2025 Journey to Brazil

Dates: March 1-16 (possible to stay 6 extra days)

Price: 2222 euro (Included: Accomodation, Transport within Brazil, Breakfast and Lunch, All activities in Kariri Xoco tribe (1 jurema ceremony), 4 Ayahuasca ceremonies (you can skip some of them if you wish), all explorations together. Not included: plane tickets, dinners, souvenirs)

March 1st - 2nd Arriving to Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is the capital of Bahia, a beautiful multicultural city with beautiful beaches and a very colorful and interesting city center full of beautiful statues of Afro-Brazilian deities such as Oxum, Yemanja, etc. We will be staying in a hotel near the beach and will have these first couple days to rest after travels, to get some vit D after the long European winter months and to visit the lively city center of Salvador.

March 3rd - 5th Kariri Xoco tribe (2 hour drive from Salvador). We will stay in this little village and experience their way of life full of joy and dance. We will get a chance to have our bodies painted with local sacred symbols and make a maraca - a sacred instrument for ourselves in a special birthing ceremony, that we will get to keep and bring home as a spiritual tool. We will also experience Jurema ceremony in the tribe: this tribe does not use Ayahuasca, but uses this different type of medicine. Jurema is sometimes used as one of the ingredients in Ayahuasca, but alone is not psychoactive, so this will not be the same as Ayahuasca ceremony, but it can still be insightful, cleansing and healing and usually after this ceremony the dreams become very vivid and can really help find some clarity.

Linas video from this tribe (in Lithuanian, but you can ignore the words, it's still visually interesting): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubKHTFwOK6g

March 5th - We will briefly visit a very special wild beach and then make the journey to our main destination, the magical Vale de Capao in Chapada Diamantina

March 6-15th we will be staying in a beautiful retreat centre, where our host will be a really special man highly experienced with the sacred medicine: he actually is the founder of the local Santo Daime church, so he has a depth of knowledge and great care for the work that we will be doing in this retreat. The village where we will be staying is a very special place itself - it is like a local hippie world in the middle of seemingly nowhere. It is full of the most special, most interesting spiritual people.

Our main guide will be Andrea Cathala - Andrea is a local healer, who has been learning the ways of working with plants and spirits for her whole life as she was raised by her grandma, who was a local healer herself. Andrea is now a madrinha in the local Santo Daime church, having already received over 200 medicine songs herself. She is also a member of the local Umbandaime church. Andrea has been guiding her own ceremonies in nature or retreats for over 15 years. She has an angelic voice and incredible depth of compassion and love for people that allows her to guide people in deeply gentle, yet profound ways. On a personal note, Andrea is one of my (Viktorija's) 2 spiritual teachers.

Please listen to some of Andrea's singing here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge0igYNyGvQ
https://www.youtube.com/@andreacathala7905/videos

During this stay will be exploring the nature of Chapada Diamantina national park, which has some of the most beautiful nature in Brazil: we will visit many different waterfalls, will be able to explore some mountains, where rock crystals are literally just growing under your feet, as well as the local riversides and jungle areas. This will allow us to immerse ourselves in nature even without the medicine... And every 2 or 3 days we will have ceremonies surrounded by nature with Ayahuasca, which will be the time to connect even deeper with nature, but also to explore our inner worlds. In total there will be 4 Ayahuasca ceremonies during this time with plenty of time to rest and integrate.

March 16th - journey back to Salvador for those that will not stay for extra 5 days. We advise to buy a plane ticket back for March 17th. You will stay the night in the same hotel as atthe beginning. If you wish to stay more than one night, you will have to cover further expenses.

EXTRA OPPORTUNITY March 16-March 23 (EXTRA 555 EURO):

March 16-20th there will be an opportunity for a very special 5 day trekking journey to Vale do Pati - this is a part of Chapada Diamantina that cannot be reached by any mode of transport other than a full day of walking through mountains, so because of it it is very remote and untouched nature. We would travel with Andrea and a local trekking guide. After a day's journey we will reach the local village, where only 10 families live, they will host us for sleeping and during the days we will explore this really untouched magical nature with help of Andrea and the local guide. We will also have a very special daytime Ayahuasca ceremony in the beautiful nature here. We would return on the evening of March 20th to Vale do Capao. This opportunity is only available for 5 people, so you need to book a spot ASAP.

March 21st - Rest day in Vale do Capao. Getting ready to go home

March 22nd - Journey to Salvador, staying in the same hotel as at the start of the trip

March 23rd - we recommend to book plane tickets for this day, but if you decide to stay longerany further costs will need to be covered by you.