Shakti Healing

Matapalo, Costa Rica
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đź’¬ Guests Say

 

  • Sacred Ceremonies: Guests on shaktihealing-puravida.com call the ayahuasca ceremonies “profound,” praising the sacred medicines for deep emotional healing.
  • Loving Environment: Many on facebook.com (Shakti Healing page) describe the setting as “heart-centered,” with one feeling “embraced by love” during their retreat.
  • Powerful Rebirth: Reviews on facebook.com highlight the Bufo Alvarius experience, with one guest noting it helped them “reset” and release traumas.

đźš© Incident Report

 

After an exhaustive search across the web—Reddit (r/Ayahuasca, r/Psychonaut), Quora, Facebook groups (“Psychedelic Healing,” “Ayahuasca Experiences”), news sites, retreat forums, ICEERS reports, and official records—no verified incidents of theft, sexual misconduct, or crime specifically tied to Shakti Healing were found.
  • Theft: No reports of stolen items or valuables in public posts, forums, ICEERS data, or news.
  • Sexual Misconduct: No allegations, complaints, or legal actions against Shakti Healing’s staff or facilitators surfaced on Reddit, Facebook, news archives, or ICEERS resources. While broader ayahuasca retreat risks exist, no Shakti Healing-specific cases were documented.
  • Crime: No police reports, arrests, or violent incidents linked to Shakti Healing appeared in Google News, Costa Rican media, retreat discussions, or ICEERS findings.
Shakti Healing’s online reputation remains free of such incidents, though general ayahuasca risks (e.g., psychological distress, unregulated settings) are noted in the community at large, including ICEERS research on retreat safety. If incidents occurred, they’re not publicly reported or accessible online.

 


🔍 Critical Notes

 

The analysis draws from shaktihealing-puravida.com, facebook.com (Shakti Healing page), bestretreats.co, Reddit, and ICEERS. Located in Matapalo, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, Shakti Healing offers ayahuasca, Bufo Alvarius, Kambo, and Changa ceremonies. They focus on one-on-one and group healing, emphasizing emotional, physical, and spiritual purification through sacred medicines, per shaktihealing-puravida.com. Kambo treatments, traditionally used by the Matsés tribe, are highlighted for detoxifying the body and treating conditions like malaria, per the website. Reviews span 2021-2024 on facebook.com, with 100% recommendation (8 reviews), but some Reddit users note concerns about the lack of on-site medical staff and a 2023 report of a participant experiencing emotional overwhelm due to intense Bufo Alvarius sessions, though no formal incident was actually confirmed.

Plant medicine in Costa Rica

A Transformative Experience in Costa Rica

* Plant Medicine * is a powerful psychoactive drink traditionally used by the indigenous * Shipibo * people of the Amazon rainforest for spiritual, healing, and divinatory purposes. Its preparation includes the * plant medicine vine* (Banisteriopsis caapi) and the leaves of the * chacruna * plant (Psychotria viridis), which contain the potent hallucinogen * DMT * (dimethyltryptamine). The combination of these plants allows DMT to be effective when ingested, thanks to the presence of MAO inhibitors in the plant medicine vine. This synergy gives users the opportunity to experience its effects.

*Scientific Research and Therapeutic Potential

Scientific interest in the therapeutic potential of plant medicine has increased, thanks to its positive effects on mental health conditions such as depression, PTSD, and addiction. Research confirms the beverage’s psychological and physiological impacts, as well as the mechanisms behind its healing properties.

When ingested, the harmala alkaloids in the Banisteriopsis caapi vine inhibit the enzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO), which normally breaks down DMT in the body. This inhibition allows DMT to enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier, causing profound alterations in consciousness.

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Plant medicine in Costa Rica:
A transformative experience in Costa Rica

*plant medicine* is a powerful psychoactive brew traditionally used by the indigenous *Shipibo* people of the Amazon rainforest for spiritual, healing, and divinatory purposes. Its preparation includes the *ayahuasca vine* (Banisteriopsis caapi) and the leaves of the *chacruna* plant (Psychotria viridis), which contain the potent hallucinogen *DMT* (dimethyltryptamine). The combination of these plants allows DMT to be effective when ingested, thanks to the presence of MAO inhibitors in the ayahuasca vine. This synergy gives users the opportunity to experience its effects.

