed to be.
The leaders show honour and reverence for the people and quests of the soul.
This experience will forever be point of reference for my sometimes unfathomable spirit. A spirit that the vine has managed to shake and awaken.
I have already decided to plan another retreat in Itacare.
Samantha
March 26, 2018 at 5:46 pm

It’s been nearly a month since I returned from Brazil from my beautiful retreat at Spirit Vine. It has been by far the most transformative experience I had for 9 days in the nearly 35 years of my life. The place is absolutely beautiful in the middle of the jungles of Itacare. Everything around me was so clean yet prepared with such love and care. I felt “home”. The food was grown in their own gardens, it was delicious and I did not even miss meat at all. I love the workshops that were facilitated by Silvia and Rohan prior to the ceremonies. It was the right food for thought that really helps guide my ayahuasca journeys that brought forth the lasting changes I have today.

I have been observing the following changes in my lifestyle, diet and inner world for the last 30 days after the retreat.

Diet:
I lost all desire to drink even the taste of my favourite beverage, wine. With the exception of 2 glasses of wine that I sporadically ordered to “test” the feeling is constant. This has been progressive since I return from Mexico last year and this time it stopped 100%.

I am drawn to a mostly plant-based diet. 80% of what I consume is mostly vegetarian with the rest in seafood and little meat. I find fruits absolutely delicious nowadays. I will crave for it and when it touches my tongue I think “Mmmmm delicioooous.” If I cook, I don’t really use salt but rather season the food with natural spices. I can feel my body’s immediate joy or distaste for the food I feed it. Prior to this, I love meat and have never cared much for fruits or contemplated having a plant-based diet,

Lifestyle:
I regained my ability to sit in the quiet to read for hours instead of being distracted.

I’m very present and grounded in my daily movements and thoughts. I see that in everything I do from the way I move, talk, picking things up and putting things away. I put things away, shoes, closing drawers, even my footsteps, gently without a sound if I can.

My senses are so heightened. I feel things a lot quicker than before and also get repelled in an instant to bad smells or alerted to bad feelings in other people.

I am drawn to nature and want to spend a lot of time connecting with her and also to look within to explore my inner world through meditation and acute awareness.I relish the moments and it gives me such to be surrounded by nature. I will notice and look at trees and observe the trunk and leaves even in my daily walk through my concrete-filled city.

I feel grateful for my body and the movements and sensations I can have through it. That acute awareness extended to be aware I’m looking through my eyes and I will look up from my book and look around, amused yet grateful that I, we are so blessed with the gift of sight. I look at my hands and feet or just feel the movement through them. I feel the slight wind brushing on my skin, Our senses are such a miraculous thing.

Mind and Heart:
They both float in a white glowing light. Holding space for my inner world. Present, grounded.

My focus of leading a kind, joyful and meaningful life is sharpened and is raised to a higher level of consciousness and I let go of inauthentic expectations of the future or people around me.

I gained more gratitude, love and patience of my family, my loved ones and everything else that is the source of my intrinsic joys while at the same time I let go of everything else that doesn’t serve me in that light.

I feel absolutely grateful and have pure acceptance of who I am and what I have in the here and now.

I am aware of the breath that I take into my body and love the feeling of taking slow deep breathes in the quiet and the sun and feel it coursing through my being and the wonderful effects it has in my mind and heart.

I truly enjoy myself, my being, my light and exploring the vast inner world that has been shown to me.

Every day, the lesson continues and deepens.

Bliss.

Thank you Silvia and Rohan for this wonderful gift. I would love to return.
princessthestar
March 5, 2018 at 9:51 am

Spirit Vine is a very special place…
From the moment I arrived I got a sense of energy and grounding, that carried me so gently with love through the entire experience.
Silvia is so good at what she does, she really knows her stuff! She also has a personal relationship to the plants she works with, and it’s apparent in the plant medicine she grows and brews on her land.
Prior to Spirit Vine I had been on 2 separate Ayahuasca retreats. The previous times had each been a healing journey in its own way… but this experience was way different. This was the first time I received tools of how to work with Mother Aya to apply an understanding of myself, which has since brought about a permanent, lasting change for the better. The mental tools I had been given to work with by Silvia were able to clarify total comprehension of myself and the baggage I had been carrying for so long (lifetimes even).

