Aya and Bufo Deepening · 5-Day Ayahuasca and Toad Retreat
What Makes This Retreat Special
At Amayama, this 5-day retreat brings you into the wisdom of Ayahuasca and the healing of Bufo Alvarius. With an experienced team and intimate setting, we create a safe, supportive environment for deep personal growth and healing, blending traditional practices with modern psychological care.
Highlights of this Retreat
- 🌱 Two Ayahuasca Ceremonies: Held in the Temple with live music and sacred chanting in a warm, intimate and safe atmosphere. Ayahuasca opens the heart, restores balance, and offers profound spiritual insights.
- ♾️ One Bufo Alvarius Ceremony: A rare opportunity to experience one of the most powerful healing medicines, opening to unity, clarity, and divine consciousness.
- 👥 1:1 Guide:Participant Ratio: At Amayama, safety and quality attention come first. Each participant is accompanied by at least one dedicated Guide, often even more, ensuring truly personalized care at every step of the journey.
With a maximum of 5 participants, each retreat remains intimate and deeply supported, allowing the work with Ayahuasca to unfold in a safe and grounded way. - 🎶 Shamanic Ceremonial Style : Ceremonies are guided with live music, sacred chanting, and carefully curated playlists. Music is at the heart of the process, carrying the spirit of the jungle into Europe and opening deep pathways of transformation.
- 🕊️ Integration & Support: Daily Sharing Circles, Natural Psychology, and personalized guidance before, during, and after the retreat, ensuring insights become rooted in daily life.
- 🎯 Personalized Approach: From the introductory call to the integration call post-retreat, every step is adapted to your unique needs, offering a journey shaped to where you are.
- 💚 Lineage & Experience: Guided by Axis (15+ years psychologist & Shaman) and Chiara (7+ years plant work), together with their teachers Vicente (20+ years osteopath & shamanic healer) and Sylvie (20+ years plant work).
- 🌱 A Unique Synthesis: Blending ancestral shamanism with integrative psychology for a complete approach to healing.
- 🌱 Holistic Healing: Osteopathic and Ayurvedic massages, yoga, Art Therapy and body movement practices to ground and restore.
- 🏡 Sacred Garden: Accommodation surrounded by ancient olive trees, orange fields, and a lush ceremonial garden where sacred plants are honoured.
- 🍲 Nourishing Food: Homemade meals prepared with love from seasonal, locally sourced ingredients.
- 🌸 Connection with Nature: Visits to sacred sites, including waterfalls, beaches, caves, and a monastery, are woven into the integration process.
About This Retreat
YOUR GUIDES
Welcome to 🏔️ Amayama 🏔️, a Sanctuary of Healing ⛩️
Axis and Chiara open their home and temple to welcome you into a sacred space where ancestral shamanic wisdom meets modern psychological care.
This 5-day retreat is a powerful opportunity for deep emotional, psychological, and spiritual healing through guided work with two transformative medicines: Ayahuasca & Bufo Alvarius.
With the guidance of a highly experienced team, it is held in a safe, intimate (max. 5 participants, 1:1 Guidance & Care), and supportive environment.
☀️ The Journey ☀️
This 5-day retreat is a full immersion with two complementary sacred medicines, balancing ceremony, rest, and integration.
- ⛩️ Day 1 & 2: Two Ayahuasca Ceremonies : Held in the Temple with live music and sacred chanting, these ceremonies invite deep healing and profound spiritual insights. Ayahuasca opens the heart, rebalances the energies, and helps you reconnect with your essence in wholeness. Integration support is woven throughout to help process the insights received.
To ensure the highest level of safety and well-being, we intentionally leave almost two full days of rest between the last Ayahuasca ceremony and the Bufo ceremony. This pause allows the body, mind, and spirit to fully integrate and process Ayahuasca before Bufo, creating the safest possible ground for your journey.
- 🕊️ Day 3: Rest, Nature & Integration : A pause to ground and process between medicines. Gentle activities include Sharing Circles, Natural Psychology, journaling, Art Therapy, and excursions to sacred sites such as waterfalls, the monastery, or the beach. Back at Amayama, time to enjoy the garden and relax by the pool (from May to September).
- 🔥 Day 4: Bufo Alvarius Ceremony : Known as one of the most powerful healing medicines, Bufo opens the door to profound states of unity, clarity, and divine consciousness. Guided with care and deep presence, this Ceremony supports a complete reset of body, mind, and spirit.
- 🛤️ Day 5: Closing & Departure : Morning integration and closing circle, offering guidance and tools to carry your insights into daily life. Departure with clarity, lightness, and renewed presence.
🎶 Shamanic Ceremonial Style
Ceremonies are held with live music, and sacred chanting. The Icaros and songs have been learned from South American and African shamans (direct apprenticeship from various traditions), and channeled during Dietas with Master Plants. Blended with curated playlists, they bring the jungle spirit to Europe, creating a deeply transformative ceremonial container.
