Reflections & Experiences

I know I know. How can everyone rate this place as a 5? But it is. The environment is inclusive of everyone and you feel so incredibly safe and heard. The food while incredibly healthy and if your vegan will rock your world but I did miss some flavor! However I can’t praise Sylvia and TiO enough. Coming from someone that has never used drugs this was a huge leap of faith. I do wish I had taken a few days after to just relax in town a bit longer. Coming back to the “world” was a bit tough and jarring. Enjoy

At first, I was sceptic about of the reviews I have seen about this place, but I can only confirm what everyone is saying. Sylvia and Ti0 have created a perfect environment to deal with your psychological problems, if you are willing to put in the work. I have always felt cared and respected, which is very important because you have to open up and be vulnerable with yourself. Everything was well organized and fitted especially to the needs of western people that are looking for a combination of spirituality and therapy. I have learned a lot about myself and know what to do for the next years, I could not have never asked for more.

The depth of the transformation and healing I experienced during and after the retreat would not have been possible without the insightful and personalised guidance provided by Ti0 and Silvia. The place was magical. I particularly appreciated the solid frame in place at the retreat center (i.e. rules), which made me feel safe at all times and made it easy to fully surrender to the process. It was my first experience with Ayahuasca and I couldn’t have wished for a better setting and better facilitators. I will certainly return and recommend this place wholeheartedly.

Silva an Tio are amazing at what they do. Providing a safe environment with boundaries to ensure a healthy experience for everyone coming to the retreat. The food is amazing the people are amazing. On my retreat I healed my inner child and for the first time in my entire life my brain switched from being in survival mode my entire life to being free and feeling safe in my own mind an in the world around me. I am truly free for the first time in my entire life to live an have fun an experience the world as a happy healed person.

This place felt like a paradise. The food, the staff and the facilitators where a 10/10. I would recommend this place for people with little to none experience with ayahuasca as well for people with more experience. The workshops in combination with the medicine where very powerful.

I was part of Silvia’s retreat the past November. I wanted to wait some months after the experience to have a more complete view on how my days there impacted my life. Now, two months in, I can confirm that there has been a before and after on my perception of life.

In my case, it wasn’t just Ayahuasca but the entire experience of the retreat that had an impact on me. Ayahuasca was definitely an out of this world experience, profound, enlightening and positively uncomfortable. However, the key for me were all the pieces that Silvia has put together in Spirit Vine: workshops, ceremonies, integration sessions, individual therapy, art, yoga, delicious food, amazing people, and a place that looks like paradise and feels like home.

I have never felt so connected to myself like the 9 days I spend there. I already started changing while being there, but for me the real transformation happened when being back to the “real world”. Then is when I became more aware and started to take action to direct my life up to my expectations and desires.

Overall, I would recommend Spirit Vine to anyone that wants to dig deeper and open new doors that you didn’t even know that were there. I will always be grateful to Silvia and Ti0 for preparing and guiding us through this amazing experience. I’m looking forward to see you again!

I joined 9 days retreat with 4 ayahuasca ceremonies in December 2022. Silvia and Tio are great host. The food in the retreat centre was organic vegan, gluten free, salt free and suger free. It is super healthy and yummy! There were activities as yoga, massage. I found the workshop and group sharing was especially useful to prepare and understand the experiences. There were 16 guests in the group. They really take care of the guests really well both physically and mentally. I felt completely safe and trusting in the environment. The retreat centre is surreally beautiful in the forest. Overall the whole experience was amazing. I felt so sad when the retreat ended. I will definitely come back again and recommend Spirit Vine

December 2022 was the fourth time I had visited Spirit Vine retreat center and it has continued to get better each time.

The experience of the Ayahuasca itself is extraordinary: every time, the medicine takes me to places that I find impossible to access in regular therapy, and the healing and insights continue months after the experience. This time was no different — my experience is continuing to unfold into the new year. The plants are grown on the property and the brew is made there too, so you know exactly where it has come from and what is in it.

The setting: Silvia and TiO have thought of every detail to create a safe, secure and beautiful container for participants to go deep into exploring their psyche and spirit. From the organization of transportation to Itacare when you first land in Ilheus, Brazil; to the accommodation and amazing vegan food while at the Center; the yoga, art sessions, workshops and sharing around the ceremonies; and the setting of expectations and boundaries for participants from the start to create a safe environment for everyone, The center itself is located in a beautiful setting: one big jungle garden complete with monkeys, birds and wildlife: you feel completely immersed in nature while you are there

The mindset: Everything about the retreat supports the creation of a powerful, focussed mindset going into the ceremonies. Silvia is an extraordinary and highly experienced psychotherapist, who has structured the workshops, sharing sessions and intention-setting in a way that facilitates a deep experience with the medicine. Silvia’s whole philosophy is based in the idea that each participant has agency and power to heal themselves, and she shares powerful tools that we can use during and after ceremonies to navigate the experience ourselves in order to continue to heal from past traumas and hurts, and to create a healthier and more fulfilling life.

