At Soltara, we hold a high standard for every aspect of the ceremonial process. As one of the first ayahuasca retreats to emphasize holistic and integrative before- and aftercare support, we are constantly evolving to meet you where you are and connect to the answers and agency you already have within you.
With Soltara, you’re not just experiencing a retreat; you’re embarking on a full year of guided personal growth. Our commitment to your journey extends far beyond your time in Costa Rica. We provide you with the tools, resources, and community support to translate your expanded self into an expanded life.
We collaborate with our Shipibo Maestros, psychotherapists, medical advisors, holistic healing practitioners, and aligned organizations in the fields of plant medicine and integrative health to provide the highest level of care for our community.
The Soltara Community Platform
in collaboration with Nectara
We are constantly evolving to meet you where you are, and support you in moving from an expanded self to an expanded life.
Nectara is a ceremonial-integration-themed community platform, whose resources encompass a range of plant medicines, psychedelic medicines, and support. They have been partnering with select retreat centers for years, helping journeyers prepare thoughtfully, connect with one another, and translate their insights into lasting change after the ceremony is over.
Nectara and Soltara share the goal of elevating standards of care in ceremonial and plant medicine spaces. This elevation can only be fully realized by taking ourselves out of our respective silos—by embracing the ethos of community and collaboration, of learning from and teaching one another instead of trying to hold it all on our own.
With The Soltara Community Platform, we intend to do just that. Take off your shoes, take a deep breath, and step inside! We’re thrilled to welcome you in.
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Soltara retreat guests receive a full year of Soltara Plus Membership as part of their retreat.
For a supported and seamless experience, your complete retreat journey will be available through our Soltara Community Platform, hosted and enhanced by the incredible people at Nectara. Here, you’ll find everything you need to support your sacred process, from preparation to integration and beyond.
As part of your retreat package, you’ll receive a year of Soltara Plus Membership, providing full access to:
- Retreat logistics, preparation, & integration support
- Regular live events, including monthly preparation & integration circles with a Soltara therapist
- Community spaces for questions, sharing, & connecting
- Guided breathwork, meditation, and yoga experiences
- All the latest Soltara news and retreat information
- Curated educational content from preparation to integration and beyond
- Online courses for deeper exploration into specific topics
- A carefully vetted network of practitioners, coaches, and guides
- And much more!
The Cornerstones of our program are:
A Full Year of Support & Community
Every Soltara guest receives a full year of holistic support through our Soltara Community Platform, in collaboration with the incredible folks at Nectara. From community spaces for sharing & connection, to guided yoga & breathwork sessions, to curated resources and online courses for deeper exploration, and so much more – your retreat journey is more than just a week at Soltara – it’s a comprehensive pathway to lasting transformation.
Small-Group Dedicated Integration Program
Bring your ceremony back home with our six-week Group Integration Program. Rooted in Soltara & Nectara’s integration philosophies and our trusted team of experts, this 6-week online group integration program provides the practical guidance and skills needed to foster meaningful and lasting change in your life. Not just during the afterglow of your ceremony, but for a lifetime.
Personalized Integration Roadmap
At Soltara, we provide you with “The Hero’s Journal,” a guided, customizable integration journal crafted in collaboration with plant medicine-experienced clinical psychologists. This unique journal, combined with our on-site integration workshops and sharing circles, helps you build a personalized plan for your journey. Our trauma-informed facilitators and healers offer tailored support, ensuring you have the tools to translate your retreat insights into real-world transformation.
Sessions with highly-qualified guides
Onsite and back home, we offer ongoing group and 1-on-1 sessions with a trusted & vetted network of skilled pracitioners, including plant medicine therapists, somatic experience practitioners, Shipibo-informed preparation and integration support, applied neurology, compassionate inquiry, and more. We offer free group preparation and integration sessions as well as multiple holistic healing virtual events every month.
Education & Resources
We provide practical, grounded, informed content vetted and created by highly qualified team members & collaborators who have years of experience working with plant medicines and holistic health. As part of your year-long retreat support, you’ll also receive access to online courses, including our Entwined: Community Alignment, to support loved ones in navigating the ceremonial experience with you, and other courses for deeper exploration into topics such as the physiology of trauma, mindfulness meditation, and more.
Reciprocity & Right Relation
We support each other & flow from individual to collective healing. We are proud to collaborate with organizations doing amazing work protecting our Earth, supporting Indigenous communities, helping our veterans, & paying it forward.
Healing teaches us that all of life is interwoven & connected, and we all have a part to play. If you don’t know where to start, we got you! Inside our Soltara Community Platform, our Reciprocity space highlights vetted and trusted organizations working towards collective healing with all our relations.
Small Group Integration Program:
Bring your Soltara ceremony home with you
We are always looking for ways to support your full potential. In partnership with Nectara, we invite you to join our Soltara Group Integration Program, a foundational program for transformation with plant medicine, exclusively for previous Soltara guests.
This 6-week online group program is designed by Nectara’s team of integration and wellness specialists. It will provide you with the in-depth support, tools, and wisdom necessary to translate the full spectrum of gifts from your Soltara retreat into your everyday life.
