February 2027
Alto Paraíso de Goiás
On the high plateau of the Chapada dos Veadeiros: canyons, waterfalls, and quartz-bright rivers.
Location
Brazil, in more than one place.
Each retreat is held at a site in Brazil set up specifically for iboga ceremonies, where a large community comes together to hold the work. Every site has a bed for every guest and delicious, natural, vegan food.
Brazil
Sites made for this work.
We do not hold the retreat in a hotel or a rented event space. Within Brazil we travel between several sites that have been set up specifically for iboga retreats, each with a temple for the ceremony nights, room for the community to gather, and land around it to rest in.
Each retreat brings a large community together on one of these sites. Around 15 participants are joined by around 20 people supporting the ceremony, and every site is arranged for a group that size to live, eat, and rest together. If you stay ten nights, the group moves to a second site for the integration days.
Brazil also has a long, living relationship with ceremonial plant practice, which is part of why the tradition has been able to establish itself here rather than remaining something you can only reach by travelling to Gabon.
April 2027
Joanópolis, São Paulo
In the forested hills of the Serra da Mantiqueira, among streams and waterfalls.
May 2027
Bahia
In Brazil's northeast. Venue details are shared when we speak.
Photos: Chapada dos Veadeiros by Marcelo Camargo / Agência Brasil (CC BY 3.0 BR); Joanópolis by João Batista Shimoto (CC BY-SA 3.0); Serra do Conduru, Bahia by Paulo P. Paiva (CC BY-SA 4.0). All via Wikimedia Commons.
Every Site
A temple, a bed, and a good kitchen.
Every space on a site exists to serve a stage of the process: the temple where the ceremonies are held, the beds where you sleep afterwards, the water where the herbal baths happen, and the table where the community eats together.
The construction is simple and built from natural materials. It is comfortable but it is not a resort, and the difference is the point. There is nothing there designed to distract you.
The Temple
Where the ceremonies happen
A large covered ceremonial space, open to the night air and lit by fire and candles. The group lies on mats in a circle around the centre, with the musicians placed so the sound reaches everyone.
Beds
A bed for every guest
Every site has a bed for every guest, arranged for quiet. After a ceremony night the accommodation has exactly one job, which is to let you sleep for as long as your body asks to.
Food
Delicious, natural, vegan
Every site has its own kitchen cooking natural, vegan food from fresh ingredients. It is simple and genuinely delicious: light before the ceremonies, generous after them, and eaten together.
The Land
Water, paths, and open ground
Between the ceremonies the days are spent outside: walking, sitting by water, sleeping in the shade. The herbal baths are drawn from the plants growing around the site.
Getting There
Plan the journey with room around it.
Guests fly into Brazil internationally and connect onward to the airport nearest their retreat's site, from which the retreat arranges the final ground transfer. Exact routing, timings, and transfer details are confirmed with each guest once a place is held.
Two pieces of advice we give everyone: arrive in the country the day before rather than connecting straight through, and do not book a flight home on the morning after departure. Leaving a retreat like this straight into an airport is the single most common way people undo the first days of integration.
- Arrive in Brazil at least a day ahead of the retreat start.
- Ground transfers from the regional airport are arranged for you.
- Leave a clear buffer of at least two days after departure before flying home.
- Check visa requirements for your passport well in advance.
Private Consultation
Ask about dates and logistics.
Retreat dates, the exact site, transfer arrangements, and what a place includes are shared directly during the application conversation.