Reflections & Experiences

The Spirit Vine Retreat Center was amazing in every regard. Silvia has created a paradise, and with TiO, has created an experience like none other. The accommodations were perfect, the food beyond excellent, and entire setting absolutely sublime and perfect for really connecting & finding answers. The depth of exploration of the mind and spirit is compounded with Silvia’s vast knowledge and previous experience. I came looking for answers and I received so much more. Thank you Silvia and TiO. I feel so fortunate to have found you. You are making the world better, person by person.

The Best psychedelic retreat ever!

Safe environment, super healthy food, friendly staff, professional guidance, comfortable lodging….so much more!!

Silvia has been guiding ceremonies for almost 20 years, I really appreciate her approach combining psychology and spirituality. Before each ceremony, she organizes workshops (about Inner Child, Shadow work….) for us to open up and prepare ourselves to set the most needed intension for the ceremony.

During the ceremonies, Silvia and Tio hold the space for us and make sure we all have a safe trip.

After each ceremony, we have art sessions to express how we feel, followed by inspiring sharing session.

Another highlight of the retreat is the FOOD, Thiago and his team are artists, each meal is prepared with Love and we all enjoyed the food without sugar and salt!!

I develop strong connections with all the participants and we become a spiritual family now thanks to Spirit Vine Retreat.

Keep the Good Work, and I highly recommend anyone who wants to find answers about their spirituality or just gain more consciousness and insight about reality, Come and Join Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center!!!!

Much Love and Respect to your professional work!

We will meet again 🙂

Spirit Vine exceeded my expectations, and I had high ones to begin with!!

Silvia and Ti0 were always available to assist in any questions, concerns or personal issues that needed to be discussed further. I felt very safe and the structure of the retreat flowed really well. The ceremonies were amazingly conducted by Silvia and Ti0, the music selection was incredible.

I chose this retreat in particular due to its emphasis on integration and I found that the workshops and group sharing created an amazing environment in which you could process the experiences you had on Ayahuasca whilst also looking at how you can use and intergrate these experiences and lessons going forward.

So happy and grateful that I chose this retreat, after a lot of research into many different retreats and I highly recommend Spirit Vine to anyone who wants to work with Ayahuasca on a deep level in a safe and caring environment.

My experience at Spirit Vine was one I can’t speak highly enough about. The setting was so pristine and peaceful with impeccable upkeep and attention to every detail. I researched countless retreats and after coming to Spirit Vine I’m so glad I did! It’s hard for me to imagine going anywhere else. Silvia and Tio are some of the most gentle, kind and compassionate people I have met with the purest of intentions. They both seem to truly care for each individual in such a genuine way that is hard to explain even after the retreat has ended. I always felt so safe and comfortable with them in my presence, which is essential during such a vulnerable process. I have a science background and am generally a skeptic/questioner type of person. If you’re like me, I can’t emphasize enough the importance of coming with an open mind. The power and insight of this medicine is so profound and unexplainable. While this medicine and process is some serious work and takes great courage at times, the results are limitless. Unlike other retreats, the medicine dose at Spirit Vine is custom tailored to each individual’s needs to yield the most healing experience in the safest way possible. It was so refreshing to be a part of the open culture and environment at Spirit Vine which felt accepting and non judgemental, allowing people to just be themself. It was so nice meeting and becoming close friends with people from all over the world with such diverse backgrounds. The entire group and staff all felt like family by the end of the retreat. The food was also out of this world! It amazed me everyday the variety of food which never got old to me. Another thing that really set Spirit Vine apart from other retreats for me was the workshops that Tio and Silvia provided. These workshops were incredibly helpful and provided tools for managing different obstacles that arise not only during the ayahuasca process, but life in general. Silvia’s background and experience with psychotherapy was really helpful as well. The unbiased and honest insight her and Tio provided was quite special. They both have such a unique gift with what they do, and I’m so grateful they have dedicated their lives to sharing it with others!

Hard to describe my experience at Spirit Vine!

