Brighton Retreat + Bobinsana Dieta: July 23 - 28

6-days, 5-nights accommodation in a beautiful private retreat centre surrounded by nature

3 nights of transformative Ayahuasca ceremonies

2-week Bobiensana Master Plant Dieta (opening 10 days prior to the retreat + continuing during the retreat)

Spacious and secluded land to integrate in nature.

Daily sharing and integration circles to deepen your journey

Personal 1:1 support sessions with experienced facilitators

Healthy, organic meals lovingly prepared

Daily sharing and integration circles to deepen your journey

Shamanic wisdom teachings and practices to integrate your journeys

Cozy rooms with walk-out patios

Safe ceremony support from dedicated and experienced apprentices

Bobinsana, with its radiant pink, almost fluorescent flowers, is a revered master plant teacher of the Amazon. Often found thriving near rivers and streams where dolphins play, this gentle, creative plant opens like fireworks under the stars—a guide to heart opening, self-expression, and play — as well as softening to the things getting in the way of that which brings us joy.

Lightening the burdens of the heart, Bobiensana supports joy, and emotional healing - helping to release trauma, grief, and sadness from past relationships or childhood experiences.

In Amazonian traditions, Bobiensana roots, bark, and leaves are valued for their medicinal properties, particularly for supporting the throat, lungs, voice and reproductive system.

Beyond physical healing, Bobiensana enhances dream states and lucid dreaming and is said to open the doorways of creativity -- especially opening the voice to the songs that long to sing through us.

In the jungle, Bobinsana is known as a mermaid as she grows by the river banks and is flooded when the waters rise. Her roots run deep and wrap around stone to ground and holding strong. In this regard, Bobinsana teaches us to remain steady and sovereign in ourselves despite the changing external circumstances.

As she connects deeply with the water, she invites us to open our hearts to release any stagnancy and grief and welcome greater joy and abundance in our lives. She also invites playfulness and song, so we may learn to become more light hearted in our processes.

Undertaking a Bobinsana dieta during an Ayahuasca retreat provides a profound opportunity to experience her benevolent energy and teachings in a far deeper way than dieta alone.

Athena, born in Greece and enriched by her diverse heritage as a South African-Venezuelan, is a profoundly skilled and authentic teacher of plant medicine. With over 18 years of experience in indigenous ceremonial practices from both North and South America, her formal apprenticeship was with the Shipibo Mahua lineage in the Peruvian Amazon. Known to her students as a renegade lightworker, Athena channels a cosmic grandmother energy in her ceremonies, offering an incredibly potent yet gentle transmission of the plant spirits. Her ceremonies are uniquely safe, unique in their authenticity, and infused with eternal love—an experience that remains rare in the realm of ayahuasca work.

Jason, an energy healer and shamanic herbalist, embodies the spirit of plants with his rooted and lifelong connection to the plant world. Since 2010, he's worked extensively with ayahuasca, cultivating and preparing it in Hawaii on his family’s property. Specializing in tailor-made shamanic medicines, he addresses emotional, physical, and spiritual needs, aiming to deepen individuals' connection to the Earth. Known for his incredible humor and nurturing presence in ceremony, Jason strengthens the container, by holding the masculine while allowing the feminine to lead. A gifted curandero, and devotee to plant wisdom.

How do I get to the location?
The easiest way to get to the retreat centre is by car. You will be given specific location details upon registration.

If flying in, the closest international airport to retreat location is Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ). Participants who are flying will fly to YYZ Airport can either:

(1) Rent a car / car share with others from YYZ
(2) Take a train from Toronto to Belleville or Trenton and coordinate a ride from there

We will have a group chat to help participants coordinate car shares closer to retreat date. Please reach out if you have any questions, and we will be happy to coordinate with you.
How do I prepare?
Preparing for this lineage of medicine does entail approximately 2 weeks of monastic-style spiritual, psychological, and physical preparation. This includes a particular list of foods to eliminate from your diet, as well as certain consumptive patterns and exposures to avoid such as alcohol, drugs, porn, coffee, sugars, etc. Upon registering, you will receive a detailed guideline for your Ayahuasca preparation protocol. You can always reach out to our organizer with clarification questions.
What is the practitioner to participant ratio?
We will have 2 ceremony facilitators, a cook, and an apprentice. We have space for approximately 15 participants.
What is your refund policy?
Due to high costs of facilitating retreats, we cannot not offer refunds. In the event where you can no longer come, we will place your funds toward future retreats or online offerings by Athena, of which there are many.