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Solar Yuj Healing: An In-Depth Review for Ayahuasca Retreats in Contamana, Peru

Solar Yuj Healing is a Lisbon-based retreat organizer run by yoga and Reiki teacher Raquel Gomes that holds eight-day Shipibo ayahuasca dietas with three ceremonies, kambo and master plants at Sanin Mai Healing Center in Contamana, Loreto, Peru, for €2,100, per its Retreat Guru program page, alongside ayahuasca retreats in Tulum, Mexico and Portugal and a bufo and peyote retreat in Sonora. Its Peru program is led by named Shipibo healers, and BookRetreats shows 5.00 from 20 reviews. Against that, none of those reviews describes an ayahuasca retreat, no screening, contraindications, medical staff or emergency plan are published for a site hours from a hospital, and prices and terms conflict across its listings.

🎯 At a Glance

• Locations: Sanin Mai Healing Center near Contamana, Loreto, Peru, six to seven hours by riverboat from Pucallpa, per its BookRetreats venue page; other retreats run near Tulum, Mexico and in Óbidos and Mafra, Portugal.
• Approach: In Peru, three ayahuasca ceremonies, a tobacco ceremony, kambo, a master plant dieta, plant saunas and baths, fasting on ceremony days, yoga and breathwork; the Tulum program adds a temazcal and offers bufo as an extra.
• Suitable For: People wanting a short Shipibo dieta in a remote, simple setting who can screen themselves. Not suitable for people taking antidepressants or with heart or psychiatric conditions.
• Costs: €2,100 on Retreat Guru; BookRetreats lists the same Peru program from US$1,841 to US$3,743, with the balance due on arrival, per its BookRetreats listing. Tulum is €1,200, Portugal €1,750 to €2,000 and Sonora €2,500. Retreat Guru shows the deposit refundable until a day before and full payment until 30 days before.
• Overall Assessment: Named Shipibo healers and a traditional dieta, offset by no published medical safeguards in a remote location, reviews that do not cover the medicine retreats and conflicting listings. Directory evaluation: C-.

💬 What Guests Are Saying

BookRetreats shows 5.00 from 20 reviews dated May to October 2026, shared across all its listings, per its organizer page; they mostly praise yoga and energy work rather than ayahuasca, four were posted on the same day, and one notes the venue differed from the website. Retreat Guru shows none, and no reviews of 3 stars or lower were found. If you have attended, we encourage you to share your experience through our submission form.

🚩 Incident Report

We searched review platforms and English, Spanish and Portuguese-language news for reports involving Solar Yuj Healing, Sanin Mai Healing Center, Raquel Gomes, Ce Acatl Rodrigo, Sani Mani Angel Lopez Ramos and Mama Ida.

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

Some team members give no surname, which limits this search.

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

🔍 Critical Notes

Who runs it. Raquel Gomes lists yoga, Reiki and coaching training but no ceremonial training, per her teacher profile. Ceremonies are led by Ce Acatl Rodrigo, a Mexican facilitator who claims 16 years as a psychotherapist and training in several traditions, per his profile, and in Peru by Shipibo healers Sani Mani Angel Lopez Ramos and Mama Ida, per her profile (all unverified). Contact is through a Gmail address, and no company is named in Portugal, Peru or Mexico.

Screening and medical support. No medical questionnaire, contraindication list, medical staff or emergency protocol is published. Kambo is combined with ayahuasca, bufo is offered as an extra in Tulum, and the Sonora program pairs bufo with peyote and claims to cure depression and addiction. Contamana has a small public hospital at an unstated distance, and Pucallpa is six to seven hours away by river.

Listings. The same Peru program is priced from about US$1,841 to US$3,743, group sizes range from 10 to 15, transport is listed as both included and not included, and amenity tags show a pool and spa for what the text calls rustic jungle huts.

Status. Operating, with Peru dates in November 2026 and April 2027.

Legal context. Traditional ayahuasca use is national heritage in Peru, where retreats are unregulated, per ICEERS; in Mexico, DMT is controlled and Indigenous healers have been arrested for bringing ayahuasca into the country, per AFP via the Tico Times.

🆘 Screening & Mental Health Risks

With no published screening and a hospital far away, guests must screen themselves carefully, and should not combine bufo with ayahuasca. 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. Never stop a psychiatric medication to qualify for a ceremony without your prescriber’s guidance.

🧪 Brew Substance

Ayahuasca served in Peru by Shipibo healers and elsewhere by Ce Acatl Rodrigo; its source is not published. Ayahuasca combines the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with a DMT-containing leaf such as chacruna, as Erowid explains.

📍 Location, Setting & Style

• Setting: Remote, hot lowland rainforest on the Ucayali River near Contamana.
• Rooms: Simple private jungle huts with a bed and mosquito net.
• Style: Shipibo dieta combined with yoga, breathwork and energy work led by a European organizer.

Practical guidance: Fly to Pucallpa (PCL) a day early for the group riverboat; there is no airport transfer.

Should You Book?

Possibly, for the Peru dieta, if you accept a remote site. Ask in writing for the screening questions and contraindication list, who on site is trained in first aid, the emergency plan and travel time to a hospital, the correct price and refund terms, and the legal entity you are paying. Read our guide to verifying retreat facilitators.

The Team & Story

Solar Yuj Healing appears to have begun running retreats around 2025, pairing its European yoga programs with Shipibo and Mexican ceremonial facilitators. We did not independently verify anyone’s training.

Prep & Integration Tips

Before you go: Disclose every medication and condition in writing, plan any change with your own doctor, and follow the pre-dieta guidance. After you return: 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.