👥 1:1 Guide:Participant Ratio
At Amayama, safety, quality and attention come first. Each participant is accompanied by at least one dedicated Guide, often even more, ensuring truly personalized care at every step of the journey.
With a maximum of 5 participants, each retreat remains intimate and deeply supported, allowing the work with Ayahuasca to unfold in a safe and grounded way.
🕊️ Integration & Support
Beyond the program itself, integration is at the heart of our work. Time for silence, reflection, and rest are planned during the retreat, supported by guidance from Axis & Chiara. Sharing Circles and Natural Psychology sessions give you concrete tools to root your experience in everyday life.
🌱 Adapted for First-Timers & Experienced Explorers
Whether you are stepping into ceremony for the first time or returning to deepen your path, this retreat provides the perfect doorway into the world of plant medicine. With a maximum of 5 participants, you receive close guidance & attention, nourishing meals, peaceful rest and nature immersion, all within a safe and sacred container.
🌱 What's included
- Two Guided Ayahuasca Ceremonies in the Temple with live music & sacred chants
- One Bufo Alvarius Ceremony guided with care & deep presence
- Daily Integration including one-on-one Sharing Sessions
- Guided Art Therapy & grounding practices
- Nourishing Meals, homemade with seasonal, local ingredients
- Peaceful Accommodation in a serene natural setting
- Excursions & Sacred Sites: waterfalls, monastery, caves, and beach
- Transfers: pick-up and drop-off at Alzira train station
🧘♀️ A Unique Approach
Guided by Axis (15+ years Psychologist & Shaman) and supported by Chiara (7+ years Plant Work & Integrative practices), you are held in a unique blend of ancestral shamanism and modern psychological care.
They are joined in the house by their teachers Vicente (20+ years osteopath & shamanic healer) and Sylvie (20+ years Plant Work & sacred songs).
Together, the four create a rare constellation of lineage and lived wisdom, whose combined presence brings depth, safety and care to your journey.
Day-by-Day Program
This 5-Day Deepening Retreat is a carefully crafted immersion weaving two Ayahuasca Ceremonies with integration and rest, culminating in a Bufo Alvarius Ceremony. Each step unfolds naturally in a small group of maximum 5 participants, guided with 1:1 care and deep presence.
- Day 1 : Arrival & First Ayahuasca Ceremony
Arrival with welcome refreshments, orientation, and an opening circle with Axis & Chiara, followed by the First Ayahuasca Ceremony at night. - Day 2 : Deepening & Second Ayahuasca Ceremony
Morning sharing circle and reflection to integrate the first night, time for personal guidance and rest, followed by the Second Ayahuasca Ceremony in the evening. - Day 3 : Rest, Nature & Integration
A full day for grounding and integration between medicines, with sharing circles, art therapy, and gentle excursions to sacred sites such as waterfalls, monastery, or beach. Space for journaling, time in nature, and relaxation in the garden or by the pool. - Day 4 : Bufo Alvarius Ceremony
Morning preparation followed by the Bufo Ceremony, guided with care and presence. The rest of the day is dedicated to grounding and ends with a traditional Spanish Paella, together. - Day 5 : Closing & Departure
Final sharing circle and closing ritual, with tools to anchor your insights into daily life. Departure with clarity, renewal, and reconnection.
Each step is guided with care by Axis & Chiara, ensuring you feel safe, supported, and deeply connected throughout your retreat.
What's Included
- 🔹Preparation SessionsPreparation Sessions before the retreat
- 🍃2× Ayahuasca (ceremony)Held in a Sacred, purpose-built Temple
- 🐸1× Bufo (ceremony)Toad Medicine
- 🛏️4× Accommodation (Nights)Nights in a peaceful, serene and natural surrounding with olive trees and lush garden
- 🥘Organic MealsWe serve organic, locally sourced and seasonal food
- 🍵DrinksWater, tea, and fresh fruit juices served throughout the day
- 🏔️Nature ExcursionsVisits to nearby sacred sites: monastery, waterfalls, caves, and beach
- 🚉TransfersPick-up and drop-off at Alzira train station
- 🛄ConvenienceFree parking, luggage storage, and wifi connection available
- 🙏🏼Integration SessionsIntegration Session Post Retreat
Optional Services
- 🛏️Extra NightBefore Retreat (Arrival 7pm - 9pm)€100
- ✨SomaHealing practice for deep restoration & emotional release€60
- 👐🏼1× Ostheopatic MassageBodywork to release tension and restore physical alignment€60
- 🧘♀️1× YogaMindful movement and breathwork to ground body and mind€45
- ✨KamboTraditional Amazonian frog medicine for deep detoxification and clarity€130