As the other reviews have mentioned, the location is perfect, grounds are lush, full of flowers, plants and wildlife, food is organic and well prepared, & accommodations are comfortable with daily maid service. All of this was really great and so much appreciated! For me, my favorite things of what makes this place irreplaceable and priceless was Silvia and the beautiful, healing, retreat center she has so carefully well-thought out and created, as well as Rohan, & Andreas… I will definitely return in the future to continue the work. Peace & Love Be With You All
Balazs
February 23, 2018 at 8:21 pm

I’ve already tried ayahuasca with many shamans and at many places. Spirit Vine is one of the most professional retreat centers that is currently available.

Most important is that the brew that they offer is the strongest and the purest that I have ever tried. They only use the ayahuasca vine and the chakruna leaf they don’t add anything else. It shows how strong the brew is that they are very serious about giving pariticpants the exact amounts (they measure it for each participants in milliliters)

Inbetween the ceremonies there are workshops that are extremely useful becuase they teach people how to use the ayahuasca experienc so that it really becomes a healing process.

The trajectory of the retreat is great and the whole program is well put together. As a praciticing psychologist who works with groups I can tell that the way that they work with people is very professional.

The venue is beautiful and it feels more like staying in a five star hotel then in a retreat center. The meals are delicious (which is already a great compliment since during the retreat they stick to the traditional ayahuasca diet) and there is always a huge variety of different kind of dishes. Everything is organic, gluten free and made right there on the spot. Many times they use vegetables and fruits from their own garden.

I have to admit that the place is expensive so it’s definitely not for people who have limited resources, but keep in mind that the quality of the retreat is extremely high, so I would say that every penny that I spent on it was worth it.
bella
January 5, 2018 at 3:21 pm

I may start saying I do believe in magic!
Last year I had by unknown reasons the inner big will to heal through ayahuasca. Perhaps because I needed to change something strongly in my life. I didn’t want to give further steps in life without having kind of a light exactly in those steps. I needed inspiration and answers.
The first time I heard about this plant I was traveling in Peru. And in that moment I knew I was not ready for that experience. Later, when I heard about the plant in Europe, I was very sure that I wanted to be in a place where the plant grows naturally and is not abused in any sense. And the time I felt ready for that came, and I understood why last year was the way it was and why I went trough a strong healing process. Lucky me, life, magical dwarfs or even better ayahuasca itself (I have to say again I do believe in magic) took me to the right place.
Don’t ask me how or why but I arrived to Spirit Vine Retreat Center at Bahia. Now, after some weeks I finish the retreat, I’m still not sure how to describe what I experienced. Because is a circle of things…. Is the place, Silvia and Rohan, the bed, the food, the pond, the closest beach, the ladies and guys helping over there, the smells, the rain, the sun, the ayahuasca of course, the ceremonies, the chats, the group therapies, the exchanges, the drawings, the music….. And just to close with flourish, the people sharing the retreat, everything was overwhelming for me.
I’m trying to process everything I learnt and saw. I wish I could have had something to film the ayahuasca trip and those special moments. But only my soul will do.
It is a very safe place, they are very professional and more over, lovely people that will take care of you with love. That is very important because ayahuasca healing/ learning process is very strong. Actually, I think everybody should experienced it once but at the same time, should prepare consciously for that, to be OPEN to receive information, to know that life is a healing road and ayahuasca is a powerful tool but not the solution, though is a great connection of things that our inner wisdom knows in a way. The experience is just divine and indescribable. I do recommend this place, organic ayahuasca, organic delicious food and organic flow experience. I’m very thankful, very very.