Overall, I would highly recommend this center — both to first time participants and women traveling on their own: the place offers a safe and wonderful environment to explore with the medicine — and also for more experienced participants: Silvia and TiO’s facilitation keep offering ways to go deeper with the medicine.

I am so Happy and thankful that i found the spirit vine ayahuaska retreat! I wanted to try ayahuaska Because I felt i needed Help with seeing me and my life clearly and from that point make decisions of New direction.

I was a little nervous doing ‘spiritual drugs’ since i never did try drugs like lsd or other drugs for that matter. I felt Very safe and supported and the rest of the Group gave the same impression.

Sylvia and Tio are Beautiful people that seem Happy to be at your service and have honest interest in everyone. After every ayahuaska ceremony there is a sharing which i found Really Beautiful. A Group of people openly sharing their feelings, hardships in life and Beautiful experiences and then receiving the Loving support from the whole Group. So Beautiful that is! Sylvia Saw us was my experience and was always fast to mirror us and Invite to further reflection and New insights.

And what did I get out of ayahuaska? I felt like it allowed me to go deep Into myself and open up hidden sides in me that needed airing. I Saw things more clearly, me as a person and how i live my life and why. I felt that New values Need to have more space in my life. I Feel that ayahuaska has showed me a direccion to go in to make my life more balanced and sweet.

You are truely in good hands at the spirit vine and for me i got Many insights About my life and things i would like to Change for the Better and healthier. I am in awe of the retreatplace and of the ‘planttea’ ayahuaska! Thank you for Coming in to my life, both! The whole retreat went Smooth and it is obvious that Sylvia has Many years of experience and knows what She is doing 🙏

I’m an Army Veteran who’s experienced various traumas throughout childhood and adulthood, and more than enough were to the extreme.

So even though I did over two years of professional therapy, and did over a decade of inner work while on a mystic path—to include: dream work, inner-child work, shadow work, The 7 Essene Mirrors, etc.—this retreat has taken my healing and transformation to a whole other level, and on all energetic levels: mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual.

Granted, I’m open to continue healing, learning, growing, evolving, and expanding my individual and Collective consciousness; hence, I consider returning for another retreat in Divine perfect timing and order, and here’s why it was worth it.

I’ve been drawn to a real-deal ayahuasca experience for years.

And though I came upon various opportunities, one place stood out from the rest; and it became my first experience.

It felt like the perfect combination package that I hadn’t seen before, that integrates:

connecting deeper with our whole self (physical self)/Self (Spiritual Self), as well as inner-child work, shadow work, other interesting workshops, a transparently informative website, and Silvia’s extensive, experiential background.

This 11 day ayahuasca retreat this month (July 3-13, 2022)—including 5, mind-blowing, challenging, thought-provoking, deeply healing, and/or heavenly ayahuasca ceremonies—was profoundly transformational and overall amazing.

It was the most invaluable investment and unconditionally loving gift that I ever gave to myself; and I highly recommend it to others.

Granted, no matter what I experience, I always like to follow my inner guidance/Heart/intuition/gut feeling/inner-wisdom FIRST AND FOREMOST, only taking onboard what FEELS light/true to my Heart, and discarding the rest.

The retreat center itself is like paradise, a Heaven on Earth—meticulously, beautifully, and perfectly designed by Silvia, and whom she co-created and built with her family-like team of employees.

The consolidation of an abundance of different trees, plants, bushes, flowers, pond, etc. are like puzzle pieces that reveal a giant, gorgeous picture.

Before coming to this retreat, there was no way that I was going to swim in a pond (was never interested and never planned on it).

However, I trust that ayahuasca has helped me to overcome my fear of the so-called “dark” murky water.

And it was such a liberating, empowering, refreshing and magical new experience; plus, the water felt so smooth and healing, as others have shared as well.

Silvia is a highly intelligent, very organized, meticulous, creative, innovative, wise and powerful Soul teacher, a major game changer.

Her refreshing, straightforward approach has gifted me with obvious blessings and blessings in disguise, especially profound insights, epiphanies, and life-changing realizations.

Ti0, Silvia’s Assistant, who is very authentic, honest, free-spirited, gentle kind, and helpful, was continually there for all the retreat participants 24/7. He was so trustworthy and reliable.

The retreat’s very talented and very friendly chef, Lou, generously created various healthy, vegan, colorful, beautiful, and delicious buffet style meals, drinks, and desserts for all of us on a daily basis, which was impressive.

This retreat’s yoga teacher, Andrea, is wonderful.

Her overall relaxing, yet pleasantly challenging style of Hatha yoga—that she taught with unconditional kindness, patience, encouragements, a great sense of humor, and full support—was deeply appreciated and memorable.

She also does heavenly massages that felt like I was melting into a higher realm, along with the other masseuse whose name escapes me, but is very talented and heartfelt kind as well.

The rest of the staff, to include the housekeeping ladies, were friendly and helpful as well.

Thank you so much to everyone who made this retreat possible, to include the retreat participants whom I was able to deeply connect with, interact with, share, learn from, and grow together in so many ways