Integration is everything. Whether you just left an experience with us or you’re exploring a journey that happened in the past, this program is for you.
The potential benefits of this program:
- Expand and deepen the gifts received during your plant medicine journey.
- Connect with an intentional community to process, reflect, and share.
- Design a roadmap to reconnect to wholeness with more ease and clarity.
- Benefit from the power of shared humanity in a closed and trauma-informed facilitated container.
- Receive practical wellness resources to enrich your mind, body, and soul.
- Deepen your connection to yourself, others, and the Earth.
Pursuing a transformative experience, like an ayahuasca retreat, is a deeply personal decision—but its effects ripple outward to our loved ones and communities. How do we talk about this, prepare for the time away, and set our relationships up for success upon our return?
Soltara’s Entwined: Community Alignment program aims to support individuals and communities in navigating these experiences from start to finish. Created with the gifted teacher Alis Collective Soul, Entwined consists of twelve modules of high-quality written and video educational content: information, tools, reflection and conversation prompts, activity ideas, and more, informed by a wide range of modalities. All Soltara guests receive free access to this program with their retreat package!
Integrating Your Ayahuasca Experience
Authored by: Dr. Clancy Cavnar, PhD – Soltara Preparation/Integration Guide
Here is a bit of information about what integration is, why it’s necessary, and some helpful tips for your own integration process after participating in a plant medicine retreat.
Integration of lessons learned during ayahuasca sessions is a lifelong process. The lessons and healing we gain from plant medicines are only valuable to the extent that we are able to utilize them in our lives outside of the ceremonies.
At Soltara, there is a strong focus on the integrative work that starts after your retreat and continues, possibly, for the rest of your life. Soltara provides skilled integration support from specialists with extensive medicine work experience to prepare you and to help maintain and enhance the positive outcomes that are very often the result of attending deep healing sessions with experienced, ethical leaders.
What is integration?
Integration means taking the knowledge and lessons learned during your ritual experience and putting it into practice in your life. It can involve changing habits, relationships, or community; approaching life from a new perspective; realizing an increased sense of awareness in your thoughts and actions, or working towards a new set of goals and purpose, as well as other changes in deep psychological processes you may have been unaware of until this point.
You will undoubtedly face challenges upon returning home that test the lessons and insights that you have gained. You may have changed, but other people, situations, and environments will have stayed the same; how you deal with these situations determines the success of your medicine and integration work. Soltara places a strong focus on preparing you for post-retreat life with actionable, solution-focused programs that will help you maintain your connection to the work you have accomplished at the center.
Support for your integration process continues after the ceremonies through post-retreat integration sessions with highly qualified guides who have a foot in both worlds: decades of experience working with these medicines, and a deep understanding of how to bring these ancient teachings into a modern world.
You are also welcomed into Soltara’s global community, where you will find continuous support, resources, and fellow guests who have undergone similar experiences and who can help you find your footing as you navigate the sometimes murky waters of the default world.
Integration services can help you learn how to work with your feelings and emotions, how to let go of what no longer serves you, how to recognize signs of healing, and how to effectively incorporate your healing experiences over the long term in your day-to-day life.
Your experience at Soltara can be a touchstone; recalling the experience through daily meditation or other practices can help maintain the perspective you gain from a period of expanded consciousness, and connection to the center through various activities can keep your visions and insights alive.
Activities that promote reflection and connection to the body, nature, and creativity, such as yoga, art, bodywork, and mindfulness practices, can supplement and enhance the benefits you gain at the retreat. Focusing on the body as a vehicle for awakening, and honoring its role in our transformation—something that can often be ignored in traditional talk therapy—can enhance the impact of the medicine and lead to faster resolution of the issues that block full engagement with life in the here and now.
Spiritual Integration
In traditional indigenous communities, integration is part of daily life; messages and visions are shared and group decisions can be based on the outcome of ayahuasca sessions. For modern drinkers, community can also be essential, especially in modern life where there may be those who judge plant medicine or do not understand them; Soltara aims to provide a context and community where others who value and understand the work can receive supportive feedback and relevant information.
Maintaining a spiritual practice that gives a frame of reference for this process is essential for integration. There is no universal template for this—each person has his or her own path—but in order to hold on to the lessons of the medicine, a regular practice is essential to avoid dissipation and erosion of the lessons in the face of modern demands to compete, succeed, and perpetuate social status.
For many Westerners, modern psychotherapeutic integration can help; talking with a therapist who understands the medicine’s effects as well as how it impacts people living in the modern world with its pressures to acquire and conform can be crucial for Westerners who drink ayahuasca. Personalized group and individual sessions with a therapist can enhance the rewards of ayahuasca, allowing doubts and questions to be addressed and permitting exploration of themes that arise for Westerners that indigenous practitioners do not have the experience to address.
Integration sessions can also be an opportunity to put the session and its rewards into words so that it can be shared with others. Guests do not have to rely only on their own interpretations; others can support and guide ways of talking about and sharing the gifts they have received from the medicine so that it is not simply an isolated experience, but one that others have shared, benefited from, and that can be translated into a vocabulary and tradition that has meaning and a history of benefit for those who partake.
