Rainforest Medicine Gatherings

Costa Rica
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đź’¬ Guests Say

 

  • Ancient Wisdom: Guests call the Siekopai ceremonies “rare,” with one on ayaadvisors.org noting the elders’ traditions offered a “deeply cleansing” renewal experience.
  • Nature’s Power: Many praise the Osa Peninsula setting, per rainforestmedicine.net, describing the ecolodge’s beach and rainforest as a “biologically intense” healing backdrop.
  • Structured Process: Some highlight the preparation, with a retreat.guru user appreciating the dieta protocol and sunrise renewals, though the intensity felt challenging for beginners.

đźš© Incident Report

 

After a thorough investigation across multiple platforms—including Reddit (r/Ayahuasca, r/Psychonaut), Quora, Facebook groups (“Psychedelic Healing,” “Ayahuasca Experiences”), news outlets, retreat forums, ICEERS reports, and official records—no verified incidents of theft, sexual misconduct, or crime directly linked to Rainforest Medicine Gatherings were identified.
  • Theft: No guest reports or public posts on forums, social media, ICEERS data, or news sources mention stolen valuables or items at Rainforest Medicine Gatherings.
  • Sexual Misconduct: There are no documented allegations, complaints, or legal actions against Rainforest Medicine Gatherings’ staff or facilitators in online discussions, news archives, or ICEERS resources.
  • Crime: No evidence of police reports, arrests, or violent incidents associated with Rainforest Medicine Gatherings surfaced in Google News, Costa Rican media, retreat forums, or ICEERS findings.
Rainforest Medicine Gatherings maintains a clean online reputation with no reported incidents of this nature, supported by positive testimonials on ayaadvisors.org and retreat.guru. While general risks (e.g., oversight issues) are discussed in the wider ayahuasca community, including ICEERS safety research, nothing specific to Rainforest Medicine Gatherings appears in public records or discussions.

 


🔍 Critical Notes

 

Rainforest Medicine Gatherings offers a rare Siekopai-led experience, praised on for its deep healing and the Osa Peninsula’s biodiverse setting, with Jonathon’s ethnobotanical expertise adding credibility. The focus on conservation and tradition is a draw, but the lack of 2025 dates on their site and dated reviews raise concerns about current operations. Ayahuasca’s legal status in Costa Rica is unclear, suggesting caution—verify retreat availability, facilitator involvement, and safety protocols directly.

 

The Ceremony of yagé is a precious gift of “Our Creator’s Multicolored People” who taught this tradition in order to help people obtain a proper understanding and auspicious energetic and spiritual alignment with the energy of a heavenly way. The perspective it grants becomes a most precious vantage point, one that guides each individual from within, without fail, and for the rest of one’s life. It is like the rudder on a boat crossing turbulent waters an unfailing guide to the golden shores.

This tradition offers the well-earned perspective that sees everything as energy. The rudder of understanding and the fresh new perspective obtained through this tradition won’t allow one to go astray any longer. Even though it might be radically different than the way you once saw the world, once this view is obtained it becomes the sweetest celestial nectar. Despite the difficulties of daily life, we see how blessed we are; we live with gratitude and in service. We live in an absolute manner. We move forward now in a new way, with an ever-fresh perspective that sees everything as always new, sees the illusory divisions of separation as the obstacle, and shows us how to navigate in this new perspective too! The shattered fragments of one’s past are flung away as one sees they were merely simple energy filaments–scratches on the record, so to speak–their purpose now fulfilled. They are no longer part of one’s newly restored being.

This and so much more the ancestral rainforest plant medicines can do. It is imperative to adhere to this “dieta” to prepare oneself to become a vessel to awaken this unified perspective inherent within. Through this one’s focus becomes concentrated and true, piercing like a magnified ray of light, captured by the precise angle of the sunlight passing through the magnifying glass. This ray of light becomes so piercing that it is capable of igniting a fire. Which fire are we igniting? We are igniting the true flame of spiritual development.

To participate in a Rainforest Medicine gathering visit the Gatherings page on this web site and select the retreat you are interested in.

 

 

Join us for a communion with the magnificent rainforest, the sparkling ocean, a new community of ancient friends gathering to learn and experience timeless rainforest plant medicine traditions. Held in accordance with the millenary, time-tested wellness tradition of the “Multicolored People,” at a people friendly wilderness rainforest and ocean front setting, on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula.

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The Location

Our location is the enchanting Ocean Forest Ecolodge Retreat (aka Guaria de Osa) located on Costa Rica’s treasured Osa Peninsula, a paradise well known for its vast diversity of animal and plant life. Tucked perfectly between a pristine beach, an ethnobotanical and permaculture garden, and the thriving rainforest. You will also find yoga, wellness modalities, therapeutic massage, comfortable accommodations and three delicious natural meals daily.

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Retreat Facilitator ~ Ethnobotanist, Jonathon Miller Weisberger

Author of Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biological Diversity in the Upper Amazon. Jonathon has spent the past 27 years immersed in studying and applying the wisdom of time-tested world heritage traditions. He takes great joy in facilitating peoples experiential education with process’s that help achieve wellness and renewal on all levels of ones being.  Read his full bio here.

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