*A Cultural Legacy of Healing

For centuries, this medicinal plant has been the source of a traditional beverage used by various indigenous cultures in the Amazon Basin for spiritual and healing purposes. Plant medicine is central to the spiritual practices of several Amazonian tribes, including the Shipibo and Ashaninka. In ceremonies guided by shamans (or healers), these guides interpret the participants’ experiences during the ritual.

Shamans use ayahuasca to heal on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Many people seek this treatment for various illnesses, such as addiction, trauma, and psychological disorders. The drink facilitates introspection, allowing individuals to confront and heal past experiences.

*Ceremonies and Shared Experiences

Ayahuasca ceremonies often include chants (ikaros), music, and other rituals. Shamans may have specific songs that invoke the spirits for guidance, protection, and healing during the ceremony.

The popularity of ayahuasca retreats has grown worldwide, attracting people seeking spiritual experiences, healing, or personal growth. However, it’s crucial to consider the authenticity and quality of these retreats, as they can vary significantly.

*Scientific Research and Therapeutic Potential

Scientific interest in the therapeutic potential of plant medicine has increased, thanks to its positive effects on mental health conditions such as depression, PTSD, and addiction. Research confirms the beverage’s psychological and physiological impacts, as well as the mechanisms behind its healing properties.

When ingested, the harmala alkaloids in the Banisteriopsis caapi vine inhibit the enzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO), which normally breaks down DMT in the body. This inhibition allows DMT to enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier, causing profound alterations in consciousness.

*A Tool for Healing and Personal Growth

The ayahuasca experience often involves vivid visual hallucinations, emotional catharsis, and altered perceptions of time and space. Many users report a sense of connection with nature, the universe, or a higher consciousness, which can lead to significant personal discoveries and revelations.

Plant medicine interacts with serotonin receptors in the brain, especially the 5-HT2A receptor, which is critical in regulating mood, perception, and cognition. This interaction can release neurotrophic factors that promote brain plasticity, potentially contributing to psychological healing.

*Communities of Support and Connection

Plant medicine ceremonies, performed in a group setting, foster a sense of community and shared experience. This supportive environment can enrich the healing experience, providing emotional and social support. In private ceremonies, the work can be very profound and effective.

Plant medicine is truly a powerful tool that can facilitate deep healing and personal transformation. However, it is essential that individuals approach it thoughtfully, ideally under the guidance of experienced facilitators and in a supportive environment. As interest in plant medicine continues to grow, ongoing research will help further illuminate its therapeutic potential and mechanisms of action. Embark on a journey of self-discovery and healing with plant medicine!

Loneliness war

🤍 Soledad Guerra, a Spanish teacher, has been working on physical health and the biomechanics of movement for over 15 years. A fitness instructor and certified Yoga and Aerial Yoga teacher, she worked for eight years running her own aerofitness center in the city of Tarifa, in southern Spain. However, she decided to put aside her business career to continue her training in India, where she traveled to learn yoga, adjustments, and alignments with the best yoga teachers, who also led her to immerse herself in Ayurvedic therapies and medicine with the best Indian gurus.

The intense light and inner strength of Master Soledad (Inirama) guide her on the path of helping others heal and improve their quality of life. Her devotion to helping others and her love for studying, understanding and healing the body and mind and the human body, its traumas, fears, addictions and the reflection in the physical body and its movement are the reasons for her continuous training in different corners of the world, knowing the different alternative therapies and ancestral medicines with renowned teachers and shamans in South America.
Master Soledad has dedicated her vocation to studying the functioning of the human body, its different diseases and blockages and intervening in its healing process as a qualified and experienced professional, both in sports and yoga as well as in Ayurvedic yoga therapies and ancestral medicines.

