RETREATS
Experience a transformative, luxury aya retreat in intimate groups, rooted in the ancient wisdom of the Shipibo lineage. Our Costa Rica retreats offer a safe, supportive space for your healing journey.
Anam Cara offers a highly personalized retreat experience with full preparation support and a 3-month post-retreat integration program. Our mission is to create a safe, deeply supportive space in an intimate group setting, honoring both your healing journey and the profound wisdom of this sacred medicine.
Experience a transformative, luxury aya retreat in intimate groups, rooted in the ancient wisdom of the Shipibo lineage. Our Costa Rica retreats offer a safe, supportive space for your healing journey.
Anam Cara offers a highly personalized retreat experience with full preparation support and a 3-month post-retreat integration program. Our mission is to create a safe, deeply supportive space in an intimate group setting, honoring both your healing journey and the profound wisdom of this sacred medicine.
The master aya plants can assist with treating many conditions physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual. We have had excellent success particularly with depression and anxiety, chronic fatigue, arthritis, auto-immune disease, trauma, grief, addictions, emotional disorders and more. Often serious condition require a longer stay which we can accommodate on a case by case basis. Many people also experience deep clearing, insight and inspiration.
Anam Cara Retreats was founded by Francesca Barone and Neils Poole, two dedicated healers with a shared mission to guide others toward profound healing and self-discovery. Francesca, a naturopathic medical practitioner and trauma-informed therapist, draws from her background in mind-body medicine and her deep reverence for the Shipibo lineage. Her passion lies in helping others find emotional freedom and vitality through holistic, root-cause healing.
Some of the world’s most talented healers the shipibo nation
Some of the world’s most talented healers the shipibo nation
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Anam Cara Retreats | example Schedule
Saturday
3:00 Check In
4:30 Opening Circle
6:45 Dinner
8:00 Tipi | Opening Prayer
Sunday
7:45 Vomitivo
9:00 Breakfast
1:30 Lunch
5:30 BREATHWORK JOURNEY
7:15 CEREMONY 1
Monday
9:00 Breakfast
11:00 YOGA
12:30 MAESTRO CONSULTAS
1:30 LUNCH
5:30 BREATHWORK JOURNEY
7:00 DINNER
Tuesday
8:00 YOGA & PRANAYAMA
9:00 BREAKFAST
1:30 LUNCH
7:15 CEREMONY 2
Wednesday
*SILENT MORNING*
9:00 SILENT BREAKFAST
10:30 SHARING Circle
1:30 LUNCH
Thursday
8:00 YOGA & PRANAYAMA
9:00 BREAKFAST
11:00 INTEGRATION WORKSHOP
1:30 LUNCH + ARKANA
4:30 BAÑOS DE FLORES
6:30 PRE-CEREMONY YOGA
CEREMONY 3
Friday
*SILENT MORNING*
9:00 SILENT BREAKFAST
10:30 SHARING Circle
1:30 LUNCH
5:30 CACAO CEREMONY
7:00 DINNER
Saturday
8:00 YOGA & PRANAYAMA
9:30 BREAKFAST
11:00 DEPART
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Holistic Support
Aya medicine is profoundly transformative and demands a space of integrity and comprehensive support for it to be effective and safe. While the ceremonies will undoubtedly be the centerpiece of your retreat, we place significant emphasis on the vital supportive work happening outside of the ceremony space.
Throughout the retreat, we offer a variety of supportive modalities and practices, including movement, breathwork, sound healing, and deep processing, to maximize your healing experience. These tools empower you to navigate life’s challenges more effectively. Remember, the true journey begins after your retreat.
We provide three months of personalized one-on-one and group integration support to help you feel nurtured and ready for any changes or challenges ahead. Our goal is to foster lifelong relationships with each guest and within our communities, ensuring everyone feels fully supported throughout their integration journey and can thrive on the ever-evolving path that plant medicines offer.
