Sowa Nete
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đź’¬ Guests Say
- Life-Changing Journey: A retreat platform (2023) notes Mario’s guidance, deeply transformative.
- Loving Support: Sowanete.com quotes guests, Carolina’s care felt like family.
- Luxury Comfort: Quora (2022) praises pool, AC, and comfy beds.
đźš© Incident Report
- Theft: No reports on Reddit, Quora, Tripadvisor, or Google mention stolen items at Sowa Nete.
- Sexual Misconduct: No allegations against Sowa Nete’s staff were found in online discussions or ICEERS resources.
- Crime: No police reports or violent incidents tied to Sowa Nete were found in Google News, Costa Rican media, or retreat forums.
🔍 Critical Notes
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Throughout the retreat, we offer a variety of activities designed to support your inner journey and foster a deep reconnection with your body, mind, and soul. These include plant medicine ceremonies, yoga, meditation, breathwork, and immersive experiences in nature. Each of these practices is intended not only to enhance your experience during the retreat but also to provide you with tools to take back home and continue your path of self-discovery and balance.
In preparation for the Ayahuasca ceremonies, we follow a special diet that helps cleanse and purify the body, ensuring that you enter the ceremonies clean, open, and ready to fully receive Ayahuasca’s messages. This diet is a key part of the process, helping to align your body, mind, and spirit, and deepen the connection between them.
Our goal is to help you understand how these practices can create lasting peace and harmony, allowing you to live in alignment with your true self long after the retreat ends.
Our 3, 4 and 7 night semi-private Ayahuasca Retreats offer a shared but close-knit experience with maximum 8 like-minded individuals, fostering connection and support on your transformative journey.
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​We take great care in creating a safe, nurturing container for every participant, ensuring you feel held and supported throughout the entire retreat. With dedication, love, and deep respect for each individual’s path, we offer our best guidance and support at every step. Our team is here to help you navigate your journey with compassion, presence, and unwavering commitment to your healing and personal growth.
Mother AyahuascaÂ
“The Vine of the Soul”
For centuries, various Amazonian peoples have used this drink as part of their traditional medicine, as well as in religious and spiritual rituals.
In an ayahuasca ceremony, we can journey deep within ourselves and access parts of the mind and soul, to see hidden parts of ourselves being inner conflicts, fears and difficult emotions, but also the beautiful and good parts of our life. Bringing wounded parts into a level of conscious awareness opens up profound potential for healing our body, mind and spirit.​​Â
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Cooking The Medicine
Sowa Nete has dedicated plenty of time to producing a powerful brew consisting purely of the vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and the visionaryy plant chacruna (Psychotria viridis). These are boiled or simmered for several hours to create a thick, brownish liquid. The combination of the plants contains the psychoactive compound DMT (dimethyltryptamine) and a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), allowing the DMT to become orally active.
Ayahuasca Ceremonies
Our ayahuasca ceremonies are held by facilitator Mario and Carolina, who get accompanied by world class healing musician Dave Perry and/or other guest facilitators. The facilitators role is to guide the ceremony in order to create the conditions necessary to bring about the most beneficial outcome possible for all those participating in the ceremony. In order to achieve this, they provide protection, guidance, and support for each individual in their journey of healing, transformation, and awakening.
Occasionally, Tobacco Mapacho is used in ceremonies, in order to protect, cleanse and purify the space and people that the facilitators find struggling and/or needing extra support.