As part of your journey with us, you’ll receive a full year of preparation, integration, and community support through our virtual Soltara Community Platform. Our overall approach to healing is based on the wisdom and guidance of our Shipibo healers, as well as our combined decades of experience from our previous work at several top-rated ayahuasca centers in the Peruvian Amazon, the feedback we have gotten from our communities, and what we have collectively seen is needed in this space. As such, we emphasize a strong focus on preparation & integration, how to support people to effectively prepare for and carry their work home with them to enact the healing into their lives. We work closely with clinical psychologists who also have years of experience working with the medicine as well as certifications in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
Our holistic support involves various components both on and off-site. You can read more about what’s included in your retreat here, and below is a brief overview:
- A thorough intake process, in collaboration with therapists and medical advisors, to ensure a safe and supportive retreat
- Extensive & holistic preparation & integration support, created by Soltara plant medicine therapists
- An ayahuasca diet guidebook, to prepare your body for the ayahuasca retreat
- Access to our community platform through Nectara, with one year of Soltara Plus membership, including:
- Community spaces for questions, sharing, & connecting
- Retreat information & logistics
- Holistic resources for physical, emotional, therapeutic, mental, spiritual, cultural, relational, creative, and day-of-travel support
- Regular monthly events, including free preparation & integration circles with a Soltara therapist
- Guided experiences such as yoga, breathwork, and meditations
- Online courses for deeper exploration into specific topics, such as the physiology of trauma, mindfulness, and ceremonial preparation
- A carefully vetted network of practitioners, coaches, and guides for individual support
- Access to our Entwined program, a 12-module program with resources and support for the loved ones and family members of those stepping into plant medicine ceremony
- “The Hero’s Journal” – this creative and personalize-able integration journal is given to everyone on arrival, and takes you through the process of reflection, intention-setting, ceremony, and building your own integration plan. This framework is vetted by our clinical psychologist advisors and empowers you to set yourself up for success based on your goals and process during your stay.
- We will have integration discussions during your stay which incorporate different aspects of the journal and are designed to help you flesh out an actionable plan from the time you begin your process at Soltara to help carry you back into the default world and enact the lessons and insights you gain from your experience
- Our retreat programming is centered around helping you immerse yourself in different healing modalities, many of which you can take back with you (bodywork, meditation, nature, etc.), to help you cultivate habits that feel right for you and can help you maintain the healing work done during your retreat.
- We offer 3 months of weekly post-retreat follow-up emails with resources, videos, and content designed to help you check in with yourself and continue to support your journey back home.
- We also offer regular virtual group preparation & integration circles with members of our integration support team to share in real-time the successes and struggles of your processes, answer questions, and connect with each other in the weeks and months before & after your retreat.
We are very excited about the framework we have created with the help of our advisors to help you maximize the benefits of your healing work. We are heavily focused on empowering people to be their own healers and set themselves up to continue that beyond the retreat.