Soledad, as tradition dictates, was baptized and blessed by her teachers with the name ‘Inirama’, which means ‘good-smelling medicine’. She has followed, and continues to follow, various ‘plant-based diets’ or initiation diets with the Shipibo tribe, living with them in their community in the Peruvian jungle on the banks of the Ucayali River.
Her first teachers were members of a family that has worked with ancestral medicine for many generations, and her most significant teachers were Cesar Maynas and his wife Fidelia, along with the family’s grandparents: Felipe and Manuel. Teacher Rode and other local teachers have also trained, prepared, and guided Inirama (Soledad) along the path of ancestral medicine. Currently her Master is William, pure plant, traditional master and toetero (Toe master) lives in the jungle in the Native community of Amaquiria, from him she has obtained a lot of knowledge about Toe, Ayahuma, Machinga, Noya Rao, Plata de la vida, Ayahuasca, Bobinsana, piñon Colorao, etc. advanced diets in isolation that she has carried out in a traditional and very strict way to be empowered by the plants. , without any contact with the outside, telephone, without electricity and even without running water to wash, having to use the river for it.

According to tradition, to become a master one must have a strong “I” and a significant capacity for suggestion. This requires rigorous preparation achieved through periods of deprivation, fasting, and eating only plant-based foods—a little rice and occasionally boiled fish and ripe plantain—with barely any fruit, sugar, or salt. Sexual abstinence is also essential, as is giving up soap, detergent, and fabric softeners.
Inirama (Soledad) has successfully undergone this process under the supervision and care of her Shipibo family in Peru. Through this process, she has developed into a mature person with protective, confident, and supportive attitudes. She interacts strongly with those who seek her help and intervention. Inirama is a humble and honest master who practices medicine with great love and respect. Diets, plant spirits, and Mother Ayahuasca have blessed her with beautiful and sweet Ikaros, which she sings in Shipibo. The Ikaros are the medicinal canaries that help medicine heal and do its work. She develops the process by creating an emotional bond with patients that favors her therapeutic action and generating at all times an authentic movement toward the individual, who is treated as a human being.

During his experiences in different areas of the Peruvian jungle, he also had the pleasure of living with and learning from the Matses tribe, working with Kambo medicine, the powerful medicine of the Phyllomedusa bicolor frog, a tree frog that lives in certain parts of the Amazon rainforest.

She has also lived in Mexico, sharing and learning about Toad Medicine, Bufo Alvarius, Tepezcohuite, changa (love medicine) and other local entheogenic medicines with experienced and loving taitas from the area.

She works with Bufo alvarius, offering the magic that this medicine holds for the healing and evolutionary process of human beings. She only works in private ceremonies because she believes everyone needs the necessary attention and time, along with personalized therapies, to have a beautiful experience with this powerful, light-filled medicine. It gives us the opportunity to be reborn and reset our brains to free ourselves from what we are not and get closer to becoming full beings, full of love and light.

She produces and extracts some of her medicines from love and respect.

For her, follow-up and support in the integration of medicine are of vital importance, which is why she closely monitors her patients for as long as necessary and treats each one very personally.

NATURAL HEALING

When our wounds are ignored, denied, repressed, neglected, or pushed aside, they begin to fester, eventually poisoning us and those around us.

When we pay loving attention to these same wounds—whether emotional or physical—when we give them permission to exist in the vast landscape of the present moment, when they appear unconditionally illuminated by the loving light of the awareness that we are, they begin to heal, effortlessly.

Don’t be fooled: “healing” is not fixing something broken, it is not “making something “bad” good, nor is it transmuting darkness into light. It is something much deeper than this: it is the understanding that, at the most fundamental level, nothing is broken, nothing is dark, and nothing is against the darkness, and that even our wounds are nothing more than intelligent invitations to stop and remember our deep original nature—ever-present, imperishable, unborn, and whole.

Seen in the light of awareness, our wounds are not our wounds at all; they are our greatest spiritual teachers, healing us from all inherited concepts of health and illness, ignorance and awakening, salvation and sin.

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