Ikara Iboga Retreat Centre
Atmosphere
Features
💬 Guests Say
- Soulful Healing: Guests call iboga a “spirit,” with one on retreat.guru saying it resolved past traumas, equating the insights to “years of therapy.”
- Authentic Guides: Many praise Kuma and Melinda’s care, noting on ikararetreat.com their Bwiti training and attentiveness created a “safe, sacred space.”
- Simple Comforts: Attendees note the “monastic” housing, per retreat.guru, appreciating its focus on introspection but warning luxury-seekers to look elsewhere.
🚩 Incident Report
- Theft: No guest reports or public posts on forums, social media, ICEERS data, or news sources mention stolen valuables or items at Ikara Iboga Retreat Centre.
- Sexual Misconduct: There are no documented allegations, complaints, or legal actions against Ikara Iboga Retreat Centre’s staff or facilitators in online discussions, news archives, or ICEERS resources. While sexual misconduct is a noted risk in the broader plant medicine retreat community, no specific cases tie to Ikara Iboga Retreat Centre.
- Crime: No evidence of police reports, arrests, or violent incidents associated with Ikara Iboga Retreat Centre surfaced in Google News, Costa Rican media, retreat forums, or ICEERS findings.
🔍 Critical Notes
At Ikara Retreat center, we have the most magnificent views of the pacific ocean visible from all parts of the property. The vista is so overwhelmingly large that it feels like the oceans horizon is higher than us. Being above the ocean but also in cool mountain air, we are ionized here. The center is quiet and as a result we have regular animal visitors to the property. Our retreat centre has a purpose built yoga deck overlooking the ocean, a pool where you can sit and watch the capuchins.
ABOUT IKARA RETREAT CENTRE
It has always been our deepest of intentions to work with the Iboga medicine. Bwete spiritual tradition is indelibly linked with nature and we are encircled by nature at Ikara. Costa Rica is close to the equator, similar to Gabon in Africa and so our location is correctly aligned geographically with the origins of this plant. We experience an even flow of electrical energy and ion distribution due to our proximity to the ocean. This is settling for all meditative practice and facilitates deep resonance with the self and environment.
We are located high in the hills above the authentic Tico village of Portalón. We have the best of all worlds here – quiet and secluded, set amongst old growth tropical rain forest. close to Matapalo beach, the beautiful Portalón river, and the Hills of Portalón Wildlife Sanctuary, We are located only 15 minutes from the community of Dominical and 30 minutes to Manuel Antonio National Park, Quepos.
We are biased of course, we chose this place and it is now where we call home so we should let the images speak for themselves!
Ikara is the representative for the NGO Ebota A Maghanga which is the cornerstone of The Universal Village of God – Mboka A Nzambe and its traditional hospital Le Don de Vie (The Gift of Life Hospital ) in the west.
When you participate in GHIENO A NDZAMBE here at Ikara, which is your adopted introduction to mind and the beginning of liberation, you directly contribute to our spiritual brothers and sisters who are composed of lovers of culture and natural medicine. Ebota A Maghanga, with support from ikara, works towards sustainability of indigenous knowledge for future generations and for a better world built on the brotherhood of man.
Ebota A Maghanga brings together initiates and healers from Gabon. Globally, the NGO is focused on
– The enhancement and protection of Gabonese cultural heritage
– Participation to health coverage for all through Le Don De Vie
– Integration of indigenous people´s
– Preservation of the environment
– Guaranteed access to organic food for a healthy & natural diet
This is not a promotional business through our association. This is our service to our spiritual teachers, brothers and sisters in an effort to maintain ethical practice and adapted forms of Iboga to the western mind whilst supporting its origin and source.
Radiate back into God’s thinking with Iboga.