Aya medicine is profoundly transformative and demands a space of integrity and comprehensive support for it to be effective and safe. While the ceremonies will undoubtedly be the centerpiece of your retreat, we place significant emphasis on the vital supportive work happening outside of the ceremony space.
Throughout the retreat, we offer a variety of supportive modalities and practices, including movement, breathwork, sound healing, and deep processing, to maximize your healing experience. These tools empower you to navigate life’s challenges more effectively. Remember, the true journey begins after your retreat.
We provide three months of personalized one-on-one and group integration support to help you feel nurtured and ready for any changes or challenges ahead. Our goal is to foster lifelong relationships with each guest and within our communities, ensuring everyone feels fully supported throughout their integration journey and can thrive on the ever-evolving path that plant medicines offer.
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Aya is safe when drunk with experienced healers and with proper preparation.
There are many health conditions and medications/drugs that are not safe in combination with Aya. This is why it is important to work with an experienced guide or organization that works with you during your preparation to make sure that you are safe and ready to participate in Ceremony.
At Anam Cara Retreats the safety of our clients is our primary focus. We ask all of our clients to fill in a comprehensive health history questionnaire to ensure that each participant is a safe candidate. We also have a mandatory 1:1 preparation and inquiry session with every participant before the retreat. This is to get to know each person and their individual process to develop safety and connection.
We work only with Cielo Aya brewed by the Shipibo healers that we work with. There are two ingredients only: Aya Vine and Cha leaf.
We work only with experienced indigenous healers of the Shipibo nation. We work with multiple healers in every retreat. We are very blessed to have loving friendships with some of the most experienced Shipibo Ayahuasqueros and we are honored to be a bridge for their ancient ancestral medicine and healing technology.
We work only with experienced indigenous healers of the Shipibo nation. We work with multiple healers in every retreat. We are very blessed to have loving friendships with some of the most experienced Shipibo Ayahuasqueros and we are honored to be a bridge for their ancient ancestral medicine and healing technology.
In order to receive more healing from your retreat experience, it is important to follow the Aya diet. This includes a 2 week period of preparation diet before the retreat and a period of post-retreat diet also. The diet mostly consists of eating whole foods, minimizing processed foods, eliminating pork, red meat, sex, medications, drugs, and other plant medicines.
We provide our guests with more details about the preparation diet upon registering for one of our retreats.
We receive many couples as well as many guests who come to retreat alone. This is a personal decision and there is no right or wrong when it comes to coming with your partner/spouse. Both options can be beautiful although it is important that your relationship is safe and healthy enough to each be able to enter into your individual process with the medicine while maintaining respect for one another.
To get to Nosara, international flights go to either Liberia Airport (LIR) or the airport in San Jose (SJO), the country’s capital city.
If you fly to Liberia Airport, you must arrange ground transportation from the airport to Nosara town; it is a 2-3 hour drive (depending on the road conditions which can be a little rough). There are private taxis as well as shared shuttle options you can find online or right in the airport in Liberia. Prices range between $60 and $250 USD, depending on the type of service you choose.
We find traveling to San Jose to be much easier since you fly right into SJO airport and then connect a short domestic flight which brings you right to Nosara. Sansa Airlines is the only airline for domestic flights and you’ll have to purchase the flight directly on their website (www.flysansa.com). Their flights do not show up on travel agency websites or Google flights, so book directly on their webpage.
We highly recommend arriving in Nosara at least 1 day before the retreat begins to rest, ground, and prepare for an energetic week. Nosara has amazing beaches, beautiful spas, and great restaurants!
Some people feel sensitive after retreat so we recommend that you stay in Nosara for at least one night after before embarking on your travel home. Those of you who must travel onwards on the same day that the retreat ends should book a flight out of Nosara no earlier than 12 noon to factor in travel time to Nosara from the retreat venue. If flying from Liberia please consider that the drive from Nosara to Liberia is about 3 hours.
If you must travel from Liberia on the same day that the retreat ends you should book a flight out of Nosara no earlier than 2pm to factor in travel time to Liberia from the retreat venue.