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Solar Yoga Retreats: An In-Depth Review for Yoga and Ayahuasca Retreats in Ibiza, Spain and Bahia, Brazil

Solar Yoga Retreats is an Ibiza-based yoga and plant-medicine retreat brand run by yoga teacher Ingrid Christiansen and her partner Ixtalÿ Soto, a meditation and tarot facilitator, which has held seven-day retreats with ayahuasca and psilocybin ceremonies at villas in Ibiza and, once, in February 2025, at a villa in Arraial d’Ajuda, Bahia, Brazil, according to its Retreat Guru page. The Brazil retreat was listed from €750, and Ibiza retreats cost €1,300 to €2,000. Against that, no medical questionnaire, contraindications, medical staff or emergency plan is published, ayahuasca and psilocybin are offered in the same week with no stated spacing, the ayahuasca leaders are unnamed or given a single name, there are no reviews on any platform, no legal entity is shown, and a paid tourist package with ayahuasca in Brazil falls outside that country’s religious-use rules.

🎯 At a Glance

• Locations: Villas near Cala Tarida in Sant Josep de sa Talaia and in Sant Joan de Labritja, Ibiza, Spain; a single 2025 retreat at a villa in the center of Arraial d’Ajuda, Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil.
• Approach: Seven-day yoga retreats with one or more ayahuasca ceremonies, an optional psilocybin ceremony, rapé and cacao circles, mindfulness meditation, breathwork, massage and tarot.
• Suitable For: No one for plant medicine until the operator names its ceremony leaders and publishes screening, contraindications and an emergency plan. Not suitable for people taking antidepressants or with heart or psychiatric conditions.
• Costs: Brazil from €750 in February 2025; Ibiza €1,300 to €2,000 by room in October 2025, per its program page, with psilocybin charged separately. No deposit or refund terms are published.
• Overall Assessment: Experienced yoga hosts and comfortable Ibiza villas, offset by no screening or medical cover, ayahuasca and psilocybin in one week, unnamed ceremony leaders, no reviews or legal entity, and a Brazil package outside its ayahuasca rules. Directory evaluation: C-.

💬 What Guests Are Saying

The positive picture. No guest reviews are published.

The negative feedback. None published.

Who is writing the reviews. No review exists on Retreat Guru, Tripadvisor, Google or BookRetreats. If you have attended, we encourage you to share your experience through our submission form.

🚩 Incident Report

We searched review platforms and English, Portuguese and Spanish-language news for reports involving Solar Yoga Retreats, Ingrid Christiansen, Ixtalÿ Soto, Aline Leoni and the operator’s Brazilian association.

• Deaths and serious injuries: None found.
• Sexual misconduct: No allegations found.
• Theft and fraud: None found.
• Legal action: None found.

Spanish police broke up an Ibiza-linked neo-shamanic network in 2024, as Periódico de Ibiza reported, and other ayahuasca retreats in Alicante and Tenerife; none involved this operator. Our earlier profile found no incidents.

If you have experienced or witnessed an incident with this center, please report it confidentially.

🔍 Critical Notes

Screening and medical support. Listings describe only an interview about physical and mental condition and motivation; no medical questionnaire, contraindication list, medical staff or emergency protocol is published. The November 2024 and October 2025 Ibiza retreats paired ayahuasca with a psilocybin ceremony in the same week, per its event page, with no spacing stated. Arraial d’Ajuda is a ferry crossing from Porto Seguro.

Who runs it. Ingrid Christiansen describes more than 15 years of yoga practice and over a decade as a masseur on Ibiza, per her teacher page. Ixtalÿ Soto, the booking contact, describes meditation, massage and tarot work and says she co-founded a Bahia tree-planting association that no independent source mentions. Aline Leoni, a Brazilian “medicine woman,” leads rapé and psilocybin and cites Huni Kuin and Noke Koî elders, per her teacher page. The November 2024 ayahuasca ceremony was led by “Nak,” with no bio, and the Brazil retreat names only “Huni Kuin natives.” No company or tax registration was found in Spain or Brazil.

Legal context. Brazil’s CONAD Resolution 1/2010 restricts ayahuasca to religious ritual and bars its sale and tourist packages, per the resolution text. In Spain, ayahuasca is neither prohibited nor authorized and DMT is controlled, per ICEERS.

Corrections to our earlier profile. The operator is based in Ibiza, Spain; Brazil hosted one retreat, in February 2025, at a published address in a village center, not an undisclosed jungle spot. Retreats run seven days, not 7 to 10, and cost from €750 in Brazil and €1,300 in Ibiza, not $1,800. No review exists on any platform, so the positive guest feedback we described is not supported. No source mentions plant baths, silent days, screening for antidepressants or dietary recommendations, and the figure that 55% of participants face transient challenges has no source. Psilocybin, rapé, cacao and tarot, which our earlier profile did not mention, are offered. Ayahuasca, yoga, meditation, sharing circles, breathwork, healthy vegetarian food, the lack of medical staff and no incidents found are confirmed.

🆘 Screening & Mental Health Risks

No contraindications are published. ICEERS notes that ayahuasca’s MAOI component makes it dangerous with SSRIs and other serotonergic drugs and that it is contraindicated for people prone to psychosis. Psilocybin is offered in the same week. Never stop a psychiatric medication to qualify for a ceremony without your prescriber’s guidance.

🧪 Brew Substance

Ayahuasca of undisclosed origin served by unnamed or single-named facilitators, plus psilocybin, rapé, cacao and tobacco. Ayahuasca combines the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with a DMT-containing leaf such as chacruna, as Erowid explains.

📍 Location, Setting & Style

• Setting: Villas with gardens and sea views on Ibiza, and a village villa in Arraial d’Ajuda on the Bahia coast.
• Rooms: Shared and private cottages and suites, with pools, sauna and jacuzzi at the Ibiza venues; “comfortable accommodations” in Brazil.
• Style: A yoga-led wellness retreat with optional plant ceremonies.

Practical guidance: Ibiza airport transfers of about 35 minutes can be arranged at extra cost; Arraial d’Ajuda is reached by ferry from Porto Seguro.

Should You Book?

No, not until the operator names its ceremony leaders and publishes screening, contraindications, spacing between medicines and an emergency plan. Read our guide to verifying retreat facilitators.

The Team & Story

The organizers say they have run yoga retreats since 2017 and medicine retreats since 2019; Ixtalÿ Soto says she was born in Peru and raised in Colombia and Brazil. They advertised weekly sound-healing sessions in Ibiza through September 2026, but no ayahuasca retreat is listed after October 2025. We did not independently verify anyone’s training.

Prep & Integration Tips

Before you go: Disclose every medication and condition in writing and plan any change with your own doctor. After you return: The operator says integration is part of the program, with sharing circles; arrange support from a qualified therapist at home. Our guide on how to research ayahuasca incidents can help you check any center.

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Last reviewed November 2026.

This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified medical professional.