The place is incredible. Beautiful with a huge area and a lush forest. In addition, the whole space has good energy, a peace that allows us to spend hours contemplating nature, meditating and breathing fresh air. The food is amazing. This scenario, in addition to the care that Silvia and Tio have with us, could not be better to have my first experience with Ayahuasca. It was all remarkable. It really exceeded all my expectations.

The Vine is truly amazing. It contains a lot of luxury and AMAZING food, and still you are part of nature. Silvia did a really good job on making a perfect balance between the two. It’s a really, really beautiful place (just like this part of Brazil).

The groups are not too big, this gives an opportunity to have very in-depth conversations with the guests and also with Silvia and Tio. They give you a lot of in-sights to release negativity, insecurities and trauma’s to break behavioral patterns. Ayahuasca will amplify this.

At the end of the retreat it feels like a lot of weight has been pulled off your shoulders, you’re chakra’s are aligned and you’ve awaken spiritually.

This was the first Ayahuasca experience in my life and 2 weeks after arriving home I still feel very different (in a lot of good ways). I’m from The Netherlands and believe me… I’ve tried a lot of things, but Ayahuasca just brought me on a whole different level. As most people explain it: ‘It completely changed my life’. And it does. Some doors needed closure and others just blew wide open. Like WAUW!

This was by far the most healing experiences I have ever participated in and I will come back here whenever I can. Literally everything about this place is so carefully thought out and well put together that you feel so safe and taken care of from the moment you get there. Silvia, Tio, Thiago , the whole staff were incredible. Im so grateful that I happened to choose this retreat center over the many I found online. Honestly it was Trip Advisor and the reviews that I put my faith in and I’m so happy I did 🙂 If I can return yearly I will!

I’ve previously attended Ayahuasca retreats at Rythmia (Costa Rica) and Arkana (Peru – Sacred Valley).

Spirit Vine is the most personalized, loving experience that I’ve had. It feels incredibly safe and Silvia and Tio are both truly wonderful facilitators. The grounds are exquisite, the attention to detail is flawless, the organic, home grown vegan food is delicious, the rooms are very comfortable and kept impeccably, the massages are amongst the best I’ve ever had and the ceremonies are nothing short of magical (fire flies somehow managed to get through the fly nets and circle around us at the end of two ceremonies – we were all spellbound). I personally was helped by Silvia and Tio to go deeper into by subconscious than I ever have, unearthing blockages and memories that have held me back my whole life. It’s very hard to put into words how grateful I am for this as I don’t think I ever would have been strong enough to get to this place without Spirit Vine.

To cut a long story short if you are looking for a retreat to try Ayahuasca there’s no need to look any further.

Enjoy!

After being lucky enough to have found this retreat, I feel that it’s important to get the message to others. The journeys I went on here with ayahuasca were life changing. I’m a new person and life is completely different now. And it’s not because I “ did ayahuasca “. It’s because I did this ayahuasca retreat with Silvia and Tio. This is a spiritual garden of Eden and a gift from the gods. And the safest place on earth. If you are reading about ayahuasca you know it’s not a party drug. If you are reading this I don’t think it’s a coincidence. It’s about profound quantum inner discovery, knowledge and growth. And Spirit Vine is the place. Don’t try to get here. Just get here.

Choosing to do Ayahuasca and taking on this path is something quite scary to do. It’s a lonely decision, where everybody has their own deep reasons to come, mostly to heal or to face themselves. It’s easy to feel lost and to not understand what you will experience during this journey.

I was never sure how to decide which retreat to choose when I was looking for one. Many are out there, many with good reviews and with a lot of information and set ups on how things work. I took a lot of time and research to choose one, but I can say that here, at Spirit Vine you will have exactly what you need. I could go on and on to explain how beautiful everything was, from the people I’ve met to the scenery and the accommodations and the food but I know that this is not what can help someone decide as you can find many similar reviews on different centers. The only thing to know is that you are safe here at Spirit Vine. The people that take care of you have many years of experience and are extremely capable of helping you. They are professionals, it’s their work. The hardest part is signing up for the retreat, then just trust the process as everything is set into motion here for you to get where you need to be. And remember